[Federal Register: January 10, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 6)]
[Notices]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[OW-2004-0029; FRL-7859-5]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Comment Request; Pollution Prevention Compliance
Alternative; Transportation Equipment Cleaning (TEC) Point Source
Category (Renewal), EPA ICR Number 2018.02, OMB Control Number 2040-
0235
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 January 31,
2005. 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 February 9,
2005.
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ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number OW-2004-
0029, to (1) EPA online using EDOCKET (our preferred method), by e-mail
to OW-Docket@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental
Protection Agency, Water Docket, Mail Code 4101T, 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: Jack Faulk, Office of Wastewater
Management, Mail Code 4203M, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: 202-
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 August 30, 2004 (69 FR 52883), 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. OW-2004-0029, which is available for public viewing at the Water
Docket 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 Water Docket
is (202) 566-2426. 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. Once 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
.
Title: Pollution Prevention Compliance Alternative; Transportation
Equipment Cleaning (TEC) Point Source Category (Renewal).
Abstract: EPA issued a final guideline for the TEC point source
category on August 14, 2000. This final rule, codified in 40 CFR part
442, included a regulatory compliance option which allows certain
facilities to develop a Pollutant Management Plan (PMP) in lieu of
meeting numeric standards. Facilities have the option to develop this
plan if it would be more beneficial compliance alternative. The PMP is
only available for Pretreatment Standards for Existing Sources and
Pretreatment Standards for New Sources in subparts A and B of the TEC
regulation, representing a potential 336 facilities.
The PMP includes requirements for recordkeeping and paperwork that
were not previously included in the burden estimate for the TEC
industry. This ICR presents estimates of the burden hours and costs to
the regulated community and pretreatment authorities for data
collection and recordkeeping associated with implementing the pollution
prevention compliance option.
The PMP is an effective alternative method of reducing pollutant
discharges from indirect dischargers in subparts A and B (facilities
that clean tank trucks, intermodal tank containers, and rail tank cars
transporting chemical and petroleum cargos). The PMP contains 10
components that must be considered and addressed when developing the
Plan. These components require facilities to identify and segregate
incompatible waste streams which may include heels, prerinse or
prestream wastewater, and spent cleaning solutions from wastewater
discharged to a publicly owned treatment works (POTW). The PMP also
requires provisions for recycling or reuse of incompatible waste
streams and for minimizing the use of toxic cleaning agents. Data
collection and recordkeeping requirements under the pollution
prevention compliance option include preparing the PMP and maintaining
records to demonstrate compliance with the procedures and provisions of
the PMP. Records will be stored on site, and there are no reporting
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 in 40 CFR are listed in 40 CFR part 9 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 240
hours per new respondent per year and 209 hours per existing respondent
per year. Pretreatment control authority burden is estimated to average
5 hours per respondent per year. 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: Indirect discharge facilities from
40 CFR part 442, subparts A and B (facilities that clean tank trucks,
intermodal tank containers, and rail tank cars transporting chemical
and petroleum cargos), that choose the pollution prevention compliance
option to reduce pollutant discharges.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 183.
Frequency of Response: Varies.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 17,869 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Cost: $559,000, includes $0 annualized
capital or O&M costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is a decrease of 1,275 hours in the
total estimated burden currently identified in the OMB Inventory of
Approved ICR Burdens. This decrease is the result of adjustments to the
numbers of new facilities covered by these requirements.
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Dated: December 20, 2004.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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