Notice2022-05510
Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Polyvinyl Chloride and Copolymers Production (Renewal)
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Published
March 16, 2022
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Environmental Protection Agency
Abstract
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), NESHAP for Polyvinyl Chloride and Copolymers Production (EPA ICR Number 2432.06, OMB Control Number 2020- 0666), 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 April 30, 2022. Public comments were previously requested, via the Federal Register, on April 13, 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.
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 51 (Wednesday, March 16, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14854-14855]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-05510]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OAR-2021-0125; FRL-9664-01-OMS]
Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and
Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Polyvinyl Chloride and Copolymers
Production (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), NESHAP for Polyvinyl Chloride and
Copolymers Production (EPA ICR Number 2432.06, OMB Control Number 2020-
0666), 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
April 30, 2022. Public comments were previously requested, via the
Federal Register, on April 13, 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 April 15,
2022.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OAR-2021-0125, online using <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a> (our preferred method)
or by mail to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental Protection Agency, Mail
Code 2821T, 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
<a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>. 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: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#50313c397e3d253e2431233922103520317e373f26"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="83e2efeaadeef6edf7e2f0eaf1c3e6f3e2ade4ecf5">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supporting documents, which explain in
detail the information that the EPA will be collecting, are available
in the
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public docket for this ICR. The docket can be viewed online at <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a>, 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: <a href="http://www.epa.gov/dockets">http://www.epa.gov/dockets</a>.
Abstract: The National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air
Pollutants (NESHAP) for Polyvinyl Chloride and Copolymers Production
(40 CFR part 63, subpart HHHHHHH) apply to both existing and new PVC
production facilities. Area source PVC facilities are subject to 40 CFR
part 63, subpart DDDDDD and not covered in this ICR. New facilities
include those that either commenced construction or reconstruction
after the date of proposal. In general, all 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 essential in determining
compliance, and are required of all affected facilities subject to
NESHAP. This information is being collected to assure compliance with
40 CFR part 63, subpart HHHHHHH.
Form Numbers: None.
Respondents/affected entities: Polyvinyl chloride and copolymer
production facilities that are major sources of HAP.
Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 63,
subpart HHHHHHH).
Estimated number of respondents: 13 (total).
Frequency of response: Initially, occasionally, and semiannually.
Total estimated burden: 318,000 hours (per year). Burden is defined
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
Total estimated cost: $44,700,000 (per year), which includes
$7,140,000 in annualized capital/startup and/or operation & maintenance
costs.
Changes in the Estimates: The decrease in burden from the most-
recently approved ICR is due to four adjustments. There is an
adjustment decrease in the total estimated burden as currently
identified in the OMB Inventory of Approved Burdens. The adjustment
decrease in burden from the most-recently approved ICR is due to a
decrease in the number of respondents. The most-recently approved ICR
estimated 15 major source facilities. The Wacker-Calvert City facility
has ceased PVC operations. Although the previous ICR considered the
Formosa--Point Comfort operations to be two facilities, this ICR more
appropriately considers these operations as a single respondent, due to
shared equipment, controls, and/or employees. Therefore, this ICR
renewal considers there to be 13 major source facilities. The
adjustment decrease is also due to a correction to the number of hours
needed for existing respondents to refamiliarize with rule requirements
each year.
The adjustment decrease is also offset by corrections to burden
estimates for resin sampling, PRD electronic monitor review,
gasholders, storage vessels, and ongoing inspections of bypasses, and
to the number of occurrences per year for recordkeeping requirements to
more accurately reflect facility activities.
There is an increase in the operation and maintenance (O&M) costs,
as calculated in section 6(b)(iii), compared with the costs in the
previous ICR. Although the number of respondents with O&M decreased,
corrections were made to the annual O&M costs for VC ambient
monitoring, uncontrolled wastewater testing, and uncontrolled
wastewater Non-VC TOHAP testing to more accurately reflect both the
number of monitors per facility and the number of waste streams sampled
per facility.
Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2022-05510 Filed 3-15-22; 8:45 am]
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