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or in person at the EPA Docket Center, EPA West, 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 affected facilities are required to comply with reporting and record keeping requirements for the general provisions of 40 CFR part 60, subpart A, as well as for the specific requirements at 40 CFR part 60, subpart K. This includes submitting initial notifications and maintaining 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 reports are used by EPA to determine compliance with the standards.

Form Numbers: None. Respondents/affected entities: Facilities with petroleum liquids storage vessels.

Respondent’s obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 60 Subpart K).

Estimated number of respondents: 69 (total).

Frequency of response: Initially and occasionally.

Total estimated burden: 321 hours (per year). Burden is defined at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).

Total estimated cost: $32,200 (per year), which includes $0 for both annualized capital/startup and operation & maintenance costs.

Changes in the Estimates: There is a substantial decrease in burden from the previous ICR due to a decrease in the number of sources. Many storage vessels have been modified and become subject to Subpart Kb. Based on information obtained from the Agency’s 2011 Petroleum Refinery ICR, the number of facilities subject to this regulation has decreased from 220 to 69. The update in source count results in a decrease in the labor hours, labor costs, and number of

responses.
Courtney Kerwin, Acting Director, Collection Strategies
Division.
[FR Doc. 2016–09889 Filed 4–27–16; 8:45 am]

**BILLING CODE 6560–50–P ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION**  **AGENCY**

**[EPA–HQ–OECA–2012–0693; FRL–9945– 36–OEI]** 

**Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and**  **Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Taconite Iron Ore Processing**  **(Renewal)**

**AGENCY :**  Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

**ACTION :**  Notice.

**SUMMARY :**  The Environmental Protection Agency has submitted an information collection request (ICR), ‘‘NESHAP for Taconite Iron Ore Processing (40 CFR part 63, subpart RRRRR) (Renewal)’’ (EPA ICR No. 2050.06, OMB Control No. 2060–0538), to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
3501 et seq. ). This is a proposed extension of the ICR, which is currently approved through April 30, 2016. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register (80 FR 32116) on June 5, 2015 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 May 31, 2016.

**ADDRESSES :**  Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA– HQ–OECA–2012–0693, to: (1) EPA online using www.regulations.gov (our preferred method), or by email to docket.oeca@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental Protection Agency, Mail Code 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460; and (2) OMB via email to oira

_submission@omb.eop.gov. Address comments to OMB Desk Officer for EPA.

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.

**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT :**  Patrick Yellin, Monitoring, Assistance, and Media Programs Division, Office of Compliance, Mail Code 2227A, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 564–2970; email address: yellin.patrick@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 www.regulations.gov or in person at the EPA Docket Center, WJC West, 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 affected facilities are required to comply with reporting and record keeping requirements for the general provisions of 40 CFR part 63, subpart A, as well as for the specific requirements at 40 CFR part 63, subpart RRRRR. This includes submitting initial notifications, performance tests and periodic reports and results, and maintaining 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 reports are used by EPA to determine compliance with the standards.

Form Numbers: None. Respondents/affected entities: Taconite iron ore processing plants.

Respondent’s obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 63, subpart RRRRR).

Estimated number of respondents: 4 (total).

Frequency of response: Initially and semiannually.

Total estimated burden: 276 hours (per year). Burden is defined at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).

Total estimated cost: $326,000 (per year), which includes $298,000 in either annualized capital/startup or operation & maintenance costs.

Changes in the Estimates: There is an adjustment decrease in the respondent labor hours and the number of responses as currently identified in the OMB Inventory of Approved Burdens. The decrease is due to a decline in the number of respondents. The previous ICR estimated eight facilities; however, recent industry information indicates that only half of these facilities are now in operation.

There is, however, an adjustment increase in the respondent O&M costs. There is not an actual increase in cost;


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rather, the increases occurred because this ICR accounts for contractor costs associated with Method 5 PM tests as an O&M cost, while the previous ICR accounted for this cost as a labor cost.

Courtney Kerwin, Acting-Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. 2016–09893 Filed 4–27–16; 8:45 am]

**BILLING CODE 6560–50–P**

**ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY** 

**[FRL–9945–90–ORD]**

**Office of Research and Development; Ambient Air Monitoring Reference and**  **Equivalent Methods: Designation of Three New Reference Methods and**  **Three New Equivalent Methods**

**AGENCY :**  Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

**ACTION :**  Notice of the designation of three new reference methods and three new equivalent methods for monitoring ambient air quality.

**SUMMARY :**  Notice is hereby given that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has designated, in accordance with 40 CFR part 53, three new reference methods and three new equivalent methods. The reference methods include one for measuring concentrations of PM 10 , one for measuring PM 10-2.5 , and one for measuring ozone (O 3 ) in ambient air. The three equivalent methods are for measuring PM2.5 concentrations in ambient air.

**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT :**  Robert Vanderpool, Exposure Methods and Measurement Division (MD–D205– 03), National Exposure Research Laboratory, U.S. EPA, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27711. Email: Vanderpool.Robert@epa.gov.

**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION :**  In accordance with regulations at 40 CFR part 53, the EPA evaluates various methods for monitoring the concentrations of those ambient air pollutants for which EPA has established National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQSs) as set forth in 40 CFR part 50. Monitoring methods that are determined to meet specific requirements for adequacy are designated by the EPA as either reference or equivalent methods (as applicable), thereby permitting their use under 40 CFR part 58 by States and other agencies for determining compliance with the NAAQSs. A list of all reference or equivalent methods that have been previously designated by EPA may be found at http://www.epa.gov/ ttn/amtic/criteria.html.

The EPA hereby announces the designation of one new reference method for measuring pollutant concentrations of PM 10, one new reference method for measuring pollutant concentrations of PM 10-2.5 , one for measuring ozone (O 3 ), and three new equivalent methods for measuring pollutant concentrations of PM 2.5 in the ambient air. These designations are made under the provisions of 40 CFR part 53, as amended on October 26, 2015 (80 FR 65291–65468).

The new reference method for O 3 is an automated method that utilizes ameasurement principle based on nondispersive ultraviolet absorption photometry. The newly designated reference method for O 3 is identified as follows:

RFOA–0216–230, ‘‘Teledyne Advanced Pollution Instrumentation, Model 265E or T265 Chemiluminescence Ozone Analyzer,’’ operated on any full scale range between 0– 100 ppb and 0–1000 ppb, with any range mode (Single, Dual, or AutoRange), at any ambient temperature in the range of 5 ° C to
40 ° C, and with a TFE filter or a Kynar ® DFU in the sample air inlet, operated with a sample flow rate of 500 ± 50 cm 3 /min (sea level), with the dilution factor set to 1, with Temp/Press compensation ON, and in accordance with the appropriate associated instrument manual, and with or without any of the following options: Internal or external sample pump, Sample/Cal valve option, Rack mount with or without slides, analog input option, 4–20 mA isolated current loop output. Note 2 applies to the following Teledyne Advanced Pollution Instrumentation Models 265E and T265.

The application for a reference method determination for this candidate method was received by the Office of Research and Development on February 2, 2016. The analyzer is commercially available from the applicant, Teledyne Advanced Pollution Instrumentation, Inc., 9480 Carroll Park Drive, San Diego, CA 92121–2251.

The new reference method for PM 10 is a manual monitoring method based on a particular PM 10 sampler and is identified as follows:

RFPS–0216–231, ‘‘Met One Instruments, Inc. E–FRM,’’ configured for filter sampling of ambient particulate matter using the US EPA PM 10 inlet specified in 40 CFR part 50 appendix L, Figs. L–2 thru L–19, with a flow rate of 16.67 L/min, using 47 mm PTFE membrane filter media, and operating with firmware version R2.0.1 and later, and operated in accordance with the Met One E– FRM PM 10 operating manual. This designation applies to PM 10 measurements only.

The new PM 10-2.5 reference method utilizes a pair of filter samplers than have been designated individually as reference methods, one for PM2.5 and the other one for PM 10 , and have been shown to meet the requirements specified in appendix O of 40 CFR part 50. The PM2.5 and PM 10 samplers are designated as reference methods RFPS– 0315–221 and RFPS–0216–231, respectively. The newly designated PM 10-2.5 sampler is identified as follows:

RFPS–0316–232, ‘‘Met One Instruments, Inc. E–FRM–PM 10 and E–FRM–PM2.5 Sampler Pair’’ for the determination of coarse particulate matter as PM 10-2.5 , consisting of a pair of Met One Instruments, Inc. E–FRM samplers, with one being the E–FRM PM2.5 sampler (RFPS–0315–221) and the other being the E–FRM PM 10 sampler (RFPS–0216– 231). The units are to be collocated to within 1–4 meters of one another and sample concurrently. Both units are operated in accordance with the associated E–FRM instruction manual. This designation applies to PM 10-2.5 measurements only.

One newly designated equivalent method for PM 2.5 is a manual monitoring method based on a particular PM 2.5 sampler and is identified as follows:

EQPS–0316–235, ‘‘Met One Instruments, Inc. E–FRM,’’ configured for filter sampling of ambient particulate matter using the US EPA PM 10 inlet specified in 40 CFR 50 Appendix L, Figs. L–2 thru L–19, equipped with a URG–2000–30EGN Cyclone particle size separator, and operated for a continuous 24-hour sample period at a flow rate of 16.67 liters/minute, using 47 mm PTFE membrane filter media, and operating with firmware version R1.1.0 and later, and operated in accordance with the Met One E–FRM PM2.5 operating manual.

The application for reference method determination for the PM 10 method was received by the Office of Research and Development on February 4, 2016, the PM 10-2.5 method application was received on March 21, 2016, and the equivalent PM 2.5 method was received on March 28, 2016. These monitors are commercially available from the applicant, Met One Instruments, Inc., 1600 Washington Blvd., Grants Pass, OR
97526.

Two newly designated equivalent methods for PM2.5 are manual monitoring method based on particular PM 2.5 samplers and are identified as follows:

EQPS–0316–233, ‘‘URG–MASS100 Single PM 2.5 Sampler,’’ operated with software (firmware) version 4B or 5.0.1, configured for ‘‘Single 2.5’’ operation with a URG–2000– 30EGN Cyclone particle size separator, and operated for a continuous 24-hour sample period at a flow rate of 16.67 liters/minute, and in accordance with the URG–MASS100 Operator’s Manual and with the requirements and sample collection filters specified in 40 CFR part 50, appendix L.