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pending at 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. 

The OMB control numbers for EPA’s 

regulations in title 40 of the CFR, after 

appearing in the Federal Register when 

approved, are listed in 40 CFR part 9 

and 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 in certain EPA regulations is 

consolidated in 40 CFR part 9. 

Abstract: The PRA requires the 

information found in this ICR to assess 

the burden (in hours and dollars) of the 

8-hour Ozone National Ambient Air 

Quality Standard (NAAQS) 

Implementation Rule as well as the 

periodic reporting and recordkeeping 

necessary to maintain the rule. The rule 

was proposed June 2, 2003 (68 FR 

32802) and promulgated in two Phases: 

Phase 1 published April 30, 2004 (69 FR 

23951) and Phase 2 published 

November 29, 2005 (70 FR 71612). The 

rule includes requirements that involve 

collecting information from states with 

areas that have been designated 

nonattainment for the 8-hour ozone 

NAAQS. These information collection 

milestones include state submission of 

an attainment demonstration State 

Implementation Plan (SIP), a Reasonable 

Further Progress (RFP) SIP, and a 

Reasonable Available Control 

Technology (RACT) SIP. However, not 

all of the milestones and associated 

burden and administrative costs 

estimates apply to every designated 

nonattainment area. Areas with cleaner 

air quality have fewer requirements. 

Burden Statement: The annual public 

reporting and recordkeeping burden for 

this collection of information is 

estimated to average 171 hours per 

response. 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 which have subsequently 

changed; 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. 

The ICR provides a detailed 

explanation of the Agency’s estimate, 

which is only briefly summarized here: 

Respondents/Affected Entities: State 

and local governments. 

Estimated total number of 

respondents: 21. 

Frequency of response: Annual. 

Estimated total annual burden hours: 

6,667 hours. 

Estimated total annual costs: 

$434,000 in labor costs. There are no 

capital investment or maintenance and 

operational costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is a 

decrease of 278,666 hours in the total 

estimated burden currently identified in 

the OMB Inventory of Approved ICR 

Burdens. This decrease results from the 

number of non-attainment areas 

decreasing as areas have come into 

compliance with the standards and the 

burden associated with the remaining 

non-attainment areas decreasing 

because of the work they have done 

previously to comply with the 

standards. 

Dated: July 21, 2010. 

John Moses, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division. 

[FR Doc. 2010–18369 Filed 7–26–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OECA–2005–0062; FRL–9180–6] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request; Procedures for 

Implementing the National 

Environmental Policy Act and 

Assessing the Environmental Effects 

Abroad of EPA Actions (Renewal); EPA 

ICR No. 2243.06, OMB Control No. 

2020–0033 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA)(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. The ICR, 

which is abstracted below, describes the 

nature of the information collection and 

its estimated burden and cost. 

DATES: Additional comments may be 

submitted on or before August 26, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OECA–2005–0062, to (1) EPA online 

using http://www.regulations.gov (our 

preferred method), by email to 

trice.jessica@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA 

Docket Center, Environmental 

Protection Agency, Mailcode: 28221T, 

1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20460, and (2) OMB by 

mail to: 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: 

Jessica Trice, Office of Federal 

Activities, Mail Code 2252A, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 

564–6646; fax number: (202) 564–0072; 

e-mail address: trice.jessica@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 7, 2010 (75 FR 25237), EPA 

sought comments on this ICR pursuant 

to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received no 

comments. Any additional comments on 

this ICR should be submitted to EPA 

and OMB within 30 days of this notice. 

EPA has established a public docket 

for this ICR under Docket ID No. EPA– 

HQ–OECA–2005–0062, which is 

available for online viewing at http:// 

www.regulations.gov, or in person 

viewing at the Enforcement and 

Compliance Docket in the EPA Docket 

Center (EPA/DC), EPA West, Room 

3334, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC. The EPA/DC 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 Enforcement and Compliance 

Docket is 202–566–1752. 

Use EPA’s electronic docket and 

comment system at http:// 

www.regulations.gov, to submit or view 

public comments, access the index 

listing of the contents of the docket, and 

to access those documents in the docket 

that are available electronically. Once in 

the system, select ‘‘docket search,’’ then 

key in the docket ID number identified 

above. Please note that EPA’s policy is 

that public comments, whether 

submitted electronically or in paper, 

will be made available for public 

viewing at http://www.regulations.gov 

as EPA receives them and without 

change, unless the comment contains 

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business information (CBI), or other 

information whose public disclosure is 

restricted by statute. For further 

information about the electronic docket, 

go to http://www.regulations.gov. 

Title: Procedures for Implementing 

the National Environmental Policy Act 

and Assessing the Environmental Effects 

Abroad of EPA Actions (Renewal). 

ICR numbers: EPA ICR No. 2243.06, 

OMB Control No. 2020–0033. 

ICR Status: This ICR is scheduled to 

expire on August 31, 2010. Under OMB 

regulations, the Agency may continue to 

conduct or sponsor the collection of 

information while this submission is 

pending at 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. 

The OMB control numbers for EPA’s 

regulations in title 40 of the CFR, after 

appearing in the Federal Register when 

approved, are listed in 40 CFR part 9, 

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 in certain EPA regulations is 

consolidated in 40 CFR part 9. 

Abstract: The National Environmental 

Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), 42 U.S.C. 

4321–4347 establishes the federal 

government’s national policy for 

protection of the environment. The 

Council on Environmental Quality 

Regulations (CEQ Regulations) at 40 

CFR parts 1500 through 1508 establish 

procedures implementing the national 

policy. The CEQ Regulations (40 CFR 

1505.1) require federal agencies to adopt 

and, as needed, revise their own 

implementing procedures to 

supplement the CEQ Regulations and to 

ensure their decision-making processes 

are consistent with NEPA. EPA 

accordingly laid out its ‘‘Procedures for 

Implementing the National 

Environmental Policy Act and Assessing 

the Environmental Effects Abroad of 

EPA Actions’’ at 40 CFR part 6. 

Those subject to the final NEPA rule 

include certain grant or permit 

applicants who must submit 

environmental information 

documentation to EPA for their 

proposed projects. The final NEPA 

regulations consolidate and standardize 

the environmental review process 

applicable to all EPA actions subject to 

NEPA, including those actions now 

specifically addressed in the regulations 

and other actions subject to NEPA but 

not specifically addressed in the 

regulations (e.g., certain grants awarded 

for special projects authorized by 

Congress through the Agency’s annual 

Appropriations Act). 

EPA is collecting information from 

certain applicants as part of the process 

of complying with either NEPA or 

Executive Order 12114 (‘‘Environmental 

Effects Abroad of Major Federal 

Actions’’). EPA’s NEPA regulations 

apply to the actions of EPA that are 

subject to NEPA in order to ensure that 

environmental information is available 

to the Agency’s decision-makers and the 

public before decisions are made and 

before actions are taken. 

When EPA conducts an 

environmental assessment pursuant to 

its Executive Order 12114 procedures, 

the Agency generally follows its NEPA 

procedures. Compliance with the 

procedures is the responsibility of EPA’s 

Responsible Officials, and for applicantproposed actions applicants may be 

required to provide environmental 

information to EPA as part of the 

environmental review process. For this 

Information Collection Request (ICR), 

applicant-proposed projects subject to 

either NEPA or Executive Order 12114 

(and that are not addressed in other EPA 

programs’ ICRs) are addressed through 

the NEPA process. 

Burden Statement: The annual public 

reporting and recordkeeping burden for 

this collection of information is 

estimated to average 123 hours per 

response. 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 which have subsequently 

changed; 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: 

Entities potentially affected by this 

action are certain grant or permit 

applicants who must submit 

environmental information 

documentation to EPA for their projects 

to comply with NEPA or Executive 

Order 12114, including Wastewater 

Treatment Construction Grants Program 

facilities, State and Tribal Assistance 

Grant recipients and new source 

National Pollutant Discharge 

Elimination System permittees. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

312. 

Frequency of Response: On occasion. 

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 

38,472 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost: 

$3,503,245, includes $7,638 annualized 

capital or O&M costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is a 

decrease of 9,675 hours in the total 

estimated burden currently identified in 

the OMB Inventory of Approved ICR 

Burdens. This decrease reflects the 

increasing the number of projects that 

are documented with a categorical 

exclusion (CE) rather than an 

environmental assessment (EA). Under 

the current ICR, approximately 60% of 

the annual 300 grant projects were 

documented with a CE, and 40% with 

an EA. However, we estimate that out of 

the 300 annual grant projects, 75% will 

be documented with a CE and 25% will 

be documented with an EA. 

Dated: July 21, 2010. 

John Moses, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division. 

[FR Doc. 2010–18367 Filed 7–26–10; 8:45 am] 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9180–4] 

California State Motor Vehicle and 

Nonroad Engine Pollution Control 

Standards; Truck Idling Requirements; 

Opportunity for Public Hearing and 

Request for Public Comment 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of opportunity for public 

hearing and comment. 

SUMMARY: The California Air Resources 

Board (CARB) has notified EPA that it 

has adopted requirements to reduce 

idling emissions from new and in-use 

trucks beginning in 2008. CARB’s 2008 

Truck Idling Requirements apply to new 

California certified 2008 and subsequent 

model year heavy-duty diesel engines in 

heavy-duty diesel vehicles with a gross 

vehicle weight rating over 14,000 

pounds, and to in-use diesel-fueled 

commercial vehicles with gross vehicle 

weight ratings over 10,000 pounds that 

are equipped with sleeper berths. This 

notice announces that EPA has 

tentatively scheduled a public hearing 

to consider California’s 2008 Truck 

Idling Requirements request and that 

EPA is accepting written comment on 

the request. 

DATES: EPA has tentatively scheduled a 

public hearing concerning CARB’s 


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