SUPPORTING STATEMENT

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

NSPS for Electric Utility Steam Generating Units (40 CFR Part 60, Subpart Da) (Renewal)

1. Identification of the Information Collection

1(a) Title of the Information Collection

NSPS for Electric Utility Steam Generating Units (40 CFR Part 60, Subpart Da) (Renewal), EPA 

ICR Number 1053.11, OMB Control Number 2060-0023. 

1(b) Short Characterization/Abstract

The New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for Electric Utility Steam Generating 

Units (40 CFR part 60, subpart Da) were: proposed on September 18, 1978; promulgated on June 

11, 1979 (44 FR 33613); and was last-amended on February 16, 2012. These regulations apply 

to electric utility steam generating units capable of combusting more than 73 megawatts (MW) 

heat input of fossil fuel commencing construction, modification, or reconstruction after the date 

of proposal. This information is being collected to assure compliance with 40 CFR part 60, 

subpart Da.

In general, all NSPS standards require initial notifications, performance tests, and 

periodic reports by the owners/operators of the affected facilities. They 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. These notifications, reports, and records are essential in determining compliance, 

and are required of all affected facilities subject to NSPS.

Any owner/operator subject to the provisions of this part shall maintain a file of these 

measurements, and retain the file for at least two years following the date of such measurements, 

maintenance reports, and records. All reports are sent to the delegated state or local authority. 

In the event that there is no such delegated authority, the reports are sent directly to the U. S.

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regional office.

 Based on our consultations with industry representatives, there is an average of 

one affected facility at each plant site, and each plant site has only one respondent (i.e., the 

owner/operator of the plant site).

Over the next three years, an average of 699 respondents per year will be subject to these

standards, and 11 additional respondents per year will become subject to the standard.

The Office of Management of Budget (OMB) approved the currently active ICR without 

any “Terms of Clearance.”

There are approximately 699 electric utility steam generating facilities in the United 

States, which are publicly owned and operated by the electric utility steam generating industry. 
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No facilities are owned by any state, local, or tribal entities, or by the Federal Government. 

All these facilities are owned and operated solely by privately owned, for-profit businesses. 

The “burden” to the “Affected Public” may be found below in Table 1: Annual Respondent 

Burden and Cost – NSPS for Electric Utility Steam Generating Units (40 CFR Part 60, Subpart 

Da) (Renewal). The “burden” to the Federal Government is attributed entirely to work either 

performed by either Federal employees or government contractors, and may be found below in 

Table 2: Average Annual EPA Burden and Cost – NSPS for Electric Utility Steam Generating 

Units (40 CFR Part 60, Subpart Da) (Renewal).

2. Need for and Use of the Collection

2(a) Need/Authority for the Collection

The EPA is charged under Section 111 of the Clean Air Act (CAA), as amended, to 

establish standards of performance for new stationary sources that reflect: 

. . . application of the best technological system of continuous 

emissions reduction which (taking into consideration the cost of 

achieving such emissions reduction, or any non-air quality health 

and environmental impact and energy requirements) the 

Administrator determines has been adequately demonstrated. 

Section 111(a)(l).

The Agency refers to this charge as selecting the best demonstrated technology (BDT). Section 

111 also requires that the Administrator review and, if appropriate, revise such standards every

four years.

In addition, section 114(a) states that the Administrator may require any owner/operator 

subject to any requirement of this Act to: 

(A) Establish and maintain such records; (B) make such reports; 

(C) install, use, and maintain such monitoring equipment, and use 

such audit procedures, or methods; (D) sample such emissions (in 

accordance with such procedures or methods, at such locations, at 

such intervals, during such periods, and in such manner as the 

Administrator shall prescribe); (E) keep records on control 

equipment parameters, production variables or other indirect data 

when direct monitoring of emissions is impractical; (F) submit 

compliance certifications in accordance with Section 114(a)(3); 

and (G) provide such other information as the Administrator may

reasonably require.

In the Administrator's judgment, sulfur dioxide (SO2), particulate matter (PM), and 

nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions from electric utility steam generating units cause or contribute to 
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air pollution that may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare. Therefore, 

the NSPS were promulgated for this source category at 40 CFR part 60, subpart Da.

2(b) Practical Utility/Users of the Data

The recordkeeping and reporting requirements in these standards ensure compliance with 

the applicable regulations which were promulgated in accordance with the Clean Air Act. The 

collected information is also used for targeting inspections and as evidence in legal proceedings.

Performance tests are required in order to determine an affected facility’s initial 

capability to comply with the emission standards. Continuous emission monitors are used to 

ensure compliance with the standards at all times. During the performance test a record of the 

operating parameters under which compliance was achieved may be recorded and used to 

determine compliance in place of a continuous emission monitor.

The notifications required in the standard are used to inform the Agency or delegated 

authority when a source becomes subject to the requirements of the regulations. The reviewing 

authority may then inspect the source to check if the pollution control devices are properly 

installed and operated, that leaks are being detected and repaired, and that the standard is being 

met. The performance test may also be observed.

The required semiannual and quarterly reports are used to determine periods of excess 

emissions, identify problems at the facility, verify operation/maintenance procedures, and for 

compliance determinations.

3. Non-duplication, Consultations, and Other Collection Criteria

The requested recordkeeping and reporting are required under 40 CFR part 60, subpart 

Da.

3(a) Non-duplication

If the subject standards have not been delegated, the information is sent directly to the 

appropriate EPA regional office. Otherwise, the information is sent directly to the delegated 

state or local agency. If a state or local agency has adopted its own similar standards to 

implement the Federal standards, a copy of the report submitted to the state or local agency can 

be sent to the Administrator in lieu of the report required by the Federal standards. Therefore, 

duplication does not exist.

3(b) Public Notice Required Prior to ICR Submission to OMB

An announcement of a public comment period for the renewal of this ICR was published 

in the Federal Register (78 FR 33409) on June 4, 2013. No comments were received on the 

burden published in the Federal Register. 
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3(c) Consultations

The Agency’s industry experts have been consulted, and the Agency’s internal data 

sources and projections of industry growth over the next three years have been considered. The 

primary source of information as reported by industry, in compliance with the recordkeeping and 

reporting provisions in the standards, is the Online Tracking Information System (OTIS) which 

is operated and maintained by the EPA Office of Compliance. OTIS is the EPA database for the 

collection, maintenance, and retrieval of all compliance data.

Consultations with industry representatives (i.e., respondents) were conducted to 

determine if there is any way for EPA to reduce the recordkeeping and reporting burden or 

improve the language in the standard to make it easier to comply. In developing this ICR, EPA 

contacted: 1) the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), at (650) 855-2521; and 2) the 

Department of Energy, at (202) 586-3548. 

It is our policy to respond after a thorough review of comments received since the last 

ICR renewal as well as those submitted in response to the first Federal Register notice.

3(d) Effects of Less Frequent Collection

Less frequent information collection would decrease the margin of assurance that 

facilities are continuing to meet the standards. Requirements for information gathering and 

recordkeeping are useful techniques to ensure that good operation and maintenance practices are 

applied and emission limitations are met. If the information required by these standards was 

collected less frequently, the proper operation and maintenance of control equipment and the 

possibility of detecting violations would be less likely.

3(e) General Guidelines

These reporting or recordkeeping requirements do not violate any of the regulations 

promulgated by OMB under 5 CFR part 1320, section 1320.5.

These standards require the respondents to maintain all records, including reports and 

notifications for at least five years. This is consistent with the General Provisions as applied to 

the standards. EPA believes that the five-year records retention requirement is consistent the 

Part 70 permit program and the five-year statute of limitations on which the permit program is 

based. The retention of records for five years allows EPA to establish the compliance history of 

a source, any pattern of non-compliance and to determine the appropriate level of enforcement 

action. EPA has found that the most flagrant violators have violations extending beyond five 

years. In addition, EPA would be prevented from pursuing the violators due to the destruction or 

nonexistence of essential records.

3(f) Confidentiality

Any information submitted to the Agency for which a claim of confidentiality is made 
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will be safeguarded according to the Agency policies set forth in Title 40, chapter 1, part 2, 

subpart B - Confidentiality of Business Information (CBI) (see 40 CFR 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).

3(g) Sensitive Questions

The reporting or recordkeeping requirements in the standard do not include sensitive 

questions.

4. The Respondents and the Information Requested

4(a) Respondents/SIC Codes

The respondents to the recordkeeping and reporting requirements are owners or operators 

of electric utility steam generating units. The United States Standard Industrial Classification 

(SIC) code for the respondents affected by the standards is 4911, which corresponds to the North 

American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code 221112 for Fossil Fuel Electric Power 

Generation.

4(b) Information Requested

(i) Data Items

In this ICR, all the data that is recorded or reported is required by the NSPS for Electric 

Utility Steam Generating Units (40 CFR Part 60, Subpart Da). 

A source must make the following reports:

Notifications/Reports

Notification of construction or reconstruction 60.7(a)(1)

Notification of actual startup 60.7(a)(3)

Notification of initial performance test results 60.8(a), 60.49a(a)

Initial performance test 60.8(d)

Demonstration of continuous monitoring system 60.7(a)(5)

Monitoring system performance 60.7(c), 60.49a(i)

Physical or operational change 60.7(a)(4)

Daily operating parameter – emission controls 60.49a(b)

Monitoring system – minimum emissions data 60.49a(c)

Control system malfunction 60.49a(d)
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Notifications/Reports

Fuel treatment credit – SO2 60.49a(e)

Data unavailability (SO2, NOx) 60.49a(f)

Minimum data requirements 60.49a(g)

Excess emissions 60.7(c), 60.49a(h)

Quarterly reporting 60.49a(j)

Semiannual reporting 60.49a(i)

A source must keep the following records:

Recordkeeping

Maintain records of startups, shutdowns, malfunctions, periods where 

the continuous monitoring system is inoperative

60.7(b)

Reporting requirements 60.49a

Emissions monitoring 60.47a

Maintain all records for two years 60.7(f)

Electronic Reporting

Some of the respondents are using monitoring equipment that automatically records 

parameter data. Although personnel at the affected facility must still evaluate the data, internal 

automation has significantly reduced the burden associated with monitoring and recordkeeping at 

a plant site. 

Also, regulatory agencies in cooperation with the respondents continue to create reporting 

systems to transmit data electronically. However, electronic reporting systems are still not 

widely used. At this time, it is estimated that approximately 10 percent of the respondents use 

electronic reporting.

(ii) Respondent Activities

Respondent Activities

Read instructions.

Install, calibrate, maintain, and operate continuous monitoring system (CMS) for opacity, or 

for pressure drop and liquid supply pressure for wet scrubber.

Perform initial performance test, Reference Method 3B, 5, 9, and 19, and repeat performance 
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Respondent Activities

tests if necessary.

Write the notifications and reports listed above.

Enter information required to be recorded above.

Submit the required reports developing, acquiring, installing, and utilizing technology and 

systems for the purpose of collecting, validating, and verifying information.

Develop, acquire, install, and utilize technology and systems for the purpose of processing and 

maintaining information.

Develop, acquire, install, and utilize technology and systems for the purpose of 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.

Transmit, or otherwise disclose the information.

Currently sources are using monitoring and reporting equipment that provide parameter 

data in an automated way (e.g., continuous parameter monitoring system). Although personnel 

at the source still need to evaluate the data, this type of monitoring equipment has significantly 

reduced the burden associated with monitoring and recordkeeping. 

5. The Information Collected: Agency Activities, Collection Methodology, and 

Information Management

5(a) Agency Activities

EPA conducts the following activities in connection with the acquisition, analysis, 

storage, and distribution of the required information.

Agency Activities

Observe initial performance tests and repeat performance tests if necessary.

Review notifications and reports, including performance test reports, and excess emissions 

reports, required to be submitted by industry.

Audit facility records.
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Agency Activities

Input, analyze, and maintain data in the Online Tracking Information System (OTIS). 

5(b) Collection Methodology and Management

Following notification of startup, the reviewing authority could inspect the source to 

determine whether the pollution control devices are properly installed and operated. 

Performance test reports are used by the Agency to discern a source’s initial capability to comply 

with the emission standard, and note the operating conditions under which compliance was 

achieved. Data and records maintained by the respondents are tabulated and published for use in 

compliance and enforcement programs. The semiannual reports are used for problem 

identification, as a check on source operation and maintenance, and for compliance 

determinations.

Information contained in the reports is entered into OTIS which is operated and 

maintained by EPA's Office of Compliance. OTIS is EPA’s database for the collection, 

maintenance, and retrieval of compliance data for approximately 125,000 industrial and 

government-owned facilities. EPA uses the OTIS for tracking air pollution compliance and 

enforcement by local and state regulatory agencies, EPA regional offices and EPA headquarters. 

EPA and its delegated Authorities can edit, store, retrieve and analyze the data.

The records required by this regulation must be retained by the owner/operator for two 

years.

5(c) Small Entity Flexibility

The majority of the respondents are large entities (i.e., large businesses). However, 

the impact on small entities (i.e., small businesses,) was taken into consideration during the 

development of the regulation. According to the EPA 2006 Final Rule (71 FR 9865) regarding 

amendments proposed to 40 CFR part 60, subparts Da, Db, and Dc, on February 28, 2005, 

“ . . . at most, one entity out of five new entities in the industry may be small entities.” Applying 

this data to the respondent universe for this ICR results in approximately 142 small entities 

impacted by this ICR.

Due to technical considerations involving the process operations and the types of control 

equipment employed, the recordkeeping and reporting requirements are the same for both small 

and large entities. The Agency considers these to be the minimum requirements needed to 

ensure compliance and, therefore, cannot reduce them further for small entities. To the extent 

that larger businesses can use economies of scale to reduce their burden, the overall burden will 

be reduced.

5(d) Collection Schedule

The specific frequency for each information collection activity within this request is 
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shown in below Table 1: Annual Respondent Burden and Cost – NSPS for Electric Utility Steam 

Generating Units (40 CFR Part 60, Subpart Da) (Renewal).

6. Estimating the Burden and Cost of the Collection

Table 1 documents the computation of individual burdens for the recordkeeping and 

reporting requirements applicable to the industry for the subpart included in this ICR. The 

individual burdens are expressed under standardized headings believed to be consistent with the 

concept of burden under the Paperwork Reduction Act. Wherever appropriate, specific tasks and 

major assumptions have been identified. Responses to this information collection are mandatory.

The 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.

6(a) Estimating Respondent Burden

The average annual burden to industry over the next three years from these recordkeeping 

and reporting requirements is estimated to be 168,258 hours (Total Labor Hours from Table 1

below). These hours are based on Agency studies and background documents from the 

development of the regulation, Agency knowledge and experience with the NSPS program, the 

previously approved ICR, and any comments received.

6(b) Estimating Respondent Costs

(i) Estimating Labor Costs

This ICR uses the following labor rates: 

Managerial $123.04 ($58.59+ 110%) 

Technical $101.22 ($48.20 + 110%)

Clerical $51.18 ($24.37 + 110%)

These rates are from the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, March 

2013, “Table 2. Civilian Workers, by occupational and industry group.” The rates are from 

column 1, “Total compensation.” The rates have been increased by 110 percent to account for 

the benefit packages available to those employed by private industry.

(ii) Estimating Capital/Startup and Operation and Maintenance Costs

The type of industry costs associated with the information collection activities in the 

subject standard are both labor costs, which are addressed elsewhere in this ICR, and the costs 

associated with continuous monitoring. The capital/startup costs are onetime costs when a 

facility becomes subject to the regulation. The annual operation and maintenance costs are the 

ongoing costs to maintain the monitors and other costs such as photocopying and postage.
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(iii) Capital/Startup vs. Operation and Maintenance (O&M) Costs

Capital/Startup vs. Operation and Maintenance (O&M) Costs

(A)

Continuous 

Monitoring 

Device

(B)

Capital/Startup 

Cost for One 

Respondent

(C)

Number of 

New

Respondents

(D)

Total 

Capital/Startup 

Cost, (B X C)

(E)

Annual O&M 

Costs for One 

Respondent

(F)

Number of 

Respondents 

with O&M

(G)

Total O&M,

(E X F)

SO2, PM, 

and NOx

$200,000 11 $2,200,000 $15,000 699 $10,485,000

The total capital/startup costs for this ICR are $2,200,000. This is the total of column D 

in the above table. 

The total operation and maintenance (O&M) costs for this ICR are $10,485,000. This is 

the total of column G. 

The average annual cost for capital/startup and operation and maintenance costs to 

industry over the next three years of the ICR is estimated to be $12,685,000.

6(c) Estimating Agency Burden and Cost

The only costs to the Agency are those costs associated with analysis of the reported 

information. EPA's overall compliance and enforcement program includes activities such as the 

examination of records maintained by the respondents, periodic inspection of sources of 

emissions, and the publication and distribution of collected information. 

The average annual Agency cost during the three years of the ICR is estimated to be 

$741,360. 

This cost is based on the average hourly labor rate as follows:

Managerial $62.27 (GS-13, Step 5, $38.92 + 60%) 

Technical $46.21 (GS-12, Step 1, $28.88 + 60%)

Clerical $25.01 (GS-6, Step 3, $15.63 + 60%)

These rates are from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), 2013 General Schedule,

which excludes locality, rates of pay. The rates have been increased by 60 percent to account for 

the benefit packages available to government employees. Details upon which this estimate is 

based appear below in Table 2: Average Annual EPA Burden and Cost – NSPS for Electric 

Utility Steam Generating Units (40 CFR Part 60, Subpart Da) (Renewal).
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6(d) Estimating the Respondent Universe and Total Burden and Costs

Based on our research for this ICR, on average over the next three years, approximately

699 existing respondents will be subject to the standard. It is estimated that an additional 11 

respondents per year will become subject. The overall, average number of respondents, as 

shown in the table below, is 710 per year.

The number of respondents is calculated using the following table that addresses the three 

years covered by this ICR. 

Number of Respondents

Year

(A)

Number of New 

Respondents 1

(B)

Number of 

Existing 

Respondents

(C)

Number of Existing 

Respondents that keep 

records but do not 

submit reports

(D)

Number of Existing 

Respondents That 

Are Also New

Respondents

(E)

Number of 

Respondents

(E=A+B+C-D)

1 11 688 0 0 699

2 11 699 0 0 710

3 11 710 0 0 721

Average 11 699 0 0 710

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New respondent include sources with constructed, reconstructed and modified affected facilities. In this 

standard existing respondents submit initial notifications.

Column D is subtracted to avoid double-counting respondents. As shown above, the 

average Number of Respondents over the three year period of this ICR is 710. 

The total number of annual responses per year is calculated using the following table:

Total Annual Responses

(A)

Information Collection Activity

(B)

Number of 

Respondents

(C)

Number of 

Responses

(D)

Number of Existing 

Respondents That 

Keep Records But Do 

Not Submit Reports

(E)

Total Annual 

Responses

E=(BxC)+D

Notification of construction/ reconstruction 11 1 0 11

Notification of actual startup 11 1 0 11

Notify of initial performance test 11 1.2 0 13.2

Notification of demonstration of CMS 11 1 0 11

Semiannual report 559.2 2 0 1,118.4
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Total Annual Responses

Quarterly report 139.8 4 0 559.2

Total 1,723.8

The number of Total Annual Responses is 1,724 (rounded).

The total annual labor costs are $16,458,496. Details regarding these estimates may be 

found below in Table 1: Annual Respondent Burden and Cost – NSPS for Electric Utility Steam 

Generating Units (40 CFR Part 60, Subpart Da) (Renewal).

6(e) Bottom Line Burden Hours and Cost Tables

The detailed bottom line burden hours and cost calculations for the respondents and the 

Agency are shown in Tables 1 and 2 below, respectively, and summarized below. 

(i) Respondent Tally

The total annual labor hours are 168,258 hours at a cost of $16,458,496. Details 

regarding these estimates may be found below in Table 1: Annual Respondent Burden and Cost 

– NSPS for Electric Utility Steam Generating Units (40 CFR Part 60, Subpart Da) (Renewal).

Furthermore, the annual public reporting and recordkeeping burden for this collection of 

information is estimated to average 98 hours per response.

The total annual capital/startup and O&M costs to the regulated entity are $12,685,000. 

The cost calculations are detailed in Section 6(b)(iii), Capital/Startup vs. Operation and 

Maintenance (O&M) Costs.

(ii) The Agency Tally

The average annual Agency burden and cost over next three years is estimated to be 

16,451 labor hours at a cost of $741,360. See below Table 2: Average Annual EPA Burden and 

Cost – NSPS for Electric Utility Steam Generating Units (40 CFR Part 60, Subpart Da) 

(Renewal).

6(f) Reasons for Change in Burden

There is an increase of 7,419 hours in the total estimated respondent burden compared 

with the ICR currently-approved by OMB. There also is an increase in capital/startup and O&M 

costs as compared to the previous ICR. All changes from the most recently approved ICR are 

due to an increase in the number of existing sources subject to the standard, and are not due to 

any program changes. The number of existing sources has been increased to account for industry

growth that has occurred since the most recent ICR was approved.
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There is also an increase in respondent and Agency burden costs from the most recently 

approved ICR due to the use of updated labor rates. This ICR references labor rates from the 

Bureau of Labor Statistics to calculate respondent burden costs, and references labor rates from 

OPM to calculate Agency burden costs.

6(g) Burden Statement

The annual public reporting and recordkeeping burden for this collection of information 

is estimated to average 98 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.

An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a 

collection of information unless it displays a valid OMB Control Number. The OMB Control 

Numbers for EPA regulations are listed at 40 CFR part 9 and 48 CFR chapter 15.

To comment on the Agency's need for this information, the accuracy of the provided 

burden estimates, and any suggested methods for minimizing respondent burden, including the 

use of automated collection techniques, EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under 

Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-OECA-2013-0019. An electronic version of the public docket is 

available at http://www.regulations.gov/, which may be used to obtain a copy of the draft 

collection of information, submit or view public comments, access the index listing of the 

contents of the docket, and to access those documents in the public docket that are available 

electronically. When in the system, select “search,” then key in the docket ID number identified 

in this document. The documents are also available for public viewing at the Enforcement and 

Compliance Docket and Information Center in the EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), WJC West, 

Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, DC. The EPA Docket Center Public 

Reading Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal 

holidays. The telephone number for the Reading Room is (202) 566-1744, and the telephone 

number for the docket center is (202) 566-1752. Also, you can send comments to the Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, 725 17th Street, NW, 

Washington, DC 20503, Attention: Desk Officer for EPA. Please include the EPA Docket ID 

Number EPA-HQ-OECA-2013-0019 and OMB Control Number 2060-0023 in any

correspondence. 

Part B of the Supporting Statement

This part is not applicable because no statistical methods were used in collecting this 
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information.
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Table 1: Annual Respondent Burden and Cost – NSPS for Electric Utility Steam Generating Units (40 CFR Part 60, Subpart

 Da) (Renewal)

Burden Item

A B C D E F G H

Person-hours 

per 

occurrence

No. of 

occurrences 

per respondent 

per year

Person-hours 

per respondent 

per year

(AxB)

Respondents 

per year a

Technical 

hours 

per year 

(CxD)

Management 

hours 

per year 

(Ex0.05)

Clerical 

hours 

per year 

(Ex0.10)

Total cost

per year 

($) b

1. Applications N/A

2. Survey and Studies N/A

3. Reporting requirements

A. Read instructions 1 1 1 11 11 0.55 1.1 $1,237.39 

B. Required activities

Initial emissions tests 160 1 160 11 1,760 88 176 $197,981.78 

Reference Method 9 4 30 120 11 1,320 66 132 $148,486.34 

Report performance test c60 0.2 12 11 132 6.6 13.2 $14,848.63 

C. Create information See 3B

D. Gather existing information See 3E

E. Write report

Notify of construction/reconstruction 2 1 2 11 22 1.1 2.2 $2,474.77 

Notify of actual startup 2 1 2 11 22 1.1 2.2 $2,474.77 

Notify of initial performance test 2 1.2 2.4 11 26.4 1.32 2.64 $2,969.73 

Notification of demonstration of CMS 2 1 2 11 22 1.1 2.2 $2,474.77 

Report of performance test See 3B

Semiannual report d8 2 16 559.2 8,947.2 447.36 894.72 $1,006,467.40

Quarterly report e8 4 32 139.8 4,473.6 223.68 447.36 $503,233.70

Subtotal for Reporting Requirements 19,246.63 $1,882,649.28

4. Recordkeeping requirements

A. Read instructions See 3A

B. Plan activities See 4C

Implement activities See 3B

Develop record system N/A

C. Time to check computer system and 

calibrate continuous monitor f

0.5 365 182.5 710 129,575 6,478.75 12,957.5 $14,575,846.40
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Burden Item

A B C D E F G H

Person-hours 

per 

occurrence

No. of 

occurrences 

per respondent 

per year

Person-hours 

per respondent 

per year

(AxB)

Respondents 

per year a

Technical 

hours 

per year 

(CxD)

Management 

hours 

per year 

(Ex0.05)

Clerical 

hours 

per year 

(Ex0.10)

Total cost

per year 

($) b

D. Train personnel N/A

E. Audits N/A

Subtotal for Recordkeeping Requirements 149,011.25 $14,575,846.40

TOTAL ANNUAL BURDEN AND COST (rounded) 168,258 $16,458,496

Assumptions:

a. We have assumed that the average number of respondents that will be subject to the rule will be 699. There will be eleven additional new sources per year that 

will become subject to the rule over the three-year period of this ICR.

b. This ICR uses the following labor rates: $101.22 for technical, $123.04 for managerial, and $51.18 for clerical labor. These rates are from the United States 

Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, March 2013, “Table 2. Civilian workers, by occupational and industry group.” The rates are from column 1, 

“Total compensation.” The rates have been increased by 110 percent to account for the benefit packages available to those employed by private industry.

c. We have assumed that 20 percent of initial performance test will be repeated due to failure.

d. We have assumed that 80 percent of respondents will each take 8 hours two times per year to write the semiannual report.

e. We have assumed that 20 percent of respondents will each take 8 hours four times per year to write the quarterly report.

f. We have assumed that each respondent will take 30 minutes each day to check computer system and calibrate continuous monitors.
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Table 2: Average Annual EPA Burden and Cost – NSPS for Electric Utility Steam Generating Units (40 CFR Part 60, Subpart

Da) (Renewal)

Burden Item

A B C D E F G H

Technical 

person-hours 

per 

occurrence

No. of 

occurrences 

per respondent 

per year

Technical 

person-hours 

per respondent 

per year

(AxB)

Respondents 

per year a

Technical 

hours 

per year 

(CxD)

Management 

hours 

per year 

(Ex0.05)

Clerical 

hours 

per year 

(Ex0.10)

Total cost 

per year 

($) b

Performance tests 

New plants 24 1.2 28.8 11 316.8 15.84 31.68 $16,418

Review startup report c40 1.2 48 11 528 26.4 52.8 $27,363.34

Report Review

Notification of construction 2 1 2 11 22 1.1 2.2 $1,140.14

Notification of actual startup 0.5 1 0.5 11 5.5 0.28 0.55 $285.03

Notification of initial test 0.5 1.2 0.6 11 6.6 0.33 0.66 $342.04

Notification of CMS demonstration 0.5 1 0.5 11 5.5 0.28 0.55 $285.03

Review excess emissions reports

Semiannual d8 2 16 559.2 8,947.2 447.36 894.72 $463,684.17

Quarterly e8 4 32 139.8 4,473.6 223.68 447.36 $231,842.08

TOTAL ANNUAL BURDEN AND COST (rounded) 16,451 $741,360

Assumptions:

a. We have assumed that the average number of respondents that will be subject to the rule will be 699. There will be eleven additional new sources per year that 

will become subject to the rule over the three-year period of this ICR.

b. This ICR uses the following labor rates: $46.21 for technical, $62.27 for managerial, and $25.01 for clerical labor. These rates are from the Office of Personnel 

Management (OPM) 2013 General Schedule, which excludes locality rates of pay. The rates have been increased by 60 percent to account for the benefit 

packages available to government employees.

c. We have assumed that it will take 40 hours to review each startup report.

d. We have assumed that it will take 8 hours two times per year to review each semiannual report.

e. We have assumed that it will take 8 hours four times per year to review each the quarterly report.