Document ID: EPA-HQ-OECA-2012-0502-0009
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: New Source Performance Standards for Hospital/Medical/Infectious Waste Incinerators
Posted Date: 2019-05-22T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 99 (Wednesday, May 22, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23562-23563]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-10682]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OECA-2012-0502; FRL-9993-23-OMS]

Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; NSPS for Hospital/Medical/Infectious Waste 
Incinerators (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 Hospital/Medical/
Infectious Waste Incinerators (EPA ICR Number 1730.11, OMB Control 
Number 2060-0363), 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 May 31, 2019. Public comments were previously requested via the 
Federal Register on May 30, 2018 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 June 21, 2019.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OECA-2012-0502, to: (1) EPA online using www.regulations.gov (our 
preferred method), 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.

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, EPA 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 New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for Hospital/
Medical/Infectious Waste Incinerators (40 CFR part 60, subpart Ec) were 
proposed on February 27, 1995, promulgated on September 15, 1997, and 
amended on both October 6, 2009, and February 27, 2014. The original 
standards applied to either owners or operators of Hospital/Medical/
Infectious

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Waste Incinerators (HMIWI) for which construction commenced after June 
20, 1996, or for which modification commenced after March 16, 1998, but 
no later than April 6, 2010. Sources subject to the original standards 
are now covered under the revised Emission Guidelines for HMIWI at 40 
CFR part 60, subpart Ce. This information request covers the reporting 
and recordkeeping requirements associated with the revised NSPS, which 
apply to new facilities only. New facilities include those that 
commenced construction after December 1, 2008 or commenced modification 
after April 6, 2010. This information is being collected to assure 
compliance with 40 CFR part 60, subpart Ec.
    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, and are required of 
all affected facilities subject to NSPS.
    Form numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: Hospital/medical/infectious waste 
incinerators.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 60, 
subpart Ec).
    Estimated number of respondents: 11 (total).
    Frequency of response: Initially, semiannually and annually.
    Total estimated burden: 7,410 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
    Total estimated cost: $1,360,000 (per year), which includes 
$519,000 in annualized capital/startup and/or operation & maintenance 
costs.
    Changes in the estimates: There is an increase in the total 
estimated respondent burden compared with the ICR currently-approved by 
OMB. This is due to an increase in the estimated number of sources 
subject to the regulations and is not caused by program changes. We 
estimate the industry will continue to grow at the rate of one new 
source per year. This results in increases in the respondent labor 
hours, number of responses, and capital and O&M costs.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2019-10682 Filed 5-21-19; 8:45 am]
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