Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Maximum Achievable Control Technology Standards Development Under Title III (Section 112) of the Clean Air Act Regulatory Development Program

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB

Review; Comment Request; Maximum Achievable Control Technology

Standards Development Under Title III (Section 112) of the Clean Air

Act Regulatory Development Program

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: Maximum Achievable Control

Technology Standards Development Under Title III (section 112) of the

Clean Air Act Regulatory Development Program, EPA ICR Number 1602.03,

OMB Control Number 2060-0239, expiration February 28, 1999. 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 January 21, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Contact Sandy Farmer at EPA by phone

at (202) 260-2740, by email at [email protected], or

download off the Internet at http://www.epa.gov/icr and refer to EPA

ICR No. 1602.03.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: Maximum Achievable Control Technology Standards Development

Under Title III (section 112) of the Clean Air Act Regulatory

Development Program, EPA ICR Number 1602.03 OMB Control Number 2060-

0239. This is a request for extension of a currently approved

information collection.

Abstract: Depending on the number of facilities in an individual

source category, respondents would be required to complete one of two

surveys. In those source categories with 400 or fewer facilities,

respondents would complete a survey for MACT standards development.

This survey is designed to obtain facility-specific information on

process types, emissions, controls, and factors affecting costs to

ensure that the EPA Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards has

sufficient information to make subcategory distinctions and MACT floor

decisions for each National Emission Standard for Hazardous Air

Pollutants (NESHAP). In those source categories with more than 400

facilities, respondents would complete a screening survey. EPA would

use the results of the screening survey to develop a survey design for

a separate source category information collection request for clearance

to send the MACT standards development survey to the appropriate

facilities as determined by the survey design. The EPA is also asking

the respondent to provide corporate, facility and product level sales

information. This information is necessary to perform a small business

analysis to meet the requirements of the Regulatory Flexibility Act and

the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act. The EPA

considers the sales information to be readily available to the

respondent; therefore, the burden

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hours estimated for each respondent has not been changed. The agency's

authority to gather information is presented in section 114 of the

Clean Air Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 7414). If any information is

submitted to EPA for which a claim of confidentiality is made, the

information will be safeguarded according to EPA policies set forth in

Title 40, chapter I, part 2, subpart B--Confidentiality of Business

Information (see 40 CFR part 2). 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 Ch. 15. The Federal Register document required under 5 CFR

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

published on June 2, 1998 (63 FR 29987). The EPA received one letter

with comments.

Burden Statement: The average annual reporting burden for 805

facilities estimated to receive the MACT standards development survey

is 68,425 hours and 17,000 hours for the 2,000 facilities estimated to

receive the screening survey. The estimated burden hours per response

is 85 hours for the MACT standards development survey and 8.5 hours for

the screening survey. 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: Source categories as listed by EPA

for development of NESHAP under section 112(d), Amended Clean Air Act.

Estimated Number of Respondents: 2,805 (805 (MACT Standards); 2,000

(Screening Study)).

Frequency of Response: Initial.

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 85,425 hours (68,425 MACT,

17,000 Screening Study).

Estimated Total Annualized Cost Burden: 0.

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. 1602.03 and OMB Control No. 2060-0239 in any

correspondence.

Ms. Sandy Farmer, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, OP,

Regulatory Information Division (2137), 401 M Street, SW, Washington,

DC 20460.

Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management

and Budget, Attention: Desk Officer for EPA, 725 17th Street, NW,

Washington, DC 20503.

Dated: December 16, 1998.

Joseph Retzer,

Director, Regulatory Information Division.

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