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Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Stationary Reciprocating Internal Combustion Engines (Renewal); EPA ICR Number 1975.04, OMB Control Number 2060-0548 


[Federal Register: August 27, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 165)]
[Notices]
[Page 49007-49008]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OECA-2006-0777; FRL-8460-8]

Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Stationary
Reciprocating Internal Combustion Engines (Renewal); EPA ICR Number
1975.04, OMB Control Number 2060-0548

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 an Information Collection
Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and approval. This is a request to renew an existing
approved collection. The ICR which is abstracted below describes the
nature of the collection and the estimated burden and cost.

DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before September 26,
2007.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number EPA-HQ-
OECA-2006-0777, to (1) EPA online using http://www.regulations.gov (our
preferred method), or by e-mail to docket.oeca@epa.gov, or by mail to:
EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), Environmental Protection Agency,
Enforcement and Compliance Docket and Information Center, Mail Code
2201T , 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460, and (2)
OMB at: 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: Learia Williams, Compliance Assessment
and Media Programs Division, Office of Compliance, Mail Code 2223A,
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 564-4113; fax number:
(202) 564-0050; e-mail address: williams.learia@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has submitted the following ICR to OMB
for review and approval according to the procedures prescribed in 5 CFR
1320.12. On October 5, 2006 (71 FR 58853), EPA sought comments on this
ICR pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received no comments. Any
additional comments on this ICR should be submitted to EPA and OMB
within 30 days of this notice.
    EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under docket ID
number EPA-HQ-OECA-2006-0777, which is available for public viewing
online at http://www.regulations.gov, or in person viewing at the
Enforcement and Compliance Docket in the EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC),
EPA West, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC. The
EPA Docket Center Public Reading Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30
p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays. The telephone
number for the Reading Room is (202) 566-1744, and the telephone number
for the Enforcement and Compliance Docket is (202) 566-1752.
    Use EPA's electronic docket and comment system at 
http://www.regulations.gov, to submit or view public comments, access
the index listing of the contents of the docket, and to access those
documents in the docket that are available electronically. Once in the
system, select ``docket search,'' then key in the docket ID number
identified above. Please note that EPA's policy is that public
comments, whether submitted electronically or in paper, will be made
available for public viewing at http://www.regulations.gov, as EPA
receives them and without

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change, unless the comment contains copyrighted material, confidential
business information (CBI), or other information whose public
disclosure is restricted by statute. For further information about the
electronic docket, go to http://www.regulations.gov.
    Title: NESHAP for Stationary Reciprocating Internal Combustion
Engines (Renewal).
    ICR Numbers: EPA ICR Number 1975.04, OMB Control Number 2060-0548.
    ICR Status: This ICR is scheduled to expire on August 31, 2007.
Under OMB regulations, the Agency may continue to conduct or sponsor
the collection of information while this submission is pending at OMB.
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
in title 40 of the CFR, after appearing in the Federal Register when
approved, are listed in 40 CFR part 9, and displayed either by
publication in the Federal Register or by other appropriate means, such
as on the related collection instrument or form, if applicable. The
display of OMB control numbers in certain EPA regulations is
consolidated in 40 CFR part 9.
    Abstract: The respondents to the information collection are owners
or operators of new, reconstructed, and existing stationary
reciprocating internal combustion engine (RICE) with a site-rating of
more than 250 brake horsepower (hp) located at a major source of
hazardous air pollutant (HAP) emissions that emits or has the potential
to emit any single HAP at a rate of 10 tons (9.07 megagrams) or more
per year or any combination of HAP at a rate of 25 tons (22.68
megagrams) or more per year. The information is requested by the agency
to determine compliance with the rule. This information will then be
used by enforcement agencies to verify that sources subject to the
standard are meeting the emission reductions mandated by the Clean Air Act.
    Owners/operators of stationary reciprocating internal combustion
engines facilities are required to submit initial notification,
performance tests, and periodic reports. Respondents 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.
Semiannual reports are also required. These notifications, reports, and
records are essential in determining compliance; and are required, in
general, of all sources subject to NESHAP.
    Any owner or operator subject to the provisions of this part shall
maintain a file of these measurements, and retain the file for at least
five years following the date of such measurements, maintain reports
and records. All reports are sent to the delegated state or local
authority. In the event that there is no such delegated authority, the
reports are sent directly to the EPA regional office. This information
is being collected to assure compliance with 40 CFR part 63, subpart
ZZZZ as authorized in section 112 and 114(a) of the Clean Air Act. The
required information consists of emissions data and other information
that have been determined to be private.
    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 Number for EPA's
regulations are listed in 40 CFR part 9 and 48 CFR chapter 15, and are
identified on the form and/or instrument, if applicable.
    Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping
burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 22
hours per 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 which have subsequently changed; 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: Stationary reciprocating internal
combustion engines.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 4,104.
    Frequency of Response: Initially, monthly, quarterly, semiannually
and annually.
    Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 421,613.
    Estimated Total Annual Cost: $160,095,898 which includes $1,867,340
annualized Capital Startup costs, $5,720,142 Operating and Maintenance
(O&M) costs, $52,508,416 annualized labor costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is an overall increase in the total
estimated burden as currently identified in the OMB Inventory of
Approved Burdens due to two considerations. First, this ICR is a
combination of two approved ICRs which cover the original promulgated
standard and the revised standard that expanded applicability to
stationary reciprocation internal combustion engines (RICE) 250 hp or
greater. Secondly, there are a substantial number of new RICE added to
the inventory each year. The overall result is an increase in burden
hours and cost.
    The above rationalizations also apples to the capital/startup and
operation and maintenance (O&M) cost of this ICR.

    Dated: August 21, 2007.
Joseph A. Sierra,
Acting Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. E7-16924 Filed 8-24-07; 8:45 am]
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