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Posted Date: 2003-04-14T04:00Z

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SF­
83
SUPPORTING
STATEMENT
ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION
AGENCY
STANDARDS
OF
PERFORMANCE
NSPS
Subpart
KK
Lead­
Acid
Battery
Manufacturing
Plants
1.
Identification
of
the
Information
Collection
1(
a)
Title
of
the
Information
Collection
ICR
for
NSPS,
Subpart
KK
­
Information
Requirements
for
Lead­
Acid
Battery
Manufacturing
Plants.

1(
b)
Short
Characterization/
Abstract
The
New
Source
Performance
Standards
(
NSPS)
for
Lead­
Acid
Battery
Manufacturing
Plants
were
proposed
on
January
14,
1980
and
promulgated
on
April
16,
1982.
These
standards
apply
to
the
following
facilities
in
NSPS
Subpart
KK,
lead­
acid
battery
manufacturing
plants
with
production
capacity
that
is
equal
to
or
exceeds
6.5
tons
of
lead:
grid
casting
facilities,
paste
mixing
facilities,
three­
process
operation
facilities,
lead­
oxide
manufacturing
facilities,
lead
reclamation
facilities,
and
other
lead­
emitting
operations,
commencing
construction,
modification,
or
reconstruction
after
the
date
of
proposal.
This
information
is
being
collected
to
assure
compliance
with
40
CFR
Part
60,
Subpart
KK.
Owners
or
operators
of
the
affected
facilities
described
must
make
one­
time­
only
notifications.
Owners
or
operators
are
also
required
to
maintain
records
of
the
occurrence
and
duration
of
any
startup,
shutdown,
or
malfunction
in
the
operation
of
any
affected
facility.
Monitoring
requirements
specific
to
NSPS,
Subpart
KK
provide
information
on
the
operation
of
the
scrubber
device
and
compliance
with
the
particulate
matter
and
opacity
standards.
These
notifications,
reports,
and
records
are
essential
in
determining
compliance;
and
are
required,
in
general,
of
all
sources
subject
to
NSPS.
Any
owner
or
operator
subject
to
the
provisions
of
this
part
shall
maintain
a
file
of
these
measurements,
and
retain
the
file
for
at
least
two
years
following
the
date
of
such
measurements,
maintenance
reports,
and
records.
Approximately
82
sources
are
currently
subject
to
the
standard,
and
it
is
estimated
that
no
additional
sources
will
become
subject
to
the
standard
in
the
next
three
years.
These
numbers
are
consistent
with
the
numbers
in
the
previously
approved
ICR
and
are
based
on
data
in
EPA's
Aerometric
Information
Retrieval
System
(
AIRS)
database
and
a
1995
EPA
survey
of
the
leadacid
battery
manufacturing
industry.
The
cost
of
this
ICR
will
be
$
24,757.62.
All
reports
are
sent
to
the
delegated
State
or
Local
authority.
In
the
event
that
there
is
no
such
delegated
authority,
the
reports
are
sent
directly
to
the
EPA
Regional
Office.
2
2.
Need
for
and
Use
of
the
Collection
2(
a)
Need/
Authority
for
the
Collection
The
EPA
is
charged
under
Section
111
of
the
Clean
Air
Act,
as
amended,
to
establish
standards
of
performance
for
new
stationary
sources
that
reflect:

.
.
.
application
of
the
best
technological
system
of
continuous
emissions
reduction
which
(
taking
into
consideration
the
cost
of
achieving
such
emissions
reduction,
or
any
nonair
quality
health
and
environmental
impact
and
energy
requirements)
the
Administrator
determines
has
been
adequately
demonstrated
[
Section
111(
a)(
l)].

The
Agency
refers
to
this
charge
as
selecting
the
best
demonstrated
technology
(
BDT).
Section
111
also
requires
that
the
Administrator
review
and,
if
appropriate,
revise
such
standards
every
four
years.
In
addition,
Section
114(
a)
states
that:

.
.
.
the
Administrator
may
require
any
owner
or
operator
subject
to
any
requirement
of
this
Act
to:
(
A)
establish
and
maintain
such
records,
(
B)
make
such
reports,
(
C)
install,
use,
and
maintain
such
monitoring
equipment
or
methods
(
in
accordance
with
such
methods
at
such
locations,
at
such
intervals,
and
in
such
manner
as
the
Administrator
shall
prescribe),
and
(
D)
sample
such
emissions,
(
E)
Keep
records
on
control
equipment
parameters,
production
variables
or
other
indirect
data
when
direct
monitoring
of
emissions
is
impractical,
(
F)
submit
compliance
certifications,
and
(
G)
provide
such
other
information
as
he
may
reasonably
require.

In
the
Administrator's
judgment,
lead
emissions
from
lead­
acid
battery
plants
cause
or
contribute
to
air
pollution
that
may
reasonably
be
anticipated
to
endanger
public
health
or
welfare.
Therefore,
NSPS
were
promulgated
for
this
source
category
at
40
CFR
Part
60
Subpart
KK.

2(
b)
PRACTICAL
UTILITY/
USERS
OF
THE
DATA
The
control
of
emissions
of
lead
from
lead­
acid
battery
manufacturing
plants
requires
not
only
the
installation
of
properly
designed
equipment,
but
also
the
operation
and
maintenance
of
that
equipment.
Emissions
of
lead
in
the
production
of
lead­
acid
batteries
are
the
result
of
the
operation
of
grid
casting,
paste
mixing,
three­
process
operation,
lead
oxide,
and
lead
reclamation
facilities,
as
well
as
any
other
lead­
emitting
operations.
These
standards
rely
on
the
capture
of
lead
emissions
by
control
devices
such
as
scrubbers.
The
required
notifications
are
used
to
inform
the
Agency
or
delegated
authority
when
a
source
becomes
subject
to
the
standard.
The
reviewing
authority
may
then
inspect
the
source
to
check
if
the
pollution
control
devices
are
properly
installed
and
operated
and
the
standard
is
being
met.
Performance
test
reports
are
needed
as
these
are
the
Agency's
record
of
a
source's
initial
capability
to
comply
with
the
emission
standard,
and
serve
as
a
record
of
the
operating
conditions
under
which
compliance
was
3
achieved.
Operating
conditions
include
lead
emission
concentration
in
the
gas
stream,
volumetric
flow
rate
of
the
effluent
gas,
lead
feed
rate
to
the
facility,
number
of
emission
points,
and
opacity
of
gases
during
operation
of
an
affected
facility.
The
information
generated
by
the
monitoring,
recordkeeping
and
reporting
requirements
described
in
this
ICR
is
used
by
the
Agency
to
ensure
that
facilities
affected
by
the
NSPS
continue
to
operate
the
control
equipment
and
achieve
compliance
with
the
regulation.
Adequate
monitoring,
recordkeeping,
and
reporting
is
necessary
to
ensure
compliance
with
these
standards,
as
required
by
the
Clean
Air
Act.
The
information
collected
from
recordkeeping
and
reporting
requirements
is
also
used
for
targeting
inspections,
and
is
of
sufficient
quality
to
be
used
as
evidence
in
court.

3.
Nonduplication,
Consultations,
and
Other
Collection
Criteria
3(
a)
Nonduplication
The
recordkeeping
and
reporting
requested
is
required
under
40
CFR
Part
60,
Subpart
KK.
If
the
standard
has
not
been
delegated
the
information
is
sent
to
the
appropriate
EPA
Regional
Office.
Otherwise,
the
information
is
sent
directly
to
the
delegated
State
or
Local
Agency.
If
a
State
or
Local
Agency
has
adopted
their
own
similar
regulation
to
implement
the
Federal
Regulation,
a
copy
of
the
report
submitted
to
the
State
or
Local
Agency
can
be
sent
to
the
Administrator
in
lieu
of
the
report
required
by
the
Federal
Standard.
Therefore,
no
duplication
exists.

3(
b)
Public
Notice
Required
Prior
to
ICR
Submission
to
OMB
An
announcement
of
a
public
comment
period
for
the
renewal
of
this
ICR
was
published
in
the
Federal
Register
on
October
29,
1999.

3(
c)
Consultations
No
comments
were
received
on
the
burden
published
in
the
Federal
Register
on
October
29,
1999.

3(
d)
Effects
of
Less
Frequent
Collection
Less
frequent
information
collection
would
decrease
the
margin
of
assurance
that
facilities
are
continuing
to
meet
the
required
standards.
Requirements
for
information
gathering
and
recordkeeping
are
useful
techniques
to
ensure
that
good
operation
and
maintenance
practices
are
applied
and
emission
limitations
are
met.
If
the
information
required
by
these
standards
was
collected
less
frequently,
the
likelihood
of
detecting
poor
operation
and
maintenance
of
control
equipment
and
noncompliance
would
decrease.

3(
e)
General
Guidelines
4
None
of
the
reporting
or
recordkeeping
requirements
contained
in
40
CFR
Part
60,
Subpart
KK
or
otherwise
pertinent
to
this
request
violate
any
of
the
regulations
established
by
OMB
in
5
CFR
1320.6.

3(
f)
Confidentiality
The
required
information
consists
of
emissions
data
and
other
information
that
have
been
determined
not
to
be
private.
However,
any
information
submitted
to
the
Agency
for
which
a
claim
of
confidentiality
is
made
will
be
safeguarded
according
to
the
Agency
policies
set
forth
in
Title
40,
Chapter
1,
Part
2,
Subpart
B
­
Confidentiality
of
Business
Information
(
see
40
CFR
2;
41
FR
36902,
September
1,
1976;
amended
by
43
FR
40000,
September
8,
1978;
43
FR
42251,
September
20,
1978;
44
FR
17674,
March
23,
1979).

3(
g)
Sensitive
Questions
None
of
the
reporting
or
recordkeeping
requirements
contained
in
40
CFR
Part
60,
Subpart
KK
or
otherwise
pertinent
to
this
request
contain
sensitive
questions.

4.
The
Respondents
and
the
Information
Requested
4(
a)
Respondents/
SIC
Codes
The
respondents
of
the
recordkeeping
and
reporting
requirements
are
owners
or
operators
of
lead­
acid
battery
manufacturing
plants
that
produce
or
have
the
capacity
to
produce
in
one
day
(
24
hours)
batteries
containing
an
amount
of
lead
equal
to
or
greater
than
6.5
tons
and
that
commenced
construction,
modification,
or
reconstruction
after
January
14,
1980.
They
are
listed
under
SIC
Code
3691.
The
government
is
in
the
process
of
transitioning
to
the
new
North
American
Industrial
Classification
System
(
NAICS).
The
NAICS
code
for
this
industry
is
335911.
4(
b)
INFORMATION
REQUESTED
(
I)
Data
Items
All
data
in
this
ICR
that
is
recorded
and/
or
reported
is
required
by
40
CFR
Part
60,
Subpart
KK,
Lead­
Acid
Battery
Manufacturing
Plants.

A
source
must
make
the
following
reports
5
Notification
Reports
Construction/
reconstruction
60.7(
a)(
1)

Anticipated
startup
60.7(
a)(
2)

Actual
startup
60.7(
a)(
3)

Initial
performance
test
60.8(
d)

Physical
or
operational
change
60.7(
a)(
4)

Reports
Initial
performance
test
results
60.8
(
a),

A
source
must
keep
the
following
records.

Recordkeeping
Startups,
shutdowns,
malfunctions,
periods
where
the
continuous
monitoring
system
is
inoperative
60.7(
b)

Performance
test
records
60.7(
d)

Pressure
drop
monitoring
records
for
sources
using
a
scrubber
system.
Note:
The
pressure
flow
monitors
must
automatically
record
pressure
drop
at
least
once
every
fifteen
minutes.
60.7(
e)
and
60.373
Records
are
required
to
be
retained
for
two
years.
ii.
Respondent
Activities
Respondent
Activities
Read
instructions.

Install,
calibrate,
maintain,
and
operate
CMS
for
measuring
pressure
drop
for
scrubber(
s),
if
the
source
is
utilizing
a
scrubber
system.

Perform
initial
performance
test,
Reference
Method
12
for
determination
of
lead
concentration
and
volumetric
flow
rate,
Method
9
for
determination
of
opacity,
and
repeat
performance
tests
if
necessary.

Write
the
notifications
and
reports
listed
above.
Respondent
Activities
6
Enter
information
required
to
be
recorded
above.

Submit
the
required
reports
developing,
acquiring,
installing,
and
utilizing
technology
and
systems
for
the
purpose
of
collecting,
validating,
and
verifying
information.

Develop,
acquire,
install,
and
utilize
technology
and
systems
for
the
purpose
of
processing
and
maintaining
information.

Develop,
acquire,
install,
and
utilize
technology
and
systems
for
the
purpose
of
disclosing
and
providing
information.

Adjust
the
existing
ways
to
comply
with
any
previously
applicable
instructions
and
requirements.

Train
personnel
to
be
able
to
respond
to
a
collection
of
information.

Transmit,
or
otherwise
disclose
the
information.

We
believe
that
many
regulatory
agencies
are
allowing
sources
to
submit
reports
by
means
of
a
disk
or
electronically.

5.
The
Information
Collected
­­
Agency
Activities,
Collection
Methodology,
and
Information
Management
5(
a)
Agency
Activities
EPA
conducts
the
following
activities
in
connection
with
the
acquisition,
analysis,
storage,
and
distribution
of
the
information
required
under
40
CFR
Part
60,
Subpart
KK:

Agency
Activities
Observe
initial
performance
tests
and
repeat
performance
tests
if
necessary.

Review
notifications
and
reports,
including
performance
test
reports,
and
excess
emissions
reports,
required
to
be
submitted
by
industry.

Audit
facility
records.

Input,
analyze,
and
maintain
data
in
the
Aerometric
Information
Retrieval
System
(
AIRS)
database.

5(
b)
Collection
Methodology
and
Management
7
Following
notification
of
startup,
the
reviewing
authority
might
inspect
the
source
to
determine
whether
the
pollution
control
devices
are
properly
installed
and
operated.
Performance
test
reports
are
used
by
the
Agency
to
discern
a
source's
initial
capability
to
comply
with
the
emission
standard,
and
note
the
operating
conditions
under
which
compliance
was
achieved.
Data
and
records
maintained
by
the
respondents
are
tabulated
and
published
for
use
in
compliance
and
enforcement
programs.
Information
contained
in
the
reports
is
entered
into
AIRS
which
is
operated
and
maintained
by
EPA's
Office
of
Air
Quality
Planning
and
Standards.
AIRS
is
EPA's
database
for
the
collection,
maintenance,
and
retrieval
of
compliance
and
annual
emission
inventory
data
for
over
100,000
industrial
and
government­
owned
facilities.
EPA
uses
AIRS
for
tracking
air
pollution
compliance
and
enforcement
by
Local
and
State
regulatory
agencies,
and
EPA
Regional
Offices
and
Headquarters.
EPA
and
its
delegated
Authorities
can
edit,
store,
retrieve
and
analyze
the
data.
The
records
required
by
this
regulation
must
be
retained
by
the
owner
or
operator
for
two
years.

5(
c)
Small
Entity
Flexibility
The
recordkeeping
and
reporting
requirements
were
selected
within
the
context
of
a
small
collection
of
process
equipment
and
reflect
the
burden
on
small
businesses.
To
the
extent
that
larger
businesses
can
use
economies
of
scale
to
reduce
their
burden,
the
overall
burden
will
be
reduced.
Although
the
recordkeeping
and
reporting
requirements
are
the
same
for
small
and
larger
businesses,
the
Agency
considers
these
requirements
the
minimum
needed
to
ensure
compliance
and,
therefore,
cannot
reduce
them
further
for
small
businesses.

5(
d)
Collection
Schedule
The
specific
frequency
for
each
information
collection
activity
within
this
request
is
shown
on
Table
2.

6.
Estimating
the
Burden
and
Cost
of
the
Collection
Table
2
documents
the
computation
of
individual
burdens
for
each
of
the
recordkeeping
and
reporting
requirements
applicable
to
the
industry.
The
individual
burdens
are
expressed
under
standardized
headings
believed
to
be
consistent
with
the
concept
of
burden
under
the
Paperwork
Reduction
Act.
Where
appropriate,
specific
tasks
and
major
assumptions
have
been
identified.
Responses
to
this
information
collection
are
mandatory
(
40
CFR
Part
60,
Subpart
KK).
The
Agency
may
not
conduct
or
sponsor,
and
a
person
is
not
required
to
respond
to,
a
collection
of
information
unless
it
displays
a
currently
valid
OMB
control
number.

6(
a)
Estimating
Respondent
Burden
8
The
average
annual
burden
to
industry
over
the
next
three
years
from
these
recordkeeping
and
reporting
requirements
is
estimated
at
123
person­
hours.
These
hours
are
based
on
Agency
studies
and
background
documents
from
the
development
of
the
standards
or
test
methods,
Agency
knowledge
and
experience
with
the
NSPS
program,
the
previously
approved
ICR,
and
any
comments
received.
6(
b)
Estimating
Respondent
Costs
(
I)
Estimating
Labor
Costs
This
ICR
uses
technical
labor
rates
of
$
26.16
plus
110%
overhead
which
equals
$
54.94.
These
rates
are
from
the
United
States
Department
of
Commerce
Bureau
of
Labor
Statistics,
March
1999,
Table
10:
Employment
Costs
for
Private
Industry
by
Occupational
and
Industry
Group.
The
rates
are
from
column
1:
Total
compensation.
The
wage
rates
have
been
loaded
by
adding
110%
overhead.
Only
technical
labor
rates
are
used
because
most
of
this
standard's
requirements
involve
initial
reporting
of
performance
tests
for
new
sources
which
is
not
anticipated
to
occur
in
the
next
three
years
or
recordkeeping
at
existing
sources
of
startups,
shutdowns
and
malfunctions
.

(
ii)
Estimating
Capital
and
Operations
and
Maintenance
Costs
The
type
of
industry
costs
associated
with
the
information
collection
activity
in
the
standards
are
labor
and
pressure
flow
monitoring
devices
for
all
facilities
complying
with
the
use
of
a
scrubber
system.
The
capital
start
up
costs
are
one
time
costs
when
a
facility
becomes
subject
to
the
standard.
There
are
no
capital
start
up
costs
for
this
regulation
since
there
are
no
new
sources
anticipated
during
the
next
three
years.
The
annual
operations
and
maintenance
costs
are
$
18,000.00.
This
is
based
on
an
estimate
of
20
of
the
82
existing
sources
having
scrubber
systems
and
this
number
has
been
multiplied
by
$
900.00
for
the
upkeep
of
the
monitoring
device.
The
total
respondent
costs
have
been
calculated
on
the
addition
of
the
capital
start
up
costs
and
the
annual
operations
and
maintenance
costs.
The
average
annual
burden
for
capital
and
operations
and
maintenance
costs
to
industry
over
the
next
three
years
of
the
ICR
is
estimated
to
be
$
24,
757.62.

(
iii)
Capital/
Start­
up
vs.
Operating
and
Maintenance
(
O&
M)
Costs
Monitoring
device
Start
up
cost
($)
Annual
O&
M
costs
per
source($)
Continuous
monitor
N/
A
(
no
new
sources)
$
900.00
that
measures
and
records
pressure
flow
rate
at
least
once
every
fifteen
minutes
across
the
scrubber
system.

It
is
estimated
that
20
of
the
82
affected
sources
have
a
scrubber
system(
s)
and
are
therefore,
required
to
operate
and
maintain
a
pressure
flow
rate
monitor.
9
6(
c)
Estimating
Agency
Burden
and
Cost
The
only
Federal
costs
are
user
costs
associated
with
analysis
of
the
reported
information.
Publication
and
distribution
of
the
information
are
part
of
the
AIRS
program.
Examination
of
records
to
be
maintained
by
the
respondents
will
occur
as
part
of
the
periodic
inspection
of
sources,
which
is
part
of
EPA's
overall
compliance
and
enforcement
program.
The
average
annual
Federal
Government
cost
during
the
3
years
of
the
ICR
is
an
estimated
$
0.00.
Details
of
this
estimate
appear
in
Table
1:
Agency
Burden.

6(
d)
Estimating
the
Respondent
Universe
and
Total
Burden
and
Costs
The
number
of
existing
sources
subject
to
NSPS
Subpart
KK
is
82.
The
number
of
new
sources
subject
to
NSPS
Subpart
KK
is
zero.
The
number
of
total
respondents
is
82.
This
is
the
number
of
existing
sources
plus
the
number
of
sources
anticipated
in
one
year.
The
total
annual
responses
is
123.
This
number
is
calculated
from
the
number
of
new
sources
multiplied
by
the
number
of
initial
reports,
plus
the
number
of
existing
sources
multiplied
by
the
recordkeeping
requirements.
The
total
annual
labor
costs
are
$
6,757.62
and
total
annual
capital
and
O&
M
costs
to
the
regulated
entity
are
$
18,000.00.
Details
upon
which
this
estimate
is
based
appear
in
Table
2:
Industry
Burden.

6(
e)
Bottom
Line
Burden
Hours
And
Cost
Tables
See
attached
Tables
1
and
2.

6(
f)
Reasons
for
Change
in
Burden
.
The
labor
rate
increased
and
operation
and
maintenance
costs
for
a
pressure
rate
monitoring
device
for
those
facilities
with
scrubbers
was
added
since
the
most
recently
approved
ICR
.
There
has
been
no
change
in
the
number
of
sources/
burden
hours.

6(
g)
Burden
Statement
Burden
means
the
total
time,
effort,
or
financial
resources
expended
by
persons
to
generate,
maintain,
retain,
or
disclose
or
provide
information
to
or
for
a
Federal
agency.
This
includes
the
time
needed
to
review
instructions;
develop,
acquire,
install,
and
utilize
technology
and
systems
for
the
purposes
of
collecting,
validating,
and
verifying
information,
processing
and
maintaining
information,
and
disclosing
and
providing
information;
adjust
the
existing
ways
to
comply
with
any
previously
applicable
instructions
and
requirements;
train
personnel
to
be
able
to
respond
to
a
collection
of
information;
search
data
sources;
complete
and
review
the
collection
of
information;
and
transmit
or
otherwise
disclose
the
information.
An
agency
may
not
conduct
or
sponsor,
and
a
person
is
not
required
to
respond
to,
a
collection
of
information
unless
it
displays
a
currently
valid
OMB
control
number.
The
OMB
control
numbers
for
EPA's
regulations
are
listed
10
in
40
CFR
Part
9
and
48
CFR
Chapter
15.
Send
comments
on
the
Agency's
need
for
this
information,
the
accuracy
of
the
provided
burden
estimates,
and
any
suggested
methods
for
minimizing
respondent
burden,
including
through
the
use
of
automated
collection
techniques
to
the
Director,
Collection
Strategies
Division,
U.
S.
Environmental
Protection
Agency
(
2822),
1200
Pennsylvania
Ave.,
NW,
Washington,
D.
C.
20460;
and
to
the
Office
of
Information
and
Regulatory
Affairs,
Office
of
Management
and
Budget,
725
17th
Street,
NW,
Washington,
DC
20503,
Attention:
Desk
Officer
for
EPA.
Include
the
EPA
ICR
number
and
OMB
control
number
in
any
correspondence.
Part
B
of
the
Supporting
Statement
This
part
is
not
applicable
because
no
statistical
methods
were
used
in
collecting
this
information.