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be received on or before the specified

comment date for the particular

application.

C1. Filing and Service of Responsive

Documents—Any filings must bear in

all capital letters the title

‘‘COMMENTS’’ ‘‘RECOMMENDATIONS

FOR TERMS AND CONDITIONS’’,

‘‘PROTEST’’, OR ‘‘MOTION TO

INTERVENE’’, as applicable, and the

Project Number of the particular

application to which the filing refers.

Any of the above-named documents

must be filed by providing the original

and the number of copies provided by

the Commission’s regulations to: The

Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission, 888 First Street, N.E.,

Washington, D.C. 20426. A copy of any

motion to intervene must also be served

upon each representative of the

Applicant specified in the particular

application.

D2. Agency Comments—Federal,

state, and local agencies are invited to

file comments on the described

application. A copy of the application

may be obtained by agencies directly

from the Applicant. If an agency does

not file comments within the time

specified for filing comments, it will be

presumed to have no comments. One

copy of an agency’s comments must also

be sent to the Applicant’s

representatives.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–32980 Filed 12–17–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–5936–5]

Agency Information Collection

Activities: Proposed Collection;

Comment Request; Spill Prevention,

Control, and Countermeasure Plans

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 EPA is planning to submit the Spill

Prevention, Control, and

Countermeasures Plan continuing

Information Collection Request (ICR) to

the Office of Management and Budget.

The ICR expires on May 31, 1998 (ICR

0328.05, OMB No. 20050–0021). Before

submitting the ICR to OMB for review

and approval, EPA is soliciting

comments on specific aspects of the

proposed information collection as

described below.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on

or before February 17, 1998.

ADDRESSES: Oil Program Center, 401 M

Street, SW (5203G), Washington, D.C.

20460. Materials relevant to this ICR

may be inspected from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30

p.m., Monday through Friday, by

visiting the Public Docket, located at

1235 Jefferson Davis Highway (ground

floor), Arlington, Virginia. A reasonable

fee may be charged for copying docket

material.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Hugo Paul Fleischman, (703) 603–8769.

Facsimile number: (703) 603–9116.

Electronic address:

fleischman.hugo@epamail.epa.gov. Note

that questions but not comments will be

accepted electronically.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Affected Entities

The Oil Pollution Prevention

regulation applies only to nontransportation-related facilities that

could reasonably be expected to

discharge oil into or upon the navigable

waters of the U.S., or adjoining

shorelines, and that have a total

underground buried oil storage capacity

of more than 42,000 gallons; or a total

aboveground oil storage capacity of

more than 660 gallons in a single

container.

The specific private industry sectors

expected to be affected by this action

include petroleum and coal products

manufacturing (NAICS 324); petroleum

bulk stations and terminals (NAICS

42271); crude petroleum and natural gas

extraction (NAICS 211111);

transportation (including pipelines),

warehousing, and marinas (NAICS 482–

486/488112–48819/4883/4889/492–493/

71393); electric power generation,

transmission, and distribution (NAICS

2211); other manufacturing (NAICS 31–

33); gasoline stations/automotive rental

and leasing (NAICS 4471/5321); heating

oil dealers (NAICS 454311); coal

mining, non-metallic mineral mining

and quarrying (NAICS 2121/2123/

213114/213116); heavy construction

(NAICS 234); elementary and secondary

schools, colleges (NAICS 6111–6113);

hospitals/nursing and residential care

facilities (NAICS 622–623); and crop

and animal production (NAICS 111–

112).

Title

‘‘Spill Prevention, Control, and

Countermeasure (SPCC) Plans,’’ OMB

Control Number 2050–0021. EPA

Control Number 328.05. Expiration date:

May 31, 1998.

Abstract

Under section 311 of the Clean Water

Act, EPA’s Oil Pollution Prevention

regulation requires facilities to prepare

and implement SPCC Plans to help

‘‘minimize the potential for oil

discharges.’’ This regulation is codified

at 40 CFR part 112. The SPCC Plan must

be ‘‘a carefully thought-out plan,

prepared in accordance with good

engineering practices.’’ Preparation of

the SPCC Plan requires that a facility’s

staff analyze how the facility will

prevent oil discharges, thereby

encouraging appropriate facility design

and operations. The information in the

SPCC Plan also promotes efficient

response in the event of a discharge.

Finally, proper maintenance of the

SPCC Plan will promote important spillreducing measures, facilitate leak

detection, and generally ensure that the

facility is at peak capability for deterring

discharges. The specific activities and

reasons for the information collection

are described below.

New Plan

Preparation of the Plan, required

under section 112.3, involves several

tasks, mostly conducted by the facility’s

technical personnel. These tasks

include: field investigations to

understand facility design and possible

failures and to predict the flow paths of

spilled oil and the potential harm that

the spilled oil would have on navigable

waters; a regulatory review to ensure

that personnel are fully aware of all

requirements and limitations imposed

in the rule; an evaluation of current spill

prevention and control practices the

facility employs; preparation of the Plan

according to the specification of section

112.7, and certification by a Registered

Professional Engineer (P.E.)

Modification of Plan

Under section 112.5(a) the SPCC Plan

must be amended whenever there is a

change in the facility’s design,

construction, operation, and

maintenance that materially affects the

facility’s potential to discharge oil into

navigable waters or onto adjoining

shorelines. The amended Plan must also

be certified by a P.E.

Triennial Review

Under section 112.5(b), owners or

operators of regulated facilities must

review and evaluate the Plan at least

once every three years. This involves

review of spill prevention and control

procedures being implemented under

the current Plan, as well as a regulatory

review. Facility owners/operators must

amend the SPCC Plan within six months

of the review to include more effective
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prevention and control technology if

such technology will significantly

reduce the likelihood of a spill event;

and such technology has been fieldproven at the time of the review. If

amended, the Plan must also be certified

by a P.E.

Oil Discharge

Under section 112.4, in the event of

certain oil discharges, facility owner/

operators must submit information to

the Regional Administrator within 60

days. Discharges of oil that trigger the

reporting requirements are a single spill

event of more than 1,000 U.S. gallons

into navigable waters; or two or more

spills (in a twelve month period) of

harmful quantities as defined in 40 CFR

part 110.

Submitting a Plan after a discharge

involves time to collect the required

information, as well as time for review

by management. The facility must also

submit a copy of this information to the

appropriate state agency in charge of

water pollution control activities. After

the Regional Administrator and the

appropriate state agency have reviewed

the Plan, the Regional Administrator

may require amendment of the SPCC

Plan. The amended Plan must be

certified by a P.E. prior to

implementation. Facilities may appeal a

decision made by the Regional

Administrator requiring an amendment

to an SPCC Plan.

Recordkeeping

Under section 112.3, the facility

owner/operator must maintain a copy of

the SPCC Plan at the facility, or under

certain circumstances, at the nearest

field office. The Plan must be available

for review during normal working

hours. In addition, facilities must

maintain (and update) records of Planspecific inspections as outlined under

section 112.7(e).

Purpose of Data Collection

EPA does not collect the information

required by the Oil Pollution Prevention

regulation (i.e., the SPCC Plan) on a

routine basis. Preparation,

implementation, and maintenance of the

SPCC Plan by the facility help prevent

oil discharges, and mitigate

environmental damage caused by such

discharges. Therefore, the primary user

of the data is the facility itself. For

example:

(i) As facility staff accumulate the

necessary data, they must analyze the

facility’s capability to prevent oil

discharges, facilitate safety awareness,

and promote appropriate modifications

to facility design and operations;

(ii) Because facility staff keep the

required information in a single

document, they can respond efficiently

in the event of a discharge;

(iii) To implement the Plan according

to the specifications of section 112.7,

the facility must meet certain design

and operational standards that reduce

the likelihood of an oil discharge;

(iv) Inspection records help facilities

to promote important maintenance,

facilitate leak detection, and

demonstrate compliance with the SPCC

requirements; and

(v) When facility staff review the Plan

every three years, they ensure

implementation of more effective spill

prevention control technology.

EPA recognizes that the additional

data would help to better demonstrate

the effectiveness of the program and

better understand the nature of the

threat of oil pollution posed by facilities

regulated under the SPCC program. As

such, in 1995, EPA surveyed a random

sample of potentially regulated facilities

that produce, use, or store oil products.

In July 1996, EPA published a report on

the effectiveness of the SPCC program,

using the data from the 1995 survey. In

the 1996 report, EPA found that

approximately 438,000 facilities were

regulated under the SPCC program in

1996. The industries that make up the

greatest proportion of potentiallyregulated facilities are farms (37

percent) and oil production facilities (33

percent). The results of the EPA analysis

indicate that facilities with larger

storage capacity are likely to have a

greater number of oil spills, larger

volumes of oil spilled, and greater

cleanup costs. Similar increases were

found at facilities with more tanks and

greater annual throughput. The results

of the analysis also appear to indicate

that there are no statistically significant

relationships between certain other

facility characteristics and spill risk. In

particular, EPA did not identify a strong

and stable relationship between the type

of business conducted at a facility and

the number of spills or volume of oil

spilled. The analysis also revealed that

the average age of a facility’s tanks, the

annual number of transfers, and the

annual average tank turnover do not

appear to be strongly related to oil

spills. The report is available to the

public for review at the Public Docket.

EPA requests comments on that report.

Although the facility is the primary

data user, EPA also uses the data in

certain situations. EPA primarily uses

SPCC plan data to ensure that facilities

comply with the regulation, including

design and operation specifications and

inspection requirements. EPA reviews

SPCC Plans when facilities submit the

Plans because of oil discharges, and as

part of EPA’s inspection program. State

and local governments also use the data,

which is not necessarily available

elsewhere and can greatly assist local

emergency preparedness planning

efforts. Coordination with state

governments is facilitated when, after

certain spill events, a facility sends a

copy of the SPCC Plan and additional

information on the spill to the relevant

state agency.

As part of the Agency’s efforts to

reduce the overall paperwork burden on

regulated facilities, EPA would like to

solicit comments on how the Agency

could best reduce the total paperwork

burden hours for this rule while

maintaining an effective level of

environmental protection.

EPA would also like to solicit public

comments 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.

Additionally, the Agency has recently

proposed revisions to the SPCC rule to

reduce the burden imposed on regulated

facilities (cite FR date). Proposed

revisions would give facility owners or

operators flexibility to use alternative

formats for SPCC Plans; allow the use of

certain records maintained pursuant to

usual and customary business practices,

or pursuant to the National Pollutant

Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)

program, to be used in lieu of records

mandated by the SPCC requirements;

reduce the information required to be

submitted after certain spill events; and

extend the period in which SPCC Plans

must be reviewed and evaluated.

Burden Statement

This document first presents the

estimated number of existing and new

storage and production facilities

regulated under the Oil Pollution

Prevention Regulation. Next, the

estimated burden hours and costs to
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facilities to perform required actions are

presented. Costs are composed of

facility labor costs, the cost to use

consultants, and any associated capital

and operation and maintenance (O&M)

expenditures. The cost to a facility to

use consultants is listed as an O&M

expenditure for purposes of this

analysis. Finally, the estimated total

annual burden hours and costs for all

facilities to comply with the

requirements of this regulation are

presented. The burden hours shown for

each action represent the hours in both

the existing ICR and the corresponding

hours in the ICR renewal, where there

are differences. Costs have been updated

to 1997 dollars.

To account for the role of consultants

in the process of developing and

updating SPCC Plans, EPA re-allocated

a percentage of the burden for

completing certain paperwork and

recordkeeping activities (50 percent for

large facilities, 25 percent for medium

facilities, and five percent for small

facilities) from facility personnel to

consultants. The analysis assumes that

the burden to a consultant to perform

these activities would approximately be

equal to that of facility personnel. In

reality, a consultant may take slightly

less time due to the expected economies

of scale associated with performing

similar tasks for different facilities (e.g.,

rule familiarization) but on average,

especially when it comes to performing

more physical activities (e.g., reviews/

inspections, modifications) the burden

is expected to remain relatively constant

regardless of who performs the activity.

As of January 1998, approximately

451,000 existing facilities are assumed

to be regulated under the SPCC program

with approximately 4,500 new facilities

joining the program in 1998. These

numbers are based on the previous ICR

estimate of approximately 446,500

existing and new facilities as of January

1996. A one percent annual growth in

the number of facilities is assumed. For

purposes of this ICR, all facilities were

grouped into two distinct categories:

production facilities (facilities whose

operations and oil storage activities are

exclusively limited to oil production)

and storage facilities (all other SPCCregulated facilities whose operations do

not include oil production). This

categorization of facilities reflects

differences in the estimated burden of

compliance activities depending on the

nature of the facility’s operations.

The current ICR assumes that storage

facilities make up 65 percent of small

facilities, 69 percent of medium

facilities, and 98 percent of large

facilities. Production facilities make up

35 percent of small facilities, 31 percent

of medium facilities, and two percent of

large facilities. These ratios, as well as

the Agency’s estimate concerning the

number of regulated facilities, are based

on the results of a 1995 survey of SPCC

regulated facilities conducted by EPA.

The results of this survey are available

for public review at the Public Docket.

The definitions of small, medium, and

large facility are based on oil storage

capacity and are defined as follows,

based on the Agency’s January 1991

‘‘SPCC Facilities Study’’:

(i) Small facility—a facility that has

aboveground storage capacity greater

than 1,320 gallons (or 660 gallons in a

single container), but less than or equal

to 42,000 gallons;

(ii) Medium facility—a facility that

has total (aboveground or underground)

storage capacity greater than 42,000

gallons but less than or equal to one

million gallons; and

(iii) Large facility—a facility that has

total storage capacity greater than one

million gallons.

An estimate of the number of existing

and new storage and production

facilities in 1998 are shown in Exhibits

1 and 2.

EXHIBIT 1.—ESTIMATED NUMBER OF EXISTING FACILITIES (1998)

Small Medium Large Total

Storage ............................................................................................................................. 231,406 57,697 13,188 302,290

Production ......................................................................................................................... 122,812 25,551 309 148,672

Total ....................................................................................................................... 354,217 83,248 13,497 450,963

EXHIBIT 2.—ESTIMATED NUMBER OF NEW FACILITIES (1998)

Small Medium Large Total

Storage ............................................................................................................................. 2,314 577 132 3,023

Production ......................................................................................................................... 1,228 256 3 1,487

Total .................................................................................................................................. 3,542 832 135 4,510

The facility cost estimates for each

category of activities are based on 1997

hourly wage rates for managerial

($38.59), technical ($28.26), and clerical

($17.71) work. These wage rates include

wages and salaries, benefit costs, and

overhead costs and reflect private

industry averages, which were

estimated by the U.S. Bureau of Labor

Statistics. The Agency recognizes that

these wage rates may underestimate the

actual wages received by some SPCC

personnel but overestimate the actual

wage rate received by other facility

personnel. The Agency estimated wage

rates for consultants using the 1994

Facility Response Plan Regulatory

Impact Analysis (RIA). This RIA

‘‘loaded’’ the direct, private industry

wages by a factor of 2.75 to develop

wage rates for consultants.

Consequently, this loading factor was

applied to the direct labor rates for

private industry managerial, technical,

and clerical workers to estimate the

following rates: managerial ($106.12),

technical ($77.72), and clerical ($48.70).

Each exhibit represents separate

burden estimates for small, medium,

and large storage and production

facilities. Exhibits 3 through 8

summarize the estimated facility burden

associated with performing each

separate task associated with an SPCC

Plan. Not all of the activities will be

performed on an annual basis by all

facilities. For the purposes of estimating

respondent burden, EPA assumes that

consultants are retained by some

facilities to assist in the following

activities: preparation of a new plan;

modification of an existing plan; and

conducting a triennial review. Again,

EPA assumed that a large facility would

use outside consultants about 50

percent of the time, a medium facility

would use outside consultants about 25

percent of the time, and a small facility
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would use outside consultants about

five percent of the time to perform the

above activities.

New Plan

Exhibit 3 presents the estimated

burden and costs for a facility to

perform the activities associated with

preparing an SPCC Plan. All new

facilities must prepare and implement

an SPCC Plan.

EXHIBIT 3.—ESTIMATED BURDEN HOURS AND COSTS—PREPARATION OF NEW PLAN

Type of Facility

Burden hours Cost

Managerial

$38.59

Technical

$28.26

Clerical

$17.71

Total burden hours Capital O&M Total 1

Storage:

Small .................................................. 5.7 23.8 3.8 33.3 0 $86 $1,044

Medium .............................................. 4.5 33.0 4.5 42.0 0 672 1,858

Large .................................................. 3.0 38.0 4.0 45.0 0 2,141 3,402

Production:

Small .................................................. 5.7 26.6 3.8 36.1 0 93 1,132

Medium .............................................. 4.5 34.5 4.5 43.5 0 696 1,924

Large .................................................. 3.0 38.5 4.0 43.5 0 2,165 3,440

1Total cost includes the cost of facility labor, capital, and O&M costs.

Modification of Plan

Exhibit 4 presents the burden hours

and costs for a facility to revise an SPCC

Plan after any modification that

materially affects the facility’s potential

to discharge oil into navigable waters.

An estimated ten percent of facilities

will need to modify their SPCC Plans

each year.

EXHIBIT 4.—ESTIMATED ANNUAL BURDEN HOURS AND COSTS—MODIFICATION OF PLAN

Type of facility

Burden Hours Cost

Managerial

$38.59

Technical

$28.26

Clerical

$17.71

Total burden hours Capital O&M Total 1

Storage:

Small .................................................. 0.0 4.3 1.0 5.2 $0 $12 $150

Medium .............................................. 0.0 3.4 0.8 4.1 0 61 170

Large .................................................. 0.0 2.3 0.5 2.8 0 123 195

Production:

Small .................................................. 0.0 4.3 1.0 5.2 0 12 150

Medium .............................................. 0.0 3.4 0.8 4.1 0 61 170

Large .................................................. 0.0 2.3 0.5 2.8 0 123 195

1Total cost includes the cost of facility labor, capital, and O&M costs.

Triennial Review

Exhibits 5 and 6 present the estimated

burden hours and costs for a facility to

complete a triennial review, with and

without amendment. As a result of the

review process, the facility may need to

amend its Plan, incurring additional

costs. Annual burdens and costs per

facility are one-third of the values in

Exhibits 5 and 6. An estimated three

percent of all existing facilities will

need to amend their Plans each year.

EXHIBIT 5.—ESTIMATED ANNUAL BURDEN HOURS AND COSTS—TRIENNIAL REVIEW—NO AMENDMENT

Type of facility

Burden hours Cost

Managerial

$38.59

Technical

$28.26

Clerical

$17.71

Total burden hours Capital O&M Total 1

Storage:

Small .................................................. 1.0 2.4 0.5 3.8 $0 $10 $122

Medium .............................................. 0.8 3.4 0.8 4.9 0 78 216

Large .................................................. 0.5 4.0 0.5 5.0 0 240 381

Production:

Small .................................................. 1.0 3.3 0.5 4.8 0 12 151

Medium .............................................. 0.8 4.1 0.8 5.6 0 90 249

Large .................................................. 0.5 4.5 0.5 5.5 0 264 419

1Total cost includes the cost of facility labor, capital, and O&M costs.
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EXHIBIT 6.—ESTIMATED ANNUAL BURDEN HOURS AND COSTS—TRIENNIAL REVIEW—AMENDMENT

Type of facility

Burden hours Cost

Managerial

$38.59

Technical

$28.26

Clerical

$17.71

Total burden hours Capital O&M Total 1

Storage:

Small .................................................. 1.0 6.7 1.9 9.5 $0 $23 $281

Medium .............................................. 0.8 6.8 1.5 9.0 0 140 386

Large .................................................. 0.5 6.3 1.0 7.8 0 363 577

Production:

Small .................................................. 1.0 7.6 1.9 10.5 0 26 311

Medium .............................................. 0.8 7.5 1.5 9.8 0 151 419

Large .................................................. 0.5 6.8 1.0 8.3 0 387 615

1Total cost includes the cost of facility labor, capital, and O&M costs.

Oil Discharge

Exhibit 7 presents estimated burden

hours and costs for a facility to submit

information to the Regional

Administrator in the event of certain

discharges of oil into navigable waters.

It is assumed that the probability of a

facility having such a spill in any given

year is 0.15 percent.

EXHIBIT 7.—ESTIMATED BURDEN HOURS AND COSTS—OIL DISCHARGE

Type of facility

Burden hours Cost

Managerial

$38.59

Technical

$28.26

Clerical

$17.71

Total burden hours Capital O&M Total 1

Storage:

Small .................................................. 1.0 1.0 0.0 2.0 $0 $0 $67

Medium .............................................. 1.0 1.0 0.0 2.0 0 0 67

Large .................................................. 1.0 1.0 0.0 2.0 0 0 67

Production:

Small .................................................. 1.0 1.0 0.0 2.0 0 0 67

Medium .............................................. 1.0 1.0 0.0 2.0 0 0 67

Large .................................................. 1.0 1.0 0.0 2.0 0 0 67

1Total cost includes the cost of facility labor, capital, and O&M costs.

Recordkeeping

Exhibit 8 presents the burden hours

and costs for a facility to perform Plan

maintenance and Plan-specific

recordkeeping activities. All regulated

facilities are subject to these

requirements.

EXHIBIT 8.—ESTIMATED ANNUAL BURDEN HOURS AND COSTS-RECORDKEEPING

Type of facility

Burden hours Cost

Managerial

$38.59

Technical

$28.26

Clerical

$17.71

Total burden hours Capital O&M Total 1

Storage:

Small .................................................. 0.0 2.0 0.5 2.5 $0 $0 $65

Medium .............................................. 0.0 4.5 0.5 5.0 0 0 136

Large .................................................. 0.0 9.5 0.5 10.0 0 0 277

Production:

Small .................................................. 0.0 3.0 0.5 3.5 0 0 94

Medium .............................................. 0.0 3.0 0.5 3.5 0 0 94

Large .................................................. 0.0 3.0 0.5 3.5 0 0 94

1Total cost includes the cost of facility labor, capital, and O&M costs.

Annual Expected Facility Burden

The total annual burden per facility

reflects the sum of the annual burdens

incurred by the facility for each category

of activities outlined above. The

estimated annual burden for an existing

facility is shown in Exhibit 9. Exhibit 10

presents the estimated annual burden

for a new facility.
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EXHIBIT 9.—ESTIMATED BURDEN HOURS AND COSTS PER FACILITY-EXISTING FACILITIES

Type of facility

Burden hours Cost

Managerial

$38.59

Technical

$28.26

Clerical

$17.71

Total burden hours Capital O&M Total

Storage:

Small .................................................. 0.3 3.3 0.8 4.3 $0 $5 $123

Medium .............................................. 0.3 6.0 0.8 7.1 0 33 227

Large .................................................. 0.2 11.1 0.7 12.0 0 94 426

Production:

Small .................................................. 0.3 4.6 0.8 5.7 0 6 161

Medium .............................................. 0.3 4.7 0.8 5.8 0 37 195

Large .................................................. 0.2 4.7 0.7 5.6 0 102 255

EXHIBIT 10.—ESTIMATED BURDEN HOURS AND COSTS PER FACILITY—NEW FACILITIES

Type of facility

Burden hours Cost

Managerial

38.59

Technical

28.26

Clerical

17.71

Total burden hours Capital O&M Total

Storage:

Small .................................................. 5.7 26.2 4.4 36.3 $67 $87 $1,192

Medium .............................................. 4.5 37.8 5.1 47.4 67 678 2,078

Large .................................................. 3.0 47.7 4.6 55.3 67 2,153 3,765

Production:

Small .................................................. 5.7 30.0 4.4 40.1 67 94 1,308

Medium .............................................. 4.5 37.8 5.1 47.4 67 702 2,102

Large .................................................. 3.0 41.7 4.6 49.3 67 2,177 3,620

Total Annual Expected Facility

Burdens

The total annual burdens for all

existing facilities and all new facilities

are shown in Exhibits 11 and 12. The

approximately 451,000 existing facilities

will incur a combined burden of about

2.42 million hours and 72 million. In

addition, around 4,500 new facilities

will incur a combined burden of about

180,137 hours at a cost of 6.6 million.

The total annual reporting and

recordkeeping burden to the regulated

community as a result of the SPCC

Program is estimated to be

approximately 2.6 million hours at a

cost of about 78.6 million.

EXHIBIT 11.—ESTIMATED ANNUAL BURDEN HOURS AND COSTS—ALL EXISTING FACILITIES

Type of facility

Burden hours Cost

Managerial

$38.59

Technical

$28.26

Clerical

$17.71

Total burden hours Capital O&M Total

Storage:

Small .................................................. 73,626 755,173 177,623 1,006,422 $0 $1,091,079 $28,418,284

Medium .............................................. 14,511 346,051 48,033 408,595 0 1,891,286 13,080,463

Large .................................................. 2,218 146,152 9,517 157,887 0 1,233,329 5,617,205

Production:

Small .................................................. 39,075 562,489 94,268 695,832 0 677,170 19,749,279

Medium .............................................. 6,426 121,312 21,272 149,010 0 939,632 4,992,377

Large .................................................. 52 1,468 223 1,743 0 31,375 78,810

EXHIBIT 12.—ESTIMATED ANNUAL BURDEN HOURS AND COSTS—ALL NEW FACILITIES

Type of facility

Burden hours Cost

Managerial

$38.59

Technical

$28.26

Clerical

$17.71

Total burden hours Capital O&M Total

Storage:

Small .................................................. 13,194 60,580 10,170 83,944 $155,042 $201,558 $2,757,678

Medium .............................................. 2,597 21,832 2,928 27,357 38,657 391,318 1,198,967

Large .................................................. 396 6,294 600 7,290 8,836 283,996 496,585

Production:

Small .................................................. 7,002 36,879 5,398 49,279 82,284 115,801 1,605,988

Medium .............................................. 1,150 9,668 1,297 12,115 17,119 179,422 537,095

Large .................................................. 9 129 14 152 207 6,730 11,189
66366 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 243 / Thursday, December 18, 1997 / Notices

No person is 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 displayed at 40

CFR part 9.

Send comments regarding these

matters, or any other aspects of

information collection, including

suggestions for reducing the burden, to

the address listed above under

ADDRESSES near the top of this

document.

Dated: December 11, 1997.

Elaine F. Davies,

Deputy Director, Office of Emergency and

Remedial Response.

[FR Doc. 97–33078 Filed 12–17–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–5936–9]

Agency Information Collection

Activities: Proposed Collection;

Comment Request; Class V

Underground Injection Control Study

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 EPA is planning to submit the

following proposed Information

Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of

Management and Budget (OMB): Class V

Underground Injection Control Study,

EPA ICR #1834.01. Before submitting

the ICR to OMB for review and

approval, EPA is soliciting comments on

specific aspects of the proposed

information collection as described

below.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on

or before February 17, 1998.

ADDRESSES: To obtain a copy of the ICR

without charge please contact the Office

of Ground Water and Drinking Water,

EPA Headquarters, 401 M Street SW,

Washington, DC 20460 or contact the

persons listed below.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Safe

Drinking Water Hotline, (800) 426–4791,

e-mail: hotline-sdwagroup@epamail.epa.gov; or Anhar

Karimjee, (202) 260–3862, fax (202)

260–0732, e-mail:

karimjee.anhar@epamail.epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Affected entities: Entities potentially

affected by this action are those which

own, operate or use Class V

underground injection wells, or collect,

record, or know of information on their

existence and/or their location

including, but not limited to: State

Environmental Water Quality Agencies,

State Oil and Gas Divisions, State

Energy Divisions, State Departments of

Health, State Agricultural Agencies,

State Coastal Commissions or Oceanic

Divisions, State Mining and Minerals

Divisions, and State Hazardous Waste

Divisions.

Title: Class V Underground Injection

Control Study, EPA ICR #1834.01.

Abstract: The purpose of this

information collection is to gather data

on Class V underground injection wells.

The collection will be conducted by

EPA’s Office of Ground Water and

Drinking Water (OGWDW) as required

by section 2c of the EPA’s modified

consent decree with the Sierra Club

(Sierra Club v. Carol M. Browner, Civil

Action No. 93–2644 NHJ, 1997) in order

to comply with section 1421 of the Safe

Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300h).

These wells may pose a risk to

underground sources of drinking water

(USDWs) and therefore EPA is

collecting information necessary to

determine whether a national regulation

is appropriate.

The collection will involve two

components. First, a small number of

initial site visits for agricultural

drainage wells, storm water drainage

wells, large capacity septic systems, and

certain industrial wells will be

conducted to count the number of those

well types in certain geologic settings.

This data will then be used to create a

mathematical model that will eventually

be used to estimate the number of wells

in existence on a national scale. Once

the model is created, additional site

visits will be conducted to calibrate the

model.

The second component of the

collection, for fourteen other well

subclasses (electric power return flow

wells, direct heat return flow wells, heat

pump/AC return flow wells,

aquaculture wells, wastewater treatment

effluent, aquifer recharge wells, aquifer

storage and recovery wells, saltwater

intrusion barrier wells, subsidence

control wells, mining, sand and other

backfill wells, spent brine recovery

wells, solution mining wells, in-situ

fossil fuel recovery wells and aquifer

remediation wells), involves general

data collection from State and local

agencies on the number of wells in

existence and their location on a county

level. EPA may also, for some well

subclasses in some States, ask for

additional information such as

permitting requirements, contamination

incidents and injectate constituents. The

site visits and the data collection

component will provide EPA with an

estimation of the number of wells,

which will provide, in part, the basis for

determining whether national

regulations for the well subclasses are

necessary, and if so, the extent of the

regulations.

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.

The EPA would like to solicit

comments 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.

Burden Statement: It is estimated that

this information collection will involve

a total cost burden to the Respondents

of $72,073 and a total hour burden to

the Respondents of 2,019 hours. There

will be no capital, start-up or operation

and maintenance costs but the

collection will involve a one time

response, from 2,369 respondents, of

approximately 0.85 hours. 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