Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 218 / Thursday, November 10, 2011 / Notices 70127 

Dated: October 19, 2011. 

Timothy J. Meeks, 

Administrator. 

[FR Doc. 2011–29146 Filed 11–9–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OECA–2011–0210; FRL–9490–4] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to OMB for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; NSPS for Municipal Waste 

Combustors (Renewal) 

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 an Information Collection Request 

(ICR) has been forwarded to the Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and approval. This is a request 

to renew an existing approved 

collection. The ICR which is abstracted 

below describes the nature of the 

collection and the estimated burden and 

cost. 

DATES: Additional comments may be 

submitted on or before December 12, 

2011. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing docket ID number EPA–HQ– 

OECA–2011–0210, to (1) EPA online 

using www.regulations.gov (our 

preferred method), or by email to 

docket.oeca@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA 

Docket Center (EPA/DC), Environmental 

Protection Agency, Enforcement and 

Compliance Docket and Information 

Center, mail code 2822IT, 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, 

DC 20460; and (2) OMB at: Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB), Attention: Desk Officer for EPA, 

725 17th Street NW., Washington, DC 

20503. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Learia Williams, Monitoring, 

Assistance, and Media Programs 

Division, Office of Compliance, Mail 

Code 2223A, Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue 

NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone 

number: (202) 564–4113; fax number: 

(202) 564–0050; email address: 

williams.learia@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has 

submitted the following ICR to OMB for 

review and approval according to the 

procedures prescribed in 5 CFR 1320.12. 

On May 9, 2011 (76 FR 26900), EPA 

sought comments on this ICR pursuant 

to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received no 

comments. Any additional comments on 

this ICR should be submitted to both 

EPA and OMB within 30 days of this 

notice. 

EPA has established a public docket 

for this ICR under docket ID number 

EPA–HQ–OECA–2011–0210, which is 

available for public viewing online at 

http://www.regulations.gov, or in person 

viewing at the Enforcement and 

Compliance Docket 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 Enforcement and 

Compliance Docket is (202) 566–1752. 

Use EPA’s electronic docket and 

comment system at http:// 

www.regulations.gov to submit or view 

public comments, access the index 

listing of the contents of the docket and 

to either access those documents in the 

docket that are available electronically. 

Once in the system, select ‘‘docket 

search,’’ then key in the docket ID 

number identified above. Please note 

that EPA’s policy is that public 

comments, whether submitted 

electronically or in paper, will be made 

available for public viewing at http:// 

www.regulations.gov as EPA receives 

them and without change, unless the 

comment contains copyrighted material, 

Confidential Business Information (CBI), 

or other information whose public 

disclosure is restricted by statute. For 

further information about the electronic 

docket, go to www.regulations.gov. 

Title: NSPS for Municipal Waste 

Combustors (Renewal). 

ICR Numbers: EPA ICR Number 

1506.12, OMB Control Number 2060– 

0210. 

ICR Status: This ICR is scheduled to 

expire on December 31, 2011. Under 

OMB regulations, the Agency may 

continue to conduct or sponsor the 

collection of information while this 

submission is pending at OMB. 

Abstract: The New Source 

Performance Standards (NSPS) for 

Municipal Waste Combustors apply to 

municipal waste combustors with unit 

capacities greater than 225 megagrams 

per day. Owners or operators of the 

affected facilities must make one-timeonly notifications and reports and must 

keep records of all facilities subject to 

NSPS requirements. Owners or 

operators 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. The pollutants of concern 

for subpart Ea are metals, municipal 

waste combustor (MWC) organics, MWC 

acid gases, and nitrogen oxides. In 

subpart Eb, the additional pollutants of 

concern are cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb), 

and mercury (Hg). Subparts Ea and Eb 

require owners and operators with unit 

capacity above 225 megagrams per day 

to notify the Agency of intent to 

construct and initiate operation of a 

new, modified, or reconstructed MWC. 

The notification must contain 

supporting information regarding unit 

design capacity, the calculations used to 

determine capacity, and estimated 

startup dates. 

Owners and operators must submit 

semiannual and annual compliance 

reports. In addition, facilities subject to 

subpart Eb are required to keep records 

of the weekly amount of carbon used for 

activated carbon injection and to 

calculate the estimated hourly carbon 

injection rate for hours of operation as 

a means of determining continuous 

compliance for Hg. Annual reports of 

excess emissions are required under 

subpart Ea, while semiannual reports of 

excess emissions are required under 

subpart Eb. These notifications, reports, 

and records are essential in determining 

compliance and are required, in general, 

of all sources subject to the standard. 

Any owner or operator subject to 

subpart Ea will maintain a file of these 

measurements, and retain the file for at 

least two years. For those facilities 

subject to subpart Eb, all records are 

required to be maintained at the source 

for a period of five years. 

Notifications are used to inform the 

Agency or delegated authority when a 

source becomes subject to the standard. 

The reviewing authority may then 

inspect the source to check if the 

pollution control devices are properly 

installed and operated and that the 

standard is being met. Performance test 

reports are needed as these are the 

Agency’s records of a source’s initial 

capability to comply with the emission 

standards, and serve as a record of the 

operating conditions under which 

compliance was achieved. The 

information generated by monitoring, 

recordkeeping, and reporting 

requirements described in this ICR is 

used by the Agency to ensure that 

facilities affected by the standard 

continue to operate the control 

equipment and achieve continuous 

compliance with the regulation. 

All reports are sent to the delegated 

state or local authority. In the event that 


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1The EPA decision was signed on August 13, 

2008 and published at 73 FR 52042 (September 8, 

2008). 

there is no such delegated authority, the 

reports are sent directly to the EPA 

regional office. This information is 

being collected to assure compliance 

with 40 CFR part 60, subparts Ea and 

Eb, as authorized in section 112 and 

114(a) of the Clean Air Act. The 

required information consists of 

emissions data and other information 

that have been determined to be private. 

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 the EPA regulations are 

listed in 40 CFR part 9 and 48 CFR 

chapter 15, and are identified on the 

form and/or instrument, if applicable. 

Burden Statement: The annual public 

reporting and recordkeeping burden for 

this collection of information is 

estimated to average 198 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 which have subsequently 

changed; 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: 

Municipal waste combustors. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

12. 

Frequency of Response: Initially, 

quarterly, annually, and semiannually. 

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 

20,421. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost: 

$1,916,503, which includes $1,757,811 

in labor costs, $60,000 in capital/startup 

costs, and $98,692 in operation and 

maintenance (O&M) costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is no 

change in the labor hours or cost in this 

ICR compared to the previous ICR. This 

is due to two considerations: (1) The 

regulations have not changed over the 

past three years and are not anticipated 

to change over the next three years; and 

(2) the growth rate for the industry is 

very low, negative, or non-existent, so 

there is no significant change in the 

overall burden. There is, however, an 

increase in the estimated burden cost as 

currently identified in the OMB 

Inventory of approved Burdens. The 

increase is not due to any program 

changes. The change in burden cost is 

due to the use of the most updated labor 

rates. 

Since there are no changes in the 

regulatory requirements and there is no 

significant industry growth, the labor 

hours from the previous ICR are used in 

this ICR. 

Dated: November 4, 2011. 

John Moses, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division. 

[FR Doc. 2011–29186 Filed 11–9–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[AMS–FRL–9490–7] 

California State Motor Vehicle 

Pollution Control Standards; 

Amendments to the California HeavyDuty Engine On-Board Diagnostic 

Regulation; Waiver Request; 

Opportunity for Public Hearing 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of Opportunity for Public 

Hearing and Comment. 

SUMMARY: The California Air Resources 

Board (CARB) has notified EPA that it 

has adopted amendments to its 

regulations related to heavy-duty engine 

on-board diagnostic (HD OBD) in 

California. By letter dated September 27, 

2010, CARB requested that EPA confirm 

that its amendments are within-thescope of a previous waiver of 

preemption issued by EPA. In the 

alternative, CARB requested that EPA 

confirm that the amendments that relax 

and clarify the existing HD OBD 

regulation are within-the-scope of a 

previous waiver of preemption issued 

by EPA and that EPA grant a new 

waiver of preemption for the remainder 

of CARB’s HD OBD amendments. This 

notice announces that EPA has 

tentatively scheduled a public hearing 

concerning California’s request and that 

EPA is accepting written comment on 

the request. 

DATES: EPA has tentatively scheduled a 

public hearing concerning CARB’s 

request on December 12, 2011 at 10 a.m. 

EPA will hold a hearing only if any 

party notifies EPA by November 25, 

2011, expressing its interest in 

presenting oral testimony. By December 

1, 2011, any person who plans to attend 

the hearing may call David Dickinson at 

(202) 343–9256 to learn if a hearing will 

be held or may check the following Web 

site for an update: http://www.epa.gov/ 

otaq/cafr.htm. 

Parties wishing to present oral 

testimony at the public hearing should 

also provide written notice to David 

Dickinson at the address noted below. If 

EPA receives a request for a public 

hearing, that hearing will be held at 

1310 L St. NW., Washington, DC 20005. 

If EPA does not receive a request for a 

public hearing, then EPA will not hold 

a hearing, and instead consider CARB’s 

request based on written submissions to 

the docket. Any party may submit 

written comments by January 9, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: EPA will make available for 

public inspection materials submitted 

by CARB, written comments received 

from interested parties, and any 

testimony given at the public hearing. 

Materials relevant to this proceeding are 

contained in the Air and Radiation 

Docket and Information Center, 

maintained in Docket No. EPA–HQ– 

OAR–2011–0816. The docket is located 

at The Air Docket, Room 3334, 1301 

Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, 

DC 20460, and may be viewed between 

8 a.m., and 5:30 p.m., Monday through 

Friday. The telephone is (202) 566– 

1742. A reasonable fee may be charged 

by EPA for copying docket material. 

Additionally, an electronic version of 

the public docket is available through 

the Federal government’s electronic 

public docket and comment system. 

You may access EPA dockets at http:// 

www.regulations.gov. After opening the 

http://www.regulations.gov Web site, 

enter EPA–HQ–OAR–2011–0816 in 

‘‘Search Documents’’ to view documents 

in the record. Although a part of the 

official docket, the public docket does 

not include Confidential Business 

Information (CBI) or other information 

whose disclosure is restricted by statute. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David Dickinson, Compliance Division 

(6405J), U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., 

Washington, DC 20460. Telephone: 

(202) 343–9256, Fax: (202) 343–2804, 

email address: 

Dickinson.David@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

(A) Procedural History 

CARB initially adopted the HD OBD 

requirements in December 2005, and 

EPA issued a waiver of preemption in 

August 2008.1 CARB’s HD OBD 

regulation, as initially adopted, required 

manufacturers to install a fully 

compliant HD OBD system on both 


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