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the telephone number for the
Enforcement and Compliance Docket is
(202) 566–1927.
Use EPA’s electronic docket and
comment system at https://
www.regulations.gov, to submit or view
public comments, access the index
listing of the contents of the docket, and
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Title: NESHAP for Coke Oven Pushing
Quenching and Battery Stacks (40 CFR
Part 63, Subpart CCCCC).
ICR Numbers: EPA ICR Number
1995.03, OMB Control Number 2060–
0521.
ICR Status: This ICR is scheduled to
expire on August 31, 2006. Under OMB
regulations, the Agency may continue to
conduct or sponsor the collection of
information while this submission is
pending at OMB. 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 title 40 of the CFR, after
appearing in the Federal Register when
approved, are listed in 40 CFR part 9,
and displayed either by publication in
the Federal Register or by other
appropriate means, such as on the
related collection instrument or form, if
applicable. The display of OMB control
numbers in certain EPA regulations is
consolidated in 40 CFR part 9.
Abstract: The National Emission
Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants
(NESHAP) for Coke Oven Pushing
Quenching and Battery Stacks were
proposed on July 3, 2001 (66 FR 35325)
and, promulgated on April 14, 2003 (68
FR 18007). The respondents are owners
or operators of coke plants that are
major sources of hazardous air pollutant
(HAP) emissions. The national emission
standard for hazardous air pollutants
(NESHAP) applies to emissions from
pushing, soaking, quenching, and
battery stacks on new and existing coke
oven batteries. This information is being
collected to assure compliance with 40
CFR part 63, subpart CCCCC.
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Owners and operators of affected
sources are subject to the monitoring,
recordkeeping and reporting
requirements of 40 CFR part 63, subpart
A, the General Provisions, unless
specified otherwise in the regulation.
This rule requires sources to submit
initial notifications, conduct
performance tests if source is using an
add-on control device, and submit
periodic compliance reports. In
addition, sources are required to
maintain records of the occurrence and
duration of any startup, shutdown, or
malfunction in the operation if using an
add-on control device; any period
during which the monitoring system is
inoperative; parametric monitoring data;
system maintenance and calibration;
and work practices to demonstrate
initial and ongoing compliance with the
regulation. Records of such
measurements and actions are to be
retained two years on-site of the
required total five years. All reports are
sent to the delegated state or local
authority. In the event that there is no
such delegated authority, the reports are
sent directly to the EPA regional office.
Burden Statement: The annual public
reporting and recordkeeping burden for
this collection of information is
estimated to average 223 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 which have subsequently
changed; 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:
Owners or operators of coke oven
facilities.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
19.
Frequency of Response: On occasion,
semiannually, weekly and initially.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:
25,208.
Estimated Total Annual Cost:
$169,500, includes O&M costs only.
Changes in the Estimates: The
increase from 2,209 hours to 25,208
hours in the annual labor burden to
industry from the most recently
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approved ICR is due to adjustments. The
increase in burden from the most
recently approved ICR is due to the
assumption that all existing sources are
in full compliance with the rule ongoing monitoring, recordkeeping and
reporting requirements since the
compliance date has passed. The active
ICR burden calculation was based on
sources only complying with the initial
rule requirements.
The increase from $83,000 to
$169,500 in the total annualized capital
and operations and maintenance (O&M)
costs are due to the assumption that
respondents are in full compliance with
the rule on-going requirements, as
mentioned above. Even when there are
no capital and startup costs for this
renewal of the ICR, the costs for
operation and maintenance of bag leak
detectors and continuous opacity
monitors increased significantly since
we are accounting such costs for all
three years of this ICR.
Dated: July 11, 2006.
Sara Hisel McCoy,
Acting Director, Collection Strategies
Division.
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Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Trade Secret Claims for
Emergency Planning and Community
Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA Section
322) (Renewal); EPA ICR No. 1428.07,
OMB Control No. 2050–0078
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (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. The ICR,
which is abstracted below, describes the
nature of the information collection and
its estimated burden and cost.
DATES: Additional comments may be
submitted on or before August 21, 2006.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
referencing Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–
SFUND–2006–0361, to (1) EPA online
using https://www.regulations.gov (our
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preferred method), by e-mail to,
superfund.docket@epa.gov, or by mail
to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental
Protection Agency, Superfund Docket,
Mail Code 5305T, 1200 Pennsylvania
Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460, and
(2) OMB by mail to: 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: Sicy
Jacob, Office of Solid Waste and
Emergency Response, Office of
Emergency Management, Mail Code
5104A, Environmental Protection
Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.,
Washington, DC 20460; telephone
number: (202) 564–8019; fax number:
(202) 564–2620; e-mail address:
jacob.sicy@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 April 26, 2006, (71 FR 24670), EPA
sought comments on this ICR pursuant
to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received no
comments. Any additional comments on
this ICR should be submitted to EPA
and OMB within 30 days of this notice.
EPA has established a public docket
for this ICR under Docket ID No. EPA–
HQ–SFUND–2006–0361, which is
available for online viewing at https://
www.regulations.gov, or in person
viewing at the Superfund Docket in the
EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA
West, Room B102, 1301 Constitution
Ave., NW., Washington, DC. The EPA/
DC Public Reading Room is open from
8 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 Docket is 202–566–0276.
Use EPA’s electronic docket and
comment system at https://
www.regulations.gov, to submit or view
public comments, access the index
listing of the contents of the docket, and
to access those documents in the docket
that are available electronically. Once in
the system, select ‘‘docket search,’’ then
key in the docket ID number identified
above. Please note that EPA’s policy is
that public comments, whether
submitted electronically or in paper,
will be made available for public
viewing at https://www.regulations.gov
as EPA receives them and without
change, unless the comment contains
copyrighted material, CBI, or other
information whose public disclosure is
restricted by statute. For further
information about the electronic docket,
go to https://www.regulations.gov.
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Title: Trade Secret Claims for
Emergency Planning and Community
Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA Section 322)
(Renewal).
ICR number: EPA ICR No. 1428.07,
OMB Control No. 2050–0078.
ICR Status: This ICR is scheduled to
expire on October 31, 2006. Under OMB
regulations, the Agency may continue to
conduct or sponsor the collection of
information while this submission is
pending at OMB. 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 title 40 of the CFR, after
appearing in the Federal Register when
approved, are listed in 40 CFR part 9,
are displayed either by publication in
the Federal Register or by other
appropriate means, such as on the
related collection instrument or form, if
applicable. The display of OMB control
numbers in certain EPA regulations is
consolidated in 40 CFR part 9.
Abstract: This information collection
request pertains to trade secrecy claims
submitted under section 322 of the
Emergency Planning and Community
Right-to-Know Act of 1986 (EPCRA).
EPCRA contains provisions requiring
facilities to report to State and local
authorities, and EPA, the presence of
extremely hazardous substances
(described in section 302), inventory of
hazardous chemicals (described in
sections 311 and 312) and manufacture,
process and use of toxic chemicals
(described in section 313). Section 322
of EPCRA allows a facility to withhold
the specific chemical identity from
these EPCRA reports if the facility
asserts a claim of trade secrecy for that
chemical identity. The provision
establishes the requirements and
procedures that facilities must follow to
request trade secrecy treatment of
chemical identities, as well as the
procedures for submitting public
petitions to the Agency for review of the
‘‘sufficiency’’ of trade secrecy claims.
Trade secrecy protection is provided
for specific chemical identities
contained in reports submitted under
each of the following EPCRA sections:
(1) 303(d)(2)—Facility notification of
changes that have or are about to occur,
(2) 303(d)(3)—Local Emergency
Planning Committee (LEPC) requests for
facility information to develop or
implement emergency plans, (3) 311—
Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDSs)
submitted by facilities, or lists of those
chemicals submitted in place of the
MSDSs, (4) 312—Tier II emergency and
hazardous chemical inventory forms,
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and (5) 313—Toxic chemical release
inventory forms.
Burden Statement: The annual public
reporting and recordkeeping burden for
this collection of information is
estimated to average 9.7 hours per
claim. 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 which have subsequently
changed; 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:
Entities potentially affected by this
action are manufacturers or nonmanufacturers subject to reporting
under sections 303, 311/312 or 313 of
the Emergency Planning and
Community Right-to-Know Act
(EPCRA).
Estimated Number of Respondents:
481.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:
4,658.
Estimated Total Annual Cost:
$309,000, includes $0 annualized
capital or O&M costs and $309,000
annual labor costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is an
increase of 1,175 hours in the total
estimated burden currently identified in
the OMB Inventory of Approved ICR
Burdens. The total burden hours
(annual) has increased from the
previous ICR due to number of trade
secret claim submitters increased.
Dated: July 11, 2006.
Sara Hisel McCoy,
Acting Director, Collection Strategies
Division.
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Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Comment Request; Trade Secret Claims for Emergency
Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA Section 322) (Renewal);
EPA ICR No. 1428.07, OMB Control No. 2050-0078
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (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. The ICR, which is abstracted below,
describes the nature of the information collection and its estimated
burden and cost.
DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before August 21,
2006.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-
SFUND-2006-0361, to (1) EPA online using https://www.regulations.gov
(our
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preferred method), by e-mail to, superfund.docket@epa.gov, or by mail
to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental Protection Agency, Superfund
Docket, Mail Code 5305T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC
20460, and (2) OMB by mail to: 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: Sicy Jacob, Office of Solid Waste and
Emergency Response, Office of Emergency Management, Mail Code 5104A,
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.,
Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 564-8019; fax number:
(202) 564-2620; e-mail address: jacob.sicy@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 April 26, 2006, (71 FR 24670), EPA sought comments on this
ICR pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received no comments. Any
additional comments on this ICR should be submitted to EPA and OMB
within 30 days of this notice.
EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID
No. EPA-HQ-SFUND-2006-0361, which is available for online viewing at
https://www.regulations.gov, or in person viewing at the Superfund
Docket in the EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West, Room B102, 1301
Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC. The EPA/DC Public Reading Room
is open from 8 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 Docket is 202-566-0276.
Use EPA's electronic docket and comment system at https://
www.regulations.gov, to submit or view public comments, access the
index listing of the contents of the docket, and to access those
documents in the docket that are available electronically. Once in the
system, select ``docket search,'' then key in the docket ID number
identified above. Please note that EPA's policy is that public
comments, whether submitted electronically or in paper, will be made
available for public viewing at https://www.regulations.gov as EPA
receives them and without change, unless the comment contains
copyrighted material, CBI, or other information whose public disclosure
is restricted by statute. For further information about the electronic
docket, go to https://www.regulations.gov.
Title: Trade Secret Claims for Emergency Planning and Community
Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA Section 322) (Renewal).
ICR number: EPA ICR No. 1428.07, OMB Control No. 2050-0078.
ICR Status: This ICR is scheduled to expire on October 31, 2006.
Under OMB regulations, the Agency may continue to conduct or sponsor
the collection of information while this submission is pending at OMB.
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 title 40 of the CFR, after appearing in the Federal Register when
approved, are listed in 40 CFR part 9, are displayed either by
publication in the Federal Register or by other appropriate means, such
as on the related collection instrument or form, if applicable. The
display of OMB control numbers in certain EPA regulations is
consolidated in 40 CFR part 9.
Abstract: This information collection request pertains to trade
secrecy claims submitted under section 322 of the Emergency Planning
and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986 (EPCRA). EPCRA contains
provisions requiring facilities to report to State and local
authorities, and EPA, the presence of extremely hazardous substances
(described in section 302), inventory of hazardous chemicals (described
in sections 311 and 312) and manufacture, process and use of toxic
chemicals (described in section 313). Section 322 of EPCRA allows a
facility to withhold the specific chemical identity from these EPCRA
reports if the facility asserts a claim of trade secrecy for that
chemical identity. The provision establishes the requirements and
procedures that facilities must follow to request trade secrecy
treatment of chemical identities, as well as the procedures for
submitting public petitions to the Agency for review of the
``sufficiency'' of trade secrecy claims.
Trade secrecy protection is provided for specific chemical
identities contained in reports submitted under each of the following
EPCRA sections: (1) 303(d)(2)--Facility notification of changes that
have or are about to occur, (2) 303(d)(3)--Local Emergency Planning
Committee (LEPC) requests for facility information to develop or
implement emergency plans, (3) 311--Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDSs)
submitted by facilities, or lists of those chemicals submitted in place
of the MSDSs, (4) 312--Tier II emergency and hazardous chemical
inventory forms, and (5) 313--Toxic chemical release inventory forms.
Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping
burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 9.7
hours per claim. 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 which have subsequently changed; 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: Entities potentially affected by
this action are manufacturers or non-manufacturers subject to reporting
under sections 303, 311/312 or 313 of the Emergency Planning and
Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA).
Estimated Number of Respondents: 481.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 4,658.
Estimated Total Annual Cost: $309,000, includes $0 annualized
capital or O&M costs and $309,000 annual labor costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is an increase of 1,175 hours in
the total estimated burden currently identified in the OMB Inventory of
Approved ICR Burdens. The total burden hours (annual) has increased
from the previous ICR due to number of trade secret claim submitters
increased.
Dated: July 11, 2006.
Sara Hisel McCoy,
Acting Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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