Notice2023-01760
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request; State and Federal Emission Guidelines for Hospital/Medical/Infectious Waste Incinerators (Renewal)
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Published
January 30, 2023
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Environmental Protection Agency
Abstract
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), State and Federal Emission Guidelines for Hospital/Medical/Infectious Waste Incinerators (EPA ICR Number 1899.10, OMB Control Number 2060-0422), 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 January 31, 2023. Public comments were previously requested, via the Federal Register, on July 22, 2022 during a 60-day comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 19 (Monday, January 30, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5875-5876]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-01760]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OAR-2022-0022; FRL-10621-01-OMS]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; State and Federal Emission Guidelines for Hospital/Medical/
Infectious Waste Incinerators (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), State and Federal Emission
Guidelines for Hospital/Medical/Infectious Waste Incinerators (EPA ICR
Number 1899.10, OMB Control Number 2060-0422), 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 January 31, 2023. Public comments
were previously requested, via the Federal Register, on July 22, 2022
during a 60-day comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30
days for public comments.
DATES: Comments may be submitted on or before March 1, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OAR-2022-0022, to 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#3d59525e5658497d584d5c135a524b"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a1c5cec2cac4d5e1c4d1c08fc6ced7">[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.
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#d8b9b4b1f6b5adb6acb9abb1aa98bda8b9f6bfb7ae"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="72131e1b5c1f071c0613011b00321702135c151d04">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a proposed extension of the ICR,
which is currently approved through January 31,
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2023. 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.
Public comments were previously requested, via the Federal Register
(87 FR 43843), on July 22, 2022 during a 60-day comment period. This
notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments. 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 Emission Guidelines (EG) (40 CFR part 60, subpart Ce)
for Hospital/Medical/Infectious Waste Incinerators were proposed on
February 27, 1995; promulgated on September 15, 1997; and revised on
both October 6, 2009 and April 4, 2011. The Federal Plan Requirements
for these regulations (40 CFR part 62, subpart HHH) were proposed on
July 6, 1999; promulgated on August 15, 2000; and revised on May 13,
2013. Subpart Ce requires either states or tribes to develop plans to
implement the EG. If approvable state or tribal plans were not
developed, the EPA was required to develop a Federal plan (Subpart HHH)
to implement the Emission Guidelines for such states and tribes. The
Federal plan is an interim measure to ensure that emissions standards
are implemented until states assume their role as the preferred
implementers of the EG. The 2013 rule finalized amendments to the HMIWI
federal plan to implement the amended EG adopted on October 6, 2009,
for those states that did not have an approved revised/new state plan
in place within 2 years after promulgation of the EG. The regulations
in 40 CFR part 60, subpart Ce and 40 CFR part 62, subpart HHH apply to
each existing individual hospital/medical/infectious waste incinerator
(HMIWI) that either commenced construction prior to December 2, 2008 or
commenced modification prior to April 6, 2010. This information is
being collected to assure compliance with 40 CFR part 60, subpart Ce
and 40 CFR part 62, subpart HHH.
Form numbers: None.
Respondents/affected entities: Hospital/Medical/Infectious Waste
Incinerators.
Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 60,
subpart Ce and 40 CFR part 62, subpart HHH).
Estimated number of respondents: 28 existing respondents,
consisting of 16 privately-owned, 1 Federally-owned, 1 State/locally
owned HMIWI facilities, plus 10 States requiring State Plan Inventories
(total).
Frequency of response: Semiannually and annually.
Total estimated burden: 19,200 hours (per year). Burden is defined
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
Total estimated cost: $2,430,000 (per year), which includes
$239,000 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 a decrease in the number of sources due
to a decline in the industry. This decrease is not due to any program
changes. The number of sources has declined as HMIWI units have closed.
Any new units that either commence construction after December 2, 2008
or commence modification after April 6, 2010 are subject to the new
source performance standards at 40 CFR part 60, subpart Ec. The
decrease in the operation and maintenance costs from the currently-
approved ICR is also due to the decline in the number of HMIWI units.
There are no changes to the capital costs because there are no new
entities subject to 40 CFR part 60, subpart Ce or 40 CFR part 62,
subpart HHH.
Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2023-01760 Filed 1-27-23; 8:45 am]
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