[Federal Register: April 21, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 76)]
[Notices]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[RCRA-2005-0007, FRL-7902-3]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Continuing Collection;
Comment Request; Information Collection Request for RCRA Reporting and
Recordkeeping Requirements for Boilers and Industrial Furnaces Burning
Hazardous Waste, EPA ICR Number 1361.10, OMB Control Number 2050-0073
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 notice announces that EPA is planning to submit the
following continuing Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB): Information Collection Request for RCRA
Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements for Boilers and Industrial
Furnaces (BIFs) Burning Hazardous Waste, EPA ICR Number 1361.10, OMB
Control Number 2050-0073, expires 12/31/2005. This ICR includes the
burden on these facilities by the general hazardous waste facility
standards, specific unit requirements, Part B permit application and
modification requirements, and the comparable/syngas fuel specification
requirements covered by 40 CFR parts 261, 264, 265, 266 and 270. Before
submitting the ICR to OMB for review and approval, EPA is soliciting
comments on specific aspects of the proposed information collection as
described below.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before June 20, 2005.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number RCRA-
2005-0007, to EPA online using EDOCKET (our preferred method), by e-
mail to RCRA-docket@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA Docket Center,
Environmental Protection Agency, RCRA Docket, mail code 5305T, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Shiva Garg, Environmental Protection
Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460, Mail Code
5302W; telephone number: (703) 308-8459, fax number: (703) 308-8433, e-
mail garg.shiva@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has established a public docket for this
ICR under Docket ID number RCRA-2005-0007, which is available for
public
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viewing at the RCRA 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 RCRA
Docket is (202) 566-0270. An electronic version of the public docket is
available through EPA Dockets (EDOCKET) at http://www.epa.gov/edocket.
Use EDOCKET to obtain a copy of the draft collection of information,
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 within
60 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.
Affected entities: Entities potentially affected by this action are
those which generate, treat and store hazardous waste. Examples include
hazardous waste incinerators, boilers, cement kilns and lightweight
aggregate kilns that burn hazardous waste.
Title: RCRA Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements for Boilers
and Industrial Furnaces Burning Hazardous Waste.
Abstract: EPA regulates the burning of hazardous waste by several
source categories of hazardous waste combustors under 40 CFR parts 63,
261, 264 thru 266 and part 270. The standards to control emissions of
hazardous air pollutants from boilers and industrial furnaces were
promulgated under Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) on
February 21, 1991 (see 56 FR 7208) and are codified in 40 CFR parts 266
and 270. The general facility and comparable/syngas fuel standards, and
financial requirements are covered in 40 CFR parts 261, 264 and 265.
Revised standards to control emissions of hazardous air pollutants from
incinerators, cement kilns and lightweight aggregate kilns that burn
hazardous wastes were promulgated on September 30, 1999, under the
joint authority of RCRA and Clean Air Act (CAA). See 64 FR 52828. The
EPA ICR 1773.06 relating to the CAA provisions (codified in 40
CFR part 63) has been published separately under OMB Control
2050-0171. The EPA ICR 1361.09 pertaining to RCRA
provisions of the rule was approved under OMB Control 2050-
0073, expires on December 31, 2005, and is being renewed now under this
action.
The emission standards of the September 30, 1999 rule created
maximum achievable control technology (MACT) based standards for
hazardous air pollutant emissions under CAA, assuring that combustion
of hazardous waste in these devices is properly controlled, while the
RCRA provisions satisfied EPA's mandate to ensure that hazardous waste
combustion is conducted in a manner protective of human health and the
environment. Thus, we have consolidated regulatory control of hazardous
waste combustion into a single set of regulations, thereby minimizing
the potential for conflicting or duplicate federal requirements and
burden on the regulated community.
The information collection required under this ICR is mandatory for
the regulated sources, as it is essential to properly enforce the
emission limitation requirements of the rule and will be used to
further the proper performance of the functions of EPA. EPA believes
that if the minimum requirements specified under the regulations are
not met, EPA will not fulfill its Congressional mandate to protect
public health and the environment. EPA, however, has made extensive
efforts to integrate the monitoring, compliance testing and
recordkeeping requirements of the CAA and RCRA, so that the facilities
are able to avoid the burden of duplicate and unnecessary submissions.
We also ensure, to the fullest extent by law, the confidentiality of
the submitted information. EPA 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.
The EPA would like to solicit comments to:
(i) Evaluate whether the proposed collections of information are
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the Agency,
including whether the information will have practical utility;
(ii) Evaluate the accuracy of the Agency's estimates of the burdens
for reporting and recordkeeping requirements of the proposed
collections of information;
(iii) Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information
to be collected; and,
(iv) Minimize the burden of the collections of information on those
who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated
or electronic collection technologies or other forms of information
technology, e.g., permitting electronic submission of responses.
Burden Statement: The total average annual hourly burden for this
ICR is estimated to be 307,949 hours for 1969 responses, which is
roughly 156 hours per response. The total annual cost of this ICR is
estimated to be $26,353,000, which represents $8,548,000 for capital/
startup costs, and $17,805,000 for operation and maintenance costs.
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.
Dated: April 14, 2005.
Maria Parisi Vickers,
Acting Director, Office of Solid Waste.
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