[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 76 (Thursday, April 21, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20748-20749]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-8021]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[RCRA-2005-0007, FRL-7902-3]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Continuing Collection; 
Comment Request; Information Collection Request for RCRA Reporting and 
Recordkeeping Requirements for Boilers and Industrial Furnaces Burning 
Hazardous Waste, EPA ICR Number 1361.10, OMB Control Number 2050-0073

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 notice announces that EPA is planning to submit the 
following continuing Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office 
of Management and Budget (OMB): Information Collection Request for RCRA 
Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements for Boilers and Industrial 
Furnaces (BIFs) Burning Hazardous Waste, EPA ICR Number 1361.10, OMB 
Control Number 2050-0073, expires 12/31/2005. This ICR includes the 
burden on these facilities by the general hazardous waste facility 
standards, specific unit requirements, Part B permit application and 
modification requirements, and the comparable/syngas fuel specification 
requirements covered by 40 CFR parts 261, 264, 265, 266 and 270. 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 June 20, 2005.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number RCRA-
2005-0007, to EPA online using EDOCKET (our preferred method), by e-
mail to [email protected], or by mail to: EPA Docket Center, 
Environmental Protection Agency, RCRA Docket, mail code 5305T, 1200 
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Shiva Garg, Environmental Protection 
Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460, Mail Code 
5302W; telephone number: (703) 308-8459, fax number: (703) 308-8433, e-
mail [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has established a public docket for this 
ICR under Docket ID number RCRA-2005-0007, which is available for 
public

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viewing at the RCRA 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 RCRA 
Docket is (202) 566-0270. 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, 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 potentially affected by this action are 
those which generate, treat and store hazardous waste. Examples include 
hazardous waste incinerators, boilers, cement kilns and lightweight 
aggregate kilns that burn hazardous waste.
    Title: RCRA Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements for Boilers 
and Industrial Furnaces Burning Hazardous Waste.
    Abstract: EPA regulates the burning of hazardous waste by several 
source categories of hazardous waste combustors under 40 CFR parts 63, 
261, 264 thru 266 and part 270. The standards to control emissions of 
hazardous air pollutants from boilers and industrial furnaces were 
promulgated under Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) on 
February 21, 1991 (see 56 FR 7208) and are codified in 40 CFR parts 266 
and 270. The general facility and comparable/syngas fuel standards, and 
financial requirements are covered in 40 CFR parts 261, 264 and 265. 
Revised standards to control emissions of hazardous air pollutants from 
incinerators, cement kilns and lightweight aggregate kilns that burn 
hazardous wastes were promulgated on September 30, 1999, under the 
joint authority of RCRA and Clean Air Act (CAA). See 64 FR 52828. The 
EPA ICR 1773.06 relating to the CAA provisions (codified in 40 
CFR part 63) has been published separately under OMB Control 
2050-0171. The EPA ICR 1361.09 pertaining to RCRA 
provisions of the rule was approved under OMB Control 2050-
0073, expires on December 31, 2005, and is being renewed now under this 
action.
    The emission standards of the September 30, 1999 rule created 
maximum achievable control technology (MACT) based standards for 
hazardous air pollutant emissions under CAA, assuring that combustion 
of hazardous waste in these devices is properly controlled, while the 
RCRA provisions satisfied EPA's mandate to ensure that hazardous waste 
combustion is conducted in a manner protective of human health and the 
environment. Thus, we have consolidated regulatory control of hazardous 
waste combustion into a single set of regulations, thereby minimizing 
the potential for conflicting or duplicate federal requirements and 
burden on the regulated community.
    The information collection required under this ICR is mandatory for 
the regulated sources, as it is essential to properly enforce the 
emission limitation requirements of the rule and will be used to 
further the proper performance of the functions of EPA. EPA believes 
that if the minimum requirements specified under the regulations are 
not met, EPA will not fulfill its Congressional mandate to protect 
public health and the environment. EPA, however, has made extensive 
efforts to integrate the monitoring, compliance testing and 
recordkeeping requirements of the CAA and RCRA, so that the facilities 
are able to avoid the burden of duplicate and unnecessary submissions. 
We also ensure, to the fullest extent by law, the confidentiality of 
the submitted information. EPA 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 collections of information are 
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 estimates of the burdens 
for reporting and recordkeeping requirements of the proposed 
collections of information;
    (iii) Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information 
to be collected; and,
    (iv) Minimize the burden of the collections of information on those 
who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated 
or electronic collection technologies or other forms of information 
technology, e.g., permitting electronic submission of responses.
    Burden Statement: The total average annual hourly burden for this 
ICR is estimated to be 307,949 hours for 1969 responses, which is 
roughly 156 hours per response. The total annual cost of this ICR is 
estimated to be $26,353,000, which represents $8,548,000 for capital/
startup costs, and $17,805,000 for operation and maintenance costs.
    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.

    Dated: April 14, 2005.
Maria Parisi Vickers,
Acting Director, Office of Solid Waste.
[FR Doc. 05-8021 Filed 4-20-05; 8:45 am]
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