[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 234 (Tuesday, December 7, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 68351]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-31667]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-6504-5]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB 
Review; Comment Request; Standard of Performance for Electric Utility 
Steam Generating Units

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 Da, Standards of 
Performance for Electric Utility Steam Generating Units, OMB No. 2060-
0023, expires 1/31/2000. 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 January 6, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For a copy of the ICR, call Sandy 
Farmer at EPA, (202) 260-2740, email at [email protected], or 
download off the Internet at http://www.epa.gov/icr/icr.htm and refer 
to EPA ICR No. 1053.06.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Title: NSPS-Subpart Da, Standards of Performance for Electric 
Utility Steam Generating Units (OMB Control No. 2060-0023; EPA ICR No. 
1053.06) expiring January 31, 2000. This is a request for extension of 
a currently approved collection.
    Abstract: Owners or operators of electric utility steam generating 
units subject to NSPS subpart Da must make one-time-only notification 
of construction/reconstruction, anticipated and actual startup, initial 
performance test, physical or operational changes, and demonstration of 
a continuous monitoring system. They must also submit a report on 
initial performance test results, monitoring results, and excess 
emissions. Records must be maintained of startups, shutdowns, 
malfunctions, periods when the continuous monitoring system is 
inoperative, and of various fuel combustion and pollutant emission 
parameters.
    The required notifications are used to inform the Agency or 
delegated authority when a source becomes subject to the standard. 
Performance test reports are needed as these are the Agency's records 
of a source's initial capability to comply with the emission standard, 
and serve as a record of the operating conditions under which 
compliance was achieved. The monitoring and excess emissions reports 
are used for problem identification, as a check on source operation and 
maintenance, and for compliance determination. The information 
collected from recordkeeping and reporting requirements are used for 
targeting inspections, and for other uses in compliance and enforcement 
programs.
    Responses to these information collections are mandatory, per 
section 114(a) of the Clean Air Act. The required information consists 
of emissions data and other information that have been determined not 
to be private. 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 Title 40, Chapter 1, part 2, 
subpart B--Confidentiality of Business Information (see 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 document required under 5 CFR 1320.8(d), soliciting 
comments on this collection of information was published on June 4, 
1999 (64 FR 64107); no comments were received.
    Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping 
burden for this collection of information are estimated to average 485 
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: Electric Utility Steam Generating 
Units.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 129.
    Frequency of Response: Quarterly and Semiannual.
    Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 28,606 hours.
    Estimated Total Annualized Non-Labor Cost Burden: $3,095,000.
    Send comments on the Agency's need for this information, the 
accuracy of the provided burden estimates, and any suggested methods 
for minimizing respondent burdens, including through the use of 
automated collection techniques to the following addresses. Please 
refer to EPA ICR No. 1053.06 and OMB Control No. 2060-0023 in any 
correspondence.

Ms. Sandy Farmer, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of 
Environmental Information, Collection Strategies Division (2822), 401 M 
Street, SW, Washington, DC 20460; (or E-Mail 
Farmer.S[email protected])
    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: December 1, 1999.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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