# Effluent Limitations Guidelines and Standards for the Steam Electric Power Generating Point Source Category-Deadline Extensions
> **Rule** · Final rule. · Published 2025-12-31 · Effective 2026-03-02 · 90 FR 61328
## Document
- **Document number:** 2025-24102
- **Category:** water-quality
- **Federal Register citation:** 90 FR 61328
- **CFR reference:** 40 CFR 423
- **Publication date:** 2025-12-31
- **Effective date:** 2026-03-02
- **EPA docket:** EPA-HQ-OW-2009-0819
## Abstract

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.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/31/2025-24102/effluent-limitations-guidelines-and-standards-for-the-steam-electric-power-generating-point-source)
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