[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 79 (Monday, April 25, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24088-24089]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-09520]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2003-0073; FRL-9944-44-OEI]


Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; Distribution of Offsite Consequence Analysis 
Information Under Section 112(r)(7)(H) of the Clean Air Act (CAA), as 
Amended (Renewal)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency has submitted an 
information collection request (ICR), ``Distribution of Offsite 
Consequence Analysis Information under Section 112(r)(7)(H) of the 
Clean Air Act (CAA), as amended (Renewal)'' (EPA ICR No. 1981.06, OMB 
Control No. 2050-0172) 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 June 30, 2016. Public comments were 
previously requested via the Federal Register (80 FR 79891) on December 
23, 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 May 25, 2016.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-
2003-0073, 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: Sicy Jacob, Office of Emergency 
Management, Mail Code 5104A, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 
Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 
564-8019; fax number: (202) 564-2625; email address: 
jacob.sicy@epa,gov.

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: This ICR is the renewal of the ICR developed for the 
final rule, Accidental Release Prevention Requirements; Risk Management 
Programs Under the Clean Air Act Section 112(r)(7); Distribution of 
Off-Site Consequence Analysis Information. CAA section 112(r)(7) 
required EPA to promulgate reasonable regulations and appropriate 
guidance to provide for the prevention and detection of accidental 
releases and for responses to such releases. The regulations include 
requirements for submittal of a risk management plan (RMP) to EPA. The 
RMP includes information on offsite consequence analyses (OCA) as well 
as other elements of the risk management program.
    On August 5, 1999, the President signed the Chemical Safety 
Information, Site Security, and Fuels Regulatory Relief Act 
(CSISSFRRA). The Act required the President to promulgate regulations 
on the distribution of OCA information (CAA section 112(r)(7)(H)(ii)). 
The President delegated to EPA and the Department of Justice (DOJ) the 
responsibility to promulgate

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regulations to govern the dissemination of OCA information to the 
public. The final rule was published on August 4, 2000 (65 FR 48108). 
The regulations imposed minimal information and recordkeeping 
requirements.
    In accordance with the final rule, the federal government 
established 55 reading rooms at federal facilities geographically 
distributed across the United States and its territories. At these 
reading rooms, members of the public are able to read, but not 
mechanically copy or remove paper copies of OCA information for up to 
10 stationary sources per calendar month. At these reading rooms, the 
members of the public may also have access to OCA information that the 
Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC) in whose jurisdiction the 
person lives or works is authorized to provide.
    The final rule also authorizes and encourages state and local 
government officials to have access to OCA information for their 
official use, and to provide members of the public with read-only 
access to OCA sections of RMPs for sources located within the 
jurisdiction of the LEPC where the person lives or works and for any 
other stationary sources with vulnerability zones extending into the 
LEPC's jurisdiction.
    EPA also established a Vulnerable Zone Indicator System (VZIS) that 
informs any person located in any state whether an address specified by 
that person might be within the vulnerable zone of one or more 
stationary sources, according to the data reported in RMPs. The VZIS is 
available on the Internet. Members of the public who do not have access 
to the Internet are able to obtain the same information by regular mail 
request to the EPA.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: State and local agencies and the 
public.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Required to obtain or retain a 
benefit (40 CFR 1400).
    Estimated number of respondents: 860 (total).
    Frequency of response: On occasion.
    Total estimated burden: 1,500 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.03(b).
    Total estimated cost: $46,865 (per year), includes $620 annualized 
capital or operation & maintenance costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is a decrease of 15 hours in the 
total estimated respondent burden compared with the ICR currently 
approved by OMB. This decrease is due to a slight reduction in the 
number of state and local agencies requesting OCA information from EPA.

Courtney Kerwin,
Acting Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. 2016-09520 Filed 4-22-16; 8:45 am]
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