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Respondents/Affected Entities: Plants,

foundries, incinerators which process

beryllium and their derivatives.

Estimated Number of Respondents:

33.

Frequency of Response: daily records/

monthly reports for 10 facilities; annual

reports for 23.

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:

2,232 hours.

Estimated Total Annualized Cost

Burden: $35,000.

Send comments on the Agency’s need

for this information, the accuracy of the

provided burden estimates, and any

suggested methods for minimizing

respondent burden, including through

the use of automated collection

techniques to the following addresses.

Please refer to EPA ICR No. 0193.06 and

OMB Control No. 2060–0092 in any

correspondence.

Ms. Sandy Farmer, U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency, OPPE Regulatory

Information Division (2137), 401 M

Street, SW, Washington, DC 20460 (or

E-Mail

Farmer.Sandy@epamail.epa.gov);

and

Office of Information and Regulatory

Affairs, Office of Management and

Budget, Attention: Desk Officer for

EPA, 725 17th Street, NW,

Washington, DC 20503.

Dated: April 24, 1998.

Joseph Retzer,

Director, Regulatory Information Division.

[FR Doc. 98–11511 Filed 4–29–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–6006–5]

Agency Information Collection

Activities: Submission for OMB

Review; Comment Request; NESHAP

for Vinyl Chloride

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: In compliance with the

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.

3501 et seq.), this document announces

that the following Information

Collection Request (ICR) has been

forwarded to the Office of Management

and Budget (OMB) for review and

approval: National Emission Standards

for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP)

for Vinyl Chloride, OMB control #2060–

0071 expiration June 30, 1998. The ICR

describes the nature of the information

collection and its expected burden and

cost; where appropriate, it includes the

actual data collection instrument.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on

or before June 1, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For

a copy of the ICR, call Sandy Farmer at

EPA, by phone at (202) 260–2740, by EMail at Farmer.Sandy@epamail.epa.gov

or download off the Internet at http://

www.epa.gov/icr/icr.htm, and refer to

EPA ICR No. 0186.08

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: NESHAP for Vinyl Chloride

Subpart F, OMB Control No. 2060–0071;

EPA ICR No. 0186.08 expiring 06/30/98.

This is a request for extension of a

currently approved collection.

Abstract: The National Emissions

Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants

(NESHAP) for vinyl chloride (VC) were

proposed on December 24, 1975,

promulgated on October, 21, 1976, and

amended on June 7, 1977, September

30, 1986, September 23, 1988 and

December 23, 1992. These standards

apply to exhaust gases and

oxychlorination vents at ethylene

dichloride (EDC) plants; exhaust gases

at vinyl chloride monomer (VCM)

plants; and exhaust gases, reactors

opening losses, manual vent valves, and

stripping residuals at polyvinyl chloride

(PVC) plants. The standards also apply

to relief valves and fugitive emission

sources at all three types of plants. In

the Administrator’s judgement, vinyl

chloride emissions from polyvinyl

chloride (PVC), ethylene dichloride

(EDC), and vinyl chloride monomer

(VCM) plants cause or contribute to air

pollution that may reasonably be

anticipated to result in an increase in

mortality or an increase in serious

irreversible, or incapaciting reversible

illness. Vinyl chloride is a known

human carcinogen which causes a rare

cancer of the liver. There is no reason

to believe that operators of plants

affected by this NESHAP would

maintain low emissions without

regulations under the Clean Air Act.

In order to ensure compliance with

the standard, adequate record keeping

and reporting is necessary. This

information enables the Agency to: (1)

Ensure that facilities affected continue

to operate the control equipment and

use proper work practices to achieve

compliance; (2) notification of startup

indicates to enforcement personnel

when a new facility has been

constructed and is thus subject to the

standards; and (3) provides a means for

ensuring compliance. The standards

require daily measurements from the

continuous monitoring system and of

the reactor pressure and temperature.

Establishment of a continuous

monitoring program is a high priority of

the Agency. The continuous monitoring

system monitors VC emissions from the

stack to judge compliance with the

numerical limits in the standards. The

parameters are used to judge the

operation of the reactor so that the

source and EPA will be aware of

improper operation and maintenance.

The standards implicitly require the

initial reports required by the General

Provisions of 40 CFR 61.7 and 61.9.

These initial reports include application

for approval of construction or

modification, and notification of

startup. The standards also require

quarterly reporting of vinyl chloride

emissions from stripping, reactor

openings, and exhausts. Reports must be

submitted within 10 days of each valve

discharge and manual vent valve

discharge. All reports are sent to the

delegated State authority. In the event

that there is no such delegated State

authority, the reports are sent directly to

the EPA Regional Office.

The owner/operator must make the

following one-time-only reports;

application for approval of construction

or modification; notification of startup;

application of waiver of testing (if

desired by source); and an initial report.

The initial report includes a list of the

equipment installed for compliance, a

description of the physical and

functional characteristics off each piece

of equipment, a description of the

methods which have been incorporated

into the standard operation procedures

for measuring or calculating emissions,

and a statement that equipment and

procedures are in place and are being

used. Generally, the one-time only

reports are required of all sources

subject to NESHAP.

An 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. The OMB control

numbers for EPA’s regulations are listed

in 40 CFR part 9 and 48 CFR Chapter

15. The Federal Register document

required under 5 CFR 1320.8(d),

soliciting comments on this collection

of information was published on 12/02/

97 (62 FR 63703); no comments were

received.

Burden Statement: The annual public

reporting and record keeping burden for

this collection of information is

estimated to average 92 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
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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.

Respondents/Affected Entities:

Following Plants: Ethylene Dichloride,

Vinyl Chloride Monomer, Polyvinyl

Chloride.

Estimated Number of Respondents:

44.

Frequency of Response: Quarterly.

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:

16,159 hours.

Estimated Total Annualized Cost

Burden: $1,980,000.

Send comments on the Agency’s need

for this information, the accuracy of the

provided burden estimates, and any

suggested methods for minimizing

respondent burden, including through

the use of automated collection

techniques to the following addresses.

Please refer to EPA ICR No. 0186.08 and

OMB Control No. 2060–0071 in any

correspondence.

Ms. Sandy Farmer, U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency, OPPE Regulatory

Information Division (2137), 401 M

Street, SW, Washington, DC 20460;

and

Office of Information and Regulatory

Affairs, Office of Management and

Budget, Attention: Desk Officer for

EPA, 725 17th Street, NW,

Washington, DC 20503.

Dated: April 24, 1998.

Joseph Retzer,

Director, Regulatory Information Division.

[FR Doc. 98–11512 Filed 4–29–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–6005–9]

Underground Injection Control

Program, Hazardous Waste Disposal

Injection Restrictions Petition for

Exemption—Class I Hazardous Waste

Injection Parke-Davis Division, WarnerLambert Company of Morris Plains, NJ,

Holland, MI Plant

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency.

ACTION: Notice of final decision on

petition.

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given by the

United States Environmental Protection

Agency (USEPA) that an exemption to

the land disposal restrictions under the

1984 Hazardous and Solid Waste

Amendments (HSWA) to the Resource

Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)

has been granted to Parke-Davis

Division, Warner-Lambert Company, of

Morris Plains, New Jersey, for its Class

I injection wells located in Holland,

Michigan. As required by 40 CFR Part

148, Parke-Davis has demonstrated,

with a reasonable degree of certainty,

that there will be no migration of

hazardous constituents from the

injection zone for as long as the waste

remains hazardous. This final decision

allows the continued underground

injection by Parke-Davis of the specific

restricted hazardous wastes identified

below exclusively into the Class I

hazardous waste injection wells at the

Holland facility specifically identified

as Wells Numbers 3, 4 and 5. This

decision constitutes final USEPA action

for which there is no Administrative

Appeal.

D001, D002, D004, D005, D006, D007,

D008, D009, D010, D011, D018, D019,

D021, D022, D035, D038, D040, D043,

F002, F003, F005, P030, P095, P102,

U002, U003, U004, U012, U019,

U029, U037, U043, U044, U048,

U056, U057, U080, U112, U122,

U147, U151, U154, U159, U188,

U190, U196, U210, U211, U213,

U220, U228, U239, U404

One code, U404, was inadvertently

omitted from the draft list of codes and

has been added.

Background: Parke-Davis submitted a

petition for exemption from the land

disposal restrictions on hazardous waste

on June 10, 1991. USEPA personnel

reviewed all data pertaining to the

petition, including, but not limited to,

well construction, regional and local

geology, seismic activity, penetrations of

the confining zone and the computer

model. The USEPA has determined that

the geological setting at the site and the

construction and operation of the well

are adequate to prevent fluid migration

out of the injection zone within 10,000

years, as required under 40 CFR part

148. The zone which will contain the

hazardous constituents, the injection

zone, at this site is the Munising and

Trempeleau Formations between the

depths of 4452 and 6027 feet below

ground level. Injection is permitted into

the Mt. Simon Member of the Munising

Formation between the depths of 5080

and 6027 feet. The immediate confining

zone is the Prairie du Chien Group at a

depth between 3929 and 4452 feet. The

confining zone is separated from the

lowermost underground source of

drinking water (at a depth of 240 feet)

by a sequence of permeable and less

permeable sedimentary rocks, which

provide additional protection from fluid

migration into drinking water sources. A

fact sheet containing a more complete

summary of the of the final decision is

available from the USEPA Region 5

office.

A public notice was issued on March

2, 1998, pursuant to 40 CFR 124.10. A

public hearing was scheduled for April

1, 1998, in Holland, Michigan but was

canceled due to lack of public interest.

The public comment period ended on

April 1, 1998. No comments were

received.

Conditions: As a condition of this

exemption, Parke-Davis must meet the

following conditions:

(1) The monthly average injection rate

is limited to 100 gallons per minute per

well.

(2) Injection shall occur only into the

Mt. Simon Sandstone Member of the

Munising Formation between the depths

of 5080 and 6027 feet.

(3) Parke-Davis must be in full

compliance with all conditions of its

permits. Other conditions relating to the

exemption may be found in 40 CFR

148.23 and 148.24.

DATE: This action is effective as of April

6, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Stephen Roy, Lead Petition Reviewer,

USEPA, Region 5, telephone (312) 886–

6556, electronic mail

roy.stephen@epamail.epa.gov. Copies of

the petition and all pertinent

information relating to it are on file and

are part of the administrative record. It

is recommended that you contact the

lead reviewer prior to reviewing the

administrative record.

Rebecca Harvey,

Acting Director, Water Division.

[FR Doc. 98–11509 Filed 4–29–98; 8:45 am]

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Science Advisory Board; Notification

of Public Teleconference Meeting

May 14, 1998

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal

Advisory Committee Act, Public Law

92–463, notification is hereby given that

the Science Advisory Board’s (SAB)