[Federal Register: July 29, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 145)]
[Notices]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[OECA-2003-0144; FRL-7790-9]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB
Review and Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Benzene Emissions From
Coke By-Product Recovery Plants (Renewal), ICR Number 1080.11, OMB
Number 2060-0185
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, 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 August 31, 2004. 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 August 30,
2004.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number OECA-
2003-0144, to (1) EPA online using EDOCKET (our preferred method), by
E-mail to docket.oeca@epa.gov, or by mail to: Environmental Protection
Agency, EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), Enforcement and Compliance Docket
and Information Center EPA West, 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: Dan Chadwick, Compliance Assessment
and Media Programs Division, Office of Compliance, Mail Code 2223A,
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 564-7054; fax number:
(202) 564-0050; E-mail address: chadwick.dan@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 November 3, 2003 (68 FR 62289), 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-2003-0144, 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) 566-1752. 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. When 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, confidential business
information (CBI), or other information whose public disclosure is
restricted by statute. When
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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: NESHAP for Benzene Emissions from Coke By-Product Recovery
Plants (40 CFR part 61, subpart L) (Renewal).
Abstract: Owners or operators of existing and new facilities that
are furnace or foundry coke by-product recovery plants that produce
benzene emissions subject to NESHAP subpart L must submit notification
of and application for construction, reconstruction or modification,
and notice of the anticipated date of initial and actual startup.
Owners and operators of regulated facilities must also submit
notifications of: performance tests; any physical or operational change
which may increase the emission rate; implementation of equipment
leakage requirements; notification that the requirements of 40 CFR part
61, subpart L and 40 CFR part 61, subpart V have been met; and
notification of intent to elect to comply with the requirements at 40
CFR 61.243 at least 90 days before implementation. These owners and
operators must also submit performance test reports and semi-annual
reports. Records must be maintained of leak detection and repair logs,
the design requirements of closed-vent systems and control devices,
applicable valve information, design control device, plan operations
and corrective action, compliance tests, reference values of monitored
parameters, and monitoring results and exceedances (alternative control
options). Records must also be kept of annual furnace and foundry coke
production for furnace coke by-product recovery plants, monitoring
data, monitoring system calibration checks, and the occurrence and
duration of periods where the monitoring system is malfunctioning or
inoperative. Records shall be retained for at least two years.
The use of carbon adsorbers and vapor incinerators instead of gas
blanketing, the control technology on which the standards were
originally based, was made optional by the 1991 revision. In 1999,
certain quarterly reporting obligations were eliminated, a plan to
handle benzene and removed carbon in accordance with the regulation was
required for carbon adsorbers and reporting of the monitoring method
chosen for each vapor incinerator was also required.
The notifications required in the applicable regulations are used
to inform the Agency or delegated authority when a source becomes
subject to the requirements of the regulations. The reviewing authority
may then inspect the source to check if the pollution control devices
are properly installed and operated and the regulations are being met.
Performance test reports are needed as the Agency's record of a
source's initial capability to comply with the emission standards and
as a record of the operating conditions under which compliance was
achieved. Compliance is achieved when emissions are routed through a
closed-vent system (no detectable emissions) to a control device that
achieves a 95-percent or greater destruction efficiency. The semiannual
reports are used for problem identification, as a check on source
operation and maintenance, and for compliance determinations. The
information generated by the monitoring, recordkeeping and reporting
requirements described in this ICR is used by the Agency to ensure that
facilities affected by the NESHAP continue to operate the control
equipment in compliance with the regulation. Adequate monitoring,
recordkeeping, and reporting are necessary to ensure compliance with
the applicable regulations, as required by the Clean Air Act. This
information is being collected to assure compliance with 40 CFR part
61, subpart L.
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 92
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; to 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; to
train personnel to be able to respond to a collection of information;
to search data sources; to complete and review the collection of
information; and to transmit or otherwise disclose the information.
Respondents/Affected Entities: Existing facilities and new
facilities that are furnace or foundry coke by-product recovery plants
that produce benzene emissions.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 17.
Frequency of Response: Semi-annually, On occasion.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 3,138 hours.
Estimated Total Capital and Operations & Maintenance (O&M) Annual
Costs: $0, which includes $0 annualized capital/startup costs, and $0
annual O&M costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is a decrease of 3,945 hours in the
total estimated burden currently identified in the OMB Inventory of
Approved ICR Burdens. This decrease in burden from the most recently
approved ICR reflects the exclusion of burden hours and costs relating
to compliance with 40 CFR part 61, subpart Y, which was included in the
burden calculations of the currently active ICR, NESHAP for Benzene
Emissions from Benzene Storage Vessels and Coke By-Product Recovery
Plants (40 CFR part 61, subparts L & Y), ICR Number 1080.10. The
reporting obligations under subpart Y are now addressed under the
Consolidated Air Rule and are subject to a different ICR. The decrease
in burden under subpart L also reflects a more accurate estimate of the
number of existing and new sources subject to this subpart and reflects
the elimination of certain quarterly reporting requirements.
Dated: July 14, 2004.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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