Proposed Information Collection Request; Comment Request; Information Collection Request for Plywood and Composite Wood Products National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) Residual Risk and Technology Review (RTR), 62125-62127 [2016-21507]

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• ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 174 (Thursday, September 8, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 62125-62127]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-21507]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2016-0243; FRL-9951-55-OAR]


Proposed Information Collection Request; Comment Request; 
Information Collection Request for Plywood and Composite Wood Products 
National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) 
Residual Risk and Technology Review (RTR)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is planning to 
submit an information collection request (ICR), ``Information 
Collection Request for Plywood and Composite Wood Products National 
Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) Residual Risk 
and Technology Review (RTR)'' (EPA ICR No. 2552.01, OMB Control No. 
2060--NEW) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and 
approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44 
U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). Before doing so, the EPA is soliciting public 
comments on specific aspects of the proposed information collection as 
described below. This is a request for approval of a new collection. 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: Comments must be submitted on or before November 7, 2016.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-
2016-0243, online using https://www.regulations.gov (our preferred 
method), by email to A-and-R-docket@epa.gov, or by mail to EPA Docket 
Center (EPA/DC), Environmental Protection Agency, Mail Code 28221T, 
1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460.
    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: John Bradfield, Sector Policies and 
Programs Division, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards (E143-
03), Environmental Protection Agency, 109 T.W. Alexander Drive, 
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711; telephone number: (919) 541-3062; fax 
number: (919) 541-3470; email address: bradfield.john@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 https://www.regulations.gov or in person at the EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA 
WJC West Building, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave. NW., Washington, 
DC. The telephone number for the Docket Center is 202-566-1742. The 
telephone number for the public reading room is 202-566-1744. For 
additional information about the EPA's public docket, visit https://www.epa.gov/dockets.
    Pursuant to section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA, the EPA is soliciting 
comments and information to enable it to:
    (i) Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is 
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the Agency, 
including whether the information will have practical utility;
    (ii) Evaluate the accuracy of the Agency's estimate of the burden 
of the proposed collection of information, including the validity of 
the methodology and its practical feasibility and the assumptions used;
    (iii) Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information 
to be collected; and
    (iv) Minimize the burden of the collection of information on those 
who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated 
electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or 
other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic 
submission of responses. The EPA is evaluating the use of the 
Compliance and Emissions Data Reporting Interface (CEDRI) to collect 
ICR data for this category. Using CEDRI can both reduce the ICR 
collection burden through the use of on-line information technology and 
reduce reporting burdens in the future for affected facilities in the 
category. The EPA is interested in receiving comments on the use of 
this data collection approach.
    The EPA will consider the comments received and amend the ICR as 
appropriate. The final ICR package will then be submitted to OMB for 
review and approval. At that time, the EPA will issue another Federal 
Register notice to announce the submission of the ICR to OMB and the 
opportunity to submit additional comments to OMB.
    Abstract: This ICR is being conducted by the EPA's Office of Air 
and Radiation to assist the EPA Administrator to fulfill her 
responsibilities under sections 112(d) and 112(f) of the Clean Air Act 
(CAA), as amended. The CAA requires a review of each NESHAP following 
the application of the standards to determine any remaining risk and 
whether the standards protect public health with an ample margin of 
safety and to determine whether more stringent standards are necessary 
to prevent an adverse environmental effect. The CAA also requires that 
the standard be reviewed and revised, as necessary, taking into account 
developments in practices, processes, and control technology. For 
efficiency and to reduce burden, these reviews are conducted 
concurrently and known as residual risk and technology reviews (RTR). 
In addition to the CAA reviews, in 2007, the United States Court of 
Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued a remand requiring 
the administrator to develop standards for emission units identified in 
the Plywood and Composite Wood Products (PCWP) NESHAP for which 
emission limits were not promulgated.
    The EPA reviewed its emission inventory and compliance databases to 
determine if its current information was sufficient to conduct an RTR 
for the PCWP NESHAP and develop emission limits for the remanded PCWP 
process units. The available data for the affected population of 
plywood, composite wood products, and lumber dry kilns was found to be 
insufficient to adequately review and evaluate the emission standards 
for these source categories. The ICR will provide specific, required 
information, including emission inventories, compliance demonstrations, 
process changes, and information about control technologies/practices 
adopted since the application of maximum achievable control technology 
(MACT). Table 1 contains the North American Industry Classification 
System (NAICS) codes of facilities impacted by this information 
collection. Only major sources and synthetic area sources for these 
NESHAP categories will be affected by this information collection.
    There will be a survey phase, Phase I, and a contingent testing 
phase, Phase

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II, in this information collection. Phase I seeks to collect facility-
level information (e.g., facility name, location, contact information, 
and process unit details), emissions information, compliance data, 
control information, and descriptions of technological innovations. 
Phase I will be sent to all known operators of PCWP facilities that are 
major sources for hazardous air pollutants (HAP) regulated by these 
standards and synthetic area sources which used technology to avoid 
major PCWP NESHAP source status. Phase I responses may contain CBI. The 
survey will be provided and collected in an electronic format. The 
submission requires the owner or operator to certify that the 
information being provided is accurate and complete.
    If the emission information that we collect in Phase I is 
inadequate to assess the remaining risk following the application of 
MACT and/or to assess technological developments in practices, 
processes, or controls that reduce HAP from PCWP facilities, we plan to 
require facilities to conduct emissions testing and will implement 
Phase II. Phase II, the testing phase of the survey, will be sent to 
selected PCWP facilities across the different industry segments. The 
emissions information collected in Phase II, if implemented, will not 
be CBI. However, production information will also be collected so that 
adequate emission factors can be generated from the required testing. 
There may be some production information associated with the emissions 
tests that facilities will consider CBI.
    If OMB approves this ICR, this one-time collection will solicit 
information under authority of CAA section 114. The EPA intends to 
provide the survey in electronic format. The survey will be sent to all 
facilities identified as being affected by the PCWP NESHAP through 
information available to the Agency. The EPA envisions allowing 
recipients 90 days to respond to the survey after it is approved by the 
OMB and distributed to the PCWP industry for their response. Non-
confidential information from this ICR would be made available to the 
public. Any information designated as confidential by a survey 
respondent that the EPA subsequently determines to constitute CBI or a 
trade secret under the EPA's CBI regulations at 40 CFR part 2, subpart 
B, will be protected pursuant to those regulations and, for trade 
secrets, under 18 U.S.C. 1905. If no claim of confidentiality 
accompanies the information when it is received by the EPA, it may be 
made available to the public by the EPA without further notice pursuant 
to the EPA regulations at 40 CFR 2.203. The EPA identified facilities 
potentially subject to the PCWP MACT using the Air Facility System 
(AFS) database, the Facility Registry Service (FRS) database, and the 
Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO) database. Facilities 
were maintained in the facility list if the affected facilities were 
labeled as major sources or synthetic minor sources. This conservative 
approach to identifying affected facilities may overestimate the number 
of respondents.

                Table 1--Examples of Regulated Industries
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       NAICS c odes                Examples of regulated entities
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321113...................  Sawmills with lumber kilns.
321211...................  Hardwood plywood and veneer plants.
321212...................  Softwood plywood and veneer plants.
321213...................  Structural Wood Members, Not Elsewhere
                            Classified (engineered wood products
                            plants).
321219...................  Reconstituted Wood Product Manufacturing.
32199....................  All Other Wood Product Manufacturing.
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    This ICR was developed specifically for facilities regulated by the 
PCWP NESHAP rule and has been tailored to the processes of each PCWP 
manufacturing segment listed in the above table. The federal emission 
standard that is the subject of this information collection is the 
National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Plywood and 
Composite Wood Products (40 CFR part 63, subpart DDDD).
    We have placed in the docket a draft version of the survey and are 
considering two additional response options for which we are requesting 
comment. First, we are considering an optional form for submitting 
emission information which includes default emission factors from AP-42 
and other industry technical publications. Respondents can use the 
listed emission factors or their own factors. We believe this option 
may reduce the survey burden. We are requesting comments about whether 
such an emission estimation tool would be useful. Also, we plan to 
provide facilities the option of an on-line, electronic submission 
approach that will allow the entry of just the facility and sub-
facility information for the Phase I survey directly into the FRS 
database using the Compliance and Emissions Data Reporting Interface 
(CEDRI). While we anticipate that entering data to the FRS database 
through CEDRI would reduce burden for the survey and for future EPA 
information collection activities, we have not estimated the potential 
burden reduction. Comments on the CEDRI/FRS information collection 
approach addressing its usefulness as an alternative and whether 
additional response time would be required are requested.
    Respondents are asked to complete forms from available information, 
and no request is made to create or develop emission estimates from 
information in the literature. Responses to the ICR are mandatory under 
the authority of section 114 of the CAA.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: Phase I of this ICR is specifically 
requesting information from major source facilities regulated by the 
PCWP NESHAP (40 CFR part 63, subpart DDDD) and synthetic area sources 
whose permit limits remove the facility from PCWP applicability. Phase 
II of this ICR, if implemented in whole or part, will only request 
information from major source facilities regulated by the PCWP NESHAP 
(40 CFR part 63, subpart DDDD).
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Responses to the ICR are 
mandatory under the authority of section 114 of the CAA.
    Estimated number of respondents: 425 (total).
    Frequency of response: Once.
    Total estimated burden: Since phase II of this ICR is contingent on 
the information collected in phase I, there is a range in the total 
estimated burden for this ICR. The range is from $12,003,650 to 
$19,778,180 and from 106,065 to 114,306 hours (per year), depending on 
whether Phase II is required. Burden is defined at 5 CFR 1320.03(b).

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    The Agency burden to implement Phase I is 14,658 hours and, 
potentially, 994 hours for Phase II. The estimated cumulative Agency 
burden to administer this ICR (all phases) is 15,652 hours.
    Total estimated cost: The estimated costs for the PCWP industry for 
Phase I is $11,996,531, which includes $7,119 in operating and 
maintenance (O&M) costs to cover mailing hard copies of Phase I. The 
estimated Agency costs to administer Phase I is $511,033, which 
includes $7,353 in O&M costs to send certified CAA section 114 letters 
to all respondents selected for Phase I.
    Since the actions in Phase II are contingent on the information 
collected in Phase I, the cost for Phase II could range from zero to 
the amount needed to conduct all the potential tests outlined in the 
test plan, the maximum amount. The EPA can only estimate the cost on 
the maximum amount at this time, however, since the Phase I information 
has not been collected. The estimated costs for the PCWP industry for 
Phase II, if implemented in whole, is $7,774,530, which includes $637 
in O&M costs to cover mailing hard copies of Phase II. The estimated 
Agency costs to administer Phase II in whole is $34,872, which includes 
$706 in O&M costs to send certified CAA section 114 letters to all 
respondents selected for Phase II surveys with electronic return 
receipt.
    The resulting maximum total industry costs for all phases of this 
ICR is estimated to be $19,778,180, which includes $7,755 in O&M costs 
to cover mailing hard copies of Phase I responses and Phase II. The 
estimated cumulative Agency costs to administer this ICR (all phases) 
is $545,905, which includes $8,059 in O&M costs to send certified CAA 
section 114 letters to all respondents selected for Phase I and Phase 
II surveys with electronic return receipt.
    Changes in Estimates: This is a new ICR, so this section does not 
apply.

Peter Tsirigotis,
Director, Sector Policies and Programs Division, Office of Air Quality 
Planning and Standards.
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