[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 109 (Monday, June 8, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31213-31214]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-15171]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-6108-5]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request; Secondary Lead Smelters MACT
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 document announces that the following Information
Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for review and approval: MACT, Subpart X--Secondary
Lead Smelters (OMB # 2060-0296, expiration 6/30/98). The ICR describes
the nature of the information collection and its expected burden and
cost; where appropriate, it includes the actual data collection
instrument.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before July 8, 1998.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For a copy of the ICR, call Sandy
Farmer at EPA, by phone at (202) 260-2740, by E-Mail at
Farmer.Sandy@epamail.epa.gov or download off the Internet at http://
www.epa.gov/icr/icr.htm, and refer to EPA ICR No. 1686.03.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title: MACT Subpart X--Secondary Lead
Smelters (OMB Control No. 2060-0296; EPA ICR No. 1686.03) expiring 6/
30/98. This is a request for extension of a currently approved
collection.
Abstract: The EPA is required under section 112(d) of the 1990
Clean Air Act, to regulate emissions of 189 hazardous air pollutants
(HAPs). Secondary lead smelters have been identified by the EPA as
significant emitters of several chemicals identified as HAPs, including
but not limited to lead compounds, arsenic compounds, and 1,3-
butadiene. In the Administrator's judgment, such emissions cause or
contribute significantly to air pollution that may reasonably be
anticipated to endanger public health. Chronic exposure to lead
compounds results in adverse effects on the blood, central nervous
system, blood pressure, kidneys, and vitamin D metabolism. Children are
particularly sensitive and exposure can also result in reduced
cognitive development and reduced growth. Lead compounds can be
persistent in the environment and have the potential to accumulate in
food chains. Chronic inhalation exposure to arsenic compounds is
strongly
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associated with lung cancer, while organic HAP emissions from secondary
lead smelting may lead to increases in cardiovascular disease, as well
as developmental and reproductive effects.
In order to reduce HAP emissions from secondary lead smelting, the
EPA developed the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air
Pollutants (NESHAP) for Secondary Lead Smelters, which were proposed on
June 9, 1994 (59 FR 29750) and promulgated on June 23, 1995 (60 FR
32587). In response to industry petitions to reconsider, the final rule
was amended on June 13, 1997 (62 FR 32209). Entities potentially
affected by this rule are owners or operators of secondary lead
smelters that operate furnaces to reduce scrap lead metal and lead
compounds to elemental lead. The rule applies to secondary lead
smelters that use blast, reverberatory, rotary, or electric smelting
furnaces to recover lead metal from scrap lead, primarily from used
lead-acid automotive-type batteries. The rule provides protection to
the public by requiring all secondary lead smelters to meet emission
standards reflecting the application of the maximum achievable control
technology (MACT). This information is being collected to assure
compliance with 40 CFR part 63, subpart X.
Owners or operators of the affected facilities described must make
one-time-only notifications including: notification of any physical or
operational change to an existing facility which may increase the
regulated pollutant emission rate, notification of the initial
performance test, including information necessary to determine the
conditions of the performance test, and performance test measurements
and results. All reports are sent to the delegated State or local
authority. In the event that there is no such delegated authority, the
reports are sent directly to the EPA Regional Office. Owners or
operators must maintain records of initial and subsequent compliance
tests for lead compounds, and identify the date, time, cause and
corrective actions taken for all bag leak detection alarms. Records of
continuous monitoring devices, including parametric monitoring, must be
maintained and reported semi-annually. 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. Any owner or operator subject to the provisions of this
part shall maintain a file of these measurements, and retain the
records for at least five years following the date of such measurements
and records. At a minimum, records of the previous two years must be
maintained on site.
Industry and EPA records indicate that 23 sources are subject to
the standard, and no additional sources are expected to become subject
to the standard over the next three years. 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 document required under 5
CFR 1320.8(d), soliciting comments on this collection of information
was published on December 2, 1997 (62 FR 63711). No comments were
received.
Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping
burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 334
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; 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/Operators of secondary lead
smelters.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 23.
Frequency of Response: daily records/ semi-annual reports.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 16,033 hours.
Estimated Total Annualized Cost Burden: $150,000.
Send comments on the Agency's need for this information, the
accuracy of the provided burden estimates, and any suggested methods
for minimizing respondent burden, including through the use of
automated collection techniques to the following addresses. Please
refer to EPA ICR No. 1686.03 and OMB Control No. 2060-0296 in any
correspondence.
Ms. Sandy Farmer, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, OPPE 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: June 1, 1998.
Joseph Retzer,
Director, Regulatory Information Division.
[FR Doc. 98-15171 Filed 6-5-98; 8:45 am]
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