Proposed Information Collection Request; Comment Request: Distribution of Offsite Consequence Analysis Information Under the Clean Air Act (CAA), as Amended, EPA ICR 1981.08, OMB Control Number 2050-0172, 11425-11426 [2022-04210]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[EPA–HQ–OAR–2003–0073; FRL9343–01–
OLEM]
Proposed Information Collection
Request; Comment Request:
Distribution of Offsite Consequence
Analysis Information Under the Clean
Air Act (CAA), as Amended, EPA ICR
1981.08, OMB Control Number 2050–
0172
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Environmental Protection
Agency is planning to submit an
information collection request (ICR),
Distribution of Offsite Consequence
Analysis Information under section
112(r)(7)(H) of the Clean Air Act (CAA),
as amended (EPA No. 1981.08, OMB
Control Number 2050–0172), to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and approval in
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act. Before doing so, EPA is
soliciting public comments on specific
aspects of the proposed information
collection as described in
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. This is a
proposed extension of the ICR, which is
currently approved through November
30, 2022. 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: Comments must be submitted on
or before May 2, 2022.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
referencing Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–
OAR–2006–0073, to: EPA online using
www.regulations.gov (our preferred
method), 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
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:
Wendy Hoffman, Office of Emergency
Management, Mail Code 5104A,
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC
20460; telephone number: (202) 564–
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Supporting documents which explain in
detail the information that EPA will be
collecting are available in the public
docket for this ICR. The docket can be
viewed online at https://
www.regulations.gov. Out of an
abundance of caution for members of
the public and our staff, the EPA Docket
Center and Reading Room is closed to
the public, with limited exceptions, to
reduce the risk of transmitting COVID–
19. Our Docket Center staff will
continue to provide remote customer
service via email, phone, and webform.
For further information about the EPA’s
public docket, Docket Center services
and the current status, please visit us
online at https://www.epa.gov/dockets.
The telephone number for the Docket
Center is 202–566–1744.
Pursuant to section 3506(c)(2)(A) of
the PRA, EPA is soliciting comments
and information to enable it 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. EPA will consider the
comments received and amend the ICR
as appropriate. The final ICR package
will then be submitted to OMB for
review and approval. At that time, EPA
will issue another Federal Register
notice to announce the submission of
the ICR to OMB and the opportunity to
submit additional comments to OMB.
Abstract: This ICR is the renewal of
the ICR developed for the final rule,
Accidental Release Prevention
Requirements; Risk Management
Programs Under the Clean Air Act
Section 112(r)(7); Distribution of Off-Site
Consequence Analysis Information.
CAA section 112(r)(7) required EPA to
promulgate reasonable regulations and
appropriate guidance to provide for the
prevention and detection of accidental
releases and for responses to such
releases. The regulations include
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requirements for submittal of a risk
management plan (RMP) to EPA. The
RMP includes information on offsite
consequence analyses (OCA) as well as
other elements of the risk management
program.
On August 5, 1999, the President
signed the Chemical Safety Information,
Site Security, and Fuels Regulatory
Relief Act (CSISSFRRA). The Act
required the President to promulgate
regulations on the distribution of OCA
information (CAA section
112(r)(7)(H)(ii)). The President delegated
to EPA and the Department of Justice
(DOJ) the responsibility to promulgate
regulations to govern the dissemination
of OCA information to the public. The
final rule was published on August 4,
2000 (65 FR 48108). The regulations
imposed minimal information and
recordkeeping requirements.
In accordance with the final rule, the
Federal Government established 55
reading rooms at Federal facilities
geographically distributed across the
United States and its territories. At these
reading rooms, members of the public
are able to read, but not mechanically
copy or remove, paper copies of OCA
information for up to 10 stationary
sources per calendar month. At these
reading rooms, the members of the
public may also have access to OCA
information that the Local Emergency
Planning Committee (LEPC) in whose
jurisdiction the person lives or works is
authorized to provide.
The final rule also authorizes and
encourages state and local government
officials to have access to OCA
information for their official use, and to
provide members of the public with
read-only access to OCA sections of
RMPs for sources located within the
jurisdiction of the LEPC where the
person lives or works and for any other
stationary sources with vulnerability
zones extending into the LEPC’s
jurisdiction.
EPA also established a Vulnerable
Zone Indicator System (VZIS) that
informs any person located in any state
whether an address specified by that
person might be within the vulnerable
zone of one or more stationary sources,
according to the data reported in RMPs.
The VZIS is available on the internet.
Members of the public who do not have
access to the internet are able to obtain
the same information by regular mail
request to the EPA.
The burden estimates, numbers and
types of respondents, wage rates and
unit and total costs for this ICR renewal
will be revised and updated, if needed,
during the 60-day comment period
while the ICR Supporting Statement is
undergoing review at OMB.
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Form Numbers: None.
Respondents/affected entities: State
and local agencies and the public.
Respondent’s obligation to respond:
Required to obtain or retain a benefit (40
CFR 1400).
Estimated number of respondents:
315 (total).
Frequency of response: As necessary.
Total estimated burden: 367 hours
(per year). Burden is defined at 5 CFR
1320.03(b).
Total estimated cost: $16,252 (per
year), includes $23 annualized capital
or operation & maintenance costs.
Changes in the Estimates: Any change
in burden or cost resulting from the 60day OMB review period will be
described and explained in this section
when the updated ICR Supporting
Statement is completed.
Donna Salyer,
Director, Office of Emergency Management.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[EPA–HQ–OPPT–2014–0838; FRL–9117–01–
OCSPP]
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Proposed Reinstatement of
an Existing Collection and Request for
Comment; Assessment of
Environmental Performance Standards
and Ecolabels for Federal Procurement
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA), this
document announces that EPA is
planning to submit an Information
Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB)
entitled: ‘‘Assessment of Environmental
Performance Standards and Ecolabels
for Federal Procurement’’ and identified
by EPA ICR No. 2516.04 and OMB
Control No. 2070–0199. This is a request
to reinstate a previously approved ICR
as revised in order to allow the
information collection to implement the
Framework for the Assessment of
Environmental Performance Standards
and Ecolabels for Federal Purchasing
(Framework). Before submitting the ICR
to OMB for review and approval under
the PRA, EPA is soliciting comments on
specific aspects of the proposed
information collection that is
summarized in this document. The ICR
and accompanying material are
available in the docket for public review
and comment.
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Comments on the proposed ICR
must be received on or before May 2,
2022.
DATES:
Submit your comments on
the proposed ICR identified by docket
identification (ID) number EPA–HQ–
OPPT–2014–0838, though the Federal
eRulemaking Portal at https://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the online
instructions for submitting comments.
Do not submit electronically any
information you consider to be
Confidential Business Information (CBI)
or other information whose disclosure is
restricted by statute. Additional
instructions on commenting or visiting
the docket, along with more information
about dockets generally, is available at
https://www.epa.gov/dockets.
Due to the public health concerns
related to COVID–19, the EPA Docket
Center (EPA/DC) and Reading Room is
opened to visitors by appointment only.
For the latest status information on
EPA/DC and docket access, visit https://
www.epa.gov/dockets.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
general information contact: Katherine
Sleasman, Regulatory Support Branch
(7101M), Office of Chemical Safety and
Pollution Prevention, Environmental
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania
Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460–0001;
telephone number: (202) 566–1204;
email address: sleasman.katherine@
epa.gov.
For technical information contact:
Alison Kinn Bennett, Data Gathering
and Analysis Division (7406M), Office
of Pollution Prevention and Toxics,
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC
20460–0001; telephone number: (202)
564–8859; kinn.alison@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
ADDRESSES:
I. What information is EPA particularly
interested in?
Pursuant to PRA section 3506(c)(2)(A)
(44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)), EPA
specifically solicits comments and
information to enable it to:
1. 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.
2. Evaluate the accuracy of the
Agency’s estimates of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used.
3. Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected.
4. Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
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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. In
particular, EPA is requesting comments
from very small businesses/
organizations (those that employ less
than 25) on examples of specific
additional efforts that EPA could make
to reduce the paperwork burden for very
small businesses/organizations affected
by this collection.
II. What information collection activity
or ICR does this action apply to?
Title: Assessment of Environmental
Performance Standards and Ecolabels
for Federal Procurement.
ICR numbers: EPA ICR No. 2516.04;
OMB Control No. 2070–0199.
ICR status: This ICR is a
reinstatement. 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 Code of
Federal Regulations (CFR), after
appearing in the Federal Register when
approved, 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 for certain EPA
regulations is consolidated in 40 CFR
part 9.
Abstract: This ICR covers the
information that will be requested to be
submitted to the Agency to evaluate
private sector standards and ecolabels
under the updated Framework for the
Assessment of Environmental
Performance Standards and Ecolabels
for Federal Purchasing. EPA’s goal in
developing this Framework is to create
a transparent, fair, and consistent
approach to evaluate product
environmental performance standards
and ecolabels for inclusion in EPA’s
Recommendations of Specifications,
Standards, and Ecolabels for Federal
Purchasing (‘‘Recommendations’’). The
Recommendations help federal
purchasers identify and procure
environmentally preferable products
and services which in turn, help to meet
their sustainability goals and
requirements.
EPA is engaging in this collection
pursuant to the authority in the
Pollution Prevention Act (42 U.S.C.A.
section 13103(b)(11) which requires
EPA to ‘‘Identify opportunities to use
Federal procurement to encourage
source reduction’’ and section 12(d) of
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OAR-2003-0073; FRL9343-01-OLEM]
Proposed Information Collection Request; Comment Request:
Distribution of Offsite Consequence Analysis Information Under the
Clean Air Act (CAA), as Amended, EPA ICR 1981.08, OMB Control Number
2050-0172
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency is planning to submit an
information collection request (ICR), Distribution of Offsite
Consequence Analysis Information under section 112(r)(7)(H) of the
Clean Air Act (CAA), as amended (EPA No. 1981.08, OMB Control Number
2050-0172), to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and
approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. Before doing
so, EPA is soliciting public comments on specific aspects of the
proposed information collection as described in Supplementary
Information. This is a proposed extension of the ICR, which is
currently approved through November 30, 2022. 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: Comments must be submitted on or before May 2, 2022.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-
2006-0073, to: EPA online using www.regulations.gov (our preferred
method), 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 [email protected]. Address
comments to OMB Desk Officer for EPA.
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 (CBI) or other
information whose disclosure is restricted by statute.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Wendy Hoffman, Office of Emergency
Management, Mail Code 5104A, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202)
564-8794; email address: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supporting documents which explain in detail
the information that EPA will be collecting are available in the public
docket for this ICR. The docket can be viewed online at https://www.regulations.gov. Out of an abundance of caution for members of the
public and our staff, the EPA Docket Center and Reading Room is closed
to the public, with limited exceptions, to reduce the risk of
transmitting COVID-19. Our Docket Center staff will continue to provide
remote customer service via email, phone, and webform. For further
information about the EPA's public docket, Docket Center services and
the current status, please visit us online at https://www.epa.gov/dockets. The telephone number for the Docket Center is 202-566-1744.
Pursuant to section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA, EPA is soliciting
comments and information to enable it 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. EPA
will consider the comments received and amend the ICR as appropriate.
The final ICR package will then be submitted to OMB for review and
approval. At that time, EPA will issue another Federal Register notice
to announce the submission of the ICR to OMB and the opportunity to
submit additional comments to OMB.
Abstract: This ICR is the renewal of the ICR developed for the
final rule, Accidental Release Prevention Requirements; Risk Management
Programs Under the Clean Air Act Section 112(r)(7); Distribution of
Off-Site Consequence Analysis Information. CAA section 112(r)(7)
required EPA to promulgate reasonable regulations and appropriate
guidance to provide for the prevention and detection of accidental
releases and for responses to such releases. The regulations include
requirements for submittal of a risk management plan (RMP) to EPA. The
RMP includes information on offsite consequence analyses (OCA) as well
as other elements of the risk management program.
On August 5, 1999, the President signed the Chemical Safety
Information, Site Security, and Fuels Regulatory Relief Act
(CSISSFRRA). The Act required the President to promulgate regulations
on the distribution of OCA information (CAA section 112(r)(7)(H)(ii)).
The President delegated to EPA and the Department of Justice (DOJ) the
responsibility to promulgate regulations to govern the dissemination of
OCA information to the public. The final rule was published on August
4, 2000 (65 FR 48108). The regulations imposed minimal information and
recordkeeping requirements.
In accordance with the final rule, the Federal Government
established 55 reading rooms at Federal facilities geographically
distributed across the United States and its territories. At these
reading rooms, members of the public are able to read, but not
mechanically copy or remove, paper copies of OCA information for up to
10 stationary sources per calendar month. At these reading rooms, the
members of the public may also have access to OCA information that the
Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC) in whose jurisdiction the
person lives or works is authorized to provide.
The final rule also authorizes and encourages state and local
government officials to have access to OCA information for their
official use, and to provide members of the public with read-only
access to OCA sections of RMPs for sources located within the
jurisdiction of the LEPC where the person lives or works and for any
other stationary sources with vulnerability zones extending into the
LEPC's jurisdiction.
EPA also established a Vulnerable Zone Indicator System (VZIS) that
informs any person located in any state whether an address specified by
that person might be within the vulnerable zone of one or more
stationary sources, according to the data reported in RMPs. The VZIS is
available on the internet. Members of the public who do not have access
to the internet are able to obtain the same information by regular mail
request to the EPA.
The burden estimates, numbers and types of respondents, wage rates
and unit and total costs for this ICR renewal will be revised and
updated, if needed, during the 60-day comment period while the ICR
Supporting Statement is undergoing review at OMB.
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Form Numbers: None.
Respondents/affected entities: State and local agencies and the
public.
Respondent's obligation to respond: Required to obtain or retain a
benefit (40 CFR 1400).
Estimated number of respondents: 315 (total).
Frequency of response: As necessary.
Total estimated burden: 367 hours (per year). Burden is defined at
5 CFR 1320.03(b).
Total estimated cost: $16,252 (per year), includes $23 annualized
capital or operation & maintenance costs.
Changes in the Estimates: Any change in burden or cost resulting
from the 60-day OMB review period will be described and explained in
this section when the updated ICR Supporting Statement is completed.
Donna Salyer,
Director, Office of Emergency Management.
[FR Doc. 2022-04210 Filed 2-28-22; 8:45 am]
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