# Reconsideration on the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) and the Utility New Source Performance Standards Startup and Shutdown Provisions; Final Action
> **Rule** · Notice of final action denying petitions for reconsideration. · Published 2016-08-08 · 81 FR 52346
## Document
- **Document number:** 2016-18684
- **Category:** air-emissions
- **Federal Register citation:** 81 FR 52346
- **CFR reference:** 40 CFR 60
- **Publication date:** 2016-08-08
- **EPA docket:** EPA-HQ-OAR-2009-0234
## Abstract

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is providing notice that it has responded to two petitions for reconsideration of the final rule titled "Reconsideration of Certain Startup/Shutdown Issues: National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) From Coal- and Oil-Fired Electric Utility Steam Generating Units and Standards of Performance (NSPS) for Fossil-Fuel-Fired Electric Utility, Industrial-Commercial-Institutional, and Small Industrial-Commercial-Institutional Steam Generating Units," published in the Federal Register on November 19, 2014. The Administrator denied the requests for reconsideration in separate letters to the petitioners. The letters and a document providing a full explanation of the agency's rationale for each denial is in the docket for these rules.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/08/08/2016-18684/reconsideration-on-the-mercury-and-air-toxics-standards-mats-and-the-utility-new-source-performance)
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