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Proclamation 11041, signed July 9, 2026, is a presidential action granting a two-year compliance exemption to certain chemical manufacturing facilities covered by a 2024 EPA rule. The President invoked authority under section 112(i)(4) of the Clean Air Act, which allows exemptions from hazardous air pollutant standards on national security grounds.
The 2024 EPA “HON Rule” (89 FR 42932) set new emissions-control and monitoring requirements for synthetic organic chemical manufacturers and certain polymer and resin producers. Every compliance deadline under that rule is extended by exactly two years for facilities listed in Annex I of the proclamation. During that two-year window, listed facilities remain bound only by whatever emissions standards applied to them before the HON Rule took effect — not the newer, stricter requirements. The President formally determined that the required control technology is not commercially available at sufficient scale to meet the original deadlines, and that the exemption serves national security interests.
Chemical manufacturing facilities named in Annex I — which covers synthetic organic chemical plants and certain polymer and resin facilities — receive the compliance delay and are the direct beneficiaries. Parties who supported the HON Rule’s stricter limits, including environmental and public health advocates, see the tighter standards paused for those sites for up to two additional years. Downstream industries such as energy, defense, agriculture, semiconductors, and health care are cited as indirect stakeholders whose supply chains the proclamation aims to protect.