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Proposed Information Collection
Request; Comment Request; Data
Requirements Rule for the 1-Hour
Sulfur Dioxide Primary National
Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS)
Information Request (Renewal)
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) is planning to submit a
renewal of an information collection
request (ICR), ‘‘Data Requirements Rule
for the 1-Hour Sulfur Dioxide Primary
National Ambient Air Quality Standard
(NAAQS) Information Request
(Renewal)’’ (EPA ICR No. 2495.05),
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) Control No. 2060–0696) to the
OMB for review and approval in
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act (PRA). Before doing so,
the EPA is soliciting public comments
on specific aspects of the proposed
information collection as described
below. This is a proposed renewal of the
existing ICR for the Data Requirements
Rule for the 1-Hour Sulfur Dioxide
Primary NAAQS (SO2 Data
Requirements Rule), which is currently
approved through December 31, 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 October 11, 2022.
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Submit your comments,
identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–
OAR–2013–0711, at https://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the online
instructions for submitting comments.
Once submitted, comments cannot be
edited or removed from Regulations.gov.
The EPA may publish any comment
received to its public docket. Do not
submit electronically any information
you consider to be Confidential
Business Information (CBI) or other
information the disclosure of which is
restricted by statute. Multimedia
submissions (audio, video, etc.) must be
accompanied by a written comment.
The written comment is considered to
be the official comment and should
include discussion of all points you
wish to make. The EPA will generally
not consider comments or comment
contents located outside of the primary
submission (i.e., on the web, cloud, or
other file sharing system). For
additional submission methods, the full
EPA public comment policy,
information about CBI or multimedia
submissions, and general guidance on
making effective comments, please visit
https://www.epa.gov/dockets/
commenting-epa-dockets.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Sydney Lawrence, Office of Air Quality
Planning and Standards, Air Quality
Policy Division, C504–05, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency,
Research Triangle Park, NC; telephone
number: (919) 541–4768; email address:
lawrence.sydney@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.
Out of an abundance of caution for
members of the public and our staff, the
EPA Docket Center and Reading Room
are open to the public by appointment
only to reduce the risk of transmitting
COVID–19. Our Docket Center staff also
continues to provide remote customer
service via email, phone, and webform.
Hand deliveries and couriers may be
received by scheduled appointment
only. For further information on EPA
Docket Center services and the current
status, please visit us online at https://
www.epa.gov/dockets.
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
ADDRESSES:
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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., electronic submission of responses.
EPA will consider the comments
received and amend the proposed ICR
renewal as appropriate. The final ICR
package will then be submitted to OMB
for review and approval. At that time,
the 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.
Background
The SO2 Data Requirements Rule
(‘‘DRR’’ or ‘‘Rule’’) directed state, local,
and tribal air quality management
agencies to provide data to initially
characterize current air quality in areas
that contain large sources of SO2
emissions, information that was used in
the NAAQS designations and other
processes.1 The rule also requires states
to continue to provide monitoring,
modeling, and emissions data for a
subset of sources that meet certain
requirements under the rule, which may
serve to verify whether these areas
continue to meet the 2010 SO2 NAAQS.
Through the SO2 Data Requirements
Rule and the initial ICR, the EPA
required that states characterize ambient
air quality around sources with
emissions that are greater than 2,000
tons per year (tpy) or that were
otherwise included as a listed source in
accordance with the Rule.2 Based upon
2011 emissions data, the ICR initially
identified approximately 412 sources of
SO2 in 43 states that may potentially be
listed under the DRR. Currently, there
are 137 sources in 36 states that are still
subject to ongoing reporting
requirements under the SO2 Data
Requirements Rule.
The DRR described the criteria for
identifying the source areas where air
agencies needed to characterize SO2 air
quality. It also described the process
and timetables by which air quality
1 See
80 FR 51052 (August 21, 2015).
to section 51.1203(a) of the SO2 Data
Requirements Rule, air management agencies were
required to submit a list of applicable sources of
SO2 emissions in their jurisdiction with emissions
of 2,000 tpy or greater by no later than January 15,
2016. See 80 FR 51087, August 21, 2015.
2 Pursuant
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management agencies were required to
characterize air quality in areas around
sources through ambient monitoring
and/or air quality modeling techniques
and submit this data to EPA. The air
quality data developed by the states in
accordance with the Rule were used by
EPA to assist in the remaining rounds of
area designations for the 2010 SO2
NAAQS, as well as in other areas, and
is intended to provide information to
verify whether areas are meeting the
standard.
For those air quality management
agencies that elected to conduct ambient
air monitoring for areas with listed DRR
sources to provide the necessary air
quality data to EPA, the state and local
air quality management agencies are
responsible for reporting ambient air
quality data and will continue to submit
these data electronically to EPA’s Air
Quality System (AQS) and voluntary
databases. Quality assurance/quality
control records and monitoring network
documentation are also maintained by
each state and local agency, in AQS
electronic format where possible.
Although the state and local air quality
management agencies are responsible
for the operation of this air monitoring
network, they may have opportunities to
work with industry to help support
modeling exercises and/or monitoring
network installation, operations, and
maintenance. As explained above, while
information collections associated with
initial ambient air quality monitoring
required under the DRR (40 CFR part
51) were included in the prior version
of the DRR ICR, any collections
associated with ongoing monitoring are
now covered by the part 58 ICR.
Ongoing collections have been removed
from the DRR ICR to avoid duplicative
burden calculations. Future renewals of
the Part 58 ICR will continue to cover
any collections of ongoing ambient air
monitoring data that were initiated
under subpart BB of part 51, as long as
any of those monitors continues to
operate.
For those air quality management
agencies that elected to conduct air
quality modeling of the areas containing
listed DRR sources to provide the
necessary air quality data to EPA and
which were designated either
unclassifiable/attainment or attainment/
unclassifiable based on modeling of
actual emissions of the area, state and
local air quality management agencies
are responsible for submitting on-going
data reports. In accordance with the SO2
Data Requirements Rule, these reports
must be submitted annually as either a
stand-alone document made available
for public inspection or as an appendix
to the air agency’s Annual Monitoring
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Network Plan, and are required to
include the annual SO2 emissions of
each applicable source in each such
area, provide an assessment of the cause
of any emissions increase from the
previous year, and include a
recommendation from the air agency
regarding whether additional modeling
is needed to characterize air quality in
any area to determine whether the area
meets or does not meet the 2010 SO2
NAAQS. If the EPA requires that the air
agency conduct updated air quality
modeling for the area, the air agency has
12 months to submit it to the EPA.
Abstract
This ICR includes estimates for the
submission and processing of emissions
and emissions-related information and
ambient air dispersion modeling
reporting and activities, associated with
the 40 CFR part 51 Requirements for
Preparation, Adoption and Submittal of
Implementation Plans, as they apply to
the 2010 1-Hour SO2 Primary NAAQS.
These data and information are
collected by various state and local air
quality management agencies and
reported to the EPA. State and local air
management agencies chose to submit
either monitoring or modeling
information in order to meet the initial
and on-going requirements, as
applicable, to characterize air quality
concentrations in areas with specific
emissions sources identified under the
final SO2 DRR. This proposed ICR
Renewal adopts (with some revisions)
the estimates contained in the original
ICR, and it includes burden estimates
for the development, submittal, and
processing of the information described
above to meet ongoing requirements
under the DRR during the period
January 1, 2023–December 31, 2025. For
those state and local air management
agencies that chose ambient monitoring
rather than modeling to characterize air
quality around specific emissions
sources during the initial phase of DRR
implementation (2016), such monitoring
is required by subpart BB of part 51, and
information collections associated with
initial ambient air quality monitoring
required under Part 51 were initially
included in the prior versions of the
DRR ICR. Currently, the DRR requires
that ongoing monitoring continue to
meet the operational constraints and
requirements in 40 CFR part 58, and any
collections associated with ongoing
monitoring under the DRR are now
covered by the Part 58 ICR (EPA ICR No.
0940.29; OMB No. 2060–0084).
Therefore, ongoing collections of
ambient monitoring data have been
removed from coverage by the DRR ICR
to avoid duplicative burden
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calculations. Future renewals of the part
58 ICR will continue to cover any
collections of ongoing ambient air
monitoring data that were initiated
under Subpart BB of Part 51, so long as
any of those monitors continues to
operate.
In accordance with the requirements
of the DRR, where an air agency finds
in the annual emissions report for a
source subject to the DRR that emissions
have increased in an area, the state or
the EPA may determine that the state
must submit updated air quality
modeling data for the area to determine
whether or not the area is meeting the
2010 1-Hour SO2 Primary NAAQS.
The information requirements
included within this ICR are necessary
to provide EPA with ambient air quality
data, which includes emissions data
and/or modeling data, to determine the
air quality status of specific areas
around the country, to make attainment
decisions for those areas with respect to
the NAAQS, to assist in developing
necessary control strategies in order to
ensure attainment of the NAAQS in
those areas, to assess national trends in
air pollution, to inform the public of air
quality, and to determine the
population’s exposure to various
ambient air pollutants. EPA’s ability to
achieve its goal of attaining the 2010
SO2 1-hour NAAQS in all areas of the
United States is directly dependent
upon the availability of ambient air
quality data (emissions and/or modeling
data) requested in this information
collection. Additionally, EPA, state and
local air quality management agencies,
environmental groups, industrial
groups, and academic organizations use
these data to study atmospheric
chemistry, e.g., the formation and fate of
SO2 to determine the most appropriate
and effective control strategies
necessary to reduce air pollution.
The principal legal authority for this
information collection is the Clean Air
Act (CAA), 42 U.S.C. 7403, 7410,
7414(a), and 7511a, from which the 40
CFR part 51 regulations were
promulgated. Under section 7403(c), the
Administrator is required to conduct a
program of research, testing, and
development of methods for sampling,
measurement, monitoring, analysis, and
modeling of air pollutants, specifically
including a requirement to establish a
national network to monitor, collect,
and compile data with quantification of
certainty in the status and trends of air
emissions and air quality.
CAA sections 110(a) and (k) (42
U.S.C. 7410(a) and (k)) contain the state
implementation plan (SIP)
requirements, which include a
requirement that each State submit a SIP
that: (1) provides for the establishment
and operation of appropriate devices,
methods, systems, and procedures
necessary to monitor, compile, analyze,
and make available to the Administrator
data on ambient air quality and (2)
provides for the performance of such air
quality modeling as the Administrator
may prescribe for the purpose of
predicting the effect on ambient air
quality of any emissions of any air
pollutant for which the Administrator
has established a NAAQS, and the
submission, upon request, of data
related to such air quality modeling to
the designee as stipulated in the rule.
Form Numbers: None.
Respondents/affected entities: State,
local and tribal air pollution
management control agencies.
Respondents’ obligation to respond:
mandatory (see CAA 42 U.S.C. 7403,
7410, and 7511a, from which the 40
CFR part 51 regulations were
promulgated).
Estimated number of respondents: 36
states, providing emissions and in some
cases air quality modeling for 137
sources.
Frequency of response: Annually for
ongoing modeling annual report.
Total estimated burden: On the high
end, the modeling burden per source is
estimated to be $22,000 annually. On
the low end, labor costs are estimated to
be 5% of the overall turnkey estimate,
or $1,100 per report annually. Burden is
defined at 5 CFR 1320.03(b).
Total estimated cost: Range of
$150,700 to $3,014,000 (per year).
Changes in Estimates: The prior
renewal of this ICR estimated a
maximum possible burden of
$5,100,000 annually for modeling
sources. This ICR renewal, estimating a
range of $150,700 to $3,014,000
annually, reflects a decrease in the
maximum possible burden of
$2,086,000 annually for modeling
sources. This decrease is due to the
reduced number of listed sources for
which states chose air quality modeling
to meet their DRR requirements.
Scott Mathias,
Director, Air Quality Policy Division.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OAR-2013-0711; FRL-10102-01-OAR]
Proposed Information Collection Request; Comment Request; Data
Requirements Rule for the 1-Hour Sulfur Dioxide Primary National
Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) Information Request (Renewal)
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is planning to
submit a renewal of an information collection request (ICR), ``Data
Requirements Rule for the 1-Hour Sulfur Dioxide Primary National
Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) Information Request (Renewal)''
(EPA ICR No. 2495.05), Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Control
No. 2060-0696) to the OMB for review and approval in accordance with
the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA). Before doing so, the EPA is
soliciting public comments on specific aspects of the proposed
information collection as described below. This is a proposed renewal
of the existing ICR for the Data Requirements Rule for the 1-Hour
Sulfur Dioxide Primary NAAQS (SO2 Data Requirements Rule),
which is currently approved through December 31, 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 October 11, 2022.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-
OAR-2013-0711, at https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the online
instructions for submitting comments. Once submitted, comments cannot
be edited or removed from Regulations.gov. The EPA may publish any
comment received to its public docket. Do not submit electronically any
information you consider to be Confidential Business Information (CBI)
or other information the disclosure of which is restricted by statute.
Multimedia submissions (audio, video, etc.) must be accompanied by a
written comment. The written comment is considered to be the official
comment and should include discussion of all points you wish to make.
The EPA will generally not consider comments or comment contents
located outside of the primary submission (i.e., on the web, cloud, or
other file sharing system). For additional submission methods, the full
EPA public comment policy, information about CBI or multimedia
submissions, and general guidance on making effective comments, please
visit https://www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sydney Lawrence, Office of Air Quality
Planning and Standards, Air Quality Policy Division, C504-05, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC; telephone
number: (919) 541-4768; email address: [email protected].
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. Out of an abundance of caution for members of the
public and our staff, the EPA Docket Center and Reading Room are open
to the public by appointment only to reduce the risk of transmitting
COVID-19. Our Docket Center staff also continues to provide remote
customer service via email, phone, and webform. Hand deliveries and
couriers may be received by scheduled appointment only. For further
information on EPA Docket Center services and the current status,
please visit us online at https://www.epa.gov/dockets.
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
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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., electronic submission of responses. EPA will consider
the comments received and amend the proposed ICR renewal as
appropriate. The final ICR package will then be submitted to OMB for
review and approval. At that time, the 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.
Background
The SO2 Data Requirements Rule (``DRR'' or ``Rule'')
directed state, local, and tribal air quality management agencies to
provide data to initially characterize current air quality in areas
that contain large sources of SO2 emissions, information
that was used in the NAAQS designations and other processes.\1\ The
rule also requires states to continue to provide monitoring, modeling,
and emissions data for a subset of sources that meet certain
requirements under the rule, which may serve to verify whether these
areas continue to meet the 2010 SO2 NAAQS.
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\1\ See 80 FR 51052 (August 21, 2015).
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Through the SO2 Data Requirements Rule and the initial
ICR, the EPA required that states characterize ambient air quality
around sources with emissions that are greater than 2,000 tons per year
(tpy) or that were otherwise included as a listed source in accordance
with the Rule.\2\ Based upon 2011 emissions data, the ICR initially
identified approximately 412 sources of SO2 in 43 states
that may potentially be listed under the DRR. Currently, there are 137
sources in 36 states that are still subject to ongoing reporting
requirements under the SO2 Data Requirements Rule.
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\2\ Pursuant to section 51.1203(a) of the SO2 Data
Requirements Rule, air management agencies were required to submit a
list of applicable sources of SO2 emissions in their
jurisdiction with emissions of 2,000 tpy or greater by no later than
January 15, 2016. See 80 FR 51087, August 21, 2015.
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The DRR described the criteria for identifying the source areas
where air agencies needed to characterize SO2 air quality.
It also described the process and timetables by which air quality
management agencies were required to characterize air quality in areas
around sources through ambient monitoring and/or air quality modeling
techniques and submit this data to EPA. The air quality data developed
by the states in accordance with the Rule were used by EPA to assist in
the remaining rounds of area designations for the 2010 SO2
NAAQS, as well as in other areas, and is intended to provide
information to verify whether areas are meeting the standard.
For those air quality management agencies that elected to conduct
ambient air monitoring for areas with listed DRR sources to provide the
necessary air quality data to EPA, the state and local air quality
management agencies are responsible for reporting ambient air quality
data and will continue to submit these data electronically to EPA's Air
Quality System (AQS) and voluntary databases. Quality assurance/quality
control records and monitoring network documentation are also
maintained by each state and local agency, in AQS electronic format
where possible. Although the state and local air quality management
agencies are responsible for the operation of this air monitoring
network, they may have opportunities to work with industry to help
support modeling exercises and/or monitoring network installation,
operations, and maintenance. As explained above, while information
collections associated with initial ambient air quality monitoring
required under the DRR (40 CFR part 51) were included in the prior
version of the DRR ICR, any collections associated with ongoing
monitoring are now covered by the part 58 ICR. Ongoing collections have
been removed from the DRR ICR to avoid duplicative burden calculations.
Future renewals of the Part 58 ICR will continue to cover any
collections of ongoing ambient air monitoring data that were initiated
under subpart BB of part 51, as long as any of those monitors continues
to operate.
For those air quality management agencies that elected to conduct
air quality modeling of the areas containing listed DRR sources to
provide the necessary air quality data to EPA and which were designated
either unclassifiable/attainment or attainment/unclassifiable based on
modeling of actual emissions of the area, state and local air quality
management agencies are responsible for submitting on-going data
reports. In accordance with the SO2 Data Requirements Rule,
these reports must be submitted annually as either a stand-alone
document made available for public inspection or as an appendix to the
air agency's Annual Monitoring Network Plan, and are required to
include the annual SO2 emissions of each applicable source
in each such area, provide an assessment of the cause of any emissions
increase from the previous year, and include a recommendation from the
air agency regarding whether additional modeling is needed to
characterize air quality in any area to determine whether the area
meets or does not meet the 2010 SO2 NAAQS. If the EPA
requires that the air agency conduct updated air quality modeling for
the area, the air agency has 12 months to submit it to the EPA.
Abstract
This ICR includes estimates for the submission and processing of
emissions and emissions-related information and ambient air dispersion
modeling reporting and activities, associated with the 40 CFR part 51
Requirements for Preparation, Adoption and Submittal of Implementation
Plans, as they apply to the 2010 1-Hour SO2 Primary NAAQS.
These data and information are collected by various state and local air
quality management agencies and reported to the EPA. State and local
air management agencies chose to submit either monitoring or modeling
information in order to meet the initial and on-going requirements, as
applicable, to characterize air quality concentrations in areas with
specific emissions sources identified under the final SO2
DRR. This proposed ICR Renewal adopts (with some revisions) the
estimates contained in the original ICR, and it includes burden
estimates for the development, submittal, and processing of the
information described above to meet ongoing requirements under the DRR
during the period January 1, 2023-December 31, 2025. For those state
and local air management agencies that chose ambient monitoring rather
than modeling to characterize air quality around specific emissions
sources during the initial phase of DRR implementation (2016), such
monitoring is required by subpart BB of part 51, and information
collections associated with initial ambient air quality monitoring
required under Part 51 were initially included in the prior versions of
the DRR ICR. Currently, the DRR requires that ongoing monitoring
continue to meet the operational constraints and requirements in 40 CFR
part 58, and any collections associated with ongoing monitoring under
the DRR are now covered by the Part 58 ICR (EPA ICR No. 0940.29; OMB
No. 2060-0084). Therefore, ongoing collections of ambient monitoring
data have been removed from coverage by the DRR ICR to avoid
duplicative burden
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calculations. Future renewals of the part 58 ICR will continue to cover
any collections of ongoing ambient air monitoring data that were
initiated under Subpart BB of Part 51, so long as any of those monitors
continues to operate.
In accordance with the requirements of the DRR, where an air agency
finds in the annual emissions report for a source subject to the DRR
that emissions have increased in an area, the state or the EPA may
determine that the state must submit updated air quality modeling data
for the area to determine whether or not the area is meeting the 2010
1-Hour SO2 Primary NAAQS.
The information requirements included within this ICR are necessary
to provide EPA with ambient air quality data, which includes emissions
data and/or modeling data, to determine the air quality status of
specific areas around the country, to make attainment decisions for
those areas with respect to the NAAQS, to assist in developing
necessary control strategies in order to ensure attainment of the NAAQS
in those areas, to assess national trends in air pollution, to inform
the public of air quality, and to determine the population's exposure
to various ambient air pollutants. EPA's ability to achieve its goal of
attaining the 2010 SO2 1-hour NAAQS in all areas of the
United States is directly dependent upon the availability of ambient
air quality data (emissions and/or modeling data) requested in this
information collection. Additionally, EPA, state and local air quality
management agencies, environmental groups, industrial groups, and
academic organizations use these data to study atmospheric chemistry,
e.g., the formation and fate of SO2 to determine the most
appropriate and effective control strategies necessary to reduce air
pollution.
The principal legal authority for this information collection is
the Clean Air Act (CAA), 42 U.S.C. 7403, 7410, 7414(a), and 7511a, from
which the 40 CFR part 51 regulations were promulgated. Under section
7403(c), the Administrator is required to conduct a program of
research, testing, and development of methods for sampling,
measurement, monitoring, analysis, and modeling of air pollutants,
specifically including a requirement to establish a national network to
monitor, collect, and compile data with quantification of certainty in
the status and trends of air emissions and air quality.
CAA sections 110(a) and (k) (42 U.S.C. 7410(a) and (k)) contain the
state implementation plan (SIP) requirements, which include a
requirement that each State submit a SIP that: (1) provides for the
establishment and operation of appropriate devices, methods, systems,
and procedures necessary to monitor, compile, analyze, and make
available to the Administrator data on ambient air quality and (2)
provides for the performance of such air quality modeling as the
Administrator may prescribe for the purpose of predicting the effect on
ambient air quality of any emissions of any air pollutant for which the
Administrator has established a NAAQS, and the submission, upon
request, of data related to such air quality modeling to the designee
as stipulated in the rule.
Form Numbers: None.
Respondents/affected entities: State, local and tribal air
pollution management control agencies.
Respondents' obligation to respond: mandatory (see CAA 42 U.S.C.
7403, 7410, and 7511a, from which the 40 CFR part 51 regulations were
promulgated).
Estimated number of respondents: 36 states, providing emissions and
in some cases air quality modeling for 137 sources.
Frequency of response: Annually for ongoing modeling annual report.
Total estimated burden: On the high end, the modeling burden per
source is estimated to be $22,000 annually. On the low end, labor costs
are estimated to be 5% of the overall turnkey estimate, or $1,100 per
report annually. Burden is defined at 5 CFR 1320.03(b).
Total estimated cost: Range of $150,700 to $3,014,000 (per year).
Changes in Estimates: The prior renewal of this ICR estimated a
maximum possible burden of $5,100,000 annually for modeling sources.
This ICR renewal, estimating a range of $150,700 to $3,014,000
annually, reflects a decrease in the maximum possible burden of
$2,086,000 annually for modeling sources. This decrease is due to the
reduced number of listed sources for which states chose air quality
modeling to meet their DRR requirements.
Scott Mathias,
Director, Air Quality Policy Division.
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