Document ID: EPA-HQ-OECA-2018-0248-0017
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Air Stationary Source Compliance and Enforcement Information Reporting (Renewal)
Posted Date: 2023-02-24T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 37 (Friday, February 24, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11915-11916]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-03824]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OECA-2018-0248; FRL-10744-01-OMS]

Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the 
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment 
Request; Air Stationary Source Compliance and Enforcement Information 
Reporting (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), Air Stationary Source Compliance 
and Enforcement Information Reporting (EPA ICR Number 0107.14, OMB 
Control Number 2060-0096) 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 February 28, 2023. Public comments were previously requested 
via the Federal Register on August 26, 2022 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 March 27, 2023.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-

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HQ-OECA-2018-0248, to EPA online using https://www.regulations.gov/ 
(our preferred method), by email to [email protected], 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 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: David A. Meredith, Enforcement 
Targeting and Data Division, Office of Compliance, (2222A), U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, 
DC 20460; telephone number: 202-564-4152; email address: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a proposed extension of the ICR, 
which is currently approved through February 28, 2023. 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 26, 2022, during a 60-day comment period (87 FR 52552). 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 
http://www.epa.gov/dockets.
    Abstract: Air Stationary Source Compliance and Enforcement 
Information Reporting is an activity whereby State, Local, Tribal, 
Territorial, and Commonwealth governments (hereafter referred to as 
``delegated agencies'') report air stationary source compliance and 
enforcement information to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 
(the EPA or the Agency) on a regular basis. The information is provided 
to the EPA via input to the Integrated Compliance Information System 
(ICIS). ICIS contains compliance and enforcement information on 
thousands of facilities regulated under numerous federal statutes 
including the Clean Water Act--National Pollutant Discharge and 
Elimination System (NPDES) program. The modules within ICIS that are 
used to report air-related data are collectively referred to as ICIS-
Air. Agencies receive delegation of the CAA through regulated grant 
authorities and report compliance/enforcement activities undertaken at 
stationary sources pursuant to the minimum data requirements as 
outlined in this ICR. The majority of delegated agencies maintain their 
own data system and extract data from it and report it to ICIS-Air 
using either electronic data transfer (EDT) or manually (``direct 
entry''). A small number of delegated agencies use ICIS-Air exclusively 
since they have no internal air compliance and enforcement database. 
The information provided to the EPA includes source information, 
compliance monitoring activities, violation determinations, and 
enforcement activities. The EPA uses this information and information 
from other data systems such as the Compliance and Emissions Data 
Interface (CEDRI) to assess the health of the compliance and 
enforcement program established under the Clean Air Act (CAA), to 
perform oversight activities of delegated agencies, and to provide 
public transparency about activities and findings related to compliance 
and enforcement at individual facilities or aggregated categories of 
facilities. The EPA also uses ICIS-Air to record comparable federal 
activities to support program management and transparency.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: State, Local, Tribal, Territorial, 
and Commonwealth governments.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (section 114(a)(1) of 
the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. 7414(a)(1)).
    Estimated number of respondents: 117 (total).
    Frequency of response: Every 60 days.
    Total estimated burden: 33,400 hours.
    Estimated annual cost: $1,770,000. There are no annualized capital/
startup or operation & maintenance costs.
    Changes in estimates: There is decrease of 18,013 hours in the 
total estimated respondent burden compared with the ICR currently 
approved by OMB. The decrease is largely a result of respondents no 
longer transitioning from the AFS system to the ICIS-Air system, an 
activity that was included in the previously approved burden level of 
51,413 hours. Additionally, many agencies now use a more efficient EDT 
submission method, which also reduces the annual burden.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2023-03824 Filed 2-23-23; 8:45 am]
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