[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 192 (Tuesday, October 5, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59589-59591]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-22361]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[OEI-2004-0004, FRL-7823-4]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; 
Comment Request; Information Collection Request Update for the 40 CFR 
Part 64 Compliance Assurance Monitoring Program, EPA ICR Number 
1663.03, OMB Control Number 2060-0376

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 a 
continuing Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB). This is a request to renew an existing 
collection. This ICR is scheduled to expire on November 30, 2004. 
Before submitting the ICR to OMB for review and approval, EPA is 
soliciting comments on specific aspects of the

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proposed information collection as described below.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before December 6, 2004.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number OEI-2004-
0004, to EPA online using EDOCKET (our preferred method), by e-mail: [email protected], or by mail to: U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency, EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), Air and Radiation Docket 
and Information Center, MC 6102T, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20460, [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Peter R. Westlin, Environmental 
Protection Agency, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards (mail 
code D243-02), Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27711; telephone 
number: (919) 541-1058; fax number: (919) 541-1039; e-mail address: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has established a public docket for this 
ICR under Docket ID number OEI-2004-0004, which is available for public 
viewing at the Air and Radiation Docket and Information Center 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 and 
Information Center 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.
    You should submit any comments related to this ICR to EPA within 60 
days of this notice. EPA's policy is the Agency will make available 
public comments, whether submitted electronically or in paper, 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 http://www.epa.gov./
edocket.
    Affected entities: Entities potentially affected by this action are 
owners and operators of major sources as defined by any title of the 
Clean Air Act and required to apply for and obtain an operating permit 
under title V of the Clean Air Act as amended by the Clean Air Act 
Amendments of 1990 (the Act).
    Title: Information Collection Request Update for the 40 CFR Part 64 
Compliance Assurance Monitoring Program, OMB control number 2060-0376, 
ICR number 1663.02, expiring November 30, 2004.
    Abstract: The Act contains several provisions directing us to 
require source owners to conduct monitoring to support certification as 
to their status of compliance with applicable requirements. These 
provisions are set forth title V (operating permits provisions) and 
title VII (enforcement provisions) of the Act. Title V directs us to 
implement monitoring and certification requirements through the 
operating permits program. Section 504(b) of the Act allows us to 
prescribe by rule methods and procedures for determining compliance 
recognizing that continuous emissions monitoring systems need not be 
required if other procedures or methods provide sufficiently reliable 
and timely information for determining compliance. Under section 
504(c), each operating permit must ``set forth inspection, entry, 
monitoring, compliance, certification, and reporting requirements to 
assure compliance with the permit terms and conditions.'' Section 
114(a)(3) requires us to promulgate rules for enhanced monitoring and 
compliance certifications. Section 114(a)(1) of the Act provides 
additional authority concerning monitoring, reporting, and record 
keeping requirements. This section provides the Administrator with the 
authority to require any owner or operator of a source to install and 
operate monitoring systems and to record the resulting monitoring data. 
We promulgated the Compliance Assurance Monitoring rule, part 64, on 
October 22, 1997 (62 FR 54900) to implement these authorities.
    In accordance with these provisions, the monitoring information 
source owners must submit must also be available to the public, except 
as entitled top protection from disclosure as allowed in section 114(c) 
of the Act. 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 40 CFR are listed in 40 CFR part 9.
    We are soliciting 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: Based on the Agency's knowledge of the number of 
title V permits issued since 1997 and the implementation of part 64 
through permit renewals, the expected impact of the 40 CFR part 64 
Compliance Assurance Monitoring (CAM) Program for the 3 years from 
October 1, 2004 until September 30, 2007 is 52,000 hours. The CAM rule 
will incur an average annual cost of $2.5 million in 2004 dollars. This 
includes an annualized capital and operation and maintenance cost of 
$70,000.
    The CAM program burden for source owners or operators means the 
total time, effort, or financial resources expended by persons to 
generate, maintain, retain, or disclose or provide monitoring 
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

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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. We have also included annualized 
capital and operational and maintenance costs for monitoring programs 
in the cost burden calculation. The CAM program over the years 2004 
through 2007 potentially affects 240 large pollutant-specific emissions 
units plus 2440 other pollutant-specific emissions units nationwide. 
The annual burden for source owners or operators is 5,550 hours for 
large pollutant-specific emissions units and 46,650 hours for other 
pollutant-specific emissions units.
    During the period, permitting authorities will review CAM 
submittals from source owners or operators whose permits have already 
been issued and are renewing those permits as the 5-year permit terms 
expire. Permitting authorities will also be interacting with the source 
owners or operators in addressing the CAM in semi-annual monitoring 
reports and reporting CAM data as necessary. We estimate the annual CAM 
burden to permitting authorities to be 21,500 hours and about $1.5 
million. 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.

    Dated: September 22, 2004.
William Lamason,
Acting Director, Emissions Monitoring and Analysis Division.
[FR Doc. 04-22361 Filed 10-4-04; 8:45 am]
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