Notice2023-03823
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request; NSPS for Sewage Sludge Treatment Plants (Renewal)
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Published
February 24, 2023
Issuing agencies
Environmental Protection Agency
Abstract
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), NSPS for Sewage Sludge Treatment Plants (EPA ICR Number 1063.15, OMB Control Number 2060-0035), 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 March 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 37 (Friday, February 24, 2023)]
[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: 2023-03823]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OAR-2022-0058; FRL-10749-01-OMS]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; NSPS for Sewage Sludge Treatment Plants (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 Sewage Sludge Treatment
Plants (EPA ICR Number 1063.15, OMB Control Number 2060-0035), 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 March 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 27, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OAR-2022-0058, to EPA online using <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a>, (our preferred
method), or by email to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#741559151a10590659301b171f1100341104155a131b02"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="59387438373d742b741d363a323c2d193c2938773e362f">[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.
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#0968656027647c677d687a607b496c7968276e667f"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="17767b7e397a62796376647e655772677639707861">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a proposed extension of the ICR,
which is currently approved through March 31, 2023. An agency may not
conduct or 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
on July 22, 2022 during a 60-day comment period (87 FR 438434). 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="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a> or in person at the EPA
Docket Center, WJC West, 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 Sewage
Sludge Treatment Plants (40 CFR part 60, subpart O) were proposed on
August 17, 1971; promulgated on December 23, 1971; and most-recently
amended on February 27, 2014. These regulations apply to each
incinerator which either combusts wastes that contain more than 10
percent sewage sludge (dry basis) produced by municipal sewage
treatment plants or each incinerator which charges more than 1,000 kg
(2,205 lb) per day municipal sewage sludge (dry basis). New facilities
include those that either commenced construction, modification, or
reconstruction after the date of proposal. These standards set emission
limitation for particulate matter (PM). This information is being
collected to assure compliance with 40 CFR part 60, subpart O.
In general, all NESHAP standards require initial notifications,
performance tests, and periodic reports by 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 notification, reports, and
records are essential in determining compliance, and are required of
all affected facilities subject to NSPS.
Form Numbers: None.
Respondents/affected entities: Sewage sludge treatment plants.
Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 60,
subpart O).
Estimated number of respondents: 103 facilities (total).
Frequency of response: Initially, occasionally, and semiannually.
Total estimated burden: 12,000 hours (per year). Burden is defined
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
Total estimated cost: $5,250,000 (per year), which includes
$3,810,000 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. The adjustment increase in burden from the most-
recently approved ICR is due to more accurate estimates of existing and
anticipated new sources. There is an increase in the capital and O&M
costs due to the updated estimates of existing and anticipated new
sources.
Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2023-03823 Filed 2-23-23; 8:45 am]
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