[Federal Register: March 14, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 48)]
[Notices]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[OECA-2004-0039; FRL-7883-3]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB
Review and Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Primary Copper
Smelters, ICR Number 1850.04, OMB Number 2060-0476 (Renewal)
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 May 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 April 13,
2005.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number OECA-
2004-0039, 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, 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 September 14, 2004 (69 FR 55430), 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-2004-0039, 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
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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
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Title: NESHAP for Primary Copper Smelters (40 CFR Part 63, Subpart
QQQ) (Renewal).
Abstract: The National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air
Pollutants (NESHAP), for Primary Copper Smelters were proposed on April
20, 1998 (63 FR 19582), and June 26, 2000 (65 FR 39326) respectively.
These standards apply to any existing, reconstructed, or new primary
copper smelters. The affected sources are each copper concentrate
dryer, each smelting furnace, each slag cleaning vessel, each copper
converter department, and the entire group of fugitive emission
sources. Affected owners and operators are required to meet specific
monitoring, recordkeeping, and reporting requirements in order to
demonstrate initial and continuous compliance with the rule. A primary
copper smelter is only subject to the regulation if it is a major
source of hazardous air pollutant (HAP) emitting or has the potential
to emit any single HAP at the rate of 10 tons or more per year or any
combination of HAP at the rate of 25 tons or more per year.
Owners and operators must submit notification reports upon the
construction, reconstruction, or modification of any primary copper
smelter. Also, required is a one-time-only initial notification for new
and reconstructed sources. The respondents are required to submit an
annual performance test for each control device, and a semiannual
summary report to EPA. Respondents subject to the final rule are
required to prepare and maintain on site two site-specific operating
plans: (1) A startup, shutdown, malfunction plan, and (2) a fugitive
dust control plan. Records and reports will be required to be retained
for a total of five years, two years at the site, and the remaining
three years at an off-site location.
Notifications are used to inform the Agency or delegated authority
when a source becomes subject to the standard. The reviewing authority
may then inspect the source to check if the pollution control devices
are properly installed and operated, and the standard is being met.
Performance test reports are needed as these are the Agency's records
of a source's initial capability to comply with the emission standards,
and serve as a record of the operating conditions under which
compliance was achieved. The information generated by monitoring,
recordkeeping and reporting requirements described in this ICR is used
by the Agency to ensure that facilities affected by the standard
continue to operate the control equipment and achieve continuous
compliance with the regulation.
All reports are sent to the delegated state or local authority. In
the event that there is no such delegated authority, the reports are
sent directly to the EPA regional office.
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 196
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 primary
copper smelters.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 3.
Frequency of Response: Initially, monthly, semiannually and
annually.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 8,837 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Costs: $564,848, which includes $0
annualized capital/startup costs, $8,000 annual O&M costs, and $556,848
annual labor costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is a decrease of 11,669 hours in
the total estimated burden currently identified in the OMB Inventory of
Approved ICR Burdens. The decrease in burden from the most recently
approved ICR is due to a decrease in the number of sources. Our data
indicates that there are approximately three sources subject to the
rule, as compared to the active ICR that shows six sources. There are
no new facilities expected to be constructed in the next three years.
The decline in the number of sources was partially due to corporate
mergers, coupled with power disruptions and high energy costs which
resulted in loss of production and plant closure.
The annual reporting and recordkeeping cost burden is reduced from
$98,000 to $8,000. In the initial rule related ICR, respondents were
required to install monitoring equipment. For this ICR, all of the
monitoring equipment has been installed and only O&M costs remain.
Dated: March 1, 2005.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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