ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OECA-2009–0413; FRL- ]

Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; 

Comment Request; NSPS for Sewage Sludge Treatment Plant Incineration (40 CFR Part 

60, Subpart O), EPA ICR Number 1063.11, OMB Control Number 2060–0035.

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 an Information Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the 

Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. This is a request to renew 

an existing approved collection. The ICR which is abstracted below describes the nature of the 

collection and the estimated burden and cost.

DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before [INSERT DATE 30 DAYS 

AFTER PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER].

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number EPA-OECA-2009–0413, 

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 (EPA/DC), Environmental Protection 

Agency, Enforcement and Compliance Docket and Information Center, mail code 2801T , 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20460, and (2) OMB at: Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Attention: Desk Officer for EPA, 

725 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20503.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John Schaefer, Office of Air Quality 

Planning and Standards, Sector Policies and Programs Division (D243-05), Measurement Policy

Group, Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 27711; 
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telephone number: (919) 541-0296; fax number: (919) 541-3207; e-mail address: 

schaefer.john@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has submitted the following ICR to OMB for 

review and approval according to the procedures prescribed in 5 CFR 1320.12. On July 8, 2009 

(74 FR 32580), EPA sought comments on this ICR pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received 

no comments. Any additional comments on this ICR should be submitted to EPA and OMB 

within 30 days of this notice.

EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under docket ID number EPA-HQOECA-2009–0413, which is available for public viewing online at http://www.regulations.gov, 

in person viewing at the Enforcement and Compliance Docket in the EPA Docket Center 

(EPA/DC), EPA West, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Avenue, 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 Enforcement and Compliance Docket is (202) 566-1752. 

Use EPA’s electronic docket and comment system at http://www.regulations.gov, to 

submit or view public comments, access the index listing of the contents of the docket, and to 

access those documents in the docket that are available electronically. Once in the system, select 

“docket search,” then key in the docket ID number identified above. Please note that EPA’s 

policy is that public comments, whether submitted electronically or in paper, will be made 

available for public viewing at http://www.regulations.gov, as EPA receives them and without 

change, unless the comment contains copyrighted material, CBI, or other information whose 
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public disclosure is restricted by statute. For further information about the electronic docket, go 

to www.regulations.gov. 

Title: NSPS for Sewage Sludge Treatment Plant Incineration (40 CFR Part 60, Subpart 

O)

ICR Numbers: EPA ICR Number 1063.11, OMB Control Number 2060–0035.

ICR Status: This ICR is scheduled to expire on August 31, 2010. Under OMB

regulations, the Agency may continue to conduct or sponsor the collection of information while 

this submission is pending at OMB. 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 in title 40 of the CFR, after 

appearing in the Federal Register when approved, are listed in 40 CFR part 9, and displayed 

either by publication in the Federal Register or by other appropriate means, such as on the related 

collection instrument or form, if applicable. The display of OMB control numbers in certain 

EPA regulations is consolidated in 40 CFR part 9.

Abstract: The affected entities are subject to the General Provisions of the NSPS at 40 

CFR part 60, subpart A and any changes, or additions to the General Provisions specified at 40 

CFR part 60, subpart O. Owners or operators of the affected facilities must make an initial 

notification, performance tests, periodic reports, and 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. Reports, at a minimum, are required 

semiannually.

Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping burden for this 
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collection of information is estimated to average 55 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 which have subsequently changed; 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: Sewage sludge treatment plant incinerators.

Estimated Number of Respondents: 112.

Frequency of Response: Initially, occasionally, and semiannually.

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 12,464.

Estimated Total Annual Cost: $5,138,948, which includes $1,178,948 in labor costs, 

$40,000 in capital/startup costs, and $3,920,000 in operation and maintenance (O&M) costs.

Changes in the Estimates: There is an increase in the total estimated burden as currently

identified in the OMB Inventory of Approved Burdens which is due to more accurate estimates 

of existing sources. The number of existing facilities changed from 54 to 112 and increased the 

number of responses, burden hours, labor costs, and O&M costs. A reduction in capital/start-up 

costs occurred due to the decrease of anticipated new sources which declined from 1 to 0.4 new 

sources per year.
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Dated: ______________________ 

_____________________________

Oscar Morales, Director, Collection Strategies Division

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