[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 66 (Wednesday, April 7, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17711-17712]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-7877]



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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OECA-2009-0527; FRL-9134-5; EPA ICR Number 1066.06; OMB Control 
Number 2060-0032]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for 
Review and Approval; Comment Request; NSPS for Ammonium Sulfate 
Manufacturing Plants (Renewal)

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. 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 May 7, 2010.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number EPA-HQ-
OECA-2009-0527, to (1) EPA online using http://www.regulations.gov (our 
preferred method), or 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 
28221T, 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: Robert C. Marshall, Jr., Office of 
Compliance, Mail Code: 2223A, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 
564-7021; 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 July 30, 2009 (74 FR 38004), 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-2009-0527, which is available for public viewing 
online at http://www.regulations.gov, in person viewing at the 
Enforcement and Compliance Docket 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 is (202) 566-1752.
    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 Ammonium Sulfate Manufacturing Plants (Renewal).
    ICR Numbers: EPA ICR Number 1066.06, OMB Control Number 2060-0032.
    ICR Status: This ICR is scheduled to expire on May 31, 2010. 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 New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for Ammonium 
Sulfate Manufacturing Plants (40 CFR part 60, subpart PP), were 
proposed on February 4, 1980, and promulgated on November 12, 1980. 
Owners or operators of the affected facilities must make an initial 
notification, performance tests, periodic reports, and 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. Reports, at a minimum, are 
required semiannually.
    Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping 
burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 62 
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: Ammonium sulfate manufacturing 
plants.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 2.
    Frequency of Response: Initially, occasionally, and semiannually.
    Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 247.
    Estimated Total Annual Cost: $23,183 in labor costs exclusively. 
There are neither capital/startup costs nor operation and maintenance 
(O&M) costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is an apparent increase of one hour 
in the total labor hours for this ICR. Total labor hours for this ICR 
are 247 rather than 246 in the previous ICR, because the previous ICR 
did not round labor hours up to the nearest whole number. There is no 
change in the per-respondent labor hours in this ICR compared to the 
previous ICR. This is due to two considerations: (1) The regulations 
have not changed over the past three years and are not anticipated to 
change over the next three years; and (2) the growth rate for the 
respondents is very low, negative or non-existent. Therefore, the labor 
hours in the previous ICR reflect the current burden to the respondents 
and are reiterated (with a correction for rounding) in this ICR.

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    There is an increase in both Respondent and Agency costs resulting 
from labor rate increases from 2003 to 2009. This ICR uses 2009 labor 
rates because burden and cost calculations in Tables 1 and 2 of this 
ICR were expanded to include managerial and clerical labor rates, and 
the previous ICR only provided a technical labor rate for 2003. This 
ICR is therefore updated to present the most recent available labor 
rates for each of the three labor categories.

    Dated: April 1, 2010.
John Moses,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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