Agency Information Collection Activities Under OMB Review

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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Agency Information Collection Activities Under OMB Review

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 the Information Collection Request

(ICR) abstracted below has been forwarded to the Office of Management

and Budget (OMB) for review and comment. The ICR describes the nature

of the information collection and its expected cost and burden; where

appropriate, it includes the actual data collection instrument.

DATES: comments must be submitted on or before August 5, 1994.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:For further information, or to obtain a

copy of this ICR, contact Sandy Farmer at 202-260-2740.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Office of Air and Radiation

Title: New Source Performance Standards for Secondary Brass and

Bronze Production Plants (Subpart M). (EPA ICR # 1604.04; OMB# 2060-

0110). This is a renewal of a currently approved collection.

Abstract: Owners or operators of brass and bronze production

facilities must notify EPA of construction, reconstruction,

modification, startup, shutdown, and malfunction of reverberatory and

electric furnaces of 1,000 kg or greater production capacity, and blast

furnaces of 250 kg/hr or greater production capacity. Owners or

operators must record all data and calculations and results of initial

performance tests and submit that data to EPA. Owners or operators are

also required to maintain records of the occurrence and duration of any

startup, shutdown, or malfunction in the operation of an affected

facility, or any period in which the monitoring system is inoperative.

Recurring compliance reports are not required under this standard. EPA

uses the data to determine the ability of each plant to comply with the

emission standards.

Burden Statement: The public reporting burden for this collection

of information is estimated to be 1.5 hours per source for

recordkeeping annually.

Respondents: Owners and operators of secondary brass and bronze

production plants.

Estimated No. of Respondents: 5.

Estimated No. of Responses Per Respondent: None.

Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: 8 hours.

Frequency of Collection: Not applicable.

Send comments regarding the burden estimate, or any other aspect of

the information collection, including suggestions for reducing the

burden, to:

Ms. Sandy Farmer, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Information

Policy Branch (2136), 401 M Street, SW., Washington, DC 20460.

and

Mr. Chris Wolz, Office of Management and Budget, Office of Information

and Regulatory Affairs, 725 17th Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503.

Dated: June 24, 1994.

Paul Lapsley,

Director, Regulatory Management Division.

[FR Doc. 94-16335 Filed 7-5-94; 8:45 am]

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