[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 8 (Tuesday, January 13, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1679-1681]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-471]


=======================================================================
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2003-0052; FRL-8761-9]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for 
Review and Approval; Comment Request; Risk Management Program 
Requirements and Petitions To Modify the List of Regulated Substances 
Under Section 112(r) of the Clean Air Act (CAA) (Renewal); EPA ICR No. 
1656.13; OMB Control No. 2050-0144

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44 
U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), 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. The ICR, which is abstracted below, 
describes the nature of the information collection and its estimated 
burden and cost.

DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before February 12, 
2009.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-
2003-0052, to (1) EPA online using http://www.regulations.gov (our 
preferred method), by e-mail to [email protected] or by mail to: 
EPA Docket Center, Environmental Protection Agency, Air & Radiation 
Docket, Mail Code: 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 
20460, and (2) OMB by mail to: 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: Sicy Jacob, Office of Emergency 
Management, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., 
NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 564-8019; fax 
number: (202) 564-2620; e-mail address: jacob.sicy@epa,gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has submitted the following ICR to OMB 
for

[[Page 1680]]

review and approval according to the procedures prescribed in 5 CFR 
1320.12. On August 14, 2008 (73 FR 47594), EPA sought comments on this 
ICR pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received no comments. Any 
additional comments on this ICR should be submitted to EPA and OMB 
within 30 days of this notice.
    EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID 
No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2003-0052, which is available for online viewing at 
http://www.regulations.gov, or in person viewing at the Air Docket in 
the EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution 
Ave., NW., Washington, DC. The EPA/DC 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 & Radiation Docket is 202-566-
1742.
    Use EPA's electronic docket and comment system at 
www.regulations.gov, to submit or view public comments, access the 
index listing of the contents of the docket, and to access those 
documents in the docket that are available electronically. Once in the 
system, select ``docket search,'' then key in the docket ID number 
identified above. Please note that EPA's policy is that public 
comments, whether submitted electronically or in paper, will be made 
available for public viewing at http://www.regulations.gov 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. For 
further information about the electronic docket, go to http://www.regulations.gov.
    Title: Risk Management Program Requirements and Petitions to Modify 
the List of Regulated Substances under section 112(r) of the Clean Air 
Act (CAA) (Renewal);
    ICR Number: EPA ICR No. 1656.13, OMB Control No. 2050-0144.
    ICR Status: This ICR is scheduled to expire on January 31, 2009. 
Under OMB regulations, the Agency may continue to conduct or sponsor 
the collection of information while this submission is pending at OMB. 
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 title 40 of the CFR, after appearing in the Federal Register when 
approved, are listed in 40 CFR part 9, are displayed either by 
publication in the Federal Register or by other appropriate means, such 
as on the related collection instrument or form, if applicable. The 
display of OMB control numbers in certain EPA regulations is 
consolidated in 40 CFR part 9.
    Abstract: The 1990 CAA Amendments added section 112(r) to provide 
for the prevention and mitigation of accidental releases. Section 
112(r) mandates that EPA promulgate a list of ``regulated substances'' 
with threshold quantities and establish procedures for the addition and 
deletion of substances from the list of regulated substances. Processes 
at stationary sources that contain more than a threshold quantity of a 
regulated substance are subject to accidental release prevention 
regulations promulgated under CAA section 112(r)(7). These two rules 
are codified as 40 CFR part 68. Part 68 requires that sources with more 
than a threshold quantity of a regulated substance in a process develop 
and implement a risk management program and submit a risk management 
plan (RMP) to EPA. The compliance schedule for the part 68 requirements 
was established by rule on June 20, 1996. Burden to sources that are 
currently covered by part 68, for initial rule compliance, including 
rule familiarization and program implementation was accounted for in 
previous ICRs. Sources submitted their first RMPs on June 21, 1999. The 
next compliance deadline for most sources was June 21, 2004, five years 
after the first submission. Some sources revised and submitted their 
RMPs between the five-year deadlines. These sources were then assigned 
a new five-year compliance deadline based on the date of their revised 
plan submission. The next submission deadline of RMPs for most sources 
is June 21, 2009. However, as only some regulated entities have a 
compliance deadline of June 2009, the remaining sources have been 
assigned a deadline in 2010, 2011, 2012 or 2013 (the last two years are 
after the period covered by this ICR) based on the date of their most 
recent submission. The period covered by this ICR includes the 
regulatory reporting deadline, June 2009. In this ICR, EPA has 
accounted burden for new sources that may become subject to the 
regulations, currently covered sources with compliance deadlines in 
this ICR period (2009 to 2011), sources that are out of compliance 
since the last regulatory deadline but are expected to comply during 
this ICR period, and sources that have deadlines beyond this ICR period 
but are required to comply with certain prevention program 
documentation requirements.
    Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping 
burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 20.5 
hours per response. 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 which have subsequently changed; 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: Entities potentially affected by 
this action are chemical manufacturers, petroleum refineries, water 
treatment systems, non-chemical manufacturers, etc.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 13,718, including State 
implementing agencies.
    Frequency of Response: Every five years, unless the facilities need 
to update their pervious submission earlier to comply with a rule 
requirement.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 93,982.
    Estimated Total Annual Cost: $9,785,371.00. There are no capital or 
operating and maintenance costs associated with this ICR since the 
Agency expects all sources to submit their RMPs on-line using the new 
electronic reporting system, RMP* eSubmit.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is a decrease of 4,617 hours for 
all sources and states from the previous ICR. There are two primary 
reasons for this decrease in burden. First, as explained in section 1 
of the supporting statement for this ICR renewal, the burden varies 
from ICR to ICR due to different compliance deadlines based on the 
sources' RMP re-submission deadline and other regulatory deadlines. 
Therefore, the burden fluctuates each year depending on how many 
sources have to submit their RMP and comply with certain prevention 
program requirements. Second, the number of sources subject to the 
regulations is lower than in the previous ICR (16,634 in the previous 
ICR and 13,718 sources in this ICR period).


[[Page 1681]]


    Dated: January 6, 2009.
John Moses,
Acting Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. E9-471 Filed 1-12-09; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6560-50-P