Document ID: EPA-HQ-OECA-2020-0203-0002
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: New Source Production Standards (NSPS) for Municipal Solid Waste Landfills (Renewal)
Posted Date: 2021-01-29T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 18 (Friday, January 29, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7552-7553]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-01971]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OECA-2020-0203; FRL-10019-79-OMS]

Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; NSPS for Municipal Solid Waste Landfills 
(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 Municipal Solid Waste 
Landfills (EPA ICR Number 2498.04, OMB Control Number 2060-0697), 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 January 31, 
2021. Public comments were previously requested, via the Federal 
Register, on May 12, 2020 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 March 1, 2021.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OECA-2020-0203 online using www.regulations.gov (our preferred method), 
or by email to docket.oeca@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA Docket Center, 
Environmental Protection Agency, Mail Code 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania 
Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460; and (2) OMB via email to 
oira_submission@omb.eop.gov. Address comments to OMB Desk Officer for 
EPA. 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: Patrick Yellin, Monitoring, 
Assistance, and Media Programs Division, Office of Compliance, Mail 
Code 2227A, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, 
Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 564-2970; fax number: 
(202) 564-0050; email address: yellin.patrick@epa.gov.

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 
www.regulations.gov, or in person at the EPA Docket Center, WJC West, 
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 owners and operators of municipal solid waste 
landfills are required to comply with reporting and record keeping 
requirements for the General Provisions (40 CFR part 60, subpart A), as 
well as for the requirements of 40 CFR part 60 subpart XXX. This 
includes submitting initial notifications, performance tests and 
periodic reports and results, and maintaining records of the occurrence 
and duration of any startup, shutdown, or malfunction in the operation 
of an affected facility, or for any period during which the monitoring 
system is inoperative. These reports are used by EPA to determine 
compliance with these standards.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: Municipal solid waste landfills.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 60 
subpart XXX).
    Estimated number of respondents: 190 (total).
    Frequency of response: Initially, annually.
    Total estimated burden: 176,000 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
    Total estimated cost: $12,500,000 (per year), which includes 
$858,000 in annualized capital/startup and/or operation & maintenance 
costs.
    Changes in the estimates: There is an adjustment increase in the 
total estimated burden as currently identified in the OMB Inventory of 
Approved Burdens. This increase in burden is due to changes in several 
areas. Due to the gap years between the previous ICR and this ICR, the 
number of respondents has been adjusted to reflect the expected number 
of landfills controlling between years 2022 through 2024 based on 
projected emissions, and assuming that in these years landfills will be 
controlling under the more stringent 34 Mg/yr requirements. This ICR 
also reflects the average annual respondents and burden for the rule 
activities following implementation. These adjustments have resulted in 
an increase in the total number of respondents due to sources modifying 
and becoming subject to the regulations. This ICR also reflects the 
implementation of the rule and adjustments to the number of sources 
conducting one-time activities versus recurring activities. The 
previous ICR included many new sources with associated testing and 
capital/startup costs. These costs have decreased in this ICR due to 
these sources having complied with their initial compliance 
requirements during the period of the previous ICR. In this ICR 
renewal, the increase in the number of existing

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sources has led to an increase in O&M costs. More existing sources are 
performing routine surface emission and wellhead monitoring, which is 
labor intensive. We have also adjusted the burden for sources to 
familiarize themselves with the rule, as most sources have been 
complying with rule requirements for the last few years. Although the 
rule has been amended since the previous ICR, these rule changes did 
not result in an increase in burden.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2021-01971 Filed 1-28-21; 8:45 am]
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