[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 41 (Monday, March 3, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10009-10010]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-4913]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[OECA-2002-0016; FRL-7456-7]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB 
Review and Approval; Comment Request; NSPS Subpart Da--Standards of 
Performance for Electric Utility Steam Generating Units, ICR No. 
1053.07, OMB Number 2060-0023

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 Control 
Number 2060-0023, EPA ICR No. 1053.07. The ICR, which is abstracted 
below, describes the nature of the information collection and its 
estimated burden and cost.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before April 2, 2003.

ADDRESSES: Follow the detailed instructions in the SUPPLEMENTARY 
INFORMATION section.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dan Chadwick, Compliance Assessment 
and Media Programs Division, Office of Compliance, Mail Code 2223A, 
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 
Washington, DC 20460; telephone number (202) 564-7054; fax number (202) 
564-0050; email address [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has submitted the following ICR to OMB 
for review and approval according to the procedures prescribed in 5 CFR 
1320.12. On June 20, 2002 (67 FR 41981), EPA sought comments on this 
ICR pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received no comments.
    EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID 
No. OECA-2002-0016, which is available for public viewing at the 
Enforcement and Compliance Docket and Information Center in the EPA 
Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West, Room B102, 1301 Constitution Ave., 
NW., Washington, DC. The EPA Docket Center Public Reading Room is open 
from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal 
holidays. The telephone number for the Reading Room is (202) 566-1744, 
and the telephone number for the Enforcement and Compliance Docket and 
Information Center is (202) 566-1514. An electronic version of the 
public docket is available through EPA Dockets (EDOCKET) at http://www.epa.gov/edocket. Use EDOCKET to submit or view public comments, 
access the index listing of the contents of the public docket, and to 
access those documents in the public docket that are available 
electronically. Once in the system, select ``search,'' then key in the 
docket ID number identified above.
    Any comments related to this ICR should be submitted to EPA and OMB 
within 30 days of this notice, and according to the following detailed 
instructions: (1) Submit your comments to EPA online using EDOCKET (our 
preferred method), by email to [email protected] or by mail to EPA 
Docket Center, Environmental Protection Agency, Mail code: 2201T, 1200 
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460, and (2) Mail your 
comments to OMB at: Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Attention: Desk Officer for EPA, 
725 17th Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503.
    EPA's policy is that public comments, whether submitted 
electronically or in paper, will be made available for public viewing 
in EDOCKET as EPA receives them without change, unless the comment 
contains copyrighted material, CBI, or other information whose public 
disclosure is restricted by statute. When EPA identifies a comment 
containing copyrighted material, EPA will provide a reference to that 
material in the version of the comment that is placed in EDOCKET. The 
entire printed comment, including the copyrighted material, will be 
available in the public docket. Although identified as an item in the 
official docket, information claimed as CBI, or whose disclosure is 
otherwise restricted by statute, is not included in the official public 
docket, see EPA's Federal Register notice describing the electronic 
docket at 67 FR 38102 (May

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31, 2002), or go to http://www.epa.gov/edocket.
    Title: NSPS Subpart Da--Standards of Performance for Electric 
Utility Steam Generating Units (OMB Control Number 2060-0023, EPA ICR 
No. 1053.07). This is a request to renew an existing approved 
collection that is scheduled to expire on February 28, 2003. Under the 
OMB regulations, the Agency may continue to conduct or sponsor the 
collection of information while this submission is pending at OMB.
    Abstract: Owners or operators of electric utility steam generating 
units subject to NSPS Subpart Da must make one-time 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 deemed to be 
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; 41 FR 36902, September 1, 1976; amended by 43 FR 
4000, September 8, 1978; 43 FR 42251, September 20, 1978; 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 EPA's 
regulations are listed in 40 CFR part 9 and 48 CFR chapter 15, and are 
identified on the form and/or instrument, if applicable.
    Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping 
burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 85 
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 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 electric 
utility steam generating units subject to Subpart Da.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 655.
    Frequency of Response: Semiannually, quarterly.
    Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 33,553.
    Estimated Total Annual Cost: $19,490,000, includes $2,200,000 
annualized capital and $9,660,000 O&M costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is an increase of 104,947 hours in 
the total estimated burden currently identified in the OMB Inventory of 
Approved ICR Burdens. This increase is due to an increase in the size 
of the regulated universe.

    Dated: February 19, 2003.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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