Document ID: EPA-HQ-OAR-2022-0025-0002
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Emission Guidelines for Existing Commercial and Industrial Solid Waste Incineration Units
Posted Date: 2022-09-27T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 186 (Tuesday, September 27, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58497-58498]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-20876]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2022-0025; FRL-10236-01-OMS]

Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; Emission Guidelines for Existing Commercial 
and Industrial Solid Waste Incineration Units (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), Emission Guidelines for Existing 
Commercial and Industrial Solid Waste Incineration Units (EPA ICR 
Number1927.09, OMB Control Number 2060-0451), 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 October 27, 
2022.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OAR-2022-0025, 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.
    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 Emission Guidelines for Existing Commercial and 
Industrial Solid Waste Incineration Units (40 CFR part 60, subpart 
DDDD) fulfill the requirements of sections 111 and 129 of the Clean Air 
Act (CAA) and affect the administrator of an air quality program in a 
state or United States protectorate with one or more existing 
commercial and industrial solid waste incineration (CISWI) units. These 
regulations apply to sources commencing construction on or before June 
4, 2010, or to sources commencing modification or reconstruction 
between June 1, 2001, and August 7, 2013. The guidelines do not apply 
directly to CISWI unit owners and operators, since they are implemented 
through state implementation plans (SIP). If a state does not develop, 
adopt, and submit an approved state plan, or if a state's plan is not 
approved, the EPA must promulgate a Federal implementation plan to 
implement the emission guidelines in a state without its own SIP. This 
information is being collected to assure compliance with 40 CFR part 
60, subpart DDDD. In general, all emission guideline standards require 
initial notification reports, 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 the emission guidelines.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: Commercial and Industrial Solid 
Waste Incineration (CISWI) units commencing construction either on or 
before June 4, 2010, or to sources commencing either modification or 
reconstruction between June 1, 2001 and August 7, 2013.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 60, 
subpart DDDD).
    Estimated number of respondents: 74 (total).
    Frequency of response: Semiannually and annually.
    Total estimated burden: 16,100 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
    Total estimated cost: $3,110,000 (per year), which includes 
$1,170,000 in

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annualized capital/startup and/or operation & maintenance costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is no change in burden from the 
most-recently approved ICR as currently identified in the OMB Inventory 
of Approved Burdens. This is due to two considerations: (1) the 
regulations have not changed over the past three years and are not 
anticipated to change over the next three years; and (2) the growth 
rate for this industry is very low or non-existent, so there is no 
significant change in the overall burden.
    There is a slight increase in the capital and O&M costs due to an 
adjustment to the estimated cost per respondent to reflect 2020 dollars 
using the Chemical Engineering Plant Cost Index (CEPCI), Equipment Cost 
Index, and the use of updated labor rates for continuous parameter 
monitoring from the most-recent Bureau of Labor Statistics report 
(September 2021).

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2022-20876 Filed 9-26-22; 8:45 am]
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