Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Hazardous Air Pollutant Emission Standards for the Synthetic Organic Chemical Industry (HON Rule)

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB

Review; Comment Request; Hazardous Air Pollutant Emission Standards for

the Synthetic Organic Chemical Industry (HON Rule)

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 following Information

Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management

and Budget (OMB) for review and approval: NESHAP subparts F, G, H, and

I, the Hazardous Organic NESHAP (HON), OMB Control Number 2060-0282,

expires 05/31/97. 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 April 23, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION OR A COPY CALL: Sandy Farmer at EPA, (202) 260-

2740 (phone), and refer to EPA ICR No. 1414.03.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: NESHAP subparts F, G, H, and I, the Hazardous Organic NESHAP

(HON), OMB number 2060-0282, expires 05/31/97. This is a request for an

extension of a previously approved collection.

Abstract: This ICR contains recordkeeping and reporting

requirements that are mandatory for compliance with 40 CFR 63.100,

63.110, 63.160, and 63.190; 40 CFR Part 63, subparts F, G, H, and I,

respectively, hazardous air pollutant emissions from process vents,

storage vessels, transfer racks, wastewater and equipment leaks. This

information is used by the Agency to identify sources subject to the

standards and to insure that the maximum achievable control is being

properly applied. Respondents are owners or operators of processes in

SOCMI industries, styrene-butadiene rubber production, polybutadiene

production, chloride production, pesticide production, chlorinated

hydrocarbon use in production of chemicals, pharmaceutical production,

and miscellaneous butadiene use.

Section 112 of the Clean Air Act, as amended in 1990, requires that

EPA establish standards to limit emissions of hazardous air pollutants

(HAP's) from stationary sources. In the Administrator's judgment,

hazardous air pollutant (HAP) emissions in the synthetic organic

chemical industry and other negotiated industries cause or contribute

to air pollution that may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public

health or welfare. Therefore, NESHAPs have been promulgated for this

source category as required under section 112, Clean Air Act.

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 ICR was published on 12/02/96 (61 FR 63840); no

comments were received.

Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping

burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 4,760

hours per response for existing sources and 9,296 hours per response

for new sources. 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 use 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

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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. No

additional third party burden is associated with this ICR.

Respondents/Affected Entities: Owners and Operators of processes in

SOCMI Industries.

Estimated Number of Respondents: 308.

Frequency of Response: Episodic, Quarterly and Semi-annually.

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 1,727,724 hours.

Estimated Total Annualized Cost Burden: $98,460,900.

Send comments on the Agency's need for this information, 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 ICR No. 1414.03 and OMB control number 2060-0282 in any

correspondence.

Ms. Sandy Farmer, US 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.

Dated: March 18, 1997.

Joseph Retzer,

Director. Regulatory Information Division.

[FR Doc. 97-7344 Filed 3-21-97; 8:45 am]

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