SUPPORTING STATEMENT

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

NESHAP for Iron and Steel Foundries (40 CFR Part 63, Subpart EEEEE) (Renewal)

1. Identification of the Information Collection

1(a) Title of the Information Collection

NESHAP for Iron and Steel Foundries (40 CFR Part 63, Subpart EEEEE) (Renewal), 

EPA ICR Number 2096.05, OMB Control Number 2060-0543

1(b) Short Characterization/Abstract

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

and Steel Foundries (40 CFR part 63, subpart EEEEE) were proposed on December 12, 2002, 

(67 FR 78274), and promulgated on April 22, 2004, (69 FR 21905). The final rule was amended 

on both May 20, 2005 (70 FR 29400), and on February 7, 2008 (73 FR 7210). These regulations 

apply to existing and new iron and steel foundry facilities that are major sources of hazardous air 

pollutant (HAP) emissions. The rule applies to emissions from metal melting furnaces, scrap 

pre-heaters, pouring areas, pouring stations, automated conveyor and pallet cooling lines, 

automated shakeout lines, and mold and core making lines; and to fugitive emissions from 

foundry operations. 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 EEEEE.

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).

EPA estimated that 98 of the 650 existing foundries are major sources that will be subject 

to the rule requirements. Over the next three years, an average of 98 respondents per year will be 

subject to these standards, and no additional respondents per year will become subject to these

same standards. 
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The active (previous) ICR had the following “Terms of Clearance” (TOC):

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 by consulting with industry. 

EPA has updated all labor costs using the latest labor rates and reviewed all calculations. 

All of the iron and steel foundries in the United States are owned and operated by the iron 

and steel industry (the “Affected Public”). None of the facilities in the United States are owned 

by state, local, tribal or the Federal government. These 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 Iron and Steel Foundries (40 CFR Part 63, Subpart 

EEEEE) (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 Iron and Steel Foundries (40 

CFR Part 63, Subpart EEEEE) (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, particulate matter (PM), metal, and organic HAP 

emissions from iron and steel foundries either cause or contribute to air pollution that may
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reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health and/or welfare. Therefore, the NESHAP 

were promulgated for this source category at 40 CFR part 63, subpart EEEEE.

2(b) Practical Utility/Users of the Data

The recordkeeping and reporting requirements in the standard ensure compliance with 

the applicable regulations which where 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.

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 

continues 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

EEEEE.

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.
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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 (77 FR 63813) on October 17, 2012. No comments were received on the 

burden published in the Federal Register.

3(c) Consultations

. 

The Agency has consulted industry experts and internal data sources to project the 

number of affected facilities and industry growth over the next three years. 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 

standard has been reviewed previously to determine the minimum information needed for 

compliance purposes. In developing this ICR, we contacted: 1) the Alliance of Automobile 

Manufacturers, at (202) 326-5549; and 2) the American Foundry Society, at (800) 437-4237. 

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 
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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 

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 iron and steel 

foundries. 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 X for this source category is listed below. 

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

Iron Foundries 3321, 3322 331511

Steel Investment Foundries 3324 331512

Steel Foundries (except Investment) 3325 331513

 

4(b) Information Requested

(i) Data Items

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

and Steel Foundries (40 CFR Part 63, Subpart EEEEE). 

A source must make the following reports:
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Notifications

Notification of construction/reconstruction 63.5 

Initial notifications 63.9(b), 63.7750

Initial performance test 63.7(b), 63.9(e)

Rescheduled initial performance test 63.7(b)(2)

Approval of smelters fugitive dust control standard operating 

procedures manual, and operating procedures manual for baghouses 63.549(b)

Demonstration of continuous monitoring system 63.9(g)

Compliance status 63.9(h), 63.7750(e)

Physical or operational change 63.9, 63.10

Reports

Initial performance test results 63.10(d)(2)

Periodic startup, shutdown, malfunction reports 63.10(d)(5)(i), 

63.7751(c)

Semiannual compliance reports (monitoring/ exceedance summary) 63.10(e)(3), 63.7751

A source must keep the following records:

Recordkeeping

Startups, shutdowns, malfunctions, periods where the continuous 

monitoring system is inoperative

63.6(e)(3), 

63.7752(a)(2)

Records of performance test 63.7752(a)(3)

All reports and notifications 63.10(b), 

63.7752(a)(1) 

Record of applicability 63.10(b)(3)

Records for sources with continuous monitoring systems 63.10(3), 63.7752(b)

Records to show compliance with emission limitation, work practices 

standard, and operation and maintenance requirements of parametric 

monitoring data, system maintenance and calibration

63.7752(c)

Records are required to be retained for five years, however, only the 

data of the most recent two years must be kept on-site 63.7753(c)

Electronic Reporting

Some of the respondents are using monitoring equipment that automatically records 
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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.

(ii) Respondent Activities

Respondent Activities

Read instructions.

Install, operate and maintain baghouses, according to standard operating procedures manual 

and consistent with the manufacturer’s instructions.

Perform initial performance test and repeat performance tests if necessary.

Monitor and record pressure drop and liquid supply pressure at the wet scrubber at least once 

every hour when using this control device for controlling particulate matter and metal HAP 

emissions from a process fugitive source.

Install, calibrate, maintain, and operate a CMS for temperature monitoring of the afterburner 

or the combined blast furnace and reverberatory furnace exhaust streams when complying 

with the total hydrocarbon emission standard.

Install, calibrate, maintain, and operate a total hydrocarbon CMS for measuring emissions 

when complying with the total hydrocarbon emission standard.

Equip pressurized drying bleaching seals with an alarm to determine seal malfunctions

Use referenced Methods in Appendix A, part 60, to determine compliance with the emission 

standards (i.e., Methods 1, 2, 3, 4 for stack PM testing; Method 18 for volatile organic HAP 

testing; Method 18 or Method 25 for total hydrocarbons testing)

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 
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Respondent Activities

providing information.

Adjust the existing ways to comply with any previously applicable instructions and 

requirements.

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

Transmit, or otherwise disclose the information.

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. 

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, and excess emissions 

reports, required to be submitted by industry.

Audit facility records.

Input, analyze, and maintain data in the 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.
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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.

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 Iron and Steel 

Foundries (40 CFR Part 63, Subpart EEEEE) (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 29,747 hours (Total Labor Hours from Table 1

below). These particular 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.
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6(b) Estimating Respondent Costs

(i) Estimating Labor Costs

This ICR uses the following labor rates: 

Managerial $122.49 ($58.33+ 110%) 

Technical $101.28 ($48.23 + 110%)

Clerical $50.80 ($24.19 + 110%)

These rates are from the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, 

September 2012, “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 monitors 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)

Leak detectors $9,000 0 $0 $1,470 98 $144,060

Flow rate 

monitors $7,500 0 $0 $2,000 64 $128,000

pH monitor $7,500 0 $0 $2,000 46 $92,000

Pressure drop $7,500 0 $0 $2,000 18 $36,000

VOC CEM $100,000 0 $0 $10,000 0 $0

Total $0 $400,060

Note: We assume that on average, 98 respondents will be subject to this standard. There will be no new foundries 

projected during the next three years. 

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

above table. 
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The total operation and maintenance (O&M) costs for this ICR are $400,060. 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 $400,060. These are the 

costs of recordkeeping. 

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 

$40,838. 

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), 2012 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 Iron and 

Steel Foundries (40 CFR Part 63, Subpart EEEEE) (Renewal). 

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

Based on our research for this ICR, approximately 98 existing respondents will be subject 

to these standards on average over the next three years,. 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 98 per year. 

The number of respondents is calculated using the following table that addresses the three 

years covered by this ICR: 
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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 98 0 0 98

2 0 98 0 0 98

3 0 98 0 0 98

Average 0 98 0 0 98

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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 98. 

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 0 0 0 0

Semiannual compliance reports 98 2 0 196

Startup, shutdown, malfunction reports 1 1 0 1

Total 197

The number of Total Annual Responses is 197. 

The total annual labor costs are $2,909,637. Details regarding these estimates may be 

found below in Table 1. Annual Respondent Burden and Cost – NESHAP for Iron and Steel 

Foundries (40 CFR Part 63, Subpart EEEEE) (Renewal).

6(e) Bottom Line Burden Hours and Cost Tables

The detailed bottom line burden hours and cost calculations for the respondents and 

the Agency are shown below in Tables 1 and 2, respectively, and summarized below. 
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(i) Respondent Tally

The total annual labor hours are 29,747 hours for a cost of $2,909,637. Details 

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

– NESHAP for Iron and Steel Foundries (40 CFR Part 63, Subpart EEEEE) (Renewal). 

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

of information is estimated to average 151 hours per response.

The total annual capital/startup and O&M costs to the regulated entity are $400,060. 

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 906 

labor hours at a cost of $40,838. See below Table 2: Average Annual EPA Burden and Cost –

NESHAP for Iron and Steel Foundries (40 CFR Part 63, Subpart EEEEE) (Renewal).

6(f) Reasons for Change in Burden

There is no change in labor hours 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. However, 

there is an adjustment increase in the respondent labor costs due to an increase in labor rates. 

Additionally, there is an adjustment decrease in the Agency labor costs due to a correction of 

mathematical error. The previous ICR incorrectly calculated total Agency labor cost for each 

burden item. 

6(g) Burden Statement

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

is estimated to average 151 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-2012-0697. 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), EPA West, 

Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, DC. The EPA Docket Center Public 

Reading Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal 

holidays. The telephone number for the Reading Room is (202) 566-1744, and the telephone 

number for the 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-2012-0697 and OMB Control Number 2060-0543 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 Iron and Steel Foundries (40 CFR Part 63, Subpart EEEEE)

 (Renewal)

Burden item

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

Person 

hours per 

occurrence

No. of 

occurrences 

per 

respondent 

per year

Person 

hours per 

respondent 

per year

Respondents 

per year a

Technical 

personhours per 

year

Management 

person hours 

per year

Clerical 

person 

hours 

per year

Total Cost 

per year b

(C=AxB) (E=CxD) (Ex0.05) (Ex0.

1)

1. Applications N/A

2. Surveys and studies N/A

3. Reporting requirements

 a. Read rule and instructions c2 1 2 0 0 0 0 $0 

 b. Required activities c

 Initial performance tests d70 3.8 266 0 0 0 0 $0 

 Follow-up performance tests 70 0.8 56 0 0 0 0 $0 

 VOC CEMS performance tests d N/A

 Startup, shutdown, malfunction plan 34 1 34 0 0 0 0 $0 

 Operation and maintenance plan 72 1 72 0 0 0 0 $0 

 Scrap selection/inspection plan c10 1 10 0 0 0 0 $0 

 Scrap inspection e

0.5 350 175 98 17,150 857.5 1,715 $1,929,109.18

 Monthly inspections of capture systems,

maintenance of control devices and 

monitoring systems, and mould vent ignition 

plan

2 12 24 18 432 21.6 43.2 $48,593.30 

 c. Create information See 3B

 d. Gather existing information See 3B

 e. Write report

 Notification of applicability c

2 1 2 0 0 0 0 $0 

 Notification of construction/reconstruction c

2 1 2 0 0 0 0 $0 

 Notification of actual startup c

2 1 2 0 0 0 0 $0 

 Notification of special compliance 

 requirements c N/A
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 Compliance extension request c

2 1 2 0 0 0 0 $0 

 Notification of performance test c2 3.8 7.6 0 0 0 0 $0 

 Site-specific test plan c

20 3.8 76 0 0 0 0 $0 

 Notification of CEMS performance

evaluation c 60 1 60 0 0 0 0 $0 

 CEMS QA plan c

40 1 40 0 0 0 0 $0 

 Notification of compliance status c

8 1 8 0 0 0 0 $0 

 NESHAP waiver application N/A

 Report of performance test See 3B

 Semiannual compliance reports f16 2 32 98 3,136 156.8 313.6 $352,751.39 

 Startup, shutdown, malfunction 

reports g 4 1 4 1 4 0.2 0.4 $449.94 

Subtotal for Reporting Requirements 23,830.3 $2,330,903.81

4 Recordkeeping requirements

 a. Read instructions See 3A

 b. Plan activities 3 1 3 0 0 0 0 $0 

 c. Implement activities c

12 1 12 0 0 0 0 $0 

 d. Develop record system h

3 1 3 0 0 0 0 $0 

 e. Time to enter information i

1 52 52 98 5,096 254.8 509.6 $573,221.01 

 f. Time to train personnel 3 2 6 0 0 0 0 $0 

g. Time to adjust existing ways to 

comply with previously applicable 

requirements

N/A

 h. Time to transmit information j

0.25 2 0.5 98 49 2.45 4.9 $5,511.74 

 i. Time for audits N/A

Subtotal for Recordkeeping Requirements 5,916.75 $578,732.75

TOTAL LABOR BURDEN AND COST (rounded) 29,747 $2,909,637

Assumptions:

a

 We have assumed that the average number of respondents that will be subject to this rule will be 98. There will be no new foundries projected during the next three 

years of this ICR.

b

 This ICR uses the following labor rates: $122.49 per hour for Executive, Administrative, and Managerial labor; $101.28 per hour for Technical labor, and $50.80 per 

hour for Clerical labor. These rates are from the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, September 2012, 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.
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c

 We have assumed that existing respondents are in compliance with the initial rule requirements. New respondents would have to comply with the initial rule 

requirements including notification and performance test for add-on control devices.

d

 Performance tests are required for particulate matter by Method 5 or total metal HAP by Method 29, for triethylamine by Method 18, and VOHAP by Method 18 or 

25A, depending on the emission source. We have assumed that 20 percent of respondents would repeat performance tests due to failure.

e

 Monitoring and recordkeeping of operations for respondents with add-on control devices include: 1) specific operating parameters for each control device established 

during the performance test, 2) startup, shutdown, and malfunction of equipment, 3) work practices including an inspection of iron and steel scrap to minimize, to the 

extent practicable, the amount of organics and HAP metals in the charge materials used by the metal casting department.

f

 We have assumed that respondents are required to submit semiannual compliance reports.

g

 We have assumed that one respondent with add-on controls per year will have at least one startup, shutdown or malfunction (SSM) that is not managed according to 

the SSM plans.

h

 We have assumed that new respondents would of already have the technology and recordkeeping systems in place to monitor its daily operations and to comply with 

existing regulations.

i

 We have assumed that it will take each respondent one hour 52 times per year to enter information.

j

 We have assumed that it will take each of the respondents 15 minutes two times per year to transmit information. 
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Table 2: Average Annual EPA Burden and Cost – NESHAP for Iron and Steel Foundries (40 CFR Part 63, Subpart EEEEE)

 (Renewal)

Activity

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

EPA 

personhours per 

occurrence

No. of 

occurrences 

per plant 

per year

EPA personhours per 

plant per 

year

Plants 

per 

year 

a

Technical 

personhours per 

year

Management 

personhours per 

year

Clerical 

personhours 

per year

Total

Cost, $ b

(C=AxB) (E=CxD) (Ex0.05) (Ex0.1)

 Initial performance test 40 1 40 0 0 0 0 $0 

 Repeat performance – retesting 40 1 40 0 0 0 0 $0 

 Report review c

 Notification of construction/reconstruction N/A

 Notification of actual startup N/A

 Notification of special compliance requirements N/A

 Notification of applicability 2 1 2 0 0 0 0 $0 

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

 Notification of CEMS performance evaluation 2 1 2 0 0 0 0 $0 

 CEMS QA plan 2 1 2 0 0 0 0 $0 

 Notification of compliance status 4 1 4 0 0 0 0 $0 

 Site-specific test plan 2 1 2 0 0 0 0 $0 

 Scrap selection/inspection plan 4 1 4 0 0 0 0 $0 

 Repeat performance test report 2 1 2 0 0 0 0 $0 

 Semiannual compliance reports d4 2 8 98 784 39.2 78.4 $40,630.41 

 NESHAP waiver application 4 1 4 0 0 0 0 $0 

 Compliance extension request 4 1 4 0 0 0 0 $0 

 Scrap inspections N/A

 Emergency startup, shutdown, and 

 malfunction report e 4 1 4 1 4 0.2 0.4 $207.30 

Subtotals Labor Burden and cost 788 39.4 78.8 $40,837.71 

TOTAL ANNUAL BURDEN AND COST (rounded) 906 $40,838 

Assumptions:

a

 We have assumed that the average number of respondents that will be subject to this rule will be 98. There will be no new foundries projected during the next three 

years of this ICR.
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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), $46.21 Technical rate (GS-12, Step 1), and $25.01 Clerical rate (GS-6, Step 3). These rates are from the Office of Personnel 

Management (OPM) 2012 General Schedule which excludes locality rates of pay, and have been increased by 60 percent to account for benefit packages available to 

government employees.

c

 We have assumed that existing respondents are in compliance with the initial rule requirements. New respondents would have to comply with the initial rule 

requirements including notification and performance test for add-on control devices.

d

 We have assumed that respondents are required to submit semiannual compliance reports

e

 We have assumed that one respondent with add-on controls per year will have one startup, shutdown or malfunction (SSM) that is not managed according to the SSM 

plans.