Notice2025-03267
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Ferroalloys Production Area Sources (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 Ferroalloys Production Area Sources (EPA ICR Number 2303.07, OMB Control Number 2060-0625) 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 August 6, 2024, 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 10909-10910]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-03267]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OAR-2024-0273; FRL-12653-01-OMS]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; NESHAP for Ferroalloys Production Area Sources (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 Ferroalloys Production
Area Sources (EPA ICR Number 2303.07, OMB Control Number 2060-0625) 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 August 6, 2024, 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-2024-0273, 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#4e2f632f202a633c632a212d252b3a0e2b3e2f60292138"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="d4b5f9b5bab0f9a6f9b0bbb7bfb1a094b1a4b5fab3bba2">[email protected]</span></a>, or by mail to: EPA Docket
Center, Environmental Protection Agency, Mail Code 28221T, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460.
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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, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW,
Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (919) 541-0833; email address:
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#27464b4e094a52495346544e556742574609404851"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="5a3b363374372f342e3b2933281a3f2a3b743d352c">[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 August 6, 2024, during a 60-day comment period (89 FR 63933). 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 Ferroalloys Production Area Sources (40 CFR
part 63, subpart YYYYYY) were proposed on September 15, 2008 (73 FR
53163), and promulgated on December 23, 2008 (73 FR 78637). These
regulations apply to existing and new ferroalloy production facilities
that are an area source of hazardous air pollutant (HAP) emissions. A
ferroalloys production facility manufactures silicon metal,
ferrosilicon, ferrotitanium using the aluminum reduction process,
ferrovanadium, ferromolybdenum, calcium silicon, silicomanganese
zirconium, ferrochrome silicon, silvery iron, high-carbon ferrochrome,
charge chrome, standard ferromanganese, ferromanganese silicon, calcium
carbide or other ferroalloy products using electrometallurgical
operations, including electric arc furnaces (EAFs) or other reaction
vessels. 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 YYYYYY. In general, all NESHAP 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
NESHAP.
Form Numbers: None.
Respondents/affected entities: Ferroalloys production area sources.
Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 63,
subpart YYYYYY).
Estimated number of respondents: 9 (total).
Frequency of response: Initially, annually, and semiannually.
Total estimated burden: 362 hours (per year). Burden is defined at
5 CFR 1320.03(b).
Total estimated cost: $49,600 (per year). There are no annualized
capital or operation & maintenance costs.
Changes in the estimates: There is no change in burden from the
most recently approved ICR as currently identified in the OMB Inventory
of Approved Burdens. 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. Since there are no changes in
the regulatory requirements and there is no significant industry
growth, there are also no changes in the capital/startup or operation
and maintenance (O&M) costs.
Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Information Engagement Division.
[FR Doc. 2025-03267 Filed 2-27-25; 8:45 am]
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