[Federal Register: May 3, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 85)]
[Notices]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[OAR-2003-0213; FRL-7656-1]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Comment Request; Regulation of Fuel and Fuel
Additives (Renewal), EPA ICR Number 1591.15, OMB Control Number 2060-
0277
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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 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, 2004.
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.
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DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before June 2, 2004.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number OAR-2003-
0213, to (1) EPA online using EDOCKET (our preferred method), by e-mail
to a-and-r-Docket@epa.gov or by mail to: EPA Docket Center,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air and Radiation Docket and
Information Center, Mail Code 6102T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., 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: Jose M. Solar, Office of
Transportation and Air Quality, Mail Code 6406J, Environmental
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460;
telephone number: (202) 343-9027; fax number: (202) 343-2801; e-mail
address: solar.jose@epamail.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 Wednesday, November 19, 2003 (68 FR 65276), 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. OAR-2003-0213, which is available for public viewing at the Air and
Radiation Docket and Information Center 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 and Radiation Docket and Information
Center 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 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 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 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
.
Title: Regulation of Fuel and Fuel Additives (Renewal).
Abstract: Gasoline combustion is the major source of air pollution
in most urban areas. In the 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act (Act),
section 211(k), Congress required that gasoline dispensed in nine areas
with severe air quality problems, and areas that opt in, be
reformulated to reduce toxic and ozone-forming emissions. (Ozone is
also known as smog.) Congress also required that, in the process of
producing reformulated gasoline (RFG), dirty components removed in the
reformulation process not be ``dumped'' into the remainder of the
country's gasoline, known as conventional gasoline (CG). The
Environmental Protection Agency promulgated regulations at 40 CFR part
80, subpart D--Reformulated Gasoline, subpart E--Anti-Dumping, and
subpart F--Attest Engagements, implementing the statutory requirements,
which include standards for RFG (80.41) and CG (80.101). The
regulations also contain reporting and recordkeeping requirements for
the production, importation, transport and storage of gasoline, in
order to demonstrate compliance and facilitate compliance and
enforcement. The program is run by the Transportation and Regional
Programs Division, Office of Transportation and Air Quality, Office of
Air and Radiation. Enforcement is done by the Air Enforcement Division,
Office of Regulatory Enforcement, Office of Enforcement and Compliance
Assurance. This program excludes California, which has separate
requirements for gasoline.
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 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 1.8
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: Entities that produce, import or
distribute gasoline.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 1,190.
Frequency of Response: Annually, quarterly, on occasion.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 96,625.
Estimated Total Annual Cost: $29,266,307 includes $4,800,000
annualized capital costs, $18,184,357 O&M costs, and $6,281,950
Respondent Labor costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is a decrease of 4,946 hours in the
total estimated burden currently identified in the OMB Inventory of
Approved ICR Burdens. This decrease is due to adjustments, primarily in
that the date for filing petitions had passed, so no burden for those
activities could be expected.
Dated: April 13, 2004.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. 04-9965 Filed 4-30-04; 8:45 am]
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