[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 144 (Wednesday, July 29, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37704-37705]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-18037]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2005-0490; FRL-8936-8]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for 
Review and Approval; Comment Request; Consolidated Emissions Reporting 
Rule (Renewal); EPA ICR No. 0916.13, OMB Control No. 2060-0088

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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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 August 28, 
2009.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-
2005-0490, 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 and Radiation, 
2822T, 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: Dennis Beauregard, Office of Air 
Quality Planning and Standards, Air Quality Assessment Division, Mail 
Code C339-02, Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, 
NC 27711; telephone number: (919) 541-5512; fax number: (919) 541-0684; 
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 April 21, 2009 (74 FR 18226), EPA sought comments on this 
ICR pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received no comments during the 
comment period. 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-2005-0490, which is available for online viewing at 
http://www.regulations.gov, or in person viewing at the Air and 
Radiation 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 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.
    Use EPA's electronic docket and comment system at http://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: Consolidated Emissions Reporting Rule (Renewal).
    ICR numbers: EPA ICR No. 0916.13, OMB Control No. 2060-0088.
    ICR Status: This ICR is scheduled to expire on October 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

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approved, are listed in 40 CFR part 9 and 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: EPA has promulgated a Consolidated Emissions Reporting 
Rule (CERR) (40 CFR part 51, subpart A) to coordinate new emissions 
inventory reporting requirements with existing requirements of the 
Clean Air Act (CAA) and the 1990 Amendments. Under the CERR, 55 state 
and territorial air quality agencies, including the District of 
Columbia (DC), as well as an estimated 49 local air quality agencies, 
must annually submit emissions data for point sources emitting 
specified levels of volatile organic compounds, oxides of nitrogen, 
carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, particulate matter less than or equal 
to 10 micrometers in diameter, particulate matter less than or equal to 
2.5 micrometers in diameter (PM2.5), and ammonia 
(NH3).
    Every 3 years, states are required to submit a point source 
inventory, as well as a statewide stationary nonpoint, nonroad mobile, 
onroad mobile, and biogenic source inventory for all criteria 
pollutants (including lead and lead compounds) and their precursors. 
The emissions data submitted for the annual and 3-year cycle 
inventories for stationary point, nonpoint, nonroad mobile, and onroad 
mobile sources are used by EPA's Office of Air Quality Planning and 
Standards to assist in developing ambient air quality emission 
standards, performing regional modeling, and preparing national trends 
assessments and special analyses and reports. Any data submitted to EPA 
under the CERR is in the public domain and cannot be treated as 
confidential.
    Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping 
burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 31 
hours per response. The total number of respondents is assumed to be 
1,863. This total number of respondents includes 104 State agencies 
that are subject to the CERR data reporting requirements and 1,759 
sources that are not subject, but are assumed to incur the burden for 
reporting estimates of PM2.5 and NH3 to State 
agencies. 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: 55 State and territorial air 
pollution control agencies, 49 local air agencies, and 1,759 industry 
sources.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 1,863.
    Frequency of Response: Annual.
    Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 57,698.
    Estimated Total Annual Cost: $230,880, includes $230,880 annualized 
capital or operational and maintenance costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is a decrease of 474 hours in the 
total estimated burden currently identified in the OMB Inventory of 
Approved ICR Burdens. This decrease is due to use of updated point 
source reporting data from the 2005 National Emissions Inventory 
indicating fewer Type A sources will be reported annually to EPA.

    Dated: July 21, 2009.
Jenny Noonan Edmonds,
Acting Director, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards.
[FR Doc. E9-18037 Filed 7-28-09; 8:45 am]
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