Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Compliance Assurance Monitoring Program (Renewal), 69082-69083 [2013-27426]

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• ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 222 (Monday, November 18, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 69082-69083]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-27426]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2003-0152; FRL-9902-86-OEI]


Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; Compliance Assurance Monitoring Program 
(Renewal)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency has submitted an 
information collection request (ICR), Compliance Assurance Monitoring 
Program (Renewal) 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 information collection request, 
which is currently approved through December 31, 2013. Public comments 
were previously requested via the Federal Register (78 FR 35631) on 
June 13, 2013 during a 60-day public comment period. This notice allows 
for an additional 30 days for public comments. A fuller description of 
the ICR is given below, including its estimated burden and cost to the 
public. 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.

DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before December 18, 
2013.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-
2003-0152 online using www.regulations.gov (our preferred method), by 
email to a-and-r-docket@epa.gov or by mail to: EPA Docket Center, 
Environmental Protection Agency, Mail Code 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania 
Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460 and (2) OMB via email to oira_submission@omb.eop.gov. Address comments to OMB Desk Officer for EPA.
    The 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 or other information 
whose disclosure is restricted by statute.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Angela Hackel, Office of Air Quality 
and Planning Standards, Sector Policies and Programs Division (D243-
05), Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711; 
telephone number: (919) 541-5262; fax number: (919) 541-3207; email 
address: hackel.angela@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supporting documents, which explain in 
detail the information that the EPA will be collecting, are available 
in the public docket for this information collection request. The 
docket can be viewed online at www.regulations.gov or in person at the 
EPA Docket Center, WJC West Building, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave. 
NW., Washington, DC. The telephone number for the Docket Center is 
(202) 566-1744. For additional information about the EPA's public 
docket, visit: https://www.epa.gov/dockets.
    EPA ICR Number: 1663.08.
    OMB Control Number: 2060-0376.
    Abstract: The Clean Air Act (the CAA) contains several provisions 
directing EPA to require source owners to conduct monitoring to support 
certification as to their status of compliance with applicable 
requirements. These provisions are set forth in Section 504 (operating 
permits provisions) and Section 114 (enforcement provisions) of the 
CAA. Section 504(b) directs EPA to implement monitoring and 
certification requirements through the operating permits program. This 
section allows EPA to prescribe by rule, methods and procedures for 
determining compliance recognizing that continuous emissions monitoring 
systems need not be required if other procedures or methods provide 
sufficiently reliable and timely information for determining 
compliance. Under section 504(c), each operating permit must ``set 
forth inspection, entry, monitoring, compliance, certification, and 
reporting requirements to assure compliance with the permit terms and 
conditions.'' Section 114(a)(3) requires EPA to promulgate rules for 
enhanced monitoring and compliance certifications. Section 114(a)(1) of 
the provides additional authority concerning monitoring, reporting, and 
record keeping requirements. This section provides the Administrator 
with the authority to require any owner or operator of a source to 
install and operate monitoring systems and to record the resulting 
monitoring data. EPA promulgated the Compliance Assurance Monitoring 
(CAM) rule, 40 CFR part 64, on October 22, 1997 (62 FR 54900) to 
implement these authorities.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: All facilities required to have an 
operating permit under Title V of the CAA and the state, local and 
tribal permitting authorities that implement the CAM program.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory under Title V of the 
CAA.
    Estimated number of respondents: 23,235
    Frequency of response: At least every 6 months per Title V and the 
implementing regulations at 40 CFR 70.6(a)(3)(iii)(A) and (B).
    Total estimated burden: 50,473 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
    Total estimated cost: $2,031,643 (per year), which includes no 
annualized capital or operation and maintenance costs.
    Changes in Estimates: There is decrease of 7,403,108 hours in the 
total estimated respondent burden compared with the ICR currently 
approved by OMB. This decrease is a result of the fact that most 
facilities are now using electronic monitoring systems that 
automatically record the output of the monitor, thus, resulting in a 
decrease in the number of labor hours needed to

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record the monitoring results. Additionally, all affected facilities 
with existing Title V permits have now submitted their CAM monitoring 
approach in their permit renewal applications, therefore, significantly 
reducing the costs for new monitoring development. Also, we reviewed 
the reporting and recordkeeping requirements of the Title V permit 
program vis-[agrave]-vis those required under the CAM program. We found 
that, with the exception of sources required to develop a quality 
improvement plan, sources were meeting the reporting and recordkeeping 
requirements for CAM by complying with the requirements of the Title V 
program. We revised some of our assumptions to account for the 
additional requirements set forth under the CAM rule that are not 
outlined in the Title V program, while at the same time ensuring that 
requirements met under the Title V program were not being re-counted in 
this assessment. Furthermore, in order to reflect projected trends for 
the next 3 years, we updated some of the formulas used to calculate 
burden.

John Moses,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. 2013-27426 Filed 11-15-13; 8:45 am]
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