[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 99 (Friday, May 23, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 22091-22092]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-09300]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OAR-2024-0336; FRL-12802-01-OMS]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Cross-State Air Pollution Rule and Texas SO2 Trading Programs
(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), Cross-State Air Pollution Rule
and Texas SO2 Trading Programs (EPA ICR Number 2391.06, OMB
Control Number 2060-0667) 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 May 31, 2025. Public comments were previously requested via the
Federal Register on September 5, 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 June 23, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number No. EPA-
HQ-OAR-2024-0336, to 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, 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: Morgan Riedel, Clean Air and Power
Division, Office of Air and Radiation, (6204A), Environmental
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460;
telephone number: 202-564-1144; email address: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a proposed extension of the ICR,
which is currently approved through May 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 September 5, 2024 during a 60-day comment period (89 FR 72394). 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
http://www.epa.gov/dockets.
Abstract: EPA is renewing an ICR for the Cross-State Air Pollution
Rule (CSAPR) trading programs to allow for continued implementation of
the programs. The information collection requirements under five CSAPR
trading programs and the Texas SO2 Trading Program are
reflected in the existing ICR as most recently revised in 2018. In
2021, EPA promulgated an additional CSAPR NOX Ozone trading
program which only includes sources previously subject to another CSAPR
trading program reflected in the current ICR. This ICR renewal reflects
all six CSAPR
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trading programs and the Texas SO2 Trading Program. Most
affected sources under the CSAPR and Texas trading programs are also
subject to the Acid Rain Program (ARP). The information collection
requirements under the CSAPR and Texas trading programs, which consist
primarily of requirements to monitor and report emissions data in
accordance with 40 CFR part 75, substantially overlap and are fully
integrated with ARP information collection requirements. The burden and
costs of overlapping requirements are accounted for in the ARP ICR (OMB
Control Number 2060-0258). This ICR accounts for information collection
burden and costs under the CSAPR and Texas trading programs that are
incremental to the burden and costs already accounted for in the ARP
ICR. All data received by EPA will be treated as public information.
Form Numbers: Agent Notice of Delegation #5900-172, Certificate of
Representation #7610-1, General Account Form #7610-5, Allowance
Transfer Form #7610-6, Retired Unit Exemption #7610-20, Allowance
Deduction #7620-4.
Respondents/affected entities: Industry respondents are stationary,
fossil fuel-fired boilers and combustion turbines serving electricity
generators subject to the CSAPR and Texas trading programs, as well as
non-source entities voluntarily participating in allowance trading
activities. Potential state respondents are states that can elect to
submit state-determined allowance allocations for sources located in
their states.
Respondents' obligation to respond: Industry respondents: voluntary
and mandatory (Sections 110(a) and 301(a) of the Clean Air Act). State
respondents: voluntary.
Estimated number of respondents: 941 (total); 870 industry
respondents, 27 potential state respondents, and 44 non-sources
entities.
Frequency of response: On occasion, quarterly, and annually.
Total estimated burden: 109,233 hours (per year). Burden is defined
at 5 CFR 1320.03(b).
Total estimated cost: $16,855,976 (total per year); includes
$8,207,543.84 annualized capital or operation & maintenance costs.
Changes in Estimates: There is decrease of 4,279 hours in the total
estimated respondent burden compared with the ICR currently approved by
OMB. This is due to a decrease in the number of regulated sources from
facility retirements.
Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Information Engagement Division.
[FR Doc. 2025-09300 Filed 5-22-25; 8:45 am]
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