Document ID: EPA-HQ-OAR-2020-0659-0002
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: New Source Performance Standards for Coal Preparation and Processing Plants
Posted Date: 2022-03-21T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 54 (Monday, March 21, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15985-15986]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-05889]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2020-0659; FRL-9676-01-OMS]

Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; NSPS for Coal Preparation and Processing 
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 Coal Preparation and 
Processing Plants (EPA ICR Number 1062.16, OMB Control Number 2060-
0122), 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, 2022. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal 
Register on February 8, 2021 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 20, 
2022.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OAR-2020-0659, online using www.regulations.gov (our preferred method) 
or by mail to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental Protection Agency, Mail 
Code 2821T, 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: 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 
https://www.regulations.gov, or in person, at the EPA Docket Center, 
WJC West Building, 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 Coal 
Preparation and Processing Plants (40 CFR part 60, subpart Y) 
regulations apply to existing facilities and new facilities that 
perform coal preparation and processing with limits more than 181 
megagrams (Mg) (200 tons) of coal per day. In general, all NSPS 
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 NSPS.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: Owners and operators of coal 
preparation and processing plants.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 60, 
subpart Y).
    Estimated number of respondents: 377 (total).
    Frequency of response: Initially, biannually, annually, 
semiannually, and quarterly.
    Total estimated burden: 22,300 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
    Total estimated cost: $2,720,000 (per year), which includes $79,300 
in annualized capital/startup and/or operation & maintenance costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is an adjustment decrease in the 
total estimated burden as currently identified in the OMB Inventory of 
Approved Burdens; this decrease is not due to any program changes. The 
decrease in burden is due to more accurate estimates of existing 
sources, based on information gathered by EPA and confirmed by 
industry. The burden in this ICR reflects a decrease in the number of 
coal mines across the industry and a number of coal plants being either 
shut down or converted to natural gas. The decrease in the number of 
respondents also results in a decrease in responses. The operation and 
maintenance costs have increased from the previous ICR due to an 
incorrect entry of information in the previous ICR. Finally, this ICR 
corrects the number of occurrences of repeat performance tests for 
Method 5 and Method 9 per respondent per year from the previous ICR. 
However, the overall burden still decreased.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2022-05889 Filed 3-18-22; 8:45 am]
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