These standards apply to facilities that produce carbon, alloy, or specialty steels (or minimills): electric arc furnaces (EAFs) and dust handling systems commencing construction, modification or reconstruction after the date of proposal and on or before August 17, 1983 (subpart AA) and electric arc furnaces, AOD vessels, and dust handling systems at steel plants commencing construction, modification or reconstruction after August 17, 1983 (subpart AAa). Consistent with the NSPS General Provisions (40 CFR part 60, subpart A), owners and operators subject to these rules are required to comply with recordkeeping, monitoring and reporting requirements, unless specified otherwise in the regulation. These notifications, reports, and records are essential in determining compliance.
The decrease in burden from the most recently ICR is due to an adjustment. The change in burden from 60,400 hours to 60,112 for the new and existing facilities is due primarily to a change made on the number of operational days from 365 to 350 which offsets any increase that resulted from the increase on the number of average respondents per year from 95.3 to 96.6. The labor hours for management, clerical, as well as for technical employees have been updated.
The decrease in the annualized capital/startup and operation and maintenance costs from $285,750 to $198,390 is due to a decrease of the number of respondents using continuous opacity monitors (COMs) for compliance with the stack emissions requirements. This is an update to the most recently approved ICR (i.e., ICR 1060.13) which did not account for this type of burden change as a result of the 2005 amendments to the standard. The operation and maintenance costs for the renewal of this ICR decreased due to a decrease on the number of sources using COMs as a result of electing to comply with the alternative option of daily opacity shop observations by a certified visible emission observer couple with the use of bag leak detection systems (BLDS).
$74,847
No
No
Uncollected
Uncollected
Uncollected
Uncollected
Maria Malave 202 564-7027
No
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding the proposed collection of information, that the certification covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.
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NSPS for Steel Plants: Electric Are Furnaces and Argon-Oxygen Decarburization Vessels (40 CFR Part 60, Subparts AA and AAa)