Document ID: EPA-HQ-OAR-2022-0058-0002
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: New Source Performance Standards for Sewage Sludge Treatment Plants (Renewal)
Posted Date: 2023-02-24T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 37 (Friday, February 24, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Page 11917]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-03823]

[[Page 11917]]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2022-0058; FRL-10749-01-OMS]

Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the 
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment 
Request; NSPS for Sewage Sludge Treatment Plants (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 Sewage Sludge Treatment 
Plants (EPA ICR Number 1063.15, OMB Control Number 2060-0035), 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 March 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 27, 2023.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OAR-2022-0058, to EPA online using 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.
    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: This is a proposed extension of the ICR, 
which is currently approved through March 31, 2023. 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.
    Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register 
on July 22, 2022 during a 60-day comment period (87 FR 438434). 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 www.regulations.gov or in person at the EPA 
Docket Center, WJC 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 Sewage 
Sludge Treatment Plants (40 CFR part 60, subpart O) were proposed on 
August 17, 1971; promulgated on December 23, 1971; and most-recently 
amended on February 27, 2014. These regulations apply to each 
incinerator which either combusts wastes that contain more than 10 
percent sewage sludge (dry basis) produced by municipal sewage 
treatment plants or each incinerator which charges more than 1,000 kg 
(2,205 lb) per day municipal sewage sludge (dry basis). New facilities 
include those that either commenced construction, modification, or 
reconstruction after the date of proposal. These standards set emission 
limitation for particulate matter (PM). This information is being 
collected to assure compliance with 40 CFR part 60, subpart O.
    In general, all NESHAP standards require initial notifications, 
performance tests, and periodic reports by 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 notification, reports, and 
records are essential in determining compliance, and are required of 
all affected facilities subject to NSPS.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: Sewage sludge treatment plants.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 60, 
subpart O).
    Estimated number of respondents: 103 facilities (total).
    Frequency of response: Initially, occasionally, and semiannually.
    Total estimated burden: 12,000 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
    Total estimated cost: $5,250,000 (per year), which includes 
$3,810,000 in annualized capital/startup and/or operation & maintenance 
costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is an adjustment increase in the 
total estimated burden as currently identified in the OMB Inventory of 
Approved Burdens. The adjustment increase in burden from the most-
recently approved ICR is due to more accurate estimates of existing and 
anticipated new sources. There is an increase in the capital and O&M 
costs due to the updated estimates of existing and anticipated new 
sources.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2023-03823 Filed 2-23-23; 8:45 am]
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