[Federal Register: October 28, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 208)]
[Notices]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[OECA-2003-0024; FRL-7579-4]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB
Review and Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Halogenated Solvent
Cleaning, EPA ICR Number 1652.05, OMB Control Number 2060-0273
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. This ICR is scheduled to expire on October 31,
2003. Under OMB regulations, the Agency may continue to conduct or
sponsor the collection of information while this submission is pending
at OMB. This ICR describes the nature of the information collection and
its estimated burden and cost.
DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before November 28,
2003.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number OECA-
2003-0024, to (1) EPA online using EDOCKET (our preferred method), by e-mail to docket.oeca@epa.gov, or by mail to: Environmental Protection
Agency, EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), Enforcement and Compliance Docket
and Information Center (ECDIC) EPA West, 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 Ave., 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 May 16, 2003 (68 FR 27059), EPA sought comments on this ICR
pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received no comments.
EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID
No. OECA-2003-0024, which is available for public viewing at the
Enforcement and Compliance Docket and Information Center in the EPA
Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West, Room B102, 1301 Constitution Avenue,
NW., Washington, DC 20460. 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 and Information Center is (202) 566-1514. An electronic version
of the public docket is available through EPA Dockets (EDOCKET) at
http://www.epa.gov/edocket. Use EDOCKET to submit or view public
comments, access the index listing of the contents of the public
docket, and to access those documents in the public docket that are
available electronically. Once in the system, select ``search,'' then
key in the docket ID number identified above.
Any comments related to this ICR should be submitted to EPA and OMB
within 30 days of this notice. EPA's policy is that public comments,
whether submitted electronically or in paper, will be made available
for public viewing in EDOCKET as EPA receives them and without change,
unless the comment contains copyrighted material, Confidential Business
Information (CBI), or other information whose public disclosure is
restricted by statute. When EPA identifies a comment containing
copyrighted material, EPA will provide a reference to that material in
the version of the comment that is placed in EDOCKET. The entire
printed comment, including the copyrighted material, will be available
in the public docket. Although identified as an item in the official
docket, information claimed as CBI, or whose disclosure is otherwise
restricted by statute, is not included in the official public docket,
and will not be available for public viewing in EDOCKET. For further
information about the electronic docket, see EPA's Federal Register
notice describing the electronic docket at 67 FR 38102 (May 31, 2002),
or go to http://www.epa.gov/edocket.
Title: NESHAP for Halogenated Solvent Cleaning (40 CFR part 63,
subpart T).
Abstract: The National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air
Pollutants (NESHAP) for Halogenated Solvent Cleaning (40 CFR part 63,
subpart T), was proposed on November 29, 1993, promulgated on December
2, 1994, and corrected to final rule June 5, 1995.
The monitoring, recordkeeping, and reporting requirements outlined
in the rule are similar to those required for other NESHAP regulations.
Plants must
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demonstrate compliance with the emission standards by monitoring their
control devices and performing annual emissions testing. This
information notifies EPA when a source becomes subject to the
regulations, informs the Agency if a source is in compliance when it
begins operation, and informs the Agency if the source remained in
compliance during any period of operation.
In the Administrator's judgment, emissions of hazardous air
pollutants (HAPs) from halogenated solvent cleaners may cause or
contribute to air pollution that may reasonably be anticipated to
endanger public health or welfare. Therefore, NESHAP standards were
promulgated for this source category, as required under section 112 of
the Clean Air Act. HAP emissions from halogenated solvent cleaners are
the result of inadequate equipment design and work practices.
These standards rely on the proper design and operation of
halogenated solvent cleaning machines such as working-mode covers, a
freeboard ratio of 1.0, and reduced room draft to reduce solvent
emissions from halogenated solvent cleaners. Certain records and
reports are necessary to enable EPA to identify sources subject to the
standards and to ensure that the standards are being achieved.
Owners/operators of halogenated solvent cleaners must provide EPA
with an initial notification of existing or new solvent cleaning
machines, initial statements of compliance, an annual control device
monitoring report (owners/operators of batch vapor and in-line cleaning
machines), an annual solvent emission report (owners/operators of batch
vapor and in-line cleaning machines complying with the alternative
standard), and exceedance of monitoring parameters or emissions. The
records that the facilities maintain indicate to EPA whether they are
operating and maintaining the halogenated solvent cleaners properly to
control emissions. In order to ensure compliance with the standards
promulgated to protect public health, adequate reporting and
recordkeeping is necessary. In the absence of such information,
enforcement personnel would be unable to determine whether the
standards are being met on a continuous basis, as required by the Clean
Air Act.
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, 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 are estimated to average 14
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; 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/Operators of solvent cleaning
machines.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 1,431.
Frequency of Response: Initially, quarterly, semiannually, and
annually.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 41,035 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Costs: $3,852,248 which includes zero
annualized capital/startup costs and $1,015,000 annual O&M costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is no change in the number of
respondents identified in the active ICR, due to stagnant growth in the
industry; however, there is a decrease of 4,172 hours in the estimated
Burden currently identified in the OMB Inventory of Approved ICR
Burdens. The reason for the decrease in burden was a correction of the
active ICR estimated burden calculation for existing sources. A rule
promulgated in December 1994 stated that existing sources were not
required to comply with the standard recordkeeping and reporting
requirements after December 1997; thus the requirement no longer
exists. Therefore, the renewal of the ICR shows a reduction in burden.
For the same reason, there are no capital/startup costs, only O&M costs
associated with this ICR as compared to the active ICR currently
identified in the OMB Inventory.
Dated: October 20, 2003.
Doreen Sterling,
Acting Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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