Document ID: EPA-HQ-OLEM-2022-0440-0002
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 EPA's 2015 Federal Underground Storage Tank Regulation
Posted Date: 2022-09-09T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 174 (Friday, September 9, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55428-55429]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-19529]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OLEM-2022-0440; FRL-10202-01-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 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 Number 2650.02, 
OMB Control Number 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 
June 2, 2022 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 October 11, 
2022.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA- HQ-
OLEM-2022-0440, 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, and (2) OMB via email to [email protected]. Address 
comments to OMB Desk Officer for EPA.
    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: 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: 
[email protected].

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 
compliance testing to owners of federally regulated underground storage 
tank systems (USTs). The completed dataset of test results will allow 
EPA to evaluate the effectiveness of several of the newly required 
measures to prevent fuel releases included in the 2015 federal UST 
regulation: spill containment liquid tightness testing, containment 
sump liquid tightness testing (for containment sumps used for 
interstitial monitoring of piping of single-wall construction), 
overfill equipment inspections, and two types of annual leak detection 
equipment testing. EPA is interested in quantitatively assessing if 
passing rates improve between initial and subsequent rounds of testing 
in the 15 states from which data will be collected. EPA will use the 
data to identify if, and by how much, testing required by the 
regulation impacts equipment performance over time. EPA will use this 
information to enhance national UST program performance. EPA will share 
the information gathered from this collection with all state 
implementing agencies, who could use the results to better inform their 
future regulations, policies, and guidance for preventing UST releases. 
Sharing this information will help states implement their programs 
better, which will help EPA execute national UST program goals and 
better protect human health and the environment.
    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: 60.
    Frequency of response: One-time collection.
    Total estimated burden: 1,275 hours per year. Burden is defined at 
5 CFR 1320.03(b).
    Total estimated cost: $53,398.75 (per year), includes $0 annualized 
capital or operation & maintenance costs.

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    Changes in the Estimates: This is a request for a new collection.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2022-19529 Filed 9-8-22; 8:45 am]
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