Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; NESHAP for Epoxy Resins and Non-Nylon Polyamide Resin

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-6102-4]

Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB

Review; Comment Request; NESHAP for Epoxy Resins and Non-Nylon

Polyamide Resin

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 document announces that the following Information

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

and Budget (OMB) for review and approval: National Emission Standards

for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) for Epoxy Resins and Non-nylon

Polyamide Production, OMB Control Number 2060-0290, expiration date

July 31, 1998. The ICR describes the nature of the information

collection and its expected burden and cost; where appropriate, it

includes the actual data collection instrument.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before June 25, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For a copy of the ICR, call Sandy

Farmer at EPA, by phone at (202) 260-2740, by E-Mail at

Farmer.S[email protected] or download off the Internet at http://

www.epa.gov/icr/icr.htm, and refer to EPA ICR No. 1681.03.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: NESHAP for Epoxy Resin and Non-nylon Polyamide Resin

Production, Subpart W, OMB Control No. 2060-0290; EPA ICR No. 1681.03

expiring 07/31/98. This is a request for extension of a currently

approved collection.

Abstract: The ICR contains recordkeeping and reporting requirements

that are mandatory for compliance with 40 CFR part 63, subpart W,

regulating hazardous air pollutants from process vents, storage

vessels, wastewater systems and equipment leaks. The standards require

recordkeeping and reporting to document process information related to

the source's ability to comply with the standards. This information is

used by the Agency to identify sources subject to the standards and to

insure that the maximum achievable control technology is being properly

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

that EPA establish standards to limit emissions of hazardous air

pollutants (HAPs) from stationary sources. The sources subject to these

provisions emit the HAPs epichlorohydrin, and in lesser amounts,

hydrochloric acid and methanol. In the Administrator's judgment,

hazardous air pollutant emissions in this industry cause or contribute

to air pollution that may be reasonably expected to endanger public

health or welfare. Respondents are owners or operators of new and

existing facilities that manufacture polymers and resins from

epichlorohydrin. Source categories include basic liquid epoxy resin

(BLR) producers and producers of epichlorohydrin-modified non-nylon

polyamide resins, also known as wet strength resins (WSR).

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 document required under 5 CFR 1320.8(d), soliciting

comments on this collection of information was published on 12/02/97

(62 FR 63703); no comments were received.

Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping

burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 156

hours per respondent. 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/Affected Entities: Owners or operators of new and

existing facilities that manufacture polymers and resins from

epichlorohydrin

Estimated Number of Respondents: 13.

Frequency of Response: Semiannually (some quarterly).

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 4525 hours.

Estimated Total Annualized Cost Burden: $9,000.

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 EPA ICR No. 1681.03 and OMB Control No. 2060-0290 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.

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Dated: May 18, 1998.

Richard T. Westlund,

Acting Director, Regulatory Information Division.

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