[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 129 (Thursday, July 7, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40530-40531]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-14460]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2021-0115; FRL-9996-01-OMS]


Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Paint Stripping and Miscellaneous 
Surface Coating at 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 Paint Stripping and 
Miscellaneous Surface Coating at Area Sources (EPA ICR Number 2268.06, 
OMB Control Number 2060-0607), 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 June 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 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 August 8, 
2022.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OAR-2021-0115, 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: The National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air 
Pollutants (NESHAP) for Paint Stripping and

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Miscellaneous Surface Coating at Area Sources (40 CFR part 63, subpart 
HHHHHH) are part of the EPA Integrated Urban Strategy to reduce cancer 
risk from area sources under Section 112(k)(3)(C) of the Clean Air Act 
(CAA). These standards apply to existing facilities and new facilities 
that conduct paint stripping operations using methylene chloride-
containing paint strippers, motor vehicle and mobile equipment surface 
coating operations, and miscellaneous surface coating operations 
located at area sources. In general, all NESHAP 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 used by the EPA to determine 
compliance with the standards.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: Paint stripping and miscellaneous 
surface coating operations.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 63, 
subpart HHHHHH).
    Estimated number of respondents: 39,812 (total).
    Frequency of response: Initially and occasionally.
    Total estimated burden: 102,000 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
    Total estimated cost: $12,100,000 (per year), which includes 
$27,100 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 
reason for the change in burden is related to an error in the prior ICR 
which was corrected in this renewal package. The prior ICR assumed that 
all sources would submit an annual notification of changes report, but 
this rule does not require sources to submit an annual report unless a 
change has occurred in information previously submitted in either the 
initial notification required by Sec.  63.11175(a), Notification of 
Compliance, or a previous annual notification of changes report. We 
have adjusted this assumption, and based on OAQPS discussions with 
industry, we have assumed that 20 percent of existing sources will 
submit a notification of changes report each year; this includes 
submittal of a methylene chloride minimization plan for paint stripping 
sources using more than one ton of methylene chloride in the calendar 
year.
    The prior ICR also assumed that no government-owned miscellaneous 
surface coating operations at area sources would need to update records 
of painter certification or records of filter efficiency each year. We 
have revised this assumption and estimate that the proportions of 
government-owned surface coating sources and commercial surface coating 
sources that must record this information each year will be the same. 
Therefore, in line with our assumptions for commercial surface coating 
sources, we have assumed that 20 percent of painters at government-
owned surface coating sources will need to have their records updated 
each year, and that one percent of government-owned surface coating 
sources will opt to use filters which will require them to test and 
record the filter efficiency. This adjustment in the burden estimate 
for government-owned surface coating sources results in an increase in 
recordkeeping burden for those sources. However, the overall burden 
estimate for all types of sources, including government-owned surface 
coating sources, has still decreased due to our corrected assumption 
regarding annual notification of changes reports. Therefore, the number 
of sources predicted by this ICR to submit reports has been greatly 
reduced, and the associated labor and operation and maintenance costs 
have seen a corresponding reduction. However, the individual cost per 
respondent of submitting a notification or report has not changed.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2022-14460 Filed 7-6-22; 8:45 am]
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