[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 101 (Thursday, May 26, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30439-30440]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-10495]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[OW-2004-0025; FRL-7918-4]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for 
Review and Approval; Comment Request; Minimum Monitoring Requirements 
for Direct and Indirect Discharging Mills in the Bleached Papergrade 
Kraft and Soda Subcategory and the Papergrade Sulfite Subcategory of 
the Pulp, Paper and Paperboard Point Source Category (Renewal), EPA ICR 
Number 1878.02, OMB Control Number 2040-0243

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 May 31, 
2005.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 June 27, 2005.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number OW-2004-
0025, 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, Water Docket, 4101T, 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: Jack Faulk, Office of Wastewater 
Management, 4203M, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 
Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 564-0768; fax 
number: (202) 501-2399; 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 August 30, 2004 (69 FR 52883), 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. OW-2004-0025, which is available for public viewing at the Water 
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 Water Docket 
is (202) 566-2426. 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. 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 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: Minimum Monitoring Requirements for Direct and Indirect 
Discharging Mills in the Bleached Papergrade Kraft and Soda Subcategory 
and the Papergrade Sulfite Subcategory of the Pulp, Paper and 
Paperboard Manufacturing Category (Renewal).
    Abstract: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) imposed minimum 
monitoring requirements on bleached papergrade kraft and soda (subpart 
B) and papergrade sulfite

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(subpart E) mills under 40 CFR part 430 as part of the effluent 
limitations guidelines and standards promulgated on April 15, 1998. As 
a result, the permitting and pretreatment control authority requires 
applicable facilities subject to subparts B or E to monitor their 
effluent for adsorbable organic halides (AOX), 2,3,7,8-
tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD), 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzofuran 
(TCDF), chloroform, and 12 chlorinated phenolics at specified 
frequencies. See 40 CFR 430.02. Under 40 CFR 122.41(e)(4), the 
discharger must then report these monitoring results to the permitting 
or pretreatment control authority using either Discharge Monitoring 
Reports (DMRs) or Periodic Compliance Reports (PCRs). These minimum 
monitoring requirements and corresponding reporting requirements are 
necessary to demonstrate compliance with the effluent limitations 
guidelines and standards promulgated at 40 CFR part 430, subparts B and 
E.
    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 in 40 CFR are listed in 40 CFR part 9 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 361 
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: Operations that chemically pulp wood 
fiber using kraft or soda methods to produce bleached papergrade pulp, 
paperboard, coarse paper, tissue paper, fine paper, and/or paperboard; 
and those operations that chemically pump wood fiber using papergrade 
sulfite methods to produce pulp and/or paper.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 138.
    Frequency of Response: No less than annually for direct dischargers 
and no less than twice annually for indirect dischargers.
    Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 37,544.
    Estimated Total Annual Cost: $15,086,000, which includes $0 annual 
capital/startup costs, $13,819,000 annual O&M costs and $1,267,000 
annual labor costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is slight increase in the burden 
hours currently identified in the OMB Inventory of Approved ICR Burdens 
which is due to an adjustment in the number of respondents. There is a 
decrease in the annual cost due to the fact that the one-time capital 
costs incurred under the original ICR are not included in this renewal 
ICR.

    Dated: May 18, 2005.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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