Notice2022-20618
Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Secondary Aluminum Production (Renewal)
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Published
September 23, 2022
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Environmental Protection Agency
Abstract
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), NESHAP for Secondary Aluminum Production (EPA ICR Number 1894.11, OMB Control Number 2060-0433), 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 184 (Friday, September 23, 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: 2022-20618]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OAR-2022-0021; FRL-10235-01-OMS]
Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and
Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Secondary Aluminum 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 Secondary Aluminum
Production (EPA ICR Number 1894.11, OMB Control Number 2060-0433), 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 24,
2022.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OAR-2022-0021, 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#d4b0bbb7bfb1a094b1a4b5fab3bba2"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a6c2c9c5cdc3d2e6c3d6c788c1c9d0">[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, 27711; telephone number: (919) 541-0833; email
address: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#11707d783f7c647f6570627863517461703f767e67"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="b7d6dbde99dac2d9c3d6c4dec5f7d2c7d699d0d8c1">[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 Secondary Aluminum Production (40 CFR part 63,
subpart RRR) were proposed on February 11, 1999; and promulgated on
March 23, 2000; and amended on the following dates: December 30, 2002
(67 FR 79808); September 3, 2004 (69 FR 53980); October 3, 2005 (70 FR
57513); December 19, 2005 (70 FR 75320); September 18, 2015 (80 FR
56700); and June 13, 2016 (81 FR 38085). These regulations apply to
existing facilities and new facilities that are secondary aluminum
production facilities and major sources of hazardous air pollutants
(HAP) either commencing construction, or reconstruction, after the date
of proposal. This includes facilities that operate aluminum scrap
shredders, thermal chip dryers, scrap dryers/delacquering kilns/
decoating kilns, group 1 furnaces, group 2 furnaces, sweat furnaces,
dross only furnaces, rotary dross coolers, and secondary aluminum
processing units (SAPUs). The SAPUs include group 1 furnaces and in-
line fluxers. The regulations also apply to secondary aluminum
production facilities that are area sources of HAP only with respect to
emissions of dioxins/furans (D/F) from thermal chip dryers, scrap
dryers/delacquering kilns/decoating kilns, group 1 furnaces, sweat
furnaces, and SAPUs. New facilities include those that either commenced
construction, or reconstruction, after the date of proposal. This
information is being collected to assure compliance with 40 CFR part
63, subpart RRR.
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.
Form Numbers: None.
Respondents/affected entities: Secondary aluminum production
facilities.
Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 63
subpart RRR).
Estimated number of respondents: 161 (total).
Frequency of response: Initially and semiannually.
Total estimated burden: 12,400 hours (per year). Burden is defined
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
Total estimated cost: $5,590,000 (per year), which includes
$4,110,000 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. There is a slight decrease in the number
of responses, based on the correction of a mathematical error in the
calculation of the number of responses from the currently approved ICR.
Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2022-20618 Filed 9-22-22; 8:45 am]
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