Notice2025-03253
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request; NSPS for Primary and Secondary Emissions From Basic Oxygen Furnaces (Renewal)
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Published
February 28, 2025
Issuing agencies
Environmental Protection Agency
Abstract
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), NSPS for Primary and Secondary Emissions from Basic Oxygen Furnaces (EPA ICR Number 1069.14, OMB Control Number 2060-0029) 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 February 28, 2025. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register on May 18, 2023 during a 60-day comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 39 (Friday, February 28, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10896-10897]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-03253]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OAR-2020-0629; FRL-12624-01-OMS]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; NSPS for Primary and Secondary Emissions From Basic Oxygen
Furnaces (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 Primary and Secondary
Emissions from Basic Oxygen Furnaces (EPA ICR Number 1069.14, OMB
Control Number 2060-0029) 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 February 28, 2025. Public comments were previously requested
via the Federal Register on May 18, 2023 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 31, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OAR-2020-0629, to EPA online using <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a> (our preferred
method), <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#13723e727d773e613e777c70787667537663723d747c65"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="23420e424d470e510e474c40484657634653420d444c55">[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, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standard, D243-05,
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington,
DC 20460; telephone number: (919) 541-0833; email address:
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#82e3eeebaceff7ecf6e3f1ebf0c2e7f2e3ace5edf4"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="f1909d98df9c849f8590829883b1948190df969e87">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a proposed extension of the ICR,
which is currently approved through February 28, 2025. 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 May 18, 2023 during a 60-day comment period (88 FR 31748). 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 Primary
Emissions from Basic Oxygen Process Furnaces (subpart N) apply to each
basic oxygen process furnace (BOPF) in an iron and steel plant that
commenced construction, modification, or reconstruction after the date
of proposal. An opacity limit was promulgated on April 13, 1978, as a
supplement to the mass standard. On January 20, 1983, amendments to the
Standards of Performance for Primary Emissions from Basic Oxygen
Process Furnaces merged with Standards of Performance for Secondary
Emissions from Basic Oxygen Process Steelmaking Facilities (subpart
Na). Subpart Na is applicable to any topblown BOPF, and hot metal
transfer station or skimming stations used with bottom-blown or top-
blown BOPF's for which construction, reconstruction, or modification
commenced after January 20, 1983. Subpart Na was promulgated on January
2, 1986. This information is being collected to assure compliance with
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CFR part 60, subparts N and Na. 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: Iron and steel plants that utilize
basic oxygen furnaces.
Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 60,
subparts N and Na).
Estimated number of respondents: 2 (total).
Frequency of response: Initially and semiannually.
Total estimated burden: 628 hours (per year). Burden is defined at
5 CFR 1320.03(b).
Total estimated cost: $83,000 (per year), which includes $3,830
annualized capital or operation & maintenance costs.
Changes in the estimates: There is a decrease of 3,932 hours in the
total estimated respondent burden compared with the ICR currently
approved by OMB. This decrease is an adjustment due to a decrease in
the number of sources. The previous ICR included sources that were
constructed, reconstructed, or modified before the date of promulgation
of Subpart N. These sources have been removed from the burden and cost
calculations of this renewal. Additionally, the Capital/Startup and O&M
costs have decreased due to the decrease in number of sources.
Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Information Engagement Division.
[FR Doc. 2025-03253 Filed 2-27-25; 8:45 am]
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