Notice2023-16215
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Ambient Air Quality Surveillance (Renewal)
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Published
August 1, 2023
Issuing agencies
Environmental Protection Agency
Abstract
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), "Ambient Air Quality Surveillance (EPA ICR Number 0940.30, OMB Control Number 2060-0084) 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 July 31, 2023. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register on February 17, 2023, during a 60-day comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 146 (Tuesday, August 1, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50148-50149]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-16215]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OAR-2002-0091; FRL-11252-01-OMS]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Ambient Air Quality Surveillance (Renewal)
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an
information collection request (ICR), ``Ambient Air Quality
Surveillance (EPA ICR Number 0940.30, OMB Control Number 2060-0084) 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 July 31,
2023. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal
Register on February 17, 2023, during a 60-day comment period. This
notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments. This
notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
DATES: Comments may be submitted on or before August 31, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-
2002-0091, to EPA online using <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a> (our preferred
method), by email to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#c8a9e5a9a6ace5bae5aca7aba3adbc88adb8a9e6afa7be"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="69084408070d441b440d060a020c1d290c1908470e061f">[email protected]</span></a>, 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
<a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>. 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: Kevin Cavender, Air Quality Assessment
Division, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, C304-06,
Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711;
telephone number: 919-541-2364; email address: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#15767463707b7170673b7e70637c7b557065743b727a63"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="563537203338323324783d33203f381633263778313920">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a proposed extension of the ICR,
which is currently approved through July 31, 2023. 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.
Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register
on February 17, 2023, during a 60-day comment period (88 FR 10315).
This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
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="https://www.epa.gov/dockets">https://www.epa.gov/dockets</a>.
Abstract: This ICR includes ambient air monitoring data and other
supporting measurements reporting and recordkeeping activities
associated with the 40 CFR part 58 Ambient Air Quality Surveillance
rule. These data and information are collected by various state and
local air quality management agencies and reported to the EPA's Office
of Air Quality Planning and Standards within the Office of Air and
Radiation.
The data collected through this information collection consist of
ambient air concentration measurements for the seven air pollutants
with national ambient air quality standards (i.e., ozone, sulfur
dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, lead, carbon monoxide, PM<INF>2.5</INF> and
PM<INF>10</INF>), ozone precursors, air toxics, meteorological
variables at a select number of sites, and other supporting
measurements. Accompanying the pollutant concentration data are quality
assurance/quality control data and air monitoring network design
information.
The EPA and others (e.g., state and local air quality management
agencies, tribal entities, environmental groups, academic institutions,
industrial groups) use the ambient air quality data for many purposes
including informing the public and other interested parties of an
area's air quality, judging an area's air quality in comparison with
the established health or welfare standards, evaluating an air quality
management agency's progress in achieving or maintaining air pollutant
levels below the national and local standards, developing and revising
State Implementation Plans (SIPs), evaluating air pollutant control
strategies, developing or revising national control policies, providing
data for air quality model development and validation, supporting
enforcement actions, documenting episodes and initiating episode
controls, air quality trends assessment, and air pollution research.
The state and local agencies and tribal entities with
responsibility for reporting ambient air quality data and information
as requested in this ICR submit these data electronically to the EPA's
Air Quality System (AQS) database. Quality assurance/quality control
records and
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monitoring network documentation are also maintained by each state and
local agency, in AQS electronic format where possible.
Although the state and local air pollution control agencies and
tribal entities are responsible for the operation of the air monitoring
networks, the EPA funds a portion of the total costs through federal
grants. The costs shown in this renewal are the total costs incurred
for the monitoring program regardless of the source of the funding.
This practice of using the total cost is consistent with prior ICR
submittals and renewals.
Form numbers: None.
Respondents/affected entities: State, Local, and Tribal Air
Pollution Control Agencies.
Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 58).
Estimated number of respondents: 168 (total).
Frequency of response: Quarterly.
Total estimated burden: 1,449,968 hours (per year). Burden is
defined at 5 CFR 1320.03(b)
Total estimated cost: $181,278,444 (per year), includes $70,147,486
annualized capital or operation & maintenance costs.
Changes in the estimates: This is a decrease of 321,694 hours in
the total estimated respondent burden compared with that identified in
the ICR currently approved by OMB. This decrease is due to the
consolidation of monitors into fewer sites, consolidation of PAMS
network burden estimates to avoid double counting, termination of
unnecessary monitors, and more efficient automated procedures (e.g.,
moving from manual samplers to automated continuous samplers) for
measuring and reporting data. The decrease is offset somewhat by the
additional burden and cost estimates included for asset management and
sensors.
Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2023-16215 Filed 7-31-23; 8:45 am]
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