Federal brief
Rescission of Title V Emergency Affirmative Defense Rule; Corrections
Publisher-desk brief on Environmental Protection Agency FR 2026-19889 (2026-09-29). Use the filing for dates and comment paths.
EPA moved to rescind and correct the Title V emergency affirmative-defense rule — air-permit lawyers will argue over the commas.
Title V affirmative defenses are the escape hatch plants cite when an emergency spike hits the stack; yanking the rule changes enforcement risk overnight.
Filing abstract (agency text): On June 1, 2026, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a final rule titled "Rescission of Title V Emergency Affirmative Defense Rule." After publication, the EPA discovered inadvertent typographical errors in the action. This document corrects the errors and ensures the regulatory text restored on June 1, 2026, matches the original regulatory text codified in Federal regulations prior to their removal following the 2023 Affirmative Defense Rule. The corrections described in this action do not…
Title V permittees and state air boards: read the rescission effective date and conforming corrections in the official rule text before you revise deviation reports.
Federal Register filing: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/09/29/2026-19889/rescission-of-title-v-emergency-affirmative-defense-rule-corrections
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Source: the official public federal record 2026-19889 · Federal Register · 2026-19889 · 2026-19889.
This is a Notice Nearby publisher-desk Federal brief — a short in-house summary of a public federal filing. It is not official agency minutes, not a newspaper story, and not Legal Publication. It does not satisfy a statutory notice requirement.