Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Inorganic Arsenic Emissions From Glass Manufacturing Plants) (Renewal), 50344-50345 [2021-19433]

Download as PDF 50344 Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 171 / Wednesday, September 8, 2021 / Notices Changes in the Estimates: There is a decrease in the total estimated burden as currently identified in the OMB Inventory of Approved Burdens. This decrease is not due to any program changes. The decrease in burden from the most-recently approved ICR is due to a decrease in the number of sources. This ICR reflects a decrease in the number of respondents and additional respondents that the Agency anticipates will become subject to these standards or modify existing facilities. The estimates in the current approved ICR were based on estimates collected in 2008 and adjusted for growth over time. This ICR adjusts the number of respondents based on a review of facilities identified in EPA’s Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO) database, assuming a similar rate of growth and modification of existing facilities (about two and three percent, respectively). EPA’s ECHO database is the most-recent source of facility information available for hot mix asphalt facilities and should reflect a more accurate estimate of existing facilities. We have assumed a similar rate of growth and modification of existing facilities due to anticipated continuous demand within the asphalt mixing industry. This ICR also corrects an error from the most-recently approved ICR by accounting for the burden for responses for notifications of performance tests for respondents required to conduct a repeat performance test. The overall result is a decrease in burden. Courtney Kerwin, Director, Regulatory Support Division. [FR Doc. 2021–19473 Filed 9–7–21; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6560–50–P ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY [EPA–HQ–OAR–2020–0630; FRL–8970–01– OMS] Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Inorganic Arsenic Emissions From Glass Manufacturing Plants) (Renewal) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Notice. jbell on DSKJLSW7X2PROD with NOTICES AGENCY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), ‘‘NESHAP for Inorganic Arsenic Emissions from Glass Manufacturing Plants (EPA ICR Number 1081.13, OMB Control Number 2060–0043), to the SUMMARY: VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:21 Sep 07, 2021 Jkt 253001 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 December 31, 2021. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register on February 8, 2021 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 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 8, 2021. ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA– HQ–OAR–2020–0630 online using www.regulations.gov (our preferred method) or by mail to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental Protection Agency, Mail Code 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460. 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. Submit written comments and recommendations to OMB for the proposed information collection within 30 days of publication of this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular information collection by selecting ‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or by using the search function. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Muntasir Ali, Sector Policies and Program Division (D243–05), Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 27711; telephone number: (919) 541– 0833; email address: ali.muntasir@ 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, WJC West Building, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution PO 00000 Frm 00022 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 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 National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) for Inorganic Arsenic Emissions from Glass Manufacturing Plants (40 CFR part 61, subpart N) apply to each existing and new glass melting furnace that uses commercial arsenic as a raw material located at a glass manufacturing plant. These standards do not apply to pot furnaces; in addition, these standards do not consider re-bricking as either construction or modification for the purposes of 40 CFR 61.05(a). New facilities include those that commenced either construction or reconstruction after the date of proposal. 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 N. Form Numbers: None. Respondents/affected entities: Glass manufacturing plants. Respondent’s obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 61, subpart N). Estimated number of respondents: 16 (total). Frequency of response: Initially, occasionally and semiannually. Total estimated burden: 3,100 hours (per year). Burden is defined at 5 CFR 1320.3(b). Total estimated cost: $423,000 (per year), which includes $56,000 in annualized capital/startup and/or operation & maintenance costs. Changes in the Estimates: There is no change in burden from the mostrecently approved ICR as currently identified in the OMB Inventory of Approved Burdens. 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 this industry is very low or nonexistent, so there is no significant change in the overall burden. Since there are no changes in the regulatory requirements and there is no significant industry growth, there are also no changes in the capital/startup or E:\FR\FM\08SEN1.SGM 08SEN1 Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 171 / Wednesday, September 8, 2021 / Notices operation and maintenance (O&M) costs. Courtney Kerwin, Director, Regulatory Support Division. [FR Doc. 2021–19433 Filed 9–7–21; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6560–50–P ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY [FRL–8926–01–OA] Request for Nominations of Candidates for Two Review Panels of the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Notice. AGENCY: The EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office requests public nominations of scientific experts for two ad hoc review panels of the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC). The review panels will provide advice through the chartered CASAC on the scientific and technical aspects of air quality criteria and the primary and secondary National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for lead and the secondary NAAQS for oxides of nitrogen, oxides of sulfur, and particulate matter (PM). DATES: Nominations should be submitted by September 29, 2021 per the instructions below. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any member of the public wishing further information regarding this Notice and Request for Nominations may contact Mr. Aaron Yeow, Designated Federal Officer (DFO), SAB Staff Office, by telephone/voice mail at (202) 564–2050 or via email at yeow.aaron@epa.gov. General information concerning the CASAC can be found on the following website: https://casac.epa.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Background: The CASAC was established pursuant to the Clean Air Act (CAA) Amendments of 1977, codified at 42 U.S.C. 7409(d)(2), to review air quality criteria and NAAQS and recommend to the EPA Administrator any new NAAQS and revisions of existing criteria and NAAQS as may be appropriate. The CASAC shall also: Advise the EPA Administrator of areas in which additional knowledge is required to appraise the adequacy and basis of existing, new, or revised NAAQS; describe the research efforts necessary to provide the required information; advise the EPA Administrator on the relative contribution to air pollution jbell on DSKJLSW7X2PROD with NOTICES SUMMARY: VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:21 Sep 07, 2021 Jkt 253001 concentrations of natural as well as anthropogenic activity; and advise the EPA Administrator of any adverse public health, welfare, social, economic, or energy effects which may result from various strategies for attainment and maintenance of such NAAQS. As amended, 5 U.S.C., App. Section 109(d)(1) of the Clean Air Act (CAA) requires that EPA carry out a periodic review and revision, as appropriate, of the air quality criteria and the NAAQS for the six ‘‘criteria’’ air pollutants, including lead, oxides of nitrogen oxides, oxides of sulfur, and PM. The CASAC is a Federal advisory committee chartered under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA). As a Federal Advisory Committee, the CASAC conducts business in accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) (5 U.S.C. App. 2) and related regulations. The CASAC and the CASAC Review Panels will comply with the provisions of FACA and all appropriate SAB Staff Office procedural policies. History of the Lead NAAQS Review: With the publication of the National Ambient Standards for lead (81 FR 71906) on October 18, 2016, the Agency completed its most recent review of the lead NAAQS. The CASAC’s Lead Review Panel for that review was formed in July 2010 and completed its work in June 2013. In July 2020, the EPA publicly announced the initiation of the current primary and secondary NAAQS review for lead (85 FR 40641). This Federal Register notice solicitation is seeking nominations for subject matter experts to serve on the CASAC Lead Review Panel for the next review of the lead NAAQS that began with a call for information in July 2020 (85 FR 40641). The Panel will be charged with reviewing the science and policy assessments, and related documents, that form the basis for the EPA’s review of the lead NAAQS, and will provide advice through the Chartered CASAC. History of the Current Oxides of Nitrogen, Oxides of Sulfur, and PM Secondary NAAQS Review: In August 2013, the EPA publicly announced the initiation of the NAAQS review for oxides of nitrogen and oxides of sulfur (78 FR 53452). In the Integrated Review Plan for the Secondary NAAQS for Ecological Effects of Oxides of Nitrogen, Oxides of Sulfur, and Particulate Matter (IRP), EPA recognized the combined contribution of oxides of nitrogen, oxides of sulfur and PM to deposition of nitrogen and sulfur and the overlap of effects of these air pollutants on ecological systems. As such, EPA stated the plan to review the ecological effects PO 00000 Frm 00023 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 50345 of these three criteria pollutants together in this review and the IRP was finalized in 2017 following consultation with the CASAC and the CASAC Secondary NAAQS Review Panel for Oxides of Nitrogen and Sulfur. The first and second drafts of the Integrated Science Assessment for Oxides of Nitrogen, Oxides of Sulfur and Particulate Matter—Ecological Criteria were released in 2017 and 2018 and reviewed by the CASAC and the CASAC Secondary NAAQS Review Panel for Oxides of Nitrogen and Sulfur. The final ISA was published in 2020 (85 FR 66328). In addition, EPA released the Review of the Secondary Standards for Ecological Effects of Oxides of Nitrogen, Oxides of Sulfur, and Particulate Matter: Risk and Exposure Assessment Planning Document in 2018 (83 FR 42497), which the CASAC Secondary NAAQS Review Panel for Oxides of Nitrogen and Sulfur provided consultative advice on. On March 31, 2021, the Administrator reset membership of the Chartered CASAC and existing CASAC panels, including the CASAC Secondary NAAQS Review Panel for Oxides of Nitrogen and Sulfur. On June 17, 2021, the new Chartered CASAC members were announced. This Federal Register notice solicitation is seeking nominations for subject matter experts to serve on the CASAC Oxides of Nitrogen, Oxides of Sulfur, and PM Secondary NAAQS Panel to review the Policy Assessment for the EPA’s review of the Oxides of Nitrogen, Oxides of Sulfur, and PM Secondary NAAQS, and will provide advice through the Chartered CASAC. Request for Nominations: The SAB Staff Office is seeking nominations of nationally and internationally recognized scientists with demonstrated expertise and research in the field of air pollution related to criteria pollutants. For the Lead Panel, experts are being sought in the following fields, especially with respect to lead: Air quality; environmental fate and transport; exposure and biomarker assessment; biokinetic modeling; toxicology; epidemiology; risk assessment; biostatistics; and ecology. For the Oxides of Nitrogen, Oxides of Sulfur, and PM Secondary NAAQS Panel, experts are being sought in the following fields, especially with respect to nitrogen oxides, sulfur oxides and PM: Ecological effects of atmospheric concentrations and deposition to terrestrial, wetland and aquatic ecosystems; ecosystem exposure and risk assessment/modeling; ecosystem service and resource valuation; and atmospheric sciences. E:\FR\FM\08SEN1.SGM 08SEN1

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[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 171 (Wednesday, September 8, 2021)]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2020-0630; FRL-8970-01-OMS]


Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Inorganic Arsenic Emissions From 
Glass Manufacturing Plants) (Renewal)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an 
information collection request (ICR), ``NESHAP for Inorganic Arsenic 
Emissions from Glass Manufacturing Plants (EPA ICR Number 1081.13, OMB 
Control Number 2060-0043), 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 December 31, 2021. Public comments were previously requested 
via the Federal Register on February 8, 2021 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 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 8, 
2021.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OAR-2020-0630 online using www.regulations.gov (our preferred method) 
or by mail to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental Protection Agency, Mail 
Code 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460.
    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.
    Submit written comments and recommendations to OMB for the proposed 
information collection within 30 days of publication of this notice to 
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular information 
collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--Open for 
Public Comments'' or by using the search function.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Muntasir Ali, Sector Policies and 
Program Division (D243-05), Office of Air Quality Planning and 
Standards, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle 
Park, North Carolina, 27711; telephone number: (919) 541-0833; email 
address: [email protected].

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, 
WJC West Building, 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 National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air 
Pollutants (NESHAP) for Inorganic Arsenic Emissions from Glass 
Manufacturing Plants (40 CFR part 61, subpart N) apply to each existing 
and new glass melting furnace that uses commercial arsenic as a raw 
material located at a glass manufacturing plant. These standards do not 
apply to pot furnaces; in addition, these standards do not consider re-
bricking as either construction or modification for the purposes of 40 
CFR 61.05(a). New facilities include those that commenced either 
construction or reconstruction after the date of proposal. 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 N.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: Glass manufacturing plants.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 61, 
subpart N).
    Estimated number of respondents: 16 (total).
    Frequency of response: Initially, occasionally and semiannually.
    Total estimated burden: 3,100 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
    Total estimated cost: $423,000 (per year), which includes $56,000 
in annualized capital/startup and/or operation & maintenance costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is no change in burden from the 
most-recently approved ICR as currently identified in the OMB Inventory 
of Approved Burdens. 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 this industry is very low or non-existent, so there is no 
significant change in the overall burden. Since there are no changes in 
the regulatory requirements and there is no significant industry 
growth, there are also no changes in the capital/startup or

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operation and maintenance (O&M) costs.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2021-19433 Filed 9-7-21; 8:45 am]
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