Notice2025-20050
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Notification of Episodic Releases of Oil and Hazardous Substances (Renewal)
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Published
November 18, 2025
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Environmental Protection Agency
Abstract
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), Notification of Episodic Releases of Oil and Hazardous Substances (EPA ICR Number 1049.16, OMB Control Number 2050-0046) 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, 2025. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register on April 17, 2025 during a 60-day comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 220 (Tuesday, November 18, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51743-51744]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-20050]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-SFUND-2013-0549; FRL-13082-01-OMS]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Notification of Episodic Releases of Oil and Hazardous
Substances (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), Notification of Episodic Releases
of Oil and Hazardous Substances (EPA ICR Number 1049.16, OMB Control
Number 2050-0046) 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, 2025. Public comments were previously requested
via the Federal Register on April 17, 2025 during a 60-day comment
period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public
comments.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before December 18, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
SFUND-2013-0549, to 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.
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: William Noggle, Office of Emergency
Management, Mail Code 5104A, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
[[Page 51744]]
Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202)
566-1306; email address: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#91fffef6f6fdf4bfe6f8fdfdf8f0fcd1f4e1f0bff6fee7"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a1cfcec6c6cdc48fd6c8cdcdc8c0cce1c4d1c08fc6ced7">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a proposed extension of the ICR,
which is currently approved through November 30, 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 April 17, 2025 during a 60-day comment period (90 FR 16127). The
Agency received one comment that was not substantive to the content of
this ICR renewal. 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="http://www.epa.gov/dockets">http://www.epa.gov/dockets</a>.
Abstract: Section 103(a) of the Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), as amended,
requires the person in charge of a facility or vessel to immediately
notify the National Response Center (NRC) of a hazardous substance
release into the environment if the amount of the release equals or
exceeds the substance's reportable quantity (RQ) limit. The RQs for the
hazardous substance can be found in table 302.4 of 40 CFR 302.4.
Section 311 of the Clean Water Act (CWA) as amended, requires the
person in charge of a facility or vessel to immediately notify the NRC
of an oil spill into U.S. navigable waters if the spill causes a sheen,
violates applicable water quality standards, or causes a sludge or
emulsion to be deposited beneath the surface of the water or upon
adjoining shorelines. The reporting of a hazardous substance release
that is at or above the substance's RQ allows the Federal government to
determine whether a Federal response action is required to control or
mitigate any potential adverse effects to public health or welfare or
the environment. Likewise, the reporting of oil spills allows the
Federal government to determine whether cleaning up the oil spill is
required to mitigate or prevent damage to public health or welfare or
the environment. The hazardous substance release and oil discharge
information collected under CERCLA section 103(a) and CWA section 311
also is available to EPA program offices and other Federal agencies
that use the information to evaluate the potential need for additional
regulations, new permitting requirements for specific substances or
sources, or improved emergency response planning. Release notification
information, which is stored in WebEOC, a web-based crisis management
system which supports response management for significant incidents and
daily operations in the Regional Response Centers and EPA's
Headquarters Emergency Operations Center (EOC), is available to state
and local government authorities as well as the general public. State
and local government authorities and the regulated community use
release information for purposes of local emergency response planning.
Members of the general public, who have access to release information
through the Freedom of Information Act, may request release information
for purposes of maintaining an awareness of what types of releases are
occurring in different localities and what actions, if any, are being
taken to protect public health and welfare and the environment.
This request for comments relates to the renewal of the existing
approved ICR.
Form numbers: None.
Respondents/affected entities: Facilities and vessels that may have
releases of any hazardous substances or oil at or above its RQ.
Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory under CERCLA section
103(a).
Estimated number of respondents: 21,789.
Frequency of response: As releases occur from a facility or a
vessel.
Total estimated burden: 22,225 hours (per year). Burden is defined
at 5 CFR 1320.03(b).
Total estimated cost: $1,486,297 (per year), which includes no
capital or operation and maintenance costs associated with this ICR.
Changes in estimates: There is an increase of 2,386 hours in the
total estimated annual respondent burden compared with the ICR
currently approved by OMB. This increase is due to updated labor rates
and the number of annual responses has increased from the prior ICR
renewal of 19,450 to this renewal which estimates 21,789 annual
responses.
Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Information Engagement Division.
[FR Doc. 2025-20050 Filed 11-17-25; 8:45 am]
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