[Federal Register: April 12, 2001 (Volume 66, Number 71)]
[Notices]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
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Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection:
Comment Request; Standards of Performance for New Stationary Sources:
Hospital/Medical/Infectious Waste Incinerators
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501
et seq.), this document announces that EPA is planning to submit the
following continuing Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB): New Source Performance Standard for New
Stationary Sources: Hospital/Medical/Infectious Waste Incinerators, EPA
ICR Number 1730.2, and OMB Control Number 2060-0363, expiration date
September 30, 2001. Before submitting the ICR to OMB for review and
approval, EPA is soliciting comments on specific aspects of the
proposed information collection as described below.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before June 11, 2001.
ADDRESSES: United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of
Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, Office of Compliance, Compliance
Assistance and Sector Programs Division, Mail Code 2224A; 1200
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460. A hard copy of the ICR
may be obtained without charge, by calling the information contact or
from the Internet at: http://www.epa.gov/icr.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jonathan Binder, (202) 564-2516 or
(202) 564-7083 or binder.jonathan@epa.gov and refer to EPA ICR Number
1730.2, and OMB Control Number 2060-0363.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Affected entities: Entities potentially affected by this action are
those which own or operate hospital/medical/infectious waste
incinerators for which construction is commenced after February 27,
1995 or for which modification commenced after June 20, 1996.
Title: Standards of Performance for New Stationary Sources:
Hospital/Medical/Infectious Waste Incinerators OMB Control No. 2060-
0263; EPA ICR No. 1730.02. expiring 9/30/01.
Abstract: This ICR outlines the records and reports that are
necessary to ensure that the Standards of Performance for New
Stationary Sources: Hospital/Medical/Infectious Waste Incinerators are
being achieved on a continuous basis. Records and reports are required
by 40 CFR part 60, subpart A (General Provisions) and Subpart Ec.
HMIWI burning hospital waste and/or medical infectious waste are
subject to the specific reporting and recording keeping requirements
Notification reports are required related to the construction,
reconstruction, or modification of a HMIWI. Also required are one-time-
only reports related to initial performance test data and continuous
measurements of site specific operating parameters. Annual compliance
reports are required related to a variety of site-specific operating
parameters, including exceedances of applicable limits. Semiannual
compliance reports are required related to emission rate or operating
parameter data that were not obtained when exceedances of applicable
limits occurred. Affected entities must retain for five years the
reports and records that are required under this NSPS and the General
Provisions.
Co-fired combustors and incinerators burning only pathological,
low-level radioactive, and/or chemotherapeutic waste are required to
submit notification reports on an exemption claim, and an estimate of
the relative amounts of waste and fuels to be combusted. These co-fired
combustors and incinerators are also required to maintain records on a
calendar quarter basis of the weight of hospital waste combusted, the
weight of medical/infectious waste combusted, and the weight of all
other fuels combusted.
All reports required under the NSPS and the General Provisions are
submitted to the respondent's State or local agency, whichever has been
delegated enforcement authority by the EPA. The information is used by
EPA solely to determine that all sources subject to the NSPS are in
compliance with the NSPS and that the control system installed to
comply with the standards is being properly operated and maintained.
Based on reported information, EPA can decide which facilities should
be inspected and what records or processes should be inspected at the
facilities. The records that sources maintain would indicate to EPA
whether facility personnel are operating and maintaining control
equipment properly.
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. The OMB control numbers for EPA's
regulations are listed in 40 CFR part 9 and 48 CFR Chapter 15.
Comments: The EPA would like to solicit comments to:
(i) Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency,
including whether the information will have practical utility;
(ii) Evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden
of the proposed collection of information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
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(iii) Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information
to be collected; and
(iv) Minimize the burden of the collection of information on those
who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated
electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic
submission of responses.
Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping
burden for this collection is estimated at 1000 hours per response. The
14 estimated respondents are expected to be subject to 2 responses per
year. The cost burden to respondents or recordkeepers resulting from
the collection of information is estimated at $33.00 total capital and
start-up cost component annualized over its expected useful life, and a
$241.00 total operation and maintenance component. Burden means the
total time, effort, or financial resources expended by persons to
generate, maintain, retain, or disclose or provide information to or
for a Federal agency. This includes the time needed to review
instructions; develop, acquire, install, and utilize technology and
systems for the purposes of collecting, validating, and verifying
information, processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and
providing information; adjust the existing ways to comply with any
previously applicable instructions and requirements; train personnel to
be able to respond to a collection of information; search data sources;
complete and review the collection of information; and transmit or
otherwise disclose the information.
Dated: April 4, 2001.
David N. Lyons,
Acting Director, Compliance Assistance Sector Programs Division, Office
of Compliance.
[FR Doc. 01-9054 Filed 4-11-01; 8:45 am]
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