Table 1 - Respondent Burden for Existing Municipal Solid Waste Landfills

Privately-Owned Landfills

A B C D E F G H I

Burden Item

Technical personhours per 

occurrence

Number of 

occurrences per 

respondent per 

year

Technical personhours per 

respondent per 

year (AxB)

Respondents 

per year

Responses per 

year (BxD)

Technical personhours per year 

(CxD)

Management 

person- hours per 

year (CxDx0.05) 

per year

Clerical hours 

per year 

(CxDx0.10) per 

year

Total cost per 

year ($)

1. Reporting Requirements

A. Initial Design Capacity Report N/A 1 0 0 0 0.00 0.0 0.0 $0

a) N/A 1 0 0 0 0.00 0.0 0.0 $0

C. Collection and Control System Design Plan N/A 1 0 0 0 0.00 0.0 0.0 $0

D. Increments of Progress N/A 5 0 0 0 0.00 0.0 0.0 $0

E. Annual Compliance Report (Note b) 2 1 2 172 172 344.00 17.2 34.4 $33,542

F. Landfill Closure Report (Note c) 2 1 2 5 5 10.32 0.5 1.0 $1,006

G. Equipment Removal Report (Note d) 2 1 2 0 0 0.00 0.0 0.0 $0

H. Surface methane monitoring 14 4 56 172 688 9,632.00 481.6 963.2 $939,165

 Reporting Subtotal 865 9,986.32 499 999

2. Recordkeeping Requirements

A. Records of control system monitoring 0.5 12 6 172 1,032.00 51.6 103.2 $100,625

B. Records of accumulated refuse 8 1 8 172 1,376.00 68.8 137.6 $134,166

C. Records of surface methane monitoring 0.5 4 2 172 344.00 17.2 34.4 $33,542

D. Records of collection and control system exceedances 0.5 4 2 172 344.00 17.2 34.4 $33,542

E. Records of system design and initial performance test N/A 4 0 172 0.00 0.0 0.0 $0

F. O&M of portable monitor (Note e) N/A N/A N/A 172 $240,800

 Recordkeeping Subtotal 3,096.00 155 310

Total Labor Burden and Cost 13,082.32 654 1,308 $1,275,587

Rspns per year 865 Total private landfills (this table): 15,045 $1,275,587

Total public landfills (from Table 2): 30,352 $1,922,731

Total State/local agncy (from Table 3): 749 $31,403

TOTAL RESPONDENT LABOR: 46,146 $3,229,721

Labor Rates Technical Management Clerical

Unloaded 39.99 $55.29 $22.36 

Loaded 86.67 $119.83 $48.47 

Note a: This ICR assumes that all landfills affected by a State plan or the Federal plan have already exceeded the 50 Mg/yr NMOC emission threshold and 

are no longer submitting annual NMOC emission rate reports.

Note e: Operating and maintenance costs for the year are estimated at $1,400 per monitor.

1 Labor rates for other privately-owned landfill owners/operators were estimated using the average May 2008 labor rates for NAICS industry grouping 541000, Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services. Occupational groupings 

assumed for clerical labor were Executive Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, for technical labor were Environmental Engineers, and for managerial labor were Managers, All Other. A March 2009 labor rate was estimated 

using a 3.2% growth factor from the employment cost index to account for increases in wages from June 2007 to March 2009. The growth factor came from Table 2 - Seasonally adjusted: Employment Cost Index for wages and 

salaries, by ownership, occupational group, and industry, located at: http://www.bls.gov/news.release/eci.t02.htm. All labor rates incorporate a factor of 110% to account for overhead and fringe benefit costs. 

Note c: This ICR assumes 3 percent of landfills will submit a landfill closure report per year.

Note d: No landfills would submit an equipment removal report. To remove collection and control equipment and submit the removal report, landfills must have had a collection and control system in place for 15 

years. No landfills would meet this criteria because 15 years have not expired since the earliest time a landfill would have been required to install gas collection and control equipment. 

Note b: This count of 172 private landfills includes 57 private landfills subject to the Federal plan and 115 private landfills subject to a State plan. EPA estimates that 67% of landfills are public and 33% are private.
Table 2 - Respondent Burden for Existing Municipal Solid Waste Landfills

Publicly-Owned Landfills

A B C D E F G H I

Burden Item

Technical personhours per 

occurrence

Number of 

occurrences per 

respondent per 

year

Technical personhours per 

respondent per 

year (AxB)

Respondents 

per year

Responses per 

year (BxD)

Technical personhours per year 

(CxD)

Management 

person- hours 

per year 

(CxDx0.05) per 

year

Clerical hours 

per year 

(CxDx0.10) per 

year

Total cost per 

year

1. Reporting Requirements

A. Initial Design Capacity Report N/A 1 0 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

B. Initial and Annual NMOC Emission Rate Reports N/A 1 0 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

C. Collection and Control System Design Plan N/A 1 0 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

D. Increments of Progress N/A 5 0 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

E. Annual Compliance Report (Note a) 2 1 2 347.00 347 694.00 34.70 69.40 37,784.14

F. Landfill Closure Report (Note b) 2 1 2 10.41 10 20.82 1.04 2.08 1,133.52

G. Equipment Removal Report (Note c) 2 1 2 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

H. Surface methane monitoring 14 4 56 347.00 1,388 19,432.00 971.60 1,943.20 1,057,955.81

 Reporting Subtotal 1,745 20,146.82 1,007.34 2,014.68

2. Recordkeeping Requirements

A. Records of control system monitoring 0.5 12 6 347.00 2,082.00 104.10 208.20 113,352.41

B. Records of accumulated refuse 8 1 8 347.00 2,776.00 138.80 277.60 151,136.54

C. Records of surface methane monitoring 0.5 4 2 347.00 694.00 34.70 69.40 37,784.14

D. Records of collection and control system exceedances 0.5 4 2 347.00 694.00 34.70 69.40 37,784.14

E. Records of system design and initial performance test N/A 4 0 347.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

F. O&M of portable monitor (Note d) 347.00 485,800.00

 Recordkeeping Subtotal 6,246.00 312.30 624.60

Total Labor Burden and Cost 26,392.82 1,319.64 2,639.28 1,922,730.69

Rspnses per 

year 1,745

Total public 

landfills: 30,352 $1,922,731

Note d: Operating and maintenance costs for the year is estimated at $1,400 per monitor.

Labor Rates Technical Management Clerical

Unloaded $30.57 $44.59 $12.28 

Loaded $48.91 $71.34 $19.65 

1 Labor rates for Federal agency personnel were applied to local agencies. Source for EPA labor rates: Department of Personnel Management, "Salary Table 2008 - GS, Incorporating the 1.70% general schedule increase, Effective 

January 2008" located at www.opm.gov/oca/08tables/pdf/gs_h.pdf. For the Managerial labor rate, level GS-15, step 1 was used; for the Technical labor rate, Level GS-12, Step 5 was used; for the Clerical labor rate, Level GS-5, Step 

1 was used. All agency labor rates include a multiplier of 1.6 to account for overhead and fringe benefit costs.

Note b: This ICR assumes 3 percent of landfills will submit a landfill closure report per year.

Note c: No landfills would submit an equipment removal report. To remove collection and control equipment and submit the removal report, landfills must have had a collection and control system in place for 15 

years. No landfills would meet this criteria because 15 years have not expired since the earliest time a landfill would have been required to install gas collection and control equipment. 

Note a: This ICR assumes that all landfills affected by a State plan or the Federal plan have already exceeded the 50 Mg/yr NMOC emission threshold and are no longer submitting annual 

NMOC emission rate reports. This count of 348 landfills includes 116 public landfills subject to the Federal plan and 232 public landfills subject to a State plan. EPA estimates that 67% of 

landfills are public and 33% are private.
Table 4 - Agency Burden for Existing Municipal Solid Waste Landfills

Federal Agency Burden - EPA

A B C D E F G H I

Burden Item

Technical personhours per 

occurrence

Number of 

occurrences per 

respondent per 

year

Technical personhours per 

respondent per 

year (AxB)

Landfills per 

year

Responses per 

year

Technical personhours per year 

(CxDx0.85)

Management 

person- hours 

per year 

(CxDx0.05) per 

year

Clerical hours 

per year 

(CxDx0.10) per 

year

Total cost per 

year

1. Reporting Requirements

A. Review Initial Design Capacity Report N/A 1 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 $0

Reports N/A 1 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 $0

C. Review Collection and Control System Design Plan N/A 1 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 $0

D. Review Increments of Progress N/A 5 0 0 0

E. Review Amended Design Capacity Report (Note a) 1 1 1 9 9 7 0.4 0.9 $373

F. Review Annual Compliance Report (Note b) 2 1 2 173 173 294 17.3 34.6 $14,919

G. Review Landfill Closure Report (Note c) 1 1 1 5 5 4 0.3 0.5 $224

H. Review Equipment Removal Report (Note d) 1 1 1 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 $0

I. Review Surface Methane Monitoring 2 4 8 173 692 1,176 69.2 138.4 $59,677

Total Labor Burden and Cost 1,482 87 174 $75,193

Rspns per year 879 Total 1,744 $75,193

Labor Rates Technical Management Clerical

Unloaded $27.74 $37.39 $15.01 

Loaded $44.38 $59.82 $24.02

1 Labor rates for Federal agency personnel. Source for EPA labor rates: Department of Personnel Management, "Salary Table 2008 - GS, Incorporating the 1.70% general schedule increase, Effective January 2008" located at 

www.opm.gov/oca/08tables/pdf/gs_h.pdf. For the Managerial labor rate, level GS-15, step 1 was used; for the Technical labor rate, Level GS-12, Step 5 was used; for the Clerical labor rate, Level GS-5, Step 1 was used. All agency 

labor rates include a multiplier of 1.6 to account for overhead and fringe benefit costs.

Note d: No landfills would submit an equipment removal report. To remove collection and control equipment and submit the removal report, landfills must have had a collection and control system in place for 15 

years. No landfills would meet this criteria because 15 years have not expired since the earliest time a landfill would have been required to install a collection and control system. State plan effective dates were 

generally in the year 1998 or 1999 and the Federal plan effective date was January 7, 2000.

Note a: This ICR assumes 5 percent of landfills will submit an amended design capacity report per year.

Note b: This ICR assumes that all landfills affected by the Federal plan have already exceeded the 50 Mg/yr NMOC 

emission threshold and are no longer submitting annual NMOC emission rate reports.

Note c: This ICR assumes 3 percent of landfills will submit a landfill closure report each year.
Table 3 - Respondent Burden for Existing Municipal Solid Waste Landfills

State and Local agencies

A B C D E F G H I

Burden Item

Technical personhours per 

occurrence

Landfills per 

year (Average 

number of 

controlled 

landfills in States 

enforcing State 

plans)

Person-hours per 

respondent per 

year (AxB)

Number of 

agencies 

enforcing State 

plans

Responses per 

year

Technical personhours per year 

(CxDx0.85)

Management 

person- hours 

per year 

(CxDx0.05) per 

year

Clerical hours 

per year 

(CxDx0.10) per 

year

Total cost per 

year

1. Reporting Requirements

A. Review Initial Design Capacity Report N/A 9 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 $0

Reports N/A 9 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 $0

C. Review Collection and Control System Design Plan N/A 9 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 $0

D. Review Increments of Progress N/A 9 0 0 0

E. Review Amended Design Capacity Report (Note a) 1 0.45 0.45 40 18 15 0.9 1.8 $776

F. Review Annual Compliance Report (Note b) 2 9 18 40 360 612 36.0 72.0 $31,046

G. Review Landfill Closure Report (Note c) 1 0.27 0.27 40 11 9 0.5 1.1 $466

H. Review Equipment Removal Report (Note d) 1 0 0 40 0 0 0.0 0.0 $0

Total Labor Burden and Cost 636 37 75 $32,288

Rspns per year 389 Total 749 $32,288

Labor Rates Technical Management Clerical

Unloaded $27.74 $37.39 $15.01 

Loaded $44.38 $59.82 $24.02

1 Labor rates for Federal agency personnel. Source for EPA labor rates: Department of Personnel Management, "Salary Table 2008 - GS, Incorporating the 1.70% general schedule increase, Effective January 2008" located at 

www.opm.gov/oca/08tables/pdf/gs_h.

Note d: No landfills would submit an equipment removal report. To remove collection and control equipment and submit the removal report, landfills must have had a collection and control system in place for 15 

years. No landfills would meet this criteria b

Note a: This ICR assumes 5 percent of landfills will submit an amended design capacity report per year.

Note c: This ICR assumes 3 percent of landfills will submit a landfill closure report each year.

Note b: This ICR assumes that all landfills affected by a State plan have already exceeded the 50 Mg/yr NMOC emission threshold and are no longer submitting annual NMOC emission rate reports. This ICR 

assumes 40 State and local agencies will be enforcing State plans and that 347 landfills are subject to State plans. Thus, each agency is expected to review reports for an average of nine landfills.