[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 22 (Thursday, February 3, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5646-5647]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-2067]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[OECA-2004-0024; FRL-7868-3]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB 
Review and Approval; Comment Request; Source Compliance and State 
Action Reporting (Renewal), ICR Number 0107.08, OMB Number 2060-0096

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, 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. 
This ICR is scheduled to expire on February 28, 2005. Under OMB 
regulations, the Agency may continue to conduct or sponsor the 
collection of information while this submission is pending at OMB. This 
ICR describes the nature of the information collection and its 
estimated burden and cost.

DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before March 7, 2005.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number OECA-
2004-0024, to (1) EPA online using EDOCKET (our preferred method), by 
e-mail to [email protected], or by mail to: Environmental Protection 
Agency, EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), Enforcement and Compliance Docket 
and Information Center, Mail Code 2201T, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20460, and (2) OMB at: 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: Betsy Metcalf, Enforcement and 
Targeting Data Division, Office of Compliance, 2222A, Environmental 
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460; 
telephone number: (202) 564-5962; fax number: (202) 564-0032; e-mail 
address: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has submitted the following ICR to OMB 
for review and approval according to the procedures prescribed in 5 CFR 
1320.12. On June 1, 2004 (69 FR 30897), EPA sought comments on this ICR 
pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA has addressed the comments received.
    EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID 
No. OECA-2004-0024, which is available for public viewing at the 
Enforcement and Compliance Docket and Information Center in the EPA 
Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West, Room B102, 1301 Constitution Avenue, 
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 Enforcement and Compliance Docket and 
Information Center Docket is: (202) 566-1752. An electronic version of 
the public docket is available through EPA Dockets (EDOCKET) at http://www.epa.gov/edocket. Use EDOCKET to 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. When 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 and OMB 
within 30 days of this notice. 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, confidential business 
information, (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

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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.
    Title: Source Compliance and State Action Reporting (Renewal).
    Abstract: Source Compliance and State Action Reporting is an 
activity whereby State, District, Local, and Commonwealth governments 
(hereafter referred to as ``states/locals'' or ``state and local 
agencies'') make air compliance information available to the U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or the Agency) on a cyclic basis 
via input to the Air Facility System (AFS). The information provided to 
EPA includes compliance activities and determinations, and enforcement 
activities. EPA uses this information to assess progress toward meeting 
emission requirements developed under the authority of the Clean Air 
Act (CAA or the Act) to protect and maintain the atmospheric 
environment and the public health. The EPA and many of the state and 
local agencies access the data in AFS to assist them in the management 
of their air pollution control programs. This renewal information 
collection request (ICR) affects oversight of approximately 41,500 
stationary sources by 93 state and local agencies and the Federal EPA, 
and is expected to require 144,089 labor hours per year and cost 
approximately $5.5 million annually. State and local agency burdens and 
costs are estimated as 110,809 hours and approximately $3.7 million 
annually. On average, this burden amounts to approximately one-third of 
a full-time equivalent employee for each small state and local agency, 
three-fourths of a full-time equivalent employee for each medium sized 
state and local agency and one and one-third of a full-time equivalent 
employee for each large sized state and local agency for national 
reporting of compliance- and enforcement-related data under all of the 
applicable Clean Air Act programs. The first notice for the renewal of 
this collection sought to add the following new reporting requirements: 
Addition of the subpart identifier in the air program record, addition 
of the pollutant code to stack test actions, addition of the High 
Priority Violator (HPV) ``Violation Discovered'' activity and date, 
addition of the HPV violation type code and violating pollutants, 
revised reporting frequency for state/local agencies from quarterly to 
30 days, reporting all Partial Compliance Evaluations (PCEs), and the 
reporting of Permit Program Data Elements (PPDEs).
    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, and are 
identified on the form and/or instrument, if applicable.
    Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping 
burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 
18,468 hours per response (six responses per year for a state/local 
agency). 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.
    Respondents/Affected Entities: State, local or tribal government.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 93.
    Frequency of Response: Six times per year.
    Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 110,809 hours.
    Estimated Total Capital Annual Costs: $3,699,481, which includes $0 
annualized capital/startup costs, $0 annual O&M costs, and $3,699,481 
annual labor costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is an increase of 25,313 hours in 
the total estimated burden currently identified in the OMB Inventory of 
Approved ICR Burdens. This increase was attributable to several new 
data elements added to the new Minimum Data Requirements (MDRs) in this 
renewal ICR, with an adjustment to the baseline count of hours. The new 
MDRs will not be effective until October 1, 2005.

    Dated: January 25, 2005.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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