Document ID: EPA-HQ-OECA-2010-0369-0003
Agency: epa
Document Type: Supporting & Related Material
Title: 
Posted Date: 2010-12-08T05:00Z

SUPPORTING STATEMENT

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

	

NSPS for Small Industrial-Commercial-Institutional Steam Generating
Units 

1.  Identification of the Information Collection

1(a)  Title of the Information Collection

NSPS for Small Industrial-Commercial-Institutional Steam Generating
Units (40 CFR part 60, subpart Dc) (Renewal)

1(b)  Short Characterization/Abstract

The New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for small
industrial-commercial- institutional steam generating units, published
at 40 CFR 60.40c, were proposed on June 9, 1989, and promulgated on
September 12, 1990.  These standards apply to industrial-commercial-
institutional steam generating units with maximum design heat input
capacity of 29 megawatts (MW) (100 million Btu/hr) or less, but greater
than or equal to 2.9 MW (10 million Btu/hr), commencing construction,
modification, or reconstruction after June 9, 1989.  The standards limit
the emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO2) and particulate matter (PM).  For
the purposes of this document, new units are those affected units that
have had construction, modification, or reconstruction within the last
three years.  This information is being collected to assure compliance
with 40 CFR part 60, subpart Dc.

In general, all NSPS standards require initial notifications,
performance tests, and periodic reports.  Owners or operators 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 sources subject to NSPS.

Any owner or operator subject to the provisions of this part shall
maintain a file of these measurements, and retain the file for at least
two years following the date of such measurements, maintenance reports,
and records.  All reports are sent to the delegated state or local
authority.  In the event that there is no such delegated authority, the
reports are sent directly to the United States Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) regional office.

Based on our consultations with industry representatives, there is an
average of 1.7 affected facilities at each plant site and that each
plant site has only one respondent (i.e., the owner/operator of the
plant site).

Over the next three years, an average of 235 facilities per year will be
subject to the standard, and it is estimated that eleven additional
sources per year will become subject to the standard in the next three
years.

There are approximately 235 small industrial-commercial-institutional
steam generating units in the United States, which are all publicly
owned and operated by the small industrial-commercial-institutional
steam generating industry.  None of the 235 facilities in the United
States are owned by either state, local, tribal or the Federal
Government.  They are all owned and operated solely by privately owned
for-profit businesses.  You can find the burden to the “Affected
Public” listed below in Table 1: Annual Industry Burden and Cost -
NSPS for Small Industrial-Commercial-Institutional Steam Generating
Units (40 CFR part 60, subpart Dc).  The Federal government burden does
not include work performed by Federal employees only work performed by
contractors, which could be found listed below in Table 2: Average
Annual EPA Burden - NSPS for Small Industrial-Commercial-Institutional
Steam Generating Units (40 CFR part 60, subpart Dc).

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approved the currently active
ICR without any “Terms of Clearance.”

2.  Need for and Use of the Collection

2(a)  Need/Authority for the Collection

The EPA is charged under section 111 of the Clean Air Act (CAA), as
amended, to establish standards of performance for new stationary
sources that reflect: 

. . . application of the best technological system of continuous
emissions reduction which (taking into consideration the cost of
achieving such emissions reduction, or any non-air quality health and
environmental impact and energy requirements) the Administrator
determines has been adequately demonstrated.  Section 111(a)(l).

The Agency refers to this charge as selecting the best demonstrated
technology (BDT).  Section 111 also requires that the Administrator
review and, if appropriate, revise such standards every four years. 

In addition, section 114(a) states that the Administrator may require
any owner or operator subject to any requirement of this Act to:

(A) Establish and maintain such records; (B) make such reports; (C)
install, use, and maintain such monitoring equipment, and use such audit
procedures, or methods; (D) sample such emissions (in accordance with
such procedures or methods, at such locations, at such intervals, during
such periods, and in such manner as the Administrator shall prescribe);
(E) keep records on control equipment parameters, production variables
or other indirect data when direct monitoring of emissions is
impractical; (F) submit compliance certifications in accordance with
Section 114(a)(3); and (G) provide such other information as the
Administrator may reasonably require.

In the Administrator's judgment, SO2 and PM emissions from small
industrial-commercial- institutional steam generating units cause or
contribute to air pollution that may reasonably be anticipated to
endanger public health or welfare.  Therefore, the NSPS was promulgated
for this source category at 40 CFR part 60, subpart Dc.

2(b)  Practical Utility/Users of the Data

The recordkeeping and reporting requirements in the standard ensure
compliance with the applicable regulations which where promulgated in
accordance with the Clean Air Act.  The collected information is also
used for targeting inspections and as evidence in legal proceedings.

Performance tests are required in order to determine an affected
facility’s initial capability to comply with the emission standard. 
Continuous emission monitors are used to ensure compliance with the
standard at all times.  During the performance tests, a record of the
operating parameters under which compliance was achieved may be recorded
and used to determine compliance in place of a continuous emission
monitor.

The notifications required in the standard are used to inform the Agency
or delegated authority when a source becomes subject to the requirements
of the regulations.  The reviewing authority may then inspect the source
to ensure that the pollution control devices are properly installed and
operated, that leaks are being detected and repaired, and that the
standard is being met.  The performance test may also be observed.

The required semiannual and quarterly reports are used to determine
periods of excess emissions, identify problems at the facility, verify
operation/maintenance procedures, and for compliance determinations.

3.  Nonduplication, Consultations, and Other Collection Criteria

The requested recordkeeping and reporting are required under 40 CFR part
60, subpart Dc.

3(a)  Nonduplication

If the subject standards have not been delegated, the information is
sent directly to the appropriate EPA regional office.  Otherwise, the
information is sent directly to the delegated state or local agency.  If
a state or local agency has adopted their own similar standards to
implement the Federal standards, a copy of the report submitted to the
state or local agency can be sent to the Administrator in lieu of the
report required by the Federal standards.  Therefore, no duplication
exists.

3(b)  Public Notice Required Prior to ICR Submission to OMB

An announcement of a public comment period for the renewal of this ICR
was published in the Federal Register (72 FR 10735) on March 9, 2007. 
No comments were received on the burden published in the Federal
Register.

3(c)  Consultations

Over the next three years, an average of 235 facilities per year will be
subject to the standard, with eleven additional sources per year
becoming subject to the standard.  In estimating the affected number of
sources and the growth rate of small industrial-commercial-institutional
steam generating facilities subject to this standard, EPA contacted Mr.
Stephen D. Smith at (518) 439-8235, Novus Engineering PC, and Mr. Robert
Bessette at (703) 250-9042, Council of Industrial Boiler Owners (CIBO)
who also consulted with owners and council members.  We referenced the
most recent data available.  We reviewed information available from the
Online Tracking Information System (OTIS) which is the primary source of
information regarding the number of existing sources.  OTIS data was
used in conjunction with industry consultation to verify the number of
sources and the industry growth rate.

3(d)  Effects of Less Frequent Collection

Less frequent information collection would decrease the margin of
assurance that facilities are continuing to meet the standards. 
Requirements for information gathering and recordkeeping are useful
techniques to ensure that good operation and maintenance practices are
applied and emission limitations are met.  If the information required
by these standards was collected less frequently, the proper operation
and maintenance of control equipment and the possibility of detecting
violations would be less likely.

3(e)  General Guidelines

These reporting or recordkeeping requirements do not violate any of the
regulations promulgated by OMB under 5 CFR part 1320, section 1320.5.

 	

3(f)  Confidentiality

Any information submitted to the Agency for which a claim of
confidentiality is made will be safeguarded according to the Agency
policies set forth in title 40, chapter 1, part 2, subpart B -
Confidentiality of Business Information (CBI) (see 40 CFR 2; 41 FR
36902, September 1, 1976; amended by 43 FR 40000, September 8, 1978; 43
FR 42251, September 20, 1978; 44 FR 17674, March 23, 1979).

3(g)  Sensitive Questions

None of the reporting or recordkeeping requirements contain sensitive
questions.

4.  The Respondents and the Information Requested

4(a)  Respondents/SIC Codes

The respondents to the recordkeeping and reporting requirements are
stationary gas turbines.  The United States Standard Industrial
Classification (SIC) codes which correspond to 

The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code could be
found in the following table:

40 CFR part 60, subpart Dc	SIC Codes	NAICS Codes

Crude Petroleum and Natural Gas	13	211

Sawmills and Planing Mills, General	24	321

Pulp Mills	26	322

Alkalies and Chlorine Manufacturing	28	325

 Petroleum Refining	29	324

Tires and Inner Tubes	30	326, 316, 339

Steel Works, Blast Furnaces	33	324

Metal Cans	34	332

Motor Vehicles and Passenger Car Bodies	37	336

Electric Power Distribution	49	221

General Medical and Surgical Hospitals	80	622

Elementary and Secondary Schools	82	611

4(b)  Information Requested

None of these reporting or recordkeeping requirements violate any of the
regulations established by OMB at 5 CFR part 1320, section 1320.5.

(i)  Data Items

In this ICR, all the data recorded or reported is required by the New
Source Performance Standards for Small
Industrial-Commercial-Institutional Steam Generating Units (40 CFR part
60, subpart Dc).

A source must make the following reports:

Notifications

Notification of construction or reconstruction	60.7(a)(1), 60.48c(a)

Notification of anticipated startup	60.7(a)(2), 60.48c(a)

Notification of actual startup date	60.7(a)(3)

Notification of modification	60.7 (a)(4)

Notification of demonstration of continuous monitoring system (CMS)	60.8
(a), 60.8 (d)

Semiannual reports of excess emissions and performance of continuous
monitoring systems, and/or summary report forms	60.7(c), 60.7(d),
60.48(c), 60.48c(c)

Initial performance test results and any subsequence performance test s
and, if applicable, the performance evaluation of the CEMS, and/or COMS
60.8(a)(d), 60.48c(b)

A source must keep the following records:

Recordkeeping 

Keep records of startups, shutdowns, malfunctions of affected
facilities; malfunctions of control devices; and periods where the
continuous monitoring system is inoperative.	60.7(b)

Keep records of measurements, performance evaluations, calibration
checks, adjustments and maintenance related to continuous monitoring
systems	60.7(f)

Keep records of location, plans or specifications for exempted
non-contact cooling water systems.	60.697(j)

Electronic Reporting

Some of the respondents are using monitoring equipment that
automatically records parameter data.  Although personnel at the
affected facility must still evaluate the data, internal automation has
significantly reduced the burden associated with monitoring and
recordkeeping at a plant site.

Also, regulatory agencies in cooperation with the respondents continue
to create reporting systems to transmit data electronically.  However,
electronic reporting systems are still not widely used.  At this time,
it is estimated that approximately 10 percent of the respondents use
electronic reporting.

Respondent Activities

Read instructions.

Install, calibrate, maintain, and operate CEMS for SO2 or sample fuel
prior to combustion and estimate emissions using Method 6B.  Install,
calibrate, maintain, and operate COMS for opacity.

Perform initial performance test for SO2, Reference Method 19 test
(Method 6B for fuel sampling), and repeat performance tests if
necessary.

Perform initial performance test for PM, Reference Methods 1, 5, 5B, 9
and/or 17, and repeat performance tests if necessary.

Write the notification and reports listed above.

Enter information required to be recorded above.

Submit the required reports developing, acquiring, installing, and
utilizing technology and systems for the purpose of collecting,
validating, and verifying information.

Develop, acquire, install, and utilize technology and systems for the
purpose of processing and maintaining information.

Develop, acquire, install and utilize technology and systems for the
purpose of disclosing and providing information.

Adjust the existing ways to comply with any previously applicable
instructions and requirements.

Train personnel to be able to respond to a collection of information.

Transmit, or otherwise disclose the information.

	Currently, sources are using monitoring equipment that provides
parameter data in an automated way e.g., continuous parameter monitoring
system.  Although personnel at the source still need to evaluate the
data, this type of monitoring equipment has significantly reduced the
burden associated with monitoring and recordkeeping.

5.  The Information Collected: Agency Activities, Collection
Methodology, and Information Management

5(a)  Agency Activities

EPA conducts the following activities in connection with the
acquisition, analysis, storage, and distribution of the required
information.

Agency Activities

Observe initial performance tests and repeat performance tests if
necessary.

Review notifications and reports, including performance test reports,
excess emissions reports, required to be submitted by industry.

Audit facility records.

Input, analyze, and maintain data in the Online Tracking Information
System (OTIS).

5(b)  Collection Methodology and Management

Following notification of startup, the reviewing authority might inspect
the source to determine whether the pollution control devices are
properly installed and operational.  Performance test reports are used
by the Agency to discern a source’s initial capability to comply with
the emission standard, and note the operating conditions under which
compliance was achieved.  Data and records maintained by the respondents
are tabulated and published for use in compliance and enforcement
programs.  The semiannual reports are used for problem identification,
as a check on source operation and maintenance, and for compliance
determinations.

Information contained in the reports is entered into OTIS which is
operated and maintained by the EPA Office of Compliance.  OTIS is an EPA
database for the collection, maintenance, and retrieval of compliance
data for approximately 125,000 industrial and government-owned
facilities.  EPA uses OTIS for tracking air pollution compliance and
enforcement by local and state regulatory agencies, EPA regional offices
and EPA headquarters.  EPA and its delegated Authorities can edit,
store, retrieve and analyze the data.

The records required by this regulation must be retained by the owner or
operator for two years.

5(c)  Small Entity Flexibility

The majority of the respondents are large entities (i.e., large
businesses).  However, the impact on small entities (i.e., small
businesses,) was taken into consideration during the development of the
regulation.  Due to technical considerations involving the process
operations and the types of control equipment employed, the
recordkeeping and reporting requirements are the same for both small and
large entities.  The Agency considers these to be the minimum
requirements needed to ensure compliance and, therefore, cannot reduce
them further for small entities.  To the extent that larger businesses
can use economies of scale to reduce their burden, the overall burden
will be reduced.

5(d)  Collection Schedule

The specific frequency for each information collection activity within
this request is shown in Table 1: Annual Industry Burden, NSPS for Small
Industrial-Commercial-Institutional Steam Generating Units (40 CFR part
60, subpart Dc).

6.  Estimating the Burden and Cost of the Collection

Table 1 documents the computation of individual burdens for the
recordkeeping and reporting requirements applicable to the industry for
the subpart included in this ICR.  The individual burdens are expressed
under standardized headings believed to be consistent with the concept
of burden under the Paperwork Reduction Act.  Wherever appropriate,
specific tasks and major assumptions have been identified.  Responses to
this information collection are mandatory.

The 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.

6(a)  Estimating Respondent Burden

The average annual burden to industry over the next three years from
these recordkeeping and reporting requirements is estimated to be
159,972 (Total Labor Hours from Table 1).  These hours are based on
Agency studies and background documents from the development of the
regulation, Agency knowledge and experience with the NSPS program, the
previously approved ICR, and any comments received.

6(b)  Estimating Respondent Costs

(i)  Estimating Labor Costs 

This ICR uses the following labor rates: 

Managerial	$95.32   ($45.39 + 110%)  

Technical	$64.60   ($30.76 + 110%)

Clerical	$40.09   ($19.09 + 110%)

These rates are from the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of
Labor Statistics, December 2003, Table 10. Private industry, by
occupational and industry group.  The rates are from column 1, Total
compensation.  The rates have been increased by 110% to account for the
benefit packages available to those employed by private industry.

(ii)  Estimating Capital/Startup and Operation and Maintenance Costs

The only costs to the regulated industry resulting from information
collection activities required by the subject standard are labor costs. 
The type of industry costs associated with the information collection
activities in the subject standard are both labor costs which are
addressed elsewhere in this ICR and the costs associated with continuous
monitoring.  The capital/startup costs are one-time costs when a
facility becomes subject to the regulation.  The annual operation and
maintenance costs are the ongoing costs to maintain the monitor and
other costs such as photocopying and postage.

(iii)  Capital/Startup vs. Operation and Maintenance (O&M) Costs

Capital/Startup vs. Operation and Maintenance (O&M) Costs

(A)

Continuous Monitoring Device	(B)

Capital/

Startup Cost 

 for One Respondent	(C)

Number of New Respondents	(D)

Total Capital/Startup Cost

(B X C)	(E)

Annual O&M Costs for One Respondent	(F)

Number of Respondents with O&M	(G)

Total O&M,

(E X F)

SO2 Monitoring 

CEMS, control device inlet and outlet	$113,592	0 	$0	$25,900	26 
$673,400

CEMS, control device outlet only	$73,028	19	$1,387,532	$17,100	374 1
$6,395,400

PM Monitoring

COMS for sources burning coal, residual oil, or wood	$47,033	2.2
$103,472.60	$9,100	97.4 2	$886,340

Total (rounded)

	$1,491,005

	$7,955,140

 1 This represents an annual average of 235 existing respondents,
multiplied by an average of 1.7 affected units per respondent, less an
annual average of 26 units requiring inlet and outlet monitoring.

2  This represents 93 existing affected units that require COMS, plus
4.4 new affected units per year that require COMS, averaged over the
next three years [93/235 x 11 = 4.4 (rounded)]

The total capital/startup costs for this ICR are $1,491,005.  This is
the total of column D in the above table. 

The total operation and maintenance (O&M) costs for this ICR are
$7,955,140.  This is the total of column G. 

The average annual cost for capital/startup and operation and
maintenance costs to industry over the next three years of the ICR is
estimated to be $9,446,145.

6(c)  Estimating Agency Burden and Cost

The only costs to the Agency are those costs associated with analysis of
the reported information.  EPA's overall compliance and enforcement
program includes activities such as the examination of records
maintained by the respondents, periodic inspection of sources of
emissions, and the publication and distribution of collected
information.

The average annual Agency cost during the three years of the ICR is
estimated to be $177,840

This cost is based on the average hourly labor rate as follows:

	Managerial	$54.66 (GS-13, Step 5, $34.16 + 60%) 

	Technical	$40.56 (GS-12, Step 1, $25.35 + 60%)

	Clerical	$21.95 (GS-6,   Step 3, $13.72 + 60%)

These rates are from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) (2004
General Schedule( which excludes locality rates of pay.  The rates have
been increased by 60% to account for the benefit packages available to
government employees.  Details upon which this estimate is based appear
in Table 2: Average Annual EPA Burden, NSPS for Small
Industrial-Commercial- institutional Steam Generating Units (40 CFR Part
60, Subpart Dc), below.

6(d)  Estimating the Respondent Universe and Total Burden and Costs

	

Based on our research for this ICR, on average over the next three
years, approximately 235 existing respondents will be subject to the
standard.  It is estimated that no additional respondents per year will
become subject.  The overall average number of respondents, as shown in
the table below is 235 per year.

The number of respondents is calculated using the following table that
addresses the three years covered by this ICR.  

Number of Respondents

Year	(A)

Number of New Respondents	(B)

Number of Existing Respondents	(C)

Number of Existing Respondents That Keep Records But Do Not Submit
Reports	(D)

Number of Existing Respondents That Are Also New Respondents	(E)

Number of Respondents

(E=A+B+C-D)

1	11	213	0	0	224

2	11	224	0	0	235

3	11	235	0	0	246

Average	11	224	0	0	235

1 New respondent include sources with constructed, reconstructed and
modified affected facilities.  In this standard existing respondents
submit initial notifications.

To avoid double-counting respondents, column D is subtracted.  As shown
above, the average Number of Respondents over the three-year period of
this ICR is 235.

The total number of annual responses per year is calculated using the
following table:

Total Annual Responses

(A)

Information Collection Activity	(B)

Number of Respondents	(C)

Number of Responses	(D)

Number of Existing Respondents That Keep Records But Do Not Submit
Reports	(E)

Total Annual Responses

E=(BxC)+D

Notification of construction/reconstruction	4	1.7	n/a	7

Notification of modification	7	1.7	n/a	12

Notification of actual startup 	11	1.7	n/a	19

Notification of initial performance test	11	1.7	n/a	19

Notifications of CEMS demonstration	11	1.7	n/a	19

Semiannual compliance report	235	2	n/a	470

	Total	546

The number of total respondents is 235.

The number of Total Annual Responses is 546.  This is the number in
column E of the Respondent Universe and Number of Responses per year in
table above.

The total annual labor costs are $10,206,909.  Details regarding these
estimates may be found in Table 1: Annual Industry Burden, NSPS for
Small Industrial-Commercial-Institutional Steam Generating Units, below.

6(e)  Bottom Line Burden Hours Burden Hours and Cost Tables

The detailed bottom line burden hours and cost calculations for the
respondents and the Agency are shown in Tables 1 and 2, respectively,
and summarized below. 

(i) Respondent Tally

The total annual labor costs are $10,206,909.  Details regarding these
estimates may be found in Table 1. Annual Respondent Burden and Cost:
NSPS for Small Industrial-Commercial- Institutional Steam Generating
Units (40 CFR Part 60, Subpart Dc), below.  Furthermore, the annual
public reporting and recordkeeping burden for this collection of
information is estimated to average 293 hours per response.

The total annual capital/startup and O&M cost to the regulated entity
are $9,446,145.

(ii) The Agency Tally

The average annual Agency burden and cost over next three years is
estimated to be 4,496 labor hours at a cost of $177,840.  See Table 2.
Annual Agency Burden and Cost: NSPS for Small
Industrial-Commercial-Institutional Steam Generating Units (40 CFR Part
60, Subpart Dc), below.

6(f)  Reasons for Change in Burden

There is no significant change in this ICR compared to the previous ICR.
 This 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.  Secondly, the growth rate for the industry is
very low, negative or non-existent.

There is however, an adjustment in the labor hour estimate.  The
previous ICR shows a total of 156,610 annual hours.  This renewal ICR
shows a total of 159,972 annual hours, which results in a labor hour
increase of 3,362.  This increase was caused by a mathematical error in
the previous ICR.

There is also a change in the cost estimate.  The previous ICR used a
cost figure that was rounded-up to ($9,446,000).  This ICR uses the
exact cost figure of ($9,446,145) resulting in a small cost increase of
$145.

6(g)  Burden Statement

The annual public reporting and recordkeeping burden for this collection
of information is estimated to average 293 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; 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.

An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to
respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a valid OMB
Control Number.  The OMB Control Numbers for EPA’s regulations are
listed at 40 CFR part 9 and 48 CFR chapter 15.

To comment on the Agency's need for this information, the accuracy of
the provided burden estimates, and any suggested methods for minimizing
respondent burden, including the use of automated collection techniques,
EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID Number
EPA-HQ-OECA-2007-0046.  An electronic version of the public docket is
available at http://www.regulations.gov which may be used to obtain a
copy of the draft collection of information, submit or view public
comments, access the index listing of the content of the docket, and to
access those documents in the public docket that are available
electronically.  When in the system, select “search” than key in the
docket ID number identified in this document.  The documents are also
available for public viewing at the Enforcement and Compliance Docket
and Information Center in the EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West, Room
3334, 1301 Constitution Avenue, N.W., 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 and Information Center Docket is (202)
566-1752.  Also, you can send comments to the Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, 725 17th Street,
N.W., Washington, DC 20503, Attention: Desk Officer for EPA.  Please
include the EPA Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-OECA-2007-0046 and OMB Control
Number 2060-0202 in any correspondence.

Part B of the Supporting Statement

This part is not applicable because no statistical methods were used in
collecting this information.

Table 1:  Annual Respondent Burden and Cost – NSPS for Small
Industrial-Commercial-Institutional Steam Generating Units (40 CFR part
60, subpart Dc)

 	(A)	(B)	(C)	(D)	(E)	(F)	(G)	 (H) 

 Burden item 	Person- hours per occurrence	No. of occurrences per
respondent per year	Person- hours per respondent per year (C=AxB)
Respondents per year (a)	Technical person- hours per year (E=CxD)
Management person-hours per year (Ex0.05)

	Clerical person-hours per year 

(Ex0.1)

	Cost ($) (b) 

1. Applications	N/A	 	 	 	 

	 

2. Survey and Studies	N/A	 	 	 	 

	 

3. Reporting requirements	 	 	 	 	 

	 

    A.  Read instructions c	2	1	2	11	22	1.1	2.2	$1,614.00

    B.  Required activities

     1.  Performance test (2.9 - 8.7

          MW) h                                                         
                   	8	2	16	7	112	5.6	11.2	$8,218.00

         2.  Performance test (8.7 - 29 

             MW) h   	330	2	660	4	2,640	132	264	$193,710.00

     C.   Create information 	See 3B

	     D.   Gather existing information	See 3E

	     E.   Write report  

    Notification of  construction/

    Reconstruction d, g	2	1.7	3.4	4	13.6	0.68	1.36	$998.00

    Notification of modification e, g	2	1.7	3.4	7	23.8	1.19	2.38
$1,746.00

    Notification of actual startup f, g	2	1.7	3.4	11	37.4	1.87	3.74
$2,744.00

    Notification of initial

    performance test g	2	1.7	3.4	11	37.4	1.87	3.74	$2,744.00

    Notification of demo of CEMS g	2	1.7	3.4	11	37.4	1.87	3.74	$2,744.00

    Semiannual reports	16	2	32	235	7,520	376	752	$551,780.00

    Results of performance test	See 3B

	4.  Recordkeeping requirements

  A.  Read instructions	See 3A

	      B.  Plan activities	N/A

	  

      C.  Implement activities	N/A

	  

  D. Develop record system 	N/A

	  

      E. Check computer system, calibrate

           Continuous monitors                                          
                               	1.5	365	547.5	235	128,662.5	6.433.13
12,866.25	$9,440,611.00

      F.  Train personnel	N/A

	  G.  Audits	N/A

	Subtotal

	139,106.1	6,955.31	13,910.61	$10,206,909.00

TOTAL ANNUAL BURDEN AND COST (rounded)

159,972

  $10,206,909

Assumptions:

a.  We have assumed that the average number of respondents that will be
subject to the rule will be 235.  There will be eleven additional new
sources per year that will become subject to the rule over the
three-year period of this ICR.

b.  This ICR uses the following labor rates: $95.32 per hour for
Executive, Administrative, and Managerial labor; $64.60 per hour for
Technical labor, and $40.09 per hour for Clerical labor.  These rates
are from the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor
Statistics, December 2003, “Table 2. Civilian Workers, by occupational
and industry group.” The rates are from column 1, “Total
compensation.”  The rates have been increased by 110 percent to
account for the benefit packages available to those employed by private
industry.

c.  We have assumed that each new respondent will take two hours to read
instructions.

d.  We have assumed that four new respondent will each take two hours to
write notification of construction/reconstruction report.

e.  We have assumed that seven new respondent will each take two hours
to write notification of modification report.

f.  We have assumed that all new respondent will each take two hours to
write the semiannual report two time per year.

g.  We have assumed that occurrences/respondent for new facilities is
based on an average of 1.7 affected facilities per respondent, with an
estimated 10 percent retest

h.  This estimate includes performance test (opacity) for coal, wood and
oil-fired steam generating units and test of continuous emissions
monitor.

Table 2:  Average Annual EPA Burden – NSPS for Small
Industrial-Commercial-Institutional Steam Generating Units (40 CFR part
60, subpart Dc)

	

 	(A)	(B)	(C)	(D)	(E)	(F)	(G)	 (H) 

Activity 	EPA person- hours per occurrence	No. of occurrences per plant 

per year	EPA person- hours per plant per year (C=AxB)	Plants per year
(a)	Technical person- hours per year (E=CxD)	Management person-hours per
year (Ex0.05)

	Clerical person-hours per year 

(Ex0.1)

	Cost {$} (b) 

     Review of notification of construction/ 

     Reconstruction c	2	1.7	3.4	4	13.6	0.68	1.36	$619

 Review of notification of modification c	2	1.7	3.4	7	23.8	1.19	2.38
$1,083

     Review of notification of actual startup c	2	1.7	3.4	11	37.4	1.87
3.74	$1,701

     Review of initial CEMS demonstration c	2	1.7	3.4	11	37.4	1.87	3.74
$1,701

     Review of demonstration of monitoring

      System c	2	1.7	3.4	11	37.4	1.87	3.74	$1,701

     Review of semiannual reports 	8	2	16	235	3,760	188	376	$171,035

TOTAL ANNUAL BURDEN AND COST (rounded)

4,496

  $177,840

Assumptions:

a.  We have assumed that the average number of respondents that will be
subject to the rule will be 235.  There will be eleven additional new
sources that will become subject to the rule over the three-year period
of this ICR.

b.  The cost is based on the following labor rate which incorporates a
1.6 benefits multiplication factor to account for government overhead
expenses.  Managerial rates of $54.66 (GS-13, Step 5, $34.16 x 1.6),
Technical rate of $40.56 (GS-12, Step 1, $25.35 x 1.6), and Clerical
rate of $21.95 (GS-6, Step 3, $13.72 x 1.6).  These rates are from the
Office of Personnel Management (OPM) “2004 General Schedule” which
excludes locality rates of pay.

c.  We have assumed that occurrences/respondent for new facilities are
based on an average of 1.7 affected facilities per respondent.

d. We have assumed that it will take 8 hours two times per year to
review each semiannual report.

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