Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Data Requirements Rule for the 1-Hour Sulfur Dioxide Primary National Ambient Air Quality Standard (Renewal), 79887-79888 [2022-28281]

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• ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 248 (Wednesday, December 28, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 79887-79888]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-28281]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2013-0711; FRL-10548-01-OMS]


Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; Data Requirements Rule for the 1-Hour Sulfur 
Dioxide Primary National Ambient Air Quality Standard (Renewal)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted a 
renewal of an information collection request (ICR), Data Requirements 
Rule for the 1-Hour Sulfur Dioxide Primary National Ambient Air Quality 
Standard (EPA ICR Number 2495.05, OMB Control Number 2060-0696) to 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in 
accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA). This notice is a 
proposed extension of the ICR, which is currently approved through 
December 31, 2022. Public comments were previously requested via the 
Federal Register on October 11, 2022, during a 60-day comment period. 
This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comment.

DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before January 27, 
2023.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to EPA, referencing Docket ID No. EPA-
HQ-OAR-2013-0711 online using www.regulations.gov (our preferred 
method), by email to [email protected], or by mail to: EPA Docket 
Center, Environmental Protection Agency, Mail Code 28221T, 1200 
Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460. 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.
    Submit written comments and recommendations to OMB for the proposed 
information collection within 30 days of publication of this notice to 
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular information 
collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--Open for 
Public Comments'' or by using the search function.

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 or in person at the EPA Docket Center, WJC West, 
Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Avenue 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.
    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 Sulfur Dioxide 
(SO2) Primary NAAQS. These

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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 were required 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 Data Requirements Rule (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 
to conduct ambient monitoring rather than air quality 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 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.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: State, local and tribal air 
pollution management control agencies.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 51).
    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: Specific hours for modeling not estimated, 
all labor is reported in the estimated cost for modeling. Burden is 
defined at 5 CFR 1320.03(b).
    Total estimated cost: $3,014,000 (per year) for modeling.
    Changes in Estimates: Air agencies that elected under subpart BB of 
part 51 to conduct ambient monitoring for listed DRR sources are 
responsible for collecting ambient air quality data information and 
submitting these data electronically to EPA's Air Quality System (AQS) 
and other voluntary databases. While information collections associated 
with initial ambient air quality monitoring under 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 for ambient 
monitoring. This information collection and the associated burden are 
captured under the Ambient Air Quality Surveillance 40 CFR part 58 ICR 
(OMB #2060-0084, EPA ICR# 0940.29). Ongoing collections have been 
removed from the DRR ICR to avoid duplicative burden calculations.
    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 to conduct air quality modeling to meet 
their DRR requirements.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. 2022-28281 Filed 12-27-22; 8:45 am]
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