Notice2025-03342
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Primary Aluminum Reduction Plants (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 Aluminum Reduction Plants (EPA ICR Number 1767.10, OMB Control Number 2060-0360) 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 10916-10917]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-03342]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OAR-2023-0126; FRL-12659-01-OMS]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; NESHAP for Primary Aluminum Reduction Plants (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 Aluminum
Reduction Plants (EPA ICR Number 1767.10, OMB Control Number 2060-0360)
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-2023-0126, 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#741559151a10590659101b171f1100341104155a131b02"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="03622e626d672e712e676c60686677436673622d646c75">[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#6b0a070245061e051f0a1802192b0e1b0a450c041d"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="e0818c89ce8d958e9481938992a0859081ce878f96">[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
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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 LL) were proposed on September 26, 1996; promulgated on October
7, 1997; and amended on October 15, 2015. These regulations apply to
owner or operator of the affected facilities, which include new or
existing potlines, paste production plants, or anode bake furnaces
associated with primary aluminum production and located at a major
source, and for each new pitch storage tank associated with a primary
aluminum reduction plant. 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 LL.
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: Primary aluminum reduction
facilities.
Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 63,
subpart LL).
Estimated number of respondents: 6 (total).
Frequency of response: Initially, quarterly, semiannually,
annually.
Total estimated burden: 39,200 hours (per year). Burden is defined
at 5 CFR 1320.03(b).
Total estimated cost: $5,240,000 (per year), which includes
$299,000 annualized capital or operation & maintenance costs.
Changes in the estimates: There is a decrease of 13,100 hours in
the total estimated respondent burden compared with the ICR currently
approved by OMB. This decrease is due to a decrease in the number of
sources from eight to six compared to the previously approved ICR.
There was also a decrease in the overall total capital and O&M costs
due to the decrease in number of sources. This decrease is not due to
any program changes.
Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Information Engagement Division.
[FR Doc. 2025-03342 Filed 2-27-25; 8:45 am]
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