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August 2005.
November 2005.
November 2005.
January 2006.
March 2006.
April 2006.
June 2006.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[OAR–2005–0135 FRL–7937–8]
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; Recordkeeping
and Reporting for the PerformanceBased Qualification of Test Methods
for Diesel Fuel, EPA ICR Number
2180.02, OMB Control Number 2060–
0566
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
3501 et seq.), this document announces
that EPA is planning to submit a
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proposed Information Collection
Request (ICR) to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB). This is
a request to renew an existing, approved
‘‘emergency’’ collection. This ICR is
scheduled to expire on September 30,
2005. Before submitting the ICR to OMB
for review and approval, EPA is
soliciting comments on specific aspects
of the proposed information collection
as described below.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before September 12, 2005.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
referencing docket ID number OAR–
2005–0135, to EPA online using
EDOCKET (our preferred method), by email to a-and-r-docket@epa.gov, or by
mail to: EPA Docket Center,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation Docket (6102T), 1200
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington,
DC 20460.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Anne Pastorkovich, Attorney/Advisor,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Transportation & Regional Programs
Division (6406J), 1200 Pennsylvania
Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460;
telephone number: 202–343–9623; fax
number: 202–343–2801; e-mail address:
pastorkovich.anne-marie@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has
established a public docket for this ICR
under Docket ID number OAR–2005–
0135, which is available for public
viewing at the Air and Radiation Docket
in the EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC),
EPA West, Room B102, 1301
Constitution Ave., NW., Washington,
DC. The EPA Docket Center Public
Reading Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to
4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday,
excluding legal holidays. The telephone
number for the Reading Room is (202)
566–1744, and the telephone number for
the Air and Radiation Docket is (202)
566–1742. An electronic version of the
public docket is available through EPA
Dockets (EDOCKET) at https://
www.epa.gov/edocket. Use EDOCKET to
obtain a copy of the draft collection of
information, submit or view public
comments, access the index listing of
the contents of the public docket, and to
access those documents in the public
docket that are available electronically.
Once in the system, select ‘‘search,’’
then key in the docket ID number
identified above.
Any comments related to this ICR
should be submitted to EPA within 60
days of this notice. EPA’s policy is that
public comments, whether submitted
electronically or in paper, will be made
available for public viewing in
EDOCKET as EPA receives them and
without change, unless the comment
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contains copyrighted material, CBI, or
other information whose public
disclosure is restricted by statute. When
EPA identifies a comment containing
copyrighted material, EPA will provide
a reference to that material in the
version of the comment that is placed in
EDOCKET. The entire printed comment,
including the copyrighted material, will
be available in the public docket.
Although identified as an item in the
official docket, information claimed as
CBI, or whose disclosure is otherwise
restricted by statute, is not included in
the official public docket, and will not
be available for public viewing in
EDOCKET. For further information
about the electronic docket, see EPA’s
Federal Register notice describing the
electronic docket at 67 FR 38102 (May
31, 2002), or go to https://www.epa.gov/
edocket.
Affected entities: Entities potentially
(with SIC Code/2002 NAICS Code)
affected by this action are as follows:
Refiners (2911/324110), importers
(5172/424720), and laboratories (8734/
541380).
Title: Recordkeeping and Reporting
for the Performance-Based Qualification
of Test Methods for Diesel Fuel
Abstract: With this information
collection request (ICR), the Office of
Air and Radiation (OAR) is seeking
permission to continue to collect
applications from refiners, importers,
and independent laboratories in order to
permit them to use performance-based
test methods for measuring sulfur in
diesel fuel and detecting the presence of
a marker in diesel sold as heating oil.
An emergency ICR is in effect through
September 2005.
In the past, we would set up a
designated test method for measuring
compliance with various fuel
parameters. Typically, this test method
was an American Society for Testing
and Materials (ASTM) procedure that
our laboratory used. Regulated parties
would have to use the same method. In
certain circumstances, alternative test
methods were named. If a regulated
party used an alternative test method,
all results would have to be correlated
to the designated test method. Simply
put, the party would have to develop
and apply a correlation equation to all
its results to bring them in line with the
designated test method.
The recent regulations for diesel fuel
incorporated a performance-based test
method approach. See ‘‘Air Pollution
Control; New Motor Vehicles and
Engines: Nonroad Diesel Engines and
Fuel; Emissions Standards,’’ 69 FR
38957 (June 29, 2004). This approach
sets up accuracy and precision criteria,
but permits regulated parties to qualify
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their laboratories to use their own test
methods. Industry supports this
approach and welcomes it as a first step
to a more comprehensive performancebased approach to test method issues.
In order to be qualified to use a test
method, a refiner’s or importer’s
laboratory or an independent laboratory
will have to submit certain information
to us. Unfortunately, these reporting
provisions were not included in the
information collection request for that
final rule. The first day by which
regulated parties may comply was
December 27, 2004 and many were
waiting to submit applications, so we
submitted an emergency ICR request to
OMB to permit us to accept applications
until September 2005. This supporting
statement has been prepared to support
our ‘‘regular’’ ICR request, to take us
beyond the emergency clearance’s
expiration date.
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. The OMB control
numbers for EPA’s regulations in 40
CFR are listed in 40 CFR part 9.
The EPA would like to solicit
comments to:
(i) Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the Agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility;
(ii) Evaluate the accuracy of the
Agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
(iii) Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and
(iv) Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including through the
use of appropriate automated electronic,
mechanical, or other technological
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology, e.g., permitting
electronic submission of responses.
Burden Statement: We estimate the
total annual respondent burden
associated with this proposed collection
to be 46,500 hours and $3,023,000 (of
which $0 is capital and maintenance
cost or ‘‘O&M.’’) It is assumed that there
will be 225 respondents, averaging one
response each, and averaging 180 hours
per response. We estimate an annual
cost burden to the Agency of 659 hours
and $44,500. For a more detailed
explanation of our assumptions and
estimates, please refer to the draft
supporting statement in the docket.
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Burden means the total time, effort, or
financial resources expended by persons
to generate, maintain, retain, or disclose
or provide information to or for a
Federal agency. This includes the time
needed to review instructions; develop,
acquire, install, and utilize technology
and systems for the purposes of
collecting, validating, and verifying
information, processing and
maintaining information, and disclosing
and providing information; adjust the
existing ways to comply with any
previously applicable instructions and
requirements; train personnel to be able
to respond to a collection of
information; search data sources;
complete and review the collection of
information; and transmit or otherwise
disclose the information.
Dated: July 6, 2005.
Jeffrey R. Holmstead,
Assistant Administrator, Office of Air and
Radiation.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[ORD–2005–0003, FRL–7937–9]
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; Market-Based
Stormwater Management in the
Shepherd Creek Watershed in
Cincinnati, OH; EPA ICR Number
2178.01, OMB Control Number
Environmental Protection
Agency.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
3501 et seq.), this document announces
that EPA is planning to submit a
proposed Information Collection
Request (ICR) to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB). This is
a request for a new collection. Before
submitting the ICR to OMB for review
and approval, EPA is soliciting
comments on specific aspects of the
proposed information collection as
described below.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before September 12, 2005.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
referencing docket ID number ORD–
2005–0003, to EPA online using
EDOCKET (our preferred method), by email to ord.docket@epa.gov, or by mail
to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental
Protection Agency, ORD Docket, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington,
DC 20460.
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Hale
W. Thurston, ORD, NRMRL, Mail Code
499, 26 W. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive,
Cincinnati, OH, 45268; telephone
number: 513.569.7627; fax number:
513.487.2511; e-mail address:
thurston.hale@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has
established a public docket for this ICR
under Docket ID number ORD–2005–
0003, which is available for public
viewing at the ORD Docket in the EPA
Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West,
Room B102, 1301 Constitution Ave.,
NW., Washington, DC. The EPA Docket
Center Public Reading Room is open
from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday
through Friday, excluding legal
holidays. The telephone number for the
Reading Room is (202) 566–1744, and
the telephone number for the ORD
Docket is (202) 566–0226. An electronic
version of the public docket is available
through EPA Dockets (EDOCKET) at
https://www.epa.gov/edocket. Use
EDOCKET to obtain a copy of the draft
collection of information, submit or
view public comments, access the index
listing of the contents of the public
docket, and to access those documents
in the public docket that are available
electronically. Once in the system,
select ‘‘search,’’ then key in the docket
ID number identified above.
Any comments related to this ICR
should be submitted to EPA within 60
days of this notice. EPA’s policy is that
public comments, whether submitted
electronically or in paper, will be made
available for public viewing in
EDOCKET as EPA receives them and
without change, unless the comment
contains copyrighted material, CBI, or
other information whose public
disclosure is restricted by statute. When
EPA identifies a comment containing
copyrighted material, EPA will provide
a reference to that material in the
version of the comment that is placed in
EDOCKET. The entire printed comment,
including the copyrighted material, will
be available in the public docket.
Although identified as an item in the
official docket, information claimed as
CBI, or whose disclosure is otherwise
restricted by statute, is not included in
the official public docket, and will not
be available for public viewing in
EDOCKET. For further information
about the electronic docket, see EPA’s
Federal Register notice describing the
electronic docket at 67 FR 38102 (May
31, 2002), or go to https://www.epa.gov./
edocket.
Affected entities: Entities potentially
affected by this action are residents of
Mount-Airy/Shepherd Creek area of
Cincinnati, OH.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
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Title: Market-based Stormwater
Management in the Shepherd Creek
Watershed in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Abstract: The Sustainable Technology
Division (STD) of the National Risk
Management Research Laboratory
(NRMRL) in the Office of Research and
Development (ORD) of the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
is proposing to conduct a survey of
individual property owners in the
Shepherd Creek watershed in
Cincinnati, OH. The survey will elicit
how residents value the voluntary
implementation of on-site, structural
best management practices as part of a
comprehensive stormwater runoff
control policy. The focus will be on
estimating the minimum monetary
value the landowner would judge
necessary to dedicate a portion of their
property to implementation of best
management practices that reduce
runoff.
This data collection is motivated by
the current stormwater-related problems
within the United States in general, and
in the greater Cincinnati metropolitan
area in particular. Urban and suburban
development changes the natural
landscape making it more impervious to
rain and snow. The resulting stormwater
runoff is one of the most significant
contributors to water quality
degradation in the United States
through larger and more frequent floods,
increased erosion of stream beds and
banks, disruption of natural habitat in
receiving waters, and increased
pollution loadings of metals, toxics, and
nutrients. Precipitation falls over large
geographic areas, and the resulting
runoff will flow across a myriad of
parcels with varying land uses, which
are, in turn, under the control of
numerous property owners. Perhaps in
reaction to these conditions, stormwater
control policies have concentrated on
solutions that build centralized
detention BMPs to temporarily hold
excess runoff within the storm sewer
system. An alternative, decentralized
approach to stormwater control would
be to distribute BMPs at terrestrial
locations throughout the watershed,
thus reducing runoff before it reaches
the sewer system. This approach
provides both hydrological benefits of
reducing degradation of receiving
waters, which would likely continue
due to discharges from a centralized
sewer conveyance system, as well as
potential cost-savings in terms of
meeting water quality standards, habitat
renewal, and other environmental goals.
Although the installation, operation,
and maintenance costs for best
management practices are relatively
well known, these are only a portion of
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[OAR-2005-0135 FRL-7937-8]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; Recordkeeping and Reporting for the Performance-Based
Qualification of Test Methods for Diesel Fuel, EPA ICR Number 2180.02,
OMB Control Number 2060-0566
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501
et seq.), this document announces that EPA is planning to submit a
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proposed Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB). This is a request to renew an existing,
approved ``emergency'' collection. This ICR is scheduled to expire on
September 30, 2005. Before submitting the ICR to OMB for review and
approval, EPA is soliciting comments on specific aspects of the
proposed information collection as described below.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before September 12, 2005.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number OAR-2005-
0135, to EPA online using EDOCKET (our preferred method), by e-mail to
a-and-r-docket@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental
Protection Agency, Air and Radiation Docket (6102T), 1200 Pennsylvania
Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Anne Pastorkovich, Attorney/Advisor,
Environmental Protection Agency, Transportation & Regional Programs
Division (6406J), 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460;
telephone number: 202-343-9623; fax number: 202-343-2801; e-mail
address: pastorkovich.anne-marie@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has established a public docket for this
ICR under Docket ID number OAR-2005-0135, which is available for public
viewing at the Air and Radiation Docket in the EPA Docket Center (EPA/
DC), EPA West, Room B102, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC.
The EPA Docket Center Public Reading Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to
4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays. The
telephone number for the Reading Room is (202) 566-1744, and the
telephone number for the Air and Radiation Docket is (202) 566-1742. An
electronic version of the public docket is available through EPA
Dockets (EDOCKET) at https://www.epa.gov/edocket. Use EDOCKET to obtain
a copy of the draft collection of information, submit or view public
comments, access the index listing of the contents of the public
docket, and to access those documents in the public docket that are
available electronically. Once in the system, select ``search,'' then
key in the docket ID number identified above.
Any comments related to this ICR should be submitted to EPA within
60 days of this notice. EPA's policy is that public comments, whether
submitted electronically or in paper, will be made available for public
viewing in EDOCKET as EPA receives them and without change, unless the
comment contains copyrighted material, CBI, or other information whose
public disclosure is restricted by statute. When EPA identifies a
comment containing copyrighted material, EPA will provide a reference
to that material in the version of the comment that is placed in
EDOCKET. The entire printed comment, including the copyrighted
material, will be available in the public docket. Although identified
as an item in the official docket, information claimed as CBI, or whose
disclosure is otherwise restricted by statute, is not included in the
official public docket, and will not be available for public viewing in
EDOCKET. For further information about the electronic docket, see EPA's
Federal Register notice describing the electronic docket at 67 FR 38102
(May 31, 2002), or go to https://www.epa.gov/edocket.
Affected entities: Entities potentially (with SIC Code/2002 NAICS
Code) affected by this action are as follows: Refiners (2911/324110),
importers (5172/424720), and laboratories (8734/541380).
Title: Recordkeeping and Reporting for the Performance-Based
Qualification of Test Methods for Diesel Fuel
Abstract: With this information collection request (ICR), the
Office of Air and Radiation (OAR) is seeking permission to continue to
collect applications from refiners, importers, and independent
laboratories in order to permit them to use performance-based test
methods for measuring sulfur in diesel fuel and detecting the presence
of a marker in diesel sold as heating oil. An emergency ICR is in
effect through September 2005.
In the past, we would set up a designated test method for measuring
compliance with various fuel parameters. Typically, this test method
was an American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) procedure that
our laboratory used. Regulated parties would have to use the same
method. In certain circumstances, alternative test methods were named.
If a regulated party used an alternative test method, all results would
have to be correlated to the designated test method. Simply put, the
party would have to develop and apply a correlation equation to all its
results to bring them in line with the designated test method.
The recent regulations for diesel fuel incorporated a performance-
based test method approach. See ``Air Pollution Control; New Motor
Vehicles and Engines: Nonroad Diesel Engines and Fuel; Emissions
Standards,'' 69 FR 38957 (June 29, 2004). This approach sets up
accuracy and precision criteria, but permits regulated parties to
qualify their laboratories to use their own test methods. Industry
supports this approach and welcomes it as a first step to a more
comprehensive performance-based approach to test method issues.
In order to be qualified to use a test method, a refiner's or
importer's laboratory or an independent laboratory will have to submit
certain information to us. Unfortunately, these reporting provisions
were not included in the information collection request for that final
rule. The first day by which regulated parties may comply was December
27, 2004 and many were waiting to submit applications, so we submitted
an emergency ICR request to OMB to permit us to accept applications
until September 2005. This supporting statement has been prepared to
support our ``regular'' ICR request, to take us beyond the emergency
clearance's expiration date.
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. The OMB control numbers for EPA's
regulations in 40 CFR are listed in 40 CFR part 9.
The EPA would like to solicit comments to:
(i) Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the Agency,
including whether the information will have practical utility;
(ii) Evaluate the accuracy of the Agency's estimate of the burden
of the proposed collection of information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
(iii) Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information
to be collected; and
(iv) Minimize the burden of the collection of information on those
who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated
electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic
submission of responses.
Burden Statement: We estimate the total annual respondent burden
associated with this proposed collection to be 46,500 hours and
$3,023,000 (of which $0 is capital and maintenance cost or ``O&M.'') It
is assumed that there will be 225 respondents, averaging one response
each, and averaging 180 hours per response. We estimate an annual cost
burden to the Agency of 659 hours and $44,500. For a more detailed
explanation of our assumptions and estimates, please refer to the draft
supporting statement in the docket.
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Burden means the total time, effort, or financial resources
expended by persons to generate, maintain, retain, or disclose or
provide information to or for a Federal agency. This includes the time
needed to review instructions; develop, acquire, install, and utilize
technology and systems for the purposes of collecting, validating, and
verifying information, processing and maintaining information, and
disclosing and providing information; adjust the existing ways to
comply with any previously applicable instructions and requirements;
train personnel to be able to respond to a collection of information;
search data sources; complete and review the collection of information;
and transmit or otherwise disclose the information.
Dated: July 6, 2005.
Jeffrey R. Holmstead,
Assistant Administrator, Office of Air and Radiation.
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