Document ID: EPA-HQ-OLEM-2018-0693-0005
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Identification of Non-Hazardous Secondary Materials That Are Solid Waste (Renewal)
Posted Date: 2023-03-29T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 60 (Wednesday, March 29, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18540-18541]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-06539]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OLEM-2018-0693; FRL-10849-01-OMS]

Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the 
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment 
Request; Identification of Non-Hazardous Secondary Materials That Are 
Solid Waste (Renewal)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an 
information collection request (ICR), Identification of Non-Hazardous 
Secondary Materials That Are Solid Waste (EPA ICR Number 2382.06, OMB 
Control Number 2050-0205) 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 March 31, 2023. Public comments were previously requested via 
the Federal Register on July 28, 2022 during a 60-day comment period. 
This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.

DATES: Comments may be submitted on or before April 28, 2023.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OLEM-2018-0693, to EPA 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: Jesse Miller, Environmental Protection 
Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW,

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Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: 202-566-0562; 
[email protected]@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a proposed extension of the ICR, 
which is currently approved through March 31, 2023. 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.
    Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register 
on July 28, 2022 during a 60-day comment period (87 FR 45315). This 
notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments. 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: This ICR is a description of the information collection 
requirements for combustion units that use non-hazardous secondary 
materials (NHSM) that are solid wastes and combines and harmonizes 
prior regulatory amendments into one ICR. This ICR also includes the 
burden associated with the 2016 amendments to the Final Rule (81 FR 
6688, February 8, 2016), which added three materials to the list of 
categorical non-waste fuels: (1) construction and demolition (C&D) wood 
processed from construction and demolition debris according to best 
management practices; (2) paper recycling residuals (PRRs) generated 
from the recycling of recovered paper, paperboard and corrugated 
containers and combusted by paper recycling mills whose boilers are 
designed to burn solid fuel; and (3) creosote-treated railroad ties 
that are processed and combusted in units designed to burn both biomass 
and fuel oil as part of normal operations and not solely as part of 
start-up or shut-down operations. Finally, this ICR includes the burden 
associated with the 2018 amendments to the Final Rule (83 FR 5317, 
February 7, 2018), which added three types of other treated railroad 
ties (OTRTs) to the list of categorical non-waste fuels: (1) Creosote-
borate treated railroad ties, and mixtures of creosote, borate and 
copper naphthenate treated railroad ties that are processed and 
combusted in units designed to burn both biomass and fuel oil; (2) 
Copper naphthenate treated railroad ties that are processed and then 
combusted in units designed to burn biomass, biomass and fuel oil or 
biomass and coal; and (3) Copper naphthenate-borate treated railroad 
ties that are processed and then combusted in units designed to burn 
biomass, biomass and fuel oil or biomass and coal.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: Entities potentially affected by 
this action are business or other for-profit organizations.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Required to obtain benefit 
(Sections 1004 and 2002 of RCRA).
    Estimated number of respondents: 16.
    Frequency of response: One-time.
    Total estimated burden: 352 hours per year. Burden is defined at 5 
CFR 1320.03(b).
    Total estimated cost: $34,581 (per year), which includes $867 
annualized capital or operation & maintenance costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is a decrease of 516 hours in this 
renewal. This decrease is due to a drop in the number of respondents.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2023-06539 Filed 3-28-23; 8:45 am]
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