Document ID: EPA-HQ-OAR-2003-0073-0012
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Distribution of Offsite Consequence Analysis Information under Clean Air Act
Posted Date: 2013-05-08T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 89 (Wednesday, May 8, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 26775-26776]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-10886]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2003-0073; FRL-9530-6]

Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; Distribution of Offsite Consequence Analysis 
Information Under the Clean Air Act (CAA) (Renewal)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency has submitted an 
information collection request (ICR), Distribution of Offsite 
Consequence Analysis Information under Section 112(r)(7)(H) of the 
Clean Air Act (CAA) (Renewal) (EPA ICR No. 1981.05, OMB Control No. 
2050-0172) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and 
approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 
et seq.). This is a proposed extension of the ICR, which is currently 
approved through June 30, 2013. Public comments were previously 
requested via the Federal Register (78 FR 2992) on January 15, 2013 
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 June 7, 2013.

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ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number, EPA-HQ-
OAR-2003-0073 to (1) EPA 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, and (2) OMB via email 
to oira_submission@omb.eop.gov. 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.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sicy Jacob, Office of Emergency 
Management, Mail Code 5104A, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 
Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 
564-8019; fax number: (202) 564-2620; email address: 
jacob.sicy@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, EPA 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: The Clean Air Act (CAA) section 112(r)(7) required EPA to 
promulgate reasonable regulations and appropriate guidance to provide 
for the prevention and detection of accidental releases and for 
responses to such releases. The regulations include requirements for 
submittal of a risk management plan (RMP) to EPA. The RMP includes 
information on offsite consequence analyses (OCA) as well as other 
elements of the risk management program.
    The Chemical Safety Information, Site Security, and Fuels 
Regulatory Relief Act (CSISSFRRA) required the President to promulgate 
regulations on the distribution of OCA information (CAA section 
112(r)(7)(H)(ii)). The state and local agencies who decide to obtain 
OCA information must send a written request on their official 
letterhead to EPA certifying that they are covered persons under Public 
Law 106-40, and that they will use the information for official use 
only. EPA will then provide OCA data to those agencies as requested. 
The rule authorizes and encourages state and local agencies to set up 
reading rooms. The local reading rooms provide read-only access to OCA 
information for all the sources in the Local Emergency Planning 
Committee's (LEPC) jurisdiction and for any source where the vulnerable 
zone extends into the LEPC's jurisdiction.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: States, local agencies and members 
of the public.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Voluntary.
    Estimated number of respondents: 865.
    Frequency of response: Annual, On Occasion.
    Total estimated burden: 1,515 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
    Total estimated cost: $48,919 per year, includes $65 annualized 
capital or operation & maintenance costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is a decrease of 7,815 hours in the 
total estimated respondent burden compared with the ICR currently 
approved by OMB. There has been a decrease in the number of people 
visiting the reading rooms to obtain OCA data, therefore decreasing the 
burden on respondents to provide the data.

John Moses,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. 2013-10886 Filed 5-7-13; 8:45 am]
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