Notice2022-11348
Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Polyvinyl Chloride and Copolymers Production Area Sources (Renewal)
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May 26, 2022
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Environmental Protection Agency
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), NESHAP for Polyvinyl Chloride and Copolymers Production Area Sources (EPA ICR Number 2454.05, OMB Control Number 2060-0684), 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 May 31, 2022. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register (86 FR 19256) 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 102 (Thursday, May 26, 2022)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-11348]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OAR-2021-0126; FRL-9862-01-OMS]
Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and
Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Polyvinyl Chloride and Copolymers
Production Area Sources (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 Area Sources (EPA ICR Number 2454.05, OMB Control
Number 2060-0684), 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 May 31, 2022. Public comments were previously requested via the
Federal Register (86 FR 19256) 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 June 27, 2022.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OAR-2021-0126, online using <a href="https://www.regulations.gov/">https://www.regulations.gov/</a> (our preferred
method), by email to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#375358545c524319585254567752475619505841"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="8befe4e8e0eeffa5e4eee8eacbeefbeaa5ece4fd">[email protected]</span></a>, 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
<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#80e1ece9aeedf5eef4e1f3e9f2c0e5f0e1aee7eff6"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="01606d682f6c746f7560726873416471602f666e77">[email protected]</span></a>.
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
<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
Area Sources (40 CFR part 63, subpart DDDDDD) apply to existing
facilities and new PVC and copolymer production facilities that are an
area source of hazardous air pollutants (HAP). This ICR includes burden
estimates for area sources only. Major sources are regulated under
NESHAP Subpart HHHHHHH and their burdens are included in a separate ICR
(OMB Control Number 2060-0666). 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 the
NESHAP. This information is being collected to assure compliance with
40 CFR part 63, subpart DDDDDD.
Form Numbers: None.
Respondents/affected entities: Polyvinyl chloride and copolymer
production area source facilities.
Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR 63, Subpart
DDDDDD).
Estimated number of respondents: 3 (total).
Frequency of response: Initially, occasionally, and semiannually.
Total estimated burden: 73,300 hours (per year). Burden is defined
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
Total estimated cost: $9,670,000 (per year), which includes
$1,000,000 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 three 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 4 area source facilities; however, one facility has ceased
operations, as reflected in the ICR for the most recent proposed rule
(85 FR 71490, November 9, 2020), which was previously submitted to OMB
for approval. Therefore, this ICR renewal considers there to be 3 area
source facilities.
The adjustment decrease is 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 as shown in Table 1: Annual
Respondent Burden and Cost--NESHAP for Polyvinyl Chloride and
Copolymers Production Area Sources (40 CFR part 63, subpart DDDDDD)
(Renewal).
There is a decrease in the operation and maintenance (O&M) costs as
calculated in section 6(b)(iii) compared
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with the costs in the previous ICR. This decrease in costs is due to a
decrease in the number of respondents and corrections made to the
annual O&M costs for VC ambient monitoring and resin sampling and
monitoring to more accurately reflect the number of monitors per
facility and cost of monthly maintenance and service of a lab GC. The
decrease is offset somewhat by corrections made to the cost estimates
for uncontrolled wastewater testing and uncontrolled wastewater Non-VC
TOHAP testing to more-accurately reflect the number of waste streams
sampled per facility.
Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2022-11348 Filed 5-25-22; 8:45 am]
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