[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 161 (Monday, August 19, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42885-42887]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-21084]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-5556-3]


Agency Information Collection Activities Under OMB Review; EPA 
ICR Nos. 659.07, 660.06, 663.06, 1178.04, and 1415.03

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 notice announces that the Information Collection 
Requests (ICRs) abstracted below have been forwarded to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) for review and comment. The ICRs describe 
the nature of the information collections and their expected costs and 
burdens; where appropriate, they include the actual data collection 
instruments.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before September 18, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION OR A COPY CALL:
Sandy Farmer at EPA, (202) 260-2740, and refer to the appropriate EPA 
ICR Number: 659.07, 660.06, 663.06, 1178.04, or 1415.03.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

    Title: NSPS for Industrial Surface Coating: Large Appliances 
(Subpart SS); EPA ICR No. 659.07; OMB No. 2060-0108. This is a request 
for an extension of a currently approved collection.
    Abstract: Owners or operators of each surface coating operation in 
a large appliance surface coating line must provide EPA, or the 
delegated State authority, with one-time notifications and reports, and 
must keep records as required of all facilities subject to the general 
NSPS (New Source Performance Standards) requirements. In addition, 
facilities subject to this subpart must install devices to measure and 
record operating temperatures, and must notify EPA or the State 
regulatory authority of the date upon which the demonstration of the 
equipment performance commences. Owners or operators must report all 
periods of emissions in excess of the standard. The notifications and 
reports enable EPA or the delegated State regulatory authority to 
determine that best demonstrated technology is installed and properly 
operated and maintained and to schedule inspections.
    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. The Federal Register Notice 
with a 60-day comment period soliciting comments on this collection of 
information was published on 03/26/96 (61 FR 13172).
    Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping 
burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 23 
hours per response. This estimate 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: Large appliance surface coating lines.
    Estimated No. of Respondents: 294.
    Frequency of Collection: Quarterly.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents:  29,512 hours.
    Estimated Total Annualized Cost Burden: $618,000.

    Title: NSPS for Metal Coil Surface Coating (subpart TT) (EPA ICR 
No. 660.06; OMB No. 2060-0107). This is a request for an extension of a 
currently approved collection.
    Abstract: The provisions of the subpart apply to the following 
affected facilities in a metal coil surface coating operation: (1) Each 
prime coat operation; (2) each finish coat operation; and (3) each 
prime and finish coat operation combined when the finish coat is 
applied wet on wet over the prime coat and both coatings are cured 
simultaneously. Owners or operators of subject facilities must provide 
EPA, or the delegated State regulatory authority, with one-time 
notifications and initial compliance reports, and must keep records, as 
required of all facilities subject to the general NSPS requirements. 
Owners and operators of subject facilities must notify EPA or the State 
regulatory authority of the date upon which demonstration of the 
compliance devices commences. In addition, the owner or operator of the 
subject facilities must install and operate devices that control 
emissions and that measure and record the operating characteristics of 
those devices. Where compliance is achieved through the intermittent 
use of a control device, reports must include separate values of the 
weighted average VOC content of coatings used with and without the 
control device in operation.

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Where compliance is achieved through the use of an emission control 
device that destroys VOCs, reports must include the combustion 
temperature for thermal incinerators, and the gas temperature both 
upstream and downstream of the incinerator catalyst bed. Owners or 
operators of subject facilities must report all emissions in excess of 
the standard quarterly. The notifications and reports enable EPA or the 
state delegated regulatory authority to determine that best 
demonstrated technology is installed and properly operated and 
maintained and to schedule inspections.
    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. The Federal Register Notice 
with a 60-day comment period soliciting comments on this collection of 
information was published on 03/26/96 (61 FR 13172).
    Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping 
burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 24 
hours per response. This estimate 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: Facilities having the following metal coil surface 
coating operations: (1) Prime coat operations, (2) finish coat 
operations; and (3) prime and finish coat operations combined when the 
finish coat is applied wet on wet over the prime coat and both coatings 
are cured simultaneously.
    Estimated No. of Respondents: 143.
    Frequency of Collection: Quarterly.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: 13,839 hours.
    Estimated Total Annualized Cost Burden: $279,000.

    Title: NSPS for Beverage Can Coating (Subpart WW) (EPA ICR No. 
663.06; OMB No. 2060-0001). This is a request for an extension of a 
currently approved collection.
    Abstract: The provisions of this subpart apply to the following 
affected facilities in beverage can surface coating lines: (1) Each 
exterior base coating operation; (2) each over varnish coating 
operation; and (3) each inside spray coating operation. The owner or 
operator of an affected facility must provide EPA, or the delegated 
State regulatory authority, with one-time notifications and initial 
compliance reports, and must keep records, as required of all 
facilities subject to the general NSPS requirements.
    In addition, owners or operators of affected facilities that apply 
only coatings with VOC content less than that specified in the 
regulations must provide a list of coatings and the VOC content of each 
coating used. Where one or more coatings do have VOC content higher 
than that specified in the regulation, owners or operators must install 
measuring and recording devices and report on specified operating 
characteristics of their equipment based on how compliance is achieved. 
If compliance is achieved through the use of thermal incineration the 
owner or operator must install equipment to measure and report on the 
temperature of the combustion gases upstream and downstream of the 
incinerator or combustion chamber. If compliance is achieved through 
the use of catalytic incineration, the owner or operator must install 
equipment to measure and report on upstream and downstream temperatures 
of the catalytic bed. If compliance is achieved through the use of a 
solvent recovery system, the owner or operator must install equipment 
to measure and report the amount of solvent recovered by the system for 
each affected facility.
    The owner or operator of an affected facility must also notify EPA 
or the State regulatory authority of the date upon which demonstration 
performance commences. Owners or operators must report all periods of 
emissions in excess of the standard, and must report on monitoring 
system performance quarterly. The notifications and reports enable EPA 
or the delegated State regulatory authority to determine that best 
demonstrated technology is installed and properly operated and 
maintained and to schedule inspections.
    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. The Federal Register Notice 
with a 60-day comment period soliciting comments on this collection of 
information was published on 03/26/96 (61 FR 13172).
    Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping 
burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 29 
hours per response. This estimate 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: Owners or operators of beverage can surface coating 
lines.
    Estimated No. of Respondents: 24.
    Frequency of Response: Quarterly.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: 3,092 hours.
    Estimated Total Annualized Cost Burden: $50,000.

    Title: Standards of Performance of Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) 
Emissions from the Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturing Industry 
(SOCMI), Reactor Processes (Subpart RRR) (OMB Control No. 2060-0269; 
EPA ICR No. 1178.04). This is a request for an extension of a currently 
approved collection.
    Abstract: The EPA uses the information collected under this part to 
identify sources subject to the standards and to insure that the best 
demonstrated technology is being properly applied. The standards 
require periodic recordkeeping to document process information relating 
to the sources' ability to meet the requirements of the standard and to 
note the operation conditions under which compliance was achieved.
    Owners or operators of the affected facilities described must make 
the following one-time-only reports: Notification of the date of 
construction or reconstruction; notification of the anticipated and 
actual dates of startup; notification of any physical or operational 
change to an existing facility which may increase the regulated 
pollutant emission rate; notification of the date of the initial 
performance test; and the results of the initial performance test. 
Owners or operators 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

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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 with a 60-day comment period soliciting 
comments on this collection of information was published on 06/11/96 
(61 FR 29555).
    Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping 
burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 62 
hours per response. This estimate 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: Synthetic organic chemical 
manufacturers.
    Estimated No. of Respondents: 203.
    Frequency of Collection: semiannual.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: 20,440 hours.
    Estimated Total Annualized Cost Burden: $102,200.

    Title: NESHAP for PCE Dry Cleaning Facilities (Subpart M) (OMB 
Control No. 2060-0234; EPA ICR No. 1415.03). This is a request for 
renewal of a currently approved information collection request.
    Abstract: These standards apply to owners or operators of dry 
cleaning facilities that use perchloroethylene (PCE). Owners or 
operators of such facilities must provide EPA, or the delegated State 
regulatory authority, with the one-time notifications and reports. The 
owners or operators must also perform weekly monitoring (or biweekly 
for the smallest facilities) and must keep records for 5 years. The 
notification and reports enable EPA or the delegated State regulatory 
authority to determine whether the appropriate control technology is 
installed and properly operated and maintained, and to schedule 
inspections and/or compliance assistance activities. The responses to 
this information collection are mandatory under Clean Air Act section 
112 and 40 CFR Part 63, Subpart M. The responses are not anticipated to 
be kept confidential due to the nature of the information collected; 
however, any information submitted to the Agency for which a claim of 
confidentiality is made will be safeguarded according to the Agency 
policies set forth in 40 CFR Part 2.
    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 March 26, 
1996 (61 FR 13172). No comments were received.
    Burden Statement: The annual public reporting burden for this 
collection of information is estimated to average 9 hours per response 
for new dry cleaning facilities and zero hours per response for 
existing dry cleaning facilities. The public recordkeeping burden is 
estimated to average 48 hours per respondent for a total 1,192,879 
hours. 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: Dry cleaning facilities.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 25,090.
    Frequency of Response: weekly or biweekly.
    Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 1,212,055 hours.
    Estimated Total Annualized Cost Burden: $0.
    Send comments on the Agency's need for the information in any of 
these collections, 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 the appropriate EPA ICR Number and OMB 
Control Number in any correspondence.

Ms. Sandy Farmer, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, OPPE Regulatory 
Information Division (2137), 401 M Street, SW, Washington, DC 20460.
    and
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and 
Budget, Attention: Desk Officer for EPA, 725 17th Street, NW, 
Washington, DC 20503.

    August 13, 1996.
David Schwarz,
Acting Director, Regulatory Information Division.
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