[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 42 (Wednesday, March 3, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10028-10029]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-4697]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[OECA-2003-0033; FRL-7630-2]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for 
Review and Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Ethylene Oxide 
Emissions From Sterilization Facilities (40 CFR Part 63, Subpart O) 
(Renewal), EPA ICR Number 1666.06, OMB Control Number 2060-0283

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, this document 
announces that an Information Collection Request (ICR) has been 
forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and 
approval. This is a request to renew an existing approved collection. 
This ICR is scheduled to expire on February 29, 2004. Under OMB 
regulations, the Agency may continue to conduct or sponsor the 
collection of information while this submission is pending at OMB. This 
ICR describes the nature of the information collection and its 
estimated burden and cost.

DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before April 2, 2004.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number OECA-
2003-0033, to (1) EPA online using EDOCKET (our preferred method), by 
e-mail to [email protected], or by mail to: EPA Docket Center, 
Environmental Protection Agency, Enforcement and Compliance Docket and 
Information Center, Mail Code 2201T, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20460, and (2) 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.

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 in 5 CFR 
1320.12. On May 19, 2003 (68 FR 27059), EPA sought comments on this ICR 
pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received no comments, or has addressed 
the comments received.
    EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID 
Number OECA-2003-0033, 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 is (202) 566-1752. 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. EPA's policy is that public comments, 
whether submitted electronically or in paper, will be made available 
for public

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viewing in EDOCKET as EPA receives them and 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 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, 
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: NESHAP for Ethylene Oxide Emissions from Sterilization 
Facilities (40 CFR Part 63, Subpart O) (Renewal)
    Abstract: The Administrator has judged that ethylene oxide (EO) 
emissions from sterilization facilities cause or contribute to air 
pollution that may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health 
or welfare. Owners or operators of the affected facilities described 
must submit one-time reports of start of construction, anticipated or 
actual startup dates, and physical or operation changes to existing 
facilities. In addition, owners or operators of existing or new 
commercial EO sterilization facilities will submit one-time reports of 
actual or estimated annual EO use.
    Reports of initial emissions testing are necessary to determine 
that the applicable emission limit is being met. The owner or operator 
of an EO sterilization facility that uses an air pollution control 
device to meet the emission limit is required to maintain records of 
the site-specific monitoring parameters as well as daily and monthly 
inspections of the control device.
    The emissions test reports and other records must be kept at the 
facility for a minimum of five years and be made available to the 
Administrator upon request. All reports and records must comply with 
the General Provisions to 40 CFR part 63. Owners or operators of a 
source subject to these standards will provide a semiannual report of 
excess emissions that includes the monitored operating parameter value 
readings required by the standards. The respondent's state or local 
agency can be delegated enforcement authority by EPA and also request 
these reports.
    In order to ensure compliance with the standards promulgated to 
protect public health, adequate reporting and recordkeeping is 
necessary. In the absence of such information enforcement personnel 
would be unable to determine whether the standards are being met on a 
continuous basis, as required by 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 37 
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; to 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; to 
adjust the existing ways to comply with any previously applicable 
instructions and requirements; to train personnel to be able to respond 
to a collection of information; search data sources; to complete and 
review the collection of information; and to transmit or otherwise 
disclose the information.
    Respondents/Affected Entities: Ethylene Oxide Sterilization 
Facilities.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 119.
    Frequency of Response: Initial and semiannual.
    Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 8,662 hours.
    Estimated Total Annual Costs: $1,196,000, which includes $65,000 
annualized capital/startup costs, $583,000 annual O&M costs and 
$548,000 annual labor costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is an increase of 1,334 hours in 
the total estimated burden currently identified in the OMB Inventory of 
Approved ICR Burdens. The increase in burden from the most recently 
approved ICR is primarily due to an adjustment in the number of sources 
subject to the standard.

    Dated: February 24, 2004.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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