[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 160 (Tuesday, August 19, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44122-44123]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-21916]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-5877-6]


Agency Information Collection Activities Renewal of Final 
Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants From Wood Furniture 
Manufacturing Operations

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 EPA is planning to submit the 
following proposed and/or continuing Information Collection Requests 
(ICRs) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Before submitting 
the ICRs to OMB for review and approval, EPA is soliciting comments on 
specific aspects of the proposed information collections as described 
below.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before October 20, 1997.

ADDRESSES: Interested parties may obtain a copy of the currently 
effective ICR, without charge, by writing to the U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency, 401 M Street, SW., Mail Code 2223A, Washington, D.C. 
20460, Attention: Robert C. Marshall, Jr.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert C. Marshall, Jr., telephone 
(202) 564-7021, facsimile transmission (202) 564-0039 or e-mail 
address; [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

    Affected entities: Entities potentially affected by this action are 
wood furniture manufacturing operations.
    Title: 40 CFR parts 9 and 63, Final Standards for Hazardous Air 
Pollutant Emissions From Wood Furniture Manufacturing Operations; 40 
CFR part 63, subpart JJ, Secs. 63.800 through 63.819.
    OMB Control Number: 2060-0324. Expiration Date: February 10, 1998.
    Abstract: Information is supplied to the Agency under the 
applicable rule by owners and operators of new and existing wood 
furniture manufacturing operations that are major sources of hazardous 
air pollutants (HAPs). An estimated 750 of the 11,000 existing wood 
furniture manufacturers are major HAP emitters.
    The respondents are required by 40 CFR part 63, subparts A (General 
Provisions) and JJ (source-specific provisions) to submit periodic 
reports and perform various recordkeeping activities to enable the 
Administrator to:
    (i) Identify new, modified, reconstructed and existing sources 
subject to the standard, and
    (ii) Ensure that the standards, which are based on maximum 
achievable control technology, are being met.
    The reporting requirements of the standard include; (1) Submission 
of an application requesting approval for construction/reconstruction; 
(2) notification of start-up, construction and reconstruction; (3) 
notification of physical/operational changes; (4) site-specific 
performance and CMS performance evaluation test plans; (5) notification 
and reporting of performance and CMS tests/results; (6) a semi-annual 
compliance report; (7) work practice standards implementation plan 
reports; (8) notification to the Agency of rule applicability; and (9) 
notification and reporting of compliance status.
    The recordkeeping requirements of the rule include: (1) Five-year 
maintenance and retention of records; (2) records of startups, 
shutdowns, and malfunctions; (3) records required as part of the work 
practice implementation plan; (4) continuous monitoring system (CMS) 
data records; (5) records of the types and quantities of

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finishing, cleaning materials and adhesives used; (6) monthly weighted 
average emission calculations; (7) documentation of area source status, 
if claimed; and (8) records of performance and CMS tests.
    Most recordkeeping and reporting provisions of the rule consist of 
emissions-related data and other information not considered 
confidential. However, the confidentiality of certain information 
obtained by the Agency is safeguarded according to Agency policies set 
forth in title 40, chapter I, part 2, subpart B--Confidentiality of 
Business Information (see 40 CFR part 2; 41 FR 36902, September 1, 
1976: amended by 43 FR 3999, September 8, 1978; 43 FR 42251, September 
20, 1987; 44 FR 17674, March 23, 1979).
    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 the 
Agency's regulations are listed in 40 CFR part 9.
    The Agency would like to solicit comments to:
    (i) Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is 
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, 
including whether the information will have practical utility;
    (ii) Evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden 
of the proposed collection of information, including the validity of 
the methodology and assumptions used;
    (iii) Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information 
to be collected; and
    (iv) Minimize the burden of the collection of information on those 
who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated 
electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or 
other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic 
submission of responses.
    Burden Statement: The previous ICR, approved for use through 
February 10, 1998, indicates an average annual person-hours burden, 
during the first three years of rule implementation, of 140,603 person-
hours. However, it should be recognized that the burden costs the first 
year of operation under the rule are somewhat different than the burden 
costs to maintain compliance with the rule year-after-year. As 
explained below, the first year burden costs include certain initial, 
one-time-only, reporting costs plus the same recordkeeping burden costs 
as the second and third year. The second and third year reporting 
burden costs include recurring costs associated with subsequent years 
of operation (in addition to the same recordkeeping costs incurred the 
first year of operation). By adding the annual person-hour figures for 
the first three years of operation and dividing by three, an average 
annual person-hour figure of 140,603 is computed.
    The initial reporting costs unique to the first year of operation 
include: (1) 8,835 technical person-hours, 442 management person-hours, 
and 884 clerical person-hours to report on the various initial 
performance and CMS tests required to determine the capture/control 
equipment efficiencies; (2) 45,000 technical person-hours, 2,250 
management person-hours, and 4,500 clerical person-hours to develop a 
work practice implementation manual; (3) 1,532 technical person-hours, 
77 management person-hours, and 153 clerical person-hours to notify the 
Agency of rule applicability to their manufacturing and to report on 
the initial performance/CMS test results; and (4) 640 technical person-
hours, 36 management person-hours, and 64 clerical person-hours to 
develop startup, shutdown, malfunctions, and CMS quality control plans. 
The first year reporting costs also include: (1) 750 technical person-
hours, 38 management person-hours, and 75 clerical person-hours to read 
instructions, and (2) 1,654 technical person-hours, 84 management 
person-hours, and 166 clerical person-hours to notify the Agency of any 
construction, reconstruction, physical, operational change, or actual 
startup, and to provide excess emissions reports as required.
    Reporting burdens after the first year of operation include: (1) 
152 technical person-hours, 8 management person-hours, 15 clerical 
person-hours for subsequent construction/reconstruction application and 
approval; (2) 750 technical person-hours, 38 management person-hours, 
and 75 clerical person-hours to read instructions; (3) 7,526 technical 
person-hours, 378 management person-hours, and 753 clerical person-
hours to notify the Agency of any construction, reconstruction, 
physical, operational change, or actual startup, and to provide 
compliance status and excess emissions reports as required; and (4) 
58,500 technical person-hours, 2,925 management person-hours, and 5,850 
clerical person-hours to maintain lists of the types and quantities of 
volatile HAP materials used.
    Recordkeeping burdens during the first year of operation and each 
year thereafter are the same and include the following: (1) An 
estimated 30,000 technical person-hours; 1,500 management person-hours 
and 3,000 clerical person-hours to develop recordkeeping systems; (2) a 
total of 4,272 technical person-hours; 213 management person-hours and 
427 clerical person-hours to record startup, shutdown, malfunction 
information, document completion of operator training courses, compile 
records of CMS parameters and the types/quantities of volatile HAP 
materials used; (3) a total of 24,000 technical person-hours; 1,200 
management person-hours and 2,400 clerical person-hours to train in-
plant personnel to various surfacing coating and control equipment in 
compliance with the rule.
    To compute the annual cost burden in dollars expended, the 
technical person-hours were multiplied by an hourly rate of $33, the 
management person-hours were multiplied by an hourly rate of $49 per 
hour, and the clerical person-hours multiplied by $15 per hour. Using 
these hourly rates an average annual dollar cost figure is $4,517,642.
    As described above, the burden estimates include 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.

    Dated: August 12, 1997.
Bruce Weddle,
Acting Director, Office of Compliance.
[FR Doc. 97-21916 Filed 8-18-97; 8:45 am]
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