[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 22 (Thursday, February 1, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8593-8594]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-2770]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-6941-2]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB 
Review; Comment Request, National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air 
Pollutants, (NESHAP) Benzene Emissions From Benzene Storage Vessels and 
Coke By-Product Recovery 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: NESHAP for Benzene Emissions 
from Benzene Storage Vessels--40 CFR part 61, subpart Y, and Coke By-
Product Recovery Plants, Subpart L, OMB No. 2060-0185, Expiration Date: 
January 31, 2001. 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 April 2, 2001.

ADDRESSES: Send comments, referencing EPA ICR No.1080.10 and OMB 
Control No. 2060-0185, to the following addresses: Sandy Farmer, U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency, Collection Strategies Division (Mail 
Code 2822), 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460; and to 
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and 
Budget (OMB), Attention: Desk Officer for EPA, 725 17th Street, NW., 
Washington, DC 20503.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For a copy of the ICR contact Sandy 
Farmer at EPA by phone at (202) 260-2740, by

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E-mail at [email protected], or download off the Internet at 
http://www.epa.gov/icr and refer to EPA ICR No.1080.10. For technical 
questions about the ICR contact Mr. Rafael Sanchez, telephone: (202) 
564-7028, facsimile: (202) 564-0050.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Title: National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants, 
Benzene Emissions from Benzene Storage Vessels and Coke By-Product 
Recovery Plants, OMB Control No. 2060-0185; EPA ICR No.1080.10, 
expiring January 31, 2001. This is a request for extension of a 
currently approved collection.
    Abstract: Respondents are all owners or operators of benzene 
storage vessels and Coke By Product Recovery Plants. It is estimated 
that 162 existing plants are subject to the standard. All owners and 
operators of new or reconstructed plants would also have to respond. In 
the General Provisions of 40 CFR part 61 applicable to storage vessels, 
up to four separate onetime-only reports are required for each owner or 
operator: notification of construction or reconstruction, initial 
source report, notification of physical/operational changes, 
notification of anticipated and actual startup. The initial source 
report is the only one of these reports that would be required from 
existing sources under the standard. Certain records and reports are 
necessary to assist EPA and State agencies to which enforcement has 
been delegated in determining compliance with the standard.
    An initial emissions test is not required because conducting an 
emission test is not feasible. Therefore, the format of the standard is 
that of an equipment standard. Owners or operators of vessels equipped 
with the specified controls are required to submit, along with the 
notifications required by the General Provisions, a report that 
describes the control equipment used to comply with the regulation. 
Thereafter, an annual visual inspection is required of the primary seal 
of internal floating roof vessels (IFR's) (in cases where no secondary 
seal is present). An annual seal gap measurement of the secondary seal 
system on external floating roof vessels (EFR's) is required. The 
following inspections are required every five years: (1) internal 
inspection of seal system on IFR's equipped with primary and secondary 
seals in situations where the owner or operator has decided to forego 
the annual visual inspection; and (2) measurement of gaps between the 
tank wall and primary seal on EFR's. An internal inspection in which 
the tank is emptied and degassed is required at least every 10 years 
for IFR's.
    Subpart L was revised on September 19, 1991 to allow for the use of 
carbon adsorbers and vapor incinerators as alternative means of 
complying with the standards for process vessels, storage tanks and 
tar-intercepting sumps. The use of carbon absorbers and vapor 
incinerators instead of gas blanketing, the control technology on which 
the standards were based, is optional. The provisions include 
recordkeeping and reporting requirements specific to these alternative 
control devices. An information collection request (ICR number 1080.07) 
was developed for that revision and is consolidated into this ICR with 
this review.
    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 July 12, 
1999 (64 FR 37530); no comments were received.
    Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and record keeping 
burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 93 
hours per combined subpart L & Y 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 or operators of Benzene 
Storage Vessels and Coke By-Product Recovery Plants.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 40.
    Frequency of Response: Quarterly.
    Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 7,131.
    Estimated Total Annualized Capital, O&M Cost Burden: $0.
    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 addresses listed above. Please 
refer to EPA ICR No. 1080.10 and OMB Control No.2060-0185 in any 
correspondence.

    Dated: January 25, 2001.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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