[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 10 (Thursday, January 16, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4736-4737]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-01037]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OAR-2020-0415; FRL-12559-01-OMS]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Implementation of the 8-Hour National Ambient Air Quality
Standards for Ozone (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), Implementation of the 8-hour
National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Ozone (EPA ICR Number
2347.05, OMB Control Number 2060-0695) to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act. This is a proposed extension of the ICR, which is
currently approved through January 31, 2025. Public comments were
previously requested, via the Federal Register, on August 15. 2024
during a 60-day comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30
days for public comments.
DATES: Comments may be submitted on or before February 18, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OAR-2020-0415, to 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. 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.
Submit written comments and recommendations to OMB for the proposed
information collection within 30 days of publication of this notice to
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular information
collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--Open for
Public Comments'' or by using the search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Francis Oggeri, Office of Air
Quality Planning and Standards, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460; telephone number:
(919) 541-3255; email address: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a proposed extension of the ICR,
which is currently approved through January 31, 2025. 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. Public comments were previously requested via the
Federal Register on August 15, 2024 during a 60-day comment period.
This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
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
https://www.epa.gov/dockets.
Abstract: This ICR that estimates the burden on states for
implementation-related activities associated with the 2008 and 2015
ozone NAAQS. States with nonattainment areas for the 2008 and 2015
ozone NAAQS are implementing the NAAQS under the CAA and implementation
regulations issued for that NAAQS. The state activities include, but
are not limited to, developing and submitting attainment
demonstrations, reasonable further progress plans, and reasonably
available control technology (RACT) determinations. This ICR renewal
estimates the burden for states to meet the ongoing planning
requirements that apply to their remaining nonattainment areas for the
2008 and 2015 NAAQS. These requirements primarily affect 2015 ozone
nonattainment areas that may fail to attain the NAAQS by their
attainment date during this period and be reclassified to a higher
classification with new SIP revisions required from the states. In
addition, this ICR renewal includes burden estimates for state and EPA
activities related to implementing second Maintenance Plans for the
2008 8-hour ozone standard.
The estimates included in this ICR renewal include both the state
burden to develop and submit attainment plans to meet the requirements
prescribed in CAA sections 110 and Part D, subparts 1 and 2 of Title I
as interpreted by EPA's SIP requirements rules. An ozone NAAQS
attainment plan contains state 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 contain contingency
measures if the nonattainment area does not achieve reasonable further
progress throughout the attainment period or if 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''.
Form Numbers: None.
Respondents/affected entities: State and Local Governments.
Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory.
Estimated number of respondents: 67 (total).
Frequency of response: Once per triggering event, e.g., an air
agency is required to revise and submit a SIP revision when the area is
designated nonattainment or reclassified to a higher
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classification or if it is in an OTR member state to determine if RACT
is satisfied by the previously approved state SIP. An air agency is
also required to submit a second 10-year maintenance plan for
maintenance areas or portions of maintenance areas for the 2008 ozone
NAAQS.
Total estimated burden: 53,667 hours (per year). Burden is defined
at 5 CFR 1320.03(b).
Total estimated cost: $4,540,200 (per year), which includes $0
annualized capital or operation & maintenance costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is a decrease in the annual burden
of 65,466 hours below the 119,133 hours estimated from the last
approved ICR for 8-hour ozone NAAQS implementation. The primary reason
for this decrease is that the previous ICR accounted for some
respondents continuing to submit information for the 2008 NAAQS,
respondents continuing to report on the revoked 1997 NAAQS, and
respondents submitting initial information for all 52 nonattainment
areas for the 2015 NAAQS. The estimates provided in this supporting
statement differ from the prior 2015/2008/1997 combined NAAQS estimate
due to decreases resulting from: the total state respondents reduced
from 96 NAAs for the 2015/2008/1997 ozone NAAQS to 66 NAAs for the
combined 2008 and 2015 ozone NAAQS, removal of the burden estimate for
the states in the Ozone Transport Regions to certify the current state
SIPs meet CAA section 184(b)(1)(B) RACT requirements; no 1997 8-hour
ozone second maintenance plans due during the next three years; no 2008
8-hour ozone NAAQS needing to be reclassified to a higher class.
Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2025-01037 Filed 1-15-25; 8:45 am]
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