[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 71 (Thursday, April 12, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18927-18928]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-9054]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-6964-81]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection: 
Comment Request; Standards of Performance for New Stationary Sources: 
Hospital/Medical/Infectious Waste Incinerators

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 EPA is planning to submit the 
following continuing Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office 
of Management and Budget (OMB): New Source Performance Standard for New 
Stationary Sources: Hospital/Medical/Infectious Waste Incinerators, EPA 
ICR Number 1730.2, and OMB Control Number 2060-0363, expiration date 
September 30, 2001. Before submitting the ICR to OMB for review and 
approval, EPA is soliciting comments on specific aspects of the 
proposed information collection as described below.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before June 11, 2001.

ADDRESSES: United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of 
Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, Office of Compliance, Compliance 
Assistance and Sector Programs Division, Mail Code 2224A; 1200 
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460. A hard copy of the ICR 
may be obtained without charge, by calling the information contact or 
from the Internet at: http://www.epa.gov/icr.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jonathan Binder, (202) 564-2516 or 
(202) 564-7083 or [email protected] and refer to EPA ICR Number 
1730.2, and OMB Control Number 2060-0363.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Affected entities: Entities potentially affected by this action are 
those which own or operate hospital/medical/infectious waste 
incinerators for which construction is commenced after February 27, 
1995 or for which modification commenced after June 20, 1996.
    Title: Standards of Performance for New Stationary Sources: 
Hospital/Medical/Infectious Waste Incinerators OMB Control No. 2060-
0263; EPA ICR No. 1730.02. expiring 9/30/01.
    Abstract: This ICR outlines the records and reports that are 
necessary to ensure that the Standards of Performance for New 
Stationary Sources: Hospital/Medical/Infectious Waste Incinerators are 
being achieved on a continuous basis. Records and reports are required 
by 40 CFR part 60, subpart A (General Provisions) and Subpart Ec.
    HMIWI burning hospital waste and/or medical infectious waste are 
subject to the specific reporting and recording keeping requirements 
Notification reports are required related to the construction, 
reconstruction, or modification of a HMIWI. Also required are one-time-
only reports related to initial performance test data and continuous 
measurements of site specific operating parameters. Annual compliance 
reports are required related to a variety of site-specific operating 
parameters, including exceedances of applicable limits. Semiannual 
compliance reports are required related to emission rate or operating 
parameter data that were not obtained when exceedances of applicable 
limits occurred. Affected entities must retain for five years the 
reports and records that are required under this NSPS and the General 
Provisions.
    Co-fired combustors and incinerators burning only pathological, 
low-level radioactive, and/or chemotherapeutic waste are required to 
submit notification reports on an exemption claim, and an estimate of 
the relative amounts of waste and fuels to be combusted. These co-fired 
combustors and incinerators are also required to maintain records on a 
calendar quarter basis of the weight of hospital waste combusted, the 
weight of medical/infectious waste combusted, and the weight of all 
other fuels combusted.
    All reports required under the NSPS and the General Provisions are 
submitted to the respondent's State or local agency, whichever has been 
delegated enforcement authority by the EPA. The information is used by 
EPA solely to determine that all sources subject to the NSPS are in 
compliance with the NSPS and that the control system installed to 
comply with the standards is being properly operated and maintained. 
Based on reported information, EPA can decide which facilities should 
be inspected and what records or processes should be inspected at the 
facilities. The records that sources maintain would indicate to EPA 
whether facility personnel are operating and maintaining control 
equipment properly.
    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.
    Comments: The EPA 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;

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    (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 annual public reporting and recordkeeping 
burden for this collection is estimated at 1000 hours per response. The 
14 estimated respondents are expected to be subject to 2 responses per 
year. The cost burden to respondents or recordkeepers resulting from 
the collection of information is estimated at $33.00 total capital and 
start-up cost component annualized over its expected useful life, and a 
$241.00 total operation and maintenance component. 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.

    Dated: April 4, 2001.
David N. Lyons,
Acting Director, Compliance Assistance Sector Programs Division, Office 
of Compliance.
[FR Doc. 01-9054 Filed 4-11-01; 8:45 am]
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