Notice2022-21185
Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request, Distribution of Offsite Consequence Analysis Information Under the Clean Air Act (CAA), as Amended
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Published
September 29, 2022
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Environmental Protection Agency
Abstract
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted 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 ICR No. 1981.08, OMB Control No. 2050-0172) 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 ICR, which is currently approved through November 30, 2022. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register on March 1, 2022 (87 FR 11425). EPA received no comments during the 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.
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 188 (Thursday, September 29, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59075-59076]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-21185]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OAR-2003-0073; FRL-10260-01-OMS]
Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and
Approval; Comment Request, Distribution of Offsite Consequence Analysis
Information Under the Clean Air Act (CAA), as Amended
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted 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 ICR No. 1981.08, OMB Control
No. 2050-0172) 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 ICR, which is currently approved through
November 30, 2022. Public comments were previously requested via the
Federal Register on March 1, 2022 (87 FR 11425). EPA received no
comments during the 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: Comments must be submitted on or before October 31, 2022.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-
2003-0073, to (1) EPA online using <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a> (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 <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#f897918a99a78b8d9a95918b8b919796b897959ad69d9788d69f978e"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="96f9ffe4f7c9e5e3f4fbffe5e5fff9f8d6f9fbf4b8f3f9e6b8f1f9e0">[email protected]</span></a>. 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: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#2941464f4f444847075e4c474d50694c5948074e465f"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="4e26212828232f2060392b202a370e2b3e2f60292138">[email protected]</span></a>.
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
<a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a> 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 <a href="http://www.epa.gov/dockets">http://www.epa.gov/dockets</a>.
Abstract: Pursuant to section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA, in the
first FR notice (87 FR 11425) published on March 1, 2022, EPA solicited
comments and information pertaining to the distribution of offsite
consequence analysis information under the accidental release
prevention requirements; Risk Management Programs under the Clean Air
Act Section 112(r)(7). The regulations include requirements for
submittal of a Risk Management Plan (RMP) to EPA, which includes
information on offsite consequence analysis (OCA) as well as other
elements of the Risk Management Program.
The Chemical Safety Information, Site Security, and Fuels
Regulatory Relief Act (CSISSFRRA), published on August 4, 2000 (65 FR
48108), required the President, who delegated to EPA and the Department
of Justice (DOJ), the responsibility to promulgate regulations on the
distribution of OCA information, 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, where the
public may read, but not mechanically copy or remove, paper copies of
OCA information for up to 10 stationary sources per calendar month. The
public may also obtain OCA information that the Local Emergency
Planning Committee (LEPC) in whose jurisdiction the requestor lives or
works, is authorized to provide.
The final rule also authorizes and encourages State and local
government officials to access OCA information for their official use,
and to provide 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)
which 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. 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 40 CFR are listed in 40 CFR
part 9.
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).
The annual respondent universe for this ICR is 315 state and local
agencies, LEPCs and individuals (public). The total includes 15 State
agencies and three LEPCs that send EPA letters of request for OCA data,
five states that experience reading room visits, and three LEPCs that
hold five public meetings each year. The public component of the total
includes 15 individuals who visit Federal and State reading rooms each
year and 262 individuals who request VZIS data. The three LEPCs that
hold public meetings are assumed to be the same three LEPCs that send
letters of request for OCA data.
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All other respondents are assumed to be unique.
Estimated number of respondents: 15 (total).
Frequency of response: As necessary.
Total estimated burden: 663 hours (per year). Burden is defined at
5 CFR 1320.03(b).
Total estimated cost: $29,800 (per year), includes $81 annual
operation & maintenance costs.
Changes in the estimates: EPA estimates a slight increase in the
burden to respondents for this renewal compared to the previous ICR
renewal. Even though reading room visits were greatly reduced, if not
stopped altogether because of COVID 19 restrictions during the previous
ICR period and reading room visits had been declining prior to the
COVID restrictions because of the increased use of the website
<a href="http://www.rtk.net">www.rtk.net</a>.
Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2022-21185 Filed 9-28-22; 8:45 am]
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