Document ID: EPA-HQ-OECA-2013-0348-0009
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: NESHAP for Primary Aluminum Reduction Plants (Renewal)
Posted Date: 2021-07-01T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 124 (Thursday, July 1, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35086-35087]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-14120]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OECA-2013-0348; FRL-10025-83-OMS]

Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Primary Aluminum Reduction Plants 
(Renewal)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an

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information collection request (ICR), NESHAP for Primary Aluminum 
Reduction Plants (EPA ICR Number 1767.09, OMB Control Number 2060-
0360), 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 
August 31, 2021. Public comments were previously requested, via the 
Federal Register, on May 12, 2020 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 August 2, 
2021.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OECA-2013-0348, online using www.regulations.gov (our preferred 
method), 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: 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; 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, WJC 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: Owners and operators of affected facilities are required 
to comply with reporting and record keeping requirements for the 
General Provisions (40 CFR part 63, subpart A), as well as for the 
applicable specific standards in 40 CFR part 63, subpart LL. This 
includes submitting initial notifications, 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: Primary aluminum production located 
at a major source.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 63, 
subpart LL).
    Estimated number of respondents: 8 (total).
    Frequency of response: Initially, annually, and semiannually.
    Total estimated burden: 52,300 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
    Total estimated cost: $6,440,000 (per year), which includes 
$310,000 in annualized capital/startup and/or operation & maintenance 
costs.
    Changes in the estimates: There is a decrease in burden from the 
most-recently approved ICR as currently identified in the OMB Inventory 
of Approved Burdens. This increase is not due to any program changes. 
The adjustment decrease in burden from the most-recently approved ICR 
is due to a decrease in the number of sources. The currently approved 
ICR assumed 11 respondents. Consultations with the Aluminum Association 
conducted during the renewal of this ICR revealed that there are only 
eight primary aluminum reduction plants currently subject to this 
subpart. This decrease in the number of respondents has resulted in a 
decrease in respondent labor hours. This ICR adjusts the capital cost 
from the previously-approved ICR to reflect costs from the October 15, 
2015 rule, which were annualized over a 15 year period; the previous 
ICR assumed that all capital costs were completed within the first 
three years of the 2015 final rule. This ICR also adjusts the operation 
and maintenance (O&M) costs from the previous ICR from 1997 dollars to 
2019 dollars using the CEPCI CE Index, and includes O&M costs for 
annual monitoring from the 2015 final rule that were inadvertently 
excluded from the previous ICR. Therefore, this ICR reflects a modest 
increase in capital and O&M costs from the most-recently approved ICR. 
This ICR also corrects the total number of responses to reflect the 
submittal of performance test reports on a semiannual basis, which were 
inadvertently excluded from the previous ICR. This ICR, by in large, 
reflects the on-going burden and costs for existing facilities. 
Activities for existing sources include annual and semiannual 
performance tests, continuous monitoring of pollutants, and the 
submission of semiannual reports.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
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