Spent Petroleum Catalyst Recycling and Critical Minerals and Metals Recovery Exemption Act

This bill directs the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to issue a final rule, as soon as practicable, changing federal hazardous waste regulations for used catalysts from petroleum refining. The rule would state that units that recover metals, including the critical mineral vanadium, from spent hydrotreating and hydrorefining catalysts are exempt from the Boilers and Industrial Furnaces requirements under the Solid Waste Disposal Act. The exemption would cover roasters and other thermal treatment units as well as furnaces and hydrometallurgical units. The rule would also clarify that an existing transfer-based exclusion can be used when spent catalyst is sent to a third party for metals recovery, and it would take effect on publication without the usual public notice and comment process.

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Sponsors

• Troy Balderson Republican sponsor
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