Agency Information Collection Activities Renewal of Final Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants From Wood Furniture Manufacturing Operations

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-5877-6]

Agency Information Collection Activities Renewal of Final

Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants From Wood Furniture

Manufacturing Operations

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 EPA is planning to submit the

following proposed and/or continuing Information Collection Requests

(ICRs) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Before submitting

the ICRs to OMB for review and approval, EPA is soliciting comments on

specific aspects of the proposed information collections as described

below.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before October 20, 1997.

ADDRESSES: Interested parties may obtain a copy of the currently

effective ICR, without charge, by writing to the U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency, 401 M Street, SW., Mail Code 2223A, Washington, D.C.

20460, Attention: Robert C. Marshall, Jr.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert C. Marshall, Jr., telephone

(202) 564-7021, facsimile transmission (202) 564-0039 or e-mail

address; [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Affected entities: Entities potentially affected by this action are

wood furniture manufacturing operations.

Title: 40 CFR parts 9 and 63, Final Standards for Hazardous Air

Pollutant Emissions From Wood Furniture Manufacturing Operations; 40

CFR part 63, subpart JJ, Secs. 63.800 through 63.819.

OMB Control Number: 2060-0324. Expiration Date: February 10, 1998.

Abstract: Information is supplied to the Agency under the

applicable rule by owners and operators of new and existing wood

furniture manufacturing operations that are major sources of hazardous

air pollutants (HAPs). An estimated 750 of the 11,000 existing wood

furniture manufacturers are major HAP emitters.

The respondents are required by 40 CFR part 63, subparts A (General

Provisions) and JJ (source-specific provisions) to submit periodic

reports and perform various recordkeeping activities to enable the

Administrator to:

(i) Identify new, modified, reconstructed and existing sources

subject to the standard, and

(ii) Ensure that the standards, which are based on maximum

achievable control technology, are being met.

The reporting requirements of the standard include; (1) Submission

of an application requesting approval for construction/reconstruction;

(2) notification of start-up, construction and reconstruction; (3)

notification of physical/operational changes; (4) site-specific

performance and CMS performance evaluation test plans; (5) notification

and reporting of performance and CMS tests/results; (6) a semi-annual

compliance report; (7) work practice standards implementation plan

reports; (8) notification to the Agency of rule applicability; and (9)

notification and reporting of compliance status.

The recordkeeping requirements of the rule include: (1) Five-year

maintenance and retention of records; (2) records of startups,

shutdowns, and malfunctions; (3) records required as part of the work

practice implementation plan; (4) continuous monitoring system (CMS)

data records; (5) records of the types and quantities of

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finishing, cleaning materials and adhesives used; (6) monthly weighted

average emission calculations; (7) documentation of area source status,

if claimed; and (8) records of performance and CMS tests.

Most recordkeeping and reporting provisions of the rule consist of

emissions-related data and other information not considered

confidential. However, the confidentiality of certain information

obtained by the Agency is safeguarded according to Agency policies set

forth in title 40, chapter I, part 2, subpart B--Confidentiality of

Business Information (see 40 CFR part 2; 41 FR 36902, September 1,

1976: amended by 43 FR 3999, September 8, 1978; 43 FR 42251, September

20, 1987; 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 the

Agency's regulations are listed in 40 CFR part 9.

The Agency would like to solicit comments to:

(i) Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is

necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency,

including whether the information will have practical utility;

(ii) Evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden

of the proposed collection of information, including the validity of

the methodology and assumptions used;

(iii) Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information

to be collected; and

(iv) Minimize the burden of the collection of information on those

who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated

electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or

other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic

submission of responses.

Burden Statement: The previous ICR, approved for use through

February 10, 1998, indicates an average annual person-hours burden,

during the first three years of rule implementation, of 140,603 person-

hours. However, it should be recognized that the burden costs the first

year of operation under the rule are somewhat different than the burden

costs to maintain compliance with the rule year-after-year. As

explained below, the first year burden costs include certain initial,

one-time-only, reporting costs plus the same recordkeeping burden costs

as the second and third year. The second and third year reporting

burden costs include recurring costs associated with subsequent years

of operation (in addition to the same recordkeeping costs incurred the

first year of operation). By adding the annual person-hour figures for

the first three years of operation and dividing by three, an average

annual person-hour figure of 140,603 is computed.

The initial reporting costs unique to the first year of operation

include: (1) 8,835 technical person-hours, 442 management person-hours,

and 884 clerical person-hours to report on the various initial

performance and CMS tests required to determine the capture/control

equipment efficiencies; (2) 45,000 technical person-hours, 2,250

management person-hours, and 4,500 clerical person-hours to develop a

work practice implementation manual; (3) 1,532 technical person-hours,

77 management person-hours, and 153 clerical person-hours to notify the

Agency of rule applicability to their manufacturing and to report on

the initial performance/CMS test results; and (4) 640 technical person-

hours, 36 management person-hours, and 64 clerical person-hours to

develop startup, shutdown, malfunctions, and CMS quality control plans.

The first year reporting costs also include: (1) 750 technical person-

hours, 38 management person-hours, and 75 clerical person-hours to read

instructions, and (2) 1,654 technical person-hours, 84 management

person-hours, and 166 clerical person-hours to notify the Agency of any

construction, reconstruction, physical, operational change, or actual

startup, and to provide excess emissions reports as required.

Reporting burdens after the first year of operation include: (1)

152 technical person-hours, 8 management person-hours, 15 clerical

person-hours for subsequent construction/reconstruction application and

approval; (2) 750 technical person-hours, 38 management person-hours,

and 75 clerical person-hours to read instructions; (3) 7,526 technical

person-hours, 378 management person-hours, and 753 clerical person-

hours to notify the Agency of any construction, reconstruction,

physical, operational change, or actual startup, and to provide

compliance status and excess emissions reports as required; and (4)

58,500 technical person-hours, 2,925 management person-hours, and 5,850

clerical person-hours to maintain lists of the types and quantities of

volatile HAP materials used.

Recordkeeping burdens during the first year of operation and each

year thereafter are the same and include the following: (1) An

estimated 30,000 technical person-hours; 1,500 management person-hours

and 3,000 clerical person-hours to develop recordkeeping systems; (2) a

total of 4,272 technical person-hours; 213 management person-hours and

427 clerical person-hours to record startup, shutdown, malfunction

information, document completion of operator training courses, compile

records of CMS parameters and the types/quantities of volatile HAP

materials used; (3) a total of 24,000 technical person-hours; 1,200

management person-hours and 2,400 clerical person-hours to train in-

plant personnel to various surfacing coating and control equipment in

compliance with the rule.

To compute the annual cost burden in dollars expended, the

technical person-hours were multiplied by an hourly rate of $33, the

management person-hours were multiplied by an hourly rate of $49 per

hour, and the clerical person-hours multiplied by $15 per hour. Using

these hourly rates an average annual dollar cost figure is $4,517,642.

As described above, the burden estimates include 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.

Dated: August 12, 1997.

Bruce Weddle,

Acting Director, Office of Compliance.

[FR Doc. 97-21916 Filed 8-18-97; 8:45 am]

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