[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 142 (Thursday, July 24, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43042-43043]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-17377]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2009-049; FRL-9914-20-OEI]


Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; 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 has submitted 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.). This is a proposed extension of 
the ICR, which is currently approved through July 31, 2014. Public 
comments were previously requested via the Federal Register (79 FR 
7179) on February 6, 2014 during a 60-day comment period. This notice 
allows for an additional 30 days for public comments. A fuller 
description of the ICR is given below, including its estimated burden 
and cost to the public. 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: Additional comments may be submitted on or before August 25, 
2014.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OAR-2009-0491, to (1) EPA 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, and (2) OMB 
via email to [email protected]. Address comments to OMB Desk 
Officer for EPA.
    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.
    Abstract: The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 
is proposing to renew an information collection request for the Federal 
Implementation Plans to Reduce Interstate Transport of Fine Particulate 
Matter and Ozone (Transport Rule) to allow for future implementation of 
the rule. The Transport Rule was published in the Federal Register on 
August 8, 2011 (76 FR 48208) \1\ and compliance obligations were 
originally scheduled to commence on January 1, 2012. However, the U.S. 
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (D.C. Circuit) 
stayed the rule prior to implementation and subsequently issued an 
opinion vacating the rule. On April 29, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court 
reversed the D.C. Circuit opinion vacating the Transport Rule. On June 
26, 2014 the U.S. Department of Justice filed a motion on EPA's behalf 
at the D.C. Circuit seeking to have the stay lifted and to allow 
compliance obligations under the rule to commence as of January 1, 
2015. The D.C. Circuit has not yet ruled on that motion.
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    \1\ A supplemental rule extending the Transport Rule's ozone-
season NOX requirements to sources in five additional 
states was published in the Federal Register on December 27, 2011 
(76 FR 80760).
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    Once implemented, the Transport Rule's requirements would 
incorporate and supersede the existing requirements under the Clean Air 
Interstate Rule (CAIR). CAIR's requirements, in turn, incorporated 
certain requirements under the NOX SIP Call. The Transport 
Rule includes new reporting requirements and, like CAIR and the 
NOX SIP Call, combines these requirements with existing 
requirements from the Acid Rain Program (ARP) under Title IV of the 
Clean Air Act (CAA) Amendments of 1990. Each of these existing 
requirements has an approved ICR in place. All data received by EPA 
will be treated as public information. 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.
    Form numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: Entities potentially affected by 
this action are those which are subject to the Federal Implementation 
Plans: Interstate Transport of Fine Particulate Matter and Ozone (76 FR 
48208, Aug. 8, 2011) and Federal Implementation Plans for Iowa, 
Michigan, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin (76 FR 80760, Dec. 27, 
2011).
    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 1,305 
(1,201 industry and 104 state or local) respondents that will conduct 
monitoring in accordance with Part 75.
    Frequency of response: Yearly, quarterly, occasionally.
    Total estimated burden: 188,001 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
    Total estimated cost: $26,718,842 (per year), includes $13,150,678 
annualized capital or operation & maintenance costs.
    Changes in the estimates: There is an increase of 2800 in the hours 
in the total

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estimated respondent burden compared with the ICR currently approved by 
OMB. This increase is due to the inclusion of 100 hours annually per 
state (28 states) to prepare optional State Implementation Plan 
submissions to reallocate emission allowances, which was inadvertently 
omitted from the original rule ICR Supporting Statement.

Spencer W. Clark,
Acting Division Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. 2014-17377 Filed 7-23-14; 8:45 am]
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