SUPPORTING STATEMENT

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

NESHAP for Primary Magnesium Refining (40 CFR Part 63, Subpart TTTTT) (Renewal)

1. Identification of the Information Collection

1(a) Title of the Information Collection

NESHAP for Primary Magnesium Refining (40 CFR Part 63, Subpart TTTTT) (Renewal), 

EPA ICR 2098.05, OMB Control Number 2060-0536.

1(b) Short Characterization/Abstract

The National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) for 

Magnesium Refining published at 40 CFR part 63, subpart TTTTT were proposed on January 22, 

2003, and promulgated on October 10, 2003. These regulations apply to existing facilities and 

new facilities that perform primary magnesium refining where the total hazardous air pollutants 

(HAPs) emitted are greater than, or equal to, 10 tons per year for each HAP, or where the total 

HAPs emitted are greater than, or equal to, 25 tons per year of any combination of HAPs. 

New facilities include those that commenced construction or reconstruction after the date of the 

proposal. This information is being collected to ensure compliance with 40 CFR part 63, subpart 

TTTTT.

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

periodic reports by the owners/operators of the affected facilities. They also are 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 NESHAP.

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 five 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).

One source currently is subject to the standard, and it is estimated that no additional 

sources per year will become subject to the regulation in the next three years.

The active (previous) Information Collection Request (ICR) had the following Terms of 
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Clearance (TOC): 

When this ICR is resubmitted for renewal, EPA is reminded that 

they should include the name and contact information for 

consultations with members of the public concerning the 

collection.

Due to consultations being conducted over three years prior to this ICR renewal, the 

contact information is not currently available. It should be noted that this ICR renewal does not 

require consultations because: 1) the labor hour burden is less than 100,000 hours per year; and 

2) there have not been significant changes in the ICR burden.

The previous ICR incorrectly indicated that the affected public included Federal 

government, state, local, or tribal government facilities, while, in fact, the affected public 

includes only a single private business. This has been corrected in this ICR.

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

Burden and Cost, NESHAP for Primary Magnesium Refining (40 CFR Part 63, Subpart TTTTT)

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

Federal employees or government contractors; this burden may be found below in Table 2: 

Average Annual EPA Burden, NESHAP for Primary Magnesium Refining (40 CFR Part 63, 

Subpart TTTTT) (Renewal). 

2(a) Need/Authority for the Collection

The EPA is charged under section 112 of the Clean Air Act, as amended, to establish 

standards of performance for each category, or subcategory of major sources and area sources of 

hazardous air pollutants. These standards are applicable to new, or existing sources of hazardous 

air pollutants and shall require the maximum degree of emission reduction. In addition, section 

114(a) states that the Administrator may require any owner, or 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, hazardous air pollutant (HAP) emissions from large 
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household and commercial appliance surface coating facilities cause, or contribute to, air 

pollution that may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health, or welfare. Therefore, 

NESHAP for this source category were promulgated at 40 CFR part 63, subpart TTTTT.

2(b) Practical Utility/Users of the Data

The recordkeeping and reporting requirements in the standards ensure compliance with 

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

collected information also is 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.

The notifications required in the standards 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 standards are being 

met. The performance test also may be observed.

The required semiannual reports are used to determine periods of excess emissions, 

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

determinations.

3. Nonduplication, Consultations, and Other Collection Criteria

The recordkeeping and reporting requested are required under 40 CFR part 63, subpart 

TTTTT.

3(a) Nonduplication

If the subject standards have not been delegated, the information is sent 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, no duplication 

exists.

3(b) Public Notice Required Prior to ICR Submission to Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB)

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

in the Federal Register (74 FR 38004) on July 30, 2009. No comments were received on the 

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

Any comments received since the last ICR renewal including those submitted in response 

to the first Federal Register notice announcing the renewal of this ICR have been reviewed. 

In this case, no comments were received. During a previous renewal of this ICR, the Agency’s 

industry experts were consulted. The Agency’s internal data sources and any projections of 

industry growth over the next three years were considered.

The Agency’s primary source of information, as reported by industry, is the Air Facility

System (AFS), which is operated and maintained by the EPA Office of Compliance. AFS is the 

EPA database for the collection, maintenance, and retrieval of all compliance data. One 

respondent is currently subject to the regulation, and our consultations with Agency industry

experts during a previous renewal regarding the growth rate for the industry indicated that no 

additional respondents will become subject to the regulation over the next three years.

Estimates of industry size, growth rate, and burden were developed with extensive 

participation and consultation with primary magnesium refining representatives during recent 

rulemaking for 40 CFR part 63, subpart TTTTT. EPA believes that these estimates remain valid, 

and are the best information available. The Agency currently collects the minimum amount of 

information necessary to ensure compliance with the standard.

3(d) Effects of Less Frequent Collection

Less frequent information collection would decrease the margin of assurance that 

facilities are continuing to meet the required 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 likelihood of detecting poor operation and maintenance of control 

equipment and noncompliance would decrease.

3(e) General Guidelines

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

established by OMB at 5 CFR part 1320, section 1320.5.

These standards require affected facilities 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 with 

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

is based. Also, the retention of records for five years would allow EPA to establish the 

compliance history of a source and any pattern of noncompliance for purposes of determining the 

appropriate level of enforcement action. Historically, EPA has found that the most flagrant 

violators frequently have violations extending beyond the five years. EPA would be prevented 

from pursuing the worst violators due to the destruction or nonexistence of records if records 

were retained for less than five years.
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3(f) Confidentiality

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 (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 and recordkeeping requirements do not contain sensitive questions.

4. The Respondents and the Information Requested 

4(a) Respondents/SIC Codes

The respondents of the recordkeeping and reporting requirements are primary magnesium 

refiners. The United States Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes for the respondents 

affected by the standards, which correspond to the North American Industry Classification 

System (NAICS) codes, are listed below for source category descriptions.

Standard SIC Codes NAICS Codes

40 CFR part 63, subpart TTTTT 3339 331419

4(b) Information Requested

(i) Data Items

All data in this ICR that is recorded and/or reported is required by 40 CFR part 63,

subpart TTTTT.

A source must make the following reports:

Notifications

Initial notification 63.9930(a), 63.5(d), 

63.9(b)

Notification of compliance status 63.9930(a), 63.4710(c), 

63.9(h)

Notification of construction or reconstruction 63.9930(a), 63.5

Notification of actual startup 63.9930(a), 63.9(b)

Notification of performance test 63.9930(a), 63.7(b), 

63.8(e), 63.9(e)
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Notification Reports

Semiannual report 63.9931(a), (b)

Excess emissions report 63.9931(a), (b)

Report of performance test 63.9930(e)

Startup, shutdown, malfunction report 63.9931(c), 63.6(e)(3), 

63.10(d)(5)

A source must keep the following records:

Recordkeeping

Five year retention of records 63.9933(b), 63.10(b)

Copies of notifications and reports 63.9932(a)(1)

Startup, shutdown, and malfunction plan/records 63.9932(a)(2), 63.6(e)

Documentation of performance tests and opacity observations 63.9932(a)(3), 63.10(b)

Records required to demonstrate continuous compliance 63.9932(b)

Electronic Reporting

Currently, sources are using monitoring equipment that provides parameter data in an 

automated way, e.g., inlet and outlet concentrations when determining percent efficiency. 

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. 

In addition, some regulatory agencies are setting up electronic reporting systems to allow sources 

to report electronically which reduces the reporting burden. However, electronic reporting 

systems still are not widely used by the regulatory agencies. 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 compliance monitoring system (CMS) for pressure 

drop or for liquid flow rate for wet scrubber.

Perform initial performance test, Reference Method 1, 2, 2F, 2G, 3, 3A, 3B, 4, 5, 5D, 18, 23, 

25D, 26, 26A, 201, 201A, 301, 303, 303A, 304, 304A, 304B, 305, 306, 306A, 306B, 307, 308, 

310A, 310B, 310C, 311, 312A, 312B, 312C, 313A, 313B, 315, 316, 318, 319, 320, or 321 test, 

and repeat performance tests if necessary.

Write the notifications and reports listed above.

Enter information required to be recorded above.
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Respondent Activities

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.

Train personnel to be able to respond to a collection of information.

Transmit, or otherwise disclose the information.

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, excess emissions reports, 

startup, shutdown, malfunction plan, and quality control plan for CMS required to be 

submitted by industry.

Audit facility records.

Input, analyze, and maintain data in the Air Facility System (AFS).

5(b) Collection Methodology and Management

Following notification of startup, the reviewing authority might 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. 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 the AFS, which is operated and 

maintained by the EPA Office of Compliance. AFS is the EPA database for the collection, 

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

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

enforcement by local and state regulatory agencies, EPA regional offices and EPA headquarters. 
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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 or operator for five 

years.

5(c) Small Entity Flexibility

A 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. 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 requirements the 

minimum 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 

shown below in Table 1: Annual Respondent Burden and Cost, NESHAP for Primary

Magnesium Refining (40 CFR part 63, subpart TTTTT) (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. Where 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 611 hours (Total Labor Hours from Table 1). 

These hours are based on Agency studies and background documents from the development of 

the regulation, Agency knowledge and experience with the NESHAP program, the previously

approved ICR, and any comments received.

6(b) Estimating Respondent Costs

(i) Estimating Labor Costs
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This ICR uses the following labor rates: 

Managerial $100.99 ($48.09 + 110%)

Technical $87.97 ($41.89 + 110%)

Clerical $43.81 ($20.86 + 110%)

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

December 2005, “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 and Operations and Maintenance Costs

This section covers the costs associated with all types of continuous monitoring 

equipment, e.g., continuous emissions monitoring systems (CEMS) and continuous parameter 

monitors. The types of industry costs associated with the information collection activity in the 

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

associated with continuous monitoring. The capital/startup costs are one-time costs incurred 

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.

(iii) Capital/Startup vs. Operating 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)

CEM $16,000 0 $0 $1,200 1 $1,200

The total Capital/Startup costs for this ICR are zero. This is the total of column D in the 

above table.

The total Operating and Maintenance (O&M) Costs for this ICR are $1,200. 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 $1,200. The continuous 

monitoring costs that are included in this section consist only of those capital/startup and O&M 

costs that a source incurs as a result of the standard. Some continuous monitoring costs may not 

be included in this section. For instance, if a particular industry typically utilizes a control device 

that must have a continuous monitor (e.g., temperature, pressure drop, etc.) to function properly, 
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and the recordation of additional measurements beyond the minimum are required by the 

standard, then there is no capital/startup or O&M cost, but there is a labor cost to record the 

additional readings. Such a cost would not appear in this section, but in the industry burden 

Section 6(d) below.

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 

$7,354. See below Table 2 in Section 6(e).

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

Managerial $57.20 (GS-13, Step 5, $35.75 x 1.6)

Technical $42.45 (GS-12, Step 1, $26.53 x 1.6)

Clerical $22.96 (GS-6, Step 3, $14.35 x 1.6)

These rates are from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) “2006 General 

Schedule”, which excludes locality rates of pay. Details upon which this estimate is based 

appear in Table 2: “Average Annual EPA Burden and Cost, NESHAP for Primary Magnesium 

Refining (40 CFR part 63, subpart TTTTT) (Renewal).”

6(d) Estimating the Respondent Universe and Total Burden and Costs

Based on our research for this ICR, there is one existing source currently subject to the 

standard. It is estimated that no additional sources will become subject to the regulation in the 

next three years.

The number of respondents is calculated using the following table which addresses the 

three years covered by this ICR.

Number of Respondents

Respondents That Submit 

Reports

Respondents That Do 

Not Submit Any 

Reports

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 0 1 0 0 1
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Number of Respondents

Respondents That Submit 

Reports

Respondents That Do 

Not Submit Any 

Reports

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)

2 0 1 0 0 1

3 0 1 0 0 1

Average 0 1 0 0 1

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New respondents include sources with constructed, reconstructed and modified affected facilities.

To avoid double-counting respondents, column D is subtracted. As shown above, the average 

Number of Respondents over the three-year period of this ICR is one (1).

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

Initial notification 0 1 0 0

Notification of compliance 

status 0.33 1 0 0.33

Notification of 

construction/reconstruction

0 1 0 0

Notification of actual startup 0 1 0 0

Notification of performance 

test

0.33 1 0 0.33

Report of performance test 0.33 1 0 0.33

Semiannual report 1 2 0 2

Startup, shutdown, malfunction 

report 1 1 0 1

Total 4

The number of Total Annual Responses is 4.

Note that the total annual capital and O&M costs to the regulated entity are $1,200. 

These costs are detailed in Section 6(b)(iii), Capital/Startup vs. Operation and Maintenance 

(O&M) Costs.
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6(e) Bottom Line Burden Hours and Cost Tables

The bottom line burden hours and cost tables for both the Agency and the respondents 

appear below. The annual public reporting and recordkeeping burden for this collection of 

information is estimated to average 153 hours per response.

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

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

(i) Respondent Tally

Details regarding these estimates may be found in below Table 1: “Annual Respondent 

Burden and Cost, NESHAP for Primary Magnesium Refining (40 CFR part 63, subpart TTTTT)

(Renewal).” Furthermore, the annual public reporting and recordkeeping burden for this 

collection of information is estimated to average 153 hours per response.

The total annual capital and O&M costs to the regulated entity are $1,200. These costs 

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 178 

labor hours at a cost of $7,354. See below Table 2: Average Annual EPA Burden and Cost,

NESHAP for Primary Magnesium Refining (40 CFR part 63, subpart TTTTT) (Renewal).

6(f) Reasons for Change in Burden

The changes in burden from the most recently approved ICR are due to an adjustment. 

Calculation errors in the previous ICR were corrected, resulting in a small decrease in the 

respondent burden hours and cost and an increase to the calculated Agency burden hours and 

cost. 

6(g) Burden Statement

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

is estimated to average 153 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.
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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–2009–0522. 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), EPA West, 

Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Avenue, 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–2009–0522 and OMB Control Number 2060-0536 in any

correspondence. 

Part B of the Supporting Statement

This part is not applicable because no statistical methods were used in collecting this 

information.
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Table 1: Annual Respondent Burden and Cost, NESHAP for Primary Magnesium Refining (40 CFR part 63, subpart TTTTT)

(Renewal)

Burden Item

(A) 

Person-hours 

per 

occurrence

(B) 

Number of 

occurrences 

per year

(C) 

Person-hrs. 

per respondent 

per year

(C=A*B)

(D) 

Respondents 

per year 

(E) 

Technical 

person-hrs. 

per year 

(E=C*D)

(F) 

Management 

person-hrs. 

per year 

(F=E*0.05)

(G) Clerical 

person-hrs. 

per year 

(G=E*0.1)

(H) 

Annual 

costs ($)

1. Reporting requirements

a. Read rule and instructions 4 1 4 1 4 0.2 0.4 390

b. Process/review information 4 4 16 1 16 0.8 1.6 1,558

c. Write reports

i. Initial notification 2 1 2 0 0 0 0 0

ii. Notification of compliance 

status 2 1 2 0.331

0.66 0.03 0.07 64

iii. Notification of 

construction/reconstruction 2 1 2 0 0 0 0 0

iv. Notification of actual 

startup 2 1 2 0 0 0 0 0

v. Notification of performance 

test 2 1.2 2.4 0.331

0.79 0.04 0.08 77

vi. Report of performance test 18021.2 216 0.33171.28 3.56 7.13 6,942

vii. Semiannual report 10 2 20 1 20 1 2 1,948

 

1 Performance test repeated once in three years.

2 Includes Method 23 test.
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Burden Item

(A) 

Person-hours 

per 

occurrence

(B) 

Number of 

occurrences 

per year

(C) 

Person-hrs. 

per respondent 

per year

(C=A*B)

(D) 

Respondents 

per year 

(E) 

Technical 

person-hrs. 

per year 

(E=C*D)

(F) 

Management 

person-hrs. 

per year 

(F=E*0.05)

(G) Clerical 

person-hrs. 

per year 

(G=E*0.1)

(H) 

Annual 

costs ($)

viii. Startup, shutdown, 

malfunction report 4 1 4 1 4 0.2 0.4 390

Subtotal Reporting 134 11,369

2. Recordkeeping requirements

a. Read rule and instructions 4 1 4 1 4 0.2 0.4 390

b. Plan activities 12 1 12 1 12 0.6 1.2 1,169

c. Implement activities 12 1 12 1 12 0.6 1.2 1,169

d. Time to train personnel 10 1 10 1 10 0.5 1 974

e. Time to enter information - - - - - - - -

f. Store, file, and maintain 

records3

1 365 365 1 365 18.25 36.5 35,551

g. Retrieve records/reports 1 12 12 1 12 0.6 1.2 1,169

Subtotal Recordkeeping 477 40,422

Total Burden (Hrs) and Costs 611 $51,791

 

3 Includes inspection of unpaved areas.
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Table 2: Average Annual EPA Burden, NESHAP for Primary Magnesium Refining (40 CFR part 63, subpart TTTTT) (Renewal)

Burden Item

(A)

Person-hours 

per 

occurrence

(B)

Number of 

occurrences per 

year

(C)

Number of 

respondents

(D)

Technical 

person-hours per 

year

(D=A*B*C)

(E)

Management 

person-hours per 

year

(E=D*0.05)

(F)

Clerical 

person-hours per 

year

(F=D*0.1)

(G)

Annual costs 

($)

1. Initial performance test 24 1 0.33 7.92 0.4 0.79 377

2. Repeat performance test 24 0.2 0.33 1.58 0.08 0.16 75

3. Report review

 a) Initial notification 8 1 0 0 0 0 0

b) Notification of performance test 8 1.2 0.33 3.17 0.16 0.32 151

c) Notification of compliance status 8 1 0.33 2.64 0.13 0.26 125

d) Notification of 

construction/reconstruction 8 1 0 0 0 0 0

e) Notification of actual startup 8 1 0 0 0 0 0

f) Report of performance test 8 1.2 0.33 3.17 0.16 0.32 151

g) Semiannual report 16 4 2 128 6.4 12.8 6,094

h) Startup, shutdown, 

malfunction report 8 1 1 8 0.4 0.8 381

Total Burden (Hrs) and Costs 178 $7,354