[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 168 (Wednesday, August 31, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51784-51785]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-17368]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[OECA-2004-0043; FRL-7955-5]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB 
Review and Approval; Comment Request; NSPS for Metallic Mineral 
Processing Plants (Renewal), ICR Number 0982.08, OMB Number 2060-0016

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 September 30, 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 September 30, 
2005.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number OECA-
2004-0043, 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, 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: Gregory Fried, Compliance Assessment 
and Media Programs Division, Office of Compliance, 2223A, Environmental 
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460; 
telephone number: (202) 564-7016; 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 December 1, 2004, (69 FR 69909) 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-2004-0043, 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 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

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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 www.epa.gov/edocket.
    Title: NSPS for Metallic Mineral Processing Plants (Renewal).
    Abstract: The New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for Metallic 
Mineral Processing Plants were proposed on August 24, 1982, and 
promulgated on February 21, 1984. These standards apply to the 
following facilities in Metallic Mineral Processing Plants: Each 
crusher and screen in open-pit mines; each crusher, screen, bucket 
elevator, conveyor belt transfer point, thermal dryer, product 
packaging station, storage bin, enclosed storage area, truck loading 
and unloading station at the mill or concentrator, commencing 
construction, modification or reconstruction after the date of 
proposal. The NSPS does not apply to facilities located in underground 
mines, or to facilities performing the beneficiation of uranium ore at 
uranium ore processing plants.
    Particulate matter (PM) is the pollutant regulated under this 
subpart. The standards limit the particulate matter emissions from the 
stack to 0.05 grams per dry standard cubic meter and to 7 percent 
opacity. Those sources that are using a wet scrubbing control device 
are exempted from the 7 percent opacity requirement. No affected 
facility may discharge any process fugitive emissions that exhibit 
greater than 10 percent opacity.
    Response to the collection of information is mandatory under 40 CFR 
part 60, subpart LL. Owners or operators of the affected facilities 
described must make initial notifications, including notification of 
any physical or operational change to an existing facility that may 
increase the regulated pollutant emission rate; notification of the 
demonstration of the continuous monitoring system (CMS), and 
notification of the initial performance test. Performance test reports 
are needed as these are the Agency's records of a source's initial 
capability to comply with emission standards, and note the operating 
conditions, flow rate and pressure drop, under which compliance was 
achieved. Owners of affected facilities are required to install, 
calibrate, maintain, and operate a continuous monitoring system to 
measure the change in the pressure of the gas stream through the 
scrubber and the scrubbing liquid flow rate. Owners or operators are 
also required to 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.
    Semiannual excess emissions reports and monitoring systems 
performance reports will include the exceeded findings of any control 
device operating parameters, (specified in CFR 40 60.735, Recordkeeping 
and Reporting), the date and time of the deviance, the nature and cause 
of the malfunction (if known) and the corrective measures taken, and 
identification of the time period during which the CMS was inoperative 
(this does not include zero and span checks nor typical repairs/
adjustments). These notifications, reports and records are required, in 
general, of all sources subject to NSPS.
    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 52 
hours per response. Burden means the total time, effort, or financial 
resources expended by persons to generate, maintain, retain, 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: Metallic Mineral Processing Plants.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 20.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion, initially and semiannually.
    Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 2,306 hours.
    Estimated Total Annual Costs: $199,140 which includes $0 annualized 
capital/startup costs, $13,000 annual O&M costs, and $186,140 
Respondent Labor costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is an increase of 546 hours in the 
total estimated burden currently identified in the OMB Inventory of 
Approved ICR Burdens. This increase is due to an increase in the 
estimated number of sources that will be reconstructed or make or 
physical/operational changes. In addition, the increase in burden is 
due to the inclusion of burden hour estimates for management and 
clerical personnel at the plant.

    Dated: August 22, 2005.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. 05-17368 Filed 8-30-05; 8:45 am]
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