Document ID: EPA-HQ-OAR-2022-0018-0002
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Emission Guidelines for Large Municipal Waste Combustors Constructed on or Before September 20, 1994
Posted Date: 2022-11-25T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 226 (Friday, November 25, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 72481-72482]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-25648]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2022-0018; FRL-10270-01-OMS]

Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; Emission Guidelines for Large Municipal 
Waste Combustors Constructed on or Before September 20, 1994 (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), Emission Guidelines for Large 
Municipal Waste Combustors Constructed on or Before September 20, 1994 
(EPA ICR Number 1847.09, OMB Control Number 2060-0390), 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 December 27, 
2022.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OAR-2022-0018, 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. 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: https://www.epa.gov/dockets.
    Abstract: The Emission Guidelines for Large Municipal Waste 
Combustors at 40 CFR part 60, subpart Cb apply to existing facilities 
constructed on or before September 20, 1994 that own and operate 
municipal waste combustion (MWC) units with a combustion capacity 
greater than 250 tons per day of municipal solid waste (large MWC 
units). In general, all Emission Guidelines 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 
Emission Guidelines.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: Owners and operators of large 
municipal waste combustors constructed on or before September 20, 1994.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 60, 
subpart Cb).
    Estimated number of respondents: 72 (total).
    Frequency of response: Initially, occasionally, semiannually, and 
annually.

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    Total estimated burden: 353,000 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
    Total estimated cost: $60,700,000 (per year), which includes 
$1,400,000 in annualized capital/startup and/or operation & maintenance 
costs.
    Changes in the estimates: The decrease in burden from the most-
recently approved ICR is due to an adjustment(s). There is an 
adjustment decrease in the total estimated burden as currently 
identified in the OMB Inventory of Approved Burdens. This decrease in 
labor hours is not due to any program changes. Instead, the decrease is 
due to a decrease in the number of respondents to reflect facility 
closures, corrections to the burden associated with familiarization 
with regulatory requirements for existing sources, and corrections to 
the number of facilities performing dioxin/furan testing based on the 
current number of respondents. There is a decrease in the operation and 
maintenance (O&M) costs due to the decrease in the number of 
respondents over the past three years.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2022-25648 Filed 11-23-22; 8:45 am]
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