Notice2025-03343
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Taconite Iron Ore (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 Taconite Iron Ore Processing (EPA ICR Number 2050.11, OMB Control Number 2060-0538) 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 10907-10908]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-03343]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OAR-2021-0119; FRL-12656-01-OMS]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; NESHAP for Taconite Iron Ore (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 Taconite Iron Ore
Processing (EPA ICR Number 2050.11, OMB Control Number 2060-0538) to
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in
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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-2021-0119, 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#2f4e024e414b025d024b404c444a5b6f4a5f4e01484059"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="72135f131c165f005f161d11191706321702135c151d04">[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#accdc0c582c1d9c2d8cddfc5deecc9dccd82cbc3da"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="6908050047041c071d081a001b290c1908470e061f">[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 Taconite Iron Ore Processing was proposed on
December 18, 2002, and promulgated on October 30, 2003, and most
recently amended on March 6, 2024. The NESHAP is codified at 40 CFR
part 63, subpart RRRRR. The regulations apply to existing facilities
and new facilities that either emit or have the potential to emit any
single hazardous air pollutant (HAP) at a rate of 9.07 megagrams (10
tons) or more per year or any combination of HAP at a rate of 22.68
megagrams (25 tons) or more per year from all emission sources at the
plant site. Affected sources include each new or existing ore crushing
and handling operation, ore dryer, indurating furnace, and finished
pellet handling operation. The pollutants regulated include HAP metals,
using particulate matter (PM) as a surrogate. New facilities include
those that commenced construction or reconstruction after the date of
the original proposal (December 18, 2002). This information is being
collected to assure compliance with 40 CFR part 63, subpart RRRRR.
In general, all NESHAP require initial notifications, performance
tests, and periodic reports by the owners/operators of the affected
facilities. Owners/operators are also required to maintain records of
the occurrence and duration of any failures to meet applicable
standards, or any period during which the monitoring system is
inoperative. In addition to the notifications, a semiannual report is
also required. These notifications, reports, and records are essential
in determining compliance, and are required of all sources subject to
NESHAP.
Form Numbers: 5900-576.
Respondents/affected entities: Taconite iron ore processing
facilities.
Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR 63, Subpart
RRRRR).
Estimated number of respondents: 7 (total).
Frequency of response: Initially and semiannually.
Total estimated burden: 3,520 hours (per year). Burden is defined
at 5 CFR 1320.03(b).
Total estimated cost: $19,100,000 (per year), which includes
$18,600,000 annualized capital or operation & maintenance costs.
Changes in the estimates: There is an increase of 2,037 hours in
the total estimated respondent burden compared with the ICR currently
approved by OMB. This increase is not due to any program changes. The
burden in this renewal is updated to reflect additional requirements
from rule amendments, as well as the ongoing activities performed by
existing sources after rule implementation. Additionally, we made a
correction to the number of respondents per year performing Method 5
performance tests, consistent with the number of respondents estimated
to provide notifications of performance tests and report performance
test results. This ICR adjusts the number of respondents conducting
performance tests in each year from 2.7 per year to 7 per year, which
increases the annual burden by approximately 300 hours. There is an
increase in the Capital/O&M costs because this renewal reflects the
costs associated with the requirements from the 2023 rule amendments,
which includes DSI operation and maintenance costs, and ACI/Venturi
scrubber operation and maintenance costs. Additionally, we have
included the non-labor performance test costs associated with testing
contractors as capital costs rather than including them with industry
costs as in previous ICR renewals.
Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Information Engagement Division.
[FR Doc. 2025-03343 Filed 2-27-25; 8:45 am]
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