[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 243 (Thursday, December 18, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 66360-66366]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-33078]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-5936-5]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; 
Comment Request; Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure Plans

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 the 
Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasures Plan continuing 
Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and 
Budget. The ICR expires on May 31, 1998 (ICR 0328.05, OMB No. 20050-
0021). 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 February 17, 1998.

ADDRESSES: Oil Program Center, 401 M Street, SW (5203G), Washington, 
D.C. 20460. Materials relevant to this ICR may be inspected from 8:30 
a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, by visiting the Public 
Docket, located at 1235 Jefferson Davis Highway (ground floor), 
Arlington, Virginia. A reasonable fee may be charged for copying docket 
material.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Hugo Paul Fleischman, (703) 603-8769. 
Facsimile number: (703) 603-9116. Electronic address: 
[email protected]. Note that questions but not comments 
will be accepted electronically.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Affected Entities

    The Oil Pollution Prevention regulation applies only to non-
transportation-related facilities that could reasonably be expected to 
discharge oil into or upon the navigable waters of the U.S., or 
adjoining shorelines, and that have a total underground buried oil 
storage capacity of more than 42,000 gallons; or a total aboveground 
oil storage capacity of more than 660 gallons in a single container.
    The specific private industry sectors expected to be affected by 
this action include petroleum and coal products manufacturing (NAICS 
324); petroleum bulk stations and terminals (NAICS 42271); crude 
petroleum and natural gas extraction (NAICS 211111); transportation 
(including pipelines), warehousing, and marinas (NAICS 482-486/488112-
48819/4883/4889/492-493/71393); electric power generation, 
transmission, and distribution (NAICS 2211); other manufacturing (NAICS 
31-33); gasoline stations/automotive rental and leasing (NAICS 4471/
5321); heating oil dealers (NAICS 454311); coal mining, non-metallic 
mineral mining and quarrying (NAICS 2121/2123/213114/213116); heavy 
construction (NAICS 234); elementary and secondary schools, colleges 
(NAICS 6111-6113); hospitals/nursing and residential care facilities 
(NAICS 622-623); and crop and animal production (NAICS 111-112).

Title

    ``Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) Plans,'' OMB 
Control Number 2050-0021. EPA Control Number 328.05. Expiration date: 
May 31, 1998.

Abstract

    Under section 311 of the Clean Water Act, EPA's Oil Pollution 
Prevention regulation requires facilities to prepare and implement SPCC 
Plans to help ``minimize the potential for oil discharges.'' This 
regulation is codified at 40 CFR part 112. The SPCC Plan must be ``a 
carefully thought-out plan, prepared in accordance with good 
engineering practices.'' Preparation of the SPCC Plan requires that a 
facility's staff analyze how the facility will prevent oil discharges, 
thereby encouraging appropriate facility design and operations. The 
information in the SPCC Plan also promotes efficient response in the 
event of a discharge. Finally, proper maintenance of the SPCC Plan will 
promote important spill-reducing measures, facilitate leak detection, 
and generally ensure that the facility is at peak capability for 
deterring discharges. The specific activities and reasons for the 
information collection are described below.

New Plan

    Preparation of the Plan, required under section 112.3, involves 
several tasks, mostly conducted by the facility's technical personnel. 
These tasks include: field investigations to understand facility design 
and possible failures and to predict the flow paths of spilled oil and 
the potential harm that the spilled oil would have on navigable waters; 
a regulatory review to ensure that personnel are fully aware of all 
requirements and limitations imposed in the rule; an evaluation of 
current spill prevention and control practices the facility employs; 
preparation of the Plan according to the specification of section 
112.7, and certification by a Registered Professional Engineer (P.E.)

Modification of Plan

    Under section 112.5(a) the SPCC Plan must be amended whenever there 
is a change in the facility's design, construction, operation, and 
maintenance that materially affects the facility's potential to 
discharge oil into navigable waters or onto adjoining shorelines. The 
amended Plan must also be certified by a P.E.

Triennial Review

    Under section 112.5(b), owners or operators of regulated facilities 
must review and evaluate the Plan at least once every three years. This 
involves review of spill prevention and control procedures being 
implemented under the current Plan, as well as a regulatory review. 
Facility owners/operators must amend the SPCC Plan within six months of 
the review to include more effective

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prevention and control technology if such technology will significantly 
reduce the likelihood of a spill event; and such technology has been 
field-proven at the time of the review. If amended, the Plan must also 
be certified by a P.E.

Oil Discharge

    Under section 112.4, in the event of certain oil discharges, 
facility owner/operators must submit information to the Regional 
Administrator within 60 days. Discharges of oil that trigger the 
reporting requirements are a single spill event of more than 1,000 U.S. 
gallons into navigable waters; or two or more spills (in a twelve month 
period) of harmful quantities as defined in 40 CFR part 110.
    Submitting a Plan after a discharge involves time to collect the 
required information, as well as time for review by management. The 
facility must also submit a copy of this information to the appropriate 
state agency in charge of water pollution control activities. After the 
Regional Administrator and the appropriate state agency have reviewed 
the Plan, the Regional Administrator may require amendment of the SPCC 
Plan. The amended Plan must be certified by a P.E. prior to 
implementation. Facilities may appeal a decision made by the Regional 
Administrator requiring an amendment to an SPCC Plan.

Recordkeeping

    Under section 112.3, the facility owner/operator must maintain a 
copy of the SPCC Plan at the facility, or under certain circumstances, 
at the nearest field office. The Plan must be available for review 
during normal working hours. In addition, facilities must maintain (and 
update) records of Plan-specific inspections as outlined under section 
112.7(e).

Purpose of Data Collection

    EPA does not collect the information required by the Oil Pollution 
Prevention regulation (i.e., the SPCC Plan) on a routine basis. 
Preparation, implementation, and maintenance of the SPCC Plan by the 
facility help prevent oil discharges, and mitigate environmental damage 
caused by such discharges. Therefore, the primary user of the data is 
the facility itself. For example:
    (i) As facility staff accumulate the necessary data, they must 
analyze the facility's capability to prevent oil discharges, facilitate 
safety awareness, and promote appropriate modifications to facility 
design and operations;
    (ii) Because facility staff keep the required information in a 
single document, they can respond efficiently in the event of a 
discharge;
    (iii) To implement the Plan according to the specifications of 
section 112.7, the facility must meet certain design and operational 
standards that reduce the likelihood of an oil discharge;
    (iv) Inspection records help facilities to promote important 
maintenance, facilitate leak detection, and demonstrate compliance with 
the SPCC requirements; and
    (v) When facility staff review the Plan every three years, they 
ensure implementation of more effective spill prevention control 
technology.
    EPA recognizes that the additional data would help to better 
demonstrate the effectiveness of the program and better understand the 
nature of the threat of oil pollution posed by facilities regulated 
under the SPCC program. As such, in 1995, EPA surveyed a random sample 
of potentially regulated facilities that produce, use, or store oil 
products. In July 1996, EPA published a report on the effectiveness of 
the SPCC program, using the data from the 1995 survey. In the 1996 
report, EPA found that approximately 438,000 facilities were regulated 
under the SPCC program in 1996. The industries that make up the 
greatest proportion of potentially-regulated facilities are farms (37 
percent) and oil production facilities (33 percent). The results of the 
EPA analysis indicate that facilities with larger storage capacity are 
likely to have a greater number of oil spills, larger volumes of oil 
spilled, and greater cleanup costs. Similar increases were found at 
facilities with more tanks and greater annual throughput. The results 
of the analysis also appear to indicate that there are no statistically 
significant relationships between certain other facility 
characteristics and spill risk. In particular, EPA did not identify a 
strong and stable relationship between the type of business conducted 
at a facility and the number of spills or volume of oil spilled. The 
analysis also revealed that the average age of a facility's tanks, the 
annual number of transfers, and the annual average tank turnover do not 
appear to be strongly related to oil spills. The report is available to 
the public for review at the Public Docket. EPA requests comments on 
that report.
    Although the facility is the primary data user, EPA also uses the 
data in certain situations. EPA primarily uses SPCC plan data to ensure 
that facilities comply with the regulation, including design and 
operation specifications and inspection requirements. EPA reviews SPCC 
Plans when facilities submit the Plans because of oil discharges, and 
as part of EPA's inspection program. State and local governments also 
use the data, which is not necessarily available elsewhere and can 
greatly assist local emergency preparedness planning efforts. 
Coordination with state governments is facilitated when, after certain 
spill events, a facility sends a copy of the SPCC Plan and additional 
information on the spill to the relevant state agency.
    As part of the Agency's efforts to reduce the overall paperwork 
burden on regulated facilities, EPA would like to solicit comments on 
how the Agency could best reduce the total paperwork burden hours for 
this rule while maintaining an effective level of environmental 
protection.
    EPA would also like to solicit public 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, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques, 
or other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic 
submission of responses.
    Additionally, the Agency has recently proposed revisions to the 
SPCC rule to reduce the burden imposed on regulated facilities (cite FR 
date). Proposed revisions would give facility owners or operators 
flexibility to use alternative formats for SPCC Plans; allow the use of 
certain records maintained pursuant to usual and customary business 
practices, or pursuant to the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination 
System (NPDES) program, to be used in lieu of records mandated by the 
SPCC requirements; reduce the information required to be submitted 
after certain spill events; and extend the period in which SPCC Plans 
must be reviewed and evaluated.

Burden Statement

    This document first presents the estimated number of existing and 
new storage and production facilities regulated under the Oil Pollution 
Prevention Regulation. Next, the estimated burden hours and costs to

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facilities to perform required actions are presented. Costs are 
composed of facility labor costs, the cost to use consultants, and any 
associated capital and operation and maintenance (O&M) expenditures. 
The cost to a facility to use consultants is listed as an O&M 
expenditure for purposes of this analysis. Finally, the estimated total 
annual burden hours and costs for all facilities to comply with the 
requirements of this regulation are presented. The burden hours shown 
for each action represent the hours in both the existing ICR and the 
corresponding hours in the ICR renewal, where there are differences. 
Costs have been updated to 1997 dollars.
    To account for the role of consultants in the process of developing 
and updating SPCC Plans, EPA re-allocated a percentage of the burden 
for completing certain paperwork and recordkeeping activities (50 
percent for large facilities, 25 percent for medium facilities, and 
five percent for small facilities) from facility personnel to 
consultants. The analysis assumes that the burden to a consultant to 
perform these activities would approximately be equal to that of 
facility personnel. In reality, a consultant may take slightly less 
time due to the expected economies of scale associated with performing 
similar tasks for different facilities (e.g., rule familiarization) but 
on average, especially when it comes to performing more physical 
activities (e.g., reviews/inspections, modifications) the burden is 
expected to remain relatively constant regardless of who performs the 
activity.
    As of January 1998, approximately 451,000 existing facilities are 
assumed to be regulated under the SPCC program with approximately 4,500 
new facilities joining the program in 1998. These numbers are based on 
the previous ICR estimate of approximately 446,500 existing and new 
facilities as of January 1996. A one percent annual growth in the 
number of facilities is assumed. For purposes of this ICR, all 
facilities were grouped into two distinct categories: production 
facilities (facilities whose operations and oil storage activities are 
exclusively limited to oil production) and storage facilities (all 
other SPCC-regulated facilities whose operations do not include oil 
production). This categorization of facilities reflects differences in 
the estimated burden of compliance activities depending on the nature 
of the facility's operations.
    The current ICR assumes that storage facilities make up 65 percent 
of small facilities, 69 percent of medium facilities, and 98 percent of 
large facilities. Production facilities make up 35 percent of small 
facilities, 31 percent of medium facilities, and two percent of large 
facilities. These ratios, as well as the Agency's estimate concerning 
the number of regulated facilities, are based on the results of a 1995 
survey of SPCC regulated facilities conducted by EPA. The results of 
this survey are available for public review at the Public Docket. The 
definitions of small, medium, and large facility are based on oil 
storage capacity and are defined as follows, based on the Agency's 
January 1991 ``SPCC Facilities Study'':
    (i) Small facility--a facility that has aboveground storage 
capacity greater than 1,320 gallons (or 660 gallons in a single 
container), but less than or equal to 42,000 gallons;
    (ii) Medium facility--a facility that has total (aboveground or 
underground) storage capacity greater than 42,000 gallons but less than 
or equal to one million gallons; and
    (iii) Large facility--a facility that has total storage capacity 
greater than one million gallons.
    An estimate of the number of existing and new storage and 
production facilities in 1998 are shown in Exhibits 1 and 2.

                           Exhibit 1.--Estimated Number of Existing Facilities (1998)                           
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                                                                 Small        Medium        Large       Total   
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Storage.....................................................      231,406       57,697       13,188      302,290
Production..................................................      122,812       25,551          309      148,672
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      Total.................................................      354,217       83,248       13,497      450,963
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                              Exhibit 2.--Estimated Number of New Facilities (1998)                             
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                                                                 Small        Medium       Large        Total   
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Storage.....................................................        2,314          577          132        3,023
Production..................................................        1,228          256            3        1,487
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Total.......................................................        3,542          832          135        4,510
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    The facility cost estimates for each category of activities are 
based on 1997 hourly wage rates for managerial ($38.59), technical 
($28.26), and clerical ($17.71) work. These wage rates include wages 
and salaries, benefit costs, and overhead costs and reflect private 
industry averages, which were estimated by the U.S. Bureau of Labor 
Statistics. The Agency recognizes that these wage rates may 
underestimate the actual wages received by some SPCC personnel but 
overestimate the actual wage rate received by other facility personnel. 
The Agency estimated wage rates for consultants using the 1994 Facility 
Response Plan Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA). This RIA ``loaded'' the 
direct, private industry wages by a factor of 2.75 to develop wage 
rates for consultants. Consequently, this loading factor was applied to 
the direct labor rates for private industry managerial, technical, and 
clerical workers to estimate the following rates: managerial ($106.12), 
technical ($77.72), and clerical ($48.70).
    Each exhibit represents separate burden estimates for small, 
medium, and large storage and production facilities. Exhibits 3 through 
8 summarize the estimated facility burden associated with performing 
each separate task associated with an SPCC Plan. Not all of the 
activities will be performed on an annual basis by all facilities. For 
the purposes of estimating respondent burden, EPA assumes that 
consultants are retained by some facilities to assist in the following 
activities: preparation of a new plan; modification of an existing 
plan; and conducting a triennial review. Again, EPA assumed that a 
large facility would use outside consultants about 50 percent of the 
time, a medium facility would use outside consultants about 25 percent 
of the time, and a small facility

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would use outside consultants about five percent of the time to perform 
the above activities.

New Plan

    Exhibit 3 presents the estimated burden and costs for a facility to 
perform the activities associated with preparing an SPCC Plan. All new 
facilities must prepare and implement an SPCC Plan.

                                          Exhibit 3.--Estimated Burden Hours and Costs--Preparation of New Plan                                         
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                                                                                  Burden hours                                      Cost                
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                       Type of Facility                                                                  Total                                          
                                                                Managerial   Technical     Clerical      burden      Capital        O&M       Total \1\ 
                                                                  $38.59       $28.26       $17.71       hours                                          
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Storage:                                                                                                                                                
    Small....................................................          5.7         23.8          3.8         33.3            0          $86       $1,044
    Medium...................................................          4.5         33.0          4.5         42.0            0          672        1,858
    Large....................................................          3.0         38.0          4.0         45.0            0        2,141        3,402
Production:                                                                                                                                             
    Small....................................................          5.7         26.6          3.8         36.1            0           93        1,132
    Medium...................................................          4.5         34.5          4.5         43.5            0          696        1,924
    Large....................................................          3.0         38.5          4.0         43.5            0        2,165       3,440 
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\1\ Total cost includes the cost of facility labor, capital, and O&M costs.                                                                             

Modification of Plan

    Exhibit 4 presents the burden hours and costs for a facility to 
revise an SPCC Plan after any modification that materially affects the 
facility's potential to discharge oil into navigable waters. An 
estimated ten percent of facilities will need to modify their SPCC 
Plans each year.

                                        Exhibit 4.--Estimated Annual Burden Hours and Costs--Modification of Plan                                       
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                                                                                  Burden Hours                                      Cost                
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                       Type of facility                                                                  Total                                          
                                                                Managerial   Technical     Clerical      burden      Capital        O&M       Total \1\ 
                                                                  $38.59       $28.26       $17.71       hours                                          
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Storage:                                                                                                                                                
    Small....................................................          0.0          4.3          1.0          5.2           $0          $12         $150
    Medium...................................................          0.0          3.4          0.8          4.1            0           61          170
    Large....................................................          0.0          2.3          0.5          2.8            0          123          195
Production:                                                                                                                                             
    Small....................................................          0.0          4.3          1.0          5.2            0           12          150
    Medium...................................................          0.0          3.4          0.8          4.1            0           61          170
    Large....................................................          0.0          2.3          0.5          2.8            0          123         195 
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\1\ Total cost includes the cost of facility labor, capital, and O&M costs.                                                                             

Triennial Review

    Exhibits 5 and 6 present the estimated burden hours and costs for a 
facility to complete a triennial review, with and without amendment. As 
a result of the review process, the facility may need to amend its 
Plan, incurring additional costs. Annual burdens and costs per facility 
are one-third of the values in Exhibits 5 and 6. An estimated three 
percent of all existing facilities will need to amend their Plans each 
year.

                                   Exhibit 5.--Estimated Annual Burden Hours and Costs--Triennial Review--No Amendment                                  
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                                                                                  Burden hours                                      Cost                
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                       Type of facility                                                                  Total                                          
                                                                Managerial   Technical     Clerical      burden      Capital        O&M       Total \1\ 
                                                                  $38.59       $28.26       $17.71       hours                                          
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Storage:                                                                                                                                                
    Small....................................................          1.0          2.4          0.5          3.8           $0          $10         $122
    Medium...................................................          0.8          3.4          0.8          4.9            0           78          216
    Large....................................................          0.5          4.0          0.5          5.0            0          240          381
Production:                                                                                                                                             
    Small....................................................          1.0          3.3          0.5          4.8            0           12          151
    Medium...................................................          0.8          4.1          0.8          5.6            0           90          249
    Large....................................................          0.5          4.5          0.5          5.5            0          264         419 
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\1\ Total cost includes the cost of facility labor, capital, and O&M costs.                                                                             


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                                    Exhibit 6.--Estimated Annual Burden Hours and Costs--Triennial Review--Amendment                                    
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                                                                                  Burden hours                                      Cost                
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                       Type of facility                                                                  Total                                          
                                                                Managerial   Technical     Clerical      burden      Capital        O&M       Total \1\ 
                                                                  $38.59       $28.26       $17.71       hours                                          
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Storage:                                                                                                                                                
    Small....................................................          1.0          6.7          1.9          9.5           $0          $23         $281
    Medium...................................................          0.8          6.8          1.5          9.0            0          140          386
    Large....................................................          0.5          6.3          1.0          7.8            0          363          577
Production:                                                                                                                                             
    Small....................................................          1.0          7.6          1.9         10.5            0           26          311
    Medium...................................................          0.8          7.5          1.5          9.8            0          151          419
    Large....................................................          0.5          6.8          1.0          8.3            0          387         615 
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\1\ Total cost includes the cost of facility labor, capital, and O&M costs.                                                                             

Oil Discharge

    Exhibit 7 presents estimated burden hours and costs for a facility 
to submit information to the Regional Administrator in the event of 
certain discharges of oil into navigable waters. It is assumed that the 
probability of a facility having such a spill in any given year is 0.15 
percent.

                                               Exhibit 7.--Estimated Burden Hours and Costs--Oil Discharge                                              
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                                                                                  Burden hours                                      Cost                
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                       Type of facility                                                                  Total                                          
                                                                Managerial   Technical     Clerical      burden      Capital        O&M       Total \1\ 
                                                                  $38.59       $28.26       $17.71       hours                                          
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Storage:                                                                                                                                                
    Small....................................................          1.0          1.0          0.0          2.0           $0           $0          $67
    Medium...................................................          1.0          1.0          0.0          2.0            0            0           67
    Large....................................................          1.0          1.0          0.0          2.0            0            0           67
Production:                                                                                                                                             
    Small....................................................          1.0          1.0          0.0          2.0            0            0           67
    Medium...................................................          1.0          1.0          0.0          2.0            0            0           67
    Large....................................................          1.0          1.0          0.0          2.0            0            0          67 
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\1\ Total cost includes the cost of facility labor, capital, and O&M costs.                                                                             

Recordkeeping

    Exhibit 8 presents the burden hours and costs for a facility to 
perform Plan maintenance and Plan-specific recordkeeping activities. 
All regulated facilities are subject to these requirements.

                                            Exhibit 8.--Estimated Annual Burden Hours and Costs-Recordkeeping                                           
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                                                                                  Burden hours                                      Cost                
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                       Type of facility                                                                  Total                                          
                                                                Managerial   Technical     Clerical      burden      Capital        O&M       Total \1\ 
                                                                  $38.59       $28.26       $17.71       hours                                          
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Storage:                                                                                                                                                
    Small....................................................          0.0          2.0          0.5          2.5           $0           $0          $65
    Medium...................................................          0.0          4.5          0.5          5.0            0            0          136
    Large....................................................          0.0          9.5          0.5         10.0            0            0          277
Production:                                                                                                                                             
    Small....................................................          0.0          3.0          0.5          3.5            0            0           94
    Medium...................................................          0.0          3.0          0.5          3.5            0            0           94
    Large....................................................          0.0          3.0          0.5          3.5            0            0          94 
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\1\ Total cost includes the cost of facility labor, capital, and O&M costs.                                                                             

Annual Expected Facility Burden

    The total annual burden per facility reflects the sum of the annual 
burdens incurred by the facility for each category of activities 
outlined above. The estimated annual burden for an existing facility is 
shown in Exhibit 9. Exhibit 10 presents the estimated annual burden for 
a new facility.

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                                      Exhibit 9.--Estimated Burden Hours and Costs Per Facility-Existing Facilities                                     
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                                                                                  Burden hours                                      Cost                
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                       Type of facility                                                                  Total                                          
                                                                Managerial   Technical     Clerical      burden      Capital        O&M         Total   
                                                                  $38.59       $28.26       $17.71       hours                                          
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Storage:                                                                                                                                                
    Small....................................................          0.3          3.3          0.8          4.3           $0           $5         $123
    Medium...................................................          0.3          6.0          0.8          7.1            0           33          227
    Large....................................................          0.2         11.1          0.7         12.0            0           94          426
Production:                                                                                                                                             
    Small....................................................          0.3          4.6          0.8          5.7            0            6          161
    Medium...................................................          0.3          4.7          0.8          5.8            0           37          195
    Large....................................................          0.2          4.7          0.7          5.6            0          102          255
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                                       Exhibit 10.--Estimated Burden Hours and Costs Per Facility--New Facilities                                       
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                                                                                  Burden hours                                      Cost                
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                       Type of facility                                                                  Total                                          
                                                                Managerial   Technical     Clerical      burden      Capital        O&M         Total   
                                                                  38.59        28.26        17.71        hours                                          
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Storage:                                                                                                                                                
    Small....................................................          5.7         26.2          4.4         36.3          $67          $87       $1,192
    Medium...................................................          4.5         37.8          5.1         47.4           67          678        2,078
    Large....................................................          3.0         47.7          4.6         55.3           67        2,153        3,765
Production:                                                                                                                                             
    Small....................................................          5.7         30.0          4.4         40.1           67           94        1,308
    Medium...................................................          4.5         37.8          5.1         47.4           67          702        2,102
    Large....................................................          3.0         41.7          4.6         49.3           67        2,177        3,620
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Total Annual Expected Facility Burdens

    The total annual burdens for all existing facilities and all new 
facilities are shown in Exhibits 11 and 12. The approximately 451,000 
existing facilities will incur a combined burden of about 2.42 million 
hours and 72 million. In addition, around 4,500 new facilities will 
incur a combined burden of about 180,137 hours at a cost of 6.6 
million. The total annual reporting and recordkeeping burden to the 
regulated community as a result of the SPCC Program is estimated to be 
approximately 2.6 million hours at a cost of about 78.6 million.

                                      Exhibit 11.--Estimated Annual Burden Hours and Costs--All Existing Facilities                                     
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                                                                                  Burden hours                                      Cost                
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                       Type of facility                                                                  Total                                          
                                                                Managerial   Technical     Clerical      burden      Capital        O&M         Total   
                                                                  $38.59       $28.26       $17.71       hours                                          
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Storage:                                                                                                                                                
    Small....................................................       73,626      755,173      177,623    1,006,422           $0   $1,091,079  $28,418,284
    Medium...................................................       14,511      346,051       48,033      408,595            0    1,891,286   13,080,463
    Large....................................................        2,218      146,152        9,517      157,887            0    1,233,329    5,617,205
Production:                                                                                                                                             
    Small....................................................       39,075      562,489       94,268      695,832            0      677,170   19,749,279
    Medium...................................................        6,426      121,312       21,272      149,010            0      939,632    4,992,377
    Large....................................................           52        1,468          223        1,743            0       31,375       78,810
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                                        Exhibit 12.--Estimated Annual Burden Hours and Costs--All New Facilities                                        
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                                                                                  Burden hours                                      Cost                
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                       Type of facility                                                                  Total                                          
                                                                Managerial   Technical     Clerical      burden      Capital        O&M         Total   
                                                                  $38.59       $28.26       $17.71       hours                                          
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Storage:                                                                                                                                                
    Small....................................................       13,194       60,580       10,170       83,944     $155,042     $201,558   $2,757,678
    Medium...................................................        2,597       21,832        2,928       27,357       38,657      391,318    1,198,967
    Large....................................................          396        6,294          600        7,290        8,836      283,996      496,585
Production:                                                                                                                                             
    Small....................................................        7,002       36,879        5,398       49,279       82,284      115,801    1,605,988
    Medium...................................................        1,150        9,668        1,297       12,115       17,119      179,422      537,095
    Large....................................................            9          129           14          152          207        6,730       11,189
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    Dated: December 11, 1997.
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[FR Doc. 97-33078 Filed 12-17-97; 8:45 am]
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