[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 148 (Friday, July 31, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46090-46091]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-16580]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OECA-2014-0034; FRL-10013-10-OMS]


Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; NSPS for Kraft Pulp Mill Affected Sources 
for Which Construction, Reconstruction, or Modification Commenced After 
May 23, 2013 (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), NSPS for Kraft Pulp Mill Affected 
Sources for which Construction, Reconstruction, or Modification 
Commenced After May 23, 2013 (EPA ICR Number 2485.04, OMB Control 
Number 2060-0690), 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 September 30, 2020. Public comments were previously requested, 
via the Federal Register, on May 6, 2019 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 31, 
2020.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OECA-2014-0034, to: (1) EPA online using www.regulations.gov (our 
preferred method), or by email to docket.oeca@epa.gov, 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: Patrick Yellin, Monitoring, 
Assistance, and Media Programs Division, Office of Compliance, Mail 
Code 2227A, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, 
Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 564-2970; fax number: 
(202) 564-0050; email address: yellin.patrick@epa.gov.

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 
www.regulations.gov or in person at the EPA Docket Center, WJC West, 
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 New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for Kraft 
Pulp Mill Affected Sources for Which Construction, Reconstruction, or 
Modification Commenced After May 23, 2013 (40 CFR part 60, subpart BBa) 
were proposed on May 23, 2013, and promulgated on April 4, 2014. These 
regulations apply to emissions of particulate matter (PM) and total 
reduced sulfur (TRS) at recovery furnaces, smelt dissolving tanks 
(SDTs), lime kilns, digester systems, brown stock washer (BSW) systems, 
multiple effect evaporator systems and condensate stripper systems at 
kraft pulp mills that commenced construction, modification or 
reconstruction after May 23, 2013. At pulp mills, where kraft pulping 
is combined with neutral sulfite semi-chemical pulping, the provisions 
of this subpart are applicable when any portion of the material charged 
to an affected source is produced by the kraft pulping operation. This 
subpart includes provisions specifying that sources complying with the 
TRS standard for digester systems, BSW systems, evaporator systems and 
condensate stripper systems by venting to a control device must collect 
the gases in a closed-vent system subject to the provisions of 40 CFR 
part 63, subpart S. Facilities may be exempt from the TRS standard in 
the NSPS if the facility can demonstrate that TRS emissions from a 
brown stock washer cannot feasibly be controlled either technically or 
economically. New facilities include those that commenced construction, 
modification or reconstruction after the date of proposal. This 
information is being collected to assure compliance with 40 CFR part 
60, subpart BBa.
    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, and are required of 
all affected facilities subject to NSPS.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: Kraft pulp mills.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 60, 
subpart BBa).
    Estimated number of respondents: 14 (total).
    Frequency of response: Initially, occasionally, and semiannually.
    Total estimated burden: 5,250 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
    Total estimated cost: $1,580,000 (per year), which includes 
$976,000 in annualized capital/startup and/or operation & maintenance 
costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is an adjustment increase in the 
total estimated burden as currently identified in the OMB Inventory of 
Approved Burdens. This increase is not due to any program changes or 
changes in regulatory requirements. The change in the burden and cost 
estimates is due primarily to an increase in the number of new or 
modified sources. The number of sources subject to the regulation has 
increased in the past three years, based on the continued assumption 
that an average of two existing mills (previously subject to 40 CFR 
part 60, subpart BB) per year will replace aging emission units with 
new emission units subject to

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Subpart BBa. This has led to an increase in O&M costs.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2020-16580 Filed 7-30-20; 8:45 am]
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