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Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; NSPS for Fossil Fuel Fired Steam Generating Units (Renewal)

The Environmental Protection Agency has submitted an information collection request (ICR), "NSPS for Fossil Fuel Fired Steam Generating Units (40 CFR part 60, subpart D) (Renewa...

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Environmental Protection Agency

[EPA-HQ-OECA-2012-0497; FRL—9943-16-OEI]

AGENCY:

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION:

Notice.

SUMMARY:

The Environmental Protection Agency has submitted an information collection request (ICR), “NSPS for Fossil Fuel Fired Steam Generating Units (40 CFR part 60, subpart D) (Renewal)” (EPA ICR No. 1052.11, OMB Control No. 2060-0026), 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 March 31, 2016. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register (80 FR 32116) on June 5, 2015 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 April 13, 2016.

ADDRESSES:

Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-OECA-2012-0497 to: (1) EPA online using www.regulations.gov (our preferred method), by email to docket.oeca@epa.gov, 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 oira_submission@omb.eop.gov. 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: yellin.patrick@epa.gov.

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: Owners and operators of affected facilities are required to comply with reporting and record keeping requirements for the general provisions of 40 CFR part 60, subpart A, as well as the specific requirements at 40 CFR part 60, subpart D. This includes submitting initial notification reports, performance tests and periodic reports and results, and maintaining 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 reports are used by EPA to determine compliance with the standards.

Form Numbers: None.

Respondents/affected entities: Fossil fuel fired steam generating units.

Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 60, subpart D).

Estimated number of respondents: 660 (total).

Frequency of response: Initially and semiannually.

Total estimated burden: 71,500 hours (per year). Burden is defined at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).

Total estimated cost: $17,100,000 (per year), which includes $9,900,000 in annualized capital/startup and/or operation & maintenance costs.

Changes in the Estimates: There is a small increase in the respondent labor hours in this ICR compared to the previous ICR. This is due to assuming all existing sources will have to re-familiarize with the regulatory requirements each year. This also results in an increase in labor costs for the respondents.

In, addition there is a small increase in the Agency labor costs due to an increase in labor rates. This ICR uses updated labor rates from the Bureau of Labor Statistics to calculate burden costs. There is also an increase is Agency labor hours this is not due to program changes; rather, the changes occurred because we are rounding total values in this ICR to three significant figures.

Courtney Kerwin,

Acting Director, Collection Strategies Division.

[FR Doc. 2016-05643 Filed 3-11-16; 8:45 am]

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“Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; NSPS for Fossil Fuel Fired Steam Generating Units (Renewal),” thefederalregister.org (March 14, 2016), https://thefederalregister.org/documents/2016-05643/information-collection-request-submitted-to-omb-for-review-and-approval-comment-request-nsps-for-fossil-fuel-fired-steam.