25222 Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 98 / Monday, May 20, 1996 / Notices

Respondents/Affected Entities: Motor

vehicle, motor vehicle engine, large

non-road and small non-road engine

manufacturers.

Estimated Number of Respondents: 33

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 1669

hours.

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. 282.08 and

OMB Control No. 2060–0048 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: May 14, 1996.

Joseph Retzer,

Director, Regulatory Information Division.

[FR Doc. 96–12609 Filed 5–17–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6560–50–M

[FRL–5508–2; OMB #2060–0043; EPA

#1081.05]

Agency Information Collection

Activities Under OMB Review; National

Emission Standards for Hazardous Air

Pollutants: Inorganic Arsenic

Emissions From Glass Manufacturing

Facilities (Subpart N)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: In compliance with the

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.

3507(a)(1)(D), this notice announces that

the Information Collection Request (ICR)

for the National Emission Standards for

Hazardous Air Pollutants: Inorganic

Arsenic Emissions from Glass

Manufacturing Facilities (Subpart N)

described below has been forwarded to

the Office of Management and Budget

(OMB) for review and comment. 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 19, 1996..

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION OR A COPY

CALL: Sandy Farmer at EPA, (202) 260–

2740, and refer to EPA ICR No. 2060–

0043.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: OMB Control No. 2060–0043;

EPA ICR No. 1081.05. This is a request

for extension of a currently approved

collection.

Abstract: The Administrator has

judged that arsenic emissions from glass

manufacturing plants cause or

contribute to air pollution that may

reasonably be anticipated to endanger

public health or welfare. Owners or

operators of sources covered by these

standards are subject to the

recordkeeping and reporting

requirements of the standards as well as

those standards prescribed in the

General Provisions of the NESHAP.

Owners or operators of the affected

facilities described must make the

following one-time-only reports:

Application for approval of construction

or modification (new sources) or a

source report (existing sources or new

sources with initial start-up preceding

effective date of standard); and

notification of anticipated and actual

dates of start-up. Calculations

estimating new emission levels must be

reported whenever a change of

operation is made that would

potentially increase emissions.

Sources subject to these standards are

required to demonstrate initial

compliance through emission tests. In

addition, a continuous monitoring

system for the measurement of the

opacity of emissions from any control

device must be installed and operated.

Records of continuous emission

monitoring (CEM) results and other data

needed to determine emission

concentrations shall be maintained at

the source and made available for

inspection for a minimum of two years.

A written report of each period for

which emission rates exceeded the

emission limits is required

semiannually. 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. Applications

and source reports are sent directly to

the EPA Regional Office. Applications

and source reports are used to inform

the Agency or delegated authority when

a source becomes subject to the

standards, and the nature of that source.

Notification of start-up informs the

reviewing authority at what date the

source becomes subject to the standards.

The reviewing authority may then

inspect the source to check if the

pollution control devices are properly

installed and operated.

Reports, including calculations

estimating any subsequent emission

levels, are necessary to keep the Agency

informed about the source’s activities in

terms of hazardous air pollutant

emissions.

In order to ensure compliance with

the standards promulgated to protect

public health, adequate reporting and

recordkeeping is necessary. In the

absence of such information

enforcement personnel would be unable

to determine whether the standards are

being met on a continuous basis, as

required by the Clean Air Act.

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 Notice

required under 5 CFR 1320.8(d),

soliciting comments on this collection

of information was published on

September 29, 1995.

Burden Statement: The annual public

reporting and recordkeeping burden for

this collection of information is

estimated to average 6,769 hours.

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.

Respondents/Affected Entities: 47.

Estimated Number of Respondents:

47.

Frequency of Response: 2.

Estimated Number of Responses: 43.

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:

6769 hours.

Estimated Total Annualized Cost

Burden: $206,116.

Sent 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. 1081.05 and

OMB Control No. 2060–0043 in any

correspondence.
Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 98 / Monday, May 20, 1996 / Notices 25223

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: May 14, 1996.

Joseph Retzer,

Director, Regulatory Information Division.

[FR Doc. 96–12629 Filed 5–17–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6560–50–M

[AD–FRL–5507–5]

Control Techniques Guidelines

Document; Wood Furniture

Manufacturing Operations

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of release of final control

techniques guidelines (CTG) document.

SUMMARY: A final CTG document for

control of volatile organic compounds

(VOC) emissions from wood furniture

finishing and cleaning operations is

available to assist States in analyzing

and determining reasonably available

control technology (RACT) for

stationary sources of VOC emissions

located within ozone nonattainment

areas. The document recommends

RACT for industries included in, but not

limited to, nine Standard Industrial

Classification (SIC) codes: Wood

Kitchen Cabinets (SIC 2434); Wood

Household Furniture, except

upholstered (SIC 2511); Wood

Household Furniture, upholstered (SIC

2512); Wood Television, Radio,

Phonograph, and Sewing Machine

Cabinets (SIC 2517); Household

Furniture Not Classified Elsewhere (SIC

2519); Wood Office Furniture (SIC

2521); Public Building and Related

Furniture (SIC 2531); Wood Office and

Store Fixtures (SIC 2541); and Furniture

and Fixtures Not Elsewhere Classified

(SIC 2599).

ADDRESSES: Control Techniques

Guideline. Copies of the CTG may be

obtained from the US EPA Library (MD–

35), Research Triangle Park, North

Carolina 27711, telephone number (919)

541–2777.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.

Paul Almodo ́var, (919) 541–0283,

Coatings and Consumer Products Group,

Emission Standards Division (MD–13),

US Environmental Protection Agency,

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

27711.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

docket is available for public inspection

at the Office of Air Quality Planning and

Standards, Research Triangle Park,

North Carolina, which is listed in the

ADDRESSES section of this notice. The

final CTG document is also available on

the Technology Transfer Network

(TTN), on the EPA’s electronic bulletin

boards. This bulletin board provides

information and technology exchange in

various areas of air pollution control.

The service is free, except for the cost

of a telephone call. Dial (919) 541–5742

for up to a 14,400 bps modem. If more

information on TTN is needed, call the

HELP line at (919) 541–5384.

I. Background

Under the Clean Air Act (CAA), as

amended in 1990, State implementation

plans (SIP) for ozone nonattainment

areas must be revised to require RACT

for control of VOC emissions from

sources for which the EPA has already

published a CTG or for which it will

publish a CTG between the date the

Amendments were enacted and the date

an area achieves attainment status (CAA

182(b)(2)). The EPA has defined RACT

as ‘‘the lowest emission limitation that

a particular source is capable of meeting

by the application of control technology

that is reasonably available considering

the technological and economic

feasibility’’ (September 17, 1979, 44 FR

53761).

The CTG review current knowledge

and data concerning the technology and

costs of various emissions control

techniques. The CTG are intended to

provide State and local air pollution

authorities with an information base for

proceeding with their own analyses of

RACT to meet statutory requirements.

Each CTG contains a ‘‘presumptive

norm’’ for RACT for a specific source

category, based on the EPA’s evaluation

of the capabilities and problems general

to the category. Where applicable, the

EPA recommends that States adopt

requirements consistent with the

presumptive norm. However, the

presumptive norm is only a

recommendation. States may choose to

develop their own RACT requirements

on a case-by-case basis, considering the

emission reductions needed to obtain

achievement of the national ambient air

quality standards and the economic and

technical circumstances of the

individual source.

This CTG addresses RACT for control

of VOC emissions from wood furniture

manufacturing operations. The VOC

emissions from wood furniture

finishing, cleaning, and washoff

operations are addressed. Many of the

steps in these operations involve the use

of organic solvents and are sources of

VOC emissions. The sources,

mechanisms, and control of these VOC

emissions are described in the CTG.

The determination of presumptive

RACT for the wood furniture industry

was negotiated under the Federal

Advisory Committee Act with members

of industry, environmental groups,

States, and local agencies. The

regulatory negotiation was conducted in

conjunction with the negotiation for the

proposed national emission standards

for hazardous air pollutants (NESHAP)

for wood furniture manufacturing

operations developed under Section

112(d) of the CAA. This combined effort

ensured that both sets of requirements

are consistent and coordinated. The

Wood Furniture Manufacturing

Operations NESHAP was promulgated

on December 7, 1995 (60 FR 62930).

II. Summary of Impacts

The EPA estimates that State and

local regulations developed pursuant to

this final CTG would affect about 970

facilities and reduce VOC emissions by

an estimated 20,400 tons per year at a

cost of an estimated $20.2 million.

Further information on costs and

controls is presented in the final CTG

document.

III. Executive Order 12866

Under Executive Order 12866

(October 4, 1993 58 FR 51735) the EPA

must determine whether the regulatory

action is ‘‘significant’’ and therefore

subject to OMB review and the

requirements of the Executive Order.

The Order defines ‘‘significant

regulatory action’’ as one that is likely

to result in a rule that may:

(1) Have an annual effect on the

economy of $100 million or more, or

adversely affect in a material way the

economy, a sector of the economy,

productivity, competition, jobs, the

environment, public health or safety, or

State, local or tribal governments or

communities;

(2) Create a serious inconsistency or

otherwise interfere with an action taken

or planned by another agency;

(3) Materially alter the budgetary

impact of entitlements, grants, user fees,

or loan programs, or the rights and

obligations of recipients thereof; or

(4) Raise novel legal or policy issues

arising out of legal mandates, the

President’s priorities, or the principles

set forth in the Executive Order.

It has been determined that this final

CTG document is not a ‘‘significant

regulatory action’’ under the terms of

Executive Order 12866 and is therefore

not subject to OMB review. This CTG

document is not a ‘‘rulemaking,’’ rather