On Tuesday, February 7, 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized amendments to the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) for Lead Acid Battery (LAB) Manufacturing Area Sources and the New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for Lead Acid Battery Manufacturing Plants. The LAB manufacturing source category includes any plant that produces lead acid batteries and their processes, including grid casting, paste mixing, lead oxide manufacturing, three-process operations (battery assembly) and lead reclamation. EPA is promulgating several technology improvements to both the NESHAP and NSPS, as well as a revision to the applicability provisions for the area source NESHAP.

For a copy of the prepublication version of the final rule, and a fact sheet, please visit: https://www.epa.gov/stationary-sources-air-pollution/lead-acid-battery-manufacturing-area-sources-national-emission and https://www.epa.gov/stationary-sources-air-pollution/lead-acid-battery-manufacturing-new-source-performance-standards