Document ID: EPA-HQ-OECA-2002-0009-0003
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission of EPA ICR No. 1899.02 (OMB No. 2060-0422 to OMB for 
Review and Approval; Comment Request
Posted Date: 2002-12-24T05:00Z

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Notices
ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION
AGENCY
[
OECA
 
2002
 
0009;
FRL
 
7426
 
3]

Agency
Information
Collection
Activities;
Submission
of
EPA
ICR
No.
1899.02
(
OMB
No.
2060
 
0422
to
OMB
for
Review
and
Approval;
Comment
Request
AGENCY:
Environmental
Protection
Agency
(
EPA).
ACTION:
Notice.

SUMMARY:
In
compliance
with
the
Paperwork
Reduction
Act
(
44
U.
S.
C.
3501
et
seq.),
this
document
announces
that
the
following
Information
Collection
Request
(
ICR)
has
been
forwarded
to
the
Office
of
Management
and
Budget
(
OMB)
for
review
and
approval:
Emission
Guidelines
for
Hospital/
Medical/
Infectious
Waste
Incinerators
(
OMB
Control
No.
2060
 
0422,
EPA
ICR
No.
1899.02)
The
ICR,
which
is
abstracted
below,
describes
the
nature
of
the
information
collection
and
its
estimated
burden
and
cost.
DATES:
Additional
comments
may
be
submitted
on
or
before
January
23,
2003.
ADDRESSES:
Follow
the
detailed
instructions
in
the
SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION
section.
FOR
FURTHER
INFORMATION
CONTACT:
Jonathan
Binder,
Compliance
Assistance
and
Sector
Programs
Division,
Office
of
Compliance,
Mail
Code
2224A,
202
 
564
 
2516
Environmental
Protection
Agency,
1200
Pennsylvania
Ave.,
NW.,
Washington,
DC
20460;
telephone
number:
202
 
564
 
2516;
fax
number:
202
 
564
 
0009;
e­
mail
address:
binder.
jonathan@
epa.
gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION:
EPA
has
submitted
the
following
ICR
to
OMB
for
review
and
approval
according
to
the
procedures
prescribed
in
5
CFR
1320.12.
On
June
20,
2002
(
67
FR
41981),
EPA
sought
comments
on
this
ICR
pursuant
to
5
CFR
1320.8(
d).
EPA
received
no
comments.
EPA
has
established
a
public
docket
for
this
ICR
under
Docket
ID
Number
OECA
 
2002
 
0009,
which
is
available
for
public
viewing
at
the
Enforcement
and
Compliance
Docket
and
Information
Center
(
ECDIC)
Docket
in
the
EPA
Docket
Center
(
EPA/
DC),
EPA
West,
Room
B102,
1301
Constitution
Ave.,
NW.,
Washington,
DC.
The
EPA
Docket
Center
Public
Reading
Room
is
open
from
8:
30
a.
m.
to
4:
30
p.
m.,
Monday
through
Friday,
excluding
federal
holidays.
The
telephone
number
for
the
Reading
Room
is
(
202)
566
 
1744,
and
the
telephone
number
for
the
Enforcement
and
Compliance
Docket
and
Information
Center
(
ECDIC)
Docket
is
(
202)
566
 
1514.
An
electronic
version
of
the
public
docket
is
available
through
EPA
Dockets
(
EDOCKET)
at
http://
www.
epa.
gov/
edocket.
Use
EDOCKET
to
submit
or
view
public
comments,
access
the
index
listing
of
the
contents
of
the
public
docket,
and
to
access
those
documents
in
the
public
docket
that
are
available
electronically.
Once
in
the
system,
select
``
search,''
then
key
in
the
docket
identification
number
identified
above.
Any
comments
related
to
this
ICR
should
be
submitted
to
EPA
and
OMB
within
30
days
of
this
notice,
and
according
to
the
following
detailed
instructions:
(
1)
Submit
your
comments
to
EPA
online
using
EDOCKET
(
our
preferred
method),
by
e­
mail
to
docket.
oeca@
epa.
gov,
or
by
mail
to:
EPA
Docket
Center,
Environmental
Protection
Agency,
Mailcode:
2201T,
1200
Pennsylvania
Ave.,
NW.,
Washington,
DC
20460,
and
(
2)
mail
your
comments
to
OMB
at:
Office
of
Information
and
Regulatory
Affairs,
Office
of
Management
and
Budget,
Attention:
Desk
Officer
for
EPA,
725
17th
Street,
NW.,
Washington,
DC
20503.
EPA's
policy
is
that
public
comments,
whether
submitted
electronically
or
in
paper,
will
be
made
available
for
public
viewing
in
EDOCKET
as
EPA
receives
them
and
without
change,
unless
the
comment
contains
copyrighted
material,
confidential
business
information
(
CBI),
or
other
information
whose
public
disclosure
is
restricted
by
statute.
When
EPA
identifies
a
comment
containing
copyrighted
material,
EPA
will
provide
a
reference
to
that
material
in
the
version
of
the
comment
that
is
placed
in
EDOCKET.
The
entire
printed
comment,
including
the
copyrighted
material,
will
be
available
in
the
public
docket.
Although
identified
as
an
item
in
the
official
docket,
information
claimed
as
CBI,
or
whose
disclosure
is
otherwise
restricted
by
statute,
is
not
included
in
the
official
public
docket,
and
will
not
be
available
for
public
viewing
in
EDOCKET.
For
further
information
about
the
electronic
docket,
see
EPA's
Federal
Register
notice
describing
the
electronic
docket
at
67
FR
38102
(
May
31,
2002),
or
go
to
http://
www.
epa.
gov/
edocket.
Title:
Emission
Guidelines
for
Hospital/
Medical/
Infectious
Waste
Incinerators
(
40
CFR
part
60,
subpart
Ce)
(
OMB
Control
No.
2060
 
0422,
EPA
ICR
Number
1899.02).
This
is
a
request
to
renew
an
existing
approved
collection
that
is
scheduled
to
expire
on
January
31,
2003.
Under
the
OMB
regulations,
EPA
may
continue
to
conduct
or
sponsor
the
collection
of
information
while
this
submission
is
pending
at
OMB.
Abstract:
Hospital/
Medical/
Infectious
Waste
Incinerators
(
HMIWI)
for
which
construction
was
commenced
on
or
before
June
20,
1996,
and
burning
hospital
waste
and/
or
medical
infectious
waste
are
subject
to
specific
reporting
and
recording
keeping
requirements.
Notification
reports
are
required
related
to
the
construction,
reconstruction,
or
modification
of
an
HMIWI.
Also
required
are
one­
time­
only
reports
related
to
initial
performance
test
data
and
continuous
measurements
of
site­
specific
operating
parameters.
Annual
compliance
reports
are
required
related
to
a
variety
of
site­
specific
operating
parameters,
including
exceedances
of
applicable
limits.
Semiannual
compliance
reports
are
required
related
to
emission
rate
or
operating
parameter
data
that
were
not
obtained
when
exceedances
of
applicable
limits
occurred.
Affected
entities
must
retain
records
for
five
years
the
reports
and
records
that
are
required
under
40
CFR
part
60,
subpart
Ce,
General
Provisions.
Co­
fired
combustors
and
incinerators
burning
only
pathological,
low­
level
radioactive,
and/
or
chemotherapeutic
waste
are
required
to
submit
notification
reports
of
an
exemption
claim,
and
an
estimate
of
the
relative
amounts
of
waste
and
fuels
to
be
combusted.
Cofired
combustors
and
incinerators
are
also
required
to
maintain
records
on
a
calendar
quarter
basis
of
the
weight
of
hospital
waste
combusted,
the
weight
of
medical/
infectious
waste
combusted,
and
the
weight
of
all
other
fuels
combusted
at
the
co­
fired
combustor.
Incinerators
burning
only
pathological,
low­
level
radioactive,
and/
or
chemotherapeutic
waste
are
also
required
to
maintain
records
of
the
periods
of
time
when
only
pathological
waste,
low­
level
radioactive
waste,
and/
or
chemotherapeutic
waste
is
burned.
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.
The
OMB
control
numbers
for
EPA's
regulations
are
listed
in
40
CFR
part
9
and
48
CFR
chapter
15,
and
are
identified
on
the
form
and/
or
instrument,
if
applicable.
Burden
Statement:
The
annual
public
reporting
and
recordkeeping
burden
for
this
collection
of
information
is
estimated
to
average
163
hours
per
response.
Burden
means
the
total
time,
effort,
or
financial
resources
expended
by
persons
to
generate,
maintain,
retain,
or
disclose
or
provide
information
to
or
for
a
Federal
agency.
This
includes
the
time
needed
to
review
instructions;
develop,
acquire,
install,
and
utilize
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technology
and
systems
for
the
purposes
of
collecting,
validating,
and
verifying
information,
processing
and
maintaining
information,
and
disclosing
and
providing
information;
adjust
the
existing
ways
to
comply
with
any
previously
applicable
instructions
and
requirements;
train
personnel
to
be
able
to
respond
to
a
collection
of
information;
search
data
sources;
complete
and
review
the
collection
of
information;
and
transmit
or
otherwise
disclose
the
information.
Respondents/
Affected
Entities:
Owners
and
Operators
of
Hospital/
Medical/
Infectious
Waste
Incinerators.
Estimated
Number
of
Respondents:
189.
Frequency
of
Response:
On
occasion,
semi­
annually,
and
annually.
Estimated
Total
Annual
Hour
Burden:
105,228.
Estimated
Total
Annual
O&
M
Cost:
$
295,407,
includes
O&
M
costs.
Changes
in
the
Estimates:
There
is
a
decrease
of
28,176
hours
in
the
total
estimated
burden
currently
identified
in
the
OMB
Inventory
of
Approved
ICR
Burdens.
This
decrease
is
due
to
a
reduction
in
the
number
of
affected
respondents
as
indicted
by
a
recent
source
inventory
analysis.

Dated:
December
10,
2002.
Oscar
Morales,
Director,
Collection
Strategies
Division.
[
FR
Doc.
02
 
32390
Filed
12
 
23
 
02;
8:
45
am]

BILLING
CODE
6560
 
50
 
P
ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION
AGENCY
[
OECA
 
2002
 
0010;
FRL
 
7426
 
4]

Agency
Information
Collection
Activities;
Submission
of
EPA
ICR
No.
0111.10
(
OMB
No.
2060
 
0101)
to
OMB
for
Review
and
Approval;
Comment
Request
AGENCY:
Environmental
Protection
Agency
(
EPA).
ACTION:
Notice.

SUMMARY:
In
compliance
with
the
Paperwork
Reduction
Act
(
44
U.
S.
C.
3501
et
seq.),
this
document
announces
that
the
following
Information
Collection
Request
(
ICR)
has
been
forwarded
to
the
Office
of
Management
and
Budget
(
OMB)
for
review
and
approval:
NESHAP
for
Asbestos,
40
CFR
part
61,
subpart
M
(
OMB
Control
No.
2060
 
0101,
EPA
ICR
No.
0111.10),
expiration
date
February
28,
2003.
The
ICR,
which
is
abstracted
below,
describes
the
nature
of
the
information
collection
and
its
estimated
burden
and
cost.
DATES:
Additional
comments
may
be
submitted
on
or
before
January
23,
2003.
ADDRESSES:
Follow
the
detailed
instructions
in
the
SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION
section.
FOR
FURTHER
INFORMATION
CONTACT:
Everett
Bishop,
Compliance
Assurance
and
Media
Programs
Division,
Office
of
Compliance,
2223A,
Environmental
Protection
Agency,
1200
Pennsylvania
Ave.,
NW.,
Washington,
DC
20460;
telephone
number:
(
202)
564
 
7032,
fax
number:
(
202)
564
 
0050;
e­
mail
address:
bishop.
everett@
epa.
gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION:
EPA
has
submitted
the
following
ICR
to
OMB
for
review
and
approval
according
to
the
procedures
prescribed
in
5
CFR
1320.12.
On
June
20,
2002
(
67
FR
41981),
EPA
sought
comments
on
this
ICR
pursuant
to
5
CFR
1320.8(
d).
EPA
received
no
comments.
EPA
has
established
a
public
docket
for
this
ICR
under
Docket
ID
No.
OECA
 
2002
 
0010,
which
is
available
for
public
viewing
at
the
Enforcement
and
Compliance
Docket
and
Information
Center
(
ECDIC)
in
the
EPA
Docket
Center
(
EPA/
DC),
EPA
West,
Room
B102,
1301
Constitution
Ave.,
NW.,
Washington,
DC.
The
EPA
Docket
Center
Public
Reading
Room
is
open
from
8:
30
a.
m.
to
4:
30
p.
m.,
Monday
through
Friday,
excluding
legal
holidays.
The
telephone
number
for
the
Reading
Room
is
(
202)
566
 
1744,
and
the
telephone
number
for
the
ECDIC
is
(
202)
566
 
1514.
An
electronic
version
of
the
public
docket
is
available
through
EPA
Dockets
(
EDOCKET)
at
http://
www.
epa.
gov/
edocket.
Use
EDOCKET
to
submit
or
view
public
comments,
access
the
index
listing
of
the
contents
of
the
public
docket,
and
to
access
those
documents
in
the
public
docket
that
are
available
electronically.
Once
in
the
system,
select
``
search,''
then
key
in
the
docket
ID
number
identified
above.
Any
comments
related
to
this
ICR
should
be
submitted
to
EPA
and
OMB
within
30
days
of
this
notice,
and
according
to
the
following
detailed
instructions:
(
1)
Submit
your
comments
to
EPA
online
using
EDOCKET
(
our
preferred
method),
by
e­
mail
to:
docket.
oeca@
epa.
gov,
or
by
mail
to:
EPA
Docket
Center,
Environmental
Protection
Agency,
Mail
Code:
2201T,
1200
Pennsylvania
Ave.,
NW.,
Washington,
DC
20460,
and
(
2)
Mail
your
comments
to
OMB
at:
Office
of
Information
and
Regulatory
Affairs,
Office
of
Management
and
Budget
(
OMB),
Attention:
Desk
Officer
for
EPA,
725
17th
Street,
NW.,
Washington,
DC
20503.
EPA's
policy
is
that
public
comments,
whether
submitted
electronically
or
in
paper,
will
be
made
available
for
public
viewing
in
EDOCKET
as
EPA
receives
them
and
without
change,
unless
the
comment
contains
copyrighted
material,
CBI,
or
other
information
whose
public
disclosure
is
restricted
by
statute.
When
EPA
identifies
a
comment
containing
copyrighted
material,
EPA
will
provide
a
reference
to
that
material
in
the
version
of
the
comment
that
is
placed
in
EDOCKET.
The
entire
printed
comment,
including
the
copyrighted
material,
will
be
available
in
the
public
docket.
Although
identified
as
an
item
in
the
official
docket,
information
claimed
as
CBI,
or
whose
disclosure
is
otherwise
restricted
by
statute,
is
not
included
in
the
official
public
docket,
and
will
not
be
available
for
public
viewing
in
EDOCKET.
For
further
information
about
the
electronic
docket,
see
EPA's
Federal
Register
notice
describing
the
electronic
docket
at
67
FR
38102
(
May
31,
2002),
or
go
to
http://
www.
epa.
gov/
edocket.
Title:
NESHAP
for
Asbestos,
40
CFR
part
61,
subpart
M,
(
OMB
Control
No.
2060
 
0101,
EPA
ICR
Number
0111.10).
This
is
a
request
to
renew
an
existing
approved
collection
that
is
scheduled
to
expire
on
February
28,
2003.
Under
the
OMB
regulations,
the
Agency
may
continue
to
conduct
or
sponsor
the
collection
of
information
while
this
submission
is
pending
at
OMB.
Abstract:
The
EPA
is
charged
under
section
112
of
the
Clean
Air
Act,
as
amended,
to
establish
standards
of
performance
for
each
category
or
subcategory
of
major
sources
and
area
sources
of
hazardous
air
pollutants.
These
standards
are
applicable
to
new
or
existing
sources
of
hazardous
air
pollutants
and
shall
require
the
maximum
degree
of
emission
reduction:
In
addition,
section
114(
a)
States
that:

*
*
*
The
Administrator
may
require
any
owner
or
operator
subject
to
any
requirement
of
this
Act
to
(
A)
establish
and
maintain
such
records,
(
B)
make
such
reports,
(
C)
install,
use,
and
maintain
such
monitoring
equipment
or
methods
(
in
accordance
with
such
methods
at
such
locations,
at
such
intervals,
and
in
such
manner
as
the
Administrator
shall
prescribe),
and
(
D)
sample
such
emissions,
(
E)
keep
records
on
control
equipment
parameters,
production
variables
or
other
indirect
data
when
direct
monitoring
of
emissions
is
impractical,
(
F)
submit
compliance
certifications,
and
(
G)
provide
such
other
information
as
he
may
reasonably
require.

In
the
Administrator's
judgment,
asbestos
emissions
from
the
demolition
and
renovation
of
asbestos­
containing
structures;
the
disposal
of
asbestos
waste;
waste
conversion;
asbestos
milling,
manufacturing,
and
fabricating;
the
use
of
asbestos
on
roadways;
the
use
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