Document ID: EPA-HQ-OAR-2021-0097-0002
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Municipal Solid Waste Landfills (Renewal)
Posted Date: 2022-07-29T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 145 (Friday, July 29, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45773-45774]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-16250]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2021-0097; FRL-10091-01-OMS]

Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for 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), NESHAP for Municipal Solid Waste 
Landfills (EPA ICR Number 1938.08, OMB Control Number 2060-0505) 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 July 31, 
2022. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal 
Register on April 13, 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 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.

DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before August 29, 
2022.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OAR-2021-0097, to EPA using https://www.regulations.gov/ (our preferred 
method), 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.
    The 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 National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air 
Pollutants (NESHAP) for Municipal Solid Waste Landfills (40 CFR part 
63, subpart AAAA) apply to existing and new municipal solid waste (MSW) 
landfills that have accepted waste since November 8, 1987 or have 
additional capacity for waste deposition, including those that operate 
as bioreactors, and the landfill either: (1) is a major source or is 
collocated with a major source; or (2) is an area source with a design 
capacity of 2.5 million megagrams (Mg) and 2.5 million cubic meters 
(m\3\), and emits either equal to or greater than 50 tons per year of 
non-methane organic compounds (NMOC). 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 any period during which the monitoring 
system is inoperative. These notifications, reports, and records are

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essential in determining compliance, and are required of all affected 
facilities subject to NESHAP.
    Form Numbers: 5900-522.
    Respondents/affected entities: Municipal solid waste (MSW) 
landfills.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 63, 
subpart AAAA).
    Estimated number of respondents: 1,169 (total).
    Frequency of response: Annual, semi-annual.
    Total estimated burden: 35,500 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
    Total estimated cost: $3,290,000 (per year), includes $11,100 
annualized capital or operation & maintenance costs.
    Changes in the estimates: There is a small decrease in burden from 
the most recently approved ICR as currently identified in the OMB 
Inventory of Approved Burdens. This is due to several considerations. 
The regulations have been amended in the past three years. The March 
26, 2020 amendments revised NESHAP Subpart AAAA, NSPS Subpart XXX and 
EG Subpart Cf to allow affected sources to demonstrate compliance with 
landfill gas control, operating, monitoring, recordkeeping, and 
reporting requirements by following the corresponding requirements in 
the MSW Landfills NESHAP, harmonizing the control requirements across 
all of the landfill rules. The 2020 amendments removed the SSM 
requirements from Subpart AAAA, resulting in a decrease in labor 
burden. The 2020 amendments added a new semiannual wet landfill 
monitoring report requirement, resulting in an increase in burden. 
Since the 2020 amendments also added an annual wet landfill monitoring 
report requirement to Subparts Cf and XXX, the additional burden to 
Subpart AAAA sources for this report consists of one additional report 
per year. The growth rate for this industry is low (two new landfills 
per year), resulting in a small increase in burden. There are no 
changes in the capital/startup or operation and maintenance (O&M) 
costs. The labor burden for re-familiarizing with the regulatory 
requirements each year was increased from 1 hour to 5 hours, so that 
the labor burden for this requirement is consistent with that of other 
NESHAPs. These changes resulted in a small decrease in labor burden 
(hours), and a small increase in labor costs, resulting in a small 
increase in costs from the previous ICR.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2022-16250 Filed 7-28-22; 8:45 am]
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