Notice2025-03260
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Primary Lead Smelting (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), NESHAP for Primary Lead Smelting (EPA ICR Number 1856.13, OMB Control Number 2060-0414) 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 10914-10915]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-03260]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OAR-2020-0636; FRL-12635-01-OMS]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; NESHAP for Primary Lead Smelting (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 Primary Lead Smelting
(EPA ICR Number 1856.13, OMB Control Number 2060-0414) 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-2020-0636, to EPA online using <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a> (our preferred
method), by email to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#0b6a266a656f2679266f6468606e7f4b6e7b6a256c647d"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="e584c8848b81c897c8818a868e8091a5809584cb828a93">[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#4c2d202562213922382d3f253e0c293c2d622b233a"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="cdaca1a4e3a0b8a3b9acbea4bf8da8bdace3aaa2bb">[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 National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air
Pollutants (NESHAP) for Primary Lead Smelting (40 CFR part 63, subpart
TTT) were proposed on April 17, 1998; promulgated on June 4, 1999; and
amended on both November 15, 2011, and November 19, 2020. These
regulations apply to existing and new facilities engaged in producing
lead metal from ore concentrates. The category includes, but is not
limited to, the following smelting processes: sintering, reduction,
preliminary treatment, refining and casting operations, process
fugitive sources, and fugitive dust sources. New facilities include
those that commenced either construction or reconstruction after the
date of proposal. This information is being collected to assure
compliance with 40 CFR part 63, subpart TTT.
Form Numbers: None.
Respondents/affected entities: Facilities engaged in the smelting
of lead from ores.
Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 63,
subpart TTT).
Estimated number of respondents: 1 (total).
Frequency of response: Semiannual, quarterly.
Total estimated burden: 6,270 hours (per year). Burden is defined
at 5 CFR 1320.03(b).
Total estimated cost: $1,030,000 (per year), which includes
$235,000 annualized capital or operation & maintenance costs.
Changes in the estimates: There is no change in hours in the total
estimated respondent burden compared with the ICR currently approved by
OMB. This is due to two considerations. First, the regulations have not
changed over the past three years and are not anticipated to change
over the next three years. Second, the growth rate for this industry is
very low or non-existent, so there is no significant change in the
overall burden. There is an increase in capital and O&M costs due to an
adjustment to increase costs using the CEPCI CE Index.
Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Information Engagement Division.
[FR Doc. 2025-03260 Filed 2-27-25; 8:45 am]
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