[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 20 (Thursday, January 30, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5428-5429]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-01679]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OAR-2013-0691; FRL-10003-50-OMS]
Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and
Approval; Comment Request; Fine Particulate Matter (PM2.5) National
Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) State Implementation Plan (SIP)
Requirements Rule (Renewal)
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an
information collection request (ICR), Fine Particulate Matter
(PM2.5) National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) State
Implementation Plan (SIP) Requirements Rule (EPA ICR Number 2258.05,
OMB Control Number 2060-0611), to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act. This is a proposed renewal of the existing ICR for the
PM2.5 NAAQS State Implementation Plan (SIP) Requirements
Rule, which is currently approved through January 31, 2020. Public
comments were previously requested via the Federal Register on October
1, 2019, 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 March 2, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-
2013-0691, online using http://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.
The 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, or other information
whose disclosure is restricted by statute.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Leigh Herrington, Office of Air
Quality Planning and Standards, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
by phone at (919) 541-0882 or by email at [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
http://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 PM2.5 NAAQS SIP Requirements Rule became
effective on October 24, 2016 (81 FR 58010). This rule provides the
framework of Clean Air Act (CAA) requirements for air agencies to
develop state implementation plans to help attain and maintain the
PM2.5 NAAQS. States have applied this framework to develop
attainment plans and redesignation requests and maintenance plans for
areas designated nonattainment for the 1997 PM2.5 NAAQS, the
2006 PM2.5 NAAQS, and the 2012 PM2.5 NAAQS.
The ICR finalized with the PM2.5 NAAQS SIP Requirements
Rule estimated, for the 3 years following the ICR approval date, the
burden associated with plan development and plan revisions related to
ongoing implementation efforts in 31 areas designated nonattainment for
the 1997, 2006 and 2012 PM2.5 NAAQS. The estimates included
the burden to develop and submit, and the burden to the EPA to review
and to approve or disapprove, attainment plans to meet the requirements
prescribed in CAA sections 110 and part D, subparts 1 and 4 of title I.
A PM2.5 NAAQS attainment plan contains rules and other
measures designed to improve air quality and achieve the NAAQS by the
deadlines established under the CAA. It also must address several
additional CAA requirements related to demonstrating timely attainment
and must contain contingency measures in the event the nonattainment
area does not achieve reasonable further progress throughout the
attainment period or in the event the area does not attain the NAAQS by
its attainment date. States that have attained by the applicable
attainment date may be eligible to submit a redesignation request and
maintenance plan to receive a redesignation from ``nonattainment'' to
``attainment.'' After a state submits an attainment or maintenance
plan, the CAA requires the
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EPA to approve or disapprove the plan. Tribes may develop or submit
attainment plans but are not required to do so.
Form Numbers: None.
Respondents/affected entities: State and local governments.
Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR parts 50, 51,
and 93).
Estimated number of respondents: 8.
Frequency of response: Once per triggering event.
Total estimated burden: 25,500 hours (per year). Burden is defined
at 5 CFR 1320.03(b).
Total estimated costs: $1,600,000 (per year), which includes no
annualized capital or operation & maintenance costs.
Changes in Estimates: There is a decrease of 65,100 annual hours in
the total estimated respondent burden compared with the ICR currently
approved by OMB. This decrease is primarily a result of a reduction in
the number of designated nonattainment areas.
Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2020-01679 Filed 1-29-20; 8:45 am]
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