[Federal Register: January 10, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 6)]
[Notices]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[OEI-2004-0004, FRL-7859-6]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Comment Request; Compliance Assurance Monitoring
Program (Renewal), EPA ICR Number 1663.04, OMB Control Number 2060-0376
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 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
collection. This ICR is scheduled to expire on February 28, 2005. 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.
DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before February 9,
2005.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number OEI-2004-
0004, to EPA online using EDOCKET (our preferred method), by email:
oei.Docket@epa.gov, or by mail to: Environmental Protection Agency, EPA
Docket Center (EPA/DC), Office of Environmental Information Docket, MC
28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Peter R. Westlin, Environmental
Protection Agency, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, Mail
Code C339-02, Research Triangle park, North Carolina 27711; telephone
number: (919) 541-1058; fax number: (919) 541-1039; email address:
westlin.peter@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 October 5, 2004, (69 FR 59589), EPA sought comments on this
ICR pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA has received no comments.
EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID
number OEI-2004-0004, which is available for public viewing at the
Office of Environmental Information Docket in the EPA Docket Center
(EPA/DC), EPA West, Room B102, 1301 Constitution Avenue, 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 Office of Environmental Information
Docket is (202) 566-1752. 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 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, confidential business
information (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: Compliance Assurance Monitoring Program (40 CFR part 64)
(Renewal).
Abstract: The Clean Air Act contains several provisions directing
us to require source owners to conduct monitoring to support
certification as to their status of compliance with applicable
requirements. These provisions are set forth in title V (operating
permits provisions) and title VII (enforcement provisions) of the Act.
Title V directs us to implement monitoring and certification
requirements through the operating permits program. Section 504(b) of
the
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Act allows us to prescribe by rule, methods and procedures for
determining compliance recognizing that continuous emissions monitoring
systems need not be required if other procedures or methods provide
sufficiently reliable and timely information for determining
compliance. Under section 504(c), each operating permit must ``set
forth inspection, entry, monitoring, compliance, certification, and
reporting requirements to assure compliance with the permit terms and
conditions.'' Section 114(a)(3) requires us to promulgate rules for
enhanced monitoring and compliance certifications. Section 114(a)(1) of
the Act provides additional authority concerning monitoring, reporting,
and recordkeeping requirements. This section provides the Administrator
with the authority to require any owner or operator of a source to
install and operate monitoring systems and to record the resulting
monitoring data. We promulgated the Compliance Assurance Monitoring
rule, part 64, on October 22, 1997 (62 FR 54900) to implement these
authorities.
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 28
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: Owners/operators and permitting
authorities of sources with a pre-control potential to emit major
amounts of regulated air pollutants.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 2,308.
Frequency of Response: semiannually.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 63,688.
Estimated Total Annual Cost: $4,491,927, which includes $1,260,058
annualized capital/start-up costs, $180,000 annual O&M costs, and
$3,051,869 annual labor costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is a decrease of 109,010 hours in
the total estimated burden currently identified in the OMB Inventory of
Approved ICR Burdens. This decrease is a result of an adjustment to the
number of facilities and emissions units affected by part 64 and a
refocusing of the resource burden from regulatory applicability
analysis to monitoring design and implementation.
Dated: December 20, 2004.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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