Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 70 / Friday, April 11, 1997 / Notices 17809

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–5810–2]

Agency Information Collection

Activities: Submission for OMB

Review; Comment Request; Standards

for Reformulated Gasoline

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: In compliance with the

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.

3501 et seq.), this notice announces that

the following Information Collection

Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the

Office of Management and Budget

(OMB) for review and approval:

Standards for Reformulated Gasoline;

OMB No. 2060–0277; expires 05/31/97.

The ICR describes the nature of the

information collection and its expected

burden and cost; and where appropriate,

it includes the actual data collection

instrument.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on

or before May 12, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION OR A COPY

CALL: Sandy Farmer at EPA, (202) 260–

2740, and refer to EPA ICR No. 1591.07.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: Standards for Reformulated

Gasoline, (OMB Control No. 2060–0277;

EPA ICR No. 1591.07, expiring 5/31/97.

This is a request for an extension (with

revisions to burden estimates) of a

currently approved collection.

Abstract: Section 211(k) of the Clean

Air Act requires EPA to regulate

reformulated gasoline (RFG) and

conventional gasoline. The Act requires

schemes for monitoring and enforcing

compliance and for tracking and trading

credits and allows for averaging certain

gasoline parameters for compliance. In

order to enforce the requirements of the

Act, EPA regulations (in effect since

January 1, 1995) require recordkeeping,

reporting and testing. In the negotiated

regulation process, EPA agreed to

further averaging of compliance in

addition to what the Act requires. EPA

also allowed refiners and importers

further flexibility in how they can

comply. All responses are mandatory

except for certain voluntary quality

assurance testing by refiners, importers,

and distributors. EPA has authority to

require this information under section

211 of the Act, 42 U.S.C. § 7545, section

114 of the Act, 42 U.S.C. § 7414 and

section 208 of the Act, 42 U.S.C. § 7542.

The only parties with reporting

requirements are refiners, importers and

oxygenate blenders (and their

independent labs); Distributors are

subject to minimal recordkeeping

requirements and voluntary (affirmative

defense) quality assurance testing

provisions. Retailers and wholesale

purchaser-consumers in RFG areas only

are required to accept and maintain

transfer documents. Confidentiality of

information reported or obtained from

parties is protected under 40 C.F.R. Part

2.

The recordkeeping and reporting

enables EPA to enforce the RFG and

conventional gasoline requirements.

The requirements also are necessary to

enable each party receiving product to

know what the product is and to ensure

that party’s ability to comply.

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 Federal Register Notice

required under 5 CFR 1320.8(d),

soliciting comments on this collection

of information was published on 12/20/

96 (61 FR 67328); 5 comments were

received and the ICR supporting

statement summarizes the comments

and EPA’s actions taken in response to

those comments.

Burden Statement: The annual public

reporting and recordkeeping burden for

this collection of information is

estimated to average 434 hours per year

for refiners/importers of RFG; 65 hours

per year for refiners/importers of

conventional gasoline; 21 hours per year

for RFG terminals and oxygenate

blenders; and 1 hour per year for RFG

truck distributors. 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:

Refiners, importers, distributors,

retailers and wholesale purchaserconsumers of reformulated gasoline;

refiners, importers and distributors of

conventional gasoline.

Estimated Number of Respondents:

75,000 RFG retailers and wholesale

purchaser-consumers (with no

measurable burden); 250 refiners and

importers of gasoline, 150 of which are

affected by the RFG rule and 230 of

which are affected by the anti-dump

portion of the rule; 8,000 distributors

and 1,200 terminals.

Frequency of Response: RFG refiners:

4 quarterly and 1 annual; Conventional

gasoline refiners: 2 annual; RFG

Oxygenate blenders: 2 annual.

Recordkeeping is ‘‘on occasion.’’

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:

87,767 hours.

Estimated Total Annualized Cost

Burden: $17,971,950.

Send comments on the Agency’s need

for this information, the accuracy of the

provided burden estimates, and any

suggested methods for minimizing

respondent burden, including through

the use of automated collection

techniques to the following addresses.

Please refer to EPA ICR No. 1591.07 and

OMB Control No. 2060–0277 in any

correspondence.

Ms. Sandy Farmer, U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency, OPPE Regulatory

Information Division (2137) 401 M

Street, SW., Washington, DC 20460

and

Office of Information and Regulatory

Affairs, Office of Management and

Budget, Attention: Desk Officer for

EPA, 725 17th Street, NW.,

Washington, DC 20503.

Dated: April 7, 1997.

Richard T. Westland,

Acting Director, Regulatory Information

Division

[FR Doc. 97–9383 Filed 4–10–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–5810–5]

Draft Guidance for State Source Water

Assessment and Protection Programs;

Notice of Availability and Request for

Comments

ACTION: Notice of availability for

comment.

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA) is seeking public

comment on draft guidance for the

development and implementation of

State Source Water Assessment and

Protection Programs including Petition

Programs. The State Source Water

Assessment Program (SWAP) and the

State Source Water Petition Program

(SWPP) were established by the