Document ID: EPA-HQ-OLEM-2020-0354-0003
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Gathering Data on Results of Annual and Triennial Testing To Evaluate the Impacts of 2015 Federal Underground Storage Tank Regulation
Posted Date: 2021-03-19T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 52 (Friday, March 19, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14914-14915]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-05654]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OLEM-2020-0354; FRL--10021-68-OMS]

Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; Gathering Data on Results of Annual and 
Triennial Testing To Evaluate the Impacts of EPA's 2015 Federal 
Underground Storage Tank Regulation

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an 
information collection request (ICR), Gathering Data on Results of 
Annual and Triennial Testing to Evaluate the Impacts of EPA's 2015 
Federal Underground Storage Tank Regulation (EPA ICR No. 2650.01, OMB 
Control No. 2050-NEW) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for 
review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. 
This is a request for approval of a new collection. Public comments 
were previously requested via the Federal Register on November 5, 2020 
during a 60-day comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 
days for public comments. A fuller description of the ICR is given 
below, including its estimated burden and cost to the public. 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.

DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before April 19, 
2021.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to EPA, referencing Docket ID: EPA- HQ-
OLEM-2020-0354, online using www.regulations.gov (our preferred 
method), by email to docket_oms@epa.gov, 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.

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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: Elizabeth McDermott, Prevention 
Division, Office of Underground Storage Tanks, Mail Code 5401R, 
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, 
DC 20460; telephone number: 202-564-0646; email address: 
McDermott.Elizabeth@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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 http://www.epa.gov/dockets.
    Abstract: This information collection request will allow EPA to 
employ a contractor to compile data from private companies providing 
regular servicing and maintenance to owners of federally regulated 
underground storage tank systems (USTs). The contractor will collect 
and assimilate testing data from several UST servicing companies. The 
contractor's deliverable will be a database of the performance results 
over multiple iterations of newly required UST testing procedures in 
various states across the country. These new tests were required by the 
2015 UST regulation and are performed either annually or triennially. 
The data gathered will be pass/fail results from several testing 
measures, taken from facilities in 17 states where regulations went 
into effect soonest. These facilities were first required to be tested 
sometime after the 2015 federal regulation passed, with the second 
round of triennial required testing to be completed by October 2021.
    The completed dataset of test results will allow EPA to evaluate 
the effectiveness of several of the newly required measures to prevent 
fuel releases that was required in the 2015 federal UST regulation. 
Data will be compiled from UST servicing companies about tests 
performed prior to the initial testing deadline, and from tests results 
for regulatory compliance for the second test required either within 
one year or three years after the initial test (depending on the test 
requirements). EPA may use the data to identify if, and by how much, 
testing required by the regulation impacts pass/fail rates over time. 
EPA is interested in quantitatively assessing if pass/fail rates 
improve between initial and subsequent rounds of testing in those 
states where data is collected.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: UST testing and compliance 
companies, UST facility owners and operators.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Voluntary.
    Estimated number of respondents: 680 (total).
    Frequency of response: One-time collection.
    Total estimated burden: 4,817 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.03(b).
    Total estimated cost: $605,186 (per year), includes no annualized 
capital or operation & maintenance costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: This is a request for a new collection.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2021-05654 Filed 3-18-21; 8:45 am]
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