[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 249 (Tuesday, December 29, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71636-71637]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-34425]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-6212-8]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request; National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air
Pollutants: Radionuclides
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 notice announces that the following Information
Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for review and approval: National Emission Standards
for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Radionuclides, OMB Control Number
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2060-0191, expiration date 1/31/99. The ICR describes the nature of the
information collection and its expected cost and burden; where
appropriate, it includes the actual data collection instrument.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before January 28, 1999.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION OR A COPY CALL: Sandy Farmer at EPA by phone at
(202) 260-2740, by email at farmer.sandy@epamail.epa.gov, or download
off the Internet at http://www.epa.gov/icr and refer to EPA ICR No.
1100.09.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title: National Emission Standards for
Hazardous Air Pollutant: Radionuclides (OMB Control No. 2060-0191; EPA
ICR No. 1100.09). Expiring 1/31/99. This is a request for extension of
a currently approved collection.
Abstract: On December 15, 1989 pursuant to section 112 of the Clean
Air Act as amended in 1977 (42 USC 1857), the Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) promulgated NESHAPs to control radionuclide emissions from
several source categories. The regulations were published in 54 FR
51653, and are codified at 40 CFR subparts B, H, K, R, and W, and
impose the following radionuclide dose and emission standards:
Subpart B--Underground Uranium Mines--10 mrem/yr
Subpart H--Department of Energy Facilities--10 mrem/yr, 20 pci/m\2\-s
Subpart K--Elemental Phosphorous Plants--2 curies/yr
Subpart R--Phosphogypsum Stacks--20 pci/m\2\-s
Information collected is used by EPA to ensure that public health
continues to be protected from the hazards of airborne radionuclides by
compliance with these standards. If the information were not collected,
it is unlikely that a violation of the standards would be identified
and, thus, there would be no corrective action initiated to bring the
facilities back into compliance. Compliance is demonstrated through
emission testing and/or dose calculation. All facilities are required
to calculate, monitor, and maintain their records for 5 years. In some
cases, they also report their results to EPA.
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 numbers for EPA's
regulations are listed in 40 CFR part 9 and 48 CFR chapter 15. The
Federal Register Notice required under 5 CFR 1320.8(d), soliciting
comments on this collection of information was published on 08/27/98
(63 FR 45809). No comments were received.
Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and record keeping
burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 526
hours per response. This estimate 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; 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: Department of Energy (DOE)
facilities, elemental phosphorus plants, phosphogypsum stacks,
underground uranium mines and uranium mill trailings piles
Estimated Number of Respondents: 87.
Frequency of Response: Annually or less than annually.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 45,748 hours.
Estimated Total Annualized Cost Burden: $1,737,000.
Send comments regarding the burden estimate, or any other aspect of
the information collection, including suggestions for reducing the
burden, to the following addresses. Please refer to EPA ICR No. 1100.09
and OMB Control No. 2060-0191 in any correspondence.
Ms. Sandy Farmer, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of
Policy, Regulatory Information Division (2137), 401 M Street, SW,
Washington, DC 20460
and
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget, Attention: Desk Officer for EPA, 725 17th Street, NW,
Washington, DC 20503.
Dated: December 22, 1998.
Joseph Retzer,
Director, Regulatory Information Division.
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