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1See 77 FR 30160, ‘‘Implementation of the 2008 

National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Ozone: 

Nonattainment Area Classifications Approach, 

Attainment Deadlines and Revocation of the 1997 

Ozone Standards for Transportation Conformity 

Purposes,’’ and 80 FR 12264, ‘‘Implementation of 

the 2008 National Ambient Air Quality Standards 

for Ozone: State Implementation Plan 

Requirements.’’ 

who file a motion to intervene in 

accordance with the Commission’s 

Rules may become a party to the 

proceeding. Any comments, protests, or 

motions to intervene must be received 

on or before the specified comment date 

for the particular application. 

o. Filing and Service of Documents: 

Any filing must (1) bear in all capital 

letters the title COMMENTS, PROTEST, 

or MOTION TO INTERVENE as 

applicable; (2) set forth in the heading 

the name of the applicant and the 

project number of the application to 

which the filing responds; (3) furnish 

the name, address, and telephone 

number of the person commenting, 

protesting or intervening; and (4) 

otherwise comply with the requirements 

of 18 CFR 385.2001 through 385.2005. 

All comments, motions to intervene, or 

protests must set forth their evidentiary 

basis. Any filing made by an intervenor 

must be accompanied by proof of 

service on all persons listed in the 

service list prepared by the Commission 

in this proceeding, in accordance with 

18 CFR 385.2010. 

Dated: December 2, 2020. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OAR–2020–0415; FRL–10016–00– 

OAR] 

Proposed Information Collection 

Request; Comment Request; 

Implementation of the 8-Hour National 

Ambient Air Quality Standards for 

Ozone 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency (EPA) is planning to 

submit a renewal of an information 

collection request (ICR), 

‘‘Implementation of the 8-hour National 

Ambient Air Quality Standards for 

Ozone: State Implementation Plan 

Requirements’’ (EPA ICR No. 2347.04, 

OMB Control No. 2060–0695), to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and approval in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3501 et 

seq.). This renewal provides updated 

burden estimates for the 2021–2024 

time period for implementing the 2008 

ozone National Ambient Air Quality 

Standards (NAAQS), and it provides 

new burden estimates for the 

information collection resulting from 

implementation of the 2015 ozone 

NAAQS. It also provides new burden 

estimates for the information collection 

resulting from ongoing implementation 

of the revoked 1997 ozone NAAQS. 

Before submittal to OMB, the EPA is 

soliciting public comments on specific 

aspects of the proposed information 

collection as described below. The time 

period covered in this ICR renewal is a 

3-year period from April 2021 through 

April 2024. 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. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before February 8, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OAR–2020–0415, online using http://

www.regulations.gov (our preferred 

method), or by mail to: EPA Docket 

Center, Environmental Protection 

Agency, Mail Code 28221T, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 

20460. 

Out of an abundance of caution for 

members of the public and our staff, the 

EPA Docket Center and Reading Room 

are closed to the public, with limited 

exceptions, to reduce the risk of 

transmitting COVID–19. Our Docket 

Center staff will continue to provide 

remote customer service via email, 

phone, and webform. We encourage the 

public to submit comments via https:// 

www.regulations.gov/ or email, as there 

may be a delay in processing mail and 

faxes. Hand deliveries and couriers may 

be received by scheduled appointment 

only. For further information on EPA 

Docket Center services and the current 

status, please visit us online at https:// 

www.epa.gov/dockets. 

The 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, or other 

information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

C.W. Stackhouse, Office of Air Quality 

Planning and Standards, U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency, by 

phone at (919) 541–5208 or by email at 

stackhouse.butch@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

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 http://

www.regulations.gov, or in person at the 

EPA Docket Center, WJC West, Room 

3334, 1301 Constitution Avenue NW, 

Washington, DC. The telephone number 

for the Docket Center is (202) 566–1744. 

For additional information about EPA’s 

public docket, visit http://www.epa.gov/ 

dockets. 

Pursuant to section 3506(c)(2)(A) of 

the PRA, the EPA is soliciting comments 

and information to enable it to: (i) 

Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; (ii) evaluate the 

accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the 

burden of the proposed collection of 

information, including the validity of 

the methodology and assumptions used; 

(iii) enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (iv) minimize the burden 

of the collection of information on those 

who are to respond, including through 

the use of appropriate automated 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

technological collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology, 

e.g., permitting electronic submission of 

responses. The EPA will consider the 

comments received and amend the ICR 

as appropriate. The final ICR package 

will then be submitted to OMB for 

review and approval. At that time, the 

EPA will issue another Federal Register 

notice to announce the submission of 

the ICR to OMB and the opportunity to 

submit additional comments to OMB. 

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. 

Abstract: Currently, the EPA has an 

existing OMB-approved ICR that 

estimates the burden on states and EPA 

for implementation-related activities 

associated with the 2008 ozone NAAQS 

for the period February 2018 to April 

2021. States with nonattainment areas 

for the 2008 ozone NAAQS are 

implementing the NAAQS pursuant to 

the CAA and implementation 

regulations issued for that NAAQS.1

The state activities include, but are not 

limited to, developing and submitting 

attainment demonstrations, reasonable 

further progress plans, and reasonably 


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2See 83 FR 10376, ‘‘Implementation of the 2015 

National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Ozone: 

Nonattainment Area Classifications Approach,’’ and 

83 FR 62998, ‘‘Implementation of the 2015 National 

Ambient Air Quality Standards for Ozone: 

Nonattainment Area State Implementation Plan 

Requirements.’’ 

available control technology (RACT) 

determinations. This proposed ICR 

renewal estimates the burden for states 

to meet the ongoing planning 

requirements that apply to their 

remaining nonattainment areas for the 

2008 ozone NAAQS over the period 

April 2021 to April 2024. These 

requirements primarily affect 2008 

ozone NAAQS nonattainment areas that 

may fail to attain the NAAQS by their 

attainment date during this time period 

and be reclassified to a higher 

classification with new SIP revisions 

required from the states. 

In addition, this ICR renewal includes 

a new burden estimate for state and EPA 

activities related to implementing the 

2015 8-hour ozone standard, 

promulgated on October 1, 2015. The 

two rules governing the implementation 

of that NAAQS, addressing 

classification of ozone nonattainment 

areas and the development of State 

Implementation Plans (SIPs) and other 

important implementation issues, 

provide clarity and certainty to states 

regarding their planning obligations for 

the 2015 8-hour NAAQS.2 This 

proposed ICR estimates the burden for 

states to implement the 2015 ozone 

NAAQS based on the classification of 

the ozone nonattainment areas lying 

within those states, as well as for states 

in the Ozone Transport Region (OTR). 

Finally, this ICR renewal estimates a 

small amount of additional burden to 

states to meet the anti-backsliding 

requirements for the revoked 1997 

NAAQS. 

This proposed ICR thus estimates the 

implementation-related burden for 

states over the 3 years following the ICR 

approval date for all three 8-hour ozone 

NAAQS. The burden estimate for the 

2008 NAAQS accounts for nine 

nonattainment areas currently classified 

as Serious that could be reclassified to 

Severe-15, and thus subject to 

additional attainment planning 

requirements, if the areas fail to attain 

the NAAQS by the July 20, 2021, 

attainment date. Such Severe area SIPs 

will be due within 12–24 months from 

the date of reclassification, which 

would be during the reporting period for 

this ICR. The burden estimate for the 

2015 NAAQS is associated with plan 

development and plan revisions related 

to states’ implementation efforts for 52 

nonattainment areas, the majority of 

which were classified as Marginal, and 

assumes that 28 Marginal areas will fail 

to attain the 2015 NAAQS by the August 

3, 2021 attainment date and thus will be 

subject to reclassification to Moderate 

and the SIP revisions required for 

Moderate areas. The burden estimate 

also accounts for meeting the planning 

requirements for the 12 states and the 

District of Columbia in the OTR, where 

the primary obligation for the 2015 

NAAQS is to determine if the RACT 

requirement is satisfied by the 

previously approved SIP. The burden 

estimate for the 1997 NAAQS includes 

states developing and submitting the 

second maintenance plans required 8 

years after the effective date of the first 

maintenance plans’ final approval by 

EPA for areas redesignated from 

nonattainment to attainment. It is worth 

noting that in some cases, states will be 

implementing the 2008, 2015, and/or 

1997 ozone NAAQS in the same areas 

concurrently during the 3-year ICR 

renewal period. The cumulative burden 

of states simultaneously implementing 

multiple NAAQS is reflected in this 

proposed ICR. 

The estimates included in this ICR 

renewal include both the state burden to 

develop and submit, and the EPA 

burden to review and to approve or 

disapprove, attainment plans to meet 

the requirements prescribed in CAA 

sections 110 and part D, subparts 1 and 

2 of title I as interpreted by EPA’s SIP 

requirements rules. An ozone NAAQS 

attainment plan contains state rules and 

other measures designed to improve air 

quality and achieve the NAAQS by the 

deadlines established under the CAA. It 

also must address several additional 

CAA requirements related to 

demonstrating timely attainment, and 

must contain contingency measures in 

the event the nonattainment area does 

not achieve reasonable further progress 

throughout the attainment period or in 

the event the area does not attain the 

NAAQS by its attainment date. States 

that have attained by the applicable 

attainment date may be eligible to 

submit a redesignation request and 

maintenance plan to receive a 

redesignation from ‘‘nonattainment’’ to 

‘‘attainment.’’ After a state submits an 

attainment or maintenance plan, the 

CAA requires the EPA to approve or 

disapprove the plan. Tribes may 

develop or submit attainment plans but 

are not required to do so. 

The original ozone ICR No. 2347.01 

that applied to the 2008 8-hour ozone 

NAAQS was issued after the ozone 

NAAQS was revised in 2012. The 

original ICR was renewed as No. 

2347.02 for the period February 1, 2015 

through January 31, 2018. The ICR No. 

2347.02 was renewed in ICR No. 

2347.03 for time period covered from 

February 1, 2018, through April 30, 

2021. The ICR No. 2347.01 and the 

renewals applied to the 2008 8-hour 

ozone NAAQS before the ozone NAAQS 

was revised in 2015. This proposed ICR 

renewal adds the burden of 

implementing the 2015 8-hour ozone 

NAAQS and also continues to address 

any new requirements for the remaining 

2008 ozone nonattainment areas. It also 

includes the estimated burden for a 

small number of areas subject to 

ongoing requirements to implement the 

revoked 1997 ozone NAAQS. This ICR 

will be effective from April 30, 2021 to 

April 30, 2024. 

Respondents/affected entities: State 

and local governments. 

Respondent’s obligation to respond: 

Mandatory. 

Estimated number of responses: 96. 

Frequency of response: Once per 

triggering event [e.g., an air agency is 

required to revise and submit a SIP 

revision when the area is designated 

nonattainment or reclassified to a higher 

classification, or if it is in an OTR 

member state to determine if RACT is 

satisfied by the previously-approved 

state SIP. An air agency is also required 

to submit a second 10-year maintenance 

plan for maintenance areas or portions 

of maintenance areas for the 1997 ozone 

NAAQS not also designated as 

nonattainment for the 2008 ozone 

NAAQS, and for maintenance areas for 

the 2008 ozone NAAQS]. 

Estimated burden for respondents: 

119,133 hours per year. Burden is 

defined at 5 CFR 1320.03(b). 

Estimated labor cost for respondents: 

$8.4 M (present value) per year. 

Estimated cost: $0 annualized capital 

or operation & maintenance costs. 

Changes in estimates: The EPA 

expects an increase of 85,133 annual 

labor hours in the total estimated 

respondent burden compared with the 

ICR currently approved by OMB. This 

increase is due to the activities expected 

to occur during this period, which are 

similar but not identical to the SIP 

planning and submission activities in 

the previous ICR renewal period. As 

explained in greater detail below, the 

main factors contributing to the change 

include: (1) The addition of the new 

burden associated with the 

requirements for 2015 ozone NAAQS 

nonattainment areas and 1997 ozone 

NAAQS maintenance areas, which was 

not covered by the prior ICR, (2) the 

reduction in the number of 2008 ozone 

NAAQS nonattainment areas due to 

states’ relative success in attaining the 

2008 NAAQS, and (3) the increase in 

burden associated with the particular 

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program that areas still in 

nonattainment for the 2008 NAAQS are 

in. In total, the EPA estimates there to 

be an additional burden of 357,400 

hours for the state respondents over the 

3-year period compared to the 102,000 

hours during the period of the current 

renewal of the 8-hour ozone NAAQS 

ICR currently approved by OMB (EPA 

ICR No. 2247.03). 

The main reason for the increase is 

the addition of the burden to implement 

the 2015 NAAQS in accordance with 

the 2015 ozone SIP Requirements rule, 

which requires submissions from air 

agencies for 52 nonattainment areas. In 

contrast, only 13 submissions are 

expected from air agencies to meet 

ongoing requirements for the 2008 

ozone NAAQS during the ICR renewal 

period. Moreover, 28 of the 2015 ozone 

nonattainment areas are expected not to 

attain by the 2015 ozone NAAQS 

Marginal attainment date based on 

preliminary 2020 air quality data. The 

burden estimate is based on the 5,000 

hours needed to meet SIP submittal 

requirements that result from an area 

being reclassified from Marginal to 

Moderate during the ICR 3-year period. 

The 2008 ozone NAAQS burden does 

not significantly change. However, 

while there are fewer 2008 

nonattainment areas now that might 

require reclassification than in the prior 

ICR period (13 versus 14) due to states’ 

progress toward attainment, the 

anticipated reclassification of these nine 

areas to Severe will trigger submittal 

requirements during the upcoming 

period. An additional minor difference 

in burden is that previous ozone ICRs 

did not include the burden estimate 

included here for the states in the OTR 

to certify the current state SIPs meets 

the CAA section 184(b)(1)(B) RACT 

requirements. 

Another additional minor difference 

in burden is that previous ozone ICRs 

did not include the burden estimate that 

is included here for the second 

maintenance plans required from states 

for four 1997 ozone maintenance areas 

and three 2008 ozone maintenance areas 

due 8 years after the effective date of the 

first maintenance plans’ final approval 

by EPA. 

Finally, the cost estimates differ 

because the current ICR renewal was 

based on estimates calculated using 

2017 dollars and the new ICR renewal 

is based on 2020 dollars. The burden 

estimate is detailed in the supporting 

statement located in the docket for this 

proposed ICR. The adjustments to the 

cost assumptions are summarized in 

sections 6(b) and 6(c) of the supporting 

statement. 

Dated: October 19, 2020. 

Scott Mathias, 

Director, Air Quality Policy Division. 

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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

[WC Docket No. 18–336; DA 20–1378; FRS 

17262] 

Implementation of the National Suicide 

Hotline Improvement Act of 2018 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The National Suicide Hotline 

Designation Act of 2020 (Suicide 

Hotline Act) designates 988 as the 

universal telephone number within the 

United States for the purpose of the 

national suicide prevention and mental 

health crisis hotline system within one 

year after enactment of the Suicide 

Hotline Act. It also directs the Federal 

Communications Commission to submit 

a report on location identification. This 

public notice seeks comment on issues 

to inform the location identification 

report, which is due to Congress by 

April 17, 2021. This Public Notice also 

clarifies that the designation of 988 as 

the universal telephone number within 

the United States for the national 

suicide prevention and mental health 

crisis hotline will take effect on October 

17, 2021, which is one year after the 

date of enactment of the Suicide Hotline 

Act, and not on October 16, 2020. 

DATES: Comments are due on or before 

December 21, 2020 and Reply 

Comments are due on or before January 

11, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by WC Docket No. 18–336, by 

any of the following methods: 

D Federal Communications 

Commission’s website: http://

apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

D Mail: Federal Communications 

Commission, 45 L St. NE, Washington, 

DC 20554. 

D People with Disabilities: Contact the 

FCC to request reasonable 

accommodations (accessible format 

documents, sign language interpreters, 

CART, etc.) by email: FCC504@fcc.gov 

or phone: 202–418–0530 or TTY: 202– 

418–0432. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michelle Sclater, michelle.sclater@

fcc.gov or (202) 418–0388. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

October 17, 2020, the President signed 

the National Suicide Hotline 

Designation Act of 2020 into law 

(Suicide Hotline Act). The Suicide 

Hotline Act designates 988 as the 

universal telephone number within the 

United States for the purpose of the 

national suicide prevention and mental 

health crisis hotline system within one 

year after enactment of the Suicide 

Hotline Act. It also directs the 

Commission to submit a report on 

location identification. By this public 

notice, we seek comment on issues to 

inform the location identification report, 

which is due to Congress by April 17, 

2021. 

Section 5 of the Suicide Hotline Act 

requires the Commission to submit a 

report to the appropriate committees 

‘‘that examines the feasibility and cost 

of including an automatic dispatchable 

location that would be conveyed with a 

9–8–8 call, regardless of the 

technological platform used and 

including with calls from multi-line 

telephone systems,’’ and as such, we 

seek comment on these issues generally. 

More specifically, what is the feasibility 

of including location information with a 

988 call? What technical issues are 

involved and how can they be 

overcome, including with respect to 

multi-line telephone systems? How long 

would an implementation process take? 

What are the costs involved—both the 

financial costs and any potential risks to 

consumer privacy or other nonmonetary costs? We note that in 

addition to soliciting written public 

comment by this Public Notice, we will 

invite members of our expert advisory 

committee, the North American 

Numbering Council, to discuss and 

provide input on the feasibility and cost 

of including an automatic dispatchable 

location with a 988 call at a forthcoming 

meeting. 

We also take this opportunity to 

clarify the 988 implementation date, as 

well as the effective date of the 

designation of 988 as the universal 

telephone number within the United 

States for the national suicide 

prevention and mental health crisis 

hotline. Prior to enactment of the 

Suicide Hotline Act, the Commission 

designated 988 as the universal 

telephone number within the United 

States for the national suicide 

prevention and mental health crisis 

hotline in a Report and Order released 

on July 17, 2020, and that became 

effective on October 16, 2020. (85 FR 

57767 (Sept. 16, 2020)). The Report and 

Order also set an implementation date 

of July 16, 2022 for all 

telecommunications carriers, 

interconnected voice over internet 

Protocol (VoIP) providers, and one-way 


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