Document ID: EPA-HQ-OAR-2021-0119-0002
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Taconite Iron Ore Processing
Posted Date: 2022-06-28T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 123 (Tuesday, June 28, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38398-38399]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-13757]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2021-0119; FRL--9974-01-OMS]

Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Taconite Iron Ore Processing 
(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 Taconite Iron Ore 
Processing (EPA ICR Number 2050.10, OMB Control Number 2060-0538), 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 June 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 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 July 28, 2022.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OAR-2021-0119, online using www.regulations.gov (our preferred method) 
or by mail to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental Protection Agency, Mail 
Code 2821T, 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: 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 Taconite Iron Ore Processing (40 CFR part 63, 
subpart RRRRR), were proposed on December 18, 2002; promulgated on 
October 30, 2003; and most-recently amended on both July 28, 2020 and 
November 19, 2020. These regulations apply to existing facilities and 
new taconite iron ore processing facilities that emit or have the 
potential to emit a single hazardous air pollutant (HAP) at a rate of 
10 tons or more per year or any combination of HAPs at a rate of 25 
tons or more per year. The affected sources are ore crushing and 
handling operations, ore dryers, indurating furnaces, finished pellet 
handling emission units, and fugitive dust emissions. New facilities 
include those that commenced construction or reconstruction after the 
date of proposal. This information is being collected to assure 
compliance with 40 CFR part 63, subpart RRRRR. 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 
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inoperative. These notifications, reports, and records are essential in 
determining compliance, and are required of all affected facilities 
subject to NESHAP.
    Form Numbers: 5900-576.
    Respondents/affected entities: Taconite iron ore processing 
facilities.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 63, 
subpart RRRRR).
    Estimated number of respondents: 8 (total).
    Frequency of response: Initially, occasionally, and semiannually.
    Total estimated burden: 1,230 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
    Total estimated cost: $584,000 (per year), which includes $0 in 
annualized capital/startup and/or operation & maintenance costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is an adjustment increase in the 
total estimated burden as currently identified in the OMB Inventory of 
Approved Burdens. This increase is not due to any program changes. The 
change in the burden and cost estimates is due to a correction of the 
number of respondents per year performing Method 5 performance tests to 
be consistent with the number of respondents estimated to provide 
notifications of performance tests and report performance test results. 
This ICR adjusts the number of respondents conducting performance tests 
in each year from 2.7 per year to 8 per year, which increases the 
annual burden by approximately 300 hours. There is no change in the 
capital/startup vs. operation and maintenance (O&M) costs as calculated 
in section 6(b)(iii) compared with the costs in the previous ICR.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2022-13757 Filed 6-27-22; 8:45 am]
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