Document ID: EPA-HQ-OAR-2020-0631-0002
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: New Source Performance Standards for Hot Mix Asphalt Facilities
Posted Date: 2021-09-08T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 171 (Wednesday, September 8, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50343-50344]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-19473]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2020-0631; FRL-8973-01-OMS]

Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; NSPS for Hot Mix Asphalt Facilities 
(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 Hot Mix Asphalt 
Facilities (EPA ICR Number 1127.13, OMB Control Number 2060-0083), 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 December 31, 
2021. 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 October 8, 
2021.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OAR-2020-0631 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: ali.muntasir@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 
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 Hot Mix 
Asphalt Facilities (40 CFR part 60, subpart I) apply to hot mix asphalt 
facilities comprised only of a combination of the following: Dryers; 
systems for screening, handling, storing, and weighing hot aggregate; 
systems for loading, transferring, and storing mineral filler; systems 
for mixing hot mix asphalt; and the loading, transfer, and storage 
systems associated with emission control systems. 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, and are required of all affected facilities 
subject to NSPS.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: Hot mix asphalt facilities.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 60, 
subpart I).
    Estimated number of respondents: 828 (total).
    Frequency of response: Initially and occasionally.
    Total estimated burden: 4,120 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
    Total estimated cost: $488,000 (per year), which includes $0 in 
annualized capital/startup and/or operation & maintenance costs.

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    Changes in the Estimates: There is a decrease in the total 
estimated 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 sources. This ICR reflects a decrease in the 
number of respondents and additional respondents that the Agency 
anticipates will become subject to these standards or modify existing 
facilities. The estimates in the current approved ICR were based on 
estimates collected in 2008 and adjusted for growth over time. This ICR 
adjusts the number of respondents based on a review of facilities 
identified in EPA's Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO) 
database, assuming a similar rate of growth and modification of 
existing facilities (about two and three percent, respectively). EPA's 
ECHO database is the most-recent source of facility information 
available for hot mix asphalt facilities and should reflect a more 
accurate estimate of existing facilities. We have assumed a similar 
rate of growth and modification of existing facilities due to 
anticipated continuous demand within the asphalt mixing industry. This 
ICR also corrects an error from the most-recently approved ICR by 
accounting for the burden for responses for notifications of 
performance tests for respondents required to conduct a repeat 
performance test. The overall result is a decrease in burden.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2021-19473 Filed 9-7-21; 8:45 am]
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