[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 219 (Tuesday, November 13, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56320-56321]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-24650]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OECA-2014-0055; FRL-9985-86-OEI]


Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for the Secondary Lead Smelter 
Industry (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 the Secondary Lead 
Smelter Industry (EPA ICR No. 1686.11, OMB Control No. 2060-0296), 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 November 30, 
2018. Public comments were previously requested, via the Federal 
Register, on June 29, 2017 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 December 13, 
2018.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OECA-2014-0055, to: (1) EPA online using 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; and (2) OMB via email 
to [email protected]. Address comments to OMB Desk Officer 
for EPA.
    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.

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: [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 
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 National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air 
Pollutants (NESHAP) for the Secondary Lead Smelter Industry apply to 
existing facilities and new facilities that operate furnaces to reduce 
scrap lead metal and lead compounds to elemental lead. Specifically, 
the rule applies to secondary lead smelters that use blast, 
reverberatory, rotary, or electric smelting furnaces to recover lead 
metal from scrap lead, primarily from used lead-acid automotive-type 
batteries. New facilities include those that commenced construction or 
reconstruction after the date of proposal. In general, all NESHAP 
standards require initial notifications, performance tests, and 
periodic reports by the owners/operators of the affected

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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 63, subpart 
X.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: Secondary lead smelters.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 63, 
subpart X).
    Estimated number of respondents: 12 (total).
    Frequency of response: Initially, occasionally, semiannually and 
annually.
    Total estimated burden: 21,700 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
    Total estimated cost: $2,630,000 (per year), which includes 
$251,000 annualized capital/startup and/or operation & maintenance 
costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is an increase in the total 
estimated burden and the number of responses from the most recently 
approved ICR due to several adjustments: (1) The overall number of 
sources decreased; and (2) there were several missing burden line items 
and inaccurate assumptions that were corrected since the previous 
renewal. In addition, the previous renewal had not accounted for any 
burden for dioxin/furan testing since that burden occurs every six 
years, which was added to this renewal. Third, this renewal includes 
time for each affected facility to review rule requirements each year. 
There is a decrease in the O&M costs from the most recently approved 
ICR due to an adjustment in the number of sources.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2018-24650 Filed 11-9-18; 8:45 am]
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