[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 43 (Thursday, March 4, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10224-10226]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-4824]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[OECA-2003-0034; FRL-7631-8]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB 
Review and Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Chromium Emissions 
From Hard and Decorative Chromium Electroplating and Chromium 
Anodizing, EPA ICR Number 1611.05, OMB Number 2060-0327

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 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

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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 5, 2004.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number OECA-
2003-0034, 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 (ECDIC), Mail Code 2201T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., 
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: Mar[iacute]a Malav[eacute], 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) 564-7027; 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.
    EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID 
Number OECA-2003-0034, 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) 566-1752. 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 viewing in EDOCKET as EPA receives them and 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, 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 Chromium Emissions From Hard and Decorative 
Chromium Electroplating and Chromium Anodizing (40 CFR part 63, subpart 
N), EPA ICR Number 1611.05, OMB Control Number 2060-0327.
    Abstract: The national emission standards for hazardous air 
pollutants (NESHAP) using maximum achievable control technology (MACT) 
for control of chromium emissions from hard and decorative chromium 
electroplating and chromium anodizing tanks were proposed on December 
16, 1993 and promulgated on January 25, 1995.
    In general, all NESHAP-MACT standards require initial 
notifications, performance tests, and periodic reports. Respondents 
that are not required to conduct an initial performance test (i.e., 
decorative chromium electroplating or chromium anodizing operations 
that use a wetting agent and meet the surface tension limit required by 
the rule, and decorative chromium electroplating operations that use a 
trivalent chromium bath) are required to notify the Administrator of 
the initial compliance status of the source. Owners or operators are 
also required to maintain records of a source's operations including 
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 types of reports required by 
these standards include initial compliance status reports. Periodic 
reports required by this standard include annual compliance status 
reports for area sources and semiannual compliance status reports for 
major sources, unless an exceedance has occurred which requires sources 
to submit such reports on a more frequent basis. These notifications, 
reports, and records are essential in determining compliance, and are 
required of all sources subject to NESHAP-MACT standards.
    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 83 
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: Operators of hard chromium 
electroplating, decorative chromium electroplating, and chromium 
anodizing facilities/chromium electroplating or chromium anodizing 
tanks.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 5,020.
    Frequency of Response: Initially, annually, semiannually, and 
quarterly.
    Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 495,774 hours.
    Estimated Total Annual Costs: $106,662,892 which accounts for 
annual O&M costs of $75,300,000 only since there are no annualized 
capital/startup costs associated with this ICR, as well as Respondent 
Labor costs of $31,362,892.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is a decrease of 20,412 hours in 
the total estimated burden currently identified in the OMB Inventory of 
Approved ICR Burdens. This decrease in labor hours is

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the result of changing the percentage from 10 percent to 5 percent to 
calculate the management person-hours since we believe this is a more 
accurate estimate.

    Dated: February 25, 2004.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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