Document ID: EPA-HQ-OAR-2021-0109-0002
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Reinforced Plastic Composites Production
Posted Date: 2022-04-25T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 79 (Monday, April 25, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24293-24294]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-08706]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2021-0109; FRL-9788-01-OMS]

Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Reinforced Plastic Composites 
Production (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 Reinforced Plastic 
Composites Production (EPA ICR Number 1976.10, OMB Control Number 2060-
0509), 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 
April 30, 2022. Public comments were previously requested, via the 
Federal Register, 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 May 25, 2022.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OAR-2021-0109, online using www.regulations.gov (our preferred method) 
or by mail to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental Protection Agency, Mail 
Code 2821T, 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: https://www.epa.gov/dockets.
    Abstract: The National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air 
Pollutants (NESHAP) for the regulations (40 CFR part 63, subpart WWWW) 
apply to both existing facilities and new facilities with reinforced 
plastic composites (RPC) production operations and processes. 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

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essential in determining compliance, and are required of all affected 
facilities subject to NESHAP.
    Form Numbers: 5900-566.
    Respondents/affected entities: Owners and operators of reinforced 
plastic composites production operations and processes.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 63, 
subpart WWWW).
    Estimated number of respondents: 448 (total).
    Frequency of response: Monthly, semiannually, annually.
    Total estimated burden: 38,600 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
    Total estimated cost: $4,570,000 (per year), which includes $0 for 
annualized capital/startup and/or operation & maintenance costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: The increase in burden from the most-
recently approved ICR is due to an increase in adjustment(s). The 
adjustment increase in burden from the most-recently approved ICR is 
due to a change in regulatory requirements stemming from the 2020 RTR 
ICR (EPA ICR No. 1976.09) and the incorporation of its burden into the 
currently-approved ICR. Items added include burden for work practice 
requirements and time to record information. Work practice requirements 
have had a significant impact on the burden since facilities are 
complying with the current regulations through pollution prevention 
measures rather than add-on control devices. The time to complete 
semiannual compliance reports and time to train personnel have also 
been adjusted. Reporting emissions exceedances or no emissions 
exceedances is included in the semiannual compliance reports, and the 
time to train personnel was adjusted to represent facilities of any 
size. In addition, capital/startup and operation and maintenance costs 
have decreased from the previous ICR. It is estimated no new facilities 
will be subject to the rule and that existing facilities are complying 
with the rule using compliant materials instead of add-on control 
devices.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2022-08706 Filed 4-22-22; 8:45 am]
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