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FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
Dated: April 25, 2008.
Doreen Sterling,
Director, Office of Information Collection,
Information Exchange & Services Division.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[EPA–HQ–OECA–2007–0063; FRL–8564–4]
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; NESHAP for Primary Copper
Smelters (Renewal), EPA ICR Number
1850.05, OMB Control Number 2060–
0476
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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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. The ICR which is abstracted
below describes the nature of the
collection and the estimated burden and
cost.
DATES: Additional comments may be
submitted on or before June 11, 2008.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
referencing docket ID number EPA–HQ–
OECA–2007–0063, to (1) EPA online
using https://www.regulations.gov (our
preferred method), or by e-mail to
docket.oeca@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA
Docket Center (EPA/DC), Environmental
Protection Agency, Enforcement and
Compliance Docket and Information
Center, mail code 2201T, 1200
Pennsylvania Avenue, 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:
Learia Williams, Compliance
Assessment and Media Programs
Division, Office of Compliance, Mail
Code 2223A, Environmental Protection
Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue,
NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone
number: (202) 564–4113; fax number:
(202) 564–0050; e-mail address:
williams.learia@epa.gov.
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EPA has
submitted the following ICR to OMB for
review and approval according to the
procedures prescribed in 5 CFR 1320.12.
On March 9, 2007 (72 FR 10735), 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 number
EPA–HQ–OECA–2007–0063, which is
available for public viewing online at
https://www.regulations.gov, in person
viewing at the Enforcement and
Compliance Docket in the EPA Docket
Center (EPA/DC), EPA West, Room
3334, 1301 Constitution Avenue, 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
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
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 either 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, Confidential
Business Information (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: NESHAP for Primary Copper
Smelters (Renewal).
ICR Numbers: EPA ICR Number
1850.05, OMB Control Number 2060–
0476.
ICR Status: The National Emission
Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants
(NESHAP) for Primary Copper Smelters
were proposed on April 20, 1998 (63 FR
19582), and June 26, 2000 (65 FR 39326)
respectively. These standards apply to
any existing, reconstructed, or new
primary copper smelters. The affected
sources are each copper concentrate
dryer, each smelting furnace, slag
cleaning vessel, each copper converter
department, and the entire group of
fugitive emission sources.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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Abstract: Affected owners and
operators are required to meet specific
monitoring, recordkeeping, and
reporting requirements in order to
demonstrate initial and continuous
compliance with the rule. A primary
copper smelter is only subject to the
regulation if it is a major source of
hazardous air pollutant (HAP) emitting
or has the potential to emit any single
HAP at the rate of 10 tons or more per
year or any combination of HAP at the
rate of 25 tons or more per year.
Owners and operators must submit
notification reports upon the
construction, reconstruction, or
modification of any primary copper
smelter. Also, required is a one-timeonly initial notification for new and
reconstructed sources. The respondents
are required to submit an annual
performance test for each control
device, and a semiannual summary
report to EPA. Respondents subject to
the final rule are required to prepare
and maintain on site two site-specific
operating plans: (1) A startup,
shutdown, malfunction plan, and (2) a
fugitive dust control plan. Owners or
operators of primary copper smelters
facilities subject to the rule must
maintain a file of these measurements,
and retain the file for at least five years
following the date of such
measurements, maintenance reports,
and records.
Notifications are to inform the Agency
or delegated authority when a source
becomes subject to the standard. The
reviewing authority may then inspect
the source to check if the pollution
control devices are properly installed
and operating and the standards are
being met. Performance test reports are
required as these are the Agency’s
records of a source’s initial capability to
comply with the emission standards and
to serve as a record of the operating
conditions under which compliance is
to be achieved. The information
generated by monitoring, recordkeeping
and reporting requirements described in
this ICR is used by the Agency to ensure
that facilities affected by the standard
continue to operate the control
equipment and achieve continuous
compliance with the regulation.
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. This information is
being collected to assure compliance
with 40 CFR part 63, subpart QQQ, as
authorized in sections 112 and 114(a) of
the Clean Air Act. The required
information consists of emissions data
and other information that have been
determined to be private.
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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
Number for EPA’s regulations listed in
40 CFR part 9 and 48 CFR chapter 15,
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 196 hours per
response. Burden means the total time,
effort, or financial resources expended
by persons to generate, maintain, retain,
or disclose and 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. All existing
ways will have to adjust to comply with
any previously applicable instructions
and requirements that 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:
Primary copper smelters.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 3.
Frequency of Response: Monthly,
semiannually, annually, and initially.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:
8,837.
Estimated Total Annual Cost:
$575,068, including $8,220 for
operation and maintenance (O&M)
costs, $566,848 for labor costs, and zero
for capital/startup costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is no
change in the labor hours or cost in this
ICR compared to the previous ICR. This
is due to two considerations: (1) The
regulations have not changed over the
past three years and are not anticipated
to change over the next three years; and
(2) the growth rate for the industry is
very low, negative or non-existent, so
there is no significant change in the
overall burden. It should be noted that
the previous ICR rounded the burden
cost down to the nearest one thousand.
In this ICR, the exact cost figure is
reported which results in an apparent
increase in the cost when, in fact, no
increase has occurred. Also, a
mathematical error in the labor cost
burden was corrected.
Since there are no changes in the
regulatory requirements and there is no
significant industry growth, the labor
hours and cost figures in the previous
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ICR are used in this ICR, and there is no
change in burden to industry.
Dated: April 30, 2008.
Sara Hisel-McCoy,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. E8–10507 Filed 5–9–08; 8:45 am]
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AGENCY
[FRL–8564–7; Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD–
2008–0315]
Draft Toxicological Review of
Beryllium: In Support of the Summary
Information in the Integrated Risk
Information System (IRIS)
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of Peer-Review
Workshop and Public Comment Period.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: EPA is announcing that
Versar, under a contract with EPA, will
convene an independent panel of
experts and organize and conduct an
external peer-review workshop to
review the external review draft
document entitled, ‘‘Toxicological
Review of Beryllium: In Support of
Summary Information on the Integrated
Risk Information System (IRIS)’’ (EPA/
635/R–08/009A). The EPA is also
announcing a public comment period
for the draft document. EPA intends to
consider comments and
recommendations from the public and
the expert panel meeting when EPA
finalizes the draft document.
The public comment period and the
external peer-review workshop are
separate processes that provide
opportunities for all interested parties to
comment on the document. EPA intends
to forward public comments, submitted
in accordance with this notice, to the
external peer-review panel prior to the
workshop for their consideration.
EPA is releasing this draft document
solely for the purpose of predissemination peer review under
applicable information quality
guidelines. This document has not been
formally disseminated by EPA. It does
not represent and should not be
construed to represent any Agency
policy or determination.
Versar invites the public to register to
attend this workshop as observers. In
addition, Versar invites the public to
give brief oral comments at the
workshop regarding the draft document
under review. The draft document and
EPA’s peer review charge are available
via the Internet on NCEA’s home page
at https://www.epa.gov/ncea and are also
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accessible from the IRIS home page at
https://www.epa.gov/iris. When
finalizing the draft document, EPA
intends to consider any public
comments that EPA receives in
accordance with this notice.
DATES: The peer-review panel workshop
will be held on July 16, 2008, at 9:00
a.m. The 60-day public comment period
begins on May 12, 2008, and ends July
5, 2008. Technical comments should be
in writing and must be received by EPA
by July 5, 2008. EPA intends to submit
comments from the public received by
this date to Versar prior to the workshop
for consideration by the panel.
ADDRESSES: The peer-review workshop
will be held at the Courtyard By
Marriott/Crystal City, 2899 Jefferson
Davis Highway, Arlington, VA 22202.
Versar is organizing, convening, and
conducting the peer-review workshop.
To attend the workshop, register by July
11, 2008, via the Internet at https://
epa.versar.com/beryllium. You may also
register by calling Versar at 703–750–
3000 extension 582, or sending an email to Gina Casciano at
gcasciano@versar.com. You must
register by July 11, 2008, and indicate
whether you wish to provide brief oral
comments at the workshop.
The draft ‘‘Toxicological Review of
Beryllium: In Support of Summary
Information on the Integrated Risk
Information System (IRIS)’’ is available
via the Internet on NCEA’s home page
at https://www.epa.gov/ncea and is also
accessible from the IRIS home page at
https://www.epa.gov/iris. A limited
number of paper copies is available
from NCEA’s Information Management
Team; telephone: 703–347–8561;
facsimile: 703–347–8691. If you are
requesting a paper copy, please provide
your name, mailing address, and the
document title. Comments may be
submitted electronically via https://
www.regulations.gov, by mail, by
facsimile, or by hand delivery/courier.
Please follow the detailed instructions
as provided in the SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION section of this notice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
information on the peer-review
workshop, contact Gina Casciano at
Versar; telephone: 703–750–3000
extension 582 or e-mail:
gcasciano@versar.com. For information
on the public comment period, contact
the Office of Environmental Information
Docket; telephone: 202–566–1752;
facsimile: 202–566–1753; or e-mail:
ORD.Docket@epa.gov. If you have
questions about the document, contact
Amanda S. Persad, IRIS Staff, National
Center for Environmental Assessment
(B–243–01), U.S. EPA, Research
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OECA-2007-0063; FRL-8564-4]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Primary Copper
Smelters (Renewal), EPA ICR Number 1850.05, OMB Control Number 2060-
0476
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. The ICR which is abstracted below describes the
nature of the collection and the estimated burden and cost.
DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before June 11, 2008.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number EPA-HQ-
OECA-2007-0063, to (1) EPA online using https://www.regulations.gov (our
preferred method), or by e-mail to docket.oeca@epa.gov, or by mail to:
EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), Environmental Protection Agency,
Enforcement and Compliance Docket and Information Center, mail code
2201T, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, 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: Learia Williams, Compliance Assessment
and Media Programs Division, Office of Compliance, Mail Code 2223A,
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 564-4113; fax number:
(202) 564-0050; e-mail address: williams.learia@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 March 9, 2007 (72 FR 10735), 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
number EPA-HQ-OECA-2007-0063, which is available for public viewing
online at https://www.regulations.gov, in person viewing at the
Enforcement and Compliance Docket in the EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC),
EPA West, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Avenue, 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 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 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 either 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, Confidential Business Information (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: NESHAP for Primary Copper Smelters (Renewal).
ICR Numbers: EPA ICR Number 1850.05, OMB Control Number 2060-0476.
ICR Status: The National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air
Pollutants (NESHAP) for Primary Copper Smelters were proposed on April
20, 1998 (63 FR 19582), and June 26, 2000 (65 FR 39326) respectively.
These standards apply to any existing, reconstructed, or new primary
copper smelters. The affected sources are each copper concentrate
dryer, each smelting furnace, slag cleaning vessel, each copper
converter department, and the entire group of fugitive emission
sources.
Abstract: Affected owners and operators are required to meet
specific monitoring, recordkeeping, and reporting requirements in order
to demonstrate initial and continuous compliance with the rule. A
primary copper smelter is only subject to the regulation if it is a
major source of hazardous air pollutant (HAP) emitting or has the
potential to emit any single HAP at the rate of 10 tons or more per
year or any combination of HAP at the rate of 25 tons or more per year.
Owners and operators must submit notification reports upon the
construction, reconstruction, or modification of any primary copper
smelter. Also, required is a one-time-only initial notification for new
and reconstructed sources. The respondents are required to submit an
annual performance test for each control device, and a semiannual
summary report to EPA. Respondents subject to the final rule are
required to prepare and maintain on site two site-specific operating
plans: (1) A startup, shutdown, malfunction plan, and (2) a fugitive
dust control plan. Owners or operators of primary copper smelters
facilities subject to the rule must maintain a file of these
measurements, and retain the file for at least five years following the
date of such measurements, maintenance reports, and records.
Notifications are to inform the Agency or delegated authority when
a source becomes subject to the standard. The reviewing authority may
then inspect the source to check if the pollution control devices are
properly installed and operating and the standards are being met.
Performance test reports are required as these are the Agency's records
of a source's initial capability to comply with the emission standards
and to serve as a record of the operating conditions under which
compliance is to be achieved. The information generated by monitoring,
recordkeeping and reporting requirements described in this ICR is used
by the Agency to ensure that facilities affected by the standard
continue to operate the control equipment and achieve continuous
compliance with the regulation.
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. This information is being
collected to assure compliance with 40 CFR part 63, subpart QQQ, as
authorized in sections 112 and 114(a) of the Clean Air Act. The
required information consists of emissions data and other information
that have been determined to be private.
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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 Number for EPA's
regulations listed in 40 CFR part 9 and 48 CFR chapter 15, 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 196
hours per response. Burden means the total time, effort, or financial
resources expended by persons to generate, maintain, retain, or
disclose and 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. All
existing ways will have to adjust to comply with any previously
applicable instructions and requirements that 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: Primary copper smelters.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 3.
Frequency of Response: Monthly, semiannually, annually, and
initially.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 8,837.
Estimated Total Annual Cost: $575,068, including $8,220 for
operation and maintenance (O&M) costs, $566,848 for labor costs, and
zero for capital/startup costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is no change in the labor hours or
cost in this ICR compared to the previous ICR. This is due to two
considerations: (1) The regulations have not changed over the past
three years and are not anticipated to change over the next three
years; and (2) the growth rate for the industry is very low, negative
or non-existent, so there is no significant change in the overall
burden. It should be noted that the previous ICR rounded the burden
cost down to the nearest one thousand. In this ICR, the exact cost
figure is reported which results in an apparent increase in the cost
when, in fact, no increase has occurred. Also, a mathematical error in
the labor cost burden was corrected.
Since there are no changes in the regulatory requirements and there
is no significant industry growth, the labor hours and cost figures in
the previous ICR are used in this ICR, and there is no change in burden
to industry.
Dated: April 30, 2008.
Sara Hisel-McCoy,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. E8-10507 Filed 5-9-08; 8:45 am]
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