[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 202 (Thursday, October 19, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61767-61768]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-17447]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OECA-2006-0439; FRL-8232-6]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for 
Review and Approval; Comment Request; NSPS for Phosphate Fertilizer 
Industry (Renewal), EPA ICR Number 1061.10, OMB Control Number 2060-
0037

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 the following 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. The ICR which is abstracted below 
describes the nature of the collection and the estimated burden and 
cost.

DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before November 20, 
2006.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number EPA-OECA-
2006-0439, to (1) EPA online using http://www.regulations.gov (our 
preferred method), by e-mail to [email protected], or by mail to: EPA 
Docket Center (EPA/DC), 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.

    Note: The EPA Docket Center suffered damage due to flooding 
during the last week of June 2006. The Docket Center is continuing 
to operate. However, during the cleanup, there will be temporary 
changes to Docket Center telephone numbers, addresses, and hours of 
operation by people who wish to visit the Public Reading Room to 
view documents. Consult EPA's Federal Register notice at 71 FR 38147 
(July 15, 2006) at the EPA Web site at http://www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm for current information on docket status; locations and 
telephone numbers.


FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Learia Williams, Compliance Assessment 
and Media Programs Division (CAMPD), Office of Compliance, Mail Code 
2223A, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200

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Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 
564-4113; 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 June 21, 2006 (71 FR 35652), EPA sought comments on this 
ICR pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received no comments. Any 
additional comments on this ICR should be submitted to EPA and OMB 
within 30 days of this notice.
    EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under docket ID 
number EPA-HQ-OECA-2006-0439, which is available for public viewing 
online at http://www.regulations.gov, and in person 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 
Center is (202) 566-1927.
    Use EPA's electronic docket and comment system at http://www.regulations.gov, to submit or view public comments, access the 
index listing of the contents of the docket, and to access those 
documents in the docket that are available electronically. Once in the 
system, select ``docket search,'' then key in the docket ID number 
identified above. Please note that EPA's policy is that public 
comments, whether submitted electronically or in paper, will be made 
available for public viewing at http://www.regulations.gov, 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. For 
further information about the electronic docket, go to http://www.regulations.gov.
    Title: NSPS for the Phosphate Fertilizer Industry (Renewal).
    ICR Numbers: EPA ICR Number 1061.10; OMB Control Number 2060-0037.
    ICR Status: This is a request to renew an existing approved 
collection that is scheduled to expire on November 30, 2006. Under OMB 
regulations, the Agency may continue to conduct or sponsor the 
collection of information while this submission is pending at OMB. 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 title 40 of the CFR, after appearing in the Federal Register when 
approved, are listed in 40 CFR part 9, and displayed either by 
publication in the Federal Register or by other appropriate means, such 
as on the related collection instrument or form, if applicable. The 
display of OMB control numbers in certain EPA regulations is 
consolidated in 40 CFR part 9.
    Abstract: The NSPS for the Phosphate Fertilizer Industry, published 
at 40 CFR part 60, subparts T, U, V, W, and X, were proposed on October 
22, 1974, and promulgated on August 6, 1975. These standards apply to 
each wet-process phosphoric acid plant, each superphosphoric acid 
plant, each granular diammonium phosphate plant, and each triple 
superphosphate plant, having a design capacity of more than 15 tons of 
equivalent phosphorous pentoxide (P2O5) feed per 
calendar day. These standards also apply to granular triple 
superphosphate storage facilities.
    Owners or operators of affected facilities described must make the 
following one-time-only initial notifications and reports on the 
results of the initial performance test. 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. The owners or operators must install, calibrate, maintain, 
and operate a monitoring device which continuously measures and 
permanently records the total pressure drop across the scrubbing 
system.
    Semiannual reports are required. The owner or operator subject to 
the provisions of this part shall maintain a file of these 
measurements, and retain the file for at least two years following the 
date of such measurements. Responses to the collection of information 
are mandatory and are being collected to assure compliance with 40 CFR 
part 60, subparts T, U, V, W, and X. These notifications, reports and 
records are essential in determining compliance.
    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 46 
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 which have subsequently changed; 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: Phosphate Fertilizer Industry.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 13.
    Frequency of Response: Initial and Semiannual.
    Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 1,194 hours.
    Estimated Total Annual Cost: $388,363, which includes $0 annual 
Start Up costs, $320,190 annualized operations & maintenance (O&M) 
costs, and $68,173 annualized labor costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is no change of hours in the total 
estimated burden currently identified in the OMB Inventory of Approved 
ICR Burdens. It is determined that the number of respondents subject to 
the rules addressed by this ICR is 13, with no additional new sources 
expected over the three-year period of this ICR.

    Dated: October 10, 2006.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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