Notice2025-23966
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request; NSPS for Kraft Pulp Mills (Renewal)
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Published
December 30, 2025
Issuing agencies
Environmental Protection Agency
Abstract
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), NSPS for Kraft Pulp Mills (EPA ICR Number 1055.14, OMB Control Number 2060-0021) 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 December 31, 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 246 (Tuesday, December 30, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61143-61144]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-23966]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OAR-2020-0657; FRL-13136-01-OMS]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; NSPS for Kraft Pulp Mills (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 Kraft Pulp Mills (EPA
ICR Number 1055.14, OMB Control Number 2060-0021) 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 December 31, 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 January 29, 2026.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OAR-2020-0657, to EPA online using <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a> (our preferred
method), 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#abcac7c285c6dec5dfcad8c2d9ebcedbca85ccc4dd"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="94f5f8fdbaf9e1fae0f5e7fde6d4f1e4f5baf3fbe2">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a proposed extension of the ICR,
which is currently approved through December 31, 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 8, 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>.
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Abstract: The New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for the
regulations published at 40 CFR part 60, subpart BB were proposed on
September 24, 1976, promulgated on February 23, 1978, and amended on
April 4, 2014. These regulations apply to the following facilities at
existing kraft pulp mills that commenced construction, reconstruction,
or modification after September 24, 1976 and on or before May 23, 2013:
recovery furnaces, smelt dissolving tanks, lime kilns, digester
systems, brown stock washer systems, black liquor oxidation systems,
multiple effect evaporator systems and condensate stripper systems. In
pulp mills where kraft pulping is combined with neutral sulfite semi-
chemical pulping, the provisions of this subpart are applicable when
any portion of the material charged to an affected facility is produced
by the kraft pulping operation. This information is being collected to
assure compliance with 40 CFR part 60, subpart BB. New facilities that
commenced construction, modification or reconstruction after May 23,
2013 are subject to regulation under 40 CFR part 60 subpart BBa.
In general, all NSPS 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.
Form numbers: None.
Respondents/affected entities: Kraft pulp mills.
Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 60,
subpart BB).
Estimated number of respondents: 85 (total).
Frequency of response: Initially, semiannually, annually.
Total estimated burden: 12,100 hours (per year). Burden is defined
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
Total estimated cost: $6,360,000 (per year), includes $4,700,000
annualized capital or operation & maintenance costs.
Changes in the estimates: The adjustment decrease in burden from
the most recently approved ICR is due to a decrease in the number of
sources because of recent known facility closures. There is a slight
increase in the operation and maintenance (O&M) costs due to O&M costs
being updated from $2009 to $2023 using the CEPCI Index. There are no
capital costs associated with this information collection.
Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2025-23966 Filed 12-29-25; 8:45 am]
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