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flexibility in complying with the 

regulations, EPA created the Transition 

Program for Equipment Manufacturers 

(TPEM). Under the program, OEMs are 

allowed to use a number of 

noncompliant engines (uncertified 

engines rated below 37 kW or Tier I 

engines rated at or above 37 kW) in their 

equipment for up to seven years after 

the effective date of the standards. 

Participation in the program is 

voluntary. Participating OEMs and 

engine manufacturers who provide the 

noncompliant engines to the OEMs are 

required to keep records and submit 

reports of their activities under the 

program. 

The information is collected for 

compliance purposes by the Engine 

Programs Group, Certification and 

Compliance Division, Office of 

Transportation and Air Quality, Office 

of Air and Radiation. Confidentiality of 

proprietary information is granted in 

accordance with the Freedom of 

Information Act, EPA regulations at 40 

CFR part 2, and class determinations 

issued by EPA’s Office of General 

Counsel. 

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 in 40 

CFR are listed in 40 CFR part 9 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 80.5 hours per 

equipment manufacturer or postmanufacture marinizer, and 74.5 hours 

per engine manufacturer. 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:

Manufacturers of nonroad compressionignition engines and equipment. 

Estimated Number of Respondents:

213. 

Frequency of Response: Annually and 

on occasion. 

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:

17,069. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost:

$848,582, which includes $0 annualized 

capital/startup costs, $5,829 annual 

O&M costs, and $842,753 annual labor 

costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is a 

decrease of 49,578 hours in the total 

estimated burden currently identified in 

the OMB Inventory of Approved ICR 

Burdens. This decrease is due to 

changes in the estimated number of 

respondents. The decrease in burden is, 

therefore, due to an adjustment to the 

estimates.

Dated: September 16, 2004. 

Oscar Morales, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division.

[FR Doc. 04–21579 Filed 9–24–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[OAR–2004–0051; FRL 7818–8] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to OMB for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; Recordkeeping and 

Reporting Requirements for Diesel 

Fuel Sold in 2001 and Later Years; for 

Tax-Exempt (Dyed) Diesel Fuel; and for 

Nonroad, Locomotive and Marine 

Diesel Fuel (Renewal), EPA ICR 

Number 1718.06, OMB Control Number 

2060–0308

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency.

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 renew an existing collection. This ICR 

is scheduled to expire on September 30, 

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–

2004–0051, 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), 

EPA West, Mail Code 6102 T, 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:

Anne Pastorkovich, Attorney/Advisor, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20460; telephone 

number: (202) 343–9623; fax number: 

(202) 343–2801; e-mail address: 

pastorkovich.anne-marie@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 May 17, 2004 (69 FR 27919) EPA 

sought comments on the proposed 

information collection related to the fuel 

quality regulations for diesel fuel sold in 

2001 and later years and for tax-exempt 

(dyed) diesel fuel pursuant to 5 CFR 

1320.8(d). No comments were received. 

For the nonroad, locomotive, and 

marine diesel, EPA sought comments on 

the proposed information collection via 

a proposed rule published in the 

Federal Register on May 23, 2003 and 

a final rule published on June 29, 2004. 

At the request of the Office of 

Management and Budget, information 

collection activities applicable through 

September 30, 2007 (the period of this 

renewal) have been included via this 

second notice and an amended 

Supporting Statement, which has been 

placed in the public docket. 

EPA has established a public docket 

for this ICR under Docket ID No. OAR–

2004–0051, 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 Air and 

Radiation Docket and Information 

Center 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 

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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: Recordkeeping and Reporting 

Requirements for the Fuel Quality 

Regulations for Diesel Fuel Sold in 2001 

and Later Years; for Tax-Exempt (Dyed) 

Highway Diesel Fuel; and for Nonroad, 

Locomotive and Marine Diesel Fuel 

(Renewal). 

Abstract: This renewal includes 

recordkeeping and reporting under two 

existing and related ICRs that will 

expire on September 30, 2004. These are 

the fuel quality regulations for diesel 

fuel sold in 2001 and later years 

(covered by current EPA ICR No. 

1718.04) and the recordkeeping and 

reporting requirements related to taxexempt (dyed) diesel fuel (covered by 

current EPA ICR No. 1718.03). In 

addition, this renewal includes 

recordkeeping and reporting activities 

that would apply for nonroad, 

locomotive, and marine diesel fuel 

through 2007 (covered by proposed EPA 

ICR No. 1718.07). These latter 

requirements were included in the 

renewal in response to OMB comments. 

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 in 40 

CFR are listed in 40 CFR part 9 and are 

identified on the form and/or 

instrument, if applicable. 

Burden Statement: It is estimated that 

there will be 444,100 reports, 312,233 

burden hours, and total annual costs of 

$28,795,145 (which include labor, 

operations and maintenance [O&M], and 

purchased services). 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:

Respondents include refiners (both 

domestic and foreign refiners who 

manufacture diesel for use in the U.S.); 

importers of diesel fuel into the U.S.; 

diesel distributors, carriers, wholesale 

purchaser-consumers, and retailers; and 

users of research and development 

diesel (testing laboratories). 

Estimated Number of Respondents:

7,640. 

Frequency of Response: On occasion; 

annually. 

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:

312,233. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost:

$28,795,145, including $4,200,000 

annualized capital/startup costs, 

$4,300,000 annual O&M costs, and 

$20,295,145 annual labor costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is a 

net increase of 239,363 hours in the 

total estimated burden currently 

identified in the OMB Inventory of 

Approved ICR Burdens. This increase is 

due to new requirements for nonroad, 

locomotive and marine diesel fuel.

Dated: September 20, 2004. 

Oscar Morales, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division.

[FR Doc. 04–21581 Filed 9–24–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[OAR–2004–0060, FRL–7818–9] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request; Emissions 

Certification and Compliance 

Requirements for Nonroad SparkIgnition Engines (Renewal); EPA ICR 

Number 1695.08, OMB Control Number 

2060–0338

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency.

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 renew an existing approved 

collection. This ICR is scheduled to 

expire on 9/30/2004. 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–

2004–0060, to (1) EPA online using 

EDOCKET (our preferred method), by e–

mail to a-and-rdocket@epamail.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: Ms. 

Nydia Y. Reyes-Morales, Mail Code 

6403J, Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, 

NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone 

number: 202–343–9264; fax number: 

202–343–2804; email address: reyesmorales.nydia@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 18, 2004 (69 FR 34158), EPA 

sought comments on this ICR pursuant