[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 25 (Thursday, February 6, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7179-7180]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-02606]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2006-0947; FRL-9906-29-OAR]


Proposed Information Collection Request; Comment Request; Federal 
Implementation Plans To Reduce Interstate Transport of Fine Particulate 
Matter and Ozone (Renewal)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is planning to 
submit an information collection request (ICR), ``Information 
Collection Request Renewal for the Federal Implementation Plans to 
Reduce Interstate Transport of Fine Particulate Matter and Ozone'' (EPA 
ICR Number 2391.03, OMB Control No. 2060-0667) to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with 
the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). Before doing so, 
EPA is soliciting public comments on specific aspects of the proposed 
information collection as described below. This is a proposed extension 
of the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule ICR, which is currently approved 
through July 31, 2014. 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.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before April 7, 2014.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-
2009-0491 online using www.regulations.gov (our preferred method), by 
email to [email protected], or by mail to: EPA Docket 
Center, Environmental Protection Agency, Mail Code 28221T, 1200 
Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460.
    EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included in the 
public docket without change including any personal information 
provided, unless the comment includes profanity, threats, information 
claimed to be Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other 
information whose disclosure is restricted by statute.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Karen VanSickle, Clean Air Markets 
Division, Office of Air and Radiation, (6204J), Environmental 
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460; 
telephone number: (202) 343-9220; fax number: (202) 343-2361; email 
address: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supporting documents which explain in detail 
the information that the EPA will be collecting are available in the 
public docket for this ICR. The docket can be viewed online at 
www.regulations.gov or in person at the EPA Docket Center, EPA West, 
Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave. NW., Washington, DC. The telephone 
number for the Docket Center is 202-566-1744. For additional 
information about EPA's public docket, visit http://www.epa.gov/dockets.
    Pursuant to section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA, EPA is soliciting 
comments and information to enable it 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. EPA 
will consider the comments received and amend the ICR as appropriate. 
The final ICR package will then be submitted to OMB for review and 
approval. At that time, EPA

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will issue another Federal Register notice to announce the submission 
of the ICR to OMB and the opportunity to submit additional comments to 
OMB.
    Abstract: This is a proposed extension of an ICR that has not been 
implemented because the underlying rule (known as the Cross-State Air 
Pollution Rule or Transport Rule) was first stayed before the scheduled 
start of compliance and was then vacated by the U.S. Court of Appeals 
for the D.C. Circuit. The D.C. Circuit's decision vacating the rule is 
currently under review by the U.S. Supreme Court (EPA v. EME Homer City 
Generation, L.P., Nos. 12-1182 and 12-1183 (U.S. argued Dec. 10, 
2013)). EPA is proceeding with renewal so that the ICR is in place 
should the Supreme Court reverse the lower court decision.
    On July 6, 2011 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 
finalized Federal Implementation Plans to Reduce Interstate Transport 
of Fine Particulate Matter and Ozone (Cross-State Air Pollution Rule or 
CSAPR). CSAPR would supersede the Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR), 
which pursuant to a 2008 D.C. Circuit decision is being implemented 
pending the promulgation of a replacement rule. CSAPR includes certain 
new reporting requirements beyond the CAIR reporting requirements, and 
combines these new requirements with existing requirements from the 
Emission Reporting Requirements for Ozone State Implementation Plan 
(SIP) Revisions Relating to Statewide Budgets for NOX 
Emissions to Reduce Regional Transport of Ozone (NOX SIP 
Call) and the Acid Rain Program (ARP) under Title IV of the Clean Air 
Act Amendments of 1990. Each of these existing requirements has an 
approved ICR in place. The current ICRs are: CAIR (EPA ICR Number 
2152.05/OMB Control Number 2060-0570), NOX SIP Call (EPA ICR 
Number 1857.06/OMB Control Number 2060-0445) and ARP (EPA ICR Number 
1633.16/OMB Control Number 2060-0258). This ICR and the accompanying 
draft supporting statement are being submitted to account for the 
incremental burden associated with CSAPR as it was to supersede CAIR in 
2012. As such, the draft supporting statement references the burden 
analysis included in EPA ICR Numbers 2152.04, 1857.05, and 1633.15, and 
estimates the change in burden resulting from CSAPR beyond the scope of 
the existing ICRs for the NOX SIP Call requirements and the 
Acid Rain Program. The burden included in this ICR includes start-up 
and capital costs for units newly affected by an emissions trading 
program and/or whose reporting status has changed (e.g., from ozone 
season only to annual reporting), annualized capital costs for units 
previously subject to the NOX SIP Call requirements or CAIR, 
and the incremental operation and maintenance costs for all CSAPR-
affected units. The burden and costs accounted for under the CAIR ICR 
(EPA ICR Number 2152.04) would no longer occur following implementation 
of the CSAPR ICR. Instead, all those burdens and costs would be 
accounted for under this ICR as part of CSAPR implementation.
    In addition to the July 6, 2011 final CSAPR, on December 15, 2011 
EPA finalized a supplemental rulemaking that added five additional 
states to the CSAPR ozone season NOX program: Iowa, 
Michigan, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin. EPA has included in the 
CSAPR ICR the costs/burdens associated with CSAPR ozone season-affected 
units for these five additional states. Further, at the time when the 
draft supporting statement for this ICR was prepared, EPA had also 
proposed to add Kansas to the CSAPR ozone season program, so the costs/
burdens associated with Kansas facilities, like the facilities in the 
other five states that were at that time merely proposed to be added to 
the program, were included to allow for a full accounting of the CSAPR 
program at maturity. See Appendix A of the draft supporting statement 
for a separate breakout of the cost/burdens associated with these 
facilities. The final supplemental rulemaking did not add Kansas to the 
CSAPR ozone season NOX program, and the costs/burdens 
associated with Kansas will therefore be removed from this ICR before 
finalization. In the event that Kansas should be added to the CSAPR 
ozone season NOX program in the future, EPA will amend this 
ICR accordingly.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: Entities potentially affected by 
this action are those which are subject to the Federal Implementation 
Plans to Reduce Interstate Transport of Fine Particulate Matter and 
Ozone.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: mandatory (Sections 110(a) and 
301(a) of the Clean Air Act).
    Estimated number of respondents: EPA estimates that there are 
17,398 respondents subject to the Federal Implementation Plans to 
Reduce Interstate Transport of Fine Particulate Matter and Ozone that 
will conduct monitoring in accordance with Part 75.
    Frequency of response: yearly, quarterly, occasionally.
    Total estimated burden: 185,201 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
    Total estimated cost: $26,228,962 (per year), includes $13,150,678 
annualized capital or operation & maintenance costs.
    Changes in Estimates: There is no increase in hours in the total 
estimated respondent burden compared with the ICR currently approved by 
OMB.

    Dated: January 29, 2014.
Reid P. Harvey,
Director, Clean Air Markets Division.
[FR Doc. 2014-02606 Filed 2-5-14; 8:45 am]
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