Document ID: EPA-HQ-OAR-2022-0047-0002
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: New Source Performance Standards for Greenhouse Gas Emissions for New Electric Utility Generating Units
Posted Date: 2022-09-29T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 188 (Thursday, September 29, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59074-59075]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-21175]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2022-0047; FRL-10259-01-OMS]

Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; NSPS for Greenhouse Gas Emissions for New 
Electric Utility Generating Units (Renewal)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency has submitted an 
information collection request (ICR), NSPS for Greenhouse Gas Emissions 
for New Electric Utility Generating Units (EPA ICR Number 2465.05, OMB 
Control Number 2060-0685), 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 31, 
2022.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OAR-2022-0047, 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. 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 New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for 
Greenhouse Gas Emissions for New Electric Utility Generating Units were 
proposed on June 2, 2014 and promulgated on October 23, 2015. 
Amendments to 40 CFR part 60, subpart TTTT were proposed on December 6, 
2018, but EPA did not finalize amendments to the 2015 final rule. On 
January 13, 2021, EPA finalized a pollutant-specific significant 
contribution finding for this source category, which was later vacated 
and remanded on April 5, 2021. These regulations apply to either newly 
constructed, modified or reconstructed facilities with electric utility 
generating units (EGUs), including any steam generating unit, IGCC, or 
stationary combustion turbine that commenced construction after January 
8, 2014 or commenced reconstruction after June 18, 2014. To be 
considered an EGU the unit must be: (1) capable of combusting more than 
250 MMBtu/h heat input of fossil fuel; and (2) serve a generator 
capable of supplying more than 25 MW net to a utility distribution 
system (i.e., for sale to the grid). New facilities include those that 
commenced construction, modification or reconstruction after the date 
of proposal. This information is being collected to assure compliance 
with 40 CFR part 60, subpart TTTT. In general, all NSPS standards 
require initial notifications, performance tests, and periodic reports 
by the owners/operators of the affected facilities. 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: Electric utility generating units.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 60, 
subpart TTTT).
    Estimated number of respondents: 92 (total).
    Frequency of response: Initially, quarterly.
    Total estimated burden: 3,130 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
    Total estimated cost: $376,000 (per year), which includes no 
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(s). The adjustment 
increase in burden from the most-recently approved ICR is due to an 
increase in the number of respondents. Based on our consultation with 
the Agency's internal industry experts and review of data from EPA's 
Clean Air Markets Division and the U.S. Energy Information 
Administration, the electric utility sector is undergoing significant 
changes and the number of respondents and new sources expected over the 
next three years has increased significantly from the most recently 
approved ICR.
    Although we are assuming there will be 16 new sources per year 
subject to 40 CFR part 60, subpart TTTT, there is no change in the 
capital/startup vs. operation and maintenance (O&M) costs as discussed 
in section 6(b)(iii) compared with the costs in the most-recently 
approved ICR. There are no capital/startup and/or O&M costs for this 
ICR. As described in a previous Federal Register notice (84 FR 25046), 
this NSPS imposes a minimal information collection burden on affected 
sources beyond what sources would already be subject to under the 
authorities of CAA Parts 75 (Acid Rain Program CEM requirements) and 98

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(Mandatory GHG Reporting, applicable to EGUs that capture CO2). OMB has 
previously approved the information collection requirements contained 
in the existing Part 75 and 98 regulations (40 CFR part 75 and 40 CFR 
part 98) under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 
3501 et seq., and has assigned OMB control numbers 2060-0626 and 2060-
0629, respectively. Apart from certain reporting costs to comply with 
the emission standards under the rule, there are no additional 
information collection costs, as the information required by the rule 
is already collected and reported by other regulatory programs.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2022-21175 Filed 9-28-22; 8:45 am]
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