Notice2025-11274
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Ferroalloys Production: Ferromanganese and Silicomanganese (Renewal)
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Published
June 20, 2025
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Environmental Protection Agency
Abstract
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), NESHAP for Ferroalloys Production: Ferromanganese and Silicomanganese (EPA ICR Number 1831.09, OMB Control Number 2060-0391) 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 June 30, 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 117 (Friday, June 20, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 26291-26292]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-11274]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OAR-2021-0093; FRL-12849-01-OMS]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; NESHAP for Ferroalloys Production: Ferromanganese and
Silicomanganese (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: Ferromanganese and Silicomanganese (EPA ICR Number 1831.09,
OMB Control Number 2060-0391) 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 June 30, 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 July 21, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OAR-2021-0093, 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#355418545b51184718515a565e5041755045541b525a43"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="6f0e420e010b421d420b000c040a1b2f0a1f0e41080019">[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#1978757037746c776d786a706b597c6978377e766f"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="fd9c9194d3908893899c8e948fbd988d9cd39a928b">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a proposed extension of the ICR,
which is currently approved through June 30, 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: Ferromanganese and
Silicomanganese (40 CFR part 63, subpart XXX) were promulgated on May
20, 1999; and amended on: March 22, 2001; June 23, 2003; April 20,
2006; June 30, 2015 (80 FR 37366); January 18, 2017 (82 FR 5408), and
November 19, 2020 (85 FR 73902). These regulations apply to both new
and existing ferroalloy production facilities that manufacture
ferromanganese and silicomanganese, and that are either major sources
of hazardous air pollutant (HAP) emissions or are co-located at major
sources of HAPs. The following affected facilities at ferroalloy
production plants are subject to this NESHAP rule: electric arc
furnaces; casting operations; metal oxygen refining (MOR) processes;
crushing and screening operations; and outdoor fugitive dust sources.
New facilities include those that commenced construction or
reconstruction after the date of proposal. The burden in this ICR
reflects the burden associated with the recordkeeping and reporting
requirements of the regulation for new and existing sources included in
the June 30, 2015 Risk and Technology Review (RTR) final rule
amendments and January 18, 2017 reconsideration notice. The burden
associated with the 2015 final rule amendments and reconsideration
notice is accounted for in EPA ICR No. 2448.02 (OMB Control No. 2060-
0676). The 2020 amendment implemented the plain language reading of the
``major source'' and ``area source'' definitions of section 112 of the
Clean Air Act (CAA) and provide that a major source can be reclassified
to area source status at any time upon reducing its potential to emit
(PTE) hazardous air pollutants (HAP) to below the major source
thresholds and required this notification be submitted electronically.
This information is being collected to assure compliance with 40 CFR
part 63, subpart XXX.
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
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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 facilities.
Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 63,
subpart XXX).
Estimated number of respondents: 2 (total).
Frequency of response: Initially, quarterly, semiannually, and
annually.
Total estimated burden: 1,610 hours (per year). Burden is defined
at 5 CFR 1320.03(b).
Total estimated cost: $645,000 (per year), which includes $424,000
annualized capital or operation & maintenance costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is no change in hours in the total
estimated respondent burden compared with the ICR currently approved by
OMB. 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. Secondly, the growth rate for the industry
is very low, negative 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. 2025-11274 Filed 6-18-25; 8:45 am]
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