103824 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 244 / Thursday, December 19, 2024 / Notices 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OAR–2023–0113; FRL–12489–01– 

OMS] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget for Review 

and Approval; Comment Request; New 

Source Performance Standards (NSPS) 

for Portland Cement Plants (Renewal) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) has submitted an 

information collection request (ICR), 

NSPS for Portland Cement Plants (EPA 

ICR Number 1051.16, OMB Control 

Number 2060–0025), to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and approval in accordance with 

the Paperwork Reduction Act. This is a 

proposed extension of the ICR, which is 

currently approved through December 

31, 2024. Public comments were 

previously requested, via the Federal 

Register on May 18, 2023, during a 60- 

day comment period. This notice allows 

for an additional 30 days for public 

comments. 

DATES: Comments may be submitted on 

or before January 21, 2025. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing Docket ID Number EPA– 

HQ–OAR–2023–0113, to EPA online 

using www.regulations.gov/ (our 

preferred method), or by email to a-andr-docket@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA 

Docket Center, Environmental 

Protection Agency, Mail Code 28221T, 

1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, 

Washington, DC 20460. 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 (CBI) or other 

information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. 

Submit comments and 

recommendations to OMB for the 

proposed information collection within 

30 days of publication of this notice to 

www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRA Main. 

Find this specific information collection 

by selecting ‘‘Currently under 30-day 

Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or 

by using the search function. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Muntasir Ali, Sector Policies and 

Program Division (D243–05), Office of 

Air Quality Planning and Standards, 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 

27711; telephone number: (919) 541– 

0833; email address: ali.muntasir@

epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a 

proposed extension of the ICR, which is 

currently approved through December 

31, 2024. An Agency may neither 

conduct nor sponsor, and a person is 

not required to respond to, a collection 

of information unless it displays a 

currently valid OMB control number. 

Public comments were previously 

requested via the Federal Register on 

May 18, 2023 during a 60-day comment 

period (88 FR 31748). This notice allows 

for an additional 30 days for public 

comments. 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 https://www.regulations.gov, or in 

person, at the EPA Docket Center, WJC 

West Building, 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. 

Abstract: The New Source 

Performance Standards for Portland 

Cement Plants (40 CFR part 60, subpart 

F) were promulgated on December 23, 

1971; and amended on both February 

12, 2013, and July 27, 2015. These 

regulations apply to existing and new 

kilns, clinker coolers, raw mill systems, 

raw mill dryers, raw material storage, 

clinker storage, finished product 

storage, conveyor transfer points, 

bagging and bulk loading and unloading 

systems at portland cement plants. New 

facilities include those that commenced 

construction, modification, or 

reconstruction after the date of proposal. 

This information is being collected to 

assure compliance with 40 CFR part 60, 

subpart F. 

In general, all NSPS standards require 

initial notifications, performance tests, 

and periodic reports by the owners/ 

operators of the affected facilities. They 

are also required to maintain records of 

the occurrence and duration of any 

startup, shutdown, or malfunction in 

the operation of an affected facility or 

any period during which the monitoring 

system is inoperative. These 

notifications, reports, and records are 

essential in determining compliance, 

and are required of all affected facilities 

subject to NSPS. 

Form Numbers: None. 

Respondents/affected entities: 

Portland cement plants. 

Respondent’s obligation to respond: 

Mandatory (40 CFR part 60, subpart F). 

Estimated number of respondents: 92 

(total). 

Frequency of response: Initially, 

semiannually. 

Total estimated burden: 14,100 hours 

(per year). Burden is defined at 5 CFR 

1320.3(b). 

Total estimated cost: $2,810,000 (per 

year), which includes $1,040,000 in 

annualized capital/startup and/or 

operation & maintenance costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is no 

change in burden from the mostrecently approved ICR as currently 

identified in the OMB Inventory of 

Approved Burdens. This is due to two 

considerations: (1) the regulations have 

not changed over the past three years 

and are not anticipated to change over 

the next three years; and (2) the growth 

rate for this industry is very low or nonexistent, so there is no significant 

change in the overall burden. There is 

an increase in capital and operation & 

maintenance costs due to an adjustment 

to increase from 2011 to 2022 $ using 

the CEPCI Equipment Cost Index. 

Courtney Kerwin, 

Director, Regulatory Support Division. 

[FR Doc. 2024–30266 Filed 12–18–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ– EPA–HQ–OAR–2024–0597; FRL– 

12502–01–OAR] 

Alternative Methods for Calculating 

Off-Cycle Credits Under the Light-Duty 

Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions 

Program: Application From Mitsubishi 

Motors Corporation 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is requesting comment on 

an application from Mitsubishi Motors 

Corporation (‘‘MMC’’) for off-cycle 

carbon dioxide (CO2) credits under 

EPA’s light-duty vehicle greenhouse gas 

emissions standards. ‘‘Off-cycle’’ 

emission reductions can be achieved by 

employing technologies that result in 

real-world benefits, but where that 

benefit is not adequately captured on 

the test procedures used by 

manufacturers to demonstrate 

compliance with emission standards. 

EPA’s light-duty vehicle greenhouse gas 

program acknowledges these benefits by 

giving automobile manufacturers several 

options for generating ‘‘off-cycle’’ CO2

credits. Under the regulations, a 

manufacturer may apply for CO2 credits 


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1See 40 CFR 86.1869–12(b). 

2See 40 CFR 86.1869–12(c). 

3See 40 CFR 86.1869–12(d). 4See 40 CFR 86.1869–12(d)(2). 

for off-cycle technologies that result in 

off-cycle benefits. In these cases, a 

manufacturer must provide EPA with a 

proposed methodology for determining 

the real-world off-cycle benefit. MMC 

submitted their application describing a 

methodology for determining off-cycle 

credits from the technology described in 

their application. Pursuant to applicable 

regulations, EPA is making this off-cycle 

credit calculation methodology 

available for public comment. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before January 21, 2025. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments 

referencing Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OAR–2024–0597 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, Mailcode 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: 

David Wright, Environmental Protection 

Specialist, Office of Transportation and 

Air Quality, Implementation, Analysis 

and Compliance Division, U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency, 2000 

Traverwood Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 

48105. Telephone: (734) 214–4467. 

Email address: wright.davida@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

EPA’s light-duty vehicle greenhouse 

gas (GHG) program provides three 

pathways by which a manufacturer may 

accrue off-cycle carbon dioxide (CO2) 

credits for those technologies that 

achieve CO2 reductions in the real 

world but where those reductions are 

not adequately captured on the test used 

to determine compliance with the CO2

standards, and which are not otherwise 

reflected in the standards’ stringency. 

The first pathway is a predetermined 

list of credit values for specific off-cycle 

technologies that may be used beginning 

in model year 2014.1 This pathway 

allows manufacturers to use 

conservative credit values established 

by EPA for a wide range of technologies, 

with minimal data submittal or testing 

requirements, if the technologies meet 

EPA regulatory definitions. In cases 

where the off-cycle technology is not on 

the menu but additional laboratory 

testing can demonstrate emission 

benefits, a second pathway allows 

manufacturers to use a broader array of 

emission tests (known as ‘‘5-cycle’’ 

testing because the methodology uses 

five different testing procedures) to 

demonstrate and justify off-cycle CO2

credits.2 The additional emission tests 

allow emission benefits to be 

demonstrated over some elements of 

real-world driving not adequately 

captured by the GHG compliance tests, 

including high speeds, hard 

accelerations, and cold temperatures. 

These first two methodologies were 

completely defined through notice and 

comment rulemaking and therefore no 

additional process is necessary for 

manufacturers to use these methods. 

The third and last pathway allows 

manufacturers to seek EPA approval to 

use an alternative methodology for 

determining the off-cycle CO2 credits.3

This option is only available if the 

benefit of the technology cannot be 

adequately demonstrated using the 5- 

cycle methodology. Manufacturers may 

also use this option to demonstrate 

reductions that exceed those available 

via use of the predetermined list. 

Under the regulations, a manufacturer 

seeking to demonstrate off-cycle credits 

with an alternative methodology (i.e., 

under the third pathway described 

above) must describe a methodology 

that meets the following criteria: 

• Use modeling, on-road testing, onroad data collection, or other approved 

analytical or engineering methods; 

• Be robust, verifiable, and capable of 

demonstrating the real-world emissions 

benefit with strong statistical 

significance; 

• Result in a demonstration of 

baseline and controlled emissions over 

a wide range of driving conditions and 

number of vehicles such that issues of 

data uncertainty are minimized; 

• Result in data on a model type basis 

unless the manufacturer demonstrates 

that another basis is appropriate and 

adequate. 

Further, the regulations specify the 

following requirements regarding an 

application for off-cycle CO2 credits: 

• A manufacturer requesting off-cycle 

credits must develop a methodology for 

demonstrating and determining the 

benefit of the off-cycle technology and 

carry out any necessary testing and 

analysis required to support that 

methodology. 

• A manufacturer requesting off-cycle 

credits must conduct testing and/or 

prepare engineering analyses that 

demonstrate the in-use durability of the 

technology for the full useful life of the 

vehicle. 

• The application must contain a 

detailed description of the off-cycle 

technology and how it functions to 

reduce CO2 emissions under conditions 

not represented on the compliance tests. 

• The application must contain a list 

of the vehicle model(s) which will be 

equipped with the technology. 

• The application must contain a 

detailed description of the test vehicles 

selected and an engineering analysis 

that supports the selection of those 

vehicles for testing. 

• The application must contain all 

testing and/or simulation data required 

under the regulations, plus any other 

data the manufacturer has considered in 

the analysis. 

Finally, the alternative methodology 

must be approved by EPA prior to the 

manufacturer using it to generate 

credits. As part of the review process 

defined by regulation, the alternative 

methodology submitted to EPA for 

consideration must be made available 

for public comment.4 EPA will consider 

public comments as part of its final 

decision to approve or deny the request 

for off-cycle credits. 

II. Off-Cycle Credit Application 

A. High Efficiency Air Conditioning 

Scroll Compressor 

Using the alternative methodology 

approach described above, MMC is 

applying for off-cycle GHG credits for 

the use of a high efficiency air 

conditioning (A/C) scroll compressor. 

The MMC high efficiency A/C scroll 

compressor results in air conditioning 

efficiency credits beyond those 

provided in the regulations. 

Scroll A/C compressors are some of 

the most efficient compressors used for 

mobile air conditioning applications. 

This technology has been used in most 

of the electrical A/C compressors in use 

today. MMC has adopted this 

technology which provides improved 

efficiency relative to fixed displacement 

and electronically variable displacement 

piston A/C compressors. 

Scroll A/C compressors operate using 

a scroll that orbits around a fixed scroll. 

Fluid is compressed as it moves through 

the compressor and the volume between 

the scrolls is reduced. Utilizing the 

orbiting scroll for compression provides 

high volumetric efficiency due to 

reduced pressure losses compared to 

other compressor technologies. 

MMC is applying for credits for the 

2020 and later model years for vehicles 


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sold in the U.S. and equipped with the 

high efficiency A/C scroll compressor. 

MMC is requesting a credit value of 1.1 

grams/mile. As MMC notes in their 

application, technologies improving the 

efficiency of A/C systems are subject to 

credit caps as noted in 40 CFR 86.1868– 

12. The rationale for the credit cap is the 

additional fuel consumption of A/C 

systems can never be reduced to zero, 

and the limits established by regulation 

reflect the maximum possible reduction 

in fuel consumption projected by EPA. 

To ensure manufacturers do not 

generate A/C efficiency credits which 

would exceed the maximum possible 

reductions projected by EPA, EPA has 

applied the A/C menu credit caps to A/ 

C efficiency credits manufacturers have 

received using the alternative method 

process. Therefore, the appropriate A/C 

efficiency menu caps will also apply to 

MMC for their high efficiency A/C scroll 

compressor credit value. Details of the 

testing and analysis can be found in the 

manufacturer’s application. 

III. EPA Decision Process 

EPA has reviewed the applications for 

completeness and is now making the 

applications available for public review 

and comment as required by the 

regulations. The off-cycle credit 

applications submitted by the 

manufacturers (with confidential 

business information redacted) have 

been placed in the public docket (see 

ADDRESSES section above) and on EPA’s 

website at https://www.epa.gov/vecertification/compliance-informationlight-duty-greenhouse-gas-ghgstandards. 

EPA is providing a 30-day comment 

period on this application for off-cycle 

credits described in this notice, as 

specified by the regulations. The 

manufacturer may submit a written 

rebuttal of comments for EPA’s 

consideration or may revise an 

application in response to comments. 

After reviewing any public comments 

and any rebuttal of comments submitted 

by manufacturers, EPA will make a final 

decision regarding the credit request. 

EPA will make its decision available to 

the public by placing a decision 

document (or multiple decision 

documents) in the docket and on EPA’s 

website at the same manufacturerspecific pages shown above. 

Byron Bunker, 

Director, Implementation, Analysis and 

Compliance Division, Office of 

Transportation and Air Quality. 

[FR Doc. 2024–30081 Filed 12–18–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

[OMB 3060–1184; FR ID 268626] 

Information Collection Being Reviewed 

by the Federal Communications 

Commission 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: As part of its continuing effort 

to reduce paperwork burdens, and as 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act (PRA) of 1995, the Federal 

Communications Commission (FCC or 

Commission) invites the general public 

and other Federal agencies to take this 

opportunity to comment on the 

following information collections. 

Comments are requested concerning: 

whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

Commission, including whether the 

information shall have practical utility; 

the accuracy of the Commission’s 

burden estimate; ways to enhance the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information collected; ways to minimize 

the burden of the collection of 

information on the respondents, 

including the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology; and ways to 

further reduce the information 

collection burden on small business 

concerns with fewer than 25 employees. 

The FCC may not conduct or sponsor a 

collection of information unless it 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number. No person shall be subject to 

any penalty for failing to comply with 

a collection of information subject to the 

PRA that does not display a valid OMB 

control number. 

DATES: Written PRA comments should 

be submitted on or before February 18, 

2025. If you anticipate that you will be 

submitting comments but find it 

difficult to do so within the period of 

time allowed by this notice, you should 

advise the contact listed below as soon 

as possible. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all PRA comments to 

Cathy Williams, FCC, via email PRA@

fcc.gov and to Cathy.Williams@fcc.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

additional information about the 

information collection, contact Cathy 

Williams at (202) 418–2918. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

OMB Control Number: 3060–1184. 

Title: Sections 1.946(d), 1.949, 

27.10(d), 27.12, 27.13, 27.14 and 27.17, 

Service Rules for the Advanced Wireless 

Services H Block—Implementing 

Section 6401 of the Middle Class Tax 

Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 

Related to the 1915–1920 MHz and 

1995–2000 MHz Bands—R&O, FCC 13– 

88. 

Form Number: N/A. 

Type of Review: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents: Business or other forprofit entities. 

Number of Respondents and 

Responses: 1 respondent; 176 responses. 

Estimated Time per Response: 1 hour. 

Frequency of Response: On occasion 

reporting requirement and at the end of 

the license term for incumbent 

licensees. 

Obligation to Respond: Statutory 

authority for this collection are 

contained in sections 15 U.S.C. 79 et 

seq.; 47 U.S.C. 151, 154(i), 154(j), 155, 

157, 225, 227, 303(r), 309, 310, 1404, 

and 145. 

Total Annual Burden: 176 hours. 

Total Annual Cost: No cost. 

Needs and Uses: On June 27, 2013, 

the FCC adopted: Service Rules for the 

Advanced Wireless Services H Block— 

Implementing section 6401 of the 

Middle Class Tax Relief and Job 

Creation Act of 2012 Related to the 

1915–1920 MHz and 1995–2000 MHz 

Bands, WT Docket 12–357, Report and 

Order, 28 FCC Rcd 9483 (2013) (H Block 

R&O). The H Block R&O adopted service 

rules for the H Block and makes 

available 10 MHz of paired spectrum for 

flexible use in accordance with the 

Middle Class Tax Relief and Job 

Creation Act of 2012. The H Block R&O 

contained new information collection 

requirements. Sections 1.949 and 27.13 

are being added to this collection to 

clarify that the filing of the construction 

notifications and renewal applications 

involves the interaction of two 

regulations. 

For the purpose of this collection, a 

winning bidder of H Block spectrum 

must comply with each of the following 

rule sections: 

(a) Sections 1.946(d) and 27.14 

require H Block licensees to file a 

construction notification and certify that 

they have met the applicable 

performance benchmarks. 

(b) Sections 1.949 and 27.13 require H 

Block licensees to file renewal 

applications and certify that they 

continue to provide at least the level of 

service required by its final performance 

requirement through the end of any 

subsequent license term or include a 

detailed description of: (1) the level and 

quality of service provided by the 

applicant; (2) the date service 

commenced; (3) whether service was 

ever interrupted; (4) the duration of any 


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