Document ID: EPA-HQ-OECA-2012-0680-0006
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Emission Guidelines and Compliance Times for Existing Municipal Solid Waste Landfills
Posted Date: 2016-04-25T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 79 (Monday, April 25, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24092-24093]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-09521]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OECA-2012-0680; FRL-9945-27-OEI]

Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; Emission Guidelines and Compliance Times for 
Existing Municipal Solid Waste Landfills (Renewal)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency has submitted an 
information collection request (ICR), ``Emission Guidelines and 
Compliance Times for Existing Municipal Solid Waste Landfills (40 CFR 
part 60, subpart Cc and 40 CFR part 62, subpart GGG) (Renewal)'' (EPA 
ICR No. 1893.07, OMB Control No. 2060-0430), to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with 
the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). This is a 
proposed extension of the ICR, which is currently approved through 
April 30, 2016. Public comments were previously requested via the 
Federal Register (80 FR 32116) on June 5, 2015 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 May 25, 2016.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OECA-2012-0680, to: (1) EPA online using www.regulations.gov (our 
preferred method), or 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; 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.

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    Abstract: Owners and operators of affected facilities are required 
to comply with reporting and record keeping requirements for the 
general provisions of 40 CFR part 60, subpart A and 40 CFR part 62, 
subpart A, as well as for the specific requirements at 40 CFR part 60, 
subpart Cc and 40 CFR part 62, subpart GGG. This includes submitting an 
initial notification reports, 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: Existing municipal solid waste 
landfills.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 60, 
subpart Cc and 40 CFR part 62, subpart GGG).
    Estimated number of respondents: 465 (total).
    Frequency of response: Initially, occasionally and annually.
    Total estimated burden: 38,900 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
    Total estimated cost: $3,080,000 (per year), which includes 
$603,000 in annualized capital/startup and/or operation & maintenance 
costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is a net decrease in the total 
burden associated with privately and publicly owned landfills and State 
and local agencies. This decrease in burden from the most recently 
approved ICR is due to an adjustment to the estimated average number of 
respondents. To account for landfill closures that have occurred since 
the previous ICR was approved, this ICR applies a three percent per 
year landfill closure rate to the previous ICR's estimated number of 
respondents. This results in a decrease in the respondent labor hours, 
labor costs, O&M costs, and number of responses. There is also a 
corresponding decrease in the Agency burden and cost.

Courtney Kerwin,
Acting-Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. 2016-09521 Filed 4-22-16; 8:45 am]
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