Document ID: EPA-HQ-OECA-2013-0323-0008
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Electric Arc Furnace Steelmaking Facilities (Renewal)
Posted Date: 2021-07-01T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 124 (Thursday, July 1, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35084-35085]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-14119]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OECA-2013-0323; FRL-10025-85-OMS]

Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Electric Arc Furnace Steelmaking 
Facilities (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 Electric Arc Furnace 
Steelmaking Facilities (EPA ICR Number 2277.06, OMB Control Number 
2060-0608), 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-2013-0323, 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: The National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air 
Pollutants (NESHAP) for Electric Arc Furnace Steelmaking Facilities (40 
CFR part 63, subpart YYYYY) apply to existing facilities and new 
Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) steelmaking facilities that are area sources 
of hazardous air pollutants (HAP) emissions. These standards establish 
particulate matter (PM) emission limits for control devices and opacity 
limits for melt shops, pollution prevention requirements for ferrous 
scrap that is melted in EAFs, and monitoring, reporting, and 
recordkeeping requirements. New facilities include those that commenced 
construction or reconstruction after the date of proposal. 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 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 used by 
EPA to determine compliance with these standards.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: Owners or operators of electric arc 
furnace steelmaking facilities.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 63, 
subpart YYYYY).
    Estimated number of respondents: 81 (total).
    Frequency of response: Initially, semiannually, and occasionally.
    Total estimated burden: 4,000 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
    Total estimated cost: $485,000 (per year), which includes $15,500 
in annualized capital/startup costs. There are no operation & 
maintenance costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is an adjustment decrease in the 
total estimated respondent burden as currently identified in the OMB 
Inventory of Approved Burdens. This decrease is not due to any program 
changes. The decrease in burden from the most-recently approved ICR is 
due to a decrease in the number of affected existing facilities, as 
identified by a review of the EAF facility source list and by 
consulting with internal Agency experts at OAQPS. This change also 
results in an increase in capital/startup costs. The previous ICR did 
not account for any capital/startup costs as the growth rate for the 
industry was very

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low during that time period, so no initial compliance costs were 
associated with these standards. However, we expect that there will be 
1.6 new respondents each year over the next three years, and the 
increase in capital/startup costs accounts for the cost of initial 
performance testing for those facilities. Despite this increase in 
capital/startup costs, the overall cost estimate for this burden has 
decreased due to a decrease in the number of currently existing 
facilities.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2021-14119 Filed 6-30-21; 8:45 am]
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