Notice2022-19536
Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; NSPS for Fossil Fuel Fired Steam Generating Units (Renewal)
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Published
September 9, 2022
Issuing agencies
Environmental Protection Agency
Abstract
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), NSPS for Fossil Fuel Fired Steam Generating Units (EPA ICR Number 1052.13, OMB Control Number 2060- 0026), 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.
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 174 (Friday, September 9, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55425-55426]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-19536]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OAR-2022-0056; FRL-10201-01-OMS]
Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and
Approval; Comment Request; NSPS for Fossil Fuel Fired Steam Generating
Units (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 Fossil Fuel Fired Steam
Generating Units (EPA ICR Number 1052.13, OMB Control Number 2060-
0026), 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 11,
2022.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OAR-2021-0105, online using <a href="https://www.regulations.gov/">https://www.regulations.gov/</a> (our preferred
method), or by email to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#f89c979b939d8cb89d8899d69f978e"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="aecac1cdc5cbdaeecbdecf80c9c1d8">[email protected]</span></a>, 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
<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,
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27711; telephone number: (919) 541-0833; email address:
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#88e9e4e1a6e5fde6fce9fbe1fac8edf8e9a6efe7fe"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="41202d286f2c342f3520322833012431206f262e37">[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 New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for Fossil
Fuel Fired Steam Generating Units (40 CFR part 60, subpart D) apply to
each fossil fuel fired steam generating unit with heat input rate of 73
megawatts (MW) (250 MMbtu/hr) or more, which commenced construction,
reconstruction, or modification after August 17, 1971. Subpart D
regulations apply to both electric utility and industrial boilers. This
regulation was supplanted by NSPS Subpart Da for electric utility steam
generating units in 1978, and by NSPS Subpart Db for industrial-
institutional-commercial boilers in 1986. 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: Owners and operators of fossil fuel
fired steam generating units.
Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 60,
subpart D).
Estimated number of respondents: 660 (total).
Frequency of response: Semiannually.
Total estimated burden: 71,500 hours (per year). Burden is defined
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
Total estimated cost: $18,500,000 (per year), which includes
$9,900,000 in annualized capital/startup and/or operation & maintenance
costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is no change in burden from the
most-recently approved ICR as currently identified in the OMB Inventory
of Approved Burdens. This is due to two considerations: (1) the
regulations have not changed over the past three years and are not
anticipated to change over the next three years; and (2) the growth
rate for this industry is very low or non-existent, so there is no
significant change in the overall burden. Since there are no changes in
the regulatory requirements and there is no significant industry
growth, there are also no changes in the capital/startup or operation
and maintenance (O&M) costs.
Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2022-19536 Filed 9-8-22; 8:45 am]
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