[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 12 (Friday, January 19, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2509-2510]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-696]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OECA-2006-0430; FRL-8270-9]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for 
Review and Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Taconite Iron Ore 
Processing (Renewal) EPA ICR Number 2050.03, OMB Control Number 2060-
0538

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 January 31, 
2007. 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 February 20, 
2007.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number EPA-HQ-
OECA-2006-0430, to (1) EPA online using 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.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Learia Williams, Compliance Assessment 
and Media Programs Division, Office of Compliance, Mail Code 2223A, 
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 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.
    EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID 
Number EPA-HQ-OECA-2006-0430, which is available for online viewing at 
http://www.regulations.gov, or in person viewing at the Enforcement and 
Compliance Docket and Information Center in the EPA Docket Center (EPA/
DC), EPA West, Room 3334, 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 www.epa.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 www.regulations.gov, as EPA receives them and without change, unless 
the comment contains copyrighted material, CBI, or other information 
whose public disclosure is restricted by statute. For further 
information about the electronic docket, go to www.regulations.gov.
    Title: NESHAP for Taconite Iron Ore Processing (Renewal).
    ICR Numbers: EPA ICR Number 2050.03; OMB Control Number 2060-0538.
    ICR Status: This ICR is scheduled to expire on January 31, 2007. 
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

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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: These standards apply to owners or operators of each 
existing and new taconite iron ore processing plant that is a major 
source of hazardous air pollutant (HAP) if it emits or has the 
potential to emit any single HAP at a rate of 10 tons or more per year 
or any combination of HAP at a rate of 25 tons or more per year. The 
effective sources in this subpart covers emissions from ore crushing 
and handling emission units, ore dryer stacks, indurating furnace 
stacks, finished pellet handling emission units, and fugitive dust 
emissions.
    Owners or operators of such facilities must provide EPA, or the 
delegated state regulatory authority, with initial notifications, 
performance tests, and periodic reports. They are also required to 
maintain records of the occurrence and duration of any startup, 
shutdown, or malfunction (SSM) in the operation of an affected 
facility, or any period during which the monitoring system is 
inoperative. The responses to this information collection are mandatory 
under Clean Air Act section 112 and 40 CFR part 63, subpart RRRRR.
    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 are estimated to average 
approximately 18 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: Taconite Iron Ore Processing.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 8.
    Frequency of Response: Initially and semiannually.
    Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 408.
    Estimated Total Costs: $491,997, which Includes $0 annualized 
Capital Startup Costs; $257,600 annualized Operations & Maintenance 
(O&M); and $234,397 annualized Labor Costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is a decrease of 864 hours in the 
total estimated burden currently identified in the OMB Inventory of 
Approved ICR Burdens. The decrease in burden is due mainly to the fact 
that within the past three years the respondent completed those 
activities that are required to achieve initial compliance, hence, the 
initial costs to comply differs from the costs to comply continuously 
with the standard. There are also no new sources expected over the 
three year period of this ICR.
    There is a decrease in the capital/startup vs. operation and 
maintenance (O&M) Cost, this change could be attributed to the fact 
that there are no new sources, and only O&M is accounted for in this 
ICR.

    Dated: January 8, 2007.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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