Notice2025-19733
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Air Emissions Reporting Requirements (Renewal)
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Published
October 31, 2025
Issuing agencies
Environmental Protection Agency
Abstract
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), Air Emissions Reporting Requirements (EPA ICR Number 2170.09, OMB Control Number 2060-0580) 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 October 31, 2025. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register on June 5, 2025, during a 60-day comment period (90 FR 23932). This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 209 (Friday, October 31, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48947-48948]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-19733]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OAR-2004-0489; FRL-13052-01-OMS]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Air Emissions Reporting Requirements (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), Air Emissions Reporting
Requirements (EPA ICR Number 2170.09, OMB Control Number 2060-0580) 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 October 31,
2025. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal
Register on June 5, 2025, during a 60-day comment period (90 FR 23932).
This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
DATES: Comments may be submitted on or before December 1, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OAR-2004-0489, 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#3d5552484452484513505c4f5e7d584d5c135a524b"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="94fcfbe1edfbe1ecbaf9f5e6f7d4f1e4f5baf3fbe2">[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: Marc Houyoux, Air Quality Assessment
Division, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, C339-02,
Environmental
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Protection Agency, 109 TW Alexander Drive, RTP, NC 27711; telephone
number: (919) 541-3649; email address: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#4a22253f33253f3264272b38290a2f3a2b642d253c"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="066e69737f69737e286b6774654663766728616970">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a proposed extension of the ICR,
which is currently approved through October 31, 2025. 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 June 5, 2025, during a 60-day comment period (90 FR 23932). 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
supporting documents include a response to comments document that
compiles and responds to comments received in the first notice. 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: The EPA promulgated the Air Emissions Reporting
Requirements (AERR) (40 CFR part 51, subpart A) to coordinate emissions
inventory reporting requirements. Under this reporting, 54 State and
territorial air quality agencies, including the District of Columbia,
as well as an estimated 9 local air quality agencies, must submit
emissions data every 3 years for all point sources and some non-point,
on-road mobile, and non-road mobile sources of volatile organic
compounds, oxides of nitrogen, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide,
particulate matter less than or equal to 10 micrometers in diameter,
particulate matter less than or equal to 2.5 micrometers in diameter,
ammonia, and lead. In addition, the air quality agencies must submit
annual emission data for point sources for a subset of point sources
every year. An estimated 5 Tribal air agencies voluntarily submit point
and nonpoint sources in triennial years.
The data collected from the emission reporting is necessary to
compile and make publicly available a national inventory of air
pollutant emissions. The information collected supports both EPA's
implementation of the CAA, and State/Local/Tribal air agencies in
fulfilling their requirements under CAA sections 110(a), 172, 182, 187,
and 189 to implement primary and secondary national ambient air quality
standards (NAAQS). A comprehensive inventory updated at regular
intervals is essential to allow the EPA to fulfill its mandate to
monitor and plan for the attainment and maintenance of the NAAQS
established for criteria pollutants in the CAA.
Form Numbers: None.
Respondents/affected entities: Entities potentially affected by
this collection request are generally State, territorial, and local
government air quality managements programs. Tribal governments are not
affected unless they have sought and obtained ``Treatment as a State''
(TAS) status under the Tribal Authority Rule and, on that basis, are
authorized to implement and enforce the AERR rule. For the most recent
2023 triennial inventory, no Tribes have TAS for emissions inventory
reporting, and 2 Tribal agencies voluntarily reported to the NEI.
Additionally, State and local agencies collect data from owners/
operators to be able to provide it to the EPA. The EPA seeks
information from State and local air agencies to indicate the degree to
which emissions data collection is due to the AERR rather than
something that these agencies would impose even in the absence of the
AERR.
Respondent's obligation to respond: This information is collected
under 23 U.S.C. 101; 42 U.S.C. 7401-7671q, and the authority of the
AERR. This information is mandatory and, as specified, cannot be
treated as confidential by the EPA.
Estimated number of respondents: 68 (total including voluntarily
reporting) State, local and Tribal agencies and 12,379 owners/operators
reporting to State and local agencies.
Frequency of response: Annual.
Total estimated burden: 53,482 hours (per year) including 7,865
voluntary hours (per year) for State, local, and Tribal air agencies
and 145,077 hours (per year) for owners/operators including 84
voluntary hours (per year). Burden is defined at 5 CFR 1320.03(b).
Total estimated cost: $19,854,038 (per year) for State, local, and
Tribal air agencies, which includes $712,432 for voluntary activities
and $15,130,399 annualized capital or operation and maintenance costs.
$16,578,243 (per year) for owners/operators.
Changes in the estimates: There is an increase of 4,780 hours in
the total estimated respondent burden for State, local, and Tribal air
agencies and an increase of 145,077 hours for owners/operators compared
with the ICR currently approved by OMB. This increase for State, local,
and Tribal air agencies is due to improvements in the way the EPA
estimates the burden. The increase for owners/operators is due to
including the burden on owners/operators for the first time in the
approach.
Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Information Engagement Division.
[FR Doc. 2025-19733 Filed 10-30-25; 8:45 am]
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