Notice2025-03314
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Ethylene and Spandex (Renewal)
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Published
February 28, 2025
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Environmental Protection Agency
Abstract
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), NESHAP for Ethylene and Spandex (EPA ICR Number 1983.11, OMB Control Number 2060-0489) 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 10894-10895]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-03314]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OAR-2017-0357; FRL-12644-01-OMS]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; NESHAP for Ethylene and Spandex (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 Ethylene and Spandex
(EPA ICR Number 1983.11, OMB Control Number 2060-0489) 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-2017-0357, 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#58397539363c752a753c373b333d2c183d2839763f372e"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a9c884c8c7cd84db84cdc6cac2ccdde9ccd9c887cec6df">[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#5534393c7b38203b2134263c27153025347b323a23"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="80e1ece9aeedf5eef4e1f3e9f2c0e5f0e1aee7eff6">[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 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 the regulations published at 40 CFR part 63,
subpart YY were promulgated on July 12, 2002 (67 FR 46257), and amended
on April 13, 2005 (70 FR 19266), July 6, 2020 (85 FR 40386), and
November 19, 2020 (85 FR 73854). These regulations apply to existing
and new carbon black, cyanide, ethylene, and spandex facilities that
would be subject to the major source provisions specified under the
Generic Maximum Achievable Control Technology (GMACT) NESHAP. A Risk
and Technology Review (RTR) for ethylene production was proposed on
October 9, 2019 and promulgated on July 6, 2020 (85 FR 40386). The RTR
amendments to the ethylene production regulations corrected and
clarified regulatory provisions related to emissions during periods of
startup, shutdown, and malfunction; added requirements for electronic
reporting of performance test results; added operational requirements
for flares; added standards and monitoring requirements for pressure
relief devices (PRDs); added requirements and clarifications for vent
control bypasses, including bypass lines, in situ sampling systems,
maintenance activities, and certain gaseous streams routed to a fuel
gas system; added requirements for storage vessel degassing; and
revised requirements for heat exchange systems. An RTR amendment for
carbon black production (OMB Number 2060-0738, EPA ICR Number 2677.02)
was finalized on November 19, 2021 (86 FR 66096) and an RTR amendment
for cyanide production (OMB Number 2060-0739, EPA ICR Number 2678.02)
was finalized on November 19, 2021 (86 FR 66096). The burden for these
requirements is not included in this renewal. New facilities include
those that commenced construction or reconstruction after the date of
proposal. This information is being collected to assure compliance with
40 CFR part 63, subpart YY for ethylene and spandex production
facilities. NESHAP standards require initial notifications, performance
tests, and periodic reports by the owners/operators of the affected
facilities. They must also 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: Ethylene and spandex production
facilities.
Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 63,
subpart YY).
Estimated number of respondents: 34 (total).
Frequency of response: Semiannually.
Total estimated burden: 29,438 hours (per year). Burden is defined
at 5 CFR 1320.03(b).
Total estimated cost: $15,100,000 (per year), which includes
$11,400,000 annualized capital or operation & maintenance costs.
Changes in the estimates: There is a decrease of 20,862 hours in
the total estimated respondent burden compared with the ICR currently
approved by OMB. This decrease is due to an adjustment(s). The
adjustment decrease in burden from the most recently approved ICR is
due to a decrease in the number of sources. While previous renewals
included sources manufacturing carbon black and sources
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manufacturing cyanide, an RTR amendment for carbon black production
(OMB Number 2060-0738, EPA ICR Number 2677.02) was finalized on
November 19, 2021 (86 FR 66096) and an RTR amendment for cyanide
production (OMB Number 2060-0739, EPA ICR Number 2678.02) was finalized
on November 19, 2021 (86 FR 66096). Now that these two subcategories
are covered under separate ICRs, the burden for these requirements is
not included in this renewal. Additionally, an RTR for ethylene
production was finalized on July 6, 2020 (85 FR 40386). These
requirements have been included in the burden calculations. While
overall burden decreased, Capital/Startup and O&M costs have increased
due to the additional requirements finalized for sources manufacturing
ethylene.
Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Information Engagement Division.
[FR Doc. 2025-03314 Filed 2-27-25; 8:45 am]
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