Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Radionuclides

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-6212-8]

Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB

Review; Comment Request; National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air

Pollutants: Radionuclides

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: National Emission Standards

for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Radionuclides, OMB Control Number

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2060-0191, expiration date 1/31/99. 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 January 28, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION OR A COPY CALL: 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.

1100.09.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title: National Emission Standards for

Hazardous Air Pollutant: Radionuclides (OMB Control No. 2060-0191; EPA

ICR No. 1100.09). Expiring 1/31/99. This is a request for extension of

a currently approved collection.

Abstract: On December 15, 1989 pursuant to section 112 of the Clean

Air Act as amended in 1977 (42 USC 1857), the Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA) promulgated NESHAPs to control radionuclide emissions from

several source categories. The regulations were published in 54 FR

51653, and are codified at 40 CFR subparts B, H, K, R, and W, and

impose the following radionuclide dose and emission standards:

Subpart B--Underground Uranium Mines--10 mrem/yr

Subpart H--Department of Energy Facilities--10 mrem/yr, 20 pci/m\2\-s

Subpart K--Elemental Phosphorous Plants--2 curies/yr

Subpart R--Phosphogypsum Stacks--20 pci/m\2\-s

Information collected is used by EPA to ensure that public health

continues to be protected from the hazards of airborne radionuclides by

compliance with these standards. If the information were not collected,

it is unlikely that a violation of the standards would be identified

and, thus, there would be no corrective action initiated to bring the

facilities back into compliance. Compliance is demonstrated through

emission testing and/or dose calculation. All facilities are required

to calculate, monitor, and maintain their records for 5 years. In some

cases, they also report their results to EPA.

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 08/27/98

(63 FR 45809). No comments were received.

Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and record keeping

burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 526

hours per response. This estimate 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: Department of Energy (DOE)

facilities, elemental phosphorus plants, phosphogypsum stacks,

underground uranium mines and uranium mill trailings piles

Estimated Number of Respondents: 87.

Frequency of Response: Annually or less than annually.

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 45,748 hours.

Estimated Total Annualized Cost Burden: $1,737,000.

Send comments regarding the burden estimate, or any other aspect of

the information collection, including suggestions for reducing the

burden, to the following addresses. Please refer to EPA ICR No. 1100.09

and OMB Control No. 2060-0191 in any correspondence.

Ms. Sandy Farmer, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of

Policy, 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: December 22, 1998.

Joseph Retzer,

Director, Regulatory Information Division.

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