Notice2025-03341
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Electric Arc Furnace Steelmaking Facilities (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 Electric Arc Furnace Steelmaking Facilities (EPA ICR Number 2277.07, OMB Control Number 2060-0608) 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 10922-10923]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-03341]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OAR-2024-0272; FRL-12654-01-OMS]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; NESHAP for Electric Arc Furnace Steelmaking Facilities
(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 Electric Arc Furnace
Steelmaking Facilities (EPA ICR Number 2277.07, OMB Control Number
2060-0608) 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-2024-0272, to EPA online using <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a> (our
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preferred method), by email to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#bddc90dcd3d990cf90d9d2ded6d8c9fdd8cddc93dad2cb"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="7d1c501c1319500f5019121e1618093d180d1c531a120b">[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#9efff2f7b0f3ebf0eaffedf7ecdefbeeffb0f9f1e8"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="4a2b262364273f243e2b3923380a2f3a2b642d253c">[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 Electric Arc Furnace Steelmaking Facilities (40
CFR part 63, subpart YYYYY) were proposed on September 20, 2007, and
promulgated on December 28, 2007. These regulations apply to existing
facilities and new Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) steelmaking facilities
that are area sources of hazardous air pollutants (HAP) emissions.
These standards establish particulate matter (PM) emission limits for
control devices and opacity limits for melt shops, pollution prevention
requirements for ferrous scrap that is melted in EAFs, and monitoring,
reporting, and recordkeeping requirements. 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 YYYYY.
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: Electric Arc Furnace (EAF)
steelmaking facilities.
Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 63,
subpart YYYYY).
Estimated number of respondents: 80 (total).
Frequency of response: Initially, semiannually.
Total estimated burden: 3,920 hours (per year). Burden is defined
at 5 CFR 1320.03(b).
Total estimated cost: $548,000 (per year), which includes $10,700
annualized capital or operation & maintenance costs.
Changes in the estimates: There is a decrease of 80 hours in the
total estimated respondent burden compared with the ICR currently
approved by OMB. This decrease is due to an adjustment to the number of
respondents expected per year based on the feedback received during
consultations with stakeholders. Despite a decrease in burden there is
an increase in costs due to the use of updated labor rates. This ICR
uses labor rates from the most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics report
to calculate respondent burden costs. Although we applied an adjustment
increase to the capital costs to adjust 2021 $ to 2023 $, there is an
overall decrease in Capital/O&M costs due to the decrease in the number
of new respondents per year as confirmed by consultations with
stakeholders and the EPA's internal industry experts.
Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Information Engagement Division.
[FR Doc. 2025-03341 Filed 2-27-25; 8:45 am]
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