Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request, Standards of Performance for Fossil-Fuel-Fired Steam Generating Units

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB

Review; Comment Request, Standards of Performance for Fossil-Fuel-Fired

Steam Generating Units

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: NSPS Subpart D, Standards of

Performance for Fossil-Fuel-Fired Steam Generating Units, OMB Control

Number 2060-0026, expires 1/31/00. 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 13, 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. 1052.06. For technical

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

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title: NSPS Subpart D, Standards of

Performance for Fossil-Fuel-Fired Steam Generating Units (OMB No. 2060-

0026; EPA ICR No. 1052.06, expiration date 1/31/00). This is a request

for extension of a currently approved collection.

Abstract: Owners or operators of steam generating units subject to

subpart D must make one-time-only notifications of construction/

reconstruction, anticipated and actual startup, initial performance

test, physical or operational changes, and demonstration of a

continuous monitoring system. They must also submit reports on initial

performance test results, monitoring system performance, and excess

emissions. Records must be maintained of startups, shutdowns,

malfunctions, and periods when the continuous monitoring system is

inoperative.

The required notifications are used to inform the Agency or

delegated authority when a source becomes subject to the standard.

Performance test reports are needed as these are the Agency's record of

a source's initial capability to comply with the emission standard, and

serve as a record of the operating conditions under which compliance

was achieved. The monitoring and excess emissions reports are used for

problem identification, as a check on source operation and maintenance,

and for compliance determinations. The information collected from

recordkeeping and reporting requirements are used for targeting

inspections, and for other uses in compliance and enforcement programs.

Responses to this information collection are deemed to be

mandatory, per section 114(a) of the Clean Air Act. 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 June 4,

1999 (64 FR 30011); no comments were received.

Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping

burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 24

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

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information; and transmit or otherwise disclose the information.

Respondents/Affected Entities: Owners/operators of Fossil Fuel

Fired Steam Generating Units.

Estimated Number of Respondents: 660.

Frequency of Response: Quarterly.

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 62,865 hours.

Estimated Total Annualized Capital, O&M Cost Burden: $9,900,000.

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. 1052.06 and OMB Control No. 2060-0026 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 8, 1999.

Oscar Morales,

Director, Collection Strategies Division.

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