Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Control Technology Determinations for Equivalent Emissions Limitations by Permit

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB

Review; Comment Request; Control Technology Determinations for

Equivalent Emissions Limitations by Permit

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: Control Technology for

Equivalent Emissions Limitations by Permit (OMB Control No. 2060-0266,

EPA ICR No. 1648.02). 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 November 15, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sandy Farmer at EPA by phone at (202)

260-2740, by email at [email protected], or download a copy

of the ICR off the Internet at http://www.epa.gov/ICR and refer to EPA

ICR No. 1648.02

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: Control Technology for Equivalent Emissions Limitations by

Permit (OMB Control No. 2060-0266; EPA ICR No. 1648.02). This is a

reinstatement, with change, of the previously approved ICR for the

proposed rule for which approval has expired.

Abstract: section 112(j) of the Clean Air Act as amended in 1990

requires that if EPA fails to promulgate a standard for a category or

subcategory of major sources on schedule, then 18 months after the

scheduled date of promulgation, sources must submit a permit

application. States (with approved title V operating permit programs)

will issue permits containing emission limitations equivalent to what

EPA would have promulgated. Complying sources must submit a complete

section 112(j) permit application that satisfies the criteria of 40 CFR

part 63 subpart B. The information collected in the application

documents will be used by the State agency for the purposes of permit

approval, compliance determination, and the selection of particular

control technology on a case-by-case basis. The mandatory need and

authority for this information collection is contained in section

112(j) of the Clean Air Act as amended in 1990 (42 U.S.C. 7401,

et.seq., as amended by Pub. L. 101-549). Any confidential information

submitted to a permitting authority will be safeguarded according to

that agency's policies. The EPA will safeguard submitted confidential

information according to policies in 40 CFR chapter I part 2 subpart

B--Confidentiality of Business Information. 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.

Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping

burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 175

hours for industry and 90 hours for State/ local agencies 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: Pulp and paper combustions sources

and State/ local agencies.

Estimated Number of Respondents: 149.

Frequency of Response: 1.

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 19,743 hours.

Estimated Total Annualized Cost Burden (non-labor costs): $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. 1648.02 and OMB Control No. 2060-0266 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: October 7, 1999.

Richard Westlund,

Acting Director, Regulatory Information Division.

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