[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 113 (Friday, June 12, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33518-33519]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-14445]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2003-0052; FRL-9929-14-OSWER]


Proposed Information Collection Request; 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)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency is planning to submit an 
information collection request (ICR), ``Risk Management Program 
Requirements and Petitions to Modify the List of Regulated Substances 
under section 112(r) of the Clean Air Act (CAA).'' (EPA ICR No. 
1656.15, OMB Control No. 2050-0144) to the Office of Management and 
Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork 
Reduction Act. 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 ICR, which is currently 
approved through December 31, 2015. 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 August 11, 2015.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-
2003-0052, online using www.regulations.gov (our preferred method), 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: James Belke, Office of Emergency 
Management, mail code 5104A, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 
564-8023; fax number: (202) 564-2625; 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, WJC 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 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: 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 to EPA. EPA uses 
risk management plans to conduct oversight of regulated sources, and to 
communicate information concerning them to federal, state, and local 
agencies and the public, as appropriate.
    The compliance schedule for the part 68 requirements was 
established by rule on June 20, 1996. The 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 by June 21, 1999. For 
most sources, the next compliance deadlines occurred thereafter at five 
year intervals--in 2004, 2009, and 2014. A source submitting an RMP 
update to comply with their five-year compliance deadline will often 
submit their updated RMP several days or weeks early to ensure it is 
received by EPA before their deadline--these sources are assigned a new 
five-year deadline based off of the actual date of their most recent 
submission. Therefore, resubmissions tend to occur in ``waves'' peaking 
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fifth year. Some sources revised and resubmitted their RMPs between the 
five-year deadlines, because of changes occurring at the source that 
triggered an earlier resubmission. These sources were then assigned a 
new five-year compliance deadline based on the date of their most 
recent revised plan submission. However, since most sources are not 
required to resubmit earlier than their five-year compliance deadline, 
the next RMP submission deadline for most sources occurs in 2019. The 
remaining sources have been assigned a different deadline in 2016, 
2017, 2018, or 2020 based on the date of their most recent submission. 
Only the first three years are within the period covered by this ICR.
    In this ICR, EPA has accounted for burden for new sources that may 
become subject to the regulations, currently covered sources with 
compliance deadlines in this ICR period (2016 to 2018), 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 during this ICR 
period.
    Form numbers: Risk Management Plan Form: EPA Form 8700-25; CBI 
Substantiation Form: EPA Form 8700-27; CBI Unsanitized Data Element 
Form: EPA Form 8700-28.
    Respondents/affected entities: Entities potentially affected by 
this action are chemical manufacturers, petroleum refineries, water 
treatment systems, agricultural chemical distributors, refrigerated 
warehouses, chemical distributors, non-chemical manufacturers, 
wholesale fuel distributors, energy generation facilities, etc.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 68).
    Estimated number of respondents: 12,600 (total).
    Frequency of response: Sources must resubmit RMPs at least every 
five years and update certain on-site documentation more frequently.
    Total estimated burden: 80,546 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.03(b).
    Total estimated cost: $6,736,212 (per year), includes $0 annualized 
capital or operation & maintenance costs.
    Changes in estimates: The above burden estimates are based on the 
current approved ICR. In the final notice for the renewed ICR, EPA will 
publish revised burden estimates based on updates to respondent data 
and unit costs. The revised burden estimates may decrease slightly from 
the current ICR, as the total universe of respondents has decreased 
slightly, and also because the new ICR period will not include a major 
(five-year) reporting cycle year. The most recent five-year reporting 
cycle year was 2014, which is covered by the current approved ICR. The 
next major five-year reporting cycle year is 2019, which is after the 
period covered by the new ICR. However, wage inflation may offset this 
decrease or even result in a marginal increase in burden compared with 
the ICR currently approved by OMB.

    Dated: June 1, 2015.
Reggie Cheatham,
Acting Director, Office of Emergency Management.
[FR Doc. 2015-14445 Filed 6-11-15; 8:45 am]
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