
[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 245 (Monday, December 22, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Page 76327]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-29792]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OECA-2014-0085; FRL--9918-70-OEI]


Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Friction Materials Manufacture 
(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 Friction Materials 
Manufacture (40 CFR part 63, subpart QQQQQ) (Renewal)'' (EPA ICR No. 
2025.06, OMB Control No. 2060-0481) to the Office of Management and 
Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork 
Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq). This is a proposed extension of 
the ICR, which is currently approved through January 31, 2015. Public 
comments were previously requested via the Federal Register (79 FR 
30117) on May 27, 2014 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 not conduct or 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 January 21, 
2015.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA HQ-
OECA-2014-0085, 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, and (2) OMB via email 
to oira_submission@omb.eop.gov. 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: 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: Respondents are owners or operators of friction materials 
manufacturing facilities. The NESHAP contains an emission limitation 
for solvent mixers at friction materials manufacturing facilities. 
Solvent mixers are the affected source. Friction materials 
manufacturing facilities manufacture friction material using a solvent-
based process. Friction material is subsequently used to manufacture 
friction products that include, but are not limited to, disc brake 
pucks, disc brake pads, brake linings, brake shoes, brake segments, 
brake blocks, brake discs, clutch facings, and clutches.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: Owners or operators of friction 
materials manufacturing facilities.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 63, 
subpart QQQQQ).
    Estimated number of respondents: 4 (total).
    Frequency of response: Initially, occasionally, semiannually, and 
annually.
    Total estimated burden: 1,291 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
    Total estimated cost: $127,502 (per year), includes $1,088 in 
annualized capital and/or operation & maintenance costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is a decrease of five hours in the 
total estimated respondent burden compared with the ICR currently 
approved by the OMB. This decrease is due to a discrepancy identified 
in the previous ICR. The previous ICR assumed all existing plants 
transmit one-time notifications, a burden item that only applies to new 
sources. Since no new sources are expected over the next three-year 
period of the ICR, the ICR was revised to remove this burden, which 
resulted in a decrease in burden hours.
    There is also an increase in the estimated burden cost due to the 
use of updated labor rates. This ICR references the most recent labor 
rates available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the OPM to 
calculate burden costs.

Courtney Kerwin,
Acting Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. 2014-29792 Filed 12-19-14; 8:45 am]
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