[Federal Register: February 1, 2001 (Volume 66, Number 22)]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
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Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request, National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air
Pollutants, (NESHAP) Benzene Emissions From Benzene Storage Vessels and
Coke By-Product Recovery Plants
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 the following Information
Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for review and approval: NESHAP for Benzene Emissions
from Benzene Storage Vessels--40 CFR part 61, subpart Y, and Coke By-
Product Recovery Plants, Subpart L, OMB No. 2060-0185, Expiration Date:
January 31, 2001. The ICR describes the nature of the information
collection and its expected burden and cost; where appropriate, it
includes the actual data collection instrument.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before April 2, 2001.
ADDRESSES: Send comments, referencing EPA ICR No.1080.10 and OMB
Control No. 2060-0185, to the following addresses: Sandy Farmer, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, Collection Strategies Division (Mail
Code 2822), 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460; and to
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget (OMB), Attention: Desk Officer for EPA, 725 17th Street, NW.,
Washington, DC 20503.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For a copy of the ICR contact Sandy
Farmer at EPA by phone at (202) 260-2740, by
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E-mail at Farmer.sandy@epamail.epa.gov, or download off the Internet at
http://www.epa.gov/icr and refer to EPA ICR No.1080.10. For technical
questions about the ICR contact Mr. Rafael Sanchez, telephone: (202)
564-7028, facsimile: (202) 564-0050.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants,
Benzene Emissions from Benzene Storage Vessels and Coke By-Product
Recovery Plants, OMB Control No. 2060-0185; EPA ICR No.1080.10,
expiring January 31, 2001. This is a request for extension of a
currently approved collection.
Abstract: Respondents are all owners or operators of benzene
storage vessels and Coke By Product Recovery Plants. It is estimated
that 162 existing plants are subject to the standard. All owners and
operators of new or reconstructed plants would also have to respond. In
the General Provisions of 40 CFR part 61 applicable to storage vessels,
up to four separate onetime-only reports are required for each owner or
operator: notification of construction or reconstruction, initial
source report, notification of physical/operational changes,
notification of anticipated and actual startup. The initial source
report is the only one of these reports that would be required from
existing sources under the standard. Certain records and reports are
necessary to assist EPA and State agencies to which enforcement has
been delegated in determining compliance with the standard.
An initial emissions test is not required because conducting an
emission test is not feasible. Therefore, the format of the standard is
that of an equipment standard. Owners or operators of vessels equipped
with the specified controls are required to submit, along with the
notifications required by the General Provisions, a report that
describes the control equipment used to comply with the regulation.
Thereafter, an annual visual inspection is required of the primary seal
of internal floating roof vessels (IFR's) (in cases where no secondary
seal is present). An annual seal gap measurement of the secondary seal
system on external floating roof vessels (EFR's) is required. The
following inspections are required every five years: (1) internal
inspection of seal system on IFR's equipped with primary and secondary
seals in situations where the owner or operator has decided to forego
the annual visual inspection; and (2) measurement of gaps between the
tank wall and primary seal on EFR's. An internal inspection in which
the tank is emptied and degassed is required at least every 10 years
for IFR's.
Subpart L was revised on September 19, 1991 to allow for the use of
carbon adsorbers and vapor incinerators as alternative means of
complying with the standards for process vessels, storage tanks and
tar-intercepting sumps. The use of carbon absorbers and vapor
incinerators instead of gas blanketing, the control technology on which
the standards were based, is optional. The provisions include
recordkeeping and reporting requirements specific to these alternative
control devices. An information collection request (ICR number 1080.07)
was developed for that revision and is consolidated into this ICR with
this review.
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. The
Federal Register document required under 5 CFR 1320.8(d), soliciting
comments on this collection of information was published on July 12,
1999 (64 FR 37530); no comments were received.
Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and record keeping
burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 93
hours per combined subpart L & Y response. 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.
Respondents/Affected Entities: Owners or operators of Benzene
Storage Vessels and Coke By-Product Recovery Plants.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 40.
Frequency of Response: Quarterly.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 7,131.
Estimated Total Annualized Capital, O&M Cost Burden: $0.
Send comments on the Agency's need for this information, the
accuracy of the provided burden estimates, and any suggested methods
for minimizing respondent burden, including through the use of
automated collection techniques to the addresses listed above. Please
refer to EPA ICR No. 1080.10 and OMB Control No.2060-0185 in any
correspondence.
Dated: January 25, 2001.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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