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Environmental Protection Agency
Effluent Limitations Guidelines and Standards for the Steam Electric Power Generating Point Source Category-Deadline Extensions
Published December 31, 2025. Takes effect March 2, 2026. printed at 90 FR 61328. amending 40 CFR 423.
This sets limits on what one kind of plant may put into the water.
What the Rule Says It Does
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (the EPA or Agency) is finalizing a Clean Water Act (CWA) rule to extend deadlines promulgated in the 2024 "Supplemental Effluent Limitations Guidelines and Standards for the Steam Electric Power Generating Point Source Category" (2024 rule), update the 2024 rule's transfer provisions to allow facilities to switch between compliance alternatives, and create authority for alternative applicability dates and paperwork submission dates, based on site-specific factors.
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The Orders It Names
- Executive Order 14154: Unleashing American Energy
- Executive Order 14156: Declaring a National Energy Emergency
- Executive Order 14179: Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence
- Executive Order 14241: Immediate Measures To Increase American Mineral Production
- Executive Order 14261: Reinvigorating America's Beautiful Clean Coal Industry and Amending Executive Order 14241
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- The rule itself
Environmental Protection Agency, “Effluent Limitations Guidelines and Standards for the Steam Electric Power Generating Point Source Category-Deadline Extensions,” 90 FR 61328 (December 31, 2025). Effective March 2, 2026.
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