[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 53 (Friday, March 18, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15420-15421]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-05705]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2021-0121; FRL--9668-01-OMS]


Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Industrial, Commercial, and 
Institutional Boilers Area Sources (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 Industrial, 
Commercial, and Institutional Boilers Area Sources (EPA ICR Number 
2253.05, OMB Control Number 2060-0668) 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

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approved through April 30, 2022. Public comments were previously 
requested via the Federal Register on April 13, 2021 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 April 18, 
2022.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OAR-2021-0121, online using www.regulations.gov (our preferred method) 
or by mail to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental Protection Agency, Mail 
Code 2821T, 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: Muntasir Ali, Sector Policies and 
Program Division (D243-05), Office of Air Quality Planning and 
Standards, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle 
Park, North Carolina 27711; telephone number: (919) 541-0833; 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 
https://www.regulations.gov or in person at the EPA Docket Center, WJC 
West Building, 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 new or existing industrial, 
commercial, or institutional boilers are required to comply with 
reporting and record keeping requirements for the general provisions of 
40 CFR part 63, subpart A, as well as the applicable specific standards 
in 40 CFR part 63 subpart JJJJJJ. This includes submitting initial 
notifications, performance tests, biennial tune-ups, and periodic 
compliance reports and results, maintaining records of fuel usage, and 
any period during which the control system is inoperative. These 
reports are used by EPA to determine compliance with the standards.
    Form Numbers: 5900-568.
    Respondents/affected entities: Owners and operators of new or 
existing industrial, commercial, or institutional boilers.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 63, 
subpart JJJJJJ).
    Estimated number of respondents: 64,344 (total).
    Frequency of response: Initially, annually, biennially.
    Total estimated burden: 1,140,000 hours (per year). Burden is 
defined at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
    Total estimated cost: $214,000,000 (per year), includes $78,700,000 
annualized capital or operation & maintenance costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is a decrease in burden from the 
most recently approved ICR as currently identified in the OMB Inventory 
of Approved Burdens. This is due to several considerations. The primary 
reason for the decrease in burden is a decrease in the estimated number 
of respondents using liquid-fueled boilers. U.S. Energy Information 
Administration data indicates the consumption of fuel oil in the 
commercial sector has decreased by 33 percent in the past 9 years and 
is anticipated to decrease by 1 percent per year for the next three 
years. This ICR assumes that this decrease in consumption corresponds 
to an equivalent decrease in the number of small and large boilers 
firing liquid fuels and adjusts the number of small liquid-fired and 
large liquid-fired boilers and respondents accordingly. This ICR 
assumes that, due to the decrease in respondents over the past nine 
years, no new liquid-fired boilers were constructed during that time 
period. The decrease in the estimated number of respondents firing 
liquid fuels resulted in a decrease in labor burden for the small and 
large liquid-fired categories. The estimated decrease in the number of 
respondents firing liquid fuels also results in a decrease of the 
number of liquid-fired sources required to do periodic stack testing 
and operate ESPs. This results in a significant decrease in periodic 
stack testing and O&M costs for large liquid-fired boilers constructed 
since the rule was promulgated in June 2010. This ICR assumes that 
growth in the small and large solid-fueled categories will continue 
according to past trends. The increase in the estimated number of 
respondents firing solid fuels resulted in an increase in labor burden 
and capital/O&M costs for the small and large solid-fired categories. 
This ICR also corrects mathematical errors in the calculation of O&M 
costs for respondents firing solid fuels and required to perform 
triennial stack testing for Hg, CO, and PM. This correction results in 
an increase of capital and O&M costs. However, the overall results of 
the adjustments to this ICR is a decrease in burden and capital and O&M 
costs.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2022-05705 Filed 3-17-22; 8:45 am]
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