[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 19 (Friday, January 28, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4584-4585]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-01763]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2021-0093; FRL-9517-01-OMS]


Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Ferroalloys Production: 
Ferromanganese and Silicomanganese (Renewal)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency has submitted an 
information collection request (ICR), NESHAP for Ferroalloys 
Production: Ferromanganese and Silicomanganese (EPA ICR Number 1831.08, 
OMB Control Number 2060-0391), 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 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 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-2021-0093, 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: http://www.epa.gov/dockets.

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    Abstract: Owners and operators of ferromanganese and 
silicomanganese production 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 XXX. 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: Ferroalloy production facilities 
that manufacture ferromanganese and silicomanganese.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 63, 
subpart XXX).
    Estimated number of respondents: 2 (total).
    Frequency of response: Quarterly, semiannually, and annually.
    Total estimated burden: 1,610 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
    Total estimated cost: $609,000 (per year), which includes $424,000 
for annualized capital/startup and/or operation & maintenance costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is a change in burden from the 
most-recently approved ICR (ICR Number 1831.07) as currently identified 
in the OMB Inventory of Approved Burdens. This is due to several 
considerations. The regulations are not anticipated to change over the 
next three years. The growth rate for this industry is either very low 
or non-existent, so there is no change in the number of respondents. 
The 2015 Risk and Technology Review final rule, issued June 30, 2015 
(80 FR 37366), and the 2017 reconsideration, issued January 18, 2017 
(82 FR 5408), revised the rule significantly, resulting in changes in 
the labor burden, capital/startup costs, and operation and maintenance 
(O&M) costs. However, these changes were not included in the 
previously-approved ICR (ICR Number 1831.07: Issued March 8, 2019). 
Instead, the burden for the rule revision was included in ICR Number 
2448.02, issued March 16, 2015, which showed only the increase in 
burden due to the rule changes. This ICR (1831.08) combines and 
incorporates the `burden' from the 2015 and 2017 rule revisions, as 
shown in ICR Number 2448.02, with the `burden' shown in the previously-
approved ICR (1831.07). This ICR also reorganizes and clarifies the 
`burden' associated with each rule requirement.
    There is a decrease in the total estimated burden for capital/
startup costs from that shown in ICR Number 2448.02. This decrease is 
not due to any program changes. The change in the burden and cost 
estimates occurred because the revised standard has been in effect for 
more than three years and the requirements are different during initial 
compliance. ICR Number 2448.02 reflected those burdens and costs 
associated with the initial activities for the two subject facilities. 
This includes purchasing monitoring equipment, conducting performance 
test(s) and establishing recordkeeping systems. This ICR reflects the 
on-going burden and costs for existing facilities.
    There is an increase in the total estimated burden from that shown 
in ICR Number 2448.02. This increase is not due to any program changes. 
This increase is due to an omission in the burden calculations for O&M 
costs in ICR Number 2448.02, which failed to include costs for periodic 
testing (every five years) for certain equipment and processes.
    The 2020 amendment to the regulation (85 FR 73902) added electronic 
notification requirements, but this did not add to the burden. There is 
a slight increase in labor costs, which is due wholly to the use of 
updated labor rates. This ICR uses labor rates from the most-recent 
Bureau of Labor Statistics report (March 2021) to calculate respondent 
burden costs.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2022-01763 Filed 1-27-22; 8:45 am]
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