Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Alternative Affirmative Defense Requirements for Ultra-low Sulfur Diesel (Renewal), 30133-30134 [2014-12171]
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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 Building,
Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave.
NW., Washington, DC 20004. The
telephone number for the Docket Center
is 202–566–1744. For additional
information about EPA’s public docket,
visit https://www.epa.gov/dockets.
Abstract: The EPA’s Office of Air and
Radiation (OAR) developed the
SmartWay Transport Partnership
(‘‘SmartWay’’) under directives outlined
in Subtitle D of the Energy Policy Act
of 2005, which calls on EPA to assess
the energy and air quality impacts of
activities within the freight industry.
These activities include long-duration
truck idling, the development and
promotion of strategies for reducing
idling, fuel consumption, and negative
air quality effects. SmartWay’s
objectives also are consistent with the
Federal Technology Transfer Act and
other laws that support collaborative
partnerships between government and
industry.
SmartWay is open to organizations
that own, operate, or contract with fleet
operations, including truck and multimodal carriers, logistics companies, and
shippers. Organizations that do not
operate fleets, but that are working to
strengthen the freight industry, such as
industry trade associations, state and
local transportation agencies and
environmental groups, also may join as
SmartWay Affiliates. All organizations
that join SmartWay are asked to provide
EPA with information as part of their
SmartWay registration to annually
benchmark their transportation-related
operations and improve the
environmental performance of their
freight activities.
A company joins SmartWay when it
completes and submits a SmartWay
Excel-based Partnership Tool
(‘‘reporting tool’’) to EPA. The data
outputs from the submitted tool are
used by Partners and SmartWay in
several ways. The data provides
confirmation that SmartWay Partners
are meeting established objectives as in
their Partnership Agreement. The
reporting tool outputs enable EPA to
assist SmartWay Partners in adjusting
their commitments, as appropriate, and
to update them with environmental
performance and technology
information that empower them to
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improve their efficiency. This
information also improves EPA’s
knowledge and understanding of the
environmental and energy impacts
associated with goods movement, and
the effectiveness of both proven and
emerging strategies to lessen those
impacts.
In addition to requesting annual
transportation-related data, EPA may
ask its SmartWay Partners for other
kinds of information, which could
include opinions and test data on the
effectiveness of new and emerging
technology applications, sales volumes
associated with SmartWayrecommended vehicle equipment and
technologies, the reach and value of
partnering with EPA through the
SmartWay Partnership, and awareness
of the SmartWay brand. In some
instances, EPA might query other freight
industry representatives (not just
SmartWay Partners), including trade
and professional associations, nonprofit
environmental groups, energy, and
community organizations, and
universities, and a small sampling of the
general public.
Form Numbers: None.
Respondents/Affected entities: Private
and public organizations that join the
SmartWay Transport Partnership;
freight industry representatives who
engage in activities related to the
SmartWay Partnership; and
representative samplings of consumers
in the general public.
Respondent’s obligation to respond:
Voluntary.
Estimated number of Program
respondents: 3,961 (total).
Frequency of response: Annually,
occasionally.
Total estimated burden: 11,504 hours
(per year). Burden is defined at 5 CFR
1320.03(b).
Total Estimated Cost: $628,477 (per
year), which includes $1,651 in
annualized capital or operation &
maintenance costs.
Changes in estimates: There is an
increase of 3,203 hours in the total
estimated respondent burden compared
with the ICR currently approved by
OMB. This increase reflects the
following adjustments and program
changes: (1) adjustments associated with
increased interest in SmartWay, and
thus, an increase in new annual
respondents and applications for the
SmartWay Excellence Award, as well as
robust Program retention practices,
leading to increased number of
Respondent partners reporting annually;
(2) increased burden associated with the
SmartWay Tractor & Trailer program;
and (3) reduced burden due to EPA’s
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streamlined Partnership Annual
Agreement process.
Dated: May 16, 2014.
Erin Collard,
Acting Director, Collection Strategies
Division.
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Information Collection Request
Submitted to OMB for Review and
Approval; Comment Request;
Alternative Affirmative Defense
Requirements for Ultra-low Sulfur
Diesel (Renewal)
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Environmental Protection
Agency has submitted an information
collection request (ICR), ‘‘Production
Outlook Reports for Un-Registered
Renewable Fuels Producers’’ (EPA ICR
No.2409.02, OMB Control No. 2060–
0660) to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for review and approval
in accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.).
This is a proposed extension of the ICR,
which is currently approved through
May 31, 2014. Public comments were
previously requested via the Federal
Register (78 FR 2571) on February 6,
2014 during a 60-day 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 June 26, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
referencing Docket ID Number EPA–
HQ–OAR–2010–0258, to (1) EPA online
using www.regulations.gov (our
preferred method), by email to a-and-rDocket@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.
EPA’s policy is that all comments
received will be included in the public
SUMMARY:
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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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Geanetta Heard, Fuel Compliance
Center, 6406J, Environmental Protection
Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.,
Washington, DC 20460; telephone
number: 202–343–9017 fax number:
202–565–2085 email address:
heard.geanetta@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 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 https://www.epa.gov/
dockets.
Abstract: With this information
collection request (ICR), we are seeking
permission to accept production outlook
reports from domestic or foreign
renewable fuel producers who are not
currently regulated parties under the
RFS2 program and are, therefore, not
required to register or report under the
RFS2 regulations. Submission of
production outlook information to EPA
under this ICR will be on a voluntary
basis.
The information that respondents
provide will allow EPA to more
accurately project cellulosic biofuel
volumes for the following calendar year,
and these volume projections will form
the basis of the percentage standards
EPA sets under the RFS2 program.
Without information from these
respondents, EPA’s volume projections
are more likely to fall below actual
projection volumes. Under such
circumstances, actual supply for
cellulosic biofuel will exceed the
demand created by the standards EPA
sets, and the value of cellulosic biofuel
Renewable Identification Numbers
(RINs) will fall. RINs are marketable
credits that correspond to a given
volume of renewable fuel. Since RIN
market price directly affects the
economic viability of cellulosic biofuel
production, low RIN prices could
present economic difficulties to
producers. Thus, it is in the interests of
these respondents to provide this
information to EPA, as doing so could
ensure that the market price of RINs
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appropriately reflects the value of their
cellulosic biofuel. This information also
serves a more general program purpose
because it will assist EPA in setting the
annual RFS2 standards more accurately
for biomass-based diesel, advanced
biofuel, and total renewable fuel.
Compiling this information may also
assist respondents with their planning
and compliance activities. We believe
that many parties would wish to submit
this information in order to receive
better assistance in understanding and
complying with the RFS2 regulations.
Form Numbers: 5900–283 (RFS2 0900
Production Outlook Report).
Respondents/affected entities:
Domestic or foreign renewable fuel
producers who are not currently
regulated parties under the RFS2
program.
Respondent’s obligation to respond:
Mandatory.
Estimated number of respondents: 2
(total).
Frequency of response: Yearly.
Total estimated burden: 24 hours (per
year). Burden is defined at 5 CFR
1320.03(b).
Total estimated cost: $2,760 (per
year), includes $0 annualized capital or
operation & maintenance costs.
Changes in Estimates: There is a
decrease of 116 hours in the total
estimated respondent burden as
compared with the ICR currently
approved by OMB. The decrease in
hours is due to a decrease in the
respondent universe based on the
reported number of submissions in the
DCFUEL database. The number of
respondents decreased by 33 per year
lowering the total number of reports
collected. These decreases have lowered
the total burden even though the cost to
report per response has risen due to
better numbers used to calculate the
industry burden and to account for
inflation.
Dated: May 16, 2014.
Erin Collard,
Acting Director, Collection Strategies
Division.
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Massachusetts Marine Sanitation
Device Standard—Notice of
Determination
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
AGENCY:
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ACTION:
Notice of determination.
The Regional Administrator
of the Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA)—New England Region, has
determined that adequate facilities for
the safe and sanitary removal and
treatment of sewage from all vessels are
reasonably available for the remaining
state coastal waters of the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
ADDRESSES: Docket: All documents in
the docket are listed in the
www.regulations.gov index. Although
listed in the index, some information is
not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other
information whose disclosure is
restricted by statute. Certain other
material, such as copyrighted material,
will be publicly available only in hard
copy. Publicly available docket
materials are available electronically in
www.regulations.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ann
Rodney, U. S. Environmental Protection
Agency—New England Region, Office of
Ecosystem Protection, Oceans and
Coastal Protection Unit, Five Post Office
Square, Suite 100, OEP06–1, Boston,
MA 02109–3912. Telephone: (617) 918–
1538. Fax number: (617) 918–0538.
Email address: rodney.ann@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On March
28, 2014, EPA published a notice that
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
had petitioned the Regional
Administrator, Environmental
Protection Agency, to determine that
adequate facilities for the safe and
sanitary removal and treatment of
sewage from all vessels are reasonably
available for the remaining coastal
waters of Massachusetts. The petition
was filed pursuant to Section 312 (f) (3)
of Public Law 92–500, as amended by
Public Laws 95–217 and 100–4, for the
purpose of declaring these waters a No
Discharge Area (NDA).
Section 312 (f) (3) states: After the
effective date of the initial standards
and regulations promulgated under this
section, if any State determines that the
protection and enhancement of the
quality of some or all of the waters
within such State require greater
environmental protection, such State
may completely prohibit the discharge
from all vessels of any sewage, whether
treated or not, into such waters, except
that no such prohibition shall apply
until the Administrator determines that
adequate facilities for the safe and
sanitary removal and treatment of
sewage from all vessels are reasonably
available for such water to which such
prohibition would apply.
This determination covers three areas:
A strip near the state-federal boundary
SUMMARY:
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OAR-2010-0258; FRL-9911-33-OEI]
Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and
Approval; Comment Request; Alternative Affirmative Defense Requirements
for Ultra-low Sulfur Diesel (Renewal)
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency has submitted an
information collection request (ICR), ``Production Outlook Reports for
Un-Registered Renewable Fuels Producers'' (EPA ICR No.2409.02, OMB
Control No. 2060-0660) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44
U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). This is a proposed extension of the ICR, which is
currently approved through May 31, 2014. Public comments were
previously requested via the Federal Register (78 FR 2571) on February
6, 2014 during a 60-day 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 June 26, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OAR-2010-0258, to (1) EPA 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.
EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included in the
public
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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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Geanetta Heard, Fuel Compliance
Center, 6406J, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave.
NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: 202-343-9017 fax number:
202-565-2085 email address: heard.geanetta@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 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 https://www.epa.gov/dockets.
Abstract: With this information collection request (ICR), we are
seeking permission to accept production outlook reports from domestic
or foreign renewable fuel producers who are not currently regulated
parties under the RFS2 program and are, therefore, not required to
register or report under the RFS2 regulations. Submission of production
outlook information to EPA under this ICR will be on a voluntary basis.
The information that respondents provide will allow EPA to more
accurately project cellulosic biofuel volumes for the following
calendar year, and these volume projections will form the basis of the
percentage standards EPA sets under the RFS2 program. Without
information from these respondents, EPA's volume projections are more
likely to fall below actual projection volumes. Under such
circumstances, actual supply for cellulosic biofuel will exceed the
demand created by the standards EPA sets, and the value of cellulosic
biofuel Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs) will fall. RINs are
marketable credits that correspond to a given volume of renewable fuel.
Since RIN market price directly affects the economic viability of
cellulosic biofuel production, low RIN prices could present economic
difficulties to producers. Thus, it is in the interests of these
respondents to provide this information to EPA, as doing so could
ensure that the market price of RINs appropriately reflects the value
of their cellulosic biofuel. This information also serves a more
general program purpose because it will assist EPA in setting the
annual RFS2 standards more accurately for biomass-based diesel,
advanced biofuel, and total renewable fuel. Compiling this information
may also assist respondents with their planning and compliance
activities. We believe that many parties would wish to submit this
information in order to receive better assistance in understanding and
complying with the RFS2 regulations.
Form Numbers: 5900-283 (RFS2 0900 Production Outlook Report).
Respondents/affected entities: Domestic or foreign renewable fuel
producers who are not currently regulated parties under the RFS2
program.
Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory.
Estimated number of respondents: 2 (total).
Frequency of response: Yearly.
Total estimated burden: 24 hours (per year). Burden is defined at 5
CFR 1320.03(b).
Total estimated cost: $2,760 (per year), includes $0 annualized
capital or operation & maintenance costs.
Changes in Estimates: There is a decrease of 116 hours in the total
estimated respondent burden as compared with the ICR currently approved
by OMB. The decrease in hours is due to a decrease in the respondent
universe based on the reported number of submissions in the DCFUEL
database. The number of respondents decreased by 33 per year lowering
the total number of reports collected. These decreases have lowered the
total burden even though the cost to report per response has risen due
to better numbers used to calculate the industry burden and to account
for inflation.
Dated: May 16, 2014.
Erin Collard,
Acting Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. 2014-12171 Filed 5-23-14; 8:45 am]
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