[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 135 (Wednesday, July 15, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41497-41498]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-17316]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2011-0891; FRL-9930-58-OEI]


Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; Recordkeeping and Periodic Reporting of the 
Production, Import, Recycling, Destruction, Transhipment, and Feedstock 
Use of Ozone-Depleting Substances (Renewal)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency has submitted an 
information collection request (ICR), ``Recordkeeping and Periodic 
Reporting of the Production, Import, Recycling, Destruction, 
Transhipment, and Feedstock Use of Ozone-Depleting Substances 
(Renewal)'' (EPA ICR No. 1432.31, OMB Control No. 2060-0170) 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.). 
Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register (80 
FR 24917) on May 1, 2015 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 14, 
2015.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OAR-2011-0891, to (1) EPA 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, 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: Robert Burchard, Stratospheric 
Protection Division, Office of Atmospheric Programs (6205J), 
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., 
Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 343-9126; 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.
    Abstract: The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the 
Ozone Layer (Protocol) and Title VI of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 
1990 (CAA) established limits on total U.S. production, import, and 
export of Class I and Class II controlled ozone depleting substances 
(ODSs). Under its Protocol commitments, the United States has been 
obligated to cease production and import of Class I controlled 
substances with exemptions for essential uses, critical uses, 
previously used material, and material that will be transformed, 
destroyed, or exported to developing countries. The Protocol also 
establishes limits and reduction schedules leading

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to the eventual phaseout of Class II controlled substances with similar 
exemptions beyond the phaseout. Additionally, the CAA has its own 
limits on production and consumption of controlled substances that EPA 
must adhere to and enforce.
    To ensure the United States' compliance with the limits and 
restrictions established by the Protocol and the CAA, the ODS phaseout 
regulations establish control measures for individual companies. EPA 
monitors compliance with the limits and restrictions for individual 
United States companies through the recordkeeping and reporting 
requirements established in the regulations at 40 CFR part 82, subpart 
A. To submit required information, regulated entities can download 
reporting forms, complete them, and then send them to EPA via mail, 
fax, or electronically. Upon receipt of the reports, EPA enters and 
stores the data in the ODS Tracking System. The Tracking System is a 
secure database that maintains all of the data that is submitted to EPA 
and allows the Agency to: (1) Track over total production and 
consumption of controlled substances to satisfy conditions of the CAA 
and fulfill the United States obligations under the Protocol; (2) 
monitor compliance with limits and restrictions on production, imports, 
exports, and specific exemptions to the phaseout for individual U.S. 
companies; and (3) enforce against illegal imports and violations 
related to the control of Class I and Class II substances. 
Additionally, reporting on the exemptions allows an entity to retain 
the benefit of being able to produce or import a controlled Class I ODS 
beyond the date of complete phaseout.
    Pursuant to regulations 40 CFR part 2, subpart B, reporting 
businesses are entitled to assert a business confidentiality claim 
covering any part of the submitted business information as defined in 
40 CFR part 2, subpart B.
    Respondents/affected entities: Chemical Producers, Importers, and 
Exporters (CFCs); Research and Development (Laboratories); and MeBr 
Producers, Importers, Exporters, Distributors, and Applicators.
    Estimated number of respondents: 1845 (total).
    Frequency of response: quarterly, annually, occasionally.
    Total estimated burden: 2583 hours (per year). Burden is defined at 
5 CFR 1320.03(b).
    Total estimated cost: $280,055 (per year), includes $5,535 
annualized capital or operation & maintenance costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is no change in the total estimated 
respondent burden compared with the ICR currently approved by OMB.

Courtney Kerwin,
Acting Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. 2015-17316 Filed 7-14-15; 8:45 am]
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