[Federal Register: March 6, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 44)]
[Notices]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[OECA-2002-0014; FRL-7457-4]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission of EPA ICR
No. 1900.02 (OMB No. 2060-0423) 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
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that the following Information Collection Request (ICR) has been
forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and
approval: Title: NSPS: Small Municipal Waste Combustors (40 CFR part
60, subpart AAAA) (OMB Control No. 2060-0423, EPA ICR No. 1900.02) 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 April 7, 2003.
ADDRESSES: Follow the detailed instructions in the SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Joyce Chandler, Compliance Assistance
and Sector Program, Office of Enforcement & Compliance Assurance,
Mailcode 2224A, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania
Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 564-7073; fax
number: (202) 564-0009; e-mail address: chandler.joyce@epa.gov. Refer
to EPA ICR Number 1900.02.
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 (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
No. OECA-2002-0014, which is available for public viewing at the
Enforcement & Compliance Docket and Information Center (ECDIC) in the
EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West Building, 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 legal holidays. The telephone number for the Reading
Room is (202) 566-1744, and the telephone number for the 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.
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, and according to the following
instructions: (1) Submit your comments to EPA online using EDOCKET (our
preferred method), by e-mail to ECDIC at 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 (OMB), 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, 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: NSPS: Small Municipal Waste Combustors (40 CFR part 60,
subpart AAAA) (OMB Control No. 2060-0423, EPA ICR Number 1900.02). This
is a request to renew an existing approved collection that is scheduled
to expire on February 28, 2003. Under the OMB regulations, the Agency
may continue to conduct or sponsor the collection of information while
this submission is pending at OMB.
Abstract: This addresses information collection activities that
would be imposed by the NSPS: Small Municipal Waste Combustors, 40 CFR
part 60, subpart AAAA. This information collection is required as a
result of the implementation of the NSPS that are being developed under
the authority of sections 111 and 129 of the Clean Air Act (CAA).
Reporting and recordkeeping requirements would apply to MWC units that
have the capacity to combust greater than 35 tons per day (tpd) but
less than 250 tpd of municipal solid waste.
This ICR will enable EPA to monitor compliance with emission
standards for regulated pollutants. Owners and operators of small MWCs
are required to measure, record, and report emission rates and
operating parameters, follow good combustion practices (GCP), and
submit a siting analysis. The responses to this NSPS are mandatory.
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 2,100
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: Small MWCs that combust greater than
35 tons per day (tpd) but less than 250 tpd of municipal solid waste.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 6 plants with 2 small MWC units
each.
Frequency of Response: Initial, Quarterly, Semi-annual, Annual.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 25,201 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Cost: $806,474, includes $200,000 annualized
capital and $77,000 O&M costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is a increase of 16,642 hours in
the total estimated burden currently identified in the OMB Inventory of
Approved ICR Burdens. This increase is due to the new small municipal
waste combustors that have begun operating.
Dated: February 28, 2003.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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