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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 10 (Thursday, January 16, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4736-4737]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-01037]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2020-0415; FRL-12559-01-OMS]

Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the 
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment 
Request; Implementation of the 8-Hour National Ambient Air Quality 
Standards for Ozone (Renewal)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an 
information collection request (ICR), Implementation of the 8-hour 
National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Ozone (EPA ICR Number 
2347.05, OMB Control Number 2060-0695) 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 January 31, 2025. Public comments were 
previously requested, via the Federal Register, on August 15. 2024 
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 February 18, 2025.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OAR-2020-0415, to EPA online using www.regulations.gov (our preferred 
method), 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.
    Submit written comments and recommendations to OMB for the proposed 
information collection within 30 days of publication of this notice to 
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular information 
collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--Open for 
Public Comments'' or by using the search function.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Francis Oggeri, Office of Air 
Quality Planning and Standards, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 
1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: 
(919) 541-3255; email address: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a proposed extension of the ICR, 
which is currently approved through January 31, 2025. 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. Public comments were previously requested via the 
Federal Register on August 15, 2024 during a 60-day comment period. 
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 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 
https://www.epa.gov/dockets.
    Abstract: This ICR that estimates the burden on states for 
implementation-related activities associated with the 2008 and 2015 
ozone NAAQS. States with nonattainment areas for the 2008 and 2015 
ozone NAAQS are implementing the NAAQS under the CAA and implementation 
regulations issued for that NAAQS. The state activities include, but 
are not limited to, developing and submitting attainment 
demonstrations, reasonable further progress plans, and reasonably 
available control technology (RACT) determinations. This ICR renewal 
estimates the burden for states to meet the ongoing planning 
requirements that apply to their remaining nonattainment areas for the 
2008 and 2015 NAAQS. These requirements primarily affect 2015 ozone 
nonattainment areas that may fail to attain the NAAQS by their 
attainment date during this period and be reclassified to a higher 
classification with new SIP revisions required from the states. In 
addition, this ICR renewal includes burden estimates for state and EPA 
activities related to implementing second Maintenance Plans for the 
2008 8-hour ozone standard.
    The estimates included in this ICR renewal include both the state 
burden to develop and submit attainment plans to meet the requirements 
prescribed in CAA sections 110 and Part D, subparts 1 and 2 of Title I 
as interpreted by EPA's SIP requirements rules. An ozone NAAQS 
attainment plan contains state rules and other measures designed to 
improve air quality and achieve the NAAQS by the deadlines established 
under the CAA. It also must address several additional CAA requirements 
related to demonstrating timely attainment and contain contingency 
measures if the nonattainment area does not achieve reasonable further 
progress throughout the attainment period or if the area does not 
attain the NAAQS by its attainment date. States that have attained by 
the applicable attainment date may be eligible to submit a 
redesignation request and maintenance plan to receive a redesignation 
from ``nonattainment to ``attainment''.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: State and Local Governments.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory.
    Estimated number of respondents: 67 (total).
    Frequency of response: Once per triggering event, e.g., an air 
agency is required to revise and submit a SIP revision when the area is 
designated nonattainment or reclassified to a higher

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classification or if it is in an OTR member state to determine if RACT 
is satisfied by the previously approved state SIP. An air agency is 
also required to submit a second 10-year maintenance plan for 
maintenance areas or portions of maintenance areas for the 2008 ozone 
NAAQS.
    Total estimated burden: 53,667 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.03(b).
    Total estimated cost: $4,540,200 (per year), which includes $0 
annualized capital or operation & maintenance costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is a decrease in the annual burden 
of 65,466 hours below the 119,133 hours estimated from the last 
approved ICR for 8-hour ozone NAAQS implementation. The primary reason 
for this decrease is that the previous ICR accounted for some 
respondents continuing to submit information for the 2008 NAAQS, 
respondents continuing to report on the revoked 1997 NAAQS, and 
respondents submitting initial information for all 52 nonattainment 
areas for the 2015 NAAQS. The estimates provided in this supporting 
statement differ from the prior 2015/2008/1997 combined NAAQS estimate 
due to decreases resulting from: the total state respondents reduced 
from 96 NAAs for the 2015/2008/1997 ozone NAAQS to 66 NAAs for the 
combined 2008 and 2015 ozone NAAQS, removal of the burden estimate for 
the states in the Ozone Transport Regions to certify the current state 
SIPs meet CAA section 184(b)(1)(B) RACT requirements; no 1997 8-hour 
ozone second maintenance plans due during the next three years; no 2008 
8-hour ozone NAAQS needing to be reclassified to a higher class.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2025-01037 Filed 1-15-25; 8:45 am]
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