Document ID: EPA-HQ-OECA-2014-0045-0005
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: New Source Performance Standards for Municipal Waste Combustors
Posted Date: 2018-12-21T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 245 (Friday, December 21, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65671-65672]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-27584]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OECA-2014-0045; FRL-9987-52-OEI]

Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; NSPS for Municipal Waste Combustors 
(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 Waste 
Combustors (EPA ICR No. 1506.14, OMB Control No. 2060-0210), 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 December 31, 
2018. Public comments were previously requested, via the Federal 
Register, on June 27, 2017 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 January 22, 
2019.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OECA-2014-0045, 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, 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 Municipal 
Waste Combustors apply to existing and new facilities with a

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municipal waste combustor unit capacity greater than 225 megagrams per 
day of municipal solid waste. 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 with 40 CFR part 60, subparts Ea and Eb.
    Form numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: Owners and operators of municipal 
waste combustor (MWC) facilities.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 60, 
subparts Ea and Eb).
    Estimated number of respondents: 23.
    Frequency of response: Initially, quarterly and semiannually.
    Total estimated burden: 34,900 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
    Total estimated cost: $3,440,000 (per year), which includes 
$226,000 in annualized capital/startup and/or operation & maintenance 
costs.
    Changes in the estimates: There is an increase in the respondent 
burdens from the most recent ICR. The adjustments are due to a change 
in the number of sources subject to each Subpart, which was revised to 
reflect more recent information obtained through the Agency's research 
within the MWC sector.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. 2018-27584 Filed 12-20-18; 8:45 am]
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