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Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB Review and Approval; Comment Request; NSPS for Grain Elevators (Renewal), ICR Number 1130.08, OMB Number 2060-0082

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  [Federal Register: January 27, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 18)]
[Notices]
[Page 4576-4577]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OECA-2005-0026; FRL-8025-7]
 
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB 
Review and Approval; Comment Request; NSPS for Grain Elevators 
(Renewal), ICR Number 1130.08, OMB Number 2060-0082

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, this document 
announces that an Information Collection Request (ICR) has been 
forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and 
approval. This is a request to renew an existing approved collection. 
This ICR is scheduled to expire on April 30, 2006. Under OMB 
regulations, the Agency may continue to conduct or sponsor the 
collection of information while this submission is pending at OMB. This 
ICR describes the nature of the information collection and its 
estimated burden and cost.

DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before February 27, 2006.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number EPA-HQ-
OECA-2005-0026, to (1) EPA online using http://www.regulations.gov Exit Disclaimer 
(our preferred method), by email to docket.oeca@epa.gov, or by mail to: 
EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), Environmental Protection Agency, Enforcement 
and Compliance Docket and Information Center, Mail Code 2201T, 1200 
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460, and (2) OMB at: Office 
of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB), Attention: Desk Officer for EPA, 725 17th Street, NW., 
Washington, DC 20503.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Learia Williams, Compliance Assessment 
and Media Programs Division, Office of Compliance, (Mail Code 2223A), 
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 564-4113; fax number: 
(202) 564-0050; e-mail address: williams.learia@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has submitted the following ICR to OMB 
for review and approval according to the procedures prescribed in 5 CFR 
1320.12. On May 6, 2005 (70 FR 24020), EPA sought comments on this ICR 
pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received no comments.
    EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID 
No. EPA-HQ-OECA 2005-0026, which is available for public viewing at the 
Enforcement and Compliance Docket and Information Center in the EPA 
Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West, Room B102, 1301 Constitution Avenue, 
NW., Washington, DC. The EPA Docket Center Public Reading Room is open 
from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal 
holidays. The telephone number for the Reading Room is (202) 566-1744, 
and the telephone number for the Enforcement and Compliance Docket and 
Information Center Docket is: (202) 566-1752. An electronic version of 
the public docket is available at http://www.regulations.gov. Exit Disclaimer 
Use http://www.regulations.gov Exit Disclaimer to submit or view public comments, 
access the index listing of the contents of the public docket, and to 
access those documents in the public docket that are available 
electronically. When in the system, select ``search,'' then key in the 
docket ID number identified above.
    Any comments related to this ICR should be submitted to EPA and OMB 
within 30 days of this notice. EPA's policy is that public comments, 
whether submitted electronically or in paper, will be made available 
for public viewing in http://www.regulations.gov Exit Disclaimer as EPA receives 
them and without change, unless the comment contains copyrighted material, 
Confidential Business Information (CBI), or other information whose 
public disclosure is restricted by statute. When EPA identifies a 
comment containing copyrighted material, EPA will provide a reference 
to that material in the version of the comment that is placed in http://
www.regulations.gov. Exit Disclaimer The entire printed comment, including the 
copyrighted material, will be available in the public docket. Although 
identified as an item in the official docket, information claimed as 
CBI, or whose disclosure is otherwise restricted by statute, is not 
included in the official public docket, and will not be available for 
public viewing in http://www.regulations.gov Exit Disclaimer For further 
information about the electronic docket, go to 
http://www.regulations.gov. Exit Disclaimer
    Title: NSPS for Grain Elevators (Renewal).
    Abstract: The New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for grain 
elevators were proposed on January 18, 1977 and promulgated on August 
3, 1978. These standards apply to each affected facility at any grain 
terminal elevator or any grain storage elevator. The facilities are 
each truck unloading station, truck loading station, barge and ship 
loading station, railcar loading station, railcar unloading station, 
grain dryer and all grain handling operations that commenced 
construction, modification or reconstruction after August 3, 1978.
    Owners or operators of the affected facilities must make the 
following one-time-only reports: notification of the date of 
construction or reconstruction; notification of the actual date of 
startup; notification of any physical or operational change to an 
existing facility that may increase the rate of emission of the 
regulated pollutant; notification of initial performance test; and 
results of initial performance test. Owners or operators are also 
required to maintain records of the occurrence and duration of any 
startup, shutdown, or malfunction, or any period during which the 
monitoring system is inoperative. Performance tests are the Agency's 
records of a source's initial capability to comply with emissions

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standards and not the operating conditions under which compliance was 
achieved. An annual summary report is also required.
    Any owner or operator subject to the provisions of this subpart 
must maintain a file of these measurements, and retain the file for at 
least two years following the collection of such measurements, 
maintenance reports, and records. 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.
    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, and are 
identified on the form and/or instrument, if applicable.
    Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping 
burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 10.35 
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 or operators of each grain 
terminal elevator or any grain storage elevator.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 200.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion, initially and annually.
    Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 2,070 hours.
    Estimated Total Annual Costs: $167,108, which includes $0 Capital/
startup expense, $0 Operations and Maintenance costs, and $167,108 
Respondent Labor costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There was an increase of 1,811 hours in 
the total estimated burden currently identified in the OMB Inventory of 
Approved ICR Burdens. The increase in burden hours from the most 
recently approved ICR is due primarily to a more accurate accounting of 
existing sources, an annual summary report that was inadvertently left 
out, a revised labor rate, and the fact that we are presently 
accounting for management and clerical person hours per year, which was 
not shown in the previous ICR.
    After a thorough analysis by the National Grain and Feed 
Association, they arrived at two hundred as the number of sources that 
are subject to subpart DD, as compared to one hundred and thirty-two in 
the previous ICR.
    There are no capital or operations and maintenance costs since 
there is no continuous monitoring.

    Dated: December 5, 2005.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. E6-1041 Filed 1-26-06; 8:45 am]
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