From: "Higgins, Cortney" <Cortney_Higgins@omb.eop.gov> 

To: Chuck French/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA 

Date: 08/14/2012 10:28 AM 

Subject: RE: FW: RIN 2060-AQ60 - Chromium RTR -- Requested Documents

Hi Chuck, 

So there’s no overlap in the plants – a facility only does hard chromium or decorative, but not both? 

Thanks for the updated memo. 

From: Chuck French [mailto:French.Chuck@epamail.epa.gov] 

Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 10:24 AM 

To: Higgins, Cortney 

Cc: Ann Johnson; chancy@rti.org; Erin Newman; Fred Talcott; Jan Tierney; Kelly Rimer; Mark Morris; 

Phil 

Mulrine; rjmarinshaw@rti.org; Robin Langdon; Sara Ayres; Steve Fruh; Tim Benner; Tom Walton 

Subject: Re: FW: RIN 2060-AQ60 - Chromium RTR -- Requested Documents

Hi Cortney, 

Attached is the latest version of the document. Regarding the number of facilities, we 

estimate there are a total of 1350 plants in the U.S. and 198 of these are located in 

California. The break down is as follows: 

Number of Non-California plants: 

* 188 large hard chromium plants 

* 394 small hard chromium plants (263 small hard existing) 

* 423 decorative hard chromium plants 

* 140 chromium anodizing plants 

Number of California plants: 

* 70 hard chromium plants 

* 94 decorative hard chromium plants 

* 34 chromium anodizing plants 

These numbers are presented in the attached document, especially in Appendix A. 

Thanks. 

Chuck 

Phone: 919-541-7912 

(See attached file: Control Cost Method Summary_8-14-12.docx) 

"Higgins, Cortney" ---08/14/2012 09:59:39 AM---Hi Chuck, Do you have a revised version of the 

attached memo? In it EPA is citing the following: 
From: "Higgins, Cortney" <Cortney_Higgins@omb.eop.gov> 

To: Chuck French/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA 

Date: 08/14/2012 09:59 AM 

Subject: FW: RIN 2060-AQ60 - Chromium RTR -- Requested Documents

Hi Chuck, 

Do you have a revised version of the attached memo? In it EPA is citing the following: 

1,454 chromium electroplating plants in the U.S. 

Thanks, 

Cortney 

From: Chuck French [mailto:French.Chuck@epamail.epa.gov] 

Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 12:59 PM 

To: Higgins, Cortney 

Cc: Ann Johnson; Phil Mulrine 

Subject: Re: RIN 2060-AQ60 - Chromium RTR -- Requested Documents 

Hi Cortney, 

Attached are the "Responses to Comments (RTC)" document; the "Procedures for 

Determining Control Costs and Cost Effectiveness for Chromium Electroplating 

Supplemental Proposal memorandum"; and the "Information on non-PFOS Fume 

Suppressants in Minnesota Chromium Electroplating Facilities memorandum", which 

includes 3 attachments (3 Excel tables). 

I believe that we have now sent you all of the documents in the list (shown in email 

below). 

Please let us know if you need anything else. 

Thanks. 

Chuck 

(See attached file: Cr-Electroplating-Steel-Pickling-RTC-7-19-2012.docx)(See attached file: EPAHQ-OAR-2010-0600-0602.pdf) 

(See attached file: non-PFOS-data-Memo-6-27-12.doc)(See attached file: Attachment 1-July-11-

2012.xls)(See attached file: Attachment 2 0 6-6-12.xls)(See attached file: Attachment 3.xlsx) 

"Higgins, Cortney" ---07/17/2012 09:16:30 AM---Hi Chuck, I hope you had a good weekend. 
From: "Higgins, Cortney" <Cortney_Higgins@omb.eop.gov> 

To: Chuck French/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA 

Cc: Ann Johnson/DC/USEPA/US@EPA 

Date: 07/17/2012 09:16 AM 

Subject: RIN 2060-AQ60 - Chromium RTR -- Requested Documents

Hi Chuck, 

I hope you had a good weekend. 

Can you please send the following documents referenced in the preamble: 

- Development of Revised Surface Tension Limits for Chromium Electroplating and Anodizing Tanks 

Controlled with Wetting Agent Fume Suppressants document (p 18) 

- Revised Procedures for Determining Control Costs and Cost Effectiveness for Chromium Electroplating 

and Anodizing (p. 26) 

- Responses to Comments (RTC) document (p 26) 

- Emissions Reductions and Cost Effectiveness of HEPA Filter Retrofits for Chromium Electroplating, 

and 

Emissions Reductions and Cost Effectiveness of Composite Mesh Pads for Chromium Electroplating (p 

54) 

- “cost analysis technical memo” (p 61) 

- Procedures for Determining Control Costs and Cost Effectiveness for Chromium Electroplating 

Supplemental Proposal memorandum (p 77) (It’s not clear this is the same as the document cited on page 

26). 

- Information on non-PFOS Fume Suppressants in Minnesota Chromium Electroplating Facilities 

memorandum (p 78) 

- Economic Impact Analysis for Risk and Technology Review: Chromium Electroplating (p 97) 

- Risk Assessment (and supporting documents) – can you please provide a redline comparison of the risk 

assessment main document compared to the proposal (not the appendices)? Can you also send this as a 

word document. 

- EJ or Demographics analysis

Please let me know if you have any questions. 

Regards, 

Cortney 

________________________________________________ 

Cortney Higgins 

Policy Analyst 

OMB/OIRA/NRE 

202.395.7856 

chiggins@omb.eop.gov[attachment "EPA-HQ-OAR-2010-0600-0602.pdf" deleted by Chuck 

French/RTP/USEPA/US]