Document ID: EPA-HQ-OAR-2020-0671-0002
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: New Source Performance Standards for New Residential Hydronic Heaters and Forced-Air Furnaces (Renewal)
Posted Date: 2022-04-06T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 66 (Wednesday, April 6, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19920-19921]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-07266]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2020-0671; FRL-9726-01-OMS]

Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; NSPS for New Residential Hydronic Heaters 
and Forced-Air Furnaces (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), NSPS for New Residential Hydronic 
Heaters and Forced-Air Furnaces (EPA ICR Number 2442.04, OMB Control 
Number 2060-0693, 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 May 31, 2022. 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 May 6, 2022.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OAR-2020-0671, to EPA online using https://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 
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docket without change including any personal information provided, 
unless the comment includes profanity, threats, information claimed to 
be confidential business information 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: [email protected].

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: Manufacturers of wood-fired residential hydronic heaters, 
forced-air furnaces, or other central heaters, testing laboratories, 
and third-party certifiers are required to comply with reporting and 
recordkeeping requirements for the General Provisions (40 CFR part 60, 
subpart A), as well as for the applicable specific standards in 40 CFR 
part 60 Subpart QQQQ. This includes submitting initial notifications, 
performance tests and periodic reports and results, and maintaining 
records. These reports are used by EPA to determine compliance with 
these same standards.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: Manufacturers of wood-fired 
residential hydronic heaters, forced-air furnaces, or other central 
heaters, testing laboratories, third-party certifiers.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 60, 
subpart QQQQ).
    Estimated number of respondents: 24 (total).
    Frequency of response: Annually, biennially, every five years.
    Total estimated burden: 2,390 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
    Total estimated cost: $950,000 (per year), which includes $484,000 
in annualized capital/startup costs. There are no operation & 
maintenance (O&M) costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is a significant decrease in burden 
from the most-recently approved ICR as currently identified in the OMB 
Inventory of Approved Burdens. This is due to several considerations. 
The size of the industry (number of respondents) has decreased by half 
since the previously-approved ICR (2442.03), resulting in a significant 
decrease in both labor burden and capital/startup costs for periodic 
re-testing and auditing of model lines. The decrease in the number of 
respondents is based on certification data collected by the EPA. This 
ICR includes a review of the regulations as amended on April 2, 2020 at 
85 FR 18448, but these amendments did not increase burden. The 
regulations are anticipated to change over the next three years, but 
these changes are not anticipated to either increase or decrease 
burden. The growth rate for this industry is anticipated to be zero 
over the next three years as manufacturers have already certified to 
the 2020 standards, resulting in no expenses for testing new model 
lines.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2022-07266 Filed 4-5-22; 8:45 am]
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