Document ID: EPA-HQ-OAR-2022-0023-0002
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: New Source Performance Standards for Small Municipal Waste Combustors
Posted Date: 2022-11-25T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 226 (Friday, November 25, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 72480-72481]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-25635]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2022-0023; FRL-10271-01-OMS]

Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; NSPS for Small Municipal Waste Combustors 
(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 Small Municipal Waste 
Combustors (EPA ICR Number 1900.08, OMB Control Number 2060-0423), 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 November 30, 
2022. Public comments were previously requested, via the Federal 
Register, on April 8, 2022 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 December 27, 
2022.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OAR-2022-0023, to: (1) EPA online using https://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: 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

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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 Small 
Municipal Waste Combustors (40 CFR part 60, subpart AAAA) apply to both 
existing facilities and new facilities with small municipal waste 
combustors (MWCs) that combust greater than 35 tons per day (tpd), but 
with less than 250 tpd of municipal solid waste. 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 small 
municipal waste combustors.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 60, 
subpart AAAA).
    Estimated number of respondents: 6 (total).
    Frequency of response: Annually, semiannually.
    Total estimated burden: 18,700 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
    Total estimated cost: $2,180,000 (per year), which includes 
$154,000 in annualized capital/startup and/or operation & maintenance 
costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: The increase in burden from the most-
recently approved ICR is due to an adjustment. The adjustment increase 
in respondent burden from the most-recently approved ICR is due to an 
increase in the number of respondents. The number of respondents 
reflects one new facility over the past three years. There is an 
increase in the operation and maintenance (O&M) costs due to the 
increase in the number of respondents over the past three years. 
However, no additional respondents are predicted during the three-year 
period of this ICR.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2022-25635 Filed 11-23-22; 8:45 am]
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