SUPPORTING STATEMENT

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

NESHAP for Pharmaceuticals Production (40 CFR Part 63, Subpart GGG) (Renewal)

1. Identification of the Information Collection

1(a) Title of the Information Collection

NESHAP for Pharmaceuticals Production (40 CFR Part 63, Subpart GGG) (Renewal), 

EPA ICR Number 1781.07, OMB Control Number 2060-0358

1(b) Short Characterization/Abstract

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

Pharmaceuticals Production (40 CFR Part 63, subpart GGG) were: 1) proposed on April 2, 1997; 

2) promulgated on September 21, 1998; and 3) amended on April 21, 2011. The most recent 

amendment to the rule eliminated the startup, shutdown, and malfunction exemption, removed

the SSM plan requirement, added provisions to provide an affirmative defense against civil 

penalties for exceedances of emission standards caused by malfunctions, added a provision to 

require electronic submittal of performance test results, and corrected editorial errors. The 

amendment did not otherwise impose any additional burden. These regulations apply to existing 

and new pharmaceuticals manufacturing operations that are major sources of hazardous air 

pollutants (HAP). The affected facilities encompass all pharmaceuticals manufacturing 

operations that include process vents, storage tanks, equipment components, and wastewater 

systems. New facilities include those that commenced construction or reconstruction after the 

date of proposal. This information is being collected to assure compliance with 40 CFR part 63, 

subpart GGG.

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

periodic reports by the owners/operators of the affected facilities. They 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. These notifications, reports, and records are essential in determining compliance, 

and are required of all affected facilities subject to NESHAP. 

Any owner/operator subject to the provisions of this part shall maintain a file of these 

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

maintenance reports, and records. 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 U. S.

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regional office.

 Based on our consultations with industry representatives, there is an average of one 

affected facilities at each plant site and that each plant site has only one respondent (i.e., the 

owner/operator of the plant site).

Over the next three years, an average of 27 respondents per year will be subject to these
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standards, and no additional respondents per year will become subject to the standards. 

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approved the currently active ICR 

without any “Terms of Clearance.”

All of the pharmaceutical production facilities in the United States are owned and 

operated by the pharmaceutical industry (the “Affected Public”). None of the facilities in the 

United States are owned by either state, or local, or tribal entities or by the Federal government. 

They are all privately-owned, for-profit businesses. The “burden” to the “Affected Public” may

be found below in Table 1: Annual Respondent Burden and Cost – NESHAP for 

Pharmaceuticals Production (40 CFR Part 63, Subpart GGG) (Renewal). The “burden” to the 

Federal government is attributed entirely to work performed by either Federal employees or 

government contractors and may be found below in Table 2: Average Annual EPA Burden and 

Cost – NESHAP for Pharmaceuticals Production (40 CFR Part 63, Subpart GGG) (Renewal). 

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 

hazardous air pollutants. These standards are applicable to new or existing sources of hazardous 

air pollutants and shall require the maximum degree of emission reduction. In addition, section 

114(a) states that the Administrator may require any owner/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.

In the Administrator's judgment, HAP emissions from pharmaceuticals production 

(predominately methanol, methylene chloride and toluene) cause or contribute to air pollution 

that may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare. Therefore, the 

NESHAP were promulgated for this source category at 40 CFR part 63, subpart GGG.
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2(b) Practical Utility/Users of the Data

The recordkeeping and reporting requirements in these standards ensure compliance with 

the applicable regulations which were promulgated in accordance with the Clean Air Act. The 

collected information is also 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 test 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 check if the pollution control devices are properly 

installed and operated, leaks are being detected and repaired, and the standard is being met. 

The performance test may also be observed.

The required semiannual reports are used to determine periods of excess emissions, 

identify problems at the facility, verify operation/maintenance procedures and for compliance 

determinations.

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

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

GGG.

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 its 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, 

duplication does not exist.

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 (78 FR 35023) on June 11, 2013. No comments were received on the 

burden published in the Federal Register.

3(c) Consultations

The Agency’s industry experts have been consulted, and the Agency’s internal data 
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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 EPA's Office of Compliance. OTIS is EPA’s 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. 

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

comment on the burden associated with the standards as they were being developed and the 

standards have been reviewed previously to determine the minimum information needed for 

compliance purposes. In developing this ICR, we contacted: 1) the Pharmaceutical Research and 

Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), at (202) 835-3400; and 2) Noramco Incorporated, at (302) 

652-3840.

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. In this 

case, no comments were received.

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

These reporting or recordkeeping requirements do not violate any of the regulations 

promulgated by OMB under 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

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 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 
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will be safeguarded according to the Agency policies set forth in Title 40, chapter 1, part 2, 

subpart B - Confidentiality of Business Information (CBI) (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

The reporting or recordkeeping requirements in the standard do not include sensitive 

questions.

4. The Respondents and the Information Requested

4(a) Respondents/SIC Codes

The respondents to the recordkeeping and reporting requirements are pharmaceuticals 

manufacturing operations. The United States Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) code for 

the respondents affected by the standards and the corresponding North American Industry

Classification System (NAICS) codes are listed below. 

Standard (40 CFR, Part 63, Subpart GGG) SIC Codes NAICS Codes

Pharmaceutical Preparation Manufacturing 2835, 2834 325412

Medicinal and Botanical Manufacturing 2833 325411

4(b) Information Requested

(i) Data Items

In this ICR, all the data that is recorded or reported is required by NESHAP for 

Pharmaceuticals Production (40 CFR Part 63, Subpart GGG) (Renewal). 

A source must make the following reports:

Notifications

Change in area source status (as applicable) 63.1(c)(5) 

Application and notification of construction/reconstruction 63.5(b)(4), 63.5(d), 63.1260(c) 

Notification of applicability 63.9(a), 63.1260(b)

Notification of initial startup 63.9(b), 63.9(d), 63.1260(b)

Notification of initial performance test, submittal of test 

plan, request of waiver of performance test

63.7(b)(1-2), 63.7(c), 63.7(f), 

63.7(h), 63.9(e), 

63.1257(b)(8), 63.1260(1)

Notification of delay (reschedule) of initial performance test 63.7(b)(2)
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Notifications

Notification of CMS performance evaluation and results 63.8(e)(2), 63.9(e)(5), 

63.9(g)(1), 63.10(e)(2), 

63.1260(d)

Notification of continue use of alternative to relative 

accuracy testing has been exceeded

63.9(g)(3), 63.1260(d)

Notification of compliance status report (NOCSR) 63.9(h), 63.1260(f)

Initial performance test results 63.10(d)(2), 63.7(g) 63.1260(f)

Request for compliance extension and progress reports for 

compliance extension (as applicable)

63.10(d)(4), 63.1250(f)(6), 

63.1260(m)

Reports of malfunctions 63.1260(i)

Pre-compliance report (as applicable) 63.1260(e)

Notification of process change 63.1260(h)

Periodic reports 63.1260(g)

Reports of leak detection and repair (LDAR) 63.1260(j), 63.1255(h)

Reports of emissions averaging 63.1260(k)

Reports of malfunctions that result in an exceedances of the 

standard for the purpose of affirmative defense 63.1250(g)(4)

A source must keep the following records:

Recordkeeping

Recordkeeping requirements 63.10(a), 63.1259(a)

All reports and notifications 63.10(b)(1), 63.1259(a)(1) 

Record of applicability 63.10(b)(3), 63.1259(a)(2)

Records of sources with continuous monitoring systems 

(CMS) 63.10(c)(1-14), 63.1259(a)(4)

Application for approval of construction/reconstruction 63.1259(a)(5)

Records of equipment operation 63.1259(b)

Records of operating scenarios 63.1259(c)

Records of LDAR programs 63.1259(d), 63.1255(g)

Records of emissions averaging 63.1259(e)

Records of delay of repair 63.1259(f)

Records of wastewater stream or residual transfer 63.1259(g)
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Recordkeeping

Records of extensions 63.1259(h)

Records of inspections 63.1259(i)

Records should be retained for 5 years 63.10(b)(1), 63.1259(a)(1)

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 20 percent of the respondents use 

electronic reporting.

The amendments to the NESHAP require that any performance tests performed after 

December 31, 2011 be submitted electronically to EPA’s Central Data Exchange by using the 

Electronic Reporting Tool (ERT) for test methods that are compatible with ERT. This new 

requirement to submit the data to the ERT is in addition to the other existing submission 

requirements for this data.

(ii) Respondent Activities

Respondent Activities

Read instructions.

Install, calibrate, maintain, and operate monitoring devices. 

Perform initial performance test, Reference Method 1, 2, 3, 4, 18, 25, and 26 test, 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.
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Respondent Activities

Develop, acquire, install, and utilize technology and systems for the purpose of disclosing and 

providing information.

Train personnel to be able to respond to a collection of information.

Transmit, or otherwise disclose the information.

Currently sources are using monitoring and reporting equipment that provide 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. 

EPA is including in Table 3 (located at the end of this supporting statement) an estimate 

of the burden associated with performing an affirmative defense. The EPA is providing this as 

an illustrative example of the potential additional administrative burden a source may incur to 

assert 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 consistent 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 assertion of the affirmative defense position adopted by a source, EPA estimates the 

costs of the notification, recordkeeping and reporting requirements associated with the assertion 

of the affirmative defense in this ICR. EPA’s estimate for the required notification, reports and 

records, including the root cause analysis, associated with a single incident totals approximately

$3,298 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 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. 
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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. 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 

this estimate as better information becomes available.

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

Review notifications and reports, including performance test reports, and 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 could inspect the source to 

determine whether the pollution control devices are properly installed and operated. 

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. The semiannual reports are used for problem 

identification, as a check on source operation and maintenance, and for compliance 

determinations.

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

maintained by EPA's Office of Compliance. OTIS is EPA’s database for the collection, 

maintenance, and retrieval of compliance data for approximately 125,000 industrial and 

government-owned facilities. EPA uses the OTIS for tracking air pollution compliance and 

enforcement by local and state regulatory agencies, EPA regional offices and EPA headquarters. 

EPA and its delegated Authorities can edit, store, retrieve and analyze the data.

The records required by this regulation must be retained by the owner/operator for five 

years.
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5(c) Small Entity Flexibility

A 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 below Table 1: Annual Respondent Burden and Cost – NESHAP for Pharmaceuticals 

Production (40 CFR Part 63, Subpart GGG) (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 44,266 hours (Total Labor Hours from Table 1

below). 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 $123.04 ($58.59+ 110%) 

Technical $101.22 ($48.20 + 110%)

Clerical $51.18 ($24.37 + 110%)
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These rates are from the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, March 

2013, “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 on-time costs when a 

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

ongoing costs to maintain the monitor(s) 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)

Data-logger and 

Thermocouple $4,400 0 $0 $4,158 27 $112,266

Total $0 $112,266

The total capital/startup costs for this ICR are $0. This is the total of column D in the 

above table. 

The total operation and maintenance (O&M) costs for this ICR are $112,266. 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 $112,266. 

(iv) Affirmative Defense, Root Cause Analysis, and Malfunction Costs. 

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

experience to calculate 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

and 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 EPA or state enforcement 

agencies ever request to review it. 
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6(c) Estimating Agency Burden and Cost

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

information. EPA's overall 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 

$71,518. 

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

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), 2013 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 below in Table 2: Average Annual EPA Burden and Cost – NESHAP for 

Pharmaceuticals Production (40 CFR Part 63, Subpart GGG) (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

27 existing respondents will be subject to these standards. It is estimated that no additional 

respondents per year will become subject. The overall average number of respondents, as shown 

in the table below, is 27 per year. 

The number of respondents is calculated using the following table that 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 27 0 0 27

2

0 27 0 0 27

3

0 27 0 0 27

Average 0 27 0 0 27
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New respondent include sources with constructed, reconstructed and modified affected facilities. 

Column D is subtracted to avoid double-counting respondents. As shown above, the 

average Number of Respondents over the three year period of this ICR is 27. 

The total number of annual responses per year is calculated using the following table below:

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

Notification of 

construction/reconstruction 0 1 0 0

Notification of physical or operational 

changes 27 3 0 81

Notification of actual startup 0 1 0 0

Notification of initial performance test 0 1 0 0

Notification of applicability 0 1 0 0

Notification of demonstration of CMS 0 1 0 0

Notification of compliance status 0 1 0 0

Pre-compliance report (emission 

averaging) 0 1 0 0

Malfunction 27 2 0 54

No deviations 24 2 0 48

Deviations 3 2 0 6

LDAR report 27 2 0 54

Emissions averaging report 3 2 0 6

Reports of malfunctions that result in 

an exceedances of the standard for the

purpose of affirmative defense

27 0.025 0 0.7

Total Number of Annual Responses Total 249.7

The number of Total Annual Responses is 250 (rounded). 

The total annual labor costs are $4,330,252. Details regarding these estimates may be 

found below in Table 1: Annual Respondent Burden and Cost – NESHAP for Pharmaceuticals 

Production (40 CFR Part 63, Subpart GGG) (Renewal).

6(e) Bottom Line Burden Hours and Cost Tables

The detailed bottom line burden hours and cost calculations for the respondents and the 
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Agency are shown in Tables 1 and 2, respectively, and summarized below. 

(i) Respondent Tally

The total annual labor hours are 44,266 hours at a cost of $4,330,252. Details regarding 

these estimates may be found below in Table 1: Annual Respondent Burden and Cost –

NESHAP for Pharmaceuticals Production (40 CFR Part 63, Subpart GGG) (Renewal).

Furthermore, the annual public reporting and recordkeeping burden for this collection of 

information is estimated to average 177 hours per response.

The total annual capital/startup and O&M costs to the regulated entity are $112,266. The 

cost calculations are detailed in Section 6(b)(iii), Capital/Startup vs. Operation and Maintenance 

(O&M) Costs.

(ii) The Agency Tally

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

1,587 labor hours at a cost of $71,518. See below Table 2: Average Annual EPA Burden and 

Cost – NESHAP for Pharmaceuticals Production (40 CFR Part 63, Subpart GGG) (Renewal).

6(f) Reasons for Change in Burden

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

due to two considerations: 1) the regulations have not changed since the publication of the 2011 

final rule, which was covered in the last ICR renewal; 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. 

However, there is an increase in industry cost as the burden calculations in this ICR, including 

affirmative defense, have been updated to use more recent labor rates. 

6(g) Burden Statement

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

is estimated to average 177 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 
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Numbers for EPA 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-2013-0349. 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 

contents of the docket, and to access those documents in the public docket that are available 

electronically. When in the system, select “search,” then 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), WJC 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 docket center is (202) 566-1752. Also, you can send comments to the Office of 

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

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

Number EPA-HQ-OECA-2013-0349 and OMB Control Number 2060-0358 in any

correspondence. 

Part B of the Supporting Statement

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

information.
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Table 1: Annual Respondent Burden and Cost – NESHAP for Pharmaceuticals Production (40 CFR Part 63, Subpart GGG)

 (Renewal)

Burden item

(A) 

Person 

hours per 

occurrence

(B) 

No. of 

occurrences 

per 

respondent 

per year

(C) 

Person 

hours per 

respondent 

per year 

(A x B)

(D) 

Respondents 

per year (a)

(E) 

Technical 

personhours per 

year 

(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. Surveys and studies N/A

3. Reporting Requirements

A. Read rule and instructions 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 $0

B. Required Activities

i. Initial performance tests

 New 480 1 480 0 0 0 0 $0

Reconstructed 160 1 160 0 0 0 0 $0

Wastewater 160 1 160 0 0 0 0 $0

ii. Quality control plan for CMS 60 1 60 0 0 0 0 $0

iii. Develop record system 40 1 40 0 0 0 0 $0

iv. Train personnel 40 1 40 0 0 0 0 $0

v. Repeat performance test d60 1 60 0 0 0 0 $0

C. Write reports

i. Notification of construction/reconstruction 2 1 2 0 0 0 0 $0

ii. Notification of physical or operational changes c, e 8 3 24 27 648 32.4 64.8 $72,893.52

iii. Notification of actual startup 2 1 2 0 0 0 0 $0

iv. Notification of initial performance test 2 1 2 0 0 0 0 $0

v. Notification of applicability 2 1 2 0 0 0 0 $0

vi. Notification of demonstration of CMS 2 1 2 0 0 0 0 $0

vii. Notification of compliance status 120 1 120 0 0 0 0 $0

viii. Per-compliance report (emission averaging) 180 1 180 0 0 0 0 $0

ix. Startup, shutdown, malfunction f40 2 80 27 2,160 108 216 $242,978.40

x. Semiannual summary report

a. No deviations g8 2 16 24 384 19.2 38.4 $43,196.16

b. Deviations h24 2 48 3 144 7.2 14.4 $16,198.56

xi. Leak detection and repair (LDAR) report i432 2 864 27 23,328 1,166.4 2,332.8 $2,624,166.72
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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 

(A x B)

(D) 

Respondents 

per year (a)

(E) 

Technical 

personhours per 

year 

(CxD)

(F) 

Management 

person hours 

per year 

(Ex0.05)

(G) 

Clerical 

person hours 

per year 

(Ex0.1)

(H) 

Total Cost per 

year (b)

xii. Emissions averaging report j20 2 40 3 120 6 12 $13,498.80

xiii. Affirmative defense n30 0.67 20 1 12 8 0 $2,198.96

Subtotal for Reporting Requirements 30,821.6 $3,015,131.12

4. Recordkeeping requirements

i. Records for operating parameters for control 

devices k1 365 365 27 9,855 492.75 985.5 $1,108,588.95

ii. Records of SS&M l2 26 52 27 1,404 70.2 140.4 $157,935.96

iii. Calibration of CMS m16 1 16 27 432 21.6 43.2 $48,595.68

iv. LDAR See 3C

Subtotal for Recordkeeping Requirements 13,444.7 $1,315,120.59

Total Labor Burden and Cost (rounded) 44,266 $4,330,252

Assumptions:

a

 We have assumed that the average number of respondents that will be subject to this rule will be 27. There will be no new additional sources during the next 

three years of this ICR.

b

 This ICR uses the following labor rates: $123.04 per hour for Executive, Administrative, and Managerial labor; $101.22 per hour for Technical labor, and 

$51.18 per hour for Clerical labor. These rates are from the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, March 2013, 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 there will be no new or reconstructed facilities during the next three years of this ICR, however the ICR estimates that all existing sources 

will have changes in their operations

d

 We have assumed that 20 percent of respondents would have to repeat performance tests due to failure.

e

 We have assumed that each source will require an average of three processing changes each year to complete this task over the next three years of this ICR.

f

 We have assumed that each respondent will take 40 hours two times per year to complete the startup, shutdown, malfunction reports.

g

 We have assumed that 90 percent of respondents will each take eight hour two times per year to complete the no deviation report.

h

 We have assumed that 10 percent of respondents will each take 24 hours two times per year to complete the deviation report.

i

 We have assumed that it will take each respondent 432 hour two times per year to complete the LDAR report.

j

 We have assumed that ten percent of respondents will each take 20 hours two times per year to complete the emissions averaging report.

k

 We have assumed that it will take each respondent 1 hour 365 times per year to record the operating parameters for control devices.
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l

 We have assumed that it will take each respondent 2 hours 26 times per year to record the SSM plans.

m

 We have assumed that it will take each respondent 16 hours one time per year to record the calibration of CMS. 

n

 Assumes 2 affirmative defense reports for entire industry during the 3-yr ICR period. Formulas are not followed for person-hours per year. For affirmative 

defense hours required assumes 18 hours technical, 12 hours management, 0 clerical for each instance of affirmative defense.
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Table 2: Average Annual EPA Burden and Cost – NESHAP for Pharmaceuticals Production (40 CFR Part 63, Subpart GGG)

(Renewal)

Activity

(A) 

EPA person 

hours per 

occurrence

(B) 

No. of 

occurrences 

per plant 

per year

(C) 

EPA person 

hours per 

plant per 

year 

(A x B)

(D) 

Plants 

per year 

(a)

(E) 

Technical 

personhours per 

year 

(CxD)

(F) 

Management 

person hours 

per year 

(Ex0.05)

(G)

Clerical 

person 

hours per 

year 

(Ex0.1)

(H) 

Cost, $ (b)

1. Required activities

i. Initial performance tests (c) 2 1 2 0 0 0 0 0

ii. Repeat performance test (d) 24 1 24 0 0 0 0 0

2. Report review - one time

i. Notification of construction/reconstruction 2 1 2 0 0 0 0 0

ii. Notification of actual startup 2 1 2 0 0 0 0 0

iii. Notification of demonstration of CMS 2 1 2 0 0 0 0 0

iv. Initial notification 2 1 2 0 0 0 0 0

v. Notification of compliance status report 40 1 40 0 0 0 0 0

vi. Pre-compliance report (e)

a. With emissions averaging (f) 20 1 20 0 0 0 0 0

b. Without emissions averaging 4 1 4 0 0 0 0 0

3. Report review - on-going

i. Semiannual summary report

a. No deviations (g) 2 2 4 24 96 4.8 9.6 $4,975.15

b. Deviations (h) 8 2 16 3 48 2.4 4.8 $2,487.58

ii. Notification of physical or operational changes (i) 8 3 24 27 648 32.4 64.8 $33,582.28

iii. Startup, shutdown malfunction (j) 2 2 4 27 108 5.4 10.8 $5,597.05

iv. Leak detection and repair (LDAR) report (k) 8 2 16 27 432 21.6 43.2 $22,388.18

v. Emissions averaging report (l) 8 2 16 3 48 2.4 4.8 $2,487.58

Total Annual Burden and Cost (rounded) 1,587 $71,518

Assumptions:

a

 We have assumed that the average number of respondents that will be subject to this rule will be 27. There will be no new additional sources during the next 

three years of this ICR.

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) 2013 General Schedule which excludes locality rates of pay.
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c

 We have assumed that there will be no new or reconstructed facilities during the next three years of this ICR.

d

 We have assumed that 20 percent of respondents would have to repeat performance tests due to failure.

e

 We have assumed that 50 percent of new facilities will submit a pre-compliance report.

f

 We have assumed that 10 percent of existing facilities will have to comply with emission averaging requirements; new facilities are not allowed to use emissions 

averaging.

g

 We have assumed that 90 percent of respondents will each take two hours two times per year to complete this report.

h

 We have assumed that 10 percent of respondents will have to report deviation.

i

 We have assumed that each respondent will be required to review the physical/operational changes for each facility three times per year over the next three-year 

period of this ICR.

j

 We have assumed that each respondent will report actions taken during startup, shutdown, or malfunction that are consistent.

k

 We have assumed that each respondent will have to comply with the LDAR report two times per year.

l

 We have assumed that 10 percent of respondents will have to review the emission averaging report.

Table 3: Single Affirmative Defense Burden Estimate

Personnel Number of 

Personnel

Time 

Requirement 

(hours)

Total 

Hours

Hourly Rate 

($/hr) Total

Technical 

Personnel 3 6 18 101.22 $ 1,822

Managerial 

Personnel 2 6 12 123.04 $ 1,476

Total 5 30 $3,298