[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 133 (Friday, July 11, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41335-41336]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-17612]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[OAR-2003-0081, FRL-7527-2]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; 
Comment Request; Emission Reporting Requirements for Ozone SIP Revision 
Relating to Statewide Budgets for NOX Emissions To Reduce 
the Regional Transport of Ozone, EPA ICR Number 1857.03, OMB Control 
Number 2060-0445

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 
approved collection. This ICR is scheduled to expire on 10/31/2003. 
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 September 9, 2003.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number OAR-2003-
0081, 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 Docket, Mail Code 6102T, Room B108, 1200 
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: William L. Johnson, Air Quality 
Strategies and Standards Division, Ozone Policy Strategies Group, C539-
02, Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, North 
Carolina 27711; telephone number: (919) 541-5245; fax number: (919) 
541-0824; e-mail address: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The EPA has established a public docket for 
this ICR under Docket ID number OAR-2003-0081, which is available for 
public viewing at the Air Docket in the EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA 
West, Room B102, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460. 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 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 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. The 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 coyrighted 
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.
    Affected entities: Entities potentially affected by this action are 
States covered by the NOX SIP call and industries in those 
States which are large emitters of NOX. This includes large 
electrical generating units or power plants and large boilers as well 
as possibly cement kilns.
    Title: Emission Reporting Requirements for Ozone SIP Revision 
Relating to Statewide Budgets for NOX Emissions to Reduce 
the Regional Transport of Ozone.
    Abstract: States which are subject to the NOX SIP call 
are required to collect data on NOX emissions and submit 
this data to EPA. Data from large NOX sources which States 
are requiring to be controlled to meet the State NOX budget 
must be reported annually for the ozone season. States must report 
NOX emissions from all sources triennially. In order to 
report this data, States must require large sources of NOX 
emissions

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to monitor emissions and report emissions to the State or to EPA. 
Resources must be expended by sources to install and calibrate emission 
monitors and to collect and report emissions data. This data is 
necessary to allow EPA to assess the ability of States to meet their 
NOX budgets allocated under the NOX SIP call. The 
data submission is not voluntary. It is required under 40 CFR 51.122. 
All emissions data received by EPA will be treated as public 
information. 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.
    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 total average annual reporting burden of this 
information collection is $54,097,149 and 492,192 hours. The annualized 
capital cost is $16,136,170. The annualized operating and maintenance 
cost is $12,606,505. These costs are mostly for installing and 
maintaining continuous emission monitors at industrial facilities 
including large electrical generating power plants. The average burden 
hour per response is estimated to be 142 hours. The frequency of 
response is annually or quarterly for large NOX sources 
participating in a Federally approved NOX trading program. 
The number of respondents is estimated to be 2,467 including States and 
industrial sources. 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: June 25, 2003.
Henry C. Thomas, Jr.,
Acting Director, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards.
[FR Doc. 03-17612 Filed 7-10-03; 8:45 am]
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