# AGENCY:

 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). 

# ACTION:

 Notice. 

# 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 Db, Standards of Performance for Industrial-Commercial-Institutional Steam Generating Units, OMB No. 2060-0072, expires 3/31/2000. 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 February 17, 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.Sandy@epamail.epa.gov or download off the Internet at                         *http://www.epa.gov/​icr*                         and refer to EPA ICR No. 1088.09. For technical questions about the ICR contact Jordan Spooner at 202-564-7058.                     

# SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

*Title:*                     NSPS Subpart Db, Standards of Performance for Industrial-Commercial-Institutional Steam Generating Units, OMB No. 2060-0072; EPA ICR No. 1088.09, expiration March 31, 2000. This is a request for extension of a currently approved collection.                 

*Abstract:*                     Owners or operators of steam generating units subject to subpart Db 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 results, and excess emissions. Records must be maintained of startups, shutdowns, malfunctions, and periods when the continuous monitoring system is inoperative, and of various fuel combustion and pollutant emission parameters.                 

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 record keeping 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 107); no comments were received.                 

*Burden Statement:*                     The annual public reporting and recordkeeping burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 191 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:*                     Industrial Institutional Steam Generating Units.                 

*Estimated Number of Respondents:*                     957.                 

*Frequency of Response:*                     Quarterly and Semi-annually.                     Start Printed Page 2609

*Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:*                     575,033 hours.                 

*Estimated Total Annualized Capital, O&M Cost Burden:*                     $25,955,000.                

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. 1088.09 and OMB Control No. 2060-0072 in any correspondence.

Ms. Sandy Farmer, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Environmental Information, Collection Strategies Division (2822), 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, 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: January 11, 2000. 

Oscar Morales, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division. 

[FR Doc. 00-1059 Filed 1-14-00; 8:45 am] 

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