[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 6 (Monday, January 11, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1962-1963]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-00244]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OECA-2020-0204; FRL-10018-83-OMS]


Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; Emission Guidelines and Compliance Times for 
Municipal Solid Waste Landfills (Renewal)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency has submitted an 
information collection request (ICR), Emission Guidelines and 
Compliance Times for Municipal Solid Waste Landfills (EPA ICR Number 
2522.03, OMB Control Number 2060-0720), 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 February 28, 2021. Public comments were 
previously requested, via the Federal Register, on May 12, 2020 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 February 10, 
2021.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OECA-2020-0204, to EPA online using www.regulations.gov (our preferred 
method), or by mail to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental Protection 
Agency, Mail Code 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 
20460. 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.
    Submit written comments and recommendations to OMB for the proposed 
information collection within 30 days of publication of this notice to 
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular information 
collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--Open for 
Public Comments'' or by using the search function.

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: Owners and operators of municipal solid waste landfills 
are required to comply with reporting and record keeping requirements 
for the General Provisions (40 CFR part 60, subpart A) and the 
applicable standards in 40 CFR part 60 subpart Cf. This includes 
submitting initial notifications, performance tests and periodic 
reports and results, and maintaining 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 reports are used by EPA to determine compliance 
with these standards.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: Existing municipal solid waste (MSW) 
landfills that have accepted waste since November 8, 1987 and commenced

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either construction, reconstruction, or modification on or before July 
17, 2014.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 60 
subpart Cf).
    Estimated number of respondents: 1,912 (total).
    Frequency of response: Initially, annually.
    Total estimated burden: 634,000 hours (per year) for both 
privately-owned and publicly-owned municipal solid waste landfills, 
with an additional 2,100 hours for State and local agencies 
administering this rule. Burden is defined at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
    Total estimated cost: $45,600,000 (per year) for both privately-
owned and publicly-owned municipal solid waste landfills, which 
includes $2,760,000 in annualized capital/startup and/or operation & 
maintenance costs. This overall sum also includes $135,000 (per year) 
for State and local agencies-controlled landfills.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is an adjustment decrease in the 
total estimated burden as currently identified in the OMB Inventory of 
Approved Burdens. The decrease in burden is due to changes in several 
areas. The number of respondents has been adjusted to reflects the 
lower expected number of landfills controlling between years 2022 
through 2024 based on projected emissions, as well as the number of 
landfills subject between years 2022 and 2024, based on waste disposal 
quantities which increase over time at active landfills, and assuming 
that in these years landfills will be controlling under the more 
stringent 34 Mg/yr requirements. The estimates also subtract out 
landfills expected to modify during this time period and become subject 
to the MSW landfill NSPS instead (OMB Control Number 2060-0697). This 
ICR therefore reflects an increase in the total number of respondents 
subject to the rule, but a smaller number of controlling landfills 
subject to monitoring and testing requirements.
    This ICR also reflects that some landfills subject to EPA approved 
state plans implementing Subpart Cf have completed their initial 
implementation activities to comply with the rule. Therefore, capital/
startup costs (new equipment and testing) have decreased. O&M costs 
have also decreased from the previous ICR due to a decrease in the 
number of landfills required to control emissions and perform 
monitoring.
    The labor burden has also decreased in this ICR as most landfills 
have completed their initial compliance requirements, such as testing, 
submitting design capacity reports, submitting collection and control 
system design plans. Additionally, this ICR adjusts the burden to 
remove requirements for certain sources (e.g., legacy controllers) that 
would have submitted certain one-time reports under other MSW Landfill 
regulations, and are not required to resubmit reports under Subpart Cf. 
This ICR also adjusts the burden for landfills to familiarize 
themselves with the new rule requirements to reflect the initial burden 
for reviewing the Federal plan or State plans, as they are implemented, 
and a lower recurring burden for re-familiarizing with the rule 
requirements after the first year.
    This ICR also adjusts the number of respondents subject to the 
requirements of subpart Cf which are implemented under State plans and 
a Federal plan to incorporate the burden associated with the Federal 
plan. The Federal plan is currently pending but expected to be 
finalized at 40 CFR part 62, subpart OOO. As of August 18, 2020, EPA 
data indicates that 8 State and local agencies enforce the State plans 
and two other state agencies are expected to have their plans effective 
by 2022. The remainder of these landfills will be covered by a federal 
plan once it becomes effective.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2021-00244 Filed 1-8-21; 8:45 am]
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