[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 79 (Thursday, April 24, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20141-20142]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-10171]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[OECA-2003-0003; FRL-7487-9]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission of EPA ICR 
No. 1061.09, OMB No. 2060-0037 to OMB for Approval; Comment Request

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 for the Phosphate 
Fertilizer Industry (40 CFR part 60, subparts T, U, V, W, and X), OMB 
Control No. 2060-0037, EPA ICR No. 1061.09. This ICR describes the 
nature of the information collection and its estimated burden and cost.

DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before May 27, 2003.

ADDRESSES: Follow the detailed instructions in the SUPPLEMENTARY 
INFORMATION.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Learia Williams, Compliance Assessment 
and Media Programs Division (Mail Code 2223A), Office of Compliance, 
United States Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 
Avenue, NW. Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 564-4113; fax 
number: (202) 564-0050; e-mail 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 September 26, 2002 (67 FR 60672), 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 
Number OECA-2003-0003, 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 Avenue, 
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 Docket 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. When 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 e-mail to [email protected], or by mail to: EPA 
Docket Center, Environmental Protection Agency, Mail Code: 2201T, 1200 
Pennsylvania Avenue, 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 comment, whether submitted 
electronically or on paper, will be available for public viewing in 
EDOCKET, as EPA receives them without change, unless the comment 
contains copyrighted material, Confidential Business Information (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 
placed in EDOCKET. The entire printed comment, including 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, and will not be available for public viewing in 
EDOCKET. For further information about the electronic docket, see EPA's 
notice describing the electronic docket at 67 FR 38102 (May 31, 2002), 
or go to http://www.epa.gov/edocket.
    Title: NSPS for the Phosphate Fertilizer Industry (40 CFR part 60, 
subparts T, U, V, W, and X), OMB Control No. 2060-0037, EPA ICR No. 
1061.09. This is a request to renew an existing, approved collection 
that is scheduled to expire on June 30, 2003. Under OMB regulations, 
the Agency may continue to conduct or sponsor the collection of 
information while this submission is pending at OMB.
    Abstract: The NSPS for the Phosphate Fertilizer Industry, published 
at 40 CFR part 60, subparts T, U, V, W, and X,

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were proposed on October 22, 1974 and promulgated on August 6, 1975. 
These standards apply to each wet-process phosphoric acid plant, each 
superphosphoric acid plant, each granular diammonium phosphate plant, 
and each triple superphosphate plant, having a design capacity of more 
than 15 tons of equivalent phosphorous pentoxide 
(P2O5) feed per calendar day. These standards 
also apply to granular triple superphosphate storage facilities.
    Owners or operators of affected facilities described must make the 
following one-time-only initial notifications and reports on the 
results of the initial performance test. 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. The owners or operators must install, calibrate, maintain, 
and operate a monitoring device which continuously measures and 
permanently records the total pressure drop across the scrubbing 
system.
    Also required are semiannual reports. The owner or operator subject 
to the provisions of this part shall maintain a file of these 
measurements, and retain the file for at least two years following the 
date of such measurements. Responses to the collection of information 
are mandatory and are being collected to assure compliance with 40 CFR 
part 60, subparts T, U, V, W, and X. These notifications, reports and 
records are essential in determining compliance.
    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 46 
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: Phosphate Fertilizer Industry.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 13.
    Frequency of Response: Initial and Semiannual.
    Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 1,194.
    Estimated Total Annualized Operations and Maintenance Cost: 
$320,000.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is an increase of 231 hours and 
$320,000 in the total estimated burden currently identified in the OMB 
Inventory of approved ICR burdens. This is due to an increase in the 
number of sources and a reconsideration of the operation and 
maintenance costs for the required continuous emission monitors.

    Dated: April 10, 2003.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. 03-10171 Filed 4-23-03; 8:45 am]
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