[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 237 (Tuesday, December 11, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63637-63638]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-26729]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OECA-2014-0034; FRL-9986-37-OEI]


Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; NSPS for Kraft Pulp Mills (Renewal)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an 
information collection request (ICR), NSPS for Kraft Pulp Mills (EPA 
ICR No. 1055.12, OMB Control No. 2060-0021), to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with 
the Paperwork Reduction Act. This is a proposed extension of the ICR, 
which is currently approved through December 31, 2018. Public comments 
were previously requested, via the Federal Register, on June 29, 2017 
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 neither conduct nor 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 January 10, 
2019.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OECA-2014-0034, to: (1) EPA online using www.regulations.gov (our 
preferred method), or 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, WJC 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 New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for Kraft 
Pulp Mills apply to the following facilities at kraft pulp mills: 
Recovery furnaces, smelt dissolving tanks, lime kilns, digester 
systems, brown stock washer systems, black liquor oxidation systems, 
multiple effect evaporator systems and condensate stripper systems that 
were constructed, modified or reconstructed after the date of proposal. 
In pulp mills where kraft pulping is combined with neutral sulfite 
semi-chemical pulping, the provisions of this Subpart are applicable 
when any portion of the material charged to an affected facility is 
produced by the kraft pulping operation. Facilities may be exempt from 
the total reduced sulfur (TRS) standard if the facility can demonstrate 
that TRS emissions from a new, modified, or reconstructed brown

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stock washer can be neither technically nor economically feasible to 
control.
    In general, all NSPS standards require initial notifications, 
performance tests, and periodic reports by the owners/operators of the 
affected facilities. They 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. These notifications, reports, and 
records are essential in determining compliance with 40 CFR part 60, 
subpart BB.
    Form numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: Kraft pulp mills.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 60, 
subpart BB).
    Estimated number of respondents: 97 (total).
    Frequency of response: Initially, occasionally and semiannually.
    Total estimated burden: 13,900 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
    Total estimated cost: $5,020,000 (per year), which includes 
$3,510,000 in annualized capital/startup and/or operation & maintenance 
costs.
    Changes in the estimates: There is an adjustment decrease in the 
estimated burden and cost as currently identified in the OMB Inventory 
of Approved Burdens. The decrease is not due to any program changes. 
The change in burden is due to an industry decline since the last ICR 
renewal, resulting in a decrease in the number of respondent subject to 
the standard.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2018-26729 Filed 12-10-18; 8:45 am]
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