[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 103 (Friday, May 27, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32160-32161]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-11387]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2020-0664; FRL-9893-01-OMS]


Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; Emission Guidelines and Compliance Times for 
Small Municipal Waste Combustion Units Constructed on or Before August 
30, 1999 (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), Emission Guidelines and 
Compliance Times for Small Municipal Waste Combustion Units Constructed 
on or Before August 30, 1999 (EPA ICR Number 1901.08, OMB Control 
Number 2060-0424), to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for

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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, 2022. Public comments were previously requested, via 
the Federal Register, on February 8, 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 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 June 27, 2022.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OAR-2020-0664, to: (1) EPA online using https://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. 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: The Emission Guidelines and Compliance Times for Small 
Municipal Waste Combustion Units Constructed on or Before August 30, 
1999 were originally promulgated in December 1995, but were vacated by 
the Federal Court in March 1997. Subsequently, the Emission Guidelines 
were re-proposed on August 30, 1999; and promulgated on December 6, 
2000. The Emission Guidelines regulate organics (dioxin/furans), metals 
(cadmium, lead, mercury), particulate matter, and acid gases (hydrogen 
chloride, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxides) for small Municipal 
Waste Combustion (MWC) units. Small MWC units are MWC units with 
capacities to combust greater than 35 tons per day (tpd) and less than 
250 tons per day (tpd) of municipal solid waste. The Emission 
Guidelines contain monitoring, reporting, and record-keeping 
requirements that are to be included in state plans. If a State/Local 
Agency does not develop, adopt, and submit an approvable State plan, 
then facilities in that state are subject to the Federal Plan (Federal 
Plan Requirements for Small Municipal Waste Combustion Units 
Constructed On or Before August 30, 1999 (40 CFR part 62, subpart 
JJJ)), adopted on January 31, 2003. The Federal Plan implements the 
emission guidelines in jurisdictions that have not developed an 
approved State Plan. These regulations do not directly apply to small 
MWC unit owners and operators. However, MWC unit owners and operators 
must comply with either the State or Federal plans to implement the 
emission guidelines contained in this Subpart. This ICR identifies the 
burden to both respondents (owners or operators of small MWC units) and 
the Designated Administrator (either state/local agencies or the 
Federal government) to implement the emission guidelines imposed by the 
State plans. This information is being collected to assure compliance 
with 40 CFR part 60, subpart BBBB.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: Owners or operators of existing 
small MWC units.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR 60, subpart 
BBBB).
    Estimated number of respondents: 22 (total).
    Frequency of response: Semiannually, annually.
    Total estimated burden: Respondent burden is 86,500 hours (per 
year). State/local agency burden for administering the rule is 770 
hours (per year). Burden is defined at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
    Total estimated cost: Respondent cost is $6,130,000 (per year). 
This includes $422,000 in annualized capital/startup and/or operation & 
maintenance costs. State/local agency cost is $39,000 per year.
    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 due to an adjustment in the number of respondents 
subject to the requirements of Subpart BBBB, which have decreased. This 
ICR also adjusts the burden to reflect those requirements of Subpart 
BBBB that are implemented under State plans or a Federal Plan, to 
incorporate the burden associated with the Federal Plan. The Federal 
Plan was finalized at 40 CFR part 62, subpart JJJ on January 31, 2003 
(68 FR 5158). As of August 20, 2021, EPA data and the listing of 
approved State plans in the e-CFR indicates that 7 State and local 
agencies enforce the State plans or have requested and received 
delegation of enforcement of the Federal Plan. The remainder of the 
small MWC units will be covered by the Federal Plan, where EPA is the 
implementing agency. The burden on State and local agencies is included 
in respondent burden in this ICR, and is similar to the Agency burden 
in the previous ICR.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
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