Agency Information Collection Activities Under OMB Review; EPA ICR Nos. 659.07, 660.06, 663.06, 1178.04, and 1415.03

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-5556-3]

Agency Information Collection Activities Under OMB Review; EPA

ICR Nos. 659.07, 660.06, 663.06, 1178.04, and 1415.03

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

Requests (ICRs) abstracted below have been forwarded to the Office of

Management and Budget (OMB) for review and comment. The ICRs describe

the nature of the information collections and their expected costs and

burdens; where appropriate, they include the actual data collection

instruments.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before September 18, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION OR A COPY CALL:

Sandy Farmer at EPA, (202) 260-2740, and refer to the appropriate EPA

ICR Number: 659.07, 660.06, 663.06, 1178.04, or 1415.03.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: NSPS for Industrial Surface Coating: Large Appliances

(Subpart SS); EPA ICR No. 659.07; OMB No. 2060-0108. This is a request

for an extension of a currently approved collection.

Abstract: Owners or operators of each surface coating operation in

a large appliance surface coating line must provide EPA, or the

delegated State authority, with one-time notifications and reports, and

must keep records as required of all facilities subject to the general

NSPS (New Source Performance Standards) requirements. In addition,

facilities subject to this subpart must install devices to measure and

record operating temperatures, and must notify EPA or the State

regulatory authority of the date upon which the demonstration of the

equipment performance commences. Owners or operators must report all

periods of emissions in excess of the standard. The notifications and

reports enable EPA or the delegated State regulatory authority to

determine that best demonstrated technology is installed and properly

operated and maintained and to schedule inspections.

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. The Federal Register Notice

with a 60-day comment period soliciting comments on this collection of

information was published on 03/26/96 (61 FR 13172).

Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping

burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 23

hours per response. This estimate 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: Large appliance surface coating lines.

Estimated No. of Respondents: 294.

Frequency of Collection: Quarterly.

Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: 29,512 hours.

Estimated Total Annualized Cost Burden: $618,000.

Title: NSPS for Metal Coil Surface Coating (subpart TT) (EPA ICR

No. 660.06; OMB No. 2060-0107). This is a request for an extension of a

currently approved collection.

Abstract: The provisions of the subpart apply to the following

affected facilities in a metal coil surface coating operation: (1) Each

prime coat operation; (2) each finish coat operation; and (3) each

prime and finish coat operation combined when the finish coat is

applied wet on wet over the prime coat and both coatings are cured

simultaneously. Owners or operators of subject facilities must provide

EPA, or the delegated State regulatory authority, with one-time

notifications and initial compliance reports, and must keep records, as

required of all facilities subject to the general NSPS requirements.

Owners and operators of subject facilities must notify EPA or the State

regulatory authority of the date upon which demonstration of the

compliance devices commences. In addition, the owner or operator of the

subject facilities must install and operate devices that control

emissions and that measure and record the operating characteristics of

those devices. Where compliance is achieved through the intermittent

use of a control device, reports must include separate values of the

weighted average VOC content of coatings used with and without the

control device in operation.

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Where compliance is achieved through the use of an emission control

device that destroys VOCs, reports must include the combustion

temperature for thermal incinerators, and the gas temperature both

upstream and downstream of the incinerator catalyst bed. Owners or

operators of subject facilities must report all emissions in excess of

the standard quarterly. The notifications and reports enable EPA or the

state delegated regulatory authority to determine that best

demonstrated technology is installed and properly operated and

maintained and to schedule inspections.

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. The Federal Register Notice

with a 60-day comment period soliciting comments on this collection of

information was published on 03/26/96 (61 FR 13172).

Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping

burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 24

hours per response. This estimate 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: Facilities having the following metal coil surface

coating operations: (1) Prime coat operations, (2) finish coat

operations; and (3) prime and finish coat operations combined when the

finish coat is applied wet on wet over the prime coat and both coatings

are cured simultaneously.

Estimated No. of Respondents: 143.

Frequency of Collection: Quarterly.

Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: 13,839 hours.

Estimated Total Annualized Cost Burden: $279,000.

Title: NSPS for Beverage Can Coating (Subpart WW) (EPA ICR No.

663.06; OMB No. 2060-0001). This is a request for an extension of a

currently approved collection.

Abstract: The provisions of this subpart apply to the following

affected facilities in beverage can surface coating lines: (1) Each

exterior base coating operation; (2) each over varnish coating

operation; and (3) each inside spray coating operation. The owner or

operator of an affected facility must provide EPA, or the delegated

State regulatory authority, with one-time notifications and initial

compliance reports, and must keep records, as required of all

facilities subject to the general NSPS requirements.

In addition, owners or operators of affected facilities that apply

only coatings with VOC content less than that specified in the

regulations must provide a list of coatings and the VOC content of each

coating used. Where one or more coatings do have VOC content higher

than that specified in the regulation, owners or operators must install

measuring and recording devices and report on specified operating

characteristics of their equipment based on how compliance is achieved.

If compliance is achieved through the use of thermal incineration the

owner or operator must install equipment to measure and report on the

temperature of the combustion gases upstream and downstream of the

incinerator or combustion chamber. If compliance is achieved through

the use of catalytic incineration, the owner or operator must install

equipment to measure and report on upstream and downstream temperatures

of the catalytic bed. If compliance is achieved through the use of a

solvent recovery system, the owner or operator must install equipment

to measure and report the amount of solvent recovered by the system for

each affected facility.

The owner or operator of an affected facility must also notify EPA

or the State regulatory authority of the date upon which demonstration

performance commences. Owners or operators must report all periods of

emissions in excess of the standard, and must report on monitoring

system performance quarterly. The notifications and reports enable EPA

or the delegated State regulatory authority to determine that best

demonstrated technology is installed and properly operated and

maintained and to schedule inspections.

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. The Federal Register Notice

with a 60-day comment period soliciting comments on this collection of

information was published on 03/26/96 (61 FR 13172).

Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping

burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 29

hours per response. This estimate 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: Owners or operators of beverage can surface coating

lines.

Estimated No. of Respondents: 24.

Frequency of Response: Quarterly.

Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: 3,092 hours.

Estimated Total Annualized Cost Burden: $50,000.

Title: Standards of Performance of Volatile Organic Compound (VOC)

Emissions from the Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturing Industry

(SOCMI), Reactor Processes (Subpart RRR) (OMB Control No. 2060-0269;

EPA ICR No. 1178.04). This is a request for an extension of a currently

approved collection.

Abstract: The EPA uses the information collected under this part to

identify sources subject to the standards and to insure that the best

demonstrated technology is being properly applied. The standards

require periodic recordkeeping to document process information relating

to the sources' ability to meet the requirements of the standard and to

note the operation conditions under which compliance was achieved.

Owners or operators of the affected facilities described must make

the following one-time-only reports: Notification of the date of

construction or reconstruction; notification of the anticipated and

actual dates of startup; notification of any physical or operational

change to an existing facility which may increase the regulated

pollutant emission rate; notification of the date of the initial

performance test; and the results of the initial performance test.

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 during which the

monitoring system is inoperative. These

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notifications, reports and records are required, in general, of all

sources subject to NSPS.

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. The

Federal Register Notice with a 60-day comment period soliciting

comments on this collection of information was published on 06/11/96

(61 FR 29555).

Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping

burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 62

hours per response. This estimate 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: Synthetic organic chemical

manufacturers.

Estimated No. of Respondents: 203.

Frequency of Collection: semiannual.

Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: 20,440 hours.

Estimated Total Annualized Cost Burden: $102,200.

Title: NESHAP for PCE Dry Cleaning Facilities (Subpart M) (OMB

Control No. 2060-0234; EPA ICR No. 1415.03). This is a request for

renewal of a currently approved information collection request.

Abstract: These standards apply to owners or operators of dry

cleaning facilities that use perchloroethylene (PCE). Owners or

operators of such facilities must provide EPA, or the delegated State

regulatory authority, with the one-time notifications and reports. The

owners or operators must also perform weekly monitoring (or biweekly

for the smallest facilities) and must keep records for 5 years. The

notification and reports enable EPA or the delegated State regulatory

authority to determine whether the appropriate control technology is

installed and properly operated and maintained, and to schedule

inspections and/or compliance assistance activities. The responses to

this information collection are mandatory under Clean Air Act section

112 and 40 CFR Part 63, Subpart M. The responses are not anticipated to

be kept confidential due to the nature of the information collected;

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 40 CFR Part 2.

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. The

Federal Register Notice required under 5 CFR 1320.8(d), soliciting

comments on this collection of information was published on March 26,

1996 (61 FR 13172). No comments were received.

Burden Statement: The annual public reporting burden for this

collection of information is estimated to average 9 hours per response

for new dry cleaning facilities and zero hours per response for

existing dry cleaning facilities. The public recordkeeping burden is

estimated to average 48 hours per respondent for a total 1,192,879

hours. 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: Dry cleaning facilities.

Estimated Number of Respondents: 25,090.

Frequency of Response: weekly or biweekly.

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 1,212,055 hours.

Estimated Total Annualized Cost Burden: $0.

Send comments on the Agency's need for the information in any of

these collections, the accuracy of the provided burden estimates, and

any suggested methods for minimizing respondent burden, including

through the use of automated collection techniques to the following

addresses. Please refer to the appropriate EPA ICR Number and OMB

Control Number in any correspondence.

Ms. Sandy Farmer, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, OPPE Regulatory

Information Division (2137), 401 M Street, SW, Washington, DC 20460.

and

Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and

Budget, Attention: Desk Officer for EPA, 725 17th Street, NW,

Washington, DC 20503.

August 13, 1996.

David Schwarz,

Acting Director, Regulatory Information Division.

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