Notice2022-13757
Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Taconite Iron Ore Processing (Renewal)
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June 28, 2022
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Environmental Protection Agency
Abstract
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), NESHAP for Taconite Iron Ore Processing (EPA ICR Number 2050.10, OMB Control Number 2060-0538), 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 June 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 123 (Tuesday, June 28, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38398-38399]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-13757]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OAR-2021-0119; FRL--9974-01-OMS]
Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and
Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Taconite Iron Ore Processing
(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 Taconite Iron Ore
Processing (EPA ICR Number 2050.10, OMB Control Number 2060-0538), 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 June 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 July 28, 2022.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OAR-2021-0119, 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#f7969b9ed99a82998396849e85b7928796d9909881"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="50313c397e3d253e2431233922103520317e373f26">[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 Taconite Iron Ore Processing (40 CFR part 63,
subpart RRRRR), were proposed on December 18, 2002; promulgated on
October 30, 2003; and most-recently amended on both July 28, 2020 and
November 19, 2020. These regulations apply to existing facilities and
new taconite iron ore processing facilities that emit or have the
potential to emit a single hazardous air pollutant (HAP) at a rate of
10 tons or more per year or any combination of HAPs at a rate of 25
tons or more per year. The affected sources are ore crushing and
handling operations, ore dryers, indurating furnaces, finished pellet
handling emission units, and fugitive dust emissions. New facilities
include those that commenced construction or reconstruction after the
date of proposal. This information is being collected to assure
compliance with 40 CFR part 63, subpart RRRRR. 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
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inoperative. These notifications, reports, and records are essential in
determining compliance, and are required of all affected facilities
subject to NESHAP.
Form Numbers: 5900-576.
Respondents/affected entities: Taconite iron ore processing
facilities.
Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 63,
subpart RRRRR).
Estimated number of respondents: 8 (total).
Frequency of response: Initially, occasionally, and semiannually.
Total estimated burden: 1,230 hours (per year). Burden is defined
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
Total estimated cost: $584,000 (per year), which includes $0 in
annualized capital/startup and/or operation & maintenance costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is an adjustment increase in the
total estimated burden as currently identified in the OMB Inventory of
Approved Burdens. This increase is not due to any program changes. The
change in the burden and cost estimates is due to a correction of the
number of respondents per year performing Method 5 performance tests to
be consistent with the number of respondents estimated to provide
notifications of performance tests and report performance test results.
This ICR adjusts the number of respondents conducting performance tests
in each year from 2.7 per year to 8 per year, which increases the
annual burden by approximately 300 hours. There is no change in the
capital/startup vs. operation and maintenance (O&M) costs as calculated
in section 6(b)(iii) compared with the costs in the previous ICR.
Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2022-13757 Filed 6-27-22; 8:45 am]
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