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.

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.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before May 24, 1995.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sandy Farmer at EPA, (202) 260-2740.

Please refer to EPA ICA #1063.06. [[Page 20084]]

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Office of Air and Radiation

Title: New Source Performance Standard (NSPS) For Sewage Treatment

Plant Incineration (subpart O) (EPA No. 1063.06, OMB No. 2060-0035).

Abstract: This ICR is for an extension of an existing information

collection in support of NSPS requirements as established by the Clean

Air Act (the Act), under the general NSPS requirements at 40 CFR 60.7-

60.8 and the more specific requirements at 40 CFR 61.7 and 40 CFR

61.153-61.155. Owners or operators of facilities subject to the NSPS

must demonstrate compliance by fulfilling specific monitoring,

reporting, and recordkeeping requirements. The information collected

will be used by EPA and State agencies for monitoring, inspection, and

enforcement purposes.

Owners or operators of new plants must: (1) Notify EPA of the

facility's construction and reconstruction, (2) provide EPA with the

anticipated and actual start-up dates of the facility, (3) submit

results of the initial performance test and the date of the test to

EPA, and (4) notify EPA of the continuous monitoring system

demonstration.

Owners and operators of all subject facilities must: (1) Notify EPA

of any relevant physical or operational changes. Owners and operators

must semiannually submit a report that includes: (1) The periods of 15

minutes or more during which the pressure of the wet scrubbing device

fell below a specified level, (2) the average oxygen content in the

incinerator exhaust gas for each period of 1 hour or more than it

exceeds a specified level, and (3) periods of excess emission.

Owners and operators of all subject facilities must: (1)

Continuously monitor and record the pressure drop, (2) monitor the

amount of oxygen in the incinerator exhaust gases upstream of the

emission control device, (3) maintain records of the occurrences and

duration of startups, shutdowns and malfunctions, (4) maintain files on

all measurements including performance test, (5) record mass or volume

data from measuring device, and (6) record daily charging rates.

In addition, owners and operators of incinerators with particulate

emissions exceeding 0.38 grams/kilogram dry sludge input must: (1)

Continuously monitor and record the temperature profile of the

incinerator and sludge feed rate to the incinerator, (2) measure and

record the fuel consumed for each 8-hour period of incinerator

operation, (3) record the moisture and volatile content of sludge being

incinerated daily, (4) record the average scrubber pressure drop, and

(5) record the average oxygen content of the incinerator exhaust over

each one hour period. This information must be included in their

semiannual report.

Owners or operators of facilities with control devices other than

wet scrubbers must seek EPA approval by submitting a plan for

monitoring and recording incinerator and control device operation

parameters and report semiannually on the measurements as described in

the approved plan.

An estimated average of 77 facilities will be subject to the

regulations with an average growth of 3 facilities per year over the

next three years. The data collected by the monitoring and

recordkeeping systems would be retained at the facility for a minimum

of 2 years.

Burden Statement: Public reporting burden for this collection of

information is estimated to average 53 hours per response, including

time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources,

gathering and maintaining data, and completing and reviewing the

collections of information. Public burden is estimated to average 8200

hours annually.

Respondents: Sewage treatment plant incinerators.

Estimated Number of Respondents: 77

Estimated Number of Responses Per Respondent: 2

Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: 8200

Frequency of Collection: Semiannually for reporting requirements.

Daily recordkeeping requirements.

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

this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing the

burden, (please refer to EPA ICR #1063.06 and OMB #2060-0035) to:

Sandy Farmer, EPA ICR #1063.06, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,

Regulatory Information Division (2136), 401 M St., SW., Washington, DC

20460 and

Chris Wolz, OMB #2060-0035, Office of Management and Budget, 725 17th

St., NW., Washington, DC 20503

Dated: April 18, 1995.

Joseph Retzer,

Chief, Regulatory Information Division.

[FR Doc. 95-10057 Filed 4-21-95; 8:45 am]

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