The National Emission Standards for
Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) for the regulations published at
40 CFR part 63, subpart FFFF, were proposed on April 4, 2002, and
promulgated on November 10, 2003. These regulations apply to new
and existing facilities that manufacture a miscellaneous organic
chemical and are located at, or are part of, major sources of
hazardous air pollutant (HAP) emissions. New facilities include
those that commenced construction or reconstruction after the date
of proposal. In general, all NESHAP standards require initial
notifications, performance tests, and periodic reports by the
owners/operators of the affected facilities. They 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.
These notifications, reports, and records are essential in
determining compliance, and are required of all affected facilities
subject to NESHAP. Any owner/operator subject to the provisions of
this part shall maintain a file of these measurements, and retain
the file for at least five years following the date 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 United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regional
office.
The increase in burden from the
most recently approved ICR is primarily due to the fact that this
is the first ICR prepared after the compliance date. In the
previous ICR, annual burden hours and costs associated with
one-time activities were phased in over the course of the 3-year
period. In this ICR, existing sources have been phased into
compliance and are subject to on-going requirements, and new
sources are subject to various one-time activities. Additionally,
some burden hours from the previous ICR were deleted because it was
not consistent with the concept of burden, for example capital
costs associated with performance testing. Finally, burden hours
were eliminated for Notifications of Anticipated Startup as this
requirement was included in the previous ICR in error.
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 Miscellaneous Organic Chemical Manufacturing (40 CFR Part 63, subpart FFFF) (Renewal)