[Federal Register: March 24, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 56)]
[Notices]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[OECA-2004-0032; FRL-7889-2]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB
Review and Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Leather Finishing
Operations (Renewal), ICR Number 1985.03, OMB Control Number 2060-0478
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 June 30, 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 25,
2005.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number OECA-
2004-0032, 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, Mail Code 2201T, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20460, and (2) OMB at: Office of Information and
Regulatory
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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-2004-0032, 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. 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: NESHAP for Leather Finishing Operations (Renewal).
Abstract: The National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air
Pollutants (NESHAP), for Leather Finishing Operations were proposed on
October 2, 2000 (65 FR 58702). These standards apply to any existing,
reconstructed, or new leather finishing operations. A leather finishing
operation is a single process or group of processes used to adjust and
improve the physical and aesthetic characteristics of the leather
surface through multistage application of a coating comprised of dyes,
pigments, film-forming materials and performance modifiers dissolved or
suspended in liquid carriers. A leather finishing operation 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 (9.07 megagrams) or more per year or any
combination of HAP at a rate of 25 tons (22.68 megagrams) or more per
year or is collocated a major source of HAPs.
Owners and operators must submit notification reports upon the
construction or reconstruction of any leather finishing operation. Any
leather finishing operation that starts up after proposal but before
promulgation must submit an initial notification, similar to the one
submitted by existing sources. Each new or reconstructed source that
starts up after promulgation must submit a series of notifications in
addition to the initial notification which include: notification of
intent to construct or reconstruct and notification of startup. Upon
the collection of twelve months of data after the date of initial
notification owners or operators of leather finishing operations must
submit an annual compliance status certification report and each year
thereafter. 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 that are 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 33
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 leather
finishing operations.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 10.
Frequency of Response: Initially, annually and on occasion.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 334 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Costs: $21,279, which includes zero O&M
costs, zero Capital Expense, and $21,279 in Respondent Labor costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is a decrease of 151 hours in the
total
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estimated burden currently identified in the OMB Inventory of Approved
ICR Burdens. This decrease in the burden from the most recently
approved ICR is due to a decrease in the number of sources. Our data
indicates that there are approximately ten sources subject to the rule,
as compared to the active ICR that shows twelve sources. There are no
new facilities expected to be constructed in the next three years. The
decline in the number of sources was due to the high energy cost to
operate the machinery and foreign competition. Our research also shows
that since the removal/delisting of the compound ethylene glycol butyl
ether (EGBE) from the list of HAPs that the Agency regulates under the
Clean Air Act, a number of leather finishing facilities that use EGBE
will no longer be subject to the CAAA's Maximum Achievable Control
Technology (MACT) requirements, thus the number of sources would be
decreased even more over the next three years.
There are no capital/startup or operation and maintenance costs,
because NESHAP for Leather Finishing Operations does not require any
special monitoring or recordkeeping equipment, therefore, no capital
and operations and maintenance costs are associated with recordkeeping
or reporting to the rule.
Dated: March 16, 2005.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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