[Federal Register: August 3, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 148)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[OAR-2004-0081, FRL-7796-9]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; Prevention of Significant Deterioration Nonattainment
Area New Source Review (Renewal), EPA ICR Number 1230.17, OMB Control
Number 2060-0003.
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.
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 EPA is planning to submit a
continuing Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB). This is a request to renew an existing
approved collection. This ICR is scheduled to expire on October 31,
2004. Before submitting the ICR to OMB for review and approval, EPA is
soliciting comments on specific aspects of the proposed information
collection as described below.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before October 4, 2004.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number OAR-2004-
0081, to EPA online using EDOCKET (our preferred method), or by mail
to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental Protection Agency, Air and
Radiation Docket and Information Center, Mail Code 6102T, 1200
Pennsylvania Avenue, Northwest, Washington, DC 20460.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Juan E. Santiago, Information Transfer
and Program Integration Division (C339-03), U.S. EPA Office of Air
Quality Planning and Standards, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
27711, telephone 919-541-1084, fax 919-541-5509, or electronic mail at
santiago.juan@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The EPA has established a public docket for
this ICR under Docket ID number OAR-2004-0081, which is available for
public viewing at the Air Docket in the EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA
West, Room B102, 1301 Constitution Ave., 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 Air Docket is (202) 566-1742. An electronic version of the public
docket is available through EPA Dockets (EDOCKET) at http://www.epa.gov/edocket.
Use EDOCKET to obtain a copy of the draft
collection of information, 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. Once
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 within
60 days of this notice. The EPA's policy is that public comments,
whether submitted electronically or in paper, will be made available
for public viewing in EDOCKET as EPA receives them and without change,
unless the comment contains copyrighted material, 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 EDOCKET. 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 EDOCKET. For further information about the electronic
docket, see EPA's Federal Register notice describing the electronic
docket at 67 FR 38102 (May 31, 2002), or go to http://www.epa.gov./edocket
.
Affected entities: Entities potentially affected by this action are
business or other non-profits; Federal, State, local, or tribal
governments.
Title: Prevention of Significant Deterioration Non-Attainment Area
New Source Review (Renewal).
Abstract: Part C of the Clean Air Act (Act)--``Prevention of
Significant Deterioration,'' and Part D--``Plan Requirements for
Nonattainment Areas,'' require all States to adopt preconstruction
review programs for new or modified stationary sources of air
pollution. In addition, the provisions of section 110 of the Act
include a requirement for States to have a preconstruction review
program to manage the emissions from the construction and modification
of any stationary source of air pollution to assure that the National
Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) are achieved and maintained.
Implementing regulations for these three programs are promulgated at 40
CFR 51.160 through 51.166 to part 51 and 40 CFR 52.21 and 52.24. In
order to receive a construction permit for a major new source or major
modification, the applicant must conduct the necessary research,
perform the appropriate analyses and prepare the permit application
with documentation to demonstrate that their project meets all
applicable statutory and regulatory NSR requirements. Specific
activities and requirements are listed and described in the Supporting
Statement for the ICR.
Reviewing authorities, either State, local or Federal, review the
permit application and provides for public review of the proposed
project and issues the permit based on its consideration of all
technical factors and public input. The EPA, more broadly, reviews a
fraction of the total applications and audits the State and local
programs for their effectiveness. Consequently, information prepared
and submitted by the source is essential for the source to receive a
permit, and for Federal, State and local environmental agencies to
adequately review the permit application and thereby properly
administer and manage the NSR programs.
Information that is collected and handled according to EPA's
policies set forth in title 40, chapter 1, part 2, subpart B--
Confidentiality of Business Information (see 40 CFR part 2). See also
section 114(c) of the Act.
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 in 40 CFR are listed in 40 CFR part 9.
The EPA solicits comments to:
(i) Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the Agency,
including whether the information will have practical utility;
(ii) Evaluate the accuracy of the Agency's estimate of the burden
of the proposed collection of information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
(iii) enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information
to be collected; and
(iv) minimize the burden of the collection of information on those
who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated
electronic,
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mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms
of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic submission of
responses.
Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping
burden for this collection of information is broken down as follows:
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Type of permit action Major PSD Major Part D Minor
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Number of sources............................................... 265 488 74,500
Burden Hours per Response:
Industry.................................................... 839 577 40
Permitting Agencies......................................... 272 109 30
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Respondents/Affected Entities: Industrial plants, State and local
permitting agencies.
Estimated Number of Respondents: (150,723).
Frequency of Response: (1 per respondent).
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: (5,851,126) hours.
Estimated Annualized Cost Burden: $(0).
The estimated total annual burden is adjusted upward by 1,135,866
hours. The actual change in burden is 0, but there is an adjustment of
$73.286 million upward due to the upward adjustment in the number of
minor source actions estimated for this renewal. The revised number of
minor source actions results from the upward revision to the number of
reviewing authorites and the estimated number of actions per reviewing
authority. The total number of respondents is increased by 35,903. The
burden per type of permit remains unchanged.
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.
Dated: July 27, 2004.
William T. Harnett,
Director, Information Transfer and Program, Integration Division.
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