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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[EPA–HQ–OAR–2006–0525; FRL–8240–2]
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Fuels and Fuel Additives:
Health-Effects Research Protocols
(Renewal); EPA ICR No. 1696.05, OMB
Control No. 2060–0297
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
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 December 6,
2006.
Submit your comments,
referencing Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–
OAR–2006–0525, to (1) EPA online
using https://www.regulations.gov (our
preferred method), by e-mail to a-andr-docket@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA
Docket Center, Environmental
Protection Agency, Air and Radiation
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.
ADDRESSES:
Note: The EPA Docket Center suffered
damage due to flooding during the last week
of June 2006. The Docket Center is
continuing to operate. However, during the
cleanup, there will be temporary changes to
Docket Center telephone numbers, addresses,
and hours of operation for people who wish
to visit the Public Reading Room to view
documents. Consult EPA’s Federal Register
notice at 71 FR 38147 (July 5, 2006) or the
EPA Web site at https://www.epa.gov/
epahome/dockets.htm for current
information on docket status, locations and
telephone numbers.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
James W. Caldwell, Office of
Transportation and Air Quality,
Mailcode: 6406J, Environmental
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania
Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460;
telephone number: (202) 343–9303; fax
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number: (202) 343–2802; e-mail
address: caldwell.jim@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 July 17, 2006 (71 FR 40513), EPA
sought comments on this ICR pursuant
to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received no
comments. 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–OAR–2006–0525, which is
available for online viewing at https://
www.regulations.gov, or in person
viewing at the Air and Radiation Docket
and Information Center 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 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 and Information Center is 202–
566–1742.
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 https://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 https://www.regulations.gov.
Title: Fuels and Fuel Additives:
Health-Effects Research Protocols
(Renewal).
ICR Numbers: EPA ICR No. 1696.05,
OMB Control No. 2060–0297.
ICR Status: This ICR is scheduled to
expire on November 30, 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,
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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: In accordance with the
regulations at 40 CFR part 79, subparts
A, B, C, and D, Registration of Fuels and
Fuel Additives, manufacturers
(including importers) of motor-vehicle
gasoline, motor-vehicle diesel fuel, and
additives for those fuels, are required to
have these products registered by the
EPA prior to their introduction into
commerce. Registration involves
providing a chemical description of the
fuel or additive, and certain technical,
marketing, and health-effects
information. The development of
health-effects data, as required by 40
CFR part 79, subpart F, is the subject of
this ICR. The information collection
requirements for Subparts A through D,
and the supplemental notification
requirements of Subpart F (indicating
how the manufacturer will satisfy the
health-effects data requirements) are
covered by a separate ICR (EPA ICR No.
0309.11, OMB Control No. 2060–0150).
The health-effects data will be used to
determine if there are any products
which have evaporative or combustion
emissions that may pose an
unreasonable risk to public health, thus
meriting further investigation and
potential regulation. This information is
required for specific groups of fuels and
additives as defined in the regulations.
For example, gasoline and gasoline
additives which consist of only carbon,
hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and/or
sulfur, and which involve a gasoline
oxygen content of less than 1.5 weight
percent, fall into a ‘‘baseline’’ group.
Oxygenates, such as ethanol, when used
in gasoline as an oxygen level of at least
1.5 weight percent, define separate
‘‘nonbaseline’’ groups for each
oxygenate. Additives which contain
elements other than carbon, hydrogen,
oxygen, nitrogen, and/or sulfur fall into
separate atypical groups. There are
similar grouping requirements for diesel
fuel and diesel fuel additives.
Manufacturers may perform the
research independently or may join
with other manufacturers to share in the
costs for each applicable group. Several
research consortiums (groups of
manufacturers) have been formed. The
largest consortium, organized by the
American Petroleum Institute (API),
represents most of the manufacturers of
baseline gasoline, baseline diesel fuel,
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baseline fuel additives, and the
prominent nonbaseline oxygenated
additives for gasoline. The research is
structured into three tiers of
requirements for each group. Tier 1
requires an emissions characterization
and a literature search for information
on the health effects of those emissions.
Voluminous Tier 1 data for gasoline and
diesel fuel were submitted by API and
others in 1997. Tier 1 data have been
submitted for biodiesel, water/diesel
emulsions, and several atypical
additives. Tier 2 requires short-term
inhalation exposures of laboratory
animals to emissions to screen for
adverse health effects. Tier 2 data have
been submitted for baseline diesel,
biodiesel, and water/diesel emulsions.
Alternative Tier 2 testing can be
required in lieu of standard Tier 2
testing if EPA concludes that such
testing would be more appropriate. The
EPA reached that conclusion with
respect to gasoline and gasolineoxygenate blends, and alternative
requirements were established for the
API consortium for baseline gasoline
and six gasoline-oxygenate blends.
Alternative Tier 2 requirements have
also been established for the manganese
additive MMT manufactured by the
Afton Chemical Corporation (formerly
the Ethyl Corporation). Tier 3 provides
for follow-up research, at EPA’s
discretion, when remaining
uncertainties as to the significance of
observed health effects, welfare effects,
and/or emissions exposures from a fuel
or fuel/additive mixture interfere with
EPA’s ability to make reasonable
estimates of the potential risks posed by
emissions from a fuel or additive. To
date, EPA has not imposed any Tier 3
requirements. Under Section 211 of the
Clean Air Act, (1) submission of the
health-effects information is necessary
for a manufacturer to obtain registration
of a motor-vehicle gasoline, diesel fuel,
or fuel additive, and thus be allowed to
introduce that product into commerce,
and (2) the information shall not be
considered confidential.
Burden Statement: The annual public
reporting and recordkeeping burden for
this collection of information is
estimated to average 7,538 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
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and providing information; adjust the
existing ways to comply with any
previously applicable instructions and
requirements which have subsequently
changed; 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:
Manufacturers of Fuels and Fuel
Additives.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 4.
Frequency of Response: On Occasion.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:
30,150.
Estimated Total Annual Cost: $3.2
million, includes $757,000 annualized
capital and O&M costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is a
decrease of 30,550 hours in the total
estimated burden currently identified in
the OMB Inventory of Approved ICR
Burdens. This decrease is the result of
reduced activity as the two alternative
Tier 2 testing programs near completion.
Dated: October 30, 2006.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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AGENCY
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Notice of an Expert Panel Workshop
on the State-of-the-Science
Approaches for Observational
Exposure Measurement Studies
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) is announcing that
Eastern Research Group, Inc. (ERG), an
EPA contractor, will convene a panel of
experts and organize and conduct a
meeting to gather information on the
most up-to-date methods, approaches,
and ethical standards for designing and
implementing observational exposure
measurement studies. EPA expects to
use the information from the workshop
in the preparation of a document on the
state-of-the-science approaches for
observational exposure measurement
studies. The meeting will include
sessions for discussion by the panel and
time will be set aside for public
comment. The meeting is open to the
public to attend as observers.
Observers who wish to make oral
comments during the comment periods
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may sign up on the Eastern Research
Group, Inc.’s online registration page.
Time slots for comments will be limited
to 5-minutes and observers will be
scheduled to speak in the order in
which they register. The public may
also use a separate process to send
written comments regarding the
planned document electronically to the
project Web site at https://www.epa.gov/
nerl/sots/ or by e-mail to the EPA
technical contact at
Fortmann.roy@epa.gov. The charge to
the panel and background materials are
available primarily via the Internet on
the National Exposure Research
Laboratory’s (NERL’s) home page under
the Featured Links at https://
www.epa.gov/nerl/sots/.
DATES: The workshop will begin on
November 28, 2006, at 8:30 a.m. and
end at 4 p.m. on November 29, 2006
(Eastern Time). The oral public
comment sessions will begin on
November 28, 2006, at approximately 10
a.m. and on November 29, 2006 at
approximately 1 p.m.
ADDRESSES: The workshop will be held
at the Hilton Durham at 3800
Hillsborough Rd., Durham, NC 27705.
The EPA contractor, Eastern Research
Group, Inc., is organizing, convening,
and conducting the workshop. Members
of the public may attend the workshop
as observers. To attend the workshop,
register by November 21, 2006, by
accessing the online registration page at
https://www2.ergweb.com/projects/
conferences/exposure/registerexposure.htm, via telephone by calling
Eastern Research Group, Inc. at 781–
674–7374, or sending an e-mail to
meetings@erg.com (subject line:
Observational Studies). Registration will
also be available at the site of the
meeting, as space allows. There will be
time set aside each day to present brief
(no longer than five minutes) oral
comments from the public. Please let
Eastern Research Group, Inc. know if
you wish to make comments during the
observer comment period. Space is
limited, and registrations will be
accepted on a first-come, first-served
basis. Observers may also submit
written comments regarding the
planned document electronically to the
project Web site at https://www.epa.gov/
nerl/sots/ or by e-mail to the EPA
technical contact at
Fortmann.roy@epa.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Questions regarding registration and
logistics for the workshop should be
directed to Eastern Research Group,
Inc., 110 Hartwell Avenue, Lexington,
MA 02421–3136; telephone: 781–674–
7374; facsimile: 781–674–2906; e-mail
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OAR-2006-0525; FRL-8240-2]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Comment Request; Fuels and Fuel Additives: Health-
Effects Research Protocols (Renewal); EPA ICR No. 1696.05, OMB Control
No. 2060-0297
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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 December 6,
2006.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-
2006-0525, to (1) EPA online using https://www.regulations.gov (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, 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.
Note: The EPA Docket Center suffered damage due to flooding
during the last week of June 2006. The Docket Center is continuing
to operate. However, during the cleanup, there will be temporary
changes to Docket Center telephone numbers, addresses, and hours of
operation for people who wish to visit the Public Reading Room to
view documents. Consult EPA's Federal Register notice at 71 FR 38147
(July 5, 2006) or the EPA Web site at https://www.epa.gov/epahome/
dockets.htm for current information on docket status, locations and
telephone numbers.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: James W. Caldwell, Office of
Transportation and Air Quality, Mailcode: 6406J, Environmental
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460;
telephone number: (202) 343-9303; fax number: (202) 343-2802; e-mail
address: caldwell.jim@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 July 17, 2006 (71 FR 40513), EPA sought comments on this
ICR pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received no comments. 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-OAR-2006-0525, which is available for online viewing at
https://www.regulations.gov, or in person viewing at the Air and
Radiation Docket and Information Center 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 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 and Information Center is 202-566-1742.
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 https://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 https://www.regulations.gov.
Title: Fuels and Fuel Additives: Health-Effects Research Protocols
(Renewal).
ICR Numbers: EPA ICR No. 1696.05, OMB Control No. 2060-0297.
ICR Status: This ICR is scheduled to expire on November 30, 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: In accordance with the regulations at 40 CFR part 79,
subparts A, B, C, and D, Registration of Fuels and Fuel Additives,
manufacturers (including importers) of motor-vehicle gasoline, motor-
vehicle diesel fuel, and additives for those fuels, are required to
have these products registered by the EPA prior to their introduction
into commerce. Registration involves providing a chemical description
of the fuel or additive, and certain technical, marketing, and health-
effects information. The development of health-effects data, as
required by 40 CFR part 79, subpart F, is the subject of this ICR. The
information collection requirements for Subparts A through D, and the
supplemental notification requirements of Subpart F (indicating how the
manufacturer will satisfy the health-effects data requirements) are
covered by a separate ICR (EPA ICR No. 0309.11, OMB Control No. 2060-
0150). The health-effects data will be used to determine if there are
any products which have evaporative or combustion emissions that may
pose an unreasonable risk to public health, thus meriting further
investigation and potential regulation. This information is required
for specific groups of fuels and additives as defined in the
regulations. For example, gasoline and gasoline additives which consist
of only carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and/or sulfur, and which
involve a gasoline oxygen content of less than 1.5 weight percent, fall
into a ``baseline'' group. Oxygenates, such as ethanol, when used in
gasoline as an oxygen level of at least 1.5 weight percent, define
separate ``nonbaseline'' groups for each oxygenate. Additives which
contain elements other than carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and/or
sulfur fall into separate atypical groups. There are similar grouping
requirements for diesel fuel and diesel fuel additives.
Manufacturers may perform the research independently or may join
with other manufacturers to share in the costs for each applicable
group. Several research consortiums (groups of manufacturers) have been
formed. The largest consortium, organized by the American Petroleum
Institute (API), represents most of the manufacturers of baseline
gasoline, baseline diesel fuel,
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baseline fuel additives, and the prominent nonbaseline oxygenated
additives for gasoline. The research is structured into three tiers of
requirements for each group. Tier 1 requires an emissions
characterization and a literature search for information on the health
effects of those emissions. Voluminous Tier 1 data for gasoline and
diesel fuel were submitted by API and others in 1997. Tier 1 data have
been submitted for biodiesel, water/diesel emulsions, and several
atypical additives. Tier 2 requires short-term inhalation exposures of
laboratory animals to emissions to screen for adverse health effects.
Tier 2 data have been submitted for baseline diesel, biodiesel, and
water/diesel emulsions. Alternative Tier 2 testing can be required in
lieu of standard Tier 2 testing if EPA concludes that such testing
would be more appropriate. The EPA reached that conclusion with respect
to gasoline and gasoline-oxygenate blends, and alternative requirements
were established for the API consortium for baseline gasoline and six
gasoline-oxygenate blends. Alternative Tier 2 requirements have also
been established for the manganese additive MMT manufactured by the
Afton Chemical Corporation (formerly the Ethyl Corporation). Tier 3
provides for follow-up research, at EPA's discretion, when remaining
uncertainties as to the significance of observed health effects,
welfare effects, and/or emissions exposures from a fuel or fuel/
additive mixture interfere with EPA's ability to make reasonable
estimates of the potential risks posed by emissions from a fuel or
additive. To date, EPA has not imposed any Tier 3 requirements. Under
Section 211 of the Clean Air Act, (1) submission of the health-effects
information is necessary for a manufacturer to obtain registration of a
motor-vehicle gasoline, diesel fuel, or fuel additive, and thus be
allowed to introduce that product into commerce, and (2) the
information shall not be considered confidential.
Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping
burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 7,538
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 which have subsequently changed; 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: Manufacturers of Fuels and Fuel
Additives.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 4.
Frequency of Response: On Occasion.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 30,150.
Estimated Total Annual Cost: $3.2 million, includes $757,000
annualized capital and O&M costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is a decrease of 30,550 hours in
the total estimated burden currently identified in the OMB Inventory of
Approved ICR Burdens. This decrease is the result of reduced activity
as the two alternative Tier 2 testing programs near completion.
Dated: October 30, 2006.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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