[Federal Register: September 13, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 176)]
[Notices]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[OECA-2004-0007; FRL-7811-5]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB
Review and Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Pesticide Active
Ingredient Production (40 CFR Part 63, Subpart MMM) (Renewal), ICR
Number 1807.03, OMB Number 2060-0370
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 October 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 October 13,
2004.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number OECA-
2004-0007, 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: Learia Williams, 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) 564-4113; fax number:
(202) 564-0050; e-mail address: williams.learia@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 25, 2004 (69 FR 29718), 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-2004-0007, 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 EPA identifies a comment containing
copyrighted material, EPA will provide
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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
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Title: NESHAP for Pesticide Active Ingredient Production (40 CFR
part 63, subpart MMM) (Renewal).
Abstract: The Administrator has judged that the pollutants emitted
from pesticide active ingredient (PAI) production facilities cause or
contribute significantly to air pollution that may reasonably be
anticipated to endanger public health. Owners or operators of PAI
production facilities to which this regulation applies must choose one
of the compliance options that is described in the rule or install and
monitor a specific control system that reduces hazardous air pollutant
(HAP) emissions to the compliance level. The respondents are subject to
sections of subpart A of 40 CFR part 63 relating to the National
Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP). These
requirements include those associated with the applicability
determination; the notification that the facility is subject to the
rule; and the notification of testing (control device performance test
and continuous monitoring system [CMS] performance evaluation); the
results of performance testing and CMS performance evaluations;
startup, shutdown, and malfunction report; and semiannual or quarterly
summary reports and/or excess emissions and CMS performance reports. In
addition to the requirements of subpart A, many respondents are
required to submit precompliance plan and leak detection and repair
(LDAR) reports; and plants that wish to implement emissions averaging
provisions must submit an emission averaging plan.
Respondents electing to comply with the emission limit or emission
reduction requirements for process vents, storage tanks, or wastewater
must record the values of equipment operating parameters as specified
in 40 CFR 63.1367 of the rule. If the owner or operator identifies any
deviation resulting from any known cause for which no federally
approved or promulgated exemption from an emission limitation or
standard applies, the compliance report will also include all records
that the source is required to maintain that pertain to the periods
during which such deviation occurred, as well as the following: the
magnitude of each deviation; the reason for each deviation; a
description of the corrective action taken for each deviation,
including action taken to minimize each deviation and action taken to
prevent recurrence; and a copy of all quality assurance activities
performed on any element of the monitoring protocol.
Owners or operators of PAI production facilities subject to the
rule must maintain a copy of all monitored equipment operating
parameter values that demonstrate compliance with the standards.
Records and reports must be retained for a total of 5 years (2 years at
the site; the remaining 3-year records may be retained off-site). The
files may be maintained on a computer or floppy disks, or on
microfiche.
Since many of the facilities potentially affected by the NESHAP
standards are currently subject to new source performance standards
(NSPS), the standards include an exemption from the NSPS for those
sources. That exemption eliminates a duplication of information
collection requirements.
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 60
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 and operators of pesticide
active ingredient production facilities.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 88.
Frequency of Response: Initially, quarterly and semiannually.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 24,164 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Costs: $1,895,049, which includes $236,000
annualized capital/startup costs, $117,000 annual O&M costs, and
$1,542,049 annual labor costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is a decrease of 29,588 hours in
the total estimated burden currently identified in the OMB Inventory of
Approved ICR Burdens. The change in burden for the existing facilities
is due primarily to an assumption that all sources are in compliance
with the initial requirements of the rule since the previous ICR covers
the first three years prior to the compliance date of the rule.
Additionally, there is a decrease of $1,915,000 in the total estimated
annualized cost currently identified in the OMB Inventory of Approved
ICR Burdens. This is because the purchase of CMS monitors, which is a
one time cost, are assumed to be purchased during the period of the
active ICR.
Dated: September 1, 2004.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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