[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 145 (Thursday, July 29, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45309-45310]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-17304]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[OECA-2003-0144; FRL-7790-9]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB 
Review and Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Benzene Emissions From 
Coke By-Product Recovery Plants (Renewal), ICR Number 1080.11, OMB 
Number 2060-0185

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 August 31, 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 August 30, 
2004.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number OECA-
2003-0144, to (1) EPA online using EDOCKET (our preferred method), by 
E-mail to [email protected], or by mail to: Environmental Protection 
Agency, EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), Enforcement and Compliance Docket 
and Information Center EPA West, 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: Dan Chadwick, 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) 564-7054; 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 November 3, 2003 (68 FR 62289), 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-2003-0144, 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 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

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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 www.epa.gov/edocket.
    Title: NESHAP for Benzene Emissions from Coke By-Product Recovery 
Plants (40 CFR part 61, subpart L) (Renewal).
    Abstract: Owners or operators of existing and new facilities that 
are furnace or foundry coke by-product recovery plants that produce 
benzene emissions subject to NESHAP subpart L must submit notification 
of and application for construction, reconstruction or modification, 
and notice of the anticipated date of initial and actual startup. 
Owners and operators of regulated facilities must also submit 
notifications of: performance tests; any physical or operational change 
which may increase the emission rate; implementation of equipment 
leakage requirements; notification that the requirements of 40 CFR part 
61, subpart L and 40 CFR part 61, subpart V have been met; and 
notification of intent to elect to comply with the requirements at 40 
CFR 61.243 at least 90 days before implementation. These owners and 
operators must also submit performance test reports and semi-annual 
reports. Records must be maintained of leak detection and repair logs, 
the design requirements of closed-vent systems and control devices, 
applicable valve information, design control device, plan operations 
and corrective action, compliance tests, reference values of monitored 
parameters, and monitoring results and exceedances (alternative control 
options). Records must also be kept of annual furnace and foundry coke 
production for furnace coke by-product recovery plants, monitoring 
data, monitoring system calibration checks, and the occurrence and 
duration of periods where the monitoring system is malfunctioning or 
inoperative. Records shall be retained for at least two years.
    The use of carbon adsorbers and vapor incinerators instead of gas 
blanketing, the control technology on which the standards were 
originally based, was made optional by the 1991 revision. In 1999, 
certain quarterly reporting obligations were eliminated, a plan to 
handle benzene and removed carbon in accordance with the regulation was 
required for carbon adsorbers and reporting of the monitoring method 
chosen for each vapor incinerator was also required.
    The notifications required in the applicable regulations are used 
to inform the Agency or delegated authority when a source becomes 
subject to the requirements of the regulations. The reviewing authority 
may then inspect the source to check if the pollution control devices 
are properly installed and operated and the regulations are being met. 
Performance test reports are needed as the Agency's record of a 
source's initial capability to comply with the emission standards and 
as a record of the operating conditions under which compliance was 
achieved. Compliance is achieved when emissions are routed through a 
closed-vent system (no detectable emissions) to a control device that 
achieves a 95-percent or greater destruction efficiency. The semiannual 
reports are used for problem identification, as a check on source 
operation and maintenance, and for compliance determinations. The 
information generated by the monitoring, recordkeeping and reporting 
requirements described in this ICR is used by the Agency to ensure that 
facilities affected by the NESHAP continue to operate the control 
equipment in compliance with the regulation. Adequate monitoring, 
recordkeeping, and reporting are necessary to ensure compliance with 
the applicable regulations, as required by the Clean Air Act. This 
information is being collected to assure compliance with 40 CFR part 
61, subpart L.
    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 92 
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 
train personnel to be able to respond to a collection of information; 
to search data sources; to complete and review the collection of 
information; and to transmit or otherwise disclose the information.
    Respondents/Affected Entities: Existing facilities and new 
facilities that are furnace or foundry coke by-product recovery plants 
that produce benzene emissions.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 17.
    Frequency of Response: Semi-annually, On occasion.
    Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 3,138 hours.
    Estimated Total Capital and Operations & Maintenance (O&M) Annual 
Costs: $0, which includes $0 annualized capital/startup costs, and $0 
annual O&M costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is a decrease of 3,945 hours in the 
total estimated burden currently identified in the OMB Inventory of 
Approved ICR Burdens. This decrease in burden from the most recently 
approved ICR reflects the exclusion of burden hours and costs relating 
to compliance with 40 CFR part 61, subpart Y, which was included in the 
burden calculations of the currently active ICR, NESHAP for Benzene 
Emissions from Benzene Storage Vessels and Coke By-Product Recovery 
Plants (40 CFR part 61, subparts L & Y), ICR Number 1080.10. The 
reporting obligations under subpart Y are now addressed under the 
Consolidated Air Rule and are subject to a different ICR. The decrease 
in burden under subpart L also reflects a more accurate estimate of the 
number of existing and new sources subject to this subpart and reflects 
the elimination of certain quarterly reporting requirements.

    Dated: July 14, 2004.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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