Document ID: EPA-HQ-OAR-2003-0152-0025
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Compliance Assurance Monitoring Program
Posted Date: 2020-04-29T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 83 (Wednesday, April 29, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23822-23823]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-09027]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2003-0152; FRL-10005-68-OMS]

Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; Compliance Assurance Monitoring Program 
(Renewal)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an 
information collection request (ICR), Compliance Assurance Monitoring 
Program (EPA ICR Number 1663.10, OMB Control Number 2060-0376) to the 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in 
accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA). This is a proposed 
extension of the ICR, which is currently approved through June 30, 
2020. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal 
Register on August 26, 2019, during a 60-day comment period. This 
document 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 May 29, 2020.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to EPA, referencing Docket ID No. EPA-
HQ-OAR-2003-0152, 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, 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. Muntasir Ali, Office of Air 
Quality Planning and Standards, Sector Policies and Programs Division 
(D243-05), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle 
Park, North Carolina 27711; telephone number: (919) 541-0833; and email 
address: ali.muntasir@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 (Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2003-0152). 
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 Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20004. The telephone number for 
the EPA Docket Center is (202) 566-1744. For additional information 
about the EPA's public docket, visit https://www.epa.gov/dockets.
    Abstract: The Clean Air Act (CAA) contains several provisions 
directing the EPA to require source owners to conduct monitoring to 
support certification as to their status of compliance with applicable 
requirements. Under CAA section 504(c), each operating permit must 
``set forth inspection, entry, monitoring, compliance, certification 
and reporting requirements to assure compliance with the permit terms 
and conditions.'' See also CAA section 504(c) (each permit shall 
require reporting of monitoring the EPA and such other conditions as 
are necessary to assure compliance). CAA section 504(b) allows the EPA 
to prescribe rules, methods, and procedures for determining compliance, 
recognizing that continuous emissions monitoring systems need not be 
required if other procedures or methods provide sufficiently reliable 
and timely information for determining compliance. Section 114(a)(1) of 
the CAA provides additional authority concerning monitoring, reporting, 
and recordkeeping requirements. This section provides the Administrator 
with the authority to require any owner/operator of a source to install 
and to operate monitoring systems and to record the resulting 
monitoring data. The EPA promulgated the Compliance Assurance 
Monitoring (CAM) Rule, 40 CFR part 64, on October 22, 1997 (62 FR 
54900), pursuant to these provisions. Per 64.9(2)(a), the collection of 
information for monitoring will include: (1) Summary information on the 
number, duration and cause (including unknown cause, if applicable) of 
excursions or exceedances, as applicable, and the corrective actions 
taken, (2) Summary information on the number, duration and cause 
(including unknown cause, if applicable) for monitor downtime incidents 
(other than downtime associated with zero and span or other daily 
calibration checks, if applicable); and (3) a description of the 
actions taken to implement a QIP during the reporting period as 
specified in Sec.  64.8. Upon completion of a QIP, the owner or 
operator shall include in the next summary report documentation that 
the implementation of the plan has been completed and reduced the 
likelihood of similar levels of excursions or exceedances occurring. In 
accordance with CAA section 114(c) and CAA section 503(e), the 
monitoring information source owners must submit must also be available 
to the public except under circumstances set forth in section 114(c) of 
the CAA.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: Entities potentially affected by 
this section are all facilities required to have an operating permit 
under title V of the CAA. See section 502(a) of the CAA, which defines 
the sources to obtain a title V permit. See also 40 CFR 70.2 and 71.2.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory under title V of the 
CAA. See section 502(a) of the CAA, which defines the sources required 
to obtain a title V permit. See also 40 CFR 70.2 and 71.2.
    Estimated number of respondents: There are 21,448 pollutant-
specific emission units (PSEUs), and 117 permitting authorities. 
Therefore, the estimated number of respondents is 21,565 (total).
    Frequency of response: At least every 6 months per title V, 40 CFR 
70.6(a)(3)(iii)(A) and (B).
    Total estimated burden: 24,590 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.03(b).
    Total estimated cost: $999,211 (per year), includes $0 annualized 
capital or operation and maintenance costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is a decrease of 26,490 hours in 
the total estimated respondent burden compared with the ICR currently 
approved by OMB. This decrease is due to an updated estimate of the 
number of sources and permits subject to the 40 CFR part 70 programs (a 
reduction of 1,768 permits), an increase in the number of permitting 
authorities (an addition of one), a decrease in the number of CAM plan 
renewal review

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hours (a decrease of 5.5 hours per occurrence), and no new federal 
mandates.

Courtney Kerwin,
 Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2020-09027 Filed 4-28-20; 8:45 am]
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