[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 144 (Wednesday, July 29, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37704-37705]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-18037]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OAR-2005-0490; FRL-8936-8]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Comment Request; Consolidated Emissions Reporting
Rule (Renewal); EPA ICR No. 0916.13, OMB Control No. 2060-0088
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (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. The ICR, which is abstracted below,
describes the nature of the information collection and its estimated
burden and cost.
DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before August 28,
2009.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-
2005-0490, to: (1) EPA online using http://www.regulations.gov (our
preferred method), by e-mail to [email protected], or by mail to:
EPA Docket Center, Environmental Protection Agency, Air and Radiation,
2822T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460, and (2) OMB
by mail to: 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: Dennis Beauregard, Office of Air
Quality Planning and Standards, Air Quality Assessment Division, Mail
Code C339-02, Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park,
NC 27711; telephone number: (919) 541-5512; fax number: (919) 541-0684;
e-mail address: [email protected].
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 April 21, 2009 (74 FR 18226), EPA sought comments on this
ICR pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received no comments during the
comment period. Any additional comments on this ICR should be submitted
to EPA and OMB within 30 days of this notice.
EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID
No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2005-0490, which is available for online viewing at
http://www.regulations.gov, or in person viewing at the Air and
Radiation Docket in the EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West, Room
3334, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC. The EPA/DC Public
Reading Room is open from 8 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
is 202-566-1742.
Use EPA's electronic docket and comment system at http://www.regulations.gov to submit or view public comments, access the index
listing of the contents of the docket, and to access those documents in
the docket that are available electronically. Once in the system,
select ``docket search,'' then key in the docket ID number identified
above. Please note that EPA's policy is that public comments, whether
submitted electronically or in paper, will be made available for public
viewing at http://www.regulations.gov 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. For further information about the
electronic docket, go to http://www.regulations.gov.
Title: Consolidated Emissions Reporting Rule (Renewal).
ICR numbers: EPA ICR No. 0916.13, OMB Control No. 2060-0088.
ICR Status: This ICR is scheduled to expire on October 31, 2009.
Under OMB regulations, the Agency may continue to conduct or sponsor
the collection of information while this submission is pending at OMB.
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 title 40 of the CFR, after appearing in the Federal Register when
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approved, are listed in 40 CFR part 9 and displayed either by
publication in the Federal Register or by other appropriate means, such
as on the related collection instrument or form, if applicable. The
display of OMB control numbers in certain EPA regulations is
consolidated in 40 CFR part 9.
Abstract: EPA has promulgated a Consolidated Emissions Reporting
Rule (CERR) (40 CFR part 51, subpart A) to coordinate new emissions
inventory reporting requirements with existing requirements of the
Clean Air Act (CAA) and the 1990 Amendments. Under the CERR, 55 state
and territorial air quality agencies, including the District of
Columbia (DC), as well as an estimated 49 local air quality agencies,
must annually submit emissions data for point sources emitting
specified levels of volatile organic compounds, oxides of nitrogen,
carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, particulate matter less than or equal
to 10 micrometers in diameter, particulate matter less than or equal to
2.5 micrometers in diameter (PM2.5), and ammonia
(NH3).
Every 3 years, states are required to submit a point source
inventory, as well as a statewide stationary nonpoint, nonroad mobile,
onroad mobile, and biogenic source inventory for all criteria
pollutants (including lead and lead compounds) and their precursors.
The emissions data submitted for the annual and 3-year cycle
inventories for stationary point, nonpoint, nonroad mobile, and onroad
mobile sources are used by EPA's Office of Air Quality Planning and
Standards to assist in developing ambient air quality emission
standards, performing regional modeling, and preparing national trends
assessments and special analyses and reports. Any data submitted to EPA
under the CERR is in the public domain and cannot be treated as
confidential.
Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping
burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 31
hours per response. The total number of respondents is assumed to be
1,863. This total number of respondents includes 104 State agencies
that are subject to the CERR data reporting requirements and 1,759
sources that are not subject, but are assumed to incur the burden for
reporting estimates of PM2.5 and NH3 to State
agencies. 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
which have subsequently changed; 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: 55 State and territorial air
pollution control agencies, 49 local air agencies, and 1,759 industry
sources.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 1,863.
Frequency of Response: Annual.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 57,698.
Estimated Total Annual Cost: $230,880, includes $230,880 annualized
capital or operational and maintenance costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is a decrease of 474 hours in the
total estimated burden currently identified in the OMB Inventory of
Approved ICR Burdens. This decrease is due to use of updated point
source reporting data from the 2005 National Emissions Inventory
indicating fewer Type A sources will be reported annually to EPA.
Dated: July 21, 2009.
Jenny Noonan Edmonds,
Acting Director, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards.
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