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###### Environmental Protection Agency

          - [EPA-HQ-OECA-2009-0441; FRL-9109-8]

# 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 March 8, 2010.

# ADDRESSES:

                        Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number EPA-OECA-2009-0441, to (1) EPA online using                         *http://www.regulations.gov*                         (our preferred method), or by e-mail 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 28221T, 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; 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-HQ-OECA-2009-0441, 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, Confidential Business Information (CBI), or other information whose public disclosure is restricted by statute. For further information about the electronic docket, go to                     *http://www.regulations.gov*.                

*Title:*                     NSPS for Steel Plants: Electric Arc Furnaces and Argon Oxygen Decarbonization Vessels (Renewal).                

*ICR Numbers:*                     EPA ICR Number 1060.15, OMB Control Number 2060-0038.                

*ICR Status:*                     This ICR is scheduled to expire on March 31, 2010. Under OMB                           ( print page 5787)                        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, subparts AA and AAa. 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 collection of information is estimated to average 308.4 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:*                     Electric arc furnaces and argon oxygen decarbonization vessels.                

*Estimated Number of Respondents:*                     98.                

*Frequency of Response:*                     Initially, occasionally, and semiannually.                

*Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:*                     60,745.                

*Estimated Total Annual Cost:*                     $5,911,975, which includes $5,712,985 in labor costs, $5,490 in capital/startup costs, and $193,500 in operation and maintenance (O&M) costs.                

*Changes in the Estimates:*                     There is an increase of 633 hours in the total estimated burden currently identified in the OMB Inventory of Approved ICR Burdens. This increase is due to an increase in the number of respondents. The new number of respondents accounted for the one new source that will become subject to the rule since the last ICR period. Further, the change in labor costs for industry and EPA is due to the use of more current labor rates. The decrease in annual O&M costs reflects a change made to account for a calculation error made in estimating the number of respondents that use COMS to measure stack emissions and the increase in total capital/startup costs is due to a calculation error in estimating the total costs for volumetric flow rate monitors for new sources.                

Dated: January 29, 2010.

John Moses,

Director, Collection Strategies Division.

[FR Doc. 2010-2389 Filed 2-3-10; 8:45 am]

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