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ICR numbers: EPA ICR No. 1571.08,
OMB Control No. 2050–0120.
ICR status: This ICR is currently
scheduled to expire on February 28,
2006. Under OMB regulations, the
Agency may continue to conduct or
sponsor the collection of information
while this submission is pending at
OMB. 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 title 40
of the CFR, after appearing in the
Federal Register when approved, are
listed in 40 CFR part 9, are displayed
either by publication in the Federal
Register or by other appropriate means,
such as on the related collection
instrument or form, if applicable. The
display of OMB control numbers in
certain EPA regulations is consolidated
in 40 CFR part 9.
Abstract: Section 3004 of the
Resource Conservation and Recovery
Act (RCRA), as amended, requires that
the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) develop standards for
hazardous waste treatment, storage, and
disposal facilities (TSDFs) as may be
necessary to protect human health and
the environment. Subsections
3004(a)(1), (3), (4), (5), and (6) specify
that these standards include, but not be
limited to, the following requirements:
• Maintaining records of all
hazardous wastes identified or listed
under subtitle C that are treated, stored,
or disposed of, and the manner in which
such wastes were treated, stored, or
disposed of;
• Operating methods, techniques, and
practices for treatment, storage, or
disposal of hazardous waste;
• Location, design, and construction
of such hazardous waste treatment,
disposal, or storage facilities;
• Contingency plans for effective
action to minimize unanticipated
damage from any treatment, storage, or
disposal of any such hazardous waste;
and
• Maintaining or operating such
facilities and requiring such additional
qualifications as to ownership,
continuity of operation, training for
personnel, and financial responsibility
as may be necessary or desirable.
The regulations implementing these
requirements are codified in the Code of
Federal Regulations (CFR) Title 40,
parts 264 and 265. The collection of this
information enables EPA to properly
determine whether owners/operators or
hazardous waste treatment, storage, and
disposal facilities meet the requirements
of Section 3004(a) of RCRA.
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Burden Statement: The annual public
reporting burden for this collection of
information is estimated to average 185
hours per response, and the annual
public recordkeeping burden for this
collection of information is estimated to
average 254 hours per response. 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.
Respondents/Affected Entities:
Business or other for profit.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
1,531.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:
652,312.
Estimated Total Annual Cost:
$45,907,000, which includes $13,000
annual capital/startup costs, $629,000
annual O&M costs and $45,265,000
annual labor costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is a
decrease of 66,747 hours in the total
estimated burden currently identified in
the OMB Inventory of Approved ICR
Burdens. EPA believes that this lower
burden reflects a more accurate portrait
of the existing burden on the regulated
community.
Dated: February 27, 2006.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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AGENCY
[EPA–HQ–O–PA–2004–0010; FRL–8042–8]
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Spill Prevention, Control and
Countermeasure (SPCC) Plans
(Renewal), EPA ICR No. 0328.11, OMB
Control No. 2050–0021
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ACTION:
Notice.
SUMMARY: In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44
U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document
announces that an Information
Collection Request (ICR) has been
forwarded to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for review and
approval. This is a request to renew an
existing approved collection. The ICR,
which is abstracted below, describes the
nature of the information collection and
its estimated burden and cost.
DATES: Additional comments may be
submitted on or before April 7, 2006.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
referencing Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–
OPA–2004–0010, to (1) EPA online
using www.regulations.gov (our
preferred method), by e-mail to
superfund.docket@epa.gov, or by mail
to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental
Protection Agency, Superfund Docket,
1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.,
Washington, DC 20460, and (2) OMB by
mail to: Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Office of
Management and Budget (OMB),
Attention: Desk Officer for EPA, 725
17th Street, NW., Washington, DC
20503.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Hugo Paul Fleischman, EPA/OSWER/
OEM, Mail Code 5104A, Environmental
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania
Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460;
telephone number: 202–564–1968; fax
number: 202–564–2625; e-mail address:
fleischman.hugo@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has
submitted the following ICR to OMB for
review and approval according to the
procedures prescribed in 5 CFR 1320.12.
On December 13, 2004 (69 FR 72191),
EPA sought comments on this ICR
pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA
received two relevant comments during
the comment period, which are
addressed in the ICR. Any additional
comments on this ICR should be
submitted to EPA and OMB within 30
days of this notice.
EPA has established a public docket
for this ICR under Docket ID No. EPA–
HQ–OPA–2004–0010, which is
available for online viewing at
www.regulations.gov, or in person
viewing at the Superfund Docket in the
EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA
West, Room B102, 1301 Constitution
Ave., NW., Washington, DC. The EPA/
DC 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
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number for the Superfund Docket is
(202) 566–0276.
Use EPA’s electronic docket and
comment system at
www.regulations.gov, to submit or view
public comments, access the index
listing of the contents of the docket, and
to access those documents in the docket
that are available electronically. Once in
the system, select ‘‘docket search,’’ then
key in the docket ID number identified
above. Please note that EPA’s policy is
that public comments, whether
submitted electronically or in paper,
will be made available for public
viewing at www.regulations.gov as EPA
receives them and without change,
unless the comment contains
copyrighted material, CBI, or other
information whose public disclosure is
restricted by statute. For further
information about the electronic docket,
go to www.regulations.gov.
Title: Spill Prevention, Control and
Countermeasure (SPCC) Plans
(Renewal).
ICR numbers: EPA ICR No. 0328.11,
OMB Control No. 2050–0021.
ICR Status: This ICR is scheduled to
expire on February 28, 2006. Under
OMB regulations, the Agency may
continue to conduct or sponsor the
collection of information while this
submission is pending at OMB. 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 title 40 of the CFR,
after appearing in the Federal Register
when approved, are listed in 40 CFR
part 9, are displayed either by
publication in the Federal Register or
by other appropriate means, such as on
the related collection instrument or
form, if applicable. The display of OMB
control numbers in certain EPA
regulations is consolidated in 40 CFR
part 9.
Abstract: The primary data collection
activities required by the Oil Pollution
Prevention regulation (40 CFR part 112)
are the preparation and maintenance of
the SPCC Plan along with preparing
records of inspections and tests. In
preparing a Plan, the owner or operator
of a new facility must prepare and
implement an SPCC Plan in accordance
with the guidelines set forth in 40 CFR
part 112 before beginning facility
operations. Section 112.3 requires the
owner or operator to maintain a copy of
the SPCC Plan at the facility, if the
facility is normally attended for at least
four hours per day or, if not, at the
nearest field office. In the event of
certain discharges of oil into navigable
waters, a facility owner or operator must
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submit information described in
§ 112.4(a) to the Regional Administrator
within 60 days. Additionally, the
facility owner or operator must amend
his Plan in accordance with § 112.7
whenever there is a change in the
facility’s design, construction,
operation, and maintenance that
materially affects the facility’s potential
to discharge oil into navigable waters.
EPA does not collect SPCC Plans or
related records from facilities on a
routine basis. Preparation,
implementation, and maintenance of the
SPCC Plan by the facility helps prevent
oil discharges and mitigate the
environmental damage caused by such
discharges. Therefore, the primary user
of the data is the facility itself.
Although the facility is the primary
user of the data, EPA uses the data in
certain situations. EPA’s primary use of
the data contained in an SPCC Plan is
to ensure that a facility is in full
compliance with all elements of the
SPCC regulation, including design and
operation specifications and inspection
requirements. EPA reviews SPCC Plans
as part of EPA’s inspection program and
when information is submitted because
of an oil discharge. A Regional
Administrator may require a facility
owner or operator to amend the SPCC
Plan if he finds that the facility has not
met the requirements of the regulation
or that Plan amendment is necessary to
prevent and contain discharges of oil. If
a facility does not amend its SPCC Plan,
it may face civil penalties under the
Clean Water Act.
State and local governments are also
users of the data. The information
provided in SPCC Plans (e.g., facility
configuration, capabilities, and potential
risks) is not necessarily available
elsewhere and can greatly assist local
emergency preparedness planning
efforts. The Plan should be compatible
and coordinated with local emergency
plans, including those developed under
Title III of the Superfund Amendments
and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (Pub.
L. 99–499). Coordination with state
governments is facilitated by the
provision in § 112.4(c) requiring that,
after certain discharges, information on
the discharge be sent to the relevant
state agencies. The flexibility with
respect to formatting in this rule
promotes greater coordination with
State planning efforts because the use of
plans prepared pursuant to state
regulations is encouraged. None of the
information to be gathered for this
collection is believed to be confidential.
Burden Statement: The annual public
reporting and recordkeeping burden for
this collection of information is
estimated to average 4 hours per
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response for existing facilities and 38
hours per response for newly regulated
facilities. 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.
Respondents/Affected Entities: The
industries that are likely to be covered
by the SPCC regulation fall into many
North American Industrial
Classification System (NAICS)
categories, including those associated
with petroleum and non-petroleum oil
production, processing (refining),
distribution, storage, and consumption.
Oil production facilities (28 percent),
farms (25 percent), and electric utilities
(8 percent) account for most of the
SPCC-regulated facilities.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
623,288.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:
2,385,701 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Cost: $158
million, includes $52 million
annualized capital and O&M costs and
$106 million labor costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is an
increase of 796,449 hours in the total
estimated burden currently identified in
the OMB Inventory of Approved ICR
Burdens. This increase is due to
adjustments to the estimates for the
number of affected facilities, burden
values, and labor rates.
Dated: February 23, 2006.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-O-PA-2004-0010; FRL-8042-8]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Comment Request; Spill Prevention, Control and
Countermeasure (SPCC) Plans (Renewal), EPA ICR No. 0328.11, OMB Control
No. 2050-0021
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44
U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that an Information
Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. This is a request to renew an
existing approved collection. The ICR, which is abstracted below,
describes the nature of the information collection and its estimated
burden and cost.
DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before April 7, 2006.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OPA-
2004-0010, to (1) EPA online using www.regulations.gov (our preferred
method), by e-mail to superfund.docket@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA
Docket Center, Environmental Protection Agency, Superfund Docket, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460, and (2) OMB by mail to:
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget (OMB), Attention: Desk Officer for EPA, 725 17th Street, NW.,
Washington, DC 20503.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Hugo Paul Fleischman, EPA/OSWER/OEM,
Mail Code 5104A, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania
Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: 202-564-1968; fax
number: 202-564-2625; e-mail address: fleischman.hugo@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has submitted the following ICR to OMB
for review and approval according to the procedures prescribed in 5 CFR
1320.12. On December 13, 2004 (69 FR 72191), EPA sought comments on
this ICR pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received two relevant
comments during the comment period, which are addressed in the ICR. Any
additional comments on this ICR should be submitted to EPA and OMB
within 30 days of this notice.
EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID
No. EPA-HQ-OPA-2004-0010, which is available for online viewing at
www.regulations.gov, or in person viewing at the Superfund Docket in
the EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West, Room B102, 1301 Constitution
Ave., NW., Washington, DC. The EPA/DC 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
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number for the Superfund Docket is (202) 566-0276.
Use EPA's electronic docket and comment system at
www.regulations.gov, to submit or view public comments, access the
index listing of the contents of the docket, and to access those
documents in the docket that are available electronically. Once in the
system, select ``docket search,'' then key in the docket ID number
identified above. Please note that EPA's policy is that public
comments, whether submitted electronically or in paper, will be made
available for public viewing at www.regulations.gov as EPA receives
them and without change, unless the comment contains copyrighted
material, CBI, or other information whose public disclosure is
restricted by statute. For further information about the electronic
docket, go to www.regulations.gov.
Title: Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure (SPCC) Plans
(Renewal).
ICR numbers: EPA ICR No. 0328.11, OMB Control No. 2050-0021.
ICR Status: This ICR is scheduled to expire on February 28, 2006.
Under OMB regulations, the Agency may continue to conduct or sponsor
the collection of information while this submission is pending at OMB.
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 title 40 of the CFR, after appearing in the Federal Register when
approved, are listed in 40 CFR part 9, are displayed either by
publication in the Federal Register or by other appropriate means, such
as on the related collection instrument or form, if applicable. The
display of OMB control numbers in certain EPA regulations is
consolidated in 40 CFR part 9.
Abstract: The primary data collection activities required by the
Oil Pollution Prevention regulation (40 CFR part 112) are the
preparation and maintenance of the SPCC Plan along with preparing
records of inspections and tests. In preparing a Plan, the owner or
operator of a new facility must prepare and implement an SPCC Plan in
accordance with the guidelines set forth in 40 CFR part 112 before
beginning facility operations. Section 112.3 requires the owner or
operator to maintain a copy of the SPCC Plan at the facility, if the
facility is normally attended for at least four hours per day or, if
not, at the nearest field office. In the event of certain discharges of
oil into navigable waters, a facility owner or operator must submit
information described in Sec. 112.4(a) to the Regional Administrator
within 60 days. Additionally, the facility owner or operator must amend
his Plan in accordance with Sec. 112.7 whenever there is a change in
the facility's design, construction, operation, and maintenance that
materially affects the facility's potential to discharge oil into
navigable waters.
EPA does not collect SPCC Plans or related records from facilities
on a routine basis. Preparation, implementation, and maintenance of the
SPCC Plan by the facility helps prevent oil discharges and mitigate the
environmental damage caused by such discharges. Therefore, the primary
user of the data is the facility itself.
Although the facility is the primary user of the data, EPA uses the
data in certain situations. EPA's primary use of the data contained in
an SPCC Plan is to ensure that a facility is in full compliance with
all elements of the SPCC regulation, including design and operation
specifications and inspection requirements. EPA reviews SPCC Plans as
part of EPA's inspection program and when information is submitted
because of an oil discharge. A Regional Administrator may require a
facility owner or operator to amend the SPCC Plan if he finds that the
facility has not met the requirements of the regulation or that Plan
amendment is necessary to prevent and contain discharges of oil. If a
facility does not amend its SPCC Plan, it may face civil penalties
under the Clean Water Act.
State and local governments are also users of the data. The
information provided in SPCC Plans (e.g., facility configuration,
capabilities, and potential risks) is not necessarily available
elsewhere and can greatly assist local emergency preparedness planning
efforts. The Plan should be compatible and coordinated with local
emergency plans, including those developed under Title III of the
Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (Pub. L. 99-499).
Coordination with state governments is facilitated by the provision in
Sec. 112.4(c) requiring that, after certain discharges, information on
the discharge be sent to the relevant state agencies. The flexibility
with respect to formatting in this rule promotes greater coordination
with State planning efforts because the use of plans prepared pursuant
to state regulations is encouraged. None of the information to be
gathered for this collection is believed to be confidential.
Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping
burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 4
hours per response for existing facilities and 38 hours per response
for newly regulated facilities. 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.
Respondents/Affected Entities: The industries that are likely to be
covered by the SPCC regulation fall into many North American Industrial
Classification System (NAICS) categories, including those associated
with petroleum and non-petroleum oil production, processing (refining),
distribution, storage, and consumption. Oil production facilities (28
percent), farms (25 percent), and electric utilities (8 percent)
account for most of the SPCC-regulated facilities.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 623,288.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 2,385,701 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Cost: $158 million, includes $52 million
annualized capital and O&M costs and $106 million labor costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is an increase of 796,449 hours in
the total estimated burden currently identified in the OMB Inventory of
Approved ICR Burdens. This increase is due to adjustments to the
estimates for the number of affected facilities, burden values, and
labor rates.
Dated: February 23, 2006.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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