[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 106 (Monday, June 3, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25542-25543]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-11275]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OECA-2012-0527; FRL-9994-31-OMS]


Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Paints and Allied Products 
Manufacturing Area Source Category (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), NESHAP for Paints and Allied 
Products Manufacturing Area Source Category (EPA ICR Number 2348.05, 
OMB

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Control Number 2060-0633), 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 May 31, 2019. Public comments were 
previously requested, via the Federal Register, on May 30, 2018 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 July 3, 2019.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OECA-2012-0527 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 National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air 
Pollutants (NESHAP) for Paints and Allied Products Manufacturing Area 
Source Category (40 CFR part 63) were proposed on June 1, 2009, and 
promulgated on December 3, 2009. These regulations apply to existing 
facilities and new facilities that are an area source of hazardous air 
pollutants (HAP) emissions and that either use or have the potential to 
emit urban air toxics (i.e., benzene; methylene chloride; cadmium, 
chromium, lead, and nickel compounds). New facilities include those 
that commenced construction or reconstruction after the date of 
proposal. This information is being collected to assure compliance with 
40 CFR part 63, subpart CCCCCCC.
    In general, all NESHAP 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, and are required of 
all affected facilities subject to NESHAP.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: Paints and allied products 
manufacturing facilities.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 63, 
subpart CCCCCCC)
    Estimated number of respondents: 219 (total).
    Frequency of response: Initially and semiannually.
    Total estimated burden: 500 hours (per year). Burden is defined at 
5 CFR 1320.3(b).
    Total estimated cost: $131,000 (per year), which includes $0 in 
annualized capital/startup and/or operation & maintenance costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is an adjustment decrease in the 
total estimated burden as currently identified in the OMB Inventory of 
Approved Burdens; this decrease is not due to any program changes. The 
decrease in burden is due to more accurate estimates of existing 
sources based on information gathered by industry. Specifically, the 
American Coatings Association (ACA) provided that the previous estimate 
of 2,190 sources is based on the 2009 proposed rule, which relied on 
2002 U.S. Census data to identify 2,510 paints and allied products 
manufacturing facilities, of which 2,190 were further estimated to be 
small business and assumed to be area sources of HAP. However, the 
final rule made clarifications on the applicability of the NESHAP, 
including that final rule did not include retail and commercial paints 
and allied products operations which add and mix pigments to pre-
manufactured products per customer specifications; that the rule does 
not apply to activities conducted by end users of coating products in 
preparation for application; and that the Generally Available Control 
Technology (GACT) requirements only apply when the target HAP are being 
processed, used, or generated (rather than at all times regardless of 
whether any of the target HAP was or was not being used). The ACA 
indicated that because the final rule only applies to those facilities 
that use the HAPs of concern (benzene, methylene chloride, or compounds 
of cadmium, chromium, lead, and/or nickel, in amounts greater than or 
equal to 0.1 percent by weight), the number of affected facilities is 
much smaller than what was initially proposed. The ACA stated that only 
10% of paint and allied products facilities (or 219 of the 2,190 small 
sources identified in the 2009 final rule and prior ICR) would use the 
HAPs of concern (benzene, methylene chloride, or compounds of cadmium, 
chromium, lead, and/or nickel, in amounts greater than or equal to 0.1 
percent by weight). Therefore, this ICR adjusts the total number of 
respondents to 219. The decrease in the number of respondents also 
results in a decrease in responses.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2019-11275 Filed 5-31-19; 8:45 am]
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