Enclosure 3

Information Collection Request for Clay Ceramics Manufacturing

Instructions

For hard copy submittals, please return the completed information collection request (ICR) by August 13, 2008 to:

Mr. Jeffrey Telander

Sector Policies and Pr ograms Division (D243-02) U. S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27711

If you wish to complete the ICR electronica lly, you can return th e ICR file on compact disc (CD) or diskette to Mr. Telander at the address above. You can also email your submittal to Mr. Telander at: telander.jeff@epa.gov. If you em ail the ICR to Mr. Telander, please send the other requested documents (e.g., emission test re ports) to Mr. Telander at the above address.

If you need clarification of any question or requested information, you can contact Mr. Telander at (919) 541-5427.

This information request should be complete d for each facility that manufactures clay ceramics, including facilities that are major sources of hazardous air pollutants (HAP) and facilities that are synthetic minor sources of HAP . In addition to general information about your company and facilities, information is requested fo r all kilns at each plant, the emission controls associated with kilns, emission data, and other information related to monitoring emissions and complying with applicable emission standards.

If you believe that any of the specific information requested is proprietary or confidential,

hereafter referred to as confid ential business information (CBI), you should clearly highlight or label the specific information. Please do not label the entire ICR, or an entire page of the ICR, as “confidential” if only certain po rtions consist of CBI. Also, do not submit information that you consider to be CBI through e-mail.

If you are completing the electr onic version of the ICR, highli ght in red each cell that contains CBI. To highlight a cell or cells in Excel in red, first sele ct the cell(s) to be highlighted, then on the Format menu, click on “Cells...,” then click on “Patte rn,” then under “Cell Shading” and “Color,” click on the small red colored box. If you are completing the hard copy version of the ICR, either highlight or label any informa tion that you consider CBI (e.g., by circling the data and writing “CBI” adjacent to the data).

This ICR has been designed in the form of an Excel spreadsheet. We would appreciate your completing the survey electron ically. However, you may also fi ll in the attached paper copy

of the ICR.2 The ICR consists of nine different worksheets:

Form A - General Information. This worksheet requests information on your overall parent company and on each facility th at manufactures clay ceramic products.

Form B - Kiln Information. This worksheet requests information on each kiln at each facility, including kilns that currently are not in operation (i.e., inactive kilns).

Form C - Glaze Line Information . This worksheet requests information on glaze lines at each facility.

Form D - Kiln APCD Information. This worksheet addresses air pollution control devices (APCDs) that are used to control emissions from any kiln.

Form E - Glaze Line APCD Information. This worksheet asks for information on

APCDs that are used to contro l emissions from glaze lines.

Form F - Test Data . This worksheet asks for information on emission tests performed on kilns and glaze lines at your facilities. Please note that complete copies of emission test reports are requested.

Form G - Monitoring and Other Costs. This worksheet requests information about the costs for monitoring and the operation and main tenance (O&M) activitie s associated with

APCDs. Emission test cost data al so are requested on this worksheet.

Form H - Economic Impacts Information . This worksheet requests information on product selling price and labor rates.

Form I - Additional Questions . This worksheet requests in formation on control device costs, raw materials, work pract ices, periodic kiln operation, a nd overall process operations at each facility.

If needed to provide the requested inform ation on each of your facilities, kilns, glaze lines, or control devices, please insert columns or rows on the worksheets. For the hard copy version, please copy pages as needed to provide a ll of the requested information. Note also that Forms B, D, E, F, and G in the spreadsheet ve rsion do not fit on one screen, and you must either scroll to the right (Forms B, D, E, and F) or down (Form G) to s ee the entire worksheet. In the hard copy version, these forms are two or more pages long, as follows: Form B -- 2 pages; Form D -- 4 pages, Form E -- 3 pages, Form F -- 2 pages, and Form G -- 2 pages.

Many of the worksheets include cells that ar e shaded yellow. Each of these cells has a pull-down menu for responses. Click on the box, th en on the arrow on the right hand side of box, and select a response from the list. For th e unshaded cells, the information should be keyed in. There is no need to change the column widths if your response does not f it within the cell. In the hard copy version of the ICR, suggested resp onses are listed in the f ootnotes to each form.3 Several worksheets request data on annual production, consumption, sales, or hours for various activities. Please provide the totals for 2007 or the most recent year for which you have the requested data. If you provi de annual data for a year other than 2007, please indicate the year in the appropriate cells.

A list of abbreviations used in the ICR is attached.

The following paragraphs provide more de tails on how to complete the requested

information on each of the worksheets.

FORM A -- GENERAL INFORMATION

The information at the top of this worksh eet (Rows 5 through 17) pertains to your overall parent company. Please fill this information in the first column. The remaining rows, beginning with Row 22 apply to individual f acilities. Please fill in a column for each facility. Please assign a Facility identification (ID) numbe r consisting of the first four letters in the parent company name, followed by a number (e.g., ABCD-1, ABCD-2, et c.). These same F acility IDs must be used throughout the ICR where requested on other worksheets. We will assume that all plants

with the same street address are within one “source” for major source determination, unless you

note otherwise.

FORM B -- KILN INFORMATION

Please provide the requested information for each kiln at each facility, including any kilns that are not currently in operation (i.e., inactive kilns). Enter the Facility ID assigned on Form A, then enter either the ID from your permit, or us e TK-1, TK-2, etc., for tunnel kilns; RK-1, RK-2, etc., for roller kilns; and PK-1, PK-2, etc., for pe riodic kilns. Use a separate row for each tunnel or roller kiln. However, if a facility has several identical periodic kilns, you can use one row to represent all of the identical peri odic kilns. In such a case, th e kiln IDs should be assigned to

indicate the number of periodic kilns (e.g., PK-1 to PK-12). For kilns that are not currently in operation, please provide the requested informa tion based on the most recent operating data you

have and select “Tunnel- inactive” under “Type of Kiln” in Column D.

Enter the reporting year (if not 2007). For stack diameter, enter the diameter of the kiln stack if it is uncontrolled, or the diameter at the outlet of the APCD if the kiln is controlled. List each major product type fired in th e kiln if the manufacturing of that product impacts processing or production rate. There is no need to differe ntiate between products th at are identical other than size (e.g., tiles of different dimensions). For sources that have a maximum permitted production capacity that is higher than the desi gn capacity, enter the actu al capacity utilization, which is defined as the actual production di vided by the maximum permitted production rate. For sources with an enforceable permit production limit that is less than the design capacity, enter the average production capacity, which is defined as the actual pr oduction divided by the design capacity.4 FORM C -- GLAZE LINE INFORMATION

For each glaze line, enter the Facility ID assigned on Form A, then enter the glaze line ID from your permit, or assign an ID using GZ-1, GZ -2, etc. Enter the repor ting year, if different from 2007, and the other information requested, in cluding the number of spray booths per glaze line. Enter the average percentage of HAP s contained in glazes and the glaze annual consumption, and calculate the annu al total of HAPs in glazes. Also enter the percentage of HAP containing glazes that are spray applied, if know n. A “HAP containing glaze” is any glaze that contains a material or ingredient listed as a metal HAP on the Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) for that glaze/material.

FORM D -- KILN APCD INFORMATION

Please enter the requested information in each row for each APCD that controls emissions from any of your kilns. Enter the same Facility ID and kiln ID numbers that you

entered on Forms A and B. For each control devi ce, enter the ID from your permit, or CD-1, CD-2, etc. For baghouses or fabric filters, the air-to-cloth ratio is determined as the design exhaust flow (actual cubic feet per minute [acfm]) divided by the total surface area of the bags (square feet [ft 2 ]). For control devices other than those listed in the worksheet, please specify up to three design or monitoring parameters for eac h and indicate the units for each parameter.

FORM E -- GLAZE LINE APCD INFORMATION

Please enter the requested information in each row for each APCD that controls emissions from any of your glaze lines. Enter the same Facility ID and glaze line ID numbers that you entered on Forms A and D. For each cont rol device, enter the ID from your permit, or CD-1, CD-2, etc.

FORM F -- TEST DATA

Please complete the summary information reque sted in this worksheet and also provide a copy of each complete test report. For each test, enter the same Facility ID, kiln ID, glaze line ID, and Control ID numbers that yo u entered on previous worksheets.

When submitting the test reports, field notes and raw reading sections can be omitted. However, you must submit all other sections of the reports, including sample calculations, laboratory data, run-by-run emission data, and a desc ription of any deviations from test methods

or other anomalies that occurred with the process or control device operations during the test. Please also provide records for the following for each test: type of product fired, production rate in units of fired product (tph); a nd APCD parameter monitoring data.

FORM G -- MONITORING AND OTHER COSTS

Please provide the requested information fo r each facility. Indicat e the Facility ID number using the same ID number indicated on other worksheets. In rows 8 through 12, provide the requested unit costs for January 2008 for eac h facility. If you provide unit costs for a5 different period, please indicate th e period in the appropriate cells. In rows 16 through 35, please estimate the total hours, frequency, and staff levels for each of the listed ac tivities. In rows 39 through 45, please provide the costs and other in formation for each stack test conducted during the past 3 years. Please also pr ovide separately an itemized list of site preparation costs that are

not included in the test cost esti mate. Examples include the costs for drilling testing ports in the

kiln stack and the costs for installi ng permanent access to sampling ports.

FORM H -- ECONOMIC IMPACTS INFORMATION

For each of the kilns entered on Form B, pleas e enter the average selling price per ton for each of the products you listed on Form B for that ki ln. Also enter the average labor rates for the

staff levels listed. This information will be used to estimate the economic impacts of the final rule on specific facilities, companies, and the industry.

FORM I -- ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS

Please provide the requested information on control device costs, work practices, and periodic kiln operation. Also provide a process flow diagram for each facility.6 Attachment

List of Abbreviations used in Clay Ceramics Manufacturing ICR

acfm actual cubic feet per minute APCD air pollution control device DIFF dry injection fabric filter DLA dry limestone adsorber DLS dry lime scrubber ft foot, feet

ft 2 square feet gal gallon(s) gpd gallons per day gpm gallons per minute HAP hazardous air pollutant HCl hydrochloric acid HF hydrogen fluoride ICR information collection request hp horsepower hr hour(s)

ID identification kwh kilowatt hour(s)

MACT maximum achievab le control technology

NAICS North American Indus try Classification System NG natural gas PM particulate matter

SIC Standard Industrial Classification

SO 2 sulfur dioxide tph tons per hour yr year(s)