Notice2025-11380
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request; NSPS for the Phosphate Fertilizer Industry (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), NSPS for the Phosphate Fertilizer Industry (EPA ICR Number 1061.16, OMB Control Number 2060-0037) 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 26288-26289]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-11380]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OAR-2020-0658; FRL-12845-01-OMS]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; NSPS for the Phosphate Fertilizer Industry (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), NSPS for the Phosphate Fertilizer
Industry (EPA ICR Number 1061.16, OMB Control Number 2060-0037) 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-2020-0658, 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#36571b5758521b441b5259555d53427653465718515940"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="abca86cac5cf86d986cfc4c8c0cedfebcedbca85ccc4dd">[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#37565b5e195a42594356445e457752475619505841"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="2948454007445c475d485a405b694c5948074e465f">[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
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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 New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for Phosphate
Fertilizer Industry (40 CFR part 60, subparts T, U, V, W, and X) apply
to both existing facilities and new facilities that engage in the
manufacture of phosphate fertilizers (wet-process phosphoric acid
plants, super-phosphoric acid plants, diammonium phosphate plants, and
triple superphosphate plants), and have a design capacity of more than
15 tons of equivalent phosphorous pentoxide
(P<INF>2</INF>O<INF>5</INF>) feed per calendar day. These standards
also apply to both new and existing facilities that store granular
triple superphosphate. These same standards establish fluoride emission
limitations as a measure of phosphorus-bearing feed material at
affected facilities. The affected facilities may include a combination
of reactors, filters, evaporators, hot wells, acid sumps, cooling
tanks, granulators, dryers, coolers, screens, mills, mixers, curing
belts (dens), coolers, and facilities which store run-of-pile triple
superphosphate, depending on the type of plant. New facilities include
those that commenced construction, modification, or reconstruction
after the date of proposal. This information is being collected to
assure compliance with 40 CFR part 60, subpart T, U, V, W, and X.
Form Numbers: None.
Respondents/affected entities: Owners and operators of phosphate
fertilizer manufacturing facilities.
Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 60,
subparts T, U, V, W, and X).
Estimated number of respondents: 13 (total).
Frequency of response: Initially, semiannually.
Total estimated burden: 1,390 hours (per year). Burden is defined
at 5 CFR 1320.03(b).
Total estimated cost: $701,000 (per year), which includes $511,000
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. Second, the growth rate for this industry is
very low or non-existent, so there is no significant change in the
overall burden. There is an increase in capital and operation &
maintenance costs due to an adjustment to increase using the CEPCI
Equipment Cost Index.
Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Information Engagement Division.
[FR Doc. 2025-11380 Filed 6-18-25; 8:45 am]
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