Clean Air Act Prevention of Significant Deterioration Permit Issued to Tucson Electric Power for the Irvington Generating Station Project, 3159-3160 [2019-01921]
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(EPA ICR No. 1541.12, OMB Control No.
2060–0183), to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval in accordance with
the Paperwork Reduction Act. This is a
proposed extension of the ICR, which is
currently approved through March 31,
2019. Public comments were previously
requested, via the Federal Register, on
June 29, 2017 during a 60-day comment
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A fuller description of the ICR is given
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and cost to the public. An agency may
neither conduct nor sponsor, and a
person is not required to respond to, a
collection of information unless it
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number.
DATES: Additional comments may be
submitted on or before March 13, 2019.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
referencing Docket ID Number EPA–
HQ–OECA–2014–0046, to: (1) EPA
online using www.regulations.gov (our
preferred method), or by email to
docket.oeca@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA
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Business Information (CBI), or other
information whose disclosure is
restricted by statute.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Patrick Yellin, Monitoring, Assistance,
and Media Programs Division, Office of
Compliance, Mail Code 2227A,
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC
20460; telephone number: (202) 564–
2970; fax number: (202) 564–0050;
email address: yellin.patrick@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
www.regulations.gov, or in person at the
EPA Docket Center, WJC West, Room
3334, 1301 Constitution Ave. 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.
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Abstract: The National Emission
Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants
(NESHAP) for Benzene Waste
Operations (40 CFR part 61, subpart FF)
apply to existing facilities and new
facilities that generate waste containing
benzene, such as chemical
manufacturing plants, coke by-product
recovery plants, petroleum refineries,
and those owners and operators of
hazardous waste treatment, storage, and
disposal facilities (TSDF) that receive
wastes from the above facilities. In
general, all NESHAP standards require
initial notifications, performance tests,
and periodic reports by the owners/
operators of the affected facilities. They
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. These
notifications, reports, and records are
essential in determining compliance
with 40 CFR part 61, subpart FF.
Form Numbers: None.
Respondents/affected entities:
Owners and operators of benzene waste
facilities.
Respondent’s obligation to respond:
Mandatory (40 CFR part 61, subpart FF).
Estimated number of respondents:
270 (total).
Frequency of response: Quarterly and
annually.
Total estimated burden: 19,500 hours
(per year). Burden is defined at 5 CFR
1320.3(b).
Total estimated cost: $2,130,000 (per
year), which includes $0 in annualized
capital/startup and/or operation &
maintenance costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is an
adjustment increase in the total
estimated burden as currently identified
in the OMB Inventory of Approved
Burdens. This increase is not due to any
program changes, but reflects the
addition of burden hours to account for
the time spent by existing facilities to
re-familiarize themselves annually with
the rule requirements.
Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[FRL–9989–26—Region 9]
Clean Air Act Prevention of Significant
Deterioration Permit Issued to Tucson
Electric Power for the Irvington
Generating Station Project
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of final action.
AGENCY:
This notice announces that
the Pima County Department of
Environmental Quality (PDEQ) issued a
final permit decision to Tucson Electric
Power for a Clean Air Act Prevention of
Significant Deterioration (PSD) permit
(Permit No. 1052) for the Irvington
Generating Station Project (Project). The
PDEQ is authorized to issue PSD permit
decisions pursuant to a delegation
agreement with the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA), Region IX
(EPA Region IX), in which the PDEQ
‘‘stands in the shoes’’ of the EPA when
administering certain elements of the
PSD permitting program. The PDEQ’s
final permit decision is a federallyissued PSD permit decision and serves
as a final agency action by the EPA.
DATES: The final PSD permit decision
for the Project was issued and became
effective on December 3, 2018. Pursuant
to section 307(b)(1) of the Clean Air Act,
42 U.S.C. 7607(b)(1), judicial review of
this final permit decision, to the extent
it is available, may be sought by filing
a petition for review in the United
States Court of Appeals for the Ninth
Circuit within 60 days of April 12, 2019.
ADDRESSES: The PDEQ established a
web page for this action at https://
webcms.pima.gov/cms/One.aspx?
portalId=169&pageId=363558, where
documents associated with this action,
including the final PSD permit, is
available. Please contact the PDEQ
contact identified in the FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section for
additional information about accessing
materials for this action. Additionally,
anyone who wishes to review the EPA’s
Environmental Appeal Board’s (EAB)
decision described below or documents
in the EAB’s electronic docket for its
decision can obtain them at https://
www.epa.gov/eab.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Rupesh Patel, Air Quality Program
Manager, PDEQ, (520) 724–7341,
Rupesh.Patel@pima.gov or Lisa
Beckham, Air Permits Office, EPA
Region IX, (415) 972–3811,
beckham.lisa@epa.gov.
Notice of Final Action And
Supplementary Information: On August
SUMMARY:
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8, 2018, the PDEQ issued PSD Permit
No. 1052 to Tucson Electric Power
under 40 CFR 124.15, authorizing the
construction and operation of the
Project. EPA regulations at 40 CFR
124.19 provided an opportunity for
administrative review by the EPA’s EAB
of this initial permit decision. The
EPA’s EAB received one petition for
review of the permit. By its own terms,
and consistent with 40 CFR 124.15(b),
the effective date of the permit was
delayed as the result of the filing of a
petition for review of the PDEQ’s permit
decision with the EAB.
On December 3, 2018, the EAB denied
review of the permit decision. See In re
Tucson Electric Power, PSD Appeal No.
18–02 (EAB Dec. 3, 2018) (Order
Denying Review). Following the EAB’s
action, pursuant to 40 CFR 124.19(l)(2),
the PDEQ issued a final permit decision
on December 3, 2018. All conditions of
the PSD permit, as initially issued by
the PDEQ on August 8, 2018, were final
and effective as of December 3, 2018.
Dated: December 26, 2018.
Elizabeth J. Adams,
Division Director, Region IX.
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[EPA–HQ–OECA–2013–0331; FRL–9988–
76–OEI]
Information Collection Request
Submitted to OMB for Review and
Approval; Comment Request; NSPS
for New Residential Wood Heaters
(Renewal)
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) has submitted an
information collection request (ICR),
NSPS for New Residential Wood
Heaters (EPA ICR No. 1176.13, OMB
Control No. 2060–0161), to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval in accordance with
the Paperwork Reduction Act. This is a
proposed extension of the ICR, which is
currently approved through March 31,
2019. Public comments were previously
requested, via the Federal Register, on
June 29, 2017 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
neither conduct nor sponsor, and a
SUMMARY:
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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 March 13, 2019.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
referencing Docket ID Number EPA–
HQ–OECA–2013–0331, to: (1) EPA
online using www.regulations.gov (our
preferred method), or by email to
docket.oeca@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA
Docket Center, Environmental
Protection Agency, Mail Code 28221T,
1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW,
Washington, DC 20460; and (2) OMB via
email to oira_submission@omb.eop.gov.
Address comments to OMB Desk Officer
for EPA.
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:
Patrick Yellin, Monitoring, Assistance,
and Media Programs Division, Office of
Compliance, Mail Code 2227A,
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC
20460; telephone number: (202) 564–
2970; fax number: (202) 564–0050;
email address: yellin.patrick@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
www.regulations.gov, or in person at the
EPA Docket Center, WJC West, Room
3334, 1301 Constitution Ave. 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: The New Source
Performance Standards (NSPS) for New
Residential Wood Heaters (40 CFR 60,
Subpart AAA) apply to existing
facilities and new facilities that contain
wood heaters. A wood heater is defined
as an enclosed, wood burning appliance
capable of and intended for residential
or space heating and domestic water
heating. Unless otherwise specified,
these devices include, but are not
limited to, adjustable burn rate wood
heaters, single burn rate wood heaters
and pellet stoves. New facilities include
those that commenced construction,
modification or reconstruction after the
date of proposal.
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One feature of the NSPS requires
emphasis at the outset, which is that the
requirements of subpart AAA establish
a certification program instead of the
usual NSPS requirements, where each
affected facility is required to
demonstrate compliance through
performance testing. Under the subpart
AAA-required certification program, a
single wood heater is tested to
demonstrate compliance with
particulate matter (PM) emission limits
for an entire model line, which could
consist of thousands of stoves. The use
of a certification approach significantly
reduces the compliance burden,
including information collection, for the
manufacturers of wood heating
appliances. In order to minimize risks to
the environment from intentional or
accidental misuse of the certification
approach, subpart AAA includes several
safeguards, some of which entail
reporting and recordkeeping.
Form Numbers: None.
Respondents/affected entities:
Owners and operators of facilities that
contain new residential wood heaters.
Respondent’s obligation to respond:
Mandatory (40 CFR part 60, subpart
AAA).
Estimated number of respondents: 45
(total).
Frequency of response: Initially,
occasionally, and annually.
Total estimated burden: 4,320 hours
(per year). Burden is defined at 5 CFR
1320.3(b).
Total estimated cost: $1,210,000 (per
year), which includes $740,000 in
annualized capital/startup and/or
operation & maintenance costs.
Changes in the estimates: There is an
increase in the total estimated
respondent annual burden as currently
identified in the OMB Inventory of
Approved Burdens due to an increase in
the number of test laboratories and
third-party certifiers subject to these
standards. The number of sources has
been adjusted in this ICR to reflect more
current information obtained regarding
the number of manufacturers certifying
model lines in advance of Subpart
AAA’s Step 2 p.m. standards, which go
into effect in 2020, as well as data that
indicates a decline in the number of
manufacturers based on ongoing
industry consolidation and decreasing
market size, and to reflect additional
entities obtaining EPA approval as test
laboratories or third-party certifiers.
There is a decrease in capital/startup
costs as compared to the previous ICR.
This change is due to a decrease in the
number of manufacturers, and because
initial compliance requirements for test
laboratories and third-party certifiers
within the standard occurred during the
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-9989-26--Region 9]
Clean Air Act Prevention of Significant Deterioration Permit
Issued to Tucson Electric Power for the Irvington Generating Station
Project
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of final action.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces that the Pima County Department of
Environmental Quality (PDEQ) issued a final permit decision to Tucson
Electric Power for a Clean Air Act Prevention of Significant
Deterioration (PSD) permit (Permit No. 1052) for the Irvington
Generating Station Project (Project). The PDEQ is authorized to issue
PSD permit decisions pursuant to a delegation agreement with the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Region IX (EPA Region IX), in
which the PDEQ ``stands in the shoes'' of the EPA when administering
certain elements of the PSD permitting program. The PDEQ's final permit
decision is a federally-issued PSD permit decision and serves as a
final agency action by the EPA.
DATES: The final PSD permit decision for the Project was issued and
became effective on December 3, 2018. Pursuant to section 307(b)(1) of
the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. 7607(b)(1), judicial review of this final
permit decision, to the extent it is available, may be sought by filing
a petition for review in the United States Court of Appeals for the
Ninth Circuit within 60 days of April 12, 2019.
ADDRESSES: The PDEQ established a web page for this action at https://webcms.pima.gov/cms/One.aspx?portalId=169&pageId=363558, where
documents associated with this action, including the final PSD permit,
is available. Please contact the PDEQ contact identified in the FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section for additional information about
accessing materials for this action. Additionally, anyone who wishes to
review the EPA's Environmental Appeal Board's (EAB) decision described
below or documents in the EAB's electronic docket for its decision can
obtain them at https://www.epa.gov/eab.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rupesh Patel, Air Quality Program
Manager, PDEQ, (520) 724-7341, Rupesh.Patel@pima.gov or Lisa Beckham,
Air Permits Office, EPA Region IX, (415) 972-3811,
beckham.lisa@epa.gov.
Notice of Final Action And Supplementary Information: On August
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8, 2018, the PDEQ issued PSD Permit No. 1052 to Tucson Electric Power
under 40 CFR 124.15, authorizing the construction and operation of the
Project. EPA regulations at 40 CFR 124.19 provided an opportunity for
administrative review by the EPA's EAB of this initial permit decision.
The EPA's EAB received one petition for review of the permit. By its
own terms, and consistent with 40 CFR 124.15(b), the effective date of
the permit was delayed as the result of the filing of a petition for
review of the PDEQ's permit decision with the EAB.
On December 3, 2018, the EAB denied review of the permit decision.
See In re Tucson Electric Power, PSD Appeal No. 18-02 (EAB Dec. 3,
2018) (Order Denying Review). Following the EAB's action, pursuant to
40 CFR 124.19(l)(2), the PDEQ issued a final permit decision on
December 3, 2018. All conditions of the PSD permit, as initially issued
by the PDEQ on August 8, 2018, were final and effective as of December
3, 2018.
Dated: December 26, 2018.
Elizabeth J. Adams,
Division Director, Region IX.
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