Document ID: EPA-HQ-OECA-2014-0094-0007
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: New Source Performance Standards for Other Solid Waste Incineration Units
Posted Date: 2018-11-27T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 228 (Tuesday, November 27, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Page 60852]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-25770]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OECA-2014-0094; FRL--9986-02-OEI]

Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; NSPS for Other Solid Waste Incineration 
Units (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 Other Solid Waste 
Incineration Units (EPA ICR Number 2163.06, OMB Control Number 2060-
0563), 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, 2018. Public comments were previously requested, via the 
Federal Register on June 29, 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 December 27, 
2018.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OECA-2014-0094, to: (1) EPA online using 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; and (2) OMB via email 
to [email protected]. 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: [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 
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 New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for Other 
Solid Waste Incineration (OSWI) Units (40 CFR part 60, subpart EEEE) 
apply to very small municipal waste combustion units and institutional 
waste incineration units. A new incineration unit subject to this 
subpart should meet either one of two criteria: (1) Commenced 
construction after December 9, 2004; or (2) commenced reconstruction or 
modification either on or after June 16, 2006. A very small municipal 
waste combustion unit is any municipal waste combustion unit that has 
the capacity to combust less than 35 tons per day of municipal solid 
waste or refuse-derived fuel. An institutional waste incineration unit 
is any combustion unit that combusts institutional waste and is a 
distinct operating unit of the institutional facility that generated 
the waste. Institutional waste is solid waste that is combusted at any 
institutional facility using controlled flame combustion in an 
enclosed, distinct operating unit: Whose design does not provide for 
energy recovery; operated without energy recovery; or operated with 
only waste heat recovery. Institutional waste also means solid waste 
combusted on site in an air curtain incinerator that is a distinct 
operating unit of any institutional facility. 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, subpart EEEE.
    Form numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: OSWI units, which include two 
subcategories: VSMWC units that combust less than 35 tons per day of 
waste and IWI units.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 60 
Subpart EEEE).
    Estimated number of respondents: 110 (total).
    Frequency of response: Initially, semiannually and annually.
    Total estimated burden: 80,800 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
    Total estimated cost: $11,900,000 (per year), which includes 
$2,720,000 in annualized capital/startup and/or operation & maintenance 
costs.
    Changes in the estimates: There is an increase in the labor hours 
or cost in this ICR compared to the previous ICR. The adjustment 
increase in burden from the most-recently approved ICR is due to an 
increase in the number of new or modified sources anticipated to be 
subject to the standard over the three-year period. The adjustment 
increase in burden is due to more accurate estimates of anticipated new 
sources: Based on Agency review, knowledge, and experience with the 
NSPS program and source category, and the growth rate for the industry 
should account for conservative growth and minimal burden. The overall 
result is an increase in burden hours and costs.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2018-25770 Filed 11-26-18; 8:45 am]
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