80 FR 37254 - Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Coke Oven Batteries (Renewal)

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 125 (June 30, 2015)

The Environmental Protection Agency has submitted an information collection request (ICR), ``NESHAP for Coke Oven Batteries (40 CFR part 63, subpart L) (Renewal)'' (EPA ICR No. 1362.10, OMB Control No. 2060-0253) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). This is a proposed extension of the ICR, which is currently approved through June 30, 2015. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register (79 FR 30117) on May 27, 2014 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 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.

[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 125 (Tuesday, June 30, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37254-37255]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-16031]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OECA-2014-0044; FRL-9929-78-OEI]


Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Coke Oven Batteries (Renewal)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency has submitted an 
information collection request (ICR), ``NESHAP for Coke Oven Batteries 
(40 CFR part 63, subpart L) (Renewal)'' (EPA ICR No. 1362.10, OMB 
Control No. 2060-0253) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for 
review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 
U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). This is a proposed extension of the ICR, which is 
currently approved through June 30, 2015. Public comments were 
previously requested via the Federal Register (79 FR 30117) on May 27, 
2014 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 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.

DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before July 30, 2015.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OECA-2014-0044, to (1) EPA online using www.regulations.gov (our 
preferred method), 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, EPA 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: These standards apply to all coke oven batteries, whether 
existing, new, reconstructed, rebuilt, or restarted. It also applies to 
all batteries using the conventional by-product recovery, the non-
recovery process, or any new recovery process. The 2005 amendments 
establish more stringent requirements for the control of hazardous air 
pollutants from coke oven batteries that chose to comply with maximum 
achievable control technology (MACT) standards under the 1993 rule.
    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. Any owner/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, maintenance 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 United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 
regional office.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: Coke oven batteries.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 63, 
subpart L).
    Estimated number of respondents: 19 (total).
    Frequency of response: Initially, occasionally, and semiannually.

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    Total estimated burden: 80,000 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
    Total estimated cost: $8,020,000 (per year), includes no annualized 
capital or operation & maintenance costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is an adjustment decrease in the 
total estimated respondent labor burden as currently identified in the 
OMB Inventory of Approved Burdens. This decrease is not due to any 
program changes. Rather, it was due to a discrepancy identified in the 
previous renewal, in which the number of by-product plants conducting 
daily leak inspections and bypass/bleeder stack/flare system 
inspections was overestimated. EPA has revised the estimates in this 
ICR to reflect the appropriate number of by-product plants. The net 
result of this adjustment was a decrease in respondent burden hours. 
There is also a small adjustment increase in the number of responses 
due to a correction. The previous ICR did not account for the 
notification of reconstruction, notification of battery closure, and 
malfunction report in calculating the number of responses.

Courtney Kerwin,
Acting Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. 2015-16031 Filed 6-29-15; 8:45 am]
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