Notice2025-20052
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; NESHAP for Steel Pickling, HCI Process Facilities and Hydrochloric Acid Regeneration Plants (Renewal)
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Published
November 18, 2025
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Environmental Protection Agency
Abstract
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), NESHAP for Steel Pickling, HCI Process Facilities and Hydrochloric Acid Regeneration Plants (EPA ICR Number 1821.12, OMB Control Number 2060-0419) 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 November 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 220 (Tuesday, November 18, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Page 51748]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-20052]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OAR-2021-0092; FRL-13078-01-OMS]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; NESHAP for
Steel Pickling, HCI Process Facilities and Hydrochloric Acid
Regeneration 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 Steel Pickling, HCI
Process Facilities and Hydrochloric Acid Regeneration Plants (EPA ICR
Number 1821.12, OMB Control Number 2060-0419) 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 November 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 December 18, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OAR-2021-0092, to (1) EPA online using <a href="https://www.regulations.gov/">https://www.regulations.gov/</a>
(our preferred method), by email to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#66074b0708024b144b0209050d03122603160748010910"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="f998d498979dd48bd49d969a929c8db99c8998d79e968f">[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 (D243-05), Office of Air Quality Planning and
Standards, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle
Park, North Carolina 27711; telephone number: (919) 541-0833; email
address: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#66070a0f480b13081207150f142603160748010910"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="63020f0a4d0e160d1702100a11230613024d040c15">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a proposed extension of the ICR,
which is currently approved through November 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 Steel Pickling, HCl Process Facilities and
Hydrochloric Acid Regeneration Plants (40 CFR part 63, subpart CCC)
were proposed on September 18, 1997; promulgated on June 22, 1999; and
amended on both September 19, 2012 and November 19, 2020. This rule
applies to all facilities that pickle steel using hydrochloric acid
(HCl) or regenerate hydrochloric acid and are either major sources or
part of a facility that is a major source. This information is being
collected to assure compliance with 40 CFR part 63, subpart CCC.
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: Owners or operators of steel
pickling, HCl process facilities and HCl regeneration plants.
Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 63,
subpart CCC).
Estimated number of respondents: 100 (total).
Frequency of response: Annually.
Total estimated burden: 35,000 hours (per year). Burden is defined
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
Total estimated cost: $4,800,000 (per year), includes $14,700
annualized capital or O&M costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is no change in burden from the
most-recently approved ICR as currently identified in the OMB Inventory
of Approved Burdens. This is due to two considerations: (1) the
regulations have not changed over the past three years and are not
anticipated to change over the next three years; and (2) the growth
rate for this industry is very low or non-existent, so there is no
significant change in the overall burden. There is a slight increase in
the operation and maintenance (O&M) costs due to O&M costs being
updated from $2008 to $2023 using the CEPCI Index. There is a slight
increase in respondent burden costs, which is wholly due to the use of
updated labor rates. This ICR uses labor rates from the most-recent
Bureau of Labor Statistics report (December 2023) to calculate
respondent burden costs.
Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Information Engagement Division.
[FR Doc. 2025-20052 Filed 11-17-25; 8:45 am]
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