Document ID: EPA-HQ-OECA-2013-0310-0002
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: NSPS for Sewage Sludge Treatment Plants (Renewal)
Posted Date: 2013-12-06T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 235 (Friday, December 6, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 73523-73524]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-29132]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OECA-2013-0310; FRL-9903-74-OEI]

Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; NSPS for Sewage Sludge Treatment Plants 
(Renewal)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency has submitted an 
information collection request (ICR), ``NSPS for Sewage Sludge 
Treatment Plants (40 CFR Part 60, Subpart O) (Renewal)'' (EPA ICR No. 
1063.12, OMB Control No. 2060-0035), to the Office of Management and 
Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork 
Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq). This is a proposed extension of 
the ICR, which is currently approved through March 31, 2014. Public 
comments were previously requested, via the Federal Register (78 FR 
33409) on June 4, 2013, 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 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.

DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before January 6, 
2014

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OECA-2013-0310, to: (1) EPA online using www.regulations.gov (our 
preferred method), by email to docket.oeca@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA 
Docket Center, Environmental Protection Agency, Mail Code 28221T, 1200 
Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460: and (2) OMB via email to 
oira_submission@omb.eop.gov. Address comments to OMB Desk Officer for 
EPA.
    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.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Learia Williams, Monitoring, 
Assistance, and Media Programs Division, Office of Compliance, Mail 
Code 2227A, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. 
NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 564-4113; fax 
number: (202) 564-0050; email address: williams.learia@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 
www.regulations.gov or in person at the EPA Docket Center, WJC West, 
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 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 Provisions specified at 40 CFR part 60, subpart O. 
Owners or operators of the affected facilities must make an initial 
notification report, 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 are required 
semiannually at a minimum.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: Sewage sludge treatment plant 
incinerators.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 60, 
subpart O).
    Estimated number of respondents: 112 (total).
    Frequency of response: Initially and semiannually.
    Total estimated burden: 12,464 hours (per year). ``Burden'' is 
defined at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
    Total estimated cost: $5,179,185 (per year), includes $3,960,000 
annualized capital or operation & maintenance costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is no change in labor hours in this 
ICR compared to the most recently approved ICR. This is due to two 
considerations:

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(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 the industry is very low, so there is no significant change in 
the overall burden. However, there is a slight increase in the 
respondent labor costs due to the use of updated labor rates.

Richard T. Westlund,
Acting Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. 2013-29132 Filed 12-5-13; 8:45 am]
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