Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; New Source Performance Standards for Portland Cement Plants

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB

Review; Comment Request; New Source Performance Standards for Portland

Cement 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 document announces that the following Information

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

and Budget (OMB) for review and approval: New Source Performance

Standards for Portland Cement Plants, OMB Control No. 2060-0025,

expiration date 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 31, 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. 1051.07

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: New Source Performance Standards for Portland Cement Plants,

OMB Control No. 2060-0025; EPA ICR No. 1051.07; expiring 8/31/98. This

is a request for the extension of a currently approved collection.

Abstract: Entities potentially affected by this action are portland

cement plants with the following facilities: kilns, clinker coolers,

raw mill systems, raw mill dryers, raw material storage, clinker

storage, finished product storage, conveyor transfer points, bagging

and bulk loading and unloading systems. The Administrator has judged

that PM emissions from portland cement plants cause or contribute to

air pollution that may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public

health or welfare. Owners/operators of portland cement plants must

notify EPA of construction, modification, startups, shut downs, date

and results of initial performance test and excess emissions. In order

to ensure compliance with the standards promulgated to protect public

health, 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 document required under 5 CFR

1320.8(d), soliciting comments on this collection of information was

published on 3/5/98. No comments were received.

Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping

burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 279

hours per response. 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/Operators of Portland Cement

Plants.

Estimated Number of Respondents: 113.

Frequency of Response: Initial and semiannual.

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 7,968 hours.

Estimated Total Annualized Cost Burden: $941,720.

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. 1051.07 and OMB Control No. 2060-0025 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 25, 1998.

Joseph Retzer,

Director, Regulatory Information Division.

[FR Doc. 98-17516 Filed 6-30-98; 8:45 am]

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