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Changes in the Estimates: There is a 

decrease in the total estimated burden 

as currently identified in the OMB 

Inventory of Approved Burdens. This 

decrease is not due to any program 

changes. The decrease in burden from 

the most-recently approved ICR is due 

to a decrease in the number of sources. 

This ICR reflects a decrease in the 

number of respondents and additional 

respondents that the Agency anticipates 

will become subject to these standards 

or modify existing facilities. The 

estimates in the current approved ICR 

were based on estimates collected in 

2008 and adjusted for growth over time. 

This ICR adjusts the number of 

respondents based on a review of 

facilities identified in EPA’s 

Enforcement and Compliance History 

Online (ECHO) database, assuming a 

similar rate of growth and modification 

of existing facilities (about two and 

three percent, respectively). EPA’s 

ECHO database is the most-recent 

source of facility information available 

for hot mix asphalt facilities and should 

reflect a more accurate estimate of 

existing facilities. We have assumed a 

similar rate of growth and modification 

of existing facilities due to anticipated 

continuous demand within the asphalt 

mixing industry. This ICR also corrects 

an error from the most-recently 

approved ICR by accounting for the 

burden for responses for notifications of 

performance tests for respondents 

required to conduct a repeat 

performance test. The overall result is a 

decrease in burden. 

Courtney Kerwin, 

Director, Regulatory Support Division. 

[FR Doc. 2021–19473 Filed 9–7–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OAR–2020–0630; FRL–8970–01– 

OMS] 

Information Collection Request 

Submitted to OMB for Review and 

Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP 

for Inorganic Arsenic Emissions From 

Glass Manufacturing Plants) (Renewal) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) has submitted an 

information collection request (ICR), 

‘‘NESHAP for Inorganic Arsenic 

Emissions from Glass Manufacturing 

Plants (EPA ICR Number 1081.13, OMB 

Control Number 2060–0043), 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 December 31, 2021. 

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 October 8, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing Docket ID Number EPA– 

HQ–OAR–2020–0630 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: The National Emission 

Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants 

(NESHAP) for Inorganic Arsenic 

Emissions from Glass Manufacturing 

Plants (40 CFR part 61, subpart N) apply 

to each existing and new glass melting 

furnace that uses commercial arsenic as 

a raw material located at a glass 

manufacturing plant. These standards 

do not apply to pot furnaces; in 

addition, these standards do not 

consider re-bricking as either 

construction or modification for the 

purposes of 40 CFR 61.05(a). New 

facilities include those that commenced 

either construction or reconstruction 

after the date of proposal. In general, all 

NESHAP standards require initial 

notifications, performance tests, and 

periodic reports by the owners/ 

operators of the affected facilities. They 

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. These 

notifications, reports, and records are 

essential in determining compliance 

with 40 CFR part 61, subpart N. 

Form Numbers: None. 

Respondents/affected entities: Glass 

manufacturing plants. 

Respondent’s obligation to respond: 

Mandatory (40 CFR part 61, subpart N). 

Estimated number of respondents: 16 

(total). 

Frequency of response: Initially, 

occasionally and semiannually. 

Total estimated burden: 3,100 hours 

(per year). Burden is defined at 5 CFR 

1320.3(b). 

Total estimated cost: $423,000 (per 

year), which includes $56,000 in 

annualized capital/startup and/or 

operation & maintenance costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is no 

change in burden from the mostrecently approved ICR as currently 

identified in the OMB Inventory of 

Approved Burdens. This 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 nonexistent, so there is no significant 

change in the overall burden. Since 

there are no changes in the regulatory 

requirements and there is no significant 

industry growth, there are also no 

changes in the capital/startup or 


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operation and maintenance (O&M) 

costs. 

Courtney Kerwin, 

Director, Regulatory Support Division. 

[FR Doc. 2021–19433 Filed 9–7–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–8926–01–OA] 

Request for Nominations of 

Candidates for Two Review Panels of 

the Clean Air Scientific Advisory 

Committee (CASAC) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The EPA Science Advisory 

Board (SAB) Staff Office requests public 

nominations of scientific experts for two 

ad hoc review panels of the Clean Air 

Scientific Advisory Committee 

(CASAC). The review panels will 

provide advice through the chartered 

CASAC on the scientific and technical 

aspects of air quality criteria and the 

primary and secondary National 

Ambient Air Quality Standards 

(NAAQS) for lead and the secondary 

NAAQS for oxides of nitrogen, oxides of 

sulfur, and particulate matter (PM). 

DATES: Nominations should be 

submitted by September 29, 2021 per 

the instructions below. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any 

member of the public wishing further 

information regarding this Notice and 

Request for Nominations may contact 

Mr. Aaron Yeow, Designated Federal 

Officer (DFO), SAB Staff Office, by 

telephone/voice mail at (202) 564–2050 

or via email at yeow.aaron@epa.gov. 

General information concerning the 

CASAC can be found on the following 

website: https://casac.epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background: The CASAC was 

established pursuant to the Clean Air 

Act (CAA) Amendments of 1977, 

codified at 42 U.S.C. 7409(d)(2), to 

review air quality criteria and NAAQS 

and recommend to the EPA 

Administrator any new NAAQS and 

revisions of existing criteria and 

NAAQS as may be appropriate. The 

CASAC shall also: Advise the EPA 

Administrator of areas in which 

additional knowledge is required to 

appraise the adequacy and basis of 

existing, new, or revised NAAQS; 

describe the research efforts necessary 

to provide the required information; 

advise the EPA Administrator on the 

relative contribution to air pollution 

concentrations of natural as well as 

anthropogenic activity; and advise the 

EPA Administrator of any adverse 

public health, welfare, social, economic, 

or energy effects which may result from 

various strategies for attainment and 

maintenance of such NAAQS. As 

amended, 5 U.S.C., App. Section 

109(d)(1) of the Clean Air Act (CAA) 

requires that EPA carry out a periodic 

review and revision, as appropriate, of 

the air quality criteria and the NAAQS 

for the six ‘‘criteria’’ air pollutants, 

including lead, oxides of nitrogen 

oxides, oxides of sulfur, and PM. 

The CASAC is a Federal advisory 

committee chartered under the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (FACA). As a 

Federal Advisory Committee, the 

CASAC conducts business in 

accordance with the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (FACA) (5 U.S.C. App. 

2) and related regulations. The CASAC 

and the CASAC Review Panels will 

comply with the provisions of FACA 

and all appropriate SAB Staff Office 

procedural policies. 

History of the Lead NAAQS Review: 

With the publication of the National 

Ambient Standards for lead (81 FR 

71906) on October 18, 2016, the Agency 

completed its most recent review of the 

lead NAAQS. The CASAC’s Lead 

Review Panel for that review was 

formed in July 2010 and completed its 

work in June 2013. In July 2020, the 

EPA publicly announced the initiation 

of the current primary and secondary 

NAAQS review for lead (85 FR 40641). 

This Federal Register notice 

solicitation is seeking nominations for 

subject matter experts to serve on the 

CASAC Lead Review Panel for the next 

review of the lead NAAQS that began 

with a call for information in July 2020 

(85 FR 40641). The Panel will be 

charged with reviewing the science and 

policy assessments, and related 

documents, that form the basis for the 

EPA’s review of the lead NAAQS, and 

will provide advice through the 

Chartered CASAC. 

History of the Current Oxides of 

Nitrogen, Oxides of Sulfur, and PM 

Secondary NAAQS Review: In August 

2013, the EPA publicly announced the 

initiation of the NAAQS review for 

oxides of nitrogen and oxides of sulfur 

(78 FR 53452). In the Integrated Review 

Plan for the Secondary NAAQS for 

Ecological Effects of Oxides of Nitrogen, 

Oxides of Sulfur, and Particulate Matter 

(IRP), EPA recognized the combined 

contribution of oxides of nitrogen, 

oxides of sulfur and PM to deposition of 

nitrogen and sulfur and the overlap of 

effects of these air pollutants on 

ecological systems. As such, EPA stated 

the plan to review the ecological effects 

of these three criteria pollutants together 

in this review and the IRP was finalized 

in 2017 following consultation with the 

CASAC and the CASAC Secondary 

NAAQS Review Panel for Oxides of 

Nitrogen and Sulfur. The first and 

second drafts of the Integrated Science 

Assessment for Oxides of Nitrogen, 

Oxides of Sulfur and Particulate 

Matter—Ecological Criteria were 

released in 2017 and 2018 and reviewed 

by the CASAC and the CASAC 

Secondary NAAQS Review Panel for 

Oxides of Nitrogen and Sulfur. The final 

ISA was published in 2020 (85 FR 

66328). In addition, EPA released the 

Review of the Secondary Standards for 

Ecological Effects of Oxides of Nitrogen, 

Oxides of Sulfur, and Particulate 

Matter: Risk and Exposure Assessment 

Planning Document in 2018 (83 FR 

42497), which the CASAC Secondary 

NAAQS Review Panel for Oxides of 

Nitrogen and Sulfur provided 

consultative advice on. 

On March 31, 2021, the Administrator 

reset membership of the Chartered 

CASAC and existing CASAC panels, 

including the CASAC Secondary 

NAAQS Review Panel for Oxides of 

Nitrogen and Sulfur. On June 17, 2021, 

the new Chartered CASAC members 

were announced. 

This Federal Register notice 

solicitation is seeking nominations for 

subject matter experts to serve on the 

CASAC Oxides of Nitrogen, Oxides of 

Sulfur, and PM Secondary NAAQS 

Panel to review the Policy Assessment 

for the EPA’s review of the Oxides of 

Nitrogen, Oxides of Sulfur, and PM 

Secondary NAAQS, and will provide 

advice through the Chartered CASAC. 

Request for Nominations: The SAB 

Staff Office is seeking nominations of 

nationally and internationally 

recognized scientists with demonstrated 

expertise and research in the field of air 

pollution related to criteria pollutants. 

For the Lead Panel, experts are being 

sought in the following fields, especially 

with respect to lead: Air quality; 

environmental fate and transport; 

exposure and biomarker assessment; 

biokinetic modeling; toxicology; 

epidemiology; risk assessment; 

biostatistics; and ecology. 

For the Oxides of Nitrogen, Oxides of 

Sulfur, and PM Secondary NAAQS 

Panel, experts are being sought in the 

following fields, especially with respect 

to nitrogen oxides, sulfur oxides and 

PM: Ecological effects of atmospheric 

concentrations and deposition to 

terrestrial, wetland and aquatic 

ecosystems; ecosystem exposure and 

risk assessment/modeling; ecosystem 

service and resource valuation; and 

atmospheric sciences. 


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