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Participation in the pretest of the
PACE survey will be voluntary. EPA,
through its contractors, ICF Consulting,
and RTI, International, will recruit 24
facilities from the pulp and paper, iron
and steel, electric utility, petroleum,
and other industries to participate in the
pretest. Facilities will complete the
survey and then participate in a followup discussion of the results with
engineers from RTI, International. The
engineers will seek to better understand
the results provided on the survey and
walk through the facility to identify
pollution abatement techniques. The
engineers will develop independent
estimates of costs for each facility which
will serve to better assist the facility in
understanding the sources of various
cost elements and enhance the survey
instrument.
The survey responses from the pretest
will only be used to assess the
redesigned survey instrument. All
responses will be kept confidential at
RTI, International and will be destroyed
after 5 years.
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. The OMB control
numbers for EPA’s regulations in 40
CFR are listed in 40 CFR part 9 and are
identified on the form and/or
instrument, if applicable.
Burden Statement: The annual public
reporting and recordkeeping burden for
this collection of information is
estimated to average 16 hours per
response. Burden means the total time,
effort, or financial resources expended
by persons to generate, maintain, retain,
or disclose or provide information to or
for a Federal agency. This includes the
time needed to review instructions;
develop, acquire, install, and utilize
technology and systems for the purposes
of collecting, validating, and verifying
information, processing and
maintaining information, and disclosing
and providing information; adjust the
existing ways to comply with any
previously applicable instructions and
requirements; train personnel to be able
to respond to a collection of
information; search data sources;
complete and review the collection of
information; and transmit or otherwise
disclose the information.
Respondents/Affected Entities:
manufacturing facilities from the pulp
and paper, petroleum, electric utility,
iron and steel, and other select
industries.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
24.
Frequency of Response: one-time.
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Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:
378.
Estimated Total Annual Cost:
$11,000, which includes $0 annual
capital/startup or O&M costs and
$11,000 annual labor costs.
Dated: February 20, 2005.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[OW–2004–0027; FRL–7879–8]
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Comment
Response; Information Collection
Request for Cooling Water Intake
Structures—New Facility (Renewal),
EPA ICR Number 1973.03, OMB
Control Number 2040–0241
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
3501 et seq.), this document announces
that an Information Collection Request
(ICR) has been forwarded to the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval. This is a request
to renew an existing approved
collection. This ICR is scheduled to
expire on February 28, 2005. Under
OMB regulations, the Agency may
continue to conduct or sponsor the
collection of information while this
submission is pending at OMB. The ICR
describes the nature of the information
collection and its estimated burden and
cost.
DATES: Additional comments may be
submitted on or before April 1, 2005.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
referencing docket ID number OW–
2004–0027, to (1) EPA online using
EDOCKET (our preferred method), by email to OW-Docket@epa.gov, or by mail
to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental
Protection Agency, Water Docket, Mail
Code 4101T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave.
NW., Washington, DC 20460, and (2)
OMB at: Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Office of
Management and Budget (OMB),
Attention: Desk Officer for EPA, 725
17th Street, NW., Washington, DC
20503.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Faulk, Office of Wastewater
Management, Mail Code 4203M,
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Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington,
DC 20460; telephone number: 202–564–
0768; fax number: 202–564–6431; e-mail
address: faulk.jack@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has
submitted the following ICR to OMB for
review and approval according to the
procedures prescribed in 5 CFR 1320.12.
On August 30, 2004 (69 FR 52883), EPA
sought comments on this ICR pursuant
to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received no
comment.
EPA has established a public docket
for this ICR under Docket ID No. OW–
2004–0027, which is available for public
viewing at the Water Docket in the EPA
Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West,
Room B102, 1301 Constitution Ave.,
NW., Washington, DC. The EPA Docket
Center Public Reading Room is open
from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday
through Friday, excluding legal
holidays. The telephone number for the
Reading Room is (202) 566–1744, and
the telephone number for the Water
Docket is (202) 566–2426. An electronic
version of the public docket is available
through EPA Dockets (EDOCKET) at
https://www.epa.gov/edocket. Use
EDOCKET to submit or view public
comments, access the index listing of
the contents of the public docket, and to
access those documents in the public
docket that are available electronically.
Once in the system, select ‘‘search,’’
then key in the docket ID number
identified above.
Any comments related to this ICR
should be submitted to EPA and OMB
within 30 days of this notice. EPA’s
policy is that public comments, whether
submitted electronically or in paper,
will be made available for public
viewing in EDOCKET as EPA receives
them and without change, unless the
comment contains copyrighted material,
CBI, or other information whose public
disclosure is restricted by statute. When
EPA identifies a comment containing
copyrighted material, EPA will provide
a reference to that material in the
version of the comment that is placed in
EDOCKET. The entire printed comment,
including the copyrighted material, will
be available in the public docket.
Although identified as an item in the
official docket, information claimed as
CBI, or whose disclosure is otherwise
restricted by statute, is not included in
the official public docket, and will not
be available for public viewing in
EDOCKET. For further information
about the electronic docket, see EPA’s
Federal Register notice describing the
electronic docket at 67 FR 38102 (May
31, 2002), or go to https://www.epa.gov/
edocket.
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Title: Cooling Water Intake
Structures—New Facility (Renewal)
Abstract: The section 316(b) New
Facility Regulation requires the
collection of information from new
facilities that use a cooling water intake
structure (CWIS). Entities affected by
this ICR are new power producing
facilities (both utility and nonutility)
and new manufacturing facilities that
have large cooling water requirements.
Four categories of manufacturing
facilities tend to have large amounts of
cooling water: paper and allied
products, chemical and allied products,
petroleum and coal products, and
primary metals. Section 316(b) of the
Clean Water Act (CWA) requires that
any standard established under section
301 or 306 of the CWA and applicable
to a point source must require that the
location, design, construction and
capacity of CWISs at that facility reflect
the best technology available (BTA) for
minimizing adverse environmental
impact. Such impact occurs as a result
of impingement (where fish and other
aquatic life are trapped on technologies
at the entrance to cooling water intake
structures) and entrainment (where
aquatic organisms, eggs, and larvae are
taken into the cooling system, passed
through the heat exchanger, and then
pumped back out with the discharge
from the facility). These requirements
seek to minimize the adverse
environmental impact associated with
the use of CWISs.
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. The OMB control
numbers for EPA’s regulations in 40
CFR are listed in 40 CFR part 9 and are
identified on the form and/or
instrument, if applicable.
Burden Statement: The annual
average reporting and record keeping
burden for the collection of information
by facilities with a cooling water intake
structure is estimated to be 2,107 hours
per respondent (i.e., an annual average
of 71,645 hours of burden divided
among an anticipated annual average of
34 facilities). The Director reporting and
record keeping burden for the review,
oversight, and administration of these
requirements is estimated to average 132
hours per respondent (i.e., an annual
average of 4,623 hours of burden
divided among an anticipated 35 States
on average per year). Burden means the
total time, effort, or financial resources
expended by persons to generate,
maintain, retain, or disclose or provide
information to or for a Federal agency.
This includes the time needed to review
instructions; develop, acquire, install,
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and utilize technology and systems for
the purposes of collecting, validating,
and verifying information, processing
and maintaining information, and
disclosing and providing information;
adjust the existing ways to comply with
any previously applicable instructions
and requirements; train personnel to be
able to respond to a collection of
information; search data sources;
complete and review the collection of
information; and transmit or otherwise
disclose the information.
Respondents/Affected Entities: New
power producing facilities and new
manufacturing facilities that have large
cooling water requirements.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
69.
Frequency of Response: One-time
application and annual reports
thereafter.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:
76,268 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Cost:
$5,715,579 includes $789,478
annualized O&M costs, $1,152,448
Capital expenses, and $3,773,653 in
labor costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is an
increase of 35,892 hours in the total
estimated annual burden and an
increase of $176,000 from the total
estimated cost currently identified in
the OMB Inventory of Approved ICR
Burdens. The burden is based on the
addition of the newly built facilities, as
well as the continued performance of
annual activities by facilities that
received their permit during the first
ICR approval period. The increase of
hours and cost is attributed to the
permit re-issuance activities that were
not in the original ICR. These activities
were not included in the original ICR
because none of the new facilities
required permit re-issuance during the
initial approval period.
Dated: February 20, 2005.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air
Act Citizen Suit
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of proposed consent
decree; request for public comment.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: In accordance with section
113(g) of the Clean Air Act, as amended
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(‘‘Act’’), 42 U.S.C. 7413(g), notice is
hereby given of a proposed consent
decree, to address lawsuits filed by the
State of North Carolina and
Environmental Defense: State of North
Carolina v. Johnson, No. 5:05–CV–112
(E.D. N.C.) and Environmental Defense
v. Johnson, No. 5:05–CV–113 (E.D.
N.C.). On February 17, 2005, the State
of North Carolina and Environmental
Defense filed complaints against EPA
seeking to compel EPA to take action on
a petition submitted to EPA under
section 126 of the Clean Air Act on
March 18, 2004. Under the terms of the
proposed consent decree, EPA is to sign
a notice of proposed rulemaking
regarding the section 126 petition no
later than August 1, 2005, and a notice
of final rulemaking no later than March
15, 2006.
DATES: Written comments on the
proposed consent decree must be
received by April 1, 2005.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
identified by docket ID number OGC–
2005–0002, online at https://
www.epa.gov/edocket (EPA’s preferred
method); by e-mail to
oei.docket@epa.gov; mailed to EPA
Docket Center, Environmental
Protection Agency, Mailcode: 2822T,
1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.,
Washington, DC 20460–0001; or by
hand delivery or courier to EPA Docket
Center, EPA West, Room B102, 1301
Constitution Ave., NW., Washington,
DC, between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.
Monday through Friday, excluding legal
holidays. Comments on a disk or CDROM should be formatted in
Wordperfect or ASCII file, avoiding the
use of special characters and any form
of encryption, and may be mailed to the
mailing address above.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Steven Silverman, Air and Radiation
Law Office (2344A), Office of General
Counsel, U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.,
Washington, DC 20460. Telephone:
(202) 564–5523.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Additional Information About the
Proposed Consent Decree
The proposed consent decree
establishes deadlines for EPA to propose
and take final action regarding a petition
submitted to EPA by the State of North
Carolina pursuant to section 126 of the
Clean Air Act. The petition was
submitted by the State of North Carolina
on March 18, 2004, and requested that
the Administrator of the EPA make a
finding that certain sources of emissions
of air pollutants outside the State of
North Carolina are significantly
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[OW-2004-0027; FRL-7879-8]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Comment Response; Information Collection Request
for Cooling Water Intake Structures--New Facility (Renewal), EPA ICR
Number 1973.03, OMB Control Number 2040-0241
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501
et seq.), this document announces that an Information Collection
Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and approval. This is a request to renew an existing
approved collection. This ICR is scheduled to expire on February 28,
2005. Under OMB regulations, the Agency may continue to conduct or
sponsor the collection of information while this submission is pending
at OMB. The ICR describes the nature of the information collection and
its estimated burden and cost.
DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before April 1, 2005.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number OW-2004-
0027, to (1) EPA online using EDOCKET (our preferred method), by e-mail
to OW-Docket@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental
Protection Agency, Water Docket, Mail Code 4101T, 1200 Pennsylvania
Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460, and (2) OMB at: Office of Information
and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget (OMB),
Attention: Desk Officer for EPA, 725 17th Street, NW., Washington, DC
20503.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jack Faulk, Office of Wastewater
Management, Mail Code 4203M, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: 202-
564-0768; fax number: 202-564-6431; e-mail address: faulk.jack@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has submitted the following ICR to OMB
for review and approval according to the procedures prescribed in 5 CFR
1320.12. On August 30, 2004 (69 FR 52883), EPA sought comments on this
ICR pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received no comment.
EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID
No. OW-2004-0027, which is available for public viewing at the Water
Docket in the EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West, Room B102, 1301
Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC. The EPA Docket Center Public
Reading Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through
Friday, excluding legal holidays. The telephone number for the Reading
Room is (202) 566-1744, and the telephone number for the Water Docket
is (202) 566-2426. An electronic version of the public docket is
available through EPA Dockets (EDOCKET) at https://www.epa.gov/edocket.
Use EDOCKET to submit or view public comments, access the index listing
of the contents of the public docket, and to access those documents in
the public docket that are available electronically. Once in the
system, select ``search,'' then key in the docket ID number identified
above.
Any comments related to this ICR should be submitted to EPA and OMB
within 30 days of this notice. EPA's policy is that public comments,
whether submitted electronically or in paper, will be made available
for public viewing in EDOCKET as EPA receives them and without change,
unless the comment contains copyrighted material, CBI, or other
information whose public disclosure is restricted by statute. When EPA
identifies a comment containing copyrighted material, EPA will provide
a reference to that material in the version of the comment that is
placed in EDOCKET. The entire printed comment, including the
copyrighted material, will be available in the public docket. Although
identified as an item in the official docket, information claimed as
CBI, or whose disclosure is otherwise restricted by statute, is not
included in the official public docket, and will not be available for
public viewing in EDOCKET. For further information about the electronic
docket, see EPA's Federal Register notice describing the electronic
docket at 67 FR 38102 (May 31, 2002), or go to https://www.epa.gov/
edocket.
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Title: Cooling Water Intake Structures--New Facility (Renewal)
Abstract: The section 316(b) New Facility Regulation requires the
collection of information from new facilities that use a cooling water
intake structure (CWIS). Entities affected by this ICR are new power
producing facilities (both utility and nonutility) and new
manufacturing facilities that have large cooling water requirements.
Four categories of manufacturing facilities tend to have large amounts
of cooling water: paper and allied products, chemical and allied
products, petroleum and coal products, and primary metals. Section
316(b) of the Clean Water Act (CWA) requires that any standard
established under section 301 or 306 of the CWA and applicable to a
point source must require that the location, design, construction and
capacity of CWISs at that facility reflect the best technology
available (BTA) for minimizing adverse environmental impact. Such
impact occurs as a result of impingement (where fish and other aquatic
life are trapped on technologies at the entrance to cooling water
intake structures) and entrainment (where aquatic organisms, eggs, and
larvae are taken into the cooling system, passed through the heat
exchanger, and then pumped back out with the discharge from the
facility). These requirements seek to minimize the adverse
environmental impact associated with the use of CWISs.
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. The OMB control numbers for EPA's
regulations in 40 CFR are listed in 40 CFR part 9 and are identified on
the form and/or instrument, if applicable.
Burden Statement: The annual average reporting and record keeping
burden for the collection of information by facilities with a cooling
water intake structure is estimated to be 2,107 hours per respondent
(i.e., an annual average of 71,645 hours of burden divided among an
anticipated annual average of 34 facilities). The Director reporting
and record keeping burden for the review, oversight, and administration
of these requirements is estimated to average 132 hours per respondent
(i.e., an annual average of 4,623 hours of burden divided among an
anticipated 35 States on average per year). Burden means the total
time, effort, or financial resources expended by persons to generate,
maintain, retain, or disclose or provide information to or for a
Federal agency. This includes the time needed to review instructions;
develop, acquire, install, and utilize technology and systems for the
purposes of collecting, validating, and verifying information,
processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and providing
information; adjust the existing ways to comply with any previously
applicable instructions and requirements; train personnel to be able to
respond to a collection of information; search data sources; complete
and review the collection of information; and transmit or otherwise
disclose the information.
Respondents/Affected Entities: New power producing facilities and
new manufacturing facilities that have large cooling water
requirements.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 69.
Frequency of Response: One-time application and annual reports
thereafter.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 76,268 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Cost: $5,715,579 includes $789,478
annualized O&M costs, $1,152,448 Capital expenses, and $3,773,653 in
labor costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is an increase of 35,892 hours in
the total estimated annual burden and an increase of $176,000 from the
total estimated cost currently identified in the OMB Inventory of
Approved ICR Burdens. The burden is based on the addition of the newly
built facilities, as well as the continued performance of annual
activities by facilities that received their permit during the first
ICR approval period. The increase of hours and cost is attributed to
the permit re-issuance activities that were not in the original ICR.
These activities were not included in the original ICR because none of
the new facilities required permit re-issuance during the initial
approval period.
Dated: February 20, 2005.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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