Document ID: EPA-HQ-OECA-2006-0711-0006
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for Sewage Sludge Treatment Plant Incineration Federal Register Notice (FRN)
Posted Date: 2010-08-16T04:00Z

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OECA-2009–0413; FRL-       ]

Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for Review
and Approval; Comment Request; NSPS for Sewage Sludge Treatment Plant
Incineration (40 CFR Part 60, Subpart O), EPA ICR Number 1063.11, OMB
Control Number 2060–0035. 

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 an Information Collection Request
(ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
for review and approval.  This is a request to renew an existing
approved collection.  The ICR which is abstracted below describes the
nature of the collection and the estimated burden and cost. 

DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before [INSERT DATE 30
DAYS AFTER PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER].

ADDRESSES:  Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number
EPA-OECA-2009–0413, to (1) EPA online using www.regulations.gov (our
preferred method), or by email to docket.oeca@epa.gov, or by mail to:
EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), Environmental Protection Agency, Enforcement
and Compliance Docket and Information Center, mail code 2801T , 1200
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20460, and (2) 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.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:  John Schaefer, Office of Air Quality
Planning and Standards, Sector Policies and Programs Division (D243-05),
Measurement Policy Group, Environmental Protection Agency, Research
Triangle Park, North Carolina, 27711; telephone number: (919) 541-0296;
fax number: (919) 541-3207; e-mail address: schaefer.john@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 July 8, 2009 (74 FR 32580), EPA sought comments on this ICR
pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d).  EPA received no comments.  Any additional
comments on this ICR should be submitted to EPA and OMB within 30 days
of this notice.

	 EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under docket ID
number EPA-HQ-OECA-2009–0413, which is available for public viewing
online at   HYPERLINK "http://www.regulations.gov" 
http://www.regulations.gov , in person viewing at the Enforcement and
Compliance Docket in the EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West, Room
3334, 1301 Constitution Avenue, 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
Enforcement and Compliance Docket is (202) 566-1752. 

	Use EPA’s electronic docket and comment system at   HYPERLINK
"http://www.regulations.gov"  http://www.regulations.gov , to submit or
view public comments, access the index listing of the contents of the
docket, and to access those documents in the docket that are available
electronically.  Once in the system, select “docket search,” then
key in the docket ID number identified above.   Please note that EPA’s
policy is that public comments, whether submitted electronically or in
paper, will be made available for public viewing at   HYPERLINK
"http://www.regulations.gov"  http://www.regulations.gov , as EPA
receives them and without change, unless the comment contains
copyrighted material, CBI, or other information whose public disclosure
is restricted by statute.  For further information about the electronic
docket, go to   HYPERLINK "http://www.regulations.gov" 
www.regulations.gov . 

	Title:  NSPS for Sewage Sludge Treatment Plant Incineration (40 CFR
Part 60, Subpart O)

	ICR Numbers:  EPA ICR Number 1063.11, OMB Control Number 2060–0035.

	ICR Status:  This ICR is scheduled to expire on August 31, 2010.  Under
OMB regulations, the Agency may continue to conduct or sponsor the
collection of information while 

this submission is pending at OMB.  	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 in title 40 of the CFR,
after appearing in the Federal Register when approved, are listed in 40
CFR part 9, and displayed either by publication in the Federal Register
or by other appropriate means, such as on the related collection
instrument or form, if applicable.  The display of OMB control numbers
in certain EPA regulations is consolidated in 40 CFR part 9.

	Abstract: The affected entities are subject to the General Provisions
of the NSPS at 40 CFR part 60, subpart A and any changes, or additions
to the General Provisions specified at 40 CFR part 60, subpart O. Owners
or operators of the affected facilities must make an initial
notification, performance tests, periodic reports, and 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. Reports, at a minimum, are required
semiannually.

	Burden Statement:  The annual public reporting and recordkeeping burden
for this collection of information is estimated to average 55 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
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 which have
subsequently changed; 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: Sewage sludge treatment plant
incinerators.

	Estimated Number of Respondents: 54112. 

	Frequency of Response: Initially, occasionally, and semiannually.

	Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:  6,209.12,464. 

	Estimated Total Annual Cost:  $2,577,3335,138,948, which includes
$587,3331,178,948 in labor costs, $10040,000 in capital/startup costs,
and $3,921,890,000 in operation and maintenance (O&M) costs. 

	Changes in the Estimates: There is an increase in the total estimated
burden as currently identified in the OMB Inventory of Approved Burdens
which is due to more accurate estimates of existing sources.  The number
of existing facilities changed from 54 to 112 and increased the number
of responses, burden hours, labor costs, and O&M costs.  A reduction in
capital/start-up costs occurred due to the decrease of anticipated new
sources which declined from 1 to 0.4 new sources per year.There is no
change in the number of hours in the total estimated burden currently
identified in the OMB Inventory of Approved ICR Burdens.  

Dated:  ______________________   

_____________________________

Oscar Morales, Director, Collection Strategies Division

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