84 FR 25045 - Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Secondary Aluminum Production (Renewal)

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), NESHAP for Secondary Aluminum Production (EPA ICR Number 1894.09, OMB Control Number 2060-0433), 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 May 31, 2019. Public comments were previously requested, via the Federal Register, on May 30, 2018 during a 60-day comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments. A fuller description of the ICR is given below, including its estimated burden and cost to the public. An agency may neither conduct nor sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number.

[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 104 (Thursday, May 30, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25045-25046]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2019-11265]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OECA-2012-0505; FRL-9992-37-OMS]


Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Secondary Aluminum Production 
(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), NESHAP for Secondary Aluminum 
Production (EPA ICR Number 1894.09, OMB Control Number 2060-0433), 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 May 31, 2019. 
Public comments were previously requested, via the Federal Register, on 
May 30, 2018 during a 60-day comment period. This notice allows for an 
additional 30 days for public comments. A fuller description of the ICR 
is given below, including its estimated burden and cost to the public. 
An agency may neither conduct nor sponsor, and a person is not required 
to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a 
currently valid OMB control number.

DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before July 1, 2019.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OECA-2012-0505, to: (1) EPA online using www.regulations.gov (our 
preferred method), or by email to [email protected], or by mail to: 
EPA Docket Center, Environmental Protection Agency, Mail Code 28221T, 
1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460; and (2) OMB via email 
to [email protected]. Address comments to OMB Desk Officer 
for EPA.
    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.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Patrick Yellin, Monitoring, 
Assistance, and Media Programs Division, Office of Compliance, Mail 
Code 2227A, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, 
Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 564-2970; fax number: 
(202) 564-0050; email address: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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 
www.regulations.gov 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: http://www.epa.gov/dockets.
    Abstract: The National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air 
Pollutants (NESHAP) for Secondary Aluminum Production (40 CFR part 60, 
subpart RRR) apply to secondary aluminum production facilities that are 
major sources of hazardous air pollutants

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(HAP) either commencing construction, or reconstruction, after the date 
of proposal. This includes facilities that operate aluminum scrap 
shredders, thermal chip dryers, scrap dryers/delacquering kilns/
decoating kilns, group 1 furnaces, group 2 furnaces, sweat furnaces, 
dross only furnaces, rotary dross coolers, and secondary aluminum 
processing units (SAPUs). The SAPUs include group 1 furnaces and in-
line fluxers. The regulations also apply to secondary aluminum 
production facilities that are area sources of HAP only with respect to 
emissions of dioxins/furans (D/F) from thermal chip dryers, scrap 
dryers/delacquering kilns/decoating kilns, group 1 furnaces, sweat 
furnaces, and SAPUs. New facilities include those that commenced 
construction, or reconstruction after the date of proposal. This 
information is being collected to assure compliance with 40 CFR part 
63, subpart RRR.
    The 2015 rule amendments included a requirement to report 
performance testing through the Electronic Reporting Tool (ERT); 
provisions allowing owners and operators to change furnace 
classifications; requirements to account for unmeasured emissions 
during compliance testing for group 1 furnaces that do not have add-on 
control devices; alternative compliance options for the operating and 
monitoring requirements for sweat furnaces; compliance provisions for 
hydrogen fluoride; provisions addressing emissions during periods of 
startup, shutdown, and malfunction (SSM); and other corrections and 
clarifications to the applicability, definitions, operating, monitoring 
and performance testing requirements. The 2016 rule amendments amended 
the 2015 rule to clarify requirements for initial performance tests and 
submittal of malfunction reports, provide an additional option for 
group 1 furnaces to account for unmeasured emissions during compliance 
testing, clarify what constitutes a change in furnace operating mode, 
and updates the Web addresses for the EPA's Electronic Reporting Tool 
(ERT) and Compliance and Emissions Data Reporting Interface (CEDRI).
    In general, all NESHAP 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 in determining compliance, and are required of 
all affected facilities subject to NESHAP.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: Secondary aluminum production 
facilities.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 63, 
subpart RRR).
    Estimated number of respondents: 161 (total).
    Frequency of response: Initially, occasionally and semiannually.
    Total estimated burden: 12,400 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
    Total estimated cost: $5,520,000 (per year), which includes 
$4,110,000 in either annualized capital/startup and/or operation & 
maintenance costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is also an adjustment decrease in 
the total estimated burden as currently identified in the OMB Inventory 
of Approved Burdens. The decrease is not due to any program changes. 
The change is due to correction of a mathematical error identified in 
the burden associated with the time required for facilities to 
refamiliarize with the regulatory requirements each year. The previous 
ICR stated that it would take each respondent one hour to read and 
understand the reporting requirements, but inadvertently included 
additional hours; the current ICR has been corrected to reflect one 
hour for this activity. The overall result is a slight decrease in 
burden hours.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2019-11265 Filed 5-29-19; 8:45 am]
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