### 1 SUPPORTING STATEMENT

NATIONAL EMISSION STANDARDS FOR HAZARDOUS AIR POLLUTANTS

EMISSIONS: POLYETHER POLYOLS PRODUCTION

PART A

1.0 Identification of the Information Collection

(a) Title and Number of the Information Collection.

This information collection request (ICR) is entitled “Amendments to Requirements for

Sources regulated by the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutant Emissions:

Polyether Polyols Production.” The EPA tracking number is 1811.09. The Office of

Management and Budget (OMB) number is 2060

- 0415.

(b) Short Characterization.

The National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) for Polyether

Polyols Production, (40 CFR part 63, subpart PPP) was proposed on June l, 1999 and publi shed

January 30, 2002. These regulations apply to new and existing facilities that engage in the

manufacture of polyether polyols (which also include polyether mono

- ols) and emit hazardous

air pollutants (HAP). Owners or operators of polyether polyols prod uction facilities to which this

regulation is applicable must choose one of the compliance options described in the rule or

install and monitor a specific control system that reduces HAP emissions to the compliance

level. The respondents are also subject t o sections of 40 CFR part 63, subpart A.

Compliance is assumed through initial performance testing or design analysis, as

appropriate, and ongoing compliance is demonstrated through parametric monitoring. Types of

parameters monitored are incinerator tempe rature, scrubber flow rate, carbon adsorber

regeneration frequency as well as others. The appropriate parameter to monitor depends on the

type of control device with the owner or operator chooses to comply.

This ICR includes information collection require ments in the final rulemaking that amend

title 40, chapter I, part 63 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Subpart PPP NESHAP for

Polyether Polyols Production. The final rule prohibits the discharge to the atmosphere from any

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pressure relief device (PR D) on any equipment in organic HAP service within the process units

for the Polyether Polyols source category. To ensure compliance with this requirement, facility

owners or operators are required to monitor each PRD in a way that would be able to identify

and record the time and duration of each pressure release and notify operators that a pressure

release is occurring. Information related to these new provisions is required to be submitted in

the semi

- annual reports required by the existing Polyether Poly ols NESHAP. The amendments

also add provisions for facility owners or operators to use if they wish to assert an affirmative

defense to avoid civil penalties for exceedances of the applicable standards that are caused by a

malfunction. If these provisions are used, the owner or operator is required to meet certain

criteria during the malfunction, notify the Administrator of malfunctions that may cause an

exceedance of the emissions standards, and submit a report for the malfunction to the

Administrator, to include a root cause analysis of the malfunction, within certain timeframes.

Existing major sources subject to the new requirements specified in the amendments will

be required to comply with these requirements within three years of the effective date of t he

standards. Existing major sources may use the affirmative defense provisions upon the effective

date of the standards. All new sources must be in compliance with the requirements of Subpart

PPP upon startup or the promulgation date of standards for an a ffected source, whichever is later.

The polyether polyols universe consists of 23 existing facilities that would be subject to

the major source provisions specified under subpart PPP. N o new major sources are projected

during the 3

- year period of this ICR

. We anticipate that all of these facilities will conduct all

monitoring, inspection, recordkeeping, and reporting (MIRR) requirements. Based on these

estimates, the total MIRR cost of the rulemaking for the NESHAP for Subpart PPP is estimated

to be $207,3 27 annually for the next three years. See Section 6 for more details.

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

EPA is reminded that at the time this collection is renewed, the Agency should

ensure that its submission properly accounts for the amortization of capital costs

beyond the three year period for which this ICR is approved. The Agency should

also revise as necessary its estimate of the number of new sources to reflect

current information at the time of its renewal subm ission.

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For this ICR update, the EPA has addressed each item of concern in the TOC. The EPA

has calculated new costs and hourly burden based on changes to the Subpart PPP requirements

resulting from the amendments. In calculating the updated burden associated with this ICR, the

EPA used current labor rates and provided a current estimate of the number existing affected

sources.

2. Need For and Use of the Collection

(a) Need/Authority for the Collection

. The Clean Air Act (Act) provides authority to the Agency to e stablish standards to

control air pollution and to ensure compliance with regulations through adequate recordkeeping

and reporting by the affected industries (i.e., respondents). The regulations include the New

Source Performance Standards (NSPS) under sec tion 111 of the Act, the National Emission

Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) which includes the original NESHAP

standards and the more recent Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) or NESHAP

MACT standards under section 112 of the Act, and emission guidelines for the designated types

incinerators under section 129 of the Act.

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, durin g 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, HAP emissions from the production of polyether

polyols cause or contribute to air pollution that m ay reasonably be anticipated to endanger public

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health or welfare. Therefore, the NESHAP was promulgated for this source category at 40 CFR

part 63, subpart PPP.

(b) Use/Users of the Data.

The recordkeeping and reporting requirements in the standard(s) are u sed by regulatory

agencies, the public and the regulated community for a variety of reasons including the

determination of the respondent’s compliance status, analytical studies to demonstrate

compliance trends, and evaluations regarding the efficacy of th e regulations.

The required recordkeeping and reporting are also used to: 1) certify compliance with the

regulations; 2) determine the respondent’s compliance with the designated emission

limitation(s); 3) notify regulatory agencies when a standard is viol ated; 4) evaluate continuous

compliance through the use of emission or operational parameter monitors; and 5) ensure that

plant personnel are following the required procedures and are periodically trained, as indicated.

The information collection specified in this ICR will also be used by the delegated authority to

determine if a source meets the criteria for affirmative defense. If a source meets the affirmative

defense criteria, they may be excused from civil penalties for exceedances of an emission limit

.

3. Nonduplication, Consultations, and Other Collection Criteria

(a) Nonduplication.

The standards do not require the duplication in the collection and reporting of

information. 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 s ubmitted to the state or local agency can

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

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

This ICR is related to final amendments to the Polyether Polyols Production NESHAP.

Comments were solicited on the proposal package and the proposed ICR. No comments were

received.

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(c) Consultations.

Upon review of the standard, information available and the data, the Agency has

determined the recordkeeping and reporting requirements in the “Active” ICR is fully supported

and necessary to fulfill the requirements of the Clean Air Act (CAA). It has been determined that

no further consultations with industry are necessary to calculate the burden associated with the

amendmen ts to the Polyether Polyols Production NESHAP.

(d) Effects of Less Frequent Collection.

The effect of less frequent collection would be a decrease in the margin of assurance that

facilities are achieving the emission reductions mandated by the CAA through th e promulgation

of the applicable regulations. In addition, the likelihood of detecting the poor operation and

maintenance of control equipment decreases and the detection of noncompliance becomes

problematic.

(e) General Guidelines

. Neither the reporting no r recordkeeping requirements violate the regulations established

by Office of Management and Budget (OMB) at 5 CFR part 1320, section 1320.5. However,

most NESHAP standards and a few NSPS standards require records to be kept more than three

years. In gener al, these standards require the respondents to maintain all records, including

reports and notifications, for five years. The five

- year record retention requirement is consistent

with the permit program at 40 CFR part 70, and the five

- year statute of limit ations on which the

permit program is based.

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

of the respondent for purposes of determining the appropriate level of enforcement action.

Historically, the EPA notes t hat the most flagrant violations have extended beyond a five

- year

period. If records are retained for less than five years, the EPA would be deterred from pursuing

the most flagrant violations due to the destruction of records documenting noncompliance.

(f) C onfidentiality.

All 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

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B

-- Confidentiality of Business Information (see 40 CFR 2; 41 FR 36902, September 1, 1976;

amended by 43 FR 39999, September 28, 1978; 43 FR 42251, September 28, 1978; 44 FR

17674, March 23, 1979).

(g) Sensitive Questions.

This section is not applicable because this ICR does not involve matters of a se nsitive

nature.

4. The Respondents and the Information Requested

(a) Respondents/NAICS Codes

. Potential respondents under Subpart PPP are owners or operators of any existing or new

Polyether Polyols manufacturing facility that is a major source of HAP emissions, including any

facilities who may wish to make use of the new affirmative defense provisions to avoid civil

penalties resulting from the exceedance of an emission limit. The source category and affected

sources regulated by the Polyether Polyols NESHAP are classified under the North American

Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code 325199, for Basic Organic Chemical

Manufacturing.

The Polyether Polyols source category is estimated to consist of 23 existing facilities

nationwide, all of which are major sources and would be subject to the major source provisions

specified under the Polyether Polyols NESHAP. All 23 existing facilities could make use of the

new affirmative defense provisions added to the rule. N o new major sources are pro jected during

the 3

- year period of this ICR.

(b) Information Requested.

(i) Data Items

A source must make the following reports:

Reports for National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutant Emissions for Polyether Polyols Production

Physical or ope rational change 63.1420(g)(4), 63.1439(e)(7)(iii), & 63.1430(i)

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Periodic reports 63.1439(e)(4)

PRD requirements in periodic reports 63.1439(e)(9)

Reports and notifications of malfunctions that result in an exceedance of the standard for the purpose of affirmative defense 63.1420(i)(2)

A source must maintain the following records:

Recordkeeping for 40 CFR, Part 63.1439, Subpart PPP

All reports from Table above

Record of applicability 63.10(b)(3) & 63.1420(b)(1)(i)

Records for sources with continuous monitoring systems 63.1430(c), (d), (e), & (f)

Records are required to be retained for 5 years 63.1439(a)

Electronic Reporting

At the present, many respondents to CAA standards use monitoring equipment that

automatically records parameter data. Although personnel at the affected facility must evaluate

the data, this internal automation has significantly reduced the burden associated with monitoring

and recordkeeping at the plant site.

Also regulatory agencies, in cooperation with the respon dents, 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 20 percent of the respondents use

electronic reporting.

(ii) Res pondent Activities.

Respondent Activities

Read instructions

Install, calibrate, maintain, and operate continuous parametric monitoring system (CPMS) for the appropriate control device.

Perform initial performance test and repeat performance tests if necessary.

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Write the notifications and reports listed in Table 1

Enter information required to be recorded in Table 1.

Submit the required reports developing, acquiring, installing, and utilizing technology and systems for the purpose of collecting, va lidating, 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.

At the present, many respondents to CAA standards use monitoring equipment that

automatically records parameter data. Although personnel at the affected facility must evaluate

the data, this internal automation has significantly reduced the burden associat ed with monitoring

and recordkeeping at the plant site.

(iii) Summary of Final Amendments.

The amendments to the Polyether Polyols NESHAP require that facilities report any

pressure device releases with the next periodic report required by the existing Polyether Polyols

NESHAP. Facility owners or operators are required to monitor each PRD in organic HAP

service that releases to the atmosphere to identify and record the time and duration of each

pressure release. For affirmative defense, the primary data item required is a written report which

proves that all the criteria for asserting an affirmative defense have been met. The owner or

operator may submit this report (which is to include a root cause analysis of the reported

violation) in the first period ic compliance report, deviation report or excess emissions report

otherwise required after the initial occurrence of the exceedance of the relevant standard.

However, if such report is due less than 45 days after the exceedance, the affirmative defense

rep ort may be included in the next such required report.

The EPA is including in Table 3 (attached) an estimate of the burden associated with

performing an affirmative defense. The EPA is providing this as an illustrative example of the

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potential additional administrative burden a source may incur to assert in an Affirmative Defense

in response to an action to enforce the standards set forth in the applicable subpart.

This illustrative estimate is not considered a duplicate estimate of cost under the General

Duty to Minimize Emissions clause under 63.6(e)(1)(i), which states: “At all times, the owner

and operator must operate and maintain any affected source, including associated air pollution

control equipment and monitoring equipment, in a manner consisten t with safety and good air

pollution control practices for minimizing emissions. Determining whether such operation and

maintenance procedures are being used will be based on information available to the

Administrator which may include, but is not limited to, monitoring results, review of operation

and maintenance procedures, review of operation and maintenance records, and inspection of the

source.”

To provide the public with an estimate of the relative magnitude of the burden associated

with an assertio n of the affirmative defense position adopted by a source, the EPA provides an

administrative adjustment to this ICR that estimates the costs of the notification, recordkeeping

and reporting requirements associated with the assertion of the affirmative def ense. The EPA’s

estimate for the required notification, reports and records, including the root cause analysis,

associated with a single incident totals approximately $2,375 and is based on the time and effort

required of a source to review relevant data, interview plant employees, and document the events

surrounding a malfunction that has caused an exceedance of an emission limit. The estimate also

includes time to produce and retain the records and reports for submission to the EPA. The EPA

provides this illustrative estimate of this burden because these costs are only incurred if there has

been a violation and a source chooses to take advantage of the affirmative defense.

Of the number of excess emission events reported by source operators, only a small

number would be expected to result from a malfunction, and only a subset of excess emissions

caused by malfunctions would result in the source choosing to assert the affirmative defense.

Thus we believe the number of instances in which source operators mig ht be expected to avail

themselves of the affirmative defense will be extremely small. For this reason, we estimate no

more than 2 or 3 such occurrences for all sources within a given category over the 3

- year period

covered by this ICR. For the purpose of this estimate, we are adding two (2) instances of

affirmative defense. We expect to gather information on such events in the future and will revise

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this estimate as better information becomes available.

5. The Information Collected

– Agency Activities, Col lection Methodology, and

Information Management

(a) Agency Activities.

The EPA conducts one or more of the activities provided in Table 2 in connection with

the acquisition, analysis, storage, and distribution of the required information. These tables are

introduced in Section 6(c) of this ICR.

(b) Collection Methodology and Management

. The required data and reports can be evaluated thru an on

- site by conducting a partial

compliance evaluation, full compliance evaluation or inspection, or thru an off

- site rev iew of

compliance monitoring records and reports. Evaluation reports and inspection results are

maintained by the Agency or delegated authority.

The results of these evaluations are entered into the Air Facility Subsystem (AFS) which

is operated and mainta ined by the EPA's Office of Compliance. The AFS is the EPA’s database

for the collection, maintenance, and retrieval of compliance data for approximately 125,000

industrial and government

- owned facilities. The EPA uses the AFS for tracking air pollution

co mpliance and enforcement by local and state regulatory agencies, EPA regional offices and

EPA headquarters. The EPA and delegated authorities can edit, store, retrieve and analyze the

data.

(c) Small Entity Flexibility.

The Small Business Administration defi nes a small entity as one that meets the Small

Business Administration size standards for small businesses found at 13 CFR 121.201 (less than

1000 employees for NAICS 325199 ). We estimate that none of the facilities affected by the new

requirements are sm all entities. Accordingly, the rule does not impose significant economic

impact on a substantial number of small businesses, and small business considerations do not

apply.

(d) Collection Schedule

.

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The specific frequency for each information collection activ ity within this request is

shown in Table 1 (attached) for the Polyether Polyols source category.

6. Estimating the Burden and Cost of the Collection

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

reporting requiremen ts applicable to the industry. 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 identi fied.

Responses to this information collection are mandatory, except for responses related to the

assertion of an affirmative defense.

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.

(a) Estimating Respondent Burden.

The respondent burden is shown in Table 1. The labor hours in Table 1 are based on

Agency studies and background documents from the development of the regulation, Agency

knowle dge and experience with the standard, the previously approved ICR, and any comments

received. No burden estimates are provided for new sources because no new facilities are

expected to become affected sources during the 3-year period of this ICR.

(b) Estimati ng Respondent Costs.

The estimates of total technical

- hours per year per source and the number of activities per

respondent per year for the new PRD requirements are listed in Table 1 and are based upon

experience with similar information collection requi rements in the Polyvinyl Chloride and

Copolymers Production NESHAP (Subpart HHHHHHH).

The EPA’s estimate for an affirmative defense and root cause analysis is based on the

time and effort required of a source to review relevant data, interview plant employees, and

reconstruct the events prior to a malfunction in order to determine primary a nd contributing

causes. The level of effort also includes time to produce and retain the report in document form

so that the source will have it available should the EPA or state enforcement agencies ever

request to review it. The estimates of total techni cal

- hours per year per source for asserting an

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affirmative defense are listed in Table 1 and are based upon experience with similar information

collection requirements in the Sewage Sludge Incineration Units NESHAP (Subpart MMMM).

(i) Estimating Labor Cos ts

. The ICR uses the following labor rates:

Technical $54.66 ($26.03 + 110%) Managerial $115.96 ($55.22 + 110%)

Clerical $38.14 ($18.16 + 110%)

Labor rates and associated costs are based on data from the United States Department of

Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) from May 2012. Wages for technical labor are from the

category “chemical plant and system operators”; wages for management labor are from the

category “general and operations managers”; and wages for clerical labor are from the category

“secretaries and administrative assistants”. These rates represent salaries plus fringe benefits.

The wages provided above were increased by a rate of 110 percent to account for overhead.

(ii) Estimating Capital and Operations and Maintenance (O&M) Costs

. The previous (active) ICR includes an estimate of the initial capital cost of process vent

monitoring equipment, which is amortized over 5 years. In this information collection, it is

assumed that these costs have been paid off, and facilities are no longer making payments for

process vent monitoring equipment.

As part of the amendments to the Polyether Polyols NESHAP, facility owners or

ope rators are required to monitor each PRD to identify and record the time and duration of each

pressure release. For purposes of estimating the costs of this requirement, we assumed that

operators would install electronic indicators on each PRD in organic HA P service that vents to

the atmosphere to identify and record the time and duration of each pressure release. The cost of

each such monitoring system is expected to be $69,233, and the total cost for these capital

expenditures for all facilities in the Pol yether Polyols source category is estimated to be

$1,592,359. The annual operation and maintenance costs are the ongoing costs to maintain the

monitor. These costs are considered negligible and are therefore zero.

(iii) Annualizing Capital Costs

.

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Annua lized costs are calculated by multiplying the capital recovery factor by the capital

cost. The capital recovery factor is 0.142 based on an interest rate of 7 percent and an assumed

equipment life of 10 years. The total annualized capital cost is $226,113.

(c) Estimating Agency Burden and Cost.

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

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

the examination of records maintained by the respondents and the publication and distribution of

collected information. The average annual Agency cost during the three years of the ICR is

shown in Table 2, attached.

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

Technical $55.45 (GS

- 12, Step 1, $34.66 x 1.6) Managerial $74.73 (GS

- 13, Step 5, $46.70 x 1.6)

Clerical $30.01 (GS

- 6, Step 3, $18.76 x 1.6)

Agency labor rates are from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) 2013 General

Schedule Salary Table 2013

- GS, which exclude s locality rates of pay. Labor rates are inflated

20% to reflect average locality pay increase from base rates.

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

Respondents include owners or operators of all 23 existing facilities regulated by the

Polyether Polyols NESHAP, including any of the 23 facilities who may wish to make use of the

new affirmative defense provisions in the amendments to the rule

While a ll 23 of the existing facilities could make use of the new affirmative defense

provisions added to the rule, the EPA estimates only two total instances of the use of these

provisions over the three year ICR period. Consequently, the average annual number of

a ffirmative defense responses during the 3

- year period of this ICR is 2.

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The number of total annual responses is determined from the number of reports required

to be submitted by the respondents. This is calculated in Table 1 as 48.7 responses. The total

a nnual burden hours requested is 3,701. The total annual labor cost is calculated in Table 1 as

$207,327. The EPA’s estimate for the total burden and cost for a single incident of an affirmative

defense is shown in Table 3 as $2,375.

(e) Bottom Line Burden Ho urs 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, respectively.

(i) Respondent tally.

The bottom line respondent burden hours and costs, presented in Table 1, are calculated

by adding person

- hours per year down each column for technical, managerial, and clerical staff,

and by adding down the cost column. The annual burden for the recordkeeping and reporting

requirements for the 23 existing facilities subject to the Polyether Polyols NESHAP is 3,701

person

- hours, with an annual labor cost of $207,327.

(ii) The Agency tally.

The average annual Agency burden hours and cost over next three years is shown in

Table 2.

(iii) Variations in the annual bottom line.

This section does not apply since no significant variation is anticipated.

(f) Reasons for Change in Burden.

The decrease in burden from the most recently approved ICR is due to adjustment in both

the types of information which must be collected and the nu mber of sources submitting the

required information. Specifically, burden items related to start

- up, shutdown, and malfunction

reports are eliminated under the amendments of the rule. The previous (active) ICR calculated

burden based on 82 existing facilit ies and 1 new facility, whereas this ICR calculates burden

based on 23 existing facilities.

The EPA provides an adjustment to this ICR that estimates the costs of the notification,

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recordkeeping and reporting requirements associated with the assertion of the affirmative

defense. The EPA’s estimate for the required notification, reports and records, including the root

cause analysis, associated with a single incident totals approximately $2,375 and is based on the

time and effort required of a source to rev iew relevant data, interview plant employees, and

document the events surrounding a malfunction that has caused an exceedance of an emission

limit. The estimate also includes time to produce and retain the records and reports for

submission to the EPA. For the purpose of estimating the annual burden, the EPA is attributing a

total of 2 instances of affirmative defense over a three year period across all sources in the

category. The EPA is using this frequency of 2 events in three years because, of the numbe r of

excess emission events reported by source operators, only a small number would be expected to

result from a malfunction, and only a subset of excess emissions caused by malfunctions would

result in the source choosing to assert the affirmative defense . Thus, we believe the number of

instances in which source operators might be expected to avail themselves of the affirmative

defense will be extremely small.

(g) Burden Statement

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

is estimated to average 76 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 d isclose

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 currently valid OMB control number. The OMB

control numbers for EPA’s regulations in 40 CFR part 63 are listed in 40 CFR part 9.

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

burden estimates, and any suggestions for minimizing respondent burden, including through the

use of automated collection techniques, the EPA ha s established a public docket for this ICR

under Docket ID No. EPA

- HQ

- OAR

- 2011

- 0435

, which is available for online viewing at

http://www.regulations.gov , or in person viewing at the Air and Radiation Docket and

Info rmation Center in the EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA 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 Air Docket

is (202) 566

- 1742. An electronic version of the public docket is available at

http://www.regulations.gov. This site can be used to submit or view public comments, access the

index listing of the contents of the public docket, and to access those documents in the public

docket that are available electronically. When in the system, select “search,” then key in o ne of

the Docket ID Numbers identified above. Also, you can send comments to the Office of

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

### Street, NW,

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

Number (EPA

- HQ

- OAR

- 2011

- 0435 ) in any correspondence.

PART B

This section is not applicable because statistical methods are not used in data collection

associated with the rule.

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- Nationwide Industry Burden for Major Sources

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E) (F) (G) (H)

Person

- hours per occurrence (a) Annual

occurrences

per respondent Person

hours per

source per

year Total number

of respondents Technical

person

hours per

year Managem

ent

person

hours per

year Clerical

person

hours per

year Total Annual

Cost (d)

(C=AxB)
(E=CxD) (Ex0.05) (Ex0.1)
1. Applications N/A
2. Survey and Studies N/A
3. Reporting Requirements

a. Read rule and instructions N/A
b. Required Activities

i. Initial Performance Test

- Process Vents N/A

ii. Initial Performance Test

- Wastewater N/A
c. Write Reports

i. Notification of Applicability N/A

ii. Notification of Construction/Reconstruction N/A
iii. Notification of Actual Startup N/A

iv. Initial notification N/A

v. Performance test notification N/A
vi. Compliance status notification N/A
vii. Performance test reports N/A
viii. Startup/shutdown/malfunction reports N/A

ix. Semi

- annual summary report 20 2 40 23 920 46 92 $59,133

x. Notification of Physical/Operational change 2 1 2 2 4 0.2 0.4 $257
xi. PRD reporting in semi

- annual report (a) 5.5 2 11 23 253 12.7 25.3 $16,261
xii. Affirmative defense (b) 30 0.67 12 8 0 $1,584
Total Number of Responses (c) 48.67

2. Recordkeeping Requirements

a. Read rule and instructions N/A
b. Develop record system N/A
c. Time to train personnel N/A
d. Continuously Monitored parameter Included in 3.c.

### 18 (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) (F) (G) (H)

Person

- hours per occurrence (a) Annual

occurrences

per respondent Person

hours per

source per

year Total number

of respondents Technical

person

hours per

year Managem

ent

person

hours per

year Clerical

person

hours per

year Total Annual

Cost (d) above

e. LDAR Program 88 1 88 23 2,024 101 202 $130,092

f. SSM Plan N/A
Total Annual Cost (Salary) $207,327

Total Annual Burden Hours 3,213 168 320 3,701
Initial Capital Cost $1,592,359

Annualized Capital Cost $226,113
N/A = Not Applicable.
(a) The annual occurrences per respondent for PRD monitoring is not included in the total number of responses because the res ponse is part of the existing semi

- annual reports.
(b) Assumes 2 affirmative defense reports for entire industry during the 3

- yr ICR period. Formulas are not followed for person

- hours per year. (c) Total responses does not include PRD responses, which are requirement to be submitted with the semi

- annual repo rts already required by the existing Polyether Polyols NESHAP. (d) Costs are based on the following hourly rates: technical at $54.66, management at $115.96, and clerical at $38.14

### 19 Table 2. Annual Burden and Cost for the Federal Government to Impleme nt NESHAP for Polyether Polyols Facilities

Burden Item (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) (F)

Technical hours per

occurrence Occurrences

per year Technical

hours per year (C=AxB) Management

hours per year (C x 0.05) Clerical

hours per

year Total cost per year

(C x 0.1)
@ $55.45 @ $74.73 @ $30.01

Review notification of construction/reconstruction
Review notification of physical/operational changes 2 2 4.0 0.2 0.4 $249
Review notification of actual startup

Review notification of CMS demonstration
Review initial notification reports
Review notifications of compliance status
Review semiannual summary reports 2 46 92 4.6 9.2 $5,721
Review notifications of performance tests

Review test results
Review startup/shutdown/malfunction report

Total 96 4.8 9.6 $5,970

Table 3. Cost Estimate for Affirmative Defense/Root Cause Analysis



### RCFA Personnel Number of Personnel Time Requirement (hours) Total Hours Hourly Rate ($/hr) Total

Technical Personnel 3 6 18 54.66 $984
Managerial Personnel 2 6 12 115.96 $1,392

Total 5 30 $2,375 May 2012 National Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates United States

- Production Occupations. http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm#51

- 0000.