[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 109 (Monday, June 8, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31213-31214]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-15171]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-6108-5]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB 
Review; Comment Request; Secondary Lead Smelters MACT

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: MACT, Subpart X--Secondary 
Lead Smelters (OMB # 2060-0296, expiration 6/30/98). The ICR describes 
the nature of the information collection and its expected burden and 
cost; where appropriate, it includes the actual data collection 
instrument.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before July 8, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For a copy of the ICR, call Sandy 
Farmer at EPA, by phone at (202) 260-2740, by E-Mail at 
Farmer.S[email protected] or download off the Internet at http://
www.epa.gov/icr/icr.htm, and refer to EPA ICR No. 1686.03.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title: MACT Subpart X--Secondary Lead 
Smelters (OMB Control No. 2060-0296; EPA ICR No. 1686.03) expiring 6/
30/98. This is a request for extension of a currently approved 
collection.
    Abstract: The EPA is required under section 112(d) of the 1990 
Clean Air Act, to regulate emissions of 189 hazardous air pollutants 
(HAPs). Secondary lead smelters have been identified by the EPA as 
significant emitters of several chemicals identified as HAPs, including 
but not limited to lead compounds, arsenic compounds, and 1,3-
butadiene. In the Administrator's judgment, such emissions cause or 
contribute significantly to air pollution that may reasonably be 
anticipated to endanger public health. Chronic exposure to lead 
compounds results in adverse effects on the blood, central nervous 
system, blood pressure, kidneys, and vitamin D metabolism. Children are 
particularly sensitive and exposure can also result in reduced 
cognitive development and reduced growth. Lead compounds can be 
persistent in the environment and have the potential to accumulate in 
food chains. Chronic inhalation exposure to arsenic compounds is 
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associated with lung cancer, while organic HAP emissions from secondary 
lead smelting may lead to increases in cardiovascular disease, as well 
as developmental and reproductive effects.
    In order to reduce HAP emissions from secondary lead smelting, the 
EPA developed the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air 
Pollutants (NESHAP) for Secondary Lead Smelters, which were proposed on 
June 9, 1994 (59 FR 29750) and promulgated on June 23, 1995 (60 FR 
32587). In response to industry petitions to reconsider, the final rule 
was amended on June 13, 1997 (62 FR 32209). Entities potentially 
affected by this rule are owners or operators of secondary lead 
smelters that operate furnaces to reduce scrap lead metal and lead 
compounds to elemental lead. The rule applies to secondary lead 
smelters that use blast, reverberatory, rotary, or electric smelting 
furnaces to recover lead metal from scrap lead, primarily from used 
lead-acid automotive-type batteries. The rule provides protection to 
the public by requiring all secondary lead smelters to meet emission 
standards reflecting the application of the maximum achievable control 
technology (MACT). This information is being collected to assure 
compliance with 40 CFR part 63, subpart X.
    Owners or operators of the affected facilities described must make 
one-time-only notifications including: notification of any physical or 
operational change to an existing facility which may increase the 
regulated pollutant emission rate, notification of the initial 
performance test, including information necessary to determine the 
conditions of the performance test, and performance test measurements 
and results. 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 EPA Regional Office. Owners or 
operators must maintain records of initial and subsequent compliance 
tests for lead compounds, and identify the date, time, cause and 
corrective actions taken for all bag leak detection alarms. Records of 
continuous monitoring devices, including parametric monitoring, must be 
maintained and reported semi-annually. 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. Any owner or operator subject to the provisions of this 
part shall maintain a file of these measurements, and retain the 
records for at least five years following the date of such measurements 
and records. At a minimum, records of the previous two years must be 
maintained on site.
    Industry and EPA records indicate that 23 sources are subject to 
the standard, and no additional sources are expected to become subject 
to the standard over the next three years. 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 document required under 5 
CFR 1320.8(d), soliciting comments on this collection of information 
was published on December 2, 1997 (62 FR 63711). No comments were 
received.
    Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping 
burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 334 
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/Operators of secondary lead 
smelters.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 23.
    Frequency of Response: daily records/ semi-annual reports.
    Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 16,033 hours.
    Estimated Total Annualized Cost Burden: $150,000.
    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. 1686.03 and OMB Control No. 2060-0296 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.

    Dated: June 1, 1998.
Joseph Retzer,
Director, Regulatory Information Division.
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