[Federal Register: March 4, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 43)]
[Notices]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[OECA-2003-0034; FRL-7631-8]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB
Review and Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Chromium Emissions
From Hard and Decorative Chromium Electroplating and Chromium
Anodizing, EPA ICR Number 1611.05, OMB Number 2060-0327
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 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 February 29,
2004. Under OMB regulations, the Agency may
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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 April 5, 2004.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number OECA-
2003-0034, to (1) EPA online using EDOCKET (our preferred method), by
e-mail to docket.oeca@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA Docket Center,
Environmental Protection Agency, Enforcement and Compliance Docket and
Information Center (ECDIC), Mail Code 2201T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave.,
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: Mar[iacute]a Malav[eacute], Compliance
Assessment and Media Programs Division, Office of Compliance, Mail Code
2223A, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.,
Washington, DC. 20460; telephone number: (202) 564-7027; fax number:
(202) 564-0050; e-mail address: malave.maria@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 19, 2003 (68 FR 27059), 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-2003-0034, 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 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 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, 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
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Title: NESHAP for Chromium Emissions From Hard and Decorative
Chromium Electroplating and Chromium Anodizing (40 CFR part 63, subpart
N), EPA ICR Number 1611.05, OMB Control Number 2060-0327.
Abstract: The national emission standards for hazardous air
pollutants (NESHAP) using maximum achievable control technology (MACT)
for control of chromium emissions from hard and decorative chromium
electroplating and chromium anodizing tanks were proposed on December
16, 1993 and promulgated on January 25, 1995.
In general, all NESHAP-MACT standards require initial
notifications, performance tests, and periodic reports. Respondents
that are not required to conduct an initial performance test (i.e.,
decorative chromium electroplating or chromium anodizing operations
that use a wetting agent and meet the surface tension limit required by
the rule, and decorative chromium electroplating operations that use a
trivalent chromium bath) are required to notify the Administrator of
the initial compliance status of the source. Owners or operators are
also required to maintain records of a source's operations including
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. The types of reports required by
these standards include initial compliance status reports. Periodic
reports required by this standard include annual compliance status
reports for area sources and semiannual compliance status reports for
major sources, unless an exceedance has occurred which requires sources
to submit such reports on a more frequent basis. These notifications,
reports, and records are essential in determining compliance, and are
required of all sources subject to NESHAP-MACT standards.
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 83
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: Operators of hard chromium
electroplating, decorative chromium electroplating, and chromium
anodizing facilities/chromium electroplating or chromium anodizing
tanks.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 5,020.
Frequency of Response: Initially, annually, semiannually, and
quarterly.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 495,774 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Costs: $106,662,892 which accounts for
annual O&M costs of $75,300,000 only since there are no annualized
capital/startup costs associated with this ICR, as well as Respondent
Labor costs of $31,362,892.
Changes in the Estimates: There is a decrease of 20,412 hours in
the total estimated burden currently identified in the OMB Inventory of
Approved ICR Burdens. This decrease in labor hours is
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the result of changing the percentage from 10 percent to 5 percent to
calculate the management person-hours since we believe this is a more
accurate estimate.
Dated: February 25, 2004.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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