57694 Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 186 / Monday, September 27, 2004 / Notices 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[OAR–2004–0078; FRL–7819–4] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to OMB for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; Regulation of Fuels and Fuel 

Additives: Detergent Gasoline 

(Renewal), EPA ICR Number 1655.05, 

OMB Control Number 2060–0275

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

3501 et seq.), this document announces 

that an Information Collection Request 

(ICR) has been forwarded to the Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and approval. This is a request 

to renewan existing approved 

collection. This ICR is scheduled to 

expire on October 31, 2004. Under OMB 

regulations, the Agency may continue to 

conduct or sponsor the collection of 

information while this submission is 

pending at OMB. This ICR describes the 

nature of the information collection and 

its estimated burden and cost.

DATES: Additional comments may be 

submitted on or before October 27, 

2004.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing docket ID number OAR–

2004–0078, to (1) EPA online using 

EDOCKET (our preferred method), by email to a-and-r-docket@epa.gov, or by 

mail to: Environmental Protection 

Agency, EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), 

Air and Radiation Docket and 

Information Center, Mail Code 6102T, 

1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20460, and (2) OMB at: 

Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs, Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB), Attention: Desk Officer 

for EPA, 725 17th Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20503.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

James W. Caldwell, Office of 

Transportation and Air Quality, Mail 

Code 6406J, Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, 

NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone 

number: (202) 343–9303; fax number: 

(202) 343–2801; e-mail address: 

caldwell.jim@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has 

submitted the following ICR to OMB for 

review and approval according to the 

procedures prescribed in 5 CFR 1320.12. 

On June 1, 2004 (69 FR 30896), EPA 

sought comments on this ICR pursuant 

to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received no 

comments. 

EPA has established a public docket 

for this ICR under Docket ID No. OAR–

2004–0078, which is available for public 

viewing at the Air and Radiation Docket 

and Information Center in the EPA 

Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West, 

Room B102, 1301 Constitution Avenue, 

NW., Washington, DC. The EPA Docket 

Center Public Reading Room is open 

from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, excluding legal 

holidays. The telephone number for the 

Reading Room is (202) 566–1744, and 

the telephone number for the Office of 

Air and Radiation Docket is (202) 566–

1742. An electronic version of the 

public docket is available through EPA 

Dockets (EDOCKET) at http://

www.epa.gov/edocket. Use EDOCKET to 

submit or view public comments, access 

the index listing of the contents of the 

public docket, and to access those 

documents in the public docket that are 

available electronically. Once in the 

system, select ‘‘search,’’ then key in the 

docket ID number identified above. 

Any comments related to this ICR 

should be submitted to EPA and OMB 

within 30 days of this notice. EPA’s 

policy is that public comments, whether 

submitted electronically or in paper, 

will be made available for public 

viewing in EDOCKET as EPA receives 

them and without change, unless the 

comment contains copyrighted material, 

confidential business information (CBI), 

or other information whose public 

disclosure is restricted by statute. When 

EPA identifies a comment containing 

copyrighted material, EPA will provide 

a reference to that material in the 

version of the comment that is placed in 

EDOCKET. The entire printed comment, 

including the copyrighted material, will 

be available in the public docket. 

Although identified as an item in the 

official docket, information claimed as 

CBI, or whose disclosure is otherwise 

restricted by statute, is not included in 

the official public docket, and will not 

be available for public viewing in 

EDOCKET. For further information 

about the electronic docket, see EPA’s 

Federal Register notice describing the 

electronic docket at 67 FR 38102 (May 

31, 2002), or go to http://www.epa.gov/

edocket.

Title: Regulation of Fuels and Fuel 

Additives: Detergent Gasoline (40 CFR 

part 80, subpart G) (Renewal). 

Abstract: Gasoline combustion results 

in the formation of engine deposits that 

contribute to increased emissions. 

Detergent additives deter deposit 

formation. The Clean Air Act requires 

gasoline to contain a detergent additive. 

The regulations at 40 CFR part 80, 

subpart G specify certification 

requirements for manufacturers of 

detergent additives, recordkeeping or 

reporting requirements for blenders of 

detergents into gasoline or post-refinery 

component (any gasoline blending stock 

or any oxygenate which is blended with 

gasoline subsequent to the gasoline 

refining process), and reporting or 

recordkeeping requirements for 

manufacturers, transferors, or 

transferees of detergents, gasoline, or 

post-refinery component (PRC). These 

requirements ensure that (1) a detergent 

is effective before it is certified by EPA, 

(2) a certified detergent, at the minimum 

concentration necessary to be effective 

(known as the lowest additive 

concentration (LAC), is blended into 

gasoline, and (3) only gasoline which 

contains a certified detergent at its LAC 

is delivered to the consumer. The EPA 

maintains a list of certified gasoline 

detergents, which is publicly available. 

There are approximately 325 certified 

detergents for 18 detergent 

manufacturers. 

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 are listed 

in 40 CFR part 9 and 48 CFR chapter 15, 

and are identified on the form and/or 

instrument, if applicable. 

Burden Statement: The annual public 

reporting and recordkeeping burden for 

this collection of information is 

estimated to average 3.2 hours per 

response. Burden means the total time, 

effort, or financial resources expended 

by persons to generate, maintain, retain, 

or disclose or provide information to or 

for a Federal agency. This includes the 

time needed to review instructions; 

develop, acquire, install, and utilize 

technology and systems for the purposes 

of collecting, validating, and verifying 

information, processing and 

maintaining information, and disclosing 

and providing information; adjust the 

existing ways to comply with any 

previously applicable instructions and 

requirements; train personnel to be able 

to respond to a collection of 

information; search data sources; 

complete and review the collection of 

information; and transmit or otherwise 

disclose the information. 

Respondents/Affected Entities: (1) 

Manufacturers of gasoline, post-refinery 

component, or detergent additives, (2) 

blenders of detergent additives into 

gasoline or post-refinery component, 

and (3) transferors or transferees of 

detergent additives, gasoline, or postrefinery component. 

Estimated Number of Respondents:

1376. 

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Frequency of Response: On occasion 

and monthly. 

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:

221,808 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost:

$13,277,604, which includes $0 

annualized capital/startup costs, 

$205,380 O&M costs, and $13,072,224 

annual labor costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is a 

decrease of 1,200 hours in the total 

estimated burden currently identified in 

the OMB Inventory of Approved ICR 

Burdens. This decrease is due to a 

reduction in the annual number of 

applications for detergent certification, 

from 50 to 30.

Dated: September 15, 2004. 

Oscar Morales, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division.

[FR Doc. 04–21584 Filed 9–24–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[Regional Docket Nos. II–2000–01, –03; 

FRL–7819–1] 

Notice of Final Orders on Remand; 

Clean Air Act Operating Permit 

Program; Petitions for Objection to 

State Operating Permits for the Albert 

Einstein College of Medicine at 

Yeshiva University and the Kings Plaza 

Total Energy Plant

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of final order on remand, 

addressing two State operating permits. 

SUMMARY: This document announces 

that the EPA Administrator has 

addressed on remand two citizen 

petitions asking EPA to object to 

operating permits issued to two 

facilities by the New York State 

Department of Environmental 

Conservation (NYSDEC). On February 

27, 2003, the United States Court of 

Appeals for the Second Circuit granted 

a petition for review brought by NYPIRG 

challenging the EPA’s final Orders 

denying its administrative petitions 

seeking objections to the Action 

Packaging, Kings Plaza, and Yeshiva 

permits. New York Public Interest 

Research Group, Inc. v. Whitman, 321 

F.3d 316 (2nd Cir.) (hereinafter 

‘‘NYPIRG’’). The court vacated EPA’s 

denial of NYPIRG’s petitions and 

remanded the decisions for further 

proceedings consistent with the court’s 

opinion. Specifically, in response to the 

court’s remand, the Administrator has 

partially granted and partially denied 

the petitions submitted by the New York 

Public Interest Research Group 

(NYPIRG) to object to the state operating 

permits issued to the Albert Einstein 

College of Medicine at Yeshiva 

University and the Kings Plaza Total 

Energy Plant. The facility operated by 

Action Packaging ceased operations as 

of September 31, 2002, surrendered its 

permit, and will not be seeking a 

renewal permit. 

Pursuant to section 505(b)(2) of the 

Clean Air Act (Act), Petitioner may seek 

judicial review of those portions of the 

petitions which EPA denied in the 

United States Court of Appeals for the 

appropriate circuit. Any petition for 

review shall be filed within 60 days 

from the date this notice appears in the 

Federal Register, pursuant to section 

307 of the Act.

ADDRESSES: You may review copies of 

the final order, the petitions, and other 

supporting information at the EPA 

Region 2 Office, 290 Broadway, New 

York, New York 10007–1866. If you 

wish to examine these documents, you 

should make an appointment at least 24 

hours before visiting day. Additionally, 

the final order is available electronically 

at: http://www.epa.gov/region07/

programs/artd/air/title5/petitiondb/

petitiondb2000.htm.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Steven Riva, Chief, Permitting Section, 

Air Programs Branch, Division of 

Environmental Planning and Protection, 

EPA Region 2, 290 Broadway, 25th 

Floor, New York, New York 10007–

1866, telephone (212) 637–4074.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Act 

affords EPA a 45-day period to review, 

and object to as appropriate, operating 

permits proposed by state permitting 

authorities. Section 505(b)(2) of the Act 

authorizes any person to petition the 

EPA Administrator within 60 days after 

the expiration of this review period to 

object to state operating permits if EPA 

has not done so. Petitions must be based 

only on objections to the permit that 

were raised with reasonable specificity 

during the public comment period 

provided by the state, unless the 

petitioner demonstrates that it was 

impracticable to raise these issues 

during the comment period or the 

grounds for the issues arose after this 

period. 

I. Yeshiva 

On March 15, 2000, the EPA received 

a petition from NYPIRG, requesting that 

EPA object to the issuance of the title V 

operating permit for the Albert Einstein 

College of Medicine at Yeshiva 

University. The EPA administrator first 

responded to this petition on January 

16, 2002, denying it on all counts. In the 

Matter of the Albert Einstein College of 

Medicine of Yeshiva University

(‘‘Yeshiva’’), Petition No. II–2000–01, 

January 16, 2002. On August 26, 2004, 

in response to the NYPIRG decision 

remanding the January 16 Order to EPA, 

the Administrator issued an order 

partially granting and partially denying 

the Yeshiva petition. The order explains 

the reasons behind EPA’s conclusion 

that the NYSDEC must reopen the 

permit to: (1) Publish a public notice for 

the Yeshiva permit with language on 

how to request a hearing; (2) apply the 

proper standard when deciding whether 

to hold a hearing, if one is requested; (3) 

prepare a statement of basis with the 

draft permit; and (4) describe the 

applicability of 40 CFR part 68. The 

order also explains the reasons for 

denying the initial compliance 

certification issue, which is the fifth 

petition issue addressed per the remand. 

II. Kings Plaza 

On May 5, 2000, the EPA received a 

petition from NYPIRG, requesting that 

EPA object to the issuance of the title V 

operating permit for the Kings Plaza 

Total Energy Plant. The EPA 

Administrator first responded to this 

petition on January 16, 2002, granting it 

in part and denying it in part. In the 

Matter of Kings Plaza Total Energy 

Plant, Petition Number II–2000–03, 

January 16, 2002 (‘‘Kings Plaza’’). On 

August 26, 2004, in response to the 

NYPIRG decision remanding the 

January 16 Order to EPA, the 

Administrator issued an order partially 

granting and partially denying the 

petition. The order explains the reasons 

behind EPA’s conclusion that the 

NYSDEC must require the permittee to 

submit a new compliance certification 

in accordance with 40 CFR 70.5(c)(9)(i). 

The Order also explains the reasons for 

denying the other four remand issues.

Dated: September 16, 2004. 

Jane M. Kenny, 

Regional Administrator, Region 2.

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–7818–5] 

Notice of Solicitation: Building State, 

Territorial, and Tribal Capacity To 

Address Children’s Environmental 

Health: Environmental Triggers of 

Childhood Asthma; Initial 

Announcement

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA).