[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 159 (Monday, August 18, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48745-48746]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-19458]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OECA-2013-0354; FRL-9915-26-OEI]


Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Paint Stripping and Miscellaneous 
Surface Coating at Area Sources (Renewal)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency has submitted an 
information collection request (ICR), ``NESHAP for Paint Stripping and 
Miscellaneous Surface Coating at Area Sources (Renewal)'' (EPA ICR No. 
2268.04, OMB Control No. 2060-0607) to the Office of Management and 
Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork 
Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). This is a proposed extension of 
the ICR, which is currently approved through August 31, 2013. Public 
comments were previously requested via the Federal Register (78 FR 
35023) on June 11, 2013 during a 60-day comment period. This notice 
allows for an additional 30 days for public comments. A fuller 
description of the ICR is given below, including its estimated burden 
and cost to the public. 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.

DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before September 17, 
2014.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OECA-2013-0354, to (1) EPA online using www.regulations.gov (our 
preferred method), by email to [email protected], or by mail to: EPA 
Docket Center, Environmental Protection Agency, Mail Code 28221T, 1200 
Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460, and (2) OMB via email to 
[email protected]. Address comments to OMB Desk Officer for 
EPA.
    EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included in the 
public docket without change including any personal information 
provided, unless the comment includes profanity, threats, information 
claimed to be Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other 
information whose disclosure is restricted by statute.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Patrick Yellin, Monitoring, 
Assistance, and Media Programs Division, Office of Compliance, mail 
code 2227A, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. 
NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 564-2970; fax 
number: (202) 564-0050; email address: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Supporting documents which explain in detail the information that 
the EPA will be collecting are available in the public docket for this 
ICR. The docket can be viewed online at www.regulations.gov or in 
person at the EPA Docket Center, EPA West, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution 
Ave. NW., Washington, DC. The telephone number for the Docket Center is 
(202) 566-1744. For additional information about EPA's public docket, 
visit http://www.epa.gov/dockets.
    Abstract: The National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air 
Pollutants for Paint Stripping and Miscellaneous Surface Coating 
Operations at Area Sources are part of EPAs Integrated Urban Strategy 
to reduce cancer risk from area sources under section 112(k)(3)(C) of 
the Clean Air Act. Affected sources must comply with recordkeeping and 
reporting requirements of the rule. The owners or operators of 
facilities with affected operations must read instructions to determine 
how they will be affected by the rule. New and existing sources must 
submit an initial notification. New sources are also required to submit 
a notification of compliance status, an annual compliance report and 
maintain records. All surface coating sources must keep records 
demonstrating that spray painters have completed training. Existing 
paint stripping facilities using more than 150 gallons per year of 
methylene chloride stripping solvent must complete a methylene chloride 
minimization plan and submit a notification of compliance status. 
Annual compliance reports are also required.
    Form Numbers: None.

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    Respondents/affected entities: Owners or operators of paint 
stripping and miscellaneous surface coating operations area sources.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR Part 63, 
Subpart HHHHHH).
    Estimated number of respondents: 39,812 (total).
    Frequency of response: Initially, annually, and occasionally.
    Total estimated burden: 125,171. Burden is defined at 5 CFR 
1320.3(b).
    Total estimated cost: $12,157,130, includes $116,822 annualized 
capital or operation & maintenance costs.
    Changes in the estimates: There is an apparent increase in the 
total estimated respondent cost burden as currently identified in the 
OMB Inventory of Approved Burdens. The increase is not due to any 
program changes. It primarily is attributed to corrections to the 
previous renewal's burden calculations, which omitted technical and 
managerial labor burdens associated with painter certification 
recordkeeping activities conducted by commercial miscellaneous surface 
coating operations at area sources, as presented in Table 1a. This 
omission was inconsistent with the approach used throughout the 
remainder of the previous renewal and is inconsistent with the approach 
typically used by the Agency to calculate the respondent labor burden. 
Also, this renewal uses updated labor rates, which further contributed 
to the apparent increase in the respondent burden cost. This ICR 
references labor rates from the Bureau of Labor Statistics to calculate 
the respondent cost burden.
    There is a decrease in the total O&M cost as compared to the 
previous renewal. This change also is not due to any program changes, 
and is attributed directly to corrections made to the previous 
renewal's calculations. The previous renewal overestimated the number 
of initial report and notification that are required for new sources. 
This renewal revises the calculations which resulted in the observed 
decrease in the total O&M cost.

Spencer Clark,
Acting Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. 2014-19458 Filed 8-15-14; 8:45 am]
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