[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 8 (Tuesday, January 13, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1679-1681]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-471]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OAR-2003-0052; FRL-8761-9]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Comment Request; Risk Management Program
Requirements and Petitions To Modify the List of Regulated Substances
Under Section 112(r) of the Clean Air Act (CAA) (Renewal); EPA ICR No.
1656.13; OMB Control No. 2050-0144
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 February 12,
2009.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-
2003-0052, 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 & Radiation
Docket, Mail Code: 28221T, 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: Sicy Jacob, Office of Emergency
Management, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave.,
NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 564-8019; fax
number: (202) 564-2620; e-mail address: jacob.sicy@epa,gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has submitted the following ICR to OMB
for
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review and approval according to the procedures prescribed in 5 CFR
1320.12. On August 14, 2008 (73 FR 47594), EPA sought comments on this
ICR pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received no comments. 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-2003-0052, which is available for online viewing at
http://www.regulations.gov, or in person viewing at the Air 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
8:30 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 & Radiation Docket is 202-566-
1742.
Use EPA's electronic docket and comment system at
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: Risk Management Program Requirements and Petitions to Modify
the List of Regulated Substances under section 112(r) of the Clean Air
Act (CAA) (Renewal);
ICR Number: EPA ICR No. 1656.13, OMB Control No. 2050-0144.
ICR Status: This ICR is scheduled to expire on January 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
approved, are listed in 40 CFR part 9, are 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: The 1990 CAA Amendments added section 112(r) to provide
for the prevention and mitigation of accidental releases. Section
112(r) mandates that EPA promulgate a list of ``regulated substances''
with threshold quantities and establish procedures for the addition and
deletion of substances from the list of regulated substances. Processes
at stationary sources that contain more than a threshold quantity of a
regulated substance are subject to accidental release prevention
regulations promulgated under CAA section 112(r)(7). These two rules
are codified as 40 CFR part 68. Part 68 requires that sources with more
than a threshold quantity of a regulated substance in a process develop
and implement a risk management program and submit a risk management
plan (RMP) to EPA. The compliance schedule for the part 68 requirements
was established by rule on June 20, 1996. Burden to sources that are
currently covered by part 68, for initial rule compliance, including
rule familiarization and program implementation was accounted for in
previous ICRs. Sources submitted their first RMPs on June 21, 1999. The
next compliance deadline for most sources was June 21, 2004, five years
after the first submission. Some sources revised and submitted their
RMPs between the five-year deadlines. These sources were then assigned
a new five-year compliance deadline based on the date of their revised
plan submission. The next submission deadline of RMPs for most sources
is June 21, 2009. However, as only some regulated entities have a
compliance deadline of June 2009, the remaining sources have been
assigned a deadline in 2010, 2011, 2012 or 2013 (the last two years are
after the period covered by this ICR) based on the date of their most
recent submission. The period covered by this ICR includes the
regulatory reporting deadline, June 2009. In this ICR, EPA has
accounted burden for new sources that may become subject to the
regulations, currently covered sources with compliance deadlines in
this ICR period (2009 to 2011), sources that are out of compliance
since the last regulatory deadline but are expected to comply during
this ICR period, and sources that have deadlines beyond this ICR period
but are required to comply with certain prevention program
documentation requirements.
Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping
burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 20.5
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 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: Entities potentially affected by
this action are chemical manufacturers, petroleum refineries, water
treatment systems, non-chemical manufacturers, etc.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 13,718, including State
implementing agencies.
Frequency of Response: Every five years, unless the facilities need
to update their pervious submission earlier to comply with a rule
requirement.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 93,982.
Estimated Total Annual Cost: $9,785,371.00. There are no capital or
operating and maintenance costs associated with this ICR since the
Agency expects all sources to submit their RMPs on-line using the new
electronic reporting system, RMP* eSubmit.
Changes in the Estimates: There is a decrease of 4,617 hours for
all sources and states from the previous ICR. There are two primary
reasons for this decrease in burden. First, as explained in section 1
of the supporting statement for this ICR renewal, the burden varies
from ICR to ICR due to different compliance deadlines based on the
sources' RMP re-submission deadline and other regulatory deadlines.
Therefore, the burden fluctuates each year depending on how many
sources have to submit their RMP and comply with certain prevention
program requirements. Second, the number of sources subject to the
regulations is lower than in the previous ICR (16,634 in the previous
ICR and 13,718 sources in this ICR period).
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Dated: January 6, 2009.
John Moses,
Acting Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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