[Federal Register: August 19, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 160)]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[OECA-2003-0036; FRL-7546-1]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for the Secondary Lead
Smelter Industry (40 CFR Part 63, Subpart X), EPA ICR Number 1686.05,
OMB Control Number 2060-0296
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 an Information Collection
Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and approval. This is a request to renew an existing
approved collection. This ICR is scheduled to expire on October 31,
2003. Under OMB regulations, the Agency may continue to conduct or
sponsor the collection of information while this submission is pending
at OMB. This ICR describes the nature of the information collection and
its estimated burden and cost.
DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before September 18,
2003.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number OECA-
2003-0036, to (1) 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, Enforcement and Compliance Docket and
Information Center, Mail Code 2201T, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20460, and (2) OMB at: Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Attention:
Desk Officer for EPA, 725 17th Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Maria Malave, Compliance Assessment
and Media Programs Division, Mail Code 2223A, Office of Compliance,
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 564-7027; fax number:
(202) 564-0050; e-mail address: malave.maria@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 May 19, 2003 (68 FR 27059), 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-2003-0036, which is available for public viewing at the
Enforcement and Compliance Docket and Information Center in the EPA
Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West, Room B102, 1301 Constitution Avenue,
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 legal
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 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 ID number identified above.
Any comments related to this ICR should be submitted to EPA and OMB
within 30 days of this notice. 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, 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 www.epa.gov/edocket.
Title: NESHAP for the Secondary Lead Smelter Industry (40 CFR part
63, subpart X).
Abstract: The National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air
Pollutants (NESHAP) for the Secondary Lead Smelter Industry (40 CFR
part 63, subpart X) were proposed on June 9, 1994 (59 FR 29750) and
promulgated on June 23, 1995 (60 FR 32587). In response to industry
petitions to reconsider, the final rule was amended on June 13, 1997
(62 FR 32209). Entities potentially affected by this rule are owners or
operators of secondary lead smelters that operate furnaces to reduce
scrap lead metal and lead compounds to elemental lead. The rule applies
to secondary lead smelters that use blast, reverberatory, rotary, or
electric smelting furnaces to recover lead metal from scrap lead,
primarily from used lead-acid automotive-type batteries. These sources
are emitters of several chemicals identified as hazardous air
pollutants, including but not limited to lead compounds, arsenic
compounds, and 1,3-butadiene. The rule provides protection to the
public by requiring all secondary lead smelters to meet emission
standards reflecting the application of the maximum achievable control
technology (MACT). This information is being collected to assure
compliance with 40 CFR part 63, subpart X.
Owners or operators of the affected facilities described must make
one-time-only notifications including: notification of any physical or
operational change to an existing facility which may increase the
regulated pollutant emission rate, notification of the initial
performance test, including information necessary to determine the
conditions of the performance test, and performance test measurements
and results. All reports are sent to the delegated State or local
authority. In the event that there is no such delegated authority, the
reports are sent directly to the EPA Regional Office. Owners or
operators must maintain records of initial and subsequent compliance
tests for lead compounds, and identify the date, time, cause and
corrective actions taken for all bag leak detection alarms. Records of
continuous monitoring devices, including parametric monitoring, must be
maintained and reported semiannually. Owners or operators are also
required to maintain records of the occurrence and duration of any
startup, shutdown, or malfunction in the operation of an affected
facility, or any period during which the monitoring system is
inoperative. Any owner or operator subject to the provisions of this
part shall maintain a file of these measurements, and retain the
records for at least five years following the date of such measurements
and records. At a minimum, records of the previous two years must be
maintained on site.
Industry and EPA records indicate that 23 sources are subject to
the standard, and no additional sources are expected to become subject
to the
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standard over the next three years. However, we have assumed that one
furnace will be rebuilt per year and that each facility will make a
major adjustment once per year which will require revising its
operational plan.
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 229
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 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 or operators of secondary
lead smelters.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 23.
Frequency of Response: Semiannual and initially.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 16,034 hours.
Estimated Total Capital and Operations & Maintenance (O & M) Annual
Costs: $150,000 which includes zero annualized capital/startup costs
and $150,000 annual O&M costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is an increase of one hour in the
total estimated burden currently identified in the OMB Inventory of
Approved ICR Burdens due to the rounding-off of the mathematical
calculations. There was no increase in the number of new or modified
sources. The increase in the annual cost, is due to the use of an
updated revised hourly pay rate from the United States Department of
Labor.
Dated: August 12, 2003.
Doreen Sterling,
Acting Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. 03-21182 Filed 8-18-03; 8:45 am]
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