Document ID: EPA-HQ-OAR-2021-0126-0002
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Polyvinyl Chloride and Copolymers Production Area Sources
Posted Date: 2022-05-26T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 102 (Thursday, May 26, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32018-32019]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-11348]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2021-0126; FRL-9862-01-OMS]

Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Polyvinyl Chloride and Copolymers 
Production Area Sources (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), NESHAP for Polyvinyl Chloride and 
Copolymers Production Area Sources (EPA ICR Number 2454.05, OMB Control 
Number 2060-0684), 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, 2022. Public comments were previously requested via the 
Federal Register (86 FR 19256) on April 13, 2021 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 27, 2022.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OAR-2021-0126, online using https://www.regulations.gov/ (our preferred 
method), 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. 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: Muntasir Ali, Sector Policies and 
Program Division (D243-05), Office of Air Quality Planning and 
Standards, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle 
Park, North Carolina, 27711; telephone number: (919) 541-0833; 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 
https://www.regulations.gov, or in person, at the EPA Docket Center, 
WJC West Building, 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 National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air 
Pollutants (NESHAP) for Polyvinyl Chloride and Copolymers Production 
Area Sources (40 CFR part 63, subpart DDDDDD) apply to existing 
facilities and new PVC and copolymer production facilities that are an 
area source of hazardous air pollutants (HAP). This ICR includes burden 
estimates for area sources only. Major sources are regulated under 
NESHAP Subpart HHHHHHH and their burdens are included in a separate ICR 
(OMB Control Number 2060-0666). New facilities include those that 
either commenced construction or reconstruction after the date of 
proposal. In general, all NESHAP 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 the 
NESHAP. This information is being collected to assure compliance with 
40 CFR part 63, subpart DDDDDD.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: Polyvinyl chloride and copolymer 
production area source facilities.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR 63, Subpart 
DDDDDD).
    Estimated number of respondents: 3 (total).
    Frequency of response: Initially, occasionally, and semiannually.
    Total estimated burden: 73,300 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
    Total estimated cost: $9,670,000 (per year), which includes 
$1,000,000 in annualized capital/startup and/or operation & maintenance 
costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: The decrease in burden from the most-
recently approved ICR is due to three adjustments. There is an 
adjustment decrease in the total estimated burden as currently 
identified in the OMB Inventory of Approved Burdens. The adjustment 
decrease in burden from the most-recently approved ICR is due to a 
decrease in the number of respondents. The most-recently approved ICR 
estimated 4 area source facilities; however, one facility has ceased 
operations, as reflected in the ICR for the most recent proposed rule 
(85 FR 71490, November 9, 2020), which was previously submitted to OMB 
for approval. Therefore, this ICR renewal considers there to be 3 area 
source facilities.
    The adjustment decrease is offset by corrections to burden 
estimates for resin sampling, PRD electronic monitor review, 
gasholders, storage vessels, and ongoing inspections of bypasses and to 
the number of occurrences per year for recordkeeping requirements to 
more accurately reflect facility activities as shown in Table 1: Annual 
Respondent Burden and Cost--NESHAP for Polyvinyl Chloride and 
Copolymers Production Area Sources (40 CFR part 63, subpart DDDDDD) 
(Renewal).
    There is a decrease in the operation and maintenance (O&M) costs as 
calculated in section 6(b)(iii) compared

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with the costs in the previous ICR. This decrease in costs is due to a 
decrease in the number of respondents and corrections made to the 
annual O&M costs for VC ambient monitoring and resin sampling and 
monitoring to more accurately reflect the number of monitors per 
facility and cost of monthly maintenance and service of a lab GC. The 
decrease is offset somewhat by corrections made to the cost estimates 
for uncontrolled wastewater testing and uncontrolled wastewater Non-VC 
TOHAP testing to more-accurately reflect the number of waste streams 
sampled per facility.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2022-11348 Filed 5-25-22; 8:45 am]
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