Document ID: EPA-HQ-OAR-2022-0022-0002
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: State and Federal Emission Guidelines for Hospital/Medical/Infectious Waste Incinerators
Posted Date: 2023-01-30T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 19 (Monday, January 30, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5875-5876]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-01760]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2022-0022; FRL-10621-01-OMS]

Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the 
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment 
Request; State and Federal Emission Guidelines for Hospital/Medical/
Infectious Waste Incinerators (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), State and Federal Emission 
Guidelines for Hospital/Medical/Infectious Waste Incinerators (EPA ICR 
Number 1899.10, OMB Control Number 2060-0422), 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 July 22, 2022 
during a 60-day comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 
days for public comments.

DATES: Comments may be submitted on or before March 1, 2023.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OAR-2022-0022, 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, 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.

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: This is a proposed extension of the ICR, 
which is currently approved through January 31,

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2023. 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.
    Public comments were previously requested, via the Federal Register 
(87 FR 43843), on July 22, 2022 during a 60-day comment period. This 
notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments. 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 Emission Guidelines (EG) (40 CFR part 60, subpart Ce) 
for Hospital/Medical/Infectious Waste Incinerators were proposed on 
February 27, 1995; promulgated on September 15, 1997; and revised on 
both October 6, 2009 and April 4, 2011. The Federal Plan Requirements 
for these regulations (40 CFR part 62, subpart HHH) were proposed on 
July 6, 1999; promulgated on August 15, 2000; and revised on May 13, 
2013. Subpart Ce requires either states or tribes to develop plans to 
implement the EG. If approvable state or tribal plans were not 
developed, the EPA was required to develop a Federal plan (Subpart HHH) 
to implement the Emission Guidelines for such states and tribes. The 
Federal plan is an interim measure to ensure that emissions standards 
are implemented until states assume their role as the preferred 
implementers of the EG. The 2013 rule finalized amendments to the HMIWI 
federal plan to implement the amended EG adopted on October 6, 2009, 
for those states that did not have an approved revised/new state plan 
in place within 2 years after promulgation of the EG. The regulations 
in 40 CFR part 60, subpart Ce and 40 CFR part 62, subpart HHH apply to 
each existing individual hospital/medical/infectious waste incinerator 
(HMIWI) that either commenced construction prior to December 2, 2008 or 
commenced modification prior to April 6, 2010. This information is 
being collected to assure compliance with 40 CFR part 60, subpart Ce 
and 40 CFR part 62, subpart HHH.
    Form numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: Hospital/Medical/Infectious Waste 
Incinerators.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 60, 
subpart Ce and 40 CFR part 62, subpart HHH).
    Estimated number of respondents: 28 existing respondents, 
consisting of 16 privately-owned, 1 Federally-owned, 1 State/locally 
owned HMIWI facilities, plus 10 States requiring State Plan Inventories 
(total).
    Frequency of response: Semiannually and annually.
    Total estimated burden: 19,200 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
    Total estimated cost: $2,430,000 (per year), which includes 
$239,000 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 a decrease in the number of sources due 
to a decline in the industry. This decrease is not due to any program 
changes. The number of sources has declined as HMIWI units have closed. 
Any new units that either commence construction after December 2, 2008 
or commence modification after April 6, 2010 are subject to the new 
source performance standards at 40 CFR part 60, subpart Ec. The 
decrease in the operation and maintenance costs from the currently-
approved ICR is also due to the decline in the number of HMIWI units. 
There are no changes to the capital costs because there are no new 
entities subject to 40 CFR part 60, subpart Ce or 40 CFR part 62, 
subpart HHH.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2023-01760 Filed 1-27-23; 8:45 am]
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