Document ID: EPA-HQ-OAR-2021-0092-0002
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Steel Pickling, Hydrochloric Acid Process Facilities and Hydrochloric Acid Regeneration Plants
Posted Date: 2022-03-24T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 57 (Thursday, March 24, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16729-16730]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-06269]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2021-0092; FRL--9620-01-OMS]

Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Steel Pickling, HCl Process 
Facilities and Hydrochloric Acid Regeneration Plants (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), NESHAP for Steel Pickling, HCl 
Process Facilities and Hydrochloric Acid Regeneration Plants (EPA ICR 
Number 1821.11, OMB Control Number 2060-0419) 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 April 30, 2022. Public comments 
were previously requested via the Federal Register on April 13, 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 not

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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 April 25, 
2022.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OAR-2021-0092, to (1) EPA online using https://www.regulations.gov/ 
(our preferred method), by email to [email protected], 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 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: The National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air 
Pollutants (NESHAP) for Steel Pickling, HCl Process Facilities and 
Hydrochloric Acid Regeneration Plants (40 CFR part 63, subpart CCC) 
were proposed on September 18, 1997, promulgated on June 22, 1999, and 
amended on September 19, 2012 and November 19, 2020. This rule applies 
to all facilities that pickle steel using hydrochloric acid (HCl) or 
regenerate hydrochloric acid and are either major sources or part of a 
facility that is a major source. This regulation does not apply to any 
pickling line that uses an acid other than hydrochloric acid or an acid 
solution containing either less than 6 percent hydrochloric acid or at 
a temperature less than 100 [deg]F. New facilities include those that 
commenced construction or reconstruction after the date of proposal. In 
general, all NESHAP standards require initial notifications, 
performance tests, and periodic reports by the owners/operators of the 
affected facilities. They are also required to 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. This information is being collected 
to assure compliance with 40 CFR part 63, subpart CCC.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: Steel pickling, HCl process 
facilities and hydrochloric acid regeneration plants.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 63, 
subpart CCC).
    Estimated number of respondents: 100 (total).
    Frequency of response: Initially, occasionally, and semiannually.
    Total estimated burden: 35,000 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
    Total estimated cost: $4,140,000 (per year), includes $10,600 
annualized capital or operation & maintenance costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is no change in burden from the 
most recently approved ICR as currently identified in the OMB Inventory 
of Approved Burdens. This is due to two considerations. First, the 
regulations have not changed over the past three years and are not 
anticipated to change over the next three years. Second, the growth 
rate for this industry is very low or non-existent, so there is no 
significant change in the overall burden. Since there are no changes in 
the regulatory requirements and there is no significant industry 
growth, there are also no changes in the capital/startup or operation 
and maintenance (O&M) costs. This ICR also adjusts the number of 
responses from the currently approved ICR to account for the submittal 
of periodic test reports; this corrects the annual average hours per 
response but the burden to respondents does not change.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2022-06269 Filed 3-23-22; 8:45 am]
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