[Federal Register: December 24, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 247)]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[OECA-2002-0009; FRL-7426-3]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission of EPA ICR
No. 1899.02 (OMB No. 2060-0422 to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment
Request
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501
et seq.), this document announces that the following Information
Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for review and approval: Emission Guidelines for
Hospital/Medical/Infectious Waste Incinerators (OMB Control No. 2060-
0422, EPA ICR No. 1899.02) The ICR, which is abstracted below,
describes the nature of the information collection and its estimated
burden and cost.
DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before January 23,
2003.
ADDRESSES: Follow the detailed instructions in the SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION section.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jonathan Binder, Compliance Assistance
and Sector Programs Division, Office of Compliance, Mail Code 2224A,
202-564-2516 Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave.,
NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: 202-564-2516; fax number:
202-564-0009; e-mail address: binder.jonathan@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has submitted the following ICR to OMB
for review and approval according to the procedures prescribed in 5 CFR
1320.12. On June 20, 2002 (67 FR 41981), EPA sought comments on this
ICR pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received no comments.
EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID
Number OECA-2002-0009, which is available for public viewing at the
Enforcement and Compliance Docket and Information Center (ECDIC) Docket
in the EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West, Room B102, 1301
Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC. The EPA Docket Center Public
Reading Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through
Friday, excluding federal holidays. The telephone number for the
Reading Room is (202) 566-1744, and the telephone number for the
Enforcement and Compliance Docket and Information Center (ECDIC) Docket
is (202) 566-1514. An electronic version of the public docket is
available through EPA Dockets (EDOCKET) at http://www.epa.gov/edocket.
Use EDOCKET to submit or view public comments, access the index listing
of the contents of the public docket, and to access those documents in
the public docket that are available electronically. Once in the
system, select ``search,'' then key in the docket identification number
identified above.
Any comments related to this ICR should be submitted to EPA and OMB
within 30 days of this notice, and according to the following detailed
instructions: (1) Submit your comments to EPA online using EDOCKET (our
preferred method), by e-mail to docket.oeca@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA
Docket Center, Environmental Protection Agency, Mailcode: 2201T, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460, and (2) mail your
comments to OMB at: Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Office of Management and Budget, Attention: Desk Officer for EPA, 725
17th Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503.
EPA's policy is that public comments, whether submitted
electronically or in paper, will be made available for public viewing
in EDOCKET as EPA receives them and without change, unless the comment
contains copyrighted material, confidential business information (CBI),
or other information whose public disclosure is restricted by statute.
When EPA identifies a comment containing copyrighted material, EPA will
provide a reference to that material in the version of the comment that
is placed in EDOCKET. The entire printed comment, including the
copyrighted material, will be available in the public docket. Although
identified as an item in the official docket, information claimed as
CBI, or whose disclosure is otherwise restricted by statute, is not
included in the official public docket, and will not be available for
public viewing in EDOCKET. For further information about the electronic
docket, see EPA's Federal Register notice describing the electronic
docket at 67 FR 38102 (May 31, 2002), or go to http://www.epa.gov/edocket
.
Title: Emission Guidelines for Hospital/Medical/Infectious Waste
Incinerators (40 CFR part 60, subpart Ce) (OMB Control No. 2060-0422,
EPA ICR Number 1899.02). This is a request to renew an existing
approved collection that is scheduled to expire on January 31, 2003.
Under the OMB regulations, EPA may continue to conduct or sponsor the
collection of information while this submission is pending at OMB.
Abstract: Hospital/Medical/ Infectious Waste Incinerators (HMIWI)
for which construction was commenced on or before June 20, 1996, and
burning hospital waste and/or medical infectious waste are subject to
specific reporting and recording keeping requirements. Notification
reports are required related to the construction, reconstruction, or
modification of an HMIWI. Also required are one-time-only reports
related to initial performance test data and continuous measurements of
site-specific operating parameters. Annual compliance reports are
required related to a variety of site-specific operating parameters,
including exceedances of applicable limits. Semi-annual compliance
reports are required related to emission rate or operating parameter
data that were not obtained when exceedances of applicable limits
occurred. Affected entities must retain records for five years the
reports and records that are required under 40 CFR part 60, subpart Ce,
General Provisions.
Co-fired combustors and incinerators burning only pathological,
low-level radioactive, and/or chemotherapeutic waste are required to
submit notification reports of an exemption claim, and an estimate of
the relative amounts of waste and fuels to be combusted. Co-fired
combustors and incinerators are also required to maintain records on a
calendar quarter basis of the weight of hospital waste combusted, the
weight of medical/infectious waste combusted, and the weight of all
other fuels combusted at the co-fired combustor. Incinerators burning
only pathological, low-level radioactive, and/or chemotherapeutic waste
are also required to maintain records of the periods of time when only
pathological waste, low-level radioactive waste, and/or
chemotherapeutic waste is burned.
An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required
to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a
currently valid OMB control number. The OMB control numbers for EPA's
regulations are listed in 40 CFR part 9 and 48 CFR chapter 15, and are
identified on the form and/or instrument, if applicable.
Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping
burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 163
hours per response. Burden means the total time, effort, or financial
resources expended by persons to generate, maintain, retain, or
disclose or provide information to or for a Federal agency. This
includes the time needed to review instructions; develop, acquire,
install, and utilize
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technology and systems for the purposes of collecting, validating, and
verifying information, processing and maintaining information, and
disclosing and providing information; adjust the existing ways to
comply with any previously applicable instructions and requirements;
train personnel to be able to respond to a collection of information;
search data sources; complete and review the collection of information;
and transmit or otherwise disclose the information.
Respondents/Affected Entities: Owners and Operators of Hospital/
Medical/Infectious Waste Incinerators.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 189.
Frequency of Response: On occasion, semi-annually, and annually.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 105,228.
Estimated Total Annual O&M Cost: $295,407, includes O&M costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is a decrease of 28,176 hours in
the total estimated burden currently identified in the OMB Inventory of
Approved ICR Burdens. This decrease is due to a reduction in the number
of affected respondents as indicted by a recent source inventory
analysis.
Dated: December 10, 2002.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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