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EPA’s policy is that all comments 

received will be included in the 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. Do not submit 

electronically any information you 

consider to be CBI or other information 

whose disclosure is restricted by statute. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Colby Lintner, Environmental 

Assistance Division (7408M), Office of 

Pollution Prevention and Toxics, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, 

DC 20460–0001; telephone number: 

(202) 554–1404; email address: TSCAHotline@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Docket: Supporting documents, 

including the ICR that explains in detail 

the information collection activities and 

the related burden and cost estimates 

that are summarized in this document, 

are available in the docket for this ICR. 

The docket can be viewed online at 

http://www.regulations.gov or in person 

at the EPA Docket Center, West William 

Jefferson Clinton Bldg., Rm. 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 http://www.epa.gov/ 

dockets. 

ICR status: This ICR is currently 

scheduled to expire on November 30, 

2015. Under OMB regulations, the 

Agency may continue to conduct or 

sponsor the collection of information 

while this submission is pending at 

OMB. 

Under PRA, 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq., 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 are 

displayed either by publication in the 

Federal Register or by other appropriate 

means, such as on the related collection 

instrument or form, if applicable. The 

display of OMB control numbers for 

certain EPA regulations is consolidated 

in 40 CFR part 9. 

Abstract: Section 8(d) of the Toxic 

Substances Control Act (TSCA) and 40 

CFR part 716 require manufacturers and 

processors of chemicals to submit lists 

and copies of health and safety studies 

relating to the health and/or 

environmental effects of certain 

chemical substances and mixtures. In 

order to comply with the reporting 

requirements of TSCA section 8(d), 

respondents must search their records to 

identify any health and safety studies in 

their possession, copy and process 

relevant studies, list studies that are 

currently in progress, and submit this 

information to EPA. 

EPA uses this information to 

construct a complete picture of the 

known effects of the chemicals in 

question, leading to determinations by 

EPA of whether additional testing of the 

chemicals is required. The information 

enables EPA to base its testing decisions 

on the most complete information 

available and to avoid demands for 

testing that may be duplicative. EPA 

will use information obtained via this 

collection to support its investigation of 

the risks posed by chemicals and, in 

particular, to support its decisions on 

whether to require industry to test 

chemicals under section 4 of TSCA. 

This information collection request 

addresses the reporting requirements 

found in TSCA section 8(d). 

Respondents/Affected Entities: 

Persons who manufacture, process, or 

distribute in commerce chemical 

substances or mixtures, or who propose 

to do so. 

Respondent’s obligation to respond: 

Mandatory. (see 40 CFR part 716). 

Estimated total number of potential 

respondents: 119. 

Frequency of response: On occasion. 

Estimated total burden: 1,605 hours 

(per year). Burden is defined at 5 CFR 

1320.3(b). 

Estimated total costs: $116,551 (per 

year), includes no annualized capital 

investment or maintenance and 

operational costs. 

Changes in the estimates: There is a 

net decrease of 6,778 hours in the total 

estimated respondent burden compared 

with that identified in the ICR currently 

approved by OMB. This decrease 

reflects in particular EPA’s withdrawal 

of a cadmium reporting rule, the burden 

for which is included in the currently 

approved ICR. In addition there was a 

smaller burden increase resulting from 

the one-time requirement for 

respondents to register with EPA’s CDX 

reporting system and to establish 

electronic signature agreements, plus 

correcting the estimated number of 

robust summaries submitted each year. 

This change is both a program change 

(in the case of the burden decrease due 

to the withdrawal of the cadmium rule) 

and an adjustment (for all other burden 

changes). 

Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq. 

Courtney Kerwin, 

Acting Director, Collection Strategies 

Division. 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9935–23–OAR] 

Acid Rain Program: Notice of Annual 

Adjustment Factors for Excess 

Emissions Penalty 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of annual adjustment 

factors for excess emissions penalty. 

SUMMARY: The Acid Rain Program under 

title IV of the Clean Air Act provides for 

automatic excess emissions penalties in 

dollars per ton of excess emissions for 

sources that do not meet their annual 

Acid Rain emissions limitations. This 

notice states the dollars per ton excess 

emissions penalty amounts, which must 

be adjusted for each compliance year 

commensurate with changes in the 

Consumer Price Index (CPI), for 

compliance years 2015 and 2016. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Robert L. Miller, Clean Air Markets 

Division (6204M), U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460, at 

(202) 343–9077 or 

miller.robertl@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Acid 

Rain Program under title IV of the Clean 

Air Act limits annual sulfur dioxide and 

nitrogen oxide emissions of fossil fuelfired utility units. Under the Acid Rain 

Program, affected sources must hold 

enough allowances to cover their sulfur 

dioxide emissions, and certain coalfired sources must meet an emission 

limit for nitrogen oxides. Under 40 CFR 

77.6, sources that do not meet these 

requirements must pay a penalty 

without demand to the Administrator 

based on the number of excess tons 

emitted times $2,000 as adjusted by an 

annual adjustment factor, which must 

be published in the Federal Register. 

The annual adjustment factor for 

adjusting the penalty for excess 

emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen 

oxides under 40 CFR part 77.6(b) for 

compliance year 2015 is 1.9089. This 

value is derived using the CPI for 1990 

and 2014 (defined respectively at 40 

CFR 72.2 as the CPI for August of the 

year before the specified year for all 

urban consumers) and results in an 

automatic penalty of $3,818 per excess 


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ton of sulfur dioxide or nitrogen oxides 

emitted for 2015. 

The annual adjustment factor for 

adjusting the penalty for such excess 

emissions under 40 CFR 77.6(b) for 

compliance year 2016 is 1.9126. This 

value is derived using the CPI for 1990 

and 2015 and results in an automatic 

penalty of $3,825 per excess ton of 

sulfur dioxide or nitrogen oxides 

emitted for 2016. 

Dated: October 1, 2015. 

Reid P. Harvey, 

Director, Clean Air Markets Division, Office 

of Atmospheric Programs, Office of Air and 

Radiation. 

[FR Doc. 2015–25844 Filed 10–8–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OAR–2003–0078; FRL–9935–49– 

OEI] 

Proposed Information Collection 

Request; Comment Request; Landfill 

Methane Outreach Program (Renewal) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is planning to submit an 

information collection request (ICR), 

‘‘Landfill Methane Outreach Program’’ 

(EPA ICR No. 1849.07, OMB Control No. 

2060–0446) to the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) for review and 

approval in accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

3501 et seq.). Before doing so, EPA is 

soliciting public comments on specific 

aspects of the proposed information 

collection as described below. This is a 

proposed extension of the ICR, which is 

currently approved through March 31, 

2016. 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 December 8, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OAR–2003–0078 online using 

www.regulations.gov (our preferred 

method), by email to a-and-r-Docket@

epa.gov, 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. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kirsten Cappel, Climate Change 

Division, Office of Atmospheric 

Programs, 6207A, Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460; 

telephone number: (202) 343–9556; fax 

number: (202) 343–2342; email address: 

cappel.kirsten@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 www.regulations.gov 

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 http://www.epa.gov/ 

dockets. 

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

the PRA, 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. 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, 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. 

Abstract: The Landfill Methane 

Outreach Program (LMOP), created by 

EPA as part of the United States’ 

commitment to reduce greenhouse gas 

emissions under the United Nations 

Framework Convention on Climate 

Change, is a voluntary program 

designed to encourage and facilitate the 

development of environmentally and 

economically sound landfill gas (LFG) 

energy projects across the United States 

to reduce methane emissions from 

landfills. LMOP meets these objectives 

by educating local governments and 

communities about the benefits of LFG 

recovery and use; building partnerships 

between state agencies, industry, energy 

service providers, local communities, 

and other stakeholders interested in 

developing this valuable resources in 

their community; and providing tools to 

evaluate LFG energy potential. LMOP 

signed voluntary Memoranda of 

Understanding (MOUs) with these 

organizations to enlist their support in 

promoting cost-effective LFG utilization. 

The information collection includes 

completion and submission of the MOU, 

periodic information updates, and 

annual completion and submission of 

basic information on landfill methane 

projects with which the organizations 

are involved as an effort to update the 

LMOP Landfill and Landfill Gas Energy 

Project Database. The information 

collection is to be utilized to maintain 

up-to-date data and information about 

LMOP Partners and LFG energy projects 

with which they are involved. The data 

will also be used by the public to access 

LFG energy project development 

opportunities in the United States. In 

addition, the information collection will 

assist LMOP in evaluating the reduction 

of methane emissions from landfills. 

Form Numbers: 5900–157, 5900–158, 

5900–159, 5900–160, 5900–161, and 

5900–162. 

Respondents/affected entities: Entities 

potentially affected by this action are 

those private companies and 

municipalities that own or operate 

landfills; manufacturers and suppliers 

of equipment/knowledge to capture and 

utilize LFG; utility companies; endusers of energy from landfills; 

developers of LFG energy projects; State 

agencies; and other LFG energy 

stakeholders. 

Respondent’s obligation to respond: 

Voluntary. 

Estimated number of respondents: 

1,150. 

Frequency of response: On occasion. 

Total estimated burden: 3,632 hours 

(per year). Burden is defined at 5 CFR 

1320.03(b). 

Total estimated cost: $284,885 (per 

year), includes $225 annualized capital 

or operation & maintenance costs. 

Changes in Estimates: There is a 

decrease of approximately 1,750 hours 

in the total estimated respondent 

burden compared with the ICR currently 

approved by OMB due to improved 

estimates of respondent participation 


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