23784 Federal Register / Vol. 63, No. 83 /Thursday, April 30, 1998 / Notices

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.

Dated: April 23, 1998.

Michael B. Cook,

Director, Office of Wastewater Management.

[FR Doc. 98–11510 Filed 4–29–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–6006–4]

Agency Information Collection

Activities: Submission for OMB

Review; Comment Request; Beryllium

National Emission Standards for

Hazardous Air Pollutants

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, Subpart

C—Beryllium (OMB #2060–0092,

expiration 6/30/98). 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. 0193.06 .

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: National Emission Standards for

Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP)

Subpart C—Beryllim (OMB Control No.

2060–0092; EPA ICR No. 0193.06)

expiring 6/30/98. This is a request for

extension of a currently approved

collection.

Abstract: Beryllium and many of its

compounds are considered to be among

the most toxic and hazardous of the

nonradioactive substances in industrial

use. Consequently, EPA promulgated

standards to control airborne releases

from affected facilities such that

ambient air concentrations would not

exceed 0.01 micrograms per cubic

meter. Alteration of a beryllium product

by burning, grinding, cutting, or other

physical means can, if uncontrolled,

produce a significant hazard in the form

of dust, fumes, or mist.

The National Emission Standards for

Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) for

Beryllium were proposed on December

7, 1971 (36 FR 23939) and promulgated

on April 6, 1973 (38 FR 8826). This

standard applies to all extraction plants,

ceramic plants, foundries, incinerators,

and propellant plants which process

beryllium ore, beryllium, beryllium

oxide, beryllium alloys, or berylliumcontaining waste. The standard also

applies to machine shops which process

beryllium, beryllium oxides, or any

alloy when such alloy contains more

than five percent beryllium by weight.

All sources known to have caused, or to

have the potential to cause, dangerous

levels of beryllium in the ambient air

are covered by the Beryllium NESHAP.

This information is being collected to

assure compliance with 40 CFR part 61,

subpart C.

Owners or operators of the affected

facilities described must make one-timeonly notifications including:

notification of any physical or

operational change to an existing facility

which may increase the regulated

pollutant emission rate, notification of

the initial performance test, including

information necessary to determine the

conditions of the performance test, and

performance test measurements and

results. 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 EPA Regional Office. Owners or

operators 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. Most facilities subject to

NESHAP subpart C will meet the

standard by means of a one-time-only

initial stack test. However,

approximately 10 existing facilities have

elected to comply with an alternative

ambient air quality limit by operating a

continuous monitor in the vicinity of

the affected facility. The monitoring

requirements for these facilities provide

information on ambient air quality and

ensure that locally, the airborne

beryllium concentration does not

exceed 0.01 micrograms/m3. For those

complying by ambient monitoring, a

monthly report of all measured

concentrations shall be submitted to the

Administrator. Any owner or operator

subject to the provisions of this part

shall maintain a file of these

measurements, and retain the file for at

least two years following the date of

such measurements and records. 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 December

2, 1997 (62 FR 63709). No comments

were received.

Burden Statement: The annual public

reporting and record keeping burden for

this collection of information is

estimated to average 15 .6 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. The ten

facilities electing to meet the monthly

average ambient standard are required

to keep daily records and report

monthly. In addition, 23 facilities

(roughly 10 percent of the 226 facilities

that comply with the emission standard)

must file a report annually due to

operational changes that could alter

emission rates. Each year,

approximately 203 existing sources have

no reporting or record keeping

requirements under NESHAP subpart C.
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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