Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request, New Source Performance Standard (NSPS) for Kraft Pulp Mills

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB

Review; Comment Request, New Source Performance Standard (NSPS) for

Kraft Pulp Mills

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

Standard (NSPS) for Kraft Pulp Mills, OMB Control Number 2060-0021,

expiration date 01/31/00. 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 6, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For a copy of the ICR contact 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 and refer to EPA ICR No. 1055.06. For technical

questions about the ICR contact Seth Heminway at (202) 564-7017.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: New Source Performance Standard (NSPS) for Kraft Pulp Mills

(OMB Control No. 2060-0021; EPA ICR No. 1055.06) expiring 01/31/00.

This review is for the extension of an existing approved ICR.

Abstract: The New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for Kraft

Pulp Mills (40 CFR part 60, subpart BB) were proposed on September 24,

1976 and promulgated on February 23, 1978. These standards apply to

affected facilities in kraft pulp mills. This information is being

collected to assure compliance with 40 CFR part 60, subpart BB.

As is the case with all Clean Air Act information collection

requests, these information requests are mandatory, according to the

authorities cited in 40 CFR part 60, subpart BB. Owners or operators of

the affected facilities described must make one-time-only

notifications. Owners or operators are also required to maintain

records of the occurrence and duration of any startup, shutdown, or

malfunction in the operation of an affected facility, or any period

during which the monitoring system is inoperative. Monitoring

requirements specific to NSPS Subpart BB provide information on the

operation of the emissions control device and compliance with the total

reduced sulfur (TRS) and opacity standards. Semiannual reports of

excess emissions are required. These notifications, reports, and

records are essential in determining compliance; and are required, in

general, of all sources subject to NSPS. Any owner or operator subject

to the provisions of this part shall maintain a file of these

measurements, and retain the file for at least 2 years following the

date of such measurements, maintenance reports, and records.

The required information consists of emissions data and other

information that have been determined not to be private. However, any

information submitted to the Agency for which a claim of

confidentiality is made will be safeguarded according to the Agency

policies set forth in Title 40, Chapter 1, part 2, subpart B--

Confidentiality of Business Information (see 40 CFR part 2; 41 FR

36902, September 1, 1976; amended by 43 FR 40000, September 8, 1978; 43

FR 42251, September 20, 1978; 44 FR 17674, March 23, 1979).

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 06/04/99;

no comments were received.

Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping

burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 58

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/operator of Kraft Pulp Mills.

Estimated Number of Respondents: 82.

Frequency of Response: Initial, quarterly, semiannual, etc.

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 9959.

Estimated Total Annualized Capital, O&M Cost Burden: $2,827,600.

Send comments on the Agency's need for this information, the

accuracy of the

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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.

1055.06 and OMB Control No. 2060-0021 in any correspondence.

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

Environmental Information, Collection Strategies Division (2822), 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 1, 1999.

Oscar Morales,

Director, Collection Strategies Division.

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