Notice2022-21175
Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; NSPS for Greenhouse Gas Emissions for New Electric Utility Generating Units (Renewal)
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Published
September 29, 2022
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Environmental Protection Agency
Abstract
The Environmental Protection Agency has submitted an information collection request (ICR), NSPS for Greenhouse Gas Emissions for New Electric Utility Generating Units (EPA ICR Number 2465.05, OMB Control Number 2060-0685), 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 188 (Thursday, September 29, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59074-59075]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-21175]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OAR-2022-0047; FRL-10259-01-OMS]
Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and
Approval; Comment Request; NSPS for Greenhouse Gas Emissions for New
Electric Utility Generating Units (Renewal)
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency has submitted an
information collection request (ICR), NSPS for Greenhouse Gas Emissions
for New Electric Utility Generating Units (EPA ICR Number 2465.05, OMB
Control Number 2060-0685), 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 31,
2022.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OAR-2022-0047, to: (1) EPA 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#04606b676f6170446174652a636b72"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="bdd9d2ded6d8c9fdd8cddc93dad2cb">[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#6b0a070245061e051f0a1802192b0e1b0a450c041d"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="8feee3e6a1e2fae1fbeefce6fdcfeaffeea1e8e0f9">[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
Greenhouse Gas Emissions for New Electric Utility Generating Units were
proposed on June 2, 2014 and promulgated on October 23, 2015.
Amendments to 40 CFR part 60, subpart TTTT were proposed on December 6,
2018, but EPA did not finalize amendments to the 2015 final rule. On
January 13, 2021, EPA finalized a pollutant-specific significant
contribution finding for this source category, which was later vacated
and remanded on April 5, 2021. These regulations apply to either newly
constructed, modified or reconstructed facilities with electric utility
generating units (EGUs), including any steam generating unit, IGCC, or
stationary combustion turbine that commenced construction after January
8, 2014 or commenced reconstruction after June 18, 2014. To be
considered an EGU the unit must be: (1) capable of combusting more than
250 MMBtu/h heat input of fossil fuel; and (2) serve a generator
capable of supplying more than 25 MW net to a utility distribution
system (i.e., for sale to the grid). New facilities include those that
commenced construction, modification or reconstruction after the date
of proposal. This information is being collected to assure compliance
with 40 CFR part 60, subpart TTTT. In general, all NSPS standards
require initial notifications, performance tests, and periodic reports
by the owners/operators of the affected facilities. 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: Electric utility generating units.
Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 60,
subpart TTTT).
Estimated number of respondents: 92 (total).
Frequency of response: Initially, quarterly.
Total estimated burden: 3,130 hours (per year). Burden is defined
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
Total estimated cost: $376,000 (per year), which includes no
annualized capital/startup and/or operation & maintenance costs.
Changes in the Estimates: The increase in burden from the most
recently approved ICR is due to an adjustment(s). The adjustment
increase in burden from the most-recently approved ICR is due to an
increase in the number of respondents. Based on our consultation with
the Agency's internal industry experts and review of data from EPA's
Clean Air Markets Division and the U.S. Energy Information
Administration, the electric utility sector is undergoing significant
changes and the number of respondents and new sources expected over the
next three years has increased significantly from the most recently
approved ICR.
Although we are assuming there will be 16 new sources per year
subject to 40 CFR part 60, subpart TTTT, there is no change in the
capital/startup vs. operation and maintenance (O&M) costs as discussed
in section 6(b)(iii) compared with the costs in the most-recently
approved ICR. There are no capital/startup and/or O&M costs for this
ICR. As described in a previous Federal Register notice (84 FR 25046),
this NSPS imposes a minimal information collection burden on affected
sources beyond what sources would already be subject to under the
authorities of CAA Parts 75 (Acid Rain Program CEM requirements) and 98
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(Mandatory GHG Reporting, applicable to EGUs that capture CO2). OMB has
previously approved the information collection requirements contained
in the existing Part 75 and 98 regulations (40 CFR part 75 and 40 CFR
part 98) under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C.
3501 et seq., and has assigned OMB control numbers 2060-0626 and 2060-
0629, respectively. Apart from certain reporting costs to comply with
the emission standards under the rule, there are no additional
information collection costs, as the information required by the rule
is already collected and reported by other regulatory programs.
Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2022-21175 Filed 9-28-22; 8:45 am]
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