[Federal Register: July 17, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 136)]
[Notices]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OECA-2005-0064; FRL-8197-5]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB
Review and Approval; Comment Request; NSPS for Electric Utility Steam
Generating Units (Renewal), ICR Number 1053.08, OMB Number 2060-0023
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 the following Information
Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for review and approval: NSPS for Electric Utility
Steam Generating Units (40 CFR part 60, subpart Da), OMB Control Number
2060-0023, EPA ICR Number 1053.08. The ICR, which is abstracted below,
describes the nature of the information collection and its estimated
burden and cost.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on, or before August 16, 2006.
ADDRESSES: Follow the detailed instructions in the SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION section.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gregory Fried, Compliance Assessment
and Media Programs Division, Office of Compliance, Mail Code 2223A,
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.,
Washington, DC 20460; telephone number (202) 564-7016; fax number (202)
564-0050; e-mail address fried.gregory@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 21, 2005 (70 FR 55368), 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
Number EPA-HQ-OECA-2005-0064, 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 is (202) 566-1514. An electronic version of the
public docket is available through the Federal Docket Management System
(FDMS) at http://www.regulations.gov. Use FDMS 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. Also, you can send
comments to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of
Management and Budget, 725 17th Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503,
Attention: Desk Officer for EPA. Please include the EPA Docket ID
Number EPA-HQ-OECA-2005-0064 and OMB Control Number 2060-0023 in any
correspondence.
Any comments related to this ICR should be submitted to EPA and OMB
within 30 days of this notice, and according to the following detailed
instructions: (1) Submit your comments to EPA online using FDMS (our
preferred method), by e-mail to docket.oeca@epa.gov or by mail to EPA
Docket Center, Environmental Protection Agency, Mail code: 2201T, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460, and (2) Mail your
comments to 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.
EPA's policy is that public comments, whether submitted
electronically or in paper, will be made available for public viewing
in FDMS as EPA receives them 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 FDMS. 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, see EPA's Federal Register
notice describing the electronic docket at 67 FR 38102 (May 31, 2002),
or go to http://www.regulations.gov.
Title: NSPS for Electric Utility Steam Generating Units (Renewal).
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EPA ICR Number: 1053.08; OMB Control Number 2060-0023.
This is a request to renew an existing approved collection that is
scheduled to expire on July 31, 2006. Under the OMB regulations, the
Agency may continue to conduct or sponsor the collection of information
while this submission is pending at OMB.
Abstract: Owners or operators of electric utility steam generating
units subject to the New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) subpart Da
must make one-time notification of construction/reconstruction,
anticipated and actual startup, initial performance test, physical or
operational changes, and demonstration of a continuous monitoring
system. They also must submit a report on initial performance test
results, monitoring results, and excess emissions. Records must be
maintained of startups, shutdowns, malfunctions, periods when the
continuous monitoring system is inoperative, and of various fuel
combustion and pollutant emission parameters.
The required notifications are used to inform the Agency or
delegated authority when a source becomes subject to the standard.
Performance test reports are needed, as these are the Agency's records
of a source's initial capability to comply with the emission standard,
and serve as a record of the operating conditions under which
compliance was achieved. The monitoring and excess emissions reports
are used for problem identification, as a check on source operation and
maintenance, and for compliance determination. The information
collected from recordkeeping and reporting requirements are used for
targeting inspections and for other uses in compliance and enforcement
programs.
Responses to these information collections are deemed mandatory by
section 114(a) of the Clean Air Act. The required information consists
of emissions data and other information that have been determined not
to be private. However, any information submitted to the Agency for
which a claim of confidentiality is made will be safeguarded according
to the Agency policies set forth in Title 40, Chapter 1, Part 2,
Subpart B--Confidentiality of Business Information (see 40 CFR 2; 41 FR
36902, September 1, 1976; amended by 43 FR 4000, September 8, 1978; 43
FR 42251, September 20, 1978; 44 FR 17674, March 23, 1979).
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 85
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 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 electric
utility steam generating units subject to subpart Da.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 655.
Frequency of Response: Semiannually, quarterly.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 133,553.
Estimated Total Annual Cost: $19,490,000, includes $2,200,000
annualized capital and $9,660,000 O&M costs.
Dated: July 8, 2006.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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