Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Standards of Performance for New Stationary Sources, Phosphate Rock Plants

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB

Review; Comment Request; Standards of Performance for New Stationary

Sources, Phosphate Rock Plants

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: Standards of Performance for

New Stationary Sources--Phosphate Rock Plants--NSPS Subpart NN (OMB#

2060-0111), expiring 8/31/98, 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 July 17, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: 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. 1078.05

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: NSPS Subpart NN--Phosphate Rock Plants Subject to New Source

Performance Standards (OMB Control No.2060-0111; EPA ICR No 1078.05)

expiring 8/31/98. This is a request for extension of a currently

approved collection.

Abstract: Particulate matter emissions from phosphate rock plants

cause or contribute to air pollution that may reasonably be anticipated

to endanger public health or welfare. Therefore, NSPS were promulgated

for this source category.

The control of emissions of particulate matter from phosphate rock

plants requires not only the installation of properly designed

equipment, but also the operation and maintenance of that equipment.

Emissions of particulate matter from phosphate rock plants are the

result of operation of the calciners, dryers, grinders, and ground rock

handling and storage facilities. These standards rely on the capture of

particulate emissions by a baghouse or wet scrubber.

In order to ensure compliance with these standards, adequate

reporting and recordkeeping is necessary. In the absence of such

information enforcement personnel would be unable to determine whether

the standards are being met on a continuous basis, as required by the

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 collection of information was published on March 5,

1998 (63 FR 10870-10874). No comments were received.

Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping

burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 16

hours of reporting per response, for ten respondents per year, and 87.5

hours recordkeeping per response for 25 respondents per year. 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: Phosphate Rock Plants.

Estimated Number of Respondents: 25.

Frequency of Response: 1.

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 2445 hours.

Estimated Total Annualized Cost Burden: $257,100.

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. 1078.05 and OMB Control No. 2060-0111 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.

Dated: June 11, 1998.

Richard T. Westlund, Acting Director,

Regulatory Information Division.

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