[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 30 (Tuesday, February 15, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7732-7734]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-2894]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[OAR-2005-0017, FRL-7873-5]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; 
Comment Request; National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air 
Pollutants (NESHAPs): Radionuclides, EPA ICR Number 1100.12, OMB 
Control Number 2060-0191

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

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 EPA is planning to submit a 
continuing Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB). This is a request to renew an existing 
approved collection. This ICR is scheduled to expire on August 25, 
2005. Before submitting the ICR to OMB for review and approval, EPA is 
soliciting comments on specific aspects of the proposed information 
collection as described below.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before April 18, 2005.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number OAR-2005-
0017, to EPA online using EDOCKET (our preferred method), Air and 
[email protected], or by mail to: EPA Docket Center, 
Environmental Protection Agency, Air and Radiation Docket and 
Information Center, http://www.epa.gov/oar/docket.html, Mail Code 
6102T, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Eleanor Thornton-Jones, Radiation 
Protection Division, Center for the

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Waste Management, Office of Radiation and Indoor Air, Mail Code: 6608J; 
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 
Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 343-9773; fax number: 
(202) 343-2306; email address: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has established a public docket for this 
ICR under Docket ID number OAR-2005-0017, which is available for public 
viewing at the Air Docket 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 Air 
Docket is (202) 566-1742. An electronic version of the public docket is 
available through EPA Dockets (EDOCKET) at http://www.epa.gov/edocket. 
Use EDOCKET to obtain a copy of the draft collection of information, 
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. Once 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 within 
60 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.
    Affected entities: Entities affected by this action are those which 
own or operate Department of Energy (DOE) facilities, elemental 
phosphorus plants, Non-DOE federal facilities and phosphogypsum stacks, 
underground uranium mines and uranium mill tailings piles.
    Title: National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: 
Radionuclides, OMB No. 2060-0191, expiring 8/25/05.
    Abstract: On December 15, 1989 pursuant to section 112 of the Clean 
Air Act as amended in 1977 (42 U.S.C. 1857), EPA promulgated NESHAPs to 
control radionuclide emissions from several source categories. The 
regulations were published in 54 FR 51653, and are codified at 40 CFR 
part 61, subparts B, H, I, K, R, T, and W. Information is being 
collected pursuant to Federal regulation 40 CFR 61. The pertinent 
sections of the regulation for reporting and record keeping are listed 
below for each source category:

Department of Energy Facilities--Sections 61.93, 61.94, 61.95
Elemental Phosphorous--Sections 61.123, 61.124, 61.126
Non-DOE Federal Facilities--Sections 61.103, 61.104, 61.105, 61.107
Phosphogypsum Stacks--Sections 61.203, 61.206, 61.207, 61.208, 61.209
Underground Uranium Mines--Sections 61.24, 61.25
Uranium Mill Tailings Piles--Sections 61.223, 61.224, 61.253, 61.254, 
61.255

    Data and information collected is used by EPA to ensure that public 
health continues to be protected from the hazards of airborne 
radionuclides by compliance with NESHAPs. If the information were not 
collected, it is unlikely that potential violations of the standards 
would be identified and corrective action would be initiated to bring 
the facilities back into compliance. Compliance is demonstrated through 
emission testing and/or dose calculation. Results are submitted to EPA 
annually for verification of compliance and maintained for a period of 
5 years. 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.
    The EPA would like to solicit comments to:
    (i) Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is 
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, 
including whether the information will have practical utility;
    (ii) Evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden 
of the proposed collection of information;
    (iii) Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information 
to be collected; and
    (iv) Minimize the burden of the collection of information on those 
who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated 
collection techniques or other forms of information technology, e.g., 
permitting electronic submission of responses.
    Burden Statement: The estimated burden for each respondent is 32 
hours per response. This estimate is based on experience gained in 
preparing radionuclide NESHAPs enforcement and compliance guidance 
material and in demonstrating the use of EPA's COMPLY computer program 
to the uninitiated.

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                                                              Number of
                         Respondent                           facilities
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Department of Energy.......................................           42
Elemental Phosphorus.......................................            2
Non-DOE not licensed by NRC................................           20
Phosphogypsum Stacks.......................................           35
Underground Uranium Mines..................................            7
Uranium Mill Tailings Piles................................           13
(Subparts T and W)
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    Total..................................................          124
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    It is estimated that 124 facilities would be required to report 
emissions and/or effective dose equivalent annually and retain 
supporting records for five years. The total record keeping and 
reporting burden hours is 288 hours times 124 respondents = 35,712 
hours. The estimated annualized capital/start up costs are: $45,000 and 
the annual operation and maintenance costs are $1,581,120.
    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.


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    Dated: February 8, 2005.
Bonnie C. Gitlin,
Acting Director, Radiation Protection Division, Office of Radiation and 
Indoor Air.
[FR Doc. 05-2894 Filed 2-14-05; 8:45 am]
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