Document ID: EPA-HQ-OAR-2022-0021-0002
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Secondary Aluminum Production (Renewal)
Posted Date: 2022-09-23T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 184 (Friday, September 23, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Page 58085]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-20618]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2022-0021; FRL-10235-01-OMS]

Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Secondary Aluminum Production 
(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 Secondary Aluminum 
Production (EPA ICR Number 1894.11, OMB Control Number 2060-0433), 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 November 30, 
2022. Public comments were previously requested, via the Federal 
Register, on April 8, 2022 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 October 24, 
2022.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OAR-2022-0021, online using https://www.regulations.gov/ (our preferred 
method), or 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.
    The 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 Secondary Aluminum Production (40 CFR part 63, 
subpart RRR) were proposed on February 11, 1999; and promulgated on 
March 23, 2000; and amended on the following dates: December 30, 2002 
(67 FR 79808); September 3, 2004 (69 FR 53980); October 3, 2005 (70 FR 
57513); December 19, 2005 (70 FR 75320); September 18, 2015 (80 FR 
56700); and June 13, 2016 (81 FR 38085). These regulations apply to 
existing facilities and new facilities that are secondary aluminum 
production facilities and major sources of hazardous air pollutants 
(HAP) either commencing construction, or reconstruction, after the date 
of proposal. This includes facilities that operate aluminum scrap 
shredders, thermal chip dryers, scrap dryers/delacquering kilns/
decoating kilns, group 1 furnaces, group 2 furnaces, sweat furnaces, 
dross only furnaces, rotary dross coolers, and secondary aluminum 
processing units (SAPUs). The SAPUs include group 1 furnaces and in-
line fluxers. The regulations also apply to secondary aluminum 
production facilities that are area sources of HAP only with respect to 
emissions of dioxins/furans (D/F) from thermal chip dryers, scrap 
dryers/delacquering kilns/decoating kilns, group 1 furnaces, sweat 
furnaces, and SAPUs. New facilities include those that either commenced 
construction, or reconstruction, after the date of proposal. This 
information is being collected to assure compliance with 40 CFR part 
63, subpart RRR.
    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. These notifications, reports, and 
records are essential in determining compliance, and are required of 
all affected facilities subject to NESHAP.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: Secondary aluminum production 
facilities.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 63 
subpart RRR).
    Estimated number of respondents: 161 (total).
    Frequency of response: Initially and semiannually.
    Total estimated burden: 12,400 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
    Total estimated cost: $5,590,000 (per year), which includes 
$4,110,000 in annualized capital/startup and/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; (1) the 
regulations have not changed over the past three years and are not 
anticipated to change over the next three years; and (2) 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. There is a slight decrease in the number 
of responses, based on the correction of a mathematical error in the 
calculation of the number of responses from the currently approved ICR.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2022-20618 Filed 9-22-22; 8:45 am]
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