[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 224 (Monday, November 22, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67905-67906]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-25818]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[OECA-2004-0019; FRL-7840-1 ]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB 
Review and Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Pulp and Paper 
Production (Renewal), ICR Number 1657.05, OMB Number 2060-0387

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 November 30, 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 December 22, 
2004.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number OECA-
2004-0019, 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, 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: Leonard Lazarus, 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) 564-6369; 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 25, 2004 (69 FR 29718), 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 
No. OECA-2004-0019, 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

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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) 566-1752. 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 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 Pulp and Paper Production (40 CFR part 63, 
subpart S) (Renewal).
    Abstract: This National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air 
Pollutants (NESHAP) covering emissions from the pulping process relies 
on the capture and destruction of hazardous air pollutants (HAP) by 
either burning them in a boiler or kiln or by introducing them into the 
wastewater treatment system. HAP's captured from bleaching systems are 
controlled with a chlorine gas scrubber. The recordkeeping, 
notification and reporting requirements of the standard are critically 
important as they allow the Agency to determine to which facilities the 
standards apply and they enable the Agency to monitor initial and 
ongoing compliance with the standards. As much as possible, in order to 
reduce the burden, the compliance monitoring and recordkeeping 
requirements are designed to cover parameters that are already being 
monitored as part of the manufacturing process.
    Pulp mill owners or operators (respondents) are required to submit 
initial notifications, 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. Respondents are required to monitor and keep records of 
specific operating parameters for each control device and to perform 
and document periodic inspections of the closed vent and wastewater 
conveyance systems. All respondents must submit semiannual summary 
reports of monitored parameters, and they must submit an additional 
monitoring report during each quarter in which monitored parameters 
were outside the ranges established in the standard or during initial 
performance tests. A source identified to be out of compliance with the 
NESHAP will be required to submit quarterly reports until the 
Administrator is satisfied that the source has corrected its compliance 
problem. These notifications, reports, and records are essential in 
determining compliance, and are required of all sources subject to 
Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) standards. Since none of 
the required reports to the Agency have been deemed confidential 
business information, they will not be treated as such. Responses are 
mandatory (40 CFR part 63, subpart S).
    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 104 
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: Pulp mill owners or operators.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 137.
    Frequency of Response: Initial, Quarterly, Semiannually.
    Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 42,444 hours.
    Estimated Total Annual Costs: $3,085,125, which includes $0 
annualized capital/startup costs, $377,000 annual O&M costs, and 
$2,708,125 annual labor costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is a decrease of 7,788 hours in the 
total estimated burden currently identified in the OMB Inventory of 
Approved ICR Burdens. This decrease is due to a reduction in annual 
burden due to an improved estimate of the number of facilities.

    Dated: November 13, 2004.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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