SUPPORTING STATEMENT

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

NESHAP for Primary Copper Smelters (40 CFR Part 63, Subpart QQQ) (Renewal)

1. Identification of the Information Collection

1(a) Title of the Information Collection

NESHAP for Primary Copper Smelters (40 CFR Part 63, Subpart QQQ) (Renewal)

EPA ICR Number 1850.06, OMB Control Number 2060-0476

1(b) Short Characterization/Abstract

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

Copper Smelters were proposed on April 20, 1998, and June 26, 2000, respectively. This standard 

applies to each new and existing affected source found at a primary copper smelter. New facilities 

include those that commenced construction or reconstruction after the date of the proposal. This 

information is being collected to assure compliance with 40 CFR part 63, subpart QQQ. The 

effected sources are copper concentrate dryer, smelting furnace, slag cleaning vessel, copper 

converter department, and the entire group of fugitive emission sources.

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

periodic reports by the owners/operators of the affected facilities. In addition, they 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.

Owners and operators of a primary copper smelter are subject to the regulation only if it is 

a major source of hazardous air pollutant (HAP) emitting or has the potential to emit any single 

HAP at the rate of 10 tons or more per year or any combination of HAP at a rate of 25 tons or more 

per year. In addition, respondents are required to submit an annual performance test report for 

each control device, along with a semiannual compliance report. These notifications, records, and 

reports are essential in determining compliance and are required of all sources subject to this 

subpart.

Respondents subject to the rule are required to prepare and maintain on-site two 

site-specific operating plans: 1) a startup, shutdown, malfunction plan, and 2) a fugitive dust 

control plan. These plans do not require approval by EPA but are required to be maintained at the 

smelter site. Respondents subject to the provisions of this part are required to maintain a file of 

these measurements, and to retain the file for at least five years following the date of such 

measurements, maintenance reports, and records. Each record is to be filed at the site for at least 

two years after the date of each occurrence, measurement, maintenance, report or record, and

off-site for the remaining three years. 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 United 
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States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regional office.

Approximately three respondents are currently subject to the regulation, and it is estimated 

that no additional new respondents will become subject to the regulation in the next three years. 

There are approximately three primary copper smelter plants in the United States which are 

owned and operated by the copper smelter industry. All three are owned and operated by 

privately-owned, for-profit businesses. The burden to the “Affected Public” is listed in Table 1: 

Annual Industry Burden and Cost - NESHAP for Primary Copper Smelters (40 CFR Part 63, 

Subpart QQQ) (Renewal). The Federal government burden does not include work performed by

Federal employees. The burden refers to work performed by contractors, and that burden is found 

in Table 2: Average Annual EPA Burden - NESHAP for Primary Copper Smelters (40 CFR Part 

63, Subpart QQQ) (Renewal).

In the development of the ICR, we addressed the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)

“Terms of Clearance (TOC)” on the active ICR. The TOC are as follows:

When this ICR is renewed, EPA should review the respondent 

burden, universe, labor rates, and capital costs and ensure these 

estimates have been updated.

EPA has addressed each item of concern in the TOC. The respondent burden, universe, 

labor rates, and capital cost, have been thoroughly checked, and all estimates updated.

2. Need for and Use of the Collection

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 

HAP. These standards are applicable to new or existing sources of HAP 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.
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In the Administrator's judgment, HAP emissions from primary copper smelters cause or 

contribute to air pollution that may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare. 

Therefore, the NESHAP was promulgated for this source category at 40 CFR part 63, subpart 

QQQ.

2(b) Practical Utility/Users of the Data

The recordkeeping and reporting requirements in the standard ensure compliance with the 

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

the collected information 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 standard. Continuous emission monitors are used to ensure 

compliance with the standard at all times. During the performance tests, a record of the operating 

parameters under which compliance was achieved may be recorded and used to determine 

compliance in place of a continuous emission monitor.

The notifications required in the standard 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 ensure that 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 may also be observed.

The information generated by the monitoring, recordkeeping, and reporting requirements 

described in this ICR is used by the agency to ensure that facilities affected by the NESHAP 

continue to operate the control equipment in compliance with the regulation.

3. Non-duplication, Consultations, and Other Collection Criteria

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

QQQ.

3(a) Non-duplication

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 their 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 OMB

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

the Federal Register (76 FR 26900) on May 9, 2011. No comments were received on the burden 

published in the Federal Register.
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3(c) Consultations

The Agency’s industry experts have been consulted, and the Agency’s internal data 

sources and projections of industry growth over the next three years have been considered. The 

primary source of information as reported by industry, in compliance with the recordkeeping and 

reporting provisions in the standard, is the Online Tracking Information System (OTIS) which is 

operated and maintained by the EPA Office of Compliance. OTIS is the EPA database for the 

collection, maintenance, and retrieval of all compliance data. The growth rate for the industry is 

based on our consultations with the Agency’s internal industry experts. Approximately 3 

respondents will be subject to the standard over the three-year period covered by this ICR.

Industry trade associations and other interested parties were provided an opportunity to 

comment on the burden associated with the standard as it was being developed. In developing this 

ICR, we contacted the United States Geological Survey (USGS) at (703) 648-4978, and America 

Copper Council (ACC) at (212) 945-4990.

It is our policy to respond after a thorough review of comments received since the last ICR 

renewal as well as those submitted in response to the First Federal Register Notice.

3(d) Effects of Less Frequent Collection

Less frequent information collection would decrease the margin of assurance that facilities 

are continuing to meet the 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 proper operation and maintenance of control equipment and the possibility of 

detecting violations would be less likely.

3(e) General Guidelines

None of these reporting or recordkeeping requirements violate any of the regulations 

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

These standards require the respondents 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. 

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

any pattern of non-compliance, and to determine the appropriate level of enforcement action. EPA 

has found that the most flagrant violators have violations extending beyond the five years. In 

addition, EPA would be prevented from pursuing the violators due to the destruction or 

nonexistence of essential records.

3(f) Confidentiality

Any information submitted to the Agency for which a claim of confidentiality is made will 
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be safeguarded according to the Agency policies set forth in title 40, chapter 1, part 2, subpart B -

Confidentiality of Business Information (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

None of the reporting or recordkeeping requirements contains sensitive questions.

4. The Respondents and the Information Requested

4(a) Respondents/SIC Codes

The respondents to the recordkeeping and reporting requirements are primary copper 

smelters. The United States Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) code for the respondents 

affected by the standard is 3331, which correspond to the North American Industry Classification 

System (NAICS) code 331411 for Primary Smelting and Refining of Copper.

4(b) Information Requested

None of these reporting or recordkeeping requirements violate any of the regulations 

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

(i) Data Items

In this ICR, all the data recorded or reported is required by the National Emission 

Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Primary Copper Smelters (40 CFR Part 63, Subpart 

QQQ).

A source must make the following reports:

Notifications

Initial notification 63.1454(a), 63.9(b)

Notification of performance test 63.1454(d), 63.7, 63.9(e)

Notification of compliance status 63.1454(e), 63.9(h)

Reports

Performance test reports 63.1454(a), 63.10(d)

Semiannual summary reports 63.1454(b), 63.10(e)

A source must keep the following records:

Recordkeeping 
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Recordkeeping 

Records of startup, shutdown, and malfunctions 63.1456(a)(2), 63.1454(c),

63.10(b)(2)

Records of air pollution control equipment maintenance, 

malfunctions, and corrective actions

63.1456(c), 63.1454(c),

63.10(b)(1)

Records of performance tests and other supporting 

documentation used to demonstrate compliance with relevant 

standards under the rule

63.1456(a)(5), 63.1454(c),

63.10(b)(2)

Records of monthly capture system visual inspection 63.1454(c), 63.10(b)(2)

Records of converter capture system operating parameter 

monitoring system performance, calibration, and maintenance 63.1454(c), 63.10(b)(2)

Records of control device operating parameter monitoring 

system performance, calibration, and maintenance 63.1454(c), 63.10(b)(2)

Records of control device or converter capture system 

operating parameter deviations 63.1454(c), 63.10(b)(2)

Copy of site-specific air pollution equipment startup, 

shutdown, and malfunction plan 63.1450(c), 63.6(e)(3)

Copy of site-specific smelter fugitive dust control plan 63.1448(a)

Electronic Reporting

Some of the respondents are using monitoring equipment that automatically records 

parameter data. Although personnel at the affected facility must still evaluate the data, internal 

automation has significantly reduced the burden associated with monitoring and recordkeeping at 

a plant site.

Also, regulatory agencies in cooperation with the respondents 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 10 percent of the respondents use electronic 

reporting.

Respondent Activities

Perform initial performance test, Reference Methods 1, 2F, 2G, 3, 3A, 3B, 4, 5, 5D, 17, 29 tests, 

and repeat performance tests if necessary.

Write the notifications and reports listed above.

Enter information required to be recorded above.

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.
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Respondent Activities

Adjust 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.

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

automated way (e.g., continuous parameter monitoring system.) 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.

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, 

required to be submitted by industry.

Audit facility records.

Input, analyze, and maintain data in the Online Tracking Information System (OTIS).

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 operational. Performance 

test reports are used by the Agency to discern a source’s initial capability to comply with the 

emission standard, and note the operating conditions under which compliance was achieved. Data 

and records maintained by the respondents are tabulated and published for use in compliance and 

enforcement programs.

Information contained in the reports is entered into OTIS which is operated and maintained 

by the EPA Office of Compliance. OTIS is the EPA database for the collection, maintenance, and 

retrieval of compliance data for approximately 125,000 industrial and government-owned 

facilities. EPA uses OTIS for tracking air pollution compliance and enforcement by local and state 

regulatory agencies, EPA regional offices, and EPA headquarters. EPA 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.
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5(c) Small Entity Flexibility

The 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 to be the minimum 

requirements 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 

in Table 1: Annual Industry Burden for NESHAP for Primary Copper Smelters (40 CFR Part 63, 

Subpart QQQ) (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. Wherever 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 8,837 (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

This ICR uses the following labor rates:

Managerial $118.92 ($56.63 + 110%)

Technical $97.78 ($46.56 + 110%)

Clerical $48.76 ($23.22 + 110%)
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These rates are from the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, December 

2010, "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/Startup and Operation and Maintenance Costs

The type of industry costs associated with the information collection activities in the 

subject standard 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 when a 

facility becomes subject to the regulation. The annual operation and maintenance costs are the 

ongoing costs to maintain the monitor and other costs such as photocopying and postage.

(iii) Capital/Startup vs. Operation 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)

Monitoring 

control device $2,800 0 $0 $1,540 3 $4,620

Monitoring 

converter hood $10,800 0 $0 $1,200 3 $3,600

$0 $8,220

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

above table.

The total operation and maintenance (O&M) costs consists of photocopying, and postage 

are $8,220. 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 $8,220.

6(c) Estimating Agency Burden and Cost

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

information. The EPA 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 

$2,488.

This cost is based on the average hourly labor rate as follows:
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Managerial $62.27 (GS-13, Step 5, $38.92 + 60%) 

Technical $46.21 (GS-12, Step 1, $28.88 + 60%)

Clerical $25.01 (GS-6, Step 3, $15.63 + 60%)

These rates are from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) “2011 General Schedule” which 

excludes locality rates of pay. The rates have been increased by 60 percent to account for the 

benefit packages available to government employees. Details upon which this estimate is based 

appear in Table 2: Average Annual EPA Burden, NESHAP for Primary Copper Smelters (40 CFR 

Part 63, Subpart QQQ) (Renewal).

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

Based on our research for this ICR, on average over the next three years, approximately 3 

respondents will be subject to the standard. It is estimated that no additional sources per year will 

become subject. The overall average number of respondents, as shown in the table below is 3 per 

year. 

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

three years covered by this ICR.

Number of Respondents

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 3 0 0 3

2 0 3 0 0 3

3 0 3 0 0 3

Average 0 3 0 0 3

1 New respondent 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 3.

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 3 1 N/A 3

Notification of performance test 3 5.5 N/A 16.5
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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 compliance determination 3 1 N/A 3

Performance test reports 3 5.5 N/A 16.5

Summary reports 3 2 N/A 6

Total 45

The number of Total Annual Responses is 45.

The total annual labor costs are $847,257. Details regarding these estimates may be found 

in Table 1: Annual Industry Burden and Cost - NESHAP for Primary Copper Smelters (40 CFR 

Part 63, Subpart QQQ) (Renewal).

6(e) Bottom Line Burden Hours Burden Hours 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, and summarized below. 

(i) Respondent Tally

The total annual labor costs are $847,257. Details regarding these estimates may be found 

in Table 1. Annual Respondent Burden and Cost: NESHAP for Primary Copper Smelters (40 CFR 

Part 63, Subpart QQQ). Furthermore, the annual public reporting and recordkeeping burden for 

this collection of information is estimated to average 196 hours per response.

The total annual capital/startup and O&M costs to the regulated entity are $8,220.

(ii) The Agency Tally

The average annual Agency burden and cost over next three years is estimated to be 55

labor hours at a cost of $2,488. See Table 2: Annual Agency Burden and Cost: NESHAP for 

Primary Copper Smelters (40 CFR Part 63, Subpart QQQ) (Renewal).

6(f) Reasons for Change in Burden

There is no change in the labor hours in this ICR as compared to the previous ICR. This 

situation 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. 
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6(g) Burden Statement

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

estimated to average 196 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.

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’s 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-2011-0205. 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 content of the docket, 

and to access those documents in the public docket that are available electronically. When in the 

system, select “search” than 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, N.W., 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 and Information Center Docket is (202) 566-1927. Also, 

you can send comments to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of 

Management and Budget, 725 17th Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20503, Attention: Desk Officer 

for EPA. Please include the EPA Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-OECA-2011-0205 and OMB 

Control Number 2060-0476 in any correspondence.

Part B of the Supporting Statement

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

information.
Table 1: Annual Respondent Burden and Cost – NESHAP for Primary Copper Smelters (40 CFR Part 63, Subpart QQQ)

(Renewal)

Burden item

(A)

Person 

hours per 

occurrence

(B)

No. of 

occurrences 

per 

respondent 

per year

(C)

Person 

hours per 

respondent 

per year

(C=AxB)

(D)

Respondents 

per year 

a

(E)

Technical 

personhours per 

year

(E=CxD)

(F)

Management 

person hours 

per year

(Ex0.05)

(G)

Clerical 

person 

hours 

per year

(Ex0.1)

(H)

Total Cost 

Per year b

1. Applications N/A

2. Survey and Studies N/A

3. Reporting requirements

 A. Read instructions 16 1 16 0 0 0 0 $0

 B. Required activities

 Conduct control device performance test c120 4.5 540 3 1,620 81 162 $175,935.24

 Conduct converter building performance test d240 1 240 3 720 36 72 $78,193.44

 C. Create information See 3B & 4E

 D. Gather existing information See 3B & 4E

 E. Write Report

 Initial notification 8 1 8 3 24 1.2 2.4 $2,606.44

 Notification of performance test 2 5.5 11 3 33 1.65 3.3 $3,583.87

 Initial compliance determination 40 1 40 3 120 6 12 $13,032.24

 Performance test reports e80 5.5 440 3 1,320 66 132 $143,354.64

 Summary report f40 2 80 3 240 12 24 $26,064.48

Subtotal for Reporting Requirements 4,688.55

4. Recordkeeping requirements

 A. Read instructions 40 1 40 0 0 0 0 $0

 B. Plan activities 100 1 100 0 0 0 0 $0

 C. Implement Activities 

 i. Prepare startup, shutdown, malfunction plan 80 1 80 0 0 0 0 $0

 ii. Copper concentrate dryer

 Monitor control device parameters g0.5 365 182.5 3 547.5 0 0 $53,304.90

 iii. Smelting vessel

 Inspect tapping hood system h4 12 48 3 144 0 0 $14,080.32

 Monitor control device parameters g0.5 365 182.5 3 547.5 0 0 $53,404.90

 iv. Slag cleaning vessel

 Inspect tapping hood system i4 12 48 1 48 0 0 $4,693.44
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Burden item

(A)

Person 

hours per 

occurrence

(B)

No. of 

occurrences 

per 

respondent 

per year

(C)

Person 

hours per 

respondent 

per year

(C=AxB)

(D)

Respondents 

per year 

a

(E)

Technical 

personhours per 

year

(E=CxD)

(F)

Management 

person hours 

per year

(Ex0.05)

(G)

Clerical 

person 

hours 

per year

(Ex0.1)

(H)

Total Cost 

Per year b

 Monitor control device parameters i, g 0.5 365 182.5 1 182.5 0 0 $17,844.85

 v. Batch copper converters

 Inspect converter hood system 4 12 48 3 144 0 0 $14,080.32

 Monitor hood system ventilation parameters g0.5 365 182.5 3 547.5 0 0 $53,404.90

 Monitor control device parameters g0.5 365 182.5 3 547.5 0 0 $53,404.90

 vi. Prepare fugitive dust control plan 100 1 100 0 0 0 0 $0

 D. Develop record system 100 1 100 0 0 0 0 $0

 E. Time to enter information j1 365 365 3 1,095 0 0 $107,069.10

 F. Time to train personnel k100 1 100 3 300 15 30 $32,580.60

Subtotal for Recordkeeping Requirements 4,148.5

Subtotals Labor Burden and Cost 8,180.5 218.85 437.7 $847,257.18

TOTAL LABOR BURDEN AND COST 

(rounded)

8,837.05

8,837

 (rounded)

$847,257

Assumptions:

a

 We have assumed that there are approximately three sources that are subject to the standard, with no new additional sources expected over the next three years.

 b

 This ICR uses the following labor rates: $118.92 per hour for Executive, Administrative, and Managerial labor; $97.78 per hour for Technical labor, and $48.76 

per hour for Clerical labor. These rates are from the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, December, 2010, 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.

c

 We have assumed that each of the three respondents will take 120 hours, 4.5 times per year to conduct the control device performance test.

d

 We have assumed that each of the three respondents will take 240 hours to conduct converter building performance test once per year.

e

 We have assumed that each respondents will take eighty hours, 5.5 times per year to complete a performance test report.

f

 We have assumed that it will take each respondent forty hours to write summary report two times per year.

g

 Recordkeeping requirements are required daily on all monitor control device parameters.

h We have assumed that inspections on all tapping hood systems are done on a monthly basis.

i We have assumed that one of the three existing sources will be equipped with a slag cleaning vessel.

j Each respondent is required to record information on a daily basis.

k

 We have assumed that it will take each of the respondent 100 hours to train personnel once a year.
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Table 2: Average Annual EPA Burden - NESHAP for Primary Copper Smelters (40 CFR Part 63, Subpart QQQ) (Renewal)

Activity

(A)

EPA 

personhours per 

occurrence

(B)

No. of 

occurrences 

per plant 

per year

(C)

EPA 

personhours per 

plant per 

year

(C=AxB)

(D)

Plants 

per year 

a

(E)

Technical 

personhours per 

year

(E=CxD)

(F)

Management 

person-hours 

per year

(Ex0.05)

(G)

Clerical 

personhours 

per year

(Ex0.1)

(H)

Cost, $ b

Activity

Review reports

 a. Report of no deviations 4 1 4 0 0 0 0 $0

 b. Report of deviations 4 1 4 0 0 0 0 $0

 c. Report of SSM 8 1 8 0 0 0 0 $0

 d. Reports of equipment leaks 8 1 8 0 0 0 0 $0

 e. Report on wastewater c8 2 16 3 48 2.4 4.8 $2,487.68

Subtotals Labor Burden and cost 48 2.4 4.8 $2,487.68

TOTAL ANNUAL BURDEN AND COST 

(rounded)

55.2

55 (rounded)

$2,488

Assumptions:

 a

 We have assumed that there are approximately three sources that are subject to the standard, with no new additional sources expected over the next three years.

 

b This cost is based on the following labor rates which incorporates a 1.6 benefits multiplication factor to account for government overhead expenses: $62.27 

Managerial rate (GS-13, Step 5, $38.92 x 1.6), $46.21 Technical rate (GS-12, Step 1, $28.88 x 1.6), and $25.01 Clerical rate (GS-6, Step 3, $15.63 x 1.6). These rates 

are from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) 2011 General Schedule which excludes locality rates of pay.

 

c

 It is assumed that all of the three respondents will each take 8 hours to review reports on wastewater on a semiannual basis.