Document ID: EPA-HQ-OAR-2020-0665-0002
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: New Source Performance Standards for Other Solid Waste Incineration Units; Renewal
Posted Date: 2022-09-08T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 173 (Thursday, September 8, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55001-55002]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-19425]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2020-0665; FRL-10197-01-OMS]

Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; NSPS for Other Solid Waste Incineration 
Units (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), NSPS for Other Solid Waste 
Incineration Units (EPA ICR Number 2163.08, OMB Control Number 2060-
0563), to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and 
approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. Public 
comments were previously requested, via the Federal Register on 
February 8, 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.

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DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before October 11, 
2022.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OAR-2020-0665 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 New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for Other 
Solid Waste Incineration (OSWI) Units (40 CFR part 60, subpart EEEE) 
apply to very small municipal waste combustion units and institutional 
waste incineration units. A new incineration unit subject to this 
subpart should meet either one of two criteria: (1) Commenced 
construction after December 9, 2004; or (2) commenced reconstruction or 
modification either on or after June 16, 2006. A very small municipal 
waste combustion unit is any municipal waste combustion unit that has 
the capacity to combust less than 35 tons per day of municipal solid 
waste or refuse-derived fuel. An institutional waste incineration unit 
is any combustion unit that combusts institutional waste and is a 
distinct operating unit of the institutional facility that generated 
the waste. Institutional waste is solid waste that is combusted at any 
institutional facility using controlled flame combustion in an 
enclosed, distinct operating unit with one of the following 
characteristics: (1) whose design does not provide for energy recovery; 
or (2) operated without energy recovery; or (3) operated with only 
waste heat recovery. Institutional waste also means solid waste 
combusted on site in an air curtain incinerator that is a distinct 
operating unit of any institutional facility. In general, all NSPS 
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 60, subpart EEEE.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: OSWI units, which include two 
subcategories: VSMWC units that combust less than 35 tons per day of 
waste and IWI units.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 60, 
subpart EEEE).
    Estimated number of respondents: 2 (total).
    Frequency of response: Initially, semiannually, and annually.
    Total estimated burden: 1,210 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
    Total estimated cost: $153,000 (per year), which includes $10,000 
in annualized capital/startup and/or operation & maintenance costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is an adjustment decrease in the 
total estimated burden as currently identified in the OMB Inventory of 
Approved Burdens. This decrease is not due to any program changes. The 
adjustment decrease in burden from the most-recently approved ICR is 
primarily due to more accurate estimates of existing sources, which is 
based on the revised facility inventory developed in support of the 
August 2020 proposed revisions and discussed in the proposed supporting 
statement (EPA-HQ-OAR-2003-0156-0146). The decrease in operation and 
maintenance (O&M) costs, compared with the costs in the previous ICR, 
is due to the decrease in the estimate of existing sources. 
Additionally, this ICR corrects an error in the Agency's burden from 
the most-recently approved ICR. The most recently approved ICR applied 
estimated burden for preparation of annual summary reports and applied 
the burden to all affected facilities. However, the annual summary 
report is prepared by the Designated Administrator of a State or 
Federal Plan, which is not applicable to this NSPS. This ICR corrects 
the estimated burden by removing the annual summary report from the 
Agency's activities.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2022-19425 Filed 9-7-22; 8:45 am]
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