[Federal Register: January 27, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 18)]
[Notices]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OECA-2005-0026; FRL-8025-7]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB
Review and Approval; Comment Request; NSPS for Grain Elevators
(Renewal), ICR Number 1130.08, OMB Number 2060-0082
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 April 30, 2006. 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 27,
2006.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number EPA-HQ-
OECA-2005-0026, to (1) EPA online using http://www.regulations.gov (our preferred method), by email to docket.oeca@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA
Docket Center (EPA/DC), 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 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 May 6, 2005 (70 FR 24020), 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. EPA-HQ-OECA 2005-0026, 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 at http://www.regulations.gov. Use
http://www.regulations.gov 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 http://www.regulations.gov 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 http://www.regulations.gov.
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 http://www.regulations.gov For further information about the electronic docket, go to http://www.regulations.gov.
Title: NSPS for Grain Elevators (Renewal).
Abstract: The New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for grain
elevators were proposed on January 18, 1977 and promulgated on August
3, 1978. These standards apply to each affected facility at any grain
terminal elevator or any grain storage elevator. The facilities are
each truck unloading station, truck loading station, barge and ship
loading station, railcar loading station, railcar unloading station,
grain dryer and all grain handling operations that commenced
construction, modification or reconstruction after August 3, 1978.
Owners or operators of the affected facilities must make the
following one-time-only reports: notification of the date of
construction or reconstruction; notification of the actual date of
startup; notification of any physical or operational change to an
existing facility that may increase the rate of emission of the
regulated pollutant; notification of initial performance test; and
results of initial performance test. Owners or operators are also
required to maintain records of the occurrence and duration of any
startup, shutdown, or malfunction, or any period during which the
monitoring system is inoperative. Performance tests are the Agency's
records of a source's initial capability to comply with emissions
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standards and not the operating conditions under which compliance was
achieved. An annual summary report is also required.
Any owner or operator subject to the provisions of this subpart
must maintain a file of these measurements, and retain the file for at
least two years following the collection of such measurements,
maintenance reports, and records. 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 10.35
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 each grain
terminal elevator or any grain storage elevator.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 200.
Frequency of Response: On occasion, initially and annually.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 2,070 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Costs: $167,108, which includes $0 Capital/
startup expense, $0 Operations and Maintenance costs, and $167,108
Respondent Labor costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There was an increase of 1,811 hours in
the total estimated burden currently identified in the OMB Inventory of
Approved ICR Burdens. The increase in burden hours from the most
recently approved ICR is due primarily to a more accurate accounting of
existing sources, an annual summary report that was inadvertently left
out, a revised labor rate, and the fact that we are presently
accounting for management and clerical person hours per year, which was
not shown in the previous ICR.
After a thorough analysis by the National Grain and Feed
Association, they arrived at two hundred as the number of sources that
are subject to subpart DD, as compared to one hundred and thirty-two in
the previous ICR.
There are no capital or operations and maintenance costs since
there is no continuous monitoring.
Dated: December 5, 2005.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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