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Abstract: The affected entities are
subject to the General Provisions of the
NESHAP at 40 CFR part 63, subpart A,
and any changes, or additions to the
Provisions specified at 40 CFR part 63,
subpart NNNNN.
Owners or operators of the affected
facilities must submit initial
notification, performance tests, and
periodic reports and results. Owners or
operators 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. Reports, at a minimum, are
required semiannually.
Burden Statement: The annual public
reporting and recordkeeping burden for
this collection of information is
estimated to average 565 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 hydrochloric
acid production facilities.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
81.
Frequency of Response: Initially,
occasionally, and semiannually.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:
105,033.
Estimated Total Annual Cost:
$10,789,637, which includes
$10,086,076 in labor costs, $1,424 in
capital/startup costs, and $702,137 in
operation and maintenance (O&M)
costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is an
increase in burden hours to the
respondent as compared to the most
recently approved ICR. The increase is
due to industry growth in the past three
years, resulting in additional number of
respondents that are subject to this
standard, and corrections to
mathematical errors found in the
previous ICR. The growth in respondent
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universe also results in an increase in
the total O&M costs.
In addition, there is an increase in
burden costs to both the respondent and
the Agency due to an adjustment in
labor rates. This ICR uses the most
recent labor rates from the Bureau of
Labor Statistics in calculating the labor
costs.
There is a decrease in capital/startup
costs in this ICR as compared to the
most recently approved ICR. The
previous ICR includes startup costs for
all existing and new respondents. This
ICR was updated to correctly reflect
capital/startup costs associated with
new sources only.
John Moses,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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[EPA–HQ–OAR–2003–0162; FRL 9521–6]
Information Collection Request
Submitted to OMB for Review and
Approval; Comment Request; Regional
Haze Regulations (Renewal)
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Environmental Protection
Agency has submitted an information
collection request (ICR), ‘‘Regional Haze
Regulations’’ (EPA ICR No. 1813.08,
OMB Control No. 2060–0421), 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
October 31, 2012. Public comments
were previously requested via the
Federal Register (77 FR 24952) on April
26, 2012, 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 October 12,
2012.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
referencing Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–
OAR–2003–0162, to (1) EPA online
using www.regulations.gov (our
preferred method), by email to : a-andSUMMARY:
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r-docket@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA
Docket Center, Environmental
Protection Agency, Mail Code 28221T,
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20460, and (2) OMB via
email to oira_submission@omb.eop.gov.
Address comments to OMB Desk Officer
for EPA.
The 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: Ms.
Gobeail McKinley (919) 541–5246,
mckinley.gobeail@epa.gov, Office of Air
Quality Planning and Standards, Air
Quality Policy Division, Mail Code
C539–04, Research Triangle Park, NC
27711.
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, EPA West, Room
3334, 1301 Constitution Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC The telephone number
for the Docket Center is 202–566–1744.
For additional information about EPA’s
public docket, visit https://www.epa.gov/
dockets.
Abstract: This ICR is for activities
related to the implementation of the
EPA’s 1999 regional haze rule, for the
time period between October 31, 2012
and October 30, 2015, and renews the
previous ICR. The regional haze rule, as
authorized by sections 169A and 169B
of the Clean Air Act (CAA), requires
states to develop implementation plans
to protect visibility in 156 federallyprotected Class I areas. Tribes may
choose to develop implementation
plans. For this time period, states will
be completing their implementation
plans to comply with the rule. Before
any agency, department, or
instrumentality of the federal
government engages in, supports in any
way, provides financial assistance for,
licenses, permits, or approves any
activity, that agency has the affirmative
responsibility to ensure that such action
conforms to the State Implementation
Plan (SIP) required under the regional
haze rule. Section 176(c) of the CAA
requires that all Federal actions conform
with the SIP requirements. Depending
on the type of action, the federal entities
must collect information themselves,
hire consultants to collect the
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information or require applicants/
sponsors of the federal action to provide
the information.
Respondents/affected entities: Entities
potentially affected by this action are
state, local, and tribal air quality
agencies, regional planning
organizations and facilities potentially
regulated under the regional haze rule.
Respondents/affected entities: States
and Federal Land Managers.
Respondent’s obligation to respond:
Mandatory.
Estimated number of respondents: 53.
Frequency of response: Annual.
Total estimated burden: 6,048 hours.
Total estimated cost: $293,631. This
includes an estimated labor cost of
$293,631 and an estimated cost of $0 for
capital investment or maintenance and
operational costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is a
decrease of 25,793 hours in the total
estimated burden currently identified in
the OMB Inventory of Approved ICR
Burdens. The last collection request
anticipated the program progressing
from the planning stages to
implementation. The change in burden
reflects changes in labor rates, changes
in the activities conducted due to the
normal progression of the program, and
the fact that the aggregate initial
regional haze SIPs and best available
retrofit technology (BART)
determinations will be acted on by the
EPA by November 2012 and the states
will be evaluating reasonable progress
and implementation stages for the goals
in those SIPs.
John Moses,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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Notification of an External Peer Review
Meeting for the Draft Framework for
Human Health Risk Assessment to
Inform Decision Making
U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency.
ACTION: Notice of an external peer
review meeting.
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AGENCY:
The EPA Office of the Science
Advisor announces that Versar, Inc., a
contractor to the EPA, will convene an
independent panel of experts to review
the draft document, Framework for
Human Health Risk Assessment to
Inform Decision Making. Any member
of the public may register to attend this
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peer review meeting as an observer.
Time will be set aside for observers to
give brief oral comments on the draft
document at the meeting. The draft
document is available via the internet
on the Risk Assessment Forum web
page (https://www.epa.gov/raf/
frameworkhhra.htm).
DATES: The peer review panel meeting
on the draft document, Framework for
Human Health Risk Assessment to
Inform Decision Making will be held on
October 9, 2012, from 9:00 a.m. to
approximately 5:00 p.m. Eastern
Daylight Time, with registration
beginning at 8:30 a.m.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at
the Hyatt Regency Crystal City, 2799
Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, VA
22202.
Internet: The draft document can be
downloaded from https://www.epa.gov/
raf/frameworkhhra.htm.
Instructions: To attend the peer
review meeting as an observer, register
no later than October 2, 2012 by calling
Kathy Coon at Versar, Inc., on (703)
750–3000 ext. 545 or toll free on (800)
283–7727; sending a facsimile to (703)
642–6809 (subject line: HHRA
Framework Meeting; and include your
name, title, affiliation, full address and
contact information in the body of the
facsimile), or sending an email to
saundkat@versar.com (subject line:
HHRA Framework Meeting; and include
your name, title, affiliation, full address
and contact information in the body of
the email). Space is limited, and
registrations will be accepted on a firstcome, first-served basis. There will be a
limited time for comments from the
public at the peer review meeting.
Please inform Versar, Inc., in your
registration request, if you wish to make
oral comments during the meeting.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Julie
Fitzpatrick, Office of the Science
Advisor, Mail Code 8105–R, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington,
DC 20460; telephone number: (202)
564–4212; fax number: (202) 564–2070,
email: fitzpatrick.julie@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The EPA
has an established history of conducting
human health risk assessments. The
final Framework is intended to foster
increased implementation of existing
agency guidance for conducting human
health risk assessments and improve the
utility of risk assessment in the
decision-making process.
In developing the draft Framework,
the relevant recommendations
presented in the National Research
Council’s report Science and Decisions:
Advancing Risk Assessment have been
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taken into consideration. Specifically,
the recommendations that the EPA
formalize and implement planning,
scoping and problem formulation early
in the risk assessment process and that
the agency adopt a framework for riskbased decision-making are included in
this Framework.
The draft Framework highlights the
important roles of planning and scoping
as well as problem formulation in
designing a human health risk
assessment process. In accord with longstanding agency policy, it also
emphasizes the importance of both
scientific review and public
involvement. The Framework presents
the concept of ‘‘fit for purpose’’ to
address the development of risk
assessments and associated products
that are for informing risk management
decisions. The final Framework will
also highlight the agency’s emphasis on
the importance of transparency in
human health risk assessment and
decision-making processes.
This document is not intended to
supersede existing agency guidance;
instead, by citing and discussing
existing guidance in the context of the
proposed framework, it is intended to
foster more effective implementation of
that guidance.
The EPA previously announced the
release of the draft Framework for a 60
day comment period (77 FR 44613),
which ends on September 28, 2012.
Public comments submitted during the
public comment period may be viewed
at https://www.regulations.gov under
Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD–2012–
0579. The EPA will forward all public
comments to Versar, Inc., for
distribution to the members of the
review panel. The external review draft
does not represent agency policy. As it
finalizes the draft document, the EPA
intends to consider the comments from
the external peer review meeting, along
with public comments received by
September 28, 2012, in accordance with
77 FR 44613.
Dated: September 6, 2012.
Glenn Paulson,
Science Advisor.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OAR-2003-0162; FRL 9521-6]
Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and
Approval; Comment Request; Regional Haze Regulations (Renewal)
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency has submitted an
information collection request (ICR), ``Regional Haze Regulations''
(EPA ICR No. 1813.08, OMB Control No. 2060-0421), 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
October 31, 2012. Public comments were previously requested via the
Federal Register (77 FR 24952) on April 26, 2012, 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 October 12,
2012.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-
2003-0162, to (1) EPA online using www.regulations.gov (our preferred
method), by email to : a-and-r-docket@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA
Docket Center, Environmental Protection Agency, Mail Code 28221T, 1200
Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20460, and (2) OMB via email to
oira_submission@omb.eop.gov. Address comments to OMB Desk Officer for
EPA.
The 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: Ms. Gobeail McKinley (919) 541-5246,
mckinley.gobeail@epa.gov, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards,
Air Quality Policy Division, Mail Code C539-04, Research Triangle Park,
NC 27711.
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, EPA West,
Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC The telephone
number for the Docket Center is 202-566-1744. For additional
information about EPA's public docket, visit https://www.epa.gov/dockets.
Abstract: This ICR is for activities related to the implementation
of the EPA's 1999 regional haze rule, for the time period between
October 31, 2012 and October 30, 2015, and renews the previous ICR. The
regional haze rule, as authorized by sections 169A and 169B of the
Clean Air Act (CAA), requires states to develop implementation plans to
protect visibility in 156 federally-protected Class I areas. Tribes may
choose to develop implementation plans. For this time period, states
will be completing their implementation plans to comply with the rule.
Before any agency, department, or instrumentality of the federal
government engages in, supports in any way, provides financial
assistance for, licenses, permits, or approves any activity, that
agency has the affirmative responsibility to ensure that such action
conforms to the State Implementation Plan (SIP) required under the
regional haze rule. Section 176(c) of the CAA requires that all Federal
actions conform with the SIP requirements. Depending on the type of
action, the federal entities must collect information themselves, hire
consultants to collect the
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information or require applicants/sponsors of the federal action to
provide the information.
Respondents/affected entities: Entities potentially affected by
this action are state, local, and tribal air quality agencies, regional
planning organizations and facilities potentially regulated under the
regional haze rule.
Respondents/affected entities: States and Federal Land Managers.
Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory.
Estimated number of respondents: 53.
Frequency of response: Annual.
Total estimated burden: 6,048 hours.
Total estimated cost: $293,631. This includes an estimated labor
cost of $293,631 and an estimated cost of $0 for capital investment or
maintenance and operational costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is a decrease of 25,793 hours in
the total estimated burden currently identified in the OMB Inventory of
Approved ICR Burdens. The last collection request anticipated the
program progressing from the planning stages to implementation. The
change in burden reflects changes in labor rates, changes in the
activities conducted due to the normal progression of the program, and
the fact that the aggregate initial regional haze SIPs and best
available retrofit technology (BART) determinations will be acted on by
the EPA by November 2012 and the states will be evaluating reasonable
progress and implementation stages for the goals in those SIPs.
John Moses,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. 2012-22404 Filed 9-11-12; 8:45 am]
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