Document ID: EPA-HQ-OAR-2022-0074-0002
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: New Source Performance Standards for Secondary Brass and Bronze Production, Primary Copper Smelters, etc.
Posted Date: 2022-11-28T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 227 (Monday, November 28, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 72990-72991]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-25797]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2022-0074; FRL-10455-01-OMS]

Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; NSPS for Secondary Brass and Bronze 
Production, Primary Copper Smelters, Primary Zinc Smelters, Primary 
Lead Smelters, Primary Aluminum Reduction Plants, and Ferroalloy 
Production Facilities (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 Secondary Brass and 
Bronze Production, Primary Copper Smelters, Primary Zinc Smelters, 
Primary Lead Smelters, Primary Aluminum Reduction Plants, and 
Ferroalloy Production Facilities (EPA ICR Number 1604.13, OMB Control 
Number 2060-0110), 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 January 31, 2023. Public comments were previously requested, 
via the Federal Register, on April 8, 2022, 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 28, 
2022.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OAR-2022-0074, to EPA online using https://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,

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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 New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for Secondary 
Brass and Bronze Production (40 CFR part 60, subpart M) apply to both 
existing facilities and new facilities that commenced either 
construction or modification after June 11, 1973. These standards apply 
to the following facilities in secondary brass or bronze production 
plants: reverberatory and electric furnaces of 1,000 kg or greater 
production capacity and blast (cupola) furnaces of 250 kg/hr or greater 
production capacity. Furnaces from which molten brass or bronze are 
cast into the shape of finished products, such as foundry furnaces, are 
not considered to be affected facilities. The NSPS for Primary Copper 
Smelters (40 CFR part 60, subpart P) apply to both existing facilities 
and new facilities that commenced either construction or modification 
after October 16, 1974. These standards apply to the following 
facilities in primary copper smelters: dryer, roaster, smelting 
furnace, and copper converter. The NSPS for Primary Zinc Smelters (40 
CFR part 60, subpart Q) apply to both existing facilities and new 
facilities that commenced either construction or modification after 
October 16, 1974. These standards apply to the following facilities in 
primary zinc smelters: roaster and sintering machines. The NSPS for 
Primary Lead Smelters (40 CFR part 60, subpart R) apply to both 
existing facilities and new facilities that commenced either 
construction or modification after October 16, 1974. These standards 
apply to the following facilities in primary lead smelters: sintering 
machine, sintering machine discharge end, blast furnace, dross 
reverberatory furnace, electric smelting furnace, and converter. The 
NSPS for Primary Aluminum Reduction Plants (40 CFR part 60, subpart S) 
apply to both existing facilities and new facilities that commenced 
either construction or modification after October 23, 1974. These 
standards apply to the following facilities in primary aluminum 
reduction plants: potroom groups and anode bake plants. The NSPS for 
Ferroalloy Production Facilities (40 CFR part 60, subpart Z) apply to 
both existing facilities and new facilities that commenced either 
construction or modification after October 21, 1974. These standards 
apply to the following facilities in ferroalloy production plants: 
electric submerged arc furnaces which produce silicon metal, 
ferrosilicon, calcium silicon, silicomanganese zirconium, ferrochrome 
silicon, silvery iron, high-carbon ferrochrome, charge chrome, standard 
ferromanganese, silicomanganese, ferromanganese silicon, or calcium 
carbide; and dust-handling equipment.
    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: Owners and operators or secondary 
brass and bronze production facilities, primary copper smelters, 
primary zinc smelters, primary lead smelters, primary aluminum 
reduction plants, and ferroalloy production facilities.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR 60, subparts 
M, P, Q, R, S, and Z).
    Estimated number of respondents: 14 (total).
    Frequency of response: Monthly, semiannually, annually.
    Total estimated burden: 2,008 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
    Total estimated cost: $349,000 (per year), which includes $107,000 
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 an adjustment(s). Based on information 
collected by the Agency, all facilities subject to 40 CFR part 60, 
subpart S are complying with MACT Subpart LL for potroom groups and 
anode back furnaces as an alternative to the NSPS requirements. In 
addition, the MACT rule requirements for anode bake plants are more 
stringent and superseded the NSPS requirements for such affected 
facility. We assume all facilities subject to this NSPS will continue 
to comply with the MACT instead; therefore, this ICR adjusts the burden 
for Subpart S to reflect no respondents. In addition, Capital/Startup 
vs. O&M costs have decreased due to the same reasons as stated above.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2022-25797 Filed 11-25-22; 8:45 am]
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