Document ID: EPA-HQ-OECA-2011-0275-0008
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: NESHAP for Hydrochloric Acid Production (Renewal)
Posted Date: 2019-03-26T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 58 (Tuesday, March 26, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11294-11295]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-05745]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OECA-2011-0275; FRL-9990-21-OEI]

Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Hydrochloric Acid Production 
(Renewal)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency has submitted an 
information collection request (ICR), NESHAP for Hydrochloric Acid 
Production (EPA ICR Number 2032.10, OMB Control Number 2060-0529), 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, 
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 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 April 25, 
2019.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OECA-2011-0275, 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

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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 National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air 
Pollutants (NESHAP), for Hydrochloric Acid Production (40 CFR part 63, 
subpart NNNNN) were proposed on September 18, 2001, promulgated on 
April 17, 2003, and amended on April 7, 2006. These regulations apply 
to existing and new hydrochloric acid (HCI) production facilities. New 
facilities include those that commenced construction or reconstruction 
after the date of proposal. This information is being collected to 
assure compliance with 40 CFR part 63, subpart NNNNN. In general, all 
NESHAP standards require initial notifications, performance tests, and 
periodic reports by the 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 notifications, reports, and records are essential 
in determining compliance, and are required of all affected facilities 
subject to NESHAP.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: Hydrochloric acid production 
facilities.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 63, 
subpart NNNNN).
    Estimated number of respondents: 19 (total).
    Frequency of response: Initially, occasionally and semiannually.
    Total estimated burden: 22,600 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
    Total estimated cost: $2,742,000 (per year), which includes $16,000 
for annualized capital/startup and/or operation & maintenance costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is an adjustment decrease in burden 
and costs from the most recently-approved ICR. The adjustment decrease 
in burden is due to more accurate estimates of existing and anticipated 
new sources, which are based on EPA's recent re-evaluation of the 
source category inventory as part of a proposed rulemaking and risk and 
technology review for 40 CFR 63, Subpart NNNNN. We have also corrected 
the previous assumption that existing respondents would record startup, 
shutdown, and malfunction events 100 times per year. Based on 
information received from industry in the development of the proposed 
risk and technology review, this assumption has been corrected to 10 
times per year. Further, as a result of the decrease in existing and 
new sources, there is also an adjustment decrease in the number of 
total annual responses and the capital and operating and maintenance 
costs.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
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