[Federal Register: October 12, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 196)]
[Notices]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[OECA-2004-0015; FRL-7826-4]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB
Review and Approval; Comment Request; NSPS for Hospital/Medical/
Infectious Waste Incinerators (40 CFR part 60, subpart Ec) (Renewal),
ICR Number 1730.04, OMB Number 2060-0363
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 November 30, 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 November 12,
2004.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number OECA-
2004-0015, to (1) EPA online using EDOCKET (our preferred method), by
email to docket.oeca@epa.gov, or by mail to: Environmental Protection
Agency, EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), 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: Learia Williams, 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) 564-4113; 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-2004-0015, 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 Docket 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 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 for Hospital/Medical/Infectious Waste Incinerators (40
CFR part 60, subpart Ec) (Renewal).
Abstract: The New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for Hospital/
Medical/Infectious Waste Incinerators (HMIWI), burning hospital waste
and/or medical infectious waste, are subject to specific reporting and
recordkeeping requirements. Notification reports are required upon the
construction, reconstruction, or modification of an HMIWI. Also,
required are one-time-only reports of initial performance test data and
continuous measurements of site-specific operating parameters. Annual
compliance reports are required on a variety of site-specific operating
parameters, including exceedance of applicable limits. Semiannual
compliance reports of emission rates or operating parameter data that
were not obtained when exceedances of applicable limits occurred are
also required. Affected entities must retain reports and records for
five years under 40 CFR part 60, subpart Ec and 40 CFR part 60, subpart
A--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. These 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 and waste combusted.
All reports required under NSPS and the General Provisions are
submitted to the respondent's state, tribal, or a local agency,
whichever has been delegated enforcement authority by the EPA. The
information is used by the EPA solely to determine that all sources
subject to the NSPS are in compliance, and that the control system
installed to comply with the standards is being properly operated and
maintained. Based on reported information, EPA can decide which
facilities should be inspected and what records or processes should be
inspected at the facilities. The records that the owner/operators
maintain would indicate to EPA whether facility
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personnel are operating and maintaining control equipment properly. The
NSPS for HMIWIs requires initial notifications, performance tests, and
periodic reports. Owners or operators are also required to maintain
records of the occurrence and duration of any start-up, shutdown, or
malfunction in the operation of an affected facility, or any period
during which the monitoring system is inoperative. These notifications,
reports, and records are essential in determining compliance and are
required of all sources subject to NSPS.
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 are estimated to average 145
hours per response. Burdens 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: Facilities burning hospital waste
and/or medical infectious waste.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 7.
Frequency of Response: Initially, annually, semiannually, on
occasion.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 4,795 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Costs: $327,929, which includes $2,000
annualized capital/startup costs, $20,000 annual O&M costs, and
$305,929 annual labor costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is an increase of two hundred and
fifty-four hours in the total estimated burden currently identified in
the OMB Inventory of Approved ICR Burdens. This is primarily due to an
increase in the number of sources.
Dated: September 22, 2004.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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