[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 173 (Thursday, September 8, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Page 55001]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-19424]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2020-0639; FRL-10198-01-OMS]


Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Friction Materials Manufacturing 
(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 Friction Materials 
Manufacturing (EPA ICR Number 2025.10, OMB Control Number 2060-0481), 
to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in 
accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. 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 either on or before October 
11, 2022.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OAR-2020-0639, 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.
    The 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 friction materials manufacturing 
facilities are required to comply with reporting and record keeping 
requirements for the General Provisions (40 CFR part 63, subpart A), as 
well as for the applicable specific standards in 40 CFR part 63 subpart 
QQQQQ. This includes submitting initial notifications, periodic reports 
and results, and maintaining records of any period during which the 
monitoring system is inoperative. These reports are used by the EPA to 
determine compliance with these standards.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: Friction materials manufacturing 
facilities.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 63, 
subpart QQQQQ).
    Estimated number of respondents: 2 (total).
    Frequency of response: Semiannually.
    Total estimated burden: 534 hours (per year). Burden is defined at 
5 CFR 1320.3(b).
    Total estimated cost: $63,700 (per year), which includes $544 in 
annualized capital/startup and/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. The regulations were revised in 2019 (84 FR 2742) 
in the previous ICR (2025.09) to remove SSM plan and reporting 
requirements and revise reporting requirements for deviations. However, 
the reduction in burden in ICR 2025.09 is due to the removal of SSM 
requirements that were not calculated correctly. The frequency of 
recordkeeping for `Copies of notifications/reports' and `Time to 
transmit or disclose information' should have been reduced from five 
per year to three per year to reflect the removal of two submittals for 
the SSM plan. That error has been corrected in this ICR (2025.10). The 
growth rate for this industry is very low or non-existent. Since the 
changes in the regulatory requirements did not require new monitoring 
or equipment, and there is no significant industry growth, there are 
also no changes in the capital/startup or operation and maintenance 
(O&M) costs.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2022-19424 Filed 9-7-22; 8:45 am]
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