Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; NSPS Metallic Mineral Processing Plants

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 106 (Thursday, June 3, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29862-29863]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-14059]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-6353-7]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB 
Review; Comment Request; NSPS Metallic Mineral Processing Plants

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 the following Information 
Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB) for review and approval: NSPS Subpart LL, Metallic 
Mineral Processing Plants, OMB Control Number 2060-0016, expiration 
date 06/30/99. The ICR describes the nature of the information 
collection and its expected burden and cost, and where appropriate, it 
includes the actual data collection instrument.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before July 6, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sandy Farmer at EPA by phone at (202) 
260-2740, by E-Mail at Farmer.Sandy@epamail.epa.gov or download a copy 
of the ICR off the Internet at http://www.epa.gov/icr and refer to EPA 
ICR No. 0982.06.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title: NSPS Subpart LL, Metallic Mineral 
Processing Plants, OMB Control No. 2060-0016, EPA ICR No. 0982.06, 
expiration date 6/30/99. This is a request for revision of a currently 
approved collection.
    Abstract: The New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for Metallic 
Mineral Processing Plants were proposed on August 24, 1982 and 
promulgated on February 21, 1984. These standards apply to the 
following facilities in Metallic Mineral Processing Plants: each 
crusher and screen in open-pit mines; each crusher, screen, bucket 
elevator, conveyor belt transfer point, thermal dryer, product 
packaging station, storage bin, enclosed storage area, truck loading 
and unloading station at the mill or concentrator, commencing 
construction, modification or reconstruction after the date of 
proposal. The NSPS does not apply to facilities located in underground 
mines, or to facilities performing the beneficiation of uranium ore at 
uranium ore processing plants.
    Particulate matter (PM) is the pollutant regulated under this 
Subpart. The standards limit the particulate matter emissions from the 
stack to 0.05 grams per dry standard cubic meter and to 7% opacity. 
Those sources which are using a wet scrubbing control device are 
exempted from the 7% opacity requirement. No affected facility may 
discharge any process fugitive emissions that exhibit greater than 10% 
opacity.
    Response to the collection of information is mandatory under 40 CFR 
part 60. Owners or operators of the affected facilities described must 
make initial notifications, including notification of any physical or 
operational change to an existing facility which may increase the 
regulated pollutant emission rate; notification of the demonstration of 
the continuous monitoring system (CMS), and notification of the initial 
performance test. Performance test reports are needed as these are the 
Agency's records of a source's initial capability to comply with 
emission standards, and note the operating conditions, flow rate and 
pressure drop, under which compliance was achieved. Owners of affected 
facilities are required to install, calibrate, maintain, and operate a 
continuous monitoring system to measure the change in the pressure of 
the gas stream through the scrubber and the scrubbing liquid flow rate. 
Owners or operators are also required to maintain records of the 
occurrence and duration of any startup, shut down, or malfunction in 
the operation of an affected facility, or any period during which the 
monitoring system is inoperative.
    Semiannual excess emissions reports and monitoring systems 
performance reports will include the exceeded findings of any control 
device operating parameters, (specified in 40 CFR 60.735, Recordkeeping 
and Reporting), the date and time of the deviance, the nature and cause 
of the malfunction (if known) and the corrective measures taken, and 
identification of the time period during which the CMS was inoperative 
(this does not include zero and span checks or typical repairs/
adjustments). These notifications, reports and records are required, in 
general, of all sources subject to NSPS.
    This information is being collected to assure compliance with 40 
CFR part 60. Any owner or operator subject to the provisions of this 
part shall maintain a file of these measurements, (as specified in part 
60.735, Recordkeeping and Reporting). These notifications, reports and 
records are required, in general, of all sources subject to NSPS.
    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. The 
Federal Register Notice required under 5 CFR 1320.8(d), soliciting 
comments on this collection of information was published on September 
4, 1998. No comments were received.
    Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping 
burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 40 
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 and Operators of Metallic 
Mineral Processing Plants.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 22.
    Frequency of Response: Semiannually.

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    Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 1,760 hours.
    Estimated Total Annualized Capital, O&M Cost Burden: $14,300.
    Send comments on the Agency's need for this information, the 
accuracy of the provided burden estimates, and any suggested methods 
for minimizing respondent burden, including through the use of 
automated collection techniques to the following addresses: Please 
refer to EPA ICR No. 0982.06 and OMB Control No. 2060-0016 in any 
correspondence.

Ms. Sandy Farmer, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of 
Policy, Regulatory Information Division (2137), 401 M Street, SW, 
Washington, DC 20460;

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Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and 
Budget, Attention: Desk Officer for EPA, 725 17th Street, NW, 
Washington, DC 20503.

    Dated: May 27, 1999.
Richard T. Westlund,
Acting Director, Regulatory Information Division.
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