# 2025-20052: EPA Keeps Tabs on Acid Baths: Steel Plant Paperwork Renewed Until 2028

2025-20052, Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; NESHAP for Steel Pickling, HCI Process Facilities and Hydrochloric Acid Regeneration Plants (Renewal), is a Federal Register notice from Environmental Protection Agency published 2025-11-18, effective ICR currently approved through November 30, 2025; the renewal keeps the paperwork going through November 2028. Comments may be submitted on or before December 18, 2025. (as of 2026-06-08).

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## Facts
- Document number: 2025-20052
- Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; NESHAP for Steel Pickling, HCI Process Facilities and Hydrochloric Acid Regeneration Plants (Renewal)
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Environmental Protection Agency
- Citation: 90 FR 51748
- Published: 2025-11-18
- Effective: ICR currently approved through November 30, 2025; the renewal keeps the paperwork going through November 2028. Comments may be submitted on or before December 18, 2025.
- Comments close: 2025-12-18
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-08

## In one line

EPA Keeps Tabs on Acid Baths: Steel Plant Paperwork Renewed Until 2028

## Summary

The EPA is asking to keep collecting info from steel pickling and hydrochloric acid plants to make sure they follow pollution rules. This renewal won’t add new costs but keeps the paperwork going through November 2028. If you work at or with these plants, you can share your thoughts by December 18, 2025.

## Abstract

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), NESHAP for Steel Pickling, HCI Process Facilities and Hydrochloric Acid Regeneration Plants (EPA ICR Number 1821.12, OMB Control Number 2060-0419) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. This is a proposed extension of the ICR, which is currently approved through November 30, 2025. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register on August 6, 2024 during a 60-day comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.

## Effects PRIA read

- Mandatory reporting continues for HCl plants: cost, high. If you own or operate a steel pickling, HCl process, or HCl regeneration plant, you must keep submitting required notifications, performance tests, periodic reports, and records under 40 CFR part 63, subpart CCC. The ICR renewal keeps these mandatory paperwork duties in place through November 2028.
- Paperwork burden: 100 respondents, 35,000 hours: cost, high. EPA estimates 100 respondents (owners/operators) will respond annually, totaling 35,000 hours of paperwork burden each year and $4,800,000 in total annual costs, which includes $14,700 in annualized capital or O&M costs. The reporting is mandatory under 40 CFR part 63, subpart CCC.
- No change in burden; slight cost updates: cost, low. EPA states there is no change in the paperwork burden since the last ICR, but there is a slight increase in O&M costs due to updating the CEPCI index to 2023 and a slight increase in respondent burden costs from using updated Bureau of Labor Statistics labor rates. These cost changes are described…

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## Sources
- [2025-20052 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/11/18/2025-20052/agency-information-collection-activities-submission-to-the-office-of-management-and-budget-for)
- [2025-20052 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-11-18/pdf/2025-20052.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-20052 (as of 2026-06-08).