[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 18 (Thursday, January 27, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4236-4237]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-01641]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2020-0643; FRL-9510-01-OMS]


Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; NSPS for Municipal Waste Combustors 
(Renewal)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency has submitted an 
information collection request (ICR), NSPS for Municipal Waste 
Combustors (EPA ICR Number 1506.14, OMB Control Number 2060-0210), 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 March 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 February 28, 
2022.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OAR-2020-0643, 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: 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: https://www.epa.gov/dockets.
    Abstract: The New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for Municipal 
Waste Combustors (40 CFR part 60, subparts Ea and Eb) apply to existing 
and new facilities with a municipal waste combustor unit capacity 
greater than 225 megagrams per day of municipal solid waste. In 
general, all NSPS 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 with 40 CFR part 60, 
subparts Ea and Eb.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: Owners and operators of municipal 
waste combustor units.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 60, 
subpart Ea and Eb).
    Estimated number of respondents: 22 (total).
    Frequency of response: Initially, quarterly, semiannually, and 
annually.
    Total estimated burden: 32,600 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
    Total estimated cost: $3,320,000 (per year), which includes 
$197,000 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 from the most-recently approved ICR is due to more 
accurate estimations in both the number of new and existing sources. 
The number of new sources is revised down from one to zero as there is 
no indication of any new MWC facilities being constructed over the next 
three years. The number of existing sources subject to 40 CFR part 60, 
subpart Ea has been revised from the most-recently approved ICR to 
reflect

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the closure of one facility. The decrease in respondents subject to 
subpart Ea also results in a decrease to the operation and monitoring 
costs.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2022-01641 Filed 1-26-22; 8:45 am]
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