Document ID: EPA-HQ-OAR-2021-0116-0002
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Plating and Polishing Area Sources
Posted Date: 2022-01-26T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 17 (Wednesday, January 26, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4015-4016]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-01531]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2021-0116; FRL-9496-01-OMS]

Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Plating and Polishing Area 
Sources (Renewal)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency has submitted an 
information collection request (ICR), NESHAP for Plating and Polishing 
Area Sources (EPA ICR Number 2294.06, OMB Control Number 2060-0623), 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 March 31, 
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 February 25, 
2022.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OAR-2021-0116, online using 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 
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 Plating and Polishing Area Sources (40 CFR part 
63, subpart WWWWWW) apply to both existing and new plating and 
polishing facilities that are an area source of hazardous air pollutant 
(HAP) emissions and that use one or more of the following metal HAP: 
Cadmium, chromium, lead manganese, or nickel (hereafter referred to as 
the plating and polishing metal HAP). A plating and polishing facility 
is a plant site that is engaged in any of the following processes: Non-
chromium electroplating; electroless or non-electrolytic plating; other 
non-electrolytic metal coating processes such as chromate conversion 
coating, nickel acetate sealing, sodium dichromate sealing, and 
manganese phosphate coating, and thermal spraying; dry mechanical 
polishing of finished metals and formed products after plating or 
thermal spraying; electroforming; and electro-polishing. New facilities 
include those that commenced construction, modification, 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. These notifications, reports, and records are essential 
in determining compliance with 40 CFR part 63, subpart WWWWWW.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: Plating and polishing area source 
facilities.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 63, 
subpart WWWWWW).
    Estimated number of respondents: 2,900 (total).
    Frequency of response: Initially and annually.
    Total estimated burden: 67,700 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
    Total estimated cost: $8,000,000 (per year), which includes no 
annualized capital/startup 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 situation 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

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operation and maintenance (O&M) costs.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2022-01531 Filed 1-25-22; 8:45 am]
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