[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 117 (Wednesday, June 18, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36545-36546]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-15362]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[OAR-2003-0078, FRL-7514-6]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; 
Comment Request; Reporting Under EPA's Landfill Methane Outreach 
Program

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

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 
following continuing Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office 
of Management and Budget (OMB): Reporting Under EPA's Landfill Methane 
Outreach Program, ICR Number 1849.02, OMB Control Number 2060-0446, 
expiration October 31, 2003. 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 August 18, 2003.

ADDRESSES: Follow the detailed instructions in SUPPLEMENTARY 
INFORMATION.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brian Guzzone, Climate Protection 
Partnerships Division, Office of Atmospheric Programs, 6202J, 
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 
Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 564-2666; fax number: 
(202) 565-2079; e-mail address: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has established a public docket for this 
ICR under Docket ID number OAR-2003-0078, which is available for public 
viewing at the Air and Radiation Docket 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 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 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

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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 within 
60 days of this notice, and according to the following detailed 
instructions: Submit your comments to EPA online using EDOCKET (our 
preferred method), by e-mail to [email protected], or by 
mail to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental Protection Agency, Air and 
Radiation Docket and Information Center, MC 6102T, 1200 Pennsylvania 
Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460.
    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 www.epa.gov./edocket.
    Affected Entities: Entities potentially affected by this action are 
those local agencies and municipalities that own landfills; State 
agencies; manufacturers and suppliers of equipment/knowledge to capture 
and utilize landfill gas; utility companies; end users of energy from 
the landfill.
    Title: Reporting Under EPA's Landfill Methane Outreach Program (OMB 
Control Number 2060-0446; EPA ICR Number 1849.02; expiring October 31, 
2003).
    Abstract: The Landfill Methane Outreach Program (LMOP) is an EPA-
sponsored voluntary program that encourages landfill owners, 
communities, and project developers to reduce emissions of methane, a 
potent greenhouse gas, by implementing landfill gas technologies that 
collect and utilize the methane as a source of energy. The Landfill 
Methane Outreach Program further encourages utilities and other energy 
customers to support and promote the use of landfill methane at their 
facilities. The Landfill Methane Outreach Program signs voluntary 
Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) with these organizations to enlist 
their support in promoting cost-effective landfill gas utilization. The 
information collection includes completion and submission of the MOU, 
and annual online completion and submission of information forms that 
include basic information on the organizations that sign the MOU and 
landfill methane projects in which they are involved. The information 
collection is to be utilized to maintain up-to-date data and 
information about Landfill Methane Outreach Program partners and 
landfill methane projects in which they are involved. In addition, the 
information collection will assist LMOP to evaluate the reduction of 
methane emissions from landfills. Responses to the information 
collection are voluntary.
    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 are listed in 40 CFR part 9 and 48 CFR chapter 15.
    The EPA would like to solicit 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.
    Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping 
burden for this (3) three year collection of information is estimated 
to equal 1,531 hours and to average 3.6 hours per year per respondent. 
The estimated number of respondents averaged over (3) three years is 
422. The average capital, start-up, and operation and maintenance cost 
resulting from this three year collection of information is $212 per 
respondent.
    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.

    Dated: May 29, 2003.
Kathleen Hogan,
Director.
[FR Doc. 03-15362 Filed 6-17-03; 8:45 am]
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