[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 105 (Monday, June 2, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32746-32748]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-13716]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[OECA-2003-0039; FRL-7506-5]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB 
Review and Approval; Comment Request; NSPS for Nonmetallic Mineral 
Processing

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 Nonmetallic Mineral 
Processing (40 CFR part 60, subpart OOO) OMB Control Number 2060-0050, 
EPA ICR Number 1084.07 The ICR, which is abstracted below, describes 
the nature of the information collection and its estimated burden and 
cost.

DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before July 2, 2003.

ADDRESSES: Follow the detailed instructions under SUPPLEMENTARY 
INFORMATION.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gregory Fried, Compliance Assessment 
and Media Programs Division, Office of Compliance, Mail Code 2223A, 
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 564-7016; 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

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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-2003-0039, 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 
Federal Register notice describing the electronic docket at 67 FR 38102 
(May 31, 2002), or go to http://www.epa.gov/edocket.
    Title: NSPS for Nonmetallic Mineral Processing (40 CFR part 60, 
subpart OOO), (OMB Control Number 2060-0050, EPA ICR Number 1084.07). 
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 Administrator has judged that PM emissions from 
nonmetallic mineral processing plants cause or contribute to air 
pollution that may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health 
or welfare. This standard applies to owners or operators of new, 
modified, or reconstructed facilities at nonmetallic mineral processing 
plants that commenced construction, modification, or reconstruction 
after August 1, 1985. Nonmetallic mineral processing includes the 
following affected facilities: each crusher, grinding mill, screening 
operation, bucket elevator, belt conveyor, bagging operation, storage 
bin, and enclosed truck or railcar loading station. This standard does 
not apply to facilities located in underground mines; stand-alone 
screening operations; operations that only involve recycled asphalt; 
fixed sand gravel, or crushed stone plants with capacities of 25 tons 
per hour or less; portable sand, gravel, or crushed stone plants with 
capacities of 150 tons per hour or less; common clay or pumice plants 
with capacities of 10 tons per hour or less. Additionally, when an 
existing facility is replaced by a piece of equipment of equal or 
smaller size it is not subject to the standard until all facilities in 
a production line are replaced. Affected facilities in the plant 
process that are subject to 40 CFR part 60, subpart F, for Portland 
Cement NSPS, or subpart I, Asphalt Concrete Plants NSPS, are not 
subject to this NSPS.
    Respondents must submit the following one-time-only reports: 
notification of the date of construction or reconstruction, 
notification of the actual date of initial startup, notification of any 
physical or operational change to an existing facility which may 
increase the regulated pollutant emission rate, notification of 
demonstration of the continuous emission monitor system (CMS) where the 
CMS is required (wet scrubber), notification of the date of the initial 
performance test, and the results of the initial performance test. Wet 
mining/screening operations are exempt from all requirements of the 
regulation, except an initial report and record describing the location 
of these operations. The general provision requirement to submit a 
notification of the anticipated date of initial startup is being waived 
for respondents subject to this standard. The required notifications 
are used to inform the Agency or delegated authority when a source 
becomes subject to the standard.
    Respondents 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. Owners or operators of facilities using a wet 
scrubber must record the measurements of both the change in pressure of 
the gas stream across the scrubber and the scrubbing liquid flow rate 
and submit semiannual reports for occurrences when the measurements of 
the scrubber pressure loss (or gain) and liquid flow rate differ by 
more than +/-30 percent from the average determined during the most 
recent performance test. All records shall be retained for at least two 
years. The information collected from recordkeeping and reporting 
requirements is necessary to ensure compliance with these standards, as 
required by section 114(a) of the Clean Air Act.
    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 5.6 
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

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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: Nonmetallic Mineral Processing 
Plants.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 3,825.
    Frequency of Response: Initial.
    Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 31,026 hours.
    Estimated Total Capital and Operations & Maintenance (O & M) Annual 
Costs: 0.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is a decrease of 720 hours in the 
total estimated burden currently identified in the OMB Inventory of 
Approved ICR Burdens. This decrease is due to correction of a 
mathematical error regarding the total number of respondents in the 
most recently approved ICR, in spite of a small increase in sources.

    Dated: May 13, 2003.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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