This standard applies to owners and operators of secondary lead smelter industry. The provisions of this subpart apply 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. Consistent with the NESHAP General Provisions (40 CFR part 63, subpart A), owners and operators must comply with recordkeeping, monitoring and reporting requirements including control device parameter monitoring, conduct performance tests and submittal of initial and periodic reports such as semiannual compliance reports and an operation, maintenance and monitoring plan.
For the amendments to the Secondary Lead Smelting NESHAP, the components of the total annual burden attributable to this ICR include reading the amendments to the NESHAP; conducting stack tests and calculating annual emissions; reporting stack emissions test results; developing and submitting a standard operating plan (SOP) to implement work practices to limit lead dust fugitive emissions, and to certify that the facility has and implements a plastics separation process.
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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NESHAP for the Secondary Lead Smelter Industry (40 CFR Part 63, subpart X)