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###### Environmental Protection Agency

          - [EPA-HQ-OAR-2020-0657; FRL-9506-01-OMS]

# AGENCY:

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

# ACTION:

Notice.

# SUMMARY:

                        The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), NSPS for Kraft Pulp Mills (EPA ICR Number 1055.13, OMB Control Number 2060-0021), to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. This is a proposed extension of the ICR, which is currently approved through March 31, 2022. Public comments were previously requested, via the                         **Federal Register**                        , on February 8, 2021 during a 60-day comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments. A fuller description of the ICR is given below, including its estimated burden and cost to the public. An agency may neither conduct nor sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number.                    

# DATES:

Additional comments may be submitted on or before February 28, 2022.

# ADDRESSES:

                        Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-OAR-2020-0657, online using                         *www.regulations.gov*                         (our preferred method) or by mail to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental Protection Agency, Mail Code 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460.                    

EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included in the public docket without change including any personal information provided, unless the comment includes profanity, threats, information claimed to be Confidential Business Information (CBI), or other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute.

                        Submit written comments and recommendations to OMB for the proposed information collection within 30 days of publication of this notice to                         *www.reginfo.gov/​public/​do/​PRAMain.*                         Find this particular information collection by selecting “Currently under 30-day Review—Open for Public Comments” or by using the search function.                    

# FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

                        Muntasir Ali, Sector Policies and Program Division (D243-05), Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27711; telephone number: (919) 541-0833; email address:                         *ali.muntasir@epa.gov.*

# SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

                    Supporting documents, which explain in detail the information that the EPA will be collecting, are available in the public docket for this ICR. The docket can be viewed online at:                     *https://www.regulations.gov,*                     or in person at the EPA Docket Center, WJC West Building, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC. The telephone number for the Docket Center is 202-566-1744. For additional information about EPA's public docket, visit:                     *http://www.epa.gov/​dockets.*

*Abstract:*                     Owners and operators of kraft pulp mills are required to comply with reporting and record keeping requirements for the General Provisions (40 CFR part 60, subpart A), as well as for the applicable specific standards in 40 CFR part 60, subpart BB. This includes submitting initial notifications, performance tests and periodic reports and results, and maintaining records of excess emissions, or any period during which the monitoring system is inoperative. These reports are used by EPA to determine compliance with these standards.                

*Form Numbers:*                     None.                

*Respondents/affected entities:*                     Kraft pulp mills.                

*Respondent's obligation to respond:*                     Mandatory (40 CFR part 60, subpart BB).                

*Estimated number of respondents:*                     97 (total).                

*Frequency of response:*                     Semiannually.                

*Total estimated burden:*                     13,900 hours (per year). Burden is defined at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).                

*Total estimated cost:*                     $5,650,000 (per year), which includes $4,010,000 in annualized capital/startup and/or operation & maintenance costs.                

*Changes in the Estimates:*                     There is no change in burden from the most-recently approved ICR as currently identified in the OMB Inventory of Approved Burdens. 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 this industry is very low or non-existent, so there is no significant change in the overall burden. Since there is no significant industry growth, there are no changes in the capital/startup costs. There is an                           ( print page 4593)                        increase in the operation and maintenance (O&M) costs due to O&M costs being updated from year 2009 to 2020 using the CEPCI Index.                

Courtney Kerwin,

Director, Regulatory Support Division.

[FR Doc. 2022-01585 Filed 1-27-22; 8:45 am]

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