[Federal Register: December 17, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 242)]
[Notices]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[OECA-2004-0020; FRL-7849-7]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB
Review and Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Chemical Recovery
Combustion Sources at Kraft, Soda, Sulfite, and Stand-Alone
Semichemical Pulp Mills (Renewal), ICR Number 1805.04, OMB Number 2060-
0377
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 December 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 January 18,
2005.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number OECA-
2004-0020, 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: Leonard Lazarus, Compliance Assessment
and Media Programs Division, Office of Compliance, Mail Code 2223A,
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue,
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NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 564-6369; fax
number: (202) 564-0050; email address: lazarus.leonard@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-2004-0020, 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: NESHAP for Chemical Recovery Combustion Sources at Kraft,
Soda, Sulfite, and Stand-Alone Semichemical Pulp Mills (40 CFR part 63,
subpart MM) (Renewal).
Abstract: This National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air
Pollutants (NESHAP) covering emissions from chemical recovery
combustion sources at kraft, soda, sulfite, and stand-alone
semichemical pulp mills relies on the capture and/or reduction of HAP
emissions by recovery furnaces, smelt dissolving tanks (SDTs), lime
kilns, or soda or sulfite combustion units. The recordkeeping,
notification and reporting requirements of the standard are critically
important as they allow the Agency to determine to which facilities the
standards apply and they enable the Agency to monitor initial and
ongoing compliance with the standards. As much as possible, in order to
reduce the burden, the compliance monitoring and recordkeeping
requirements are designed to cover parameters that are already being
monitored as part of the manufacturing process.
Pulp mill owners or operators (respondents) are required to submit
initial notifications, 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. Respondents are required to monitor and keep records of
specific operating parameters for each control device and to perform
and document periodic inspections of the closed vent and wastewater
conveyance systems. All respondents must submit semiannual summary
reports of monitored parameters, and they must submit an additional
monitoring report during each quarter in which monitored parameters
were outside the ranges established in the standard or during initial
performance tests. A source identified to be out of compliance with the
NESHAP will be required to submit quarterly reports until the
Administrator is satisfied that the source has corrected its compliance
problem. These notifications, reports, and records are essential in
determining compliance, and are required of all sources subject to
Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) standards. Since none of
the required reports to the Agency have been deemed confidential
business information, they will not be treated as such. Responses are
mandatory (40 CFR part 63, subpart MM).
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 475
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 pulp mills
with chemical recovery combustion sources.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 130.
Frequency of Response: Initial, on occasion, quarterly,
semiannually.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 150,043 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Costs: $8,667,298, which includes $123,000
annualized capital/startup costs, $864,000 annual O&M costs, and
$7,680,298 annual labor costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is an increase of 128,515 hours in
the total estimated burden currently identified in the OMB Inventory of
Approved ICR Burdens. This increase is due to an improved estimate of
the number of facilities and the burden for each facility.
Dated: December 4, 2004.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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