Notice2025-20410
Agency Information Collection Activities Request; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Distribution of Offsite Consequence Analysis Information Under the Clean Air Act, as Amended (Renewal)
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Published
November 20, 2025
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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 the Clean Air Act, As Amended (EPA ICR Number 1981.09, OMB Control Number 2050-0172) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA). 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 222 (Thursday, November 20, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52380-52381]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-20410]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OAR-2003-0073; FRL-13087-01-OMS]
Agency Information Collection Activities Request; Submission to
the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Distribution of Offsite Consequence Analysis Information Under
the Clean Air Act, as Amended (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), Distribution of Offsite
Consequence Analysis Information under the Clean Air Act, As Amended
(EPA ICR Number 1981.09, OMB Control Number 2050-0172) to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with
the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA). 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 22, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OAR-2003-0073, 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
Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202)
566-1306; email address: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#bfd1d0d8d8d3da91c8d6d3d3d6ded2ffdacfde91d8d0c9"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="b5dbdad2d2d9d09bc2dcd9d9dcd4d8f5d0c5d49bd2dac3">[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
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period (90 FR 16125), however, no comments were received. 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: This ICR renewal is for the final rule, Accidental
Release Prevention Requirements; Risk Management Programs Under the
Clean Air Act Section 112(r)(7); Distribution of Off-Site Consequence
Analysis Information. CAA section 112(r)(7) required EPA to promulgate
reasonable regulations and appropriate guidance to provide for the
prevention and detection of accidental releases and for responses to
such releases. The regulations include requirements for submittal of a
risk management plan (RMP) to EPA. The RMP includes information on off-
site consequence analyses (OCA) as well as other required program
elements.
The Chemical Safety Information, Site Security, and Fuels
Regulatory Relief Act (CSISSFRRA) required the President to promulgate
regulations on the distribution of OCA information (CAA section
112(r)(7)(H)(ii)). The President delegated this responsibility to EPA
and the Department of Justice (DOJ). The final rule, published on
August 4, 2000 (65 FR 48108), 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. At these
reading rooms, members of the public are able to read, but not
mechanically copy or remove, paper copies of OCA information for up to
10 stationary sources per calendar month. Members of the public may
also have access to OCA information that the Local Emergency Planning
Committee (LEPC) in whose jurisdiction the person lives or works, is
authorized to provide. The final rule also authorizes and encourages
state and local government officials to have access to OCA information
for their official use.
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 or through a request through regular
mail to the EPA.
This request for comments relates to the renewal of the existing
approved ICR.
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 part 1400).
Estimated number of respondents: 385 (total).
Frequency of response: As necessary.
Total estimated burden: 610 hours (per year). Burden is defined at
5 CFR 1320.03(b).
Total estimated cost: $32,145 (per year), includes $42 annualized
capital or operation & maintenance costs.
Changes in the estimates: There is a decrease of 53 hours annually
in the total estimated respondent burden compared with the ICR
currently approved by OMB. The currently approved ICR estimates 663
hours of annual burden of which 337 hours is on the public and 326
hours are on state and local governments. The estimated annual burden
hours on the public have increased by two hours up to 339 hours due to
two additional visits to Federal reading rooms per year. The estimated
annual burden hours on state and local governments have decreased by 55
hours down to 271 hours due to fewer requests for OCA data by state and
local governments. Additionally, the estimated annualized capital costs
have decreased from $81 in the currently approved ICR down to $42 due
to fewer requests.
Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Information Engagement Division.
[FR Doc. 2025-20410 Filed 11-19-25; 8:45 am]
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