Document ID: EPA-HQ-OAR-2020-0660-0002
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: New Source Performance Standards for Nonmetallic Mineral Processing
Posted Date: 2022-01-27T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 18 (Thursday, January 27, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4230-4231]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-01588]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2020-0660; FRL-9507-01-OMS]

Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; NSPS for Nonmetallic Mineral Processing 
(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 Nonmetallic Mineral 
Processing (EPA ICR Number 1084.15, OMB Control Number 2060-0050), 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, 
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 February 28, 
2022.

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ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OAR-2020-0660, 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: 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: https://www.epa.gov/dockets.
    Abstract: The New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for 
Nonmetallic Mineral Processing (40 CFR part 60, subpart OOO) apply to 
the following affected facilities in fixed or portable nonmetallic 
mineral processing plants: Each crusher, grinding mill, screening 
operation, bucket elevator, belt conveyor, bagging operation, storage 
bin, and enclosed truck or railcar loading station, which commenced 
construction, modification or reconstruction after August 31, 1983. 
Also, crushers and grinding mills at hot mix asphalt facilities that 
reduce the size of nonmetallic minerals embedded in recycled asphalt 
pavement and subsequent affected facilities up to, but not including, 
the first storage silo or bin are subject to the provisions of the 
subpart. New facilities include those that commenced construction, 
modification, or reconstruction after the date of proposal. 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 with 40 CFR part 60, 
subpart OOO.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: Nonmetallic mineral processing 
facilities.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 60, 
subpart OOO).
    Estimated number of respondents: 5,294 (total).
    Frequency of response: Initially and occasionally.
    Total estimated burden: 20,800 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
    Total estimated cost: $2,700,000 (per year), which includes 
$228,000 in annualized capital/startup and/or operation & maintenance 
costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is an adjustment increase in the 
total estimated burden as currently identified in the OMB Inventory of 
Approved Burdens. This increase is not due to any program changes. The 
adjustment increase in burden from the most-recently approved ICR is 
due to an increase in the number of new or modified sources. The number 
of respondents in this ICR has been adjusted to reflect growth from new 
or modified sources over the past three years. There are no significant 
changes to the capital costs because this ICR assumes a constant rate 
of new or modified sources consistent with the prior ICR; there are no 
operation and maintenance costs associated with this collection. The 
adjustments result in an overall increase in burden.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2022-01588 Filed 1-26-22; 8:45 am]
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