Document ID: EPA-HQ-OECA-2012-0497-0008
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: New Source Performance Standards for Fossil Fuel Fired Steam Generating Units
Posted Date: 2019-05-22T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 99 (Wednesday, May 22, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23561-23562]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-10680]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OECA-2012-0497; FRL-9993-13-OMS]

Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; NSPS for Fossil Fuel Fired Steam Generating 
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 Fossil Fuel Fired Steam 
Generating Units (EPA ICR Number 1052.12, OMB Control Number 2060-
0026), 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, 2019. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal 
Register on May 30, 2018 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

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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 21, 2019.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OECA-2012-0497, to: (1) EPA online using www.regulations.gov (our 
preferred method), by email to docket.oeca@epa.gov, 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 
oira_submission@omb.eop.gov. 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: yellin.patrick@epa.gov.

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, EPA 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 these 
regulations (40 CFR part 60 Subpart D) apply to each fossil fuel fired 
steam generating unit with heat input rate of 73 megawatts (MW) (250 
MMbtu/hr) or more, which commenced construction, reconstruction, or 
modification after August 17, 1971. Subpart D regulations apply to both 
electric utility and industrial boilers. Owners and operators of 
affected facilities are required to comply with reporting and record 
keeping requirements for the General Provisions (40 CFR part 60, 
subpart A), as well as for the specific requirements at 40 CFR part 60, 
subpart D. This includes submitting initial notifications, performance 
tests and periodic reports and results, and maintaining 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 reports are used by EPA to 
determine compliance with these standards.
    Form numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: Fossil fuel fired steam generating 
units.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 60 
Subpart D).
    Estimated number of respondents: 660 (total).
    Frequency of response: Initially and semiannually.
    Total estimated burden: 71,500 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
    Total estimated cost: $18,100,000 (per year), which includes 
$9,900,000 in annualized capital/startup and/or operation & maintenance 
costs.
    Changes in the estimates: There is no increase in the total 
estimated burden as currently identified in the OMB Inventory of 
Approved Burdens. The regulations have not changed over the past three 
years and are not anticipated to change over the next three years, and 
there is no significant industry growth.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
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