

[Federal Register: November 27, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 227)]
[Notices]               
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2007-0176; FRL-8499-3]

 
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for 
Review and Approval; Comment Request; Reformulated Gasoline and 
Conventional Gasoline: Requirements for Refiners, Oxygenated Blenders, 
and Importers of Gasoline, Requirements for Parties in the Gasoline 
Distribution Network (Renewal), EPA ICR No. 1591.24, OMB Control No. 
2060-0277

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44 
U.S.C. 3501, et seq.), this document announces that an Information 
Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. This is a request to renew an 
existing approved collection. The ICR, which is abstracted below, 
describes the nature of the information collection and its estimated 
burden and cost.

DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before December 27, 
2007.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-
2007-0176, to (1) EPA online using http://www.regulations.gov (our preferred method), by e-mail to a-and-r-Docket@epa.gov or by mail to: EPA Docket 

Center, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), 
Air and Radiation Docket, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 
20460, and (2) OMB by mail to: Office of Information and Regulatory 
Affairs, Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Attention: Desk Officer 
for EPA, 725 17th Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jose M. Solar, Office of 
Transportation and Air Quality, mail code 6406J, Environmental 
Protection Agency, 1200

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Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: 202-
343-9027; fax number: 202-343-2801; e-mail address: Solar.Jose@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has submitted the following ICR to OMB 
for review and approval according to the procedures prescribed in 5 CFR 
1320.12. On Tuesday, July 31, 2007 (72 FR 41747), EPA sought comments 
on this ICR pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received no comments. Any 
additional comments on this ICR should be submitted to EPA and OMB 
within 30 days of this notice.
    EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID 
No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2007-0176, which is available for online viewing at 
http://www.regulations.gov, or in person viewing at the Office of Air and 

Radiation Docket in the EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West, Room 
3334, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC. The EPA/DC Public 
Reading Room is open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, 
excluding legal holidays. The telephone number for the Reading Room is 
202-566-1744, and the telephone number for the Office of Air and 
Radiation Docket is 202-566-1742.
    Use EPA's electronic docket and comment system at 
http://www.regulations.gov, to submit or view public comments, access the 

index listing of the contents of the docket, and to access those 
documents in the docket that are available electronically. Once in the 
system, select ``docket search,'' then key in the docket ID number 
identified above. Please note that EPA's policy is that public 
comments, whether submitted electronically or in paper, will be made 
available for public viewing at http://www.regulations.gov as EPA receives 

them and without change, unless the comment contains copyrighted 
material, confidential business information (CBI), or other information 
whose public disclosure is restricted by statute. For further 
information about the electronic docket, go to http://www.regulations.gov.

    Title: Reformulated Gasoline and Conventional Gasoline: 
Requirements for Refiners, Oxygenated Blenders, and Importers of 
Gasoline and Requirements for Parties in the Gasoline Distribution 
Network (Renewal).
    ICR numbers: EPA ICR No. 1591.24, OMB Control No. 2060-0277.
    ICR Status: This ICR is scheduled to expire on November 30, 2007. 
Under OMB regulations, the Agency may continue to conduct or sponsor 
the collection of information while this submission is pending at OMB. 
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. The OMB control numbers for EPA's regulations 
in title 40 of the CFR, after appearing in the Federal Register when 
approved, are listed in 40 CFR part 9, are displayed either by 
publication in the Federal Register or by other appropriate means, such 
as on the related collection instrument or form, if applicable. The 
display of OMB control numbers in certain EPA regulations is 
consolidated in 40 CFR part 9.
    Abstract: Gasoline combustion is the major source of air pollution 
in most urban areas. In the 1990 Amendments to the Clean Air Act (Act), 
section 211(k), Congress required that gasoline dispensed in nine areas 
with severe air quality problems, and areas that opt-in, be 
reformulated to reduce toxic and ozone-forming emissions. (Ozone is 
also known as smog.) Congress also required that, in the process of 
producing reformulated gasoline (RFG), dirty components removed in the 
reformulation process not be ``dumped'' into the remainder of the 
country's gasoline, known as conventional gasoline (CG). The 
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) promulgated regulations at 40 CFR 
part 80, Subpart D--Reformulated Gasoline, Subpart E--Anti-Dumping, and 
Subpart F--Attest Engagements, implementing the statutory requirements, 
which include standards for RFG (Sec.  80.41) and CG (Sec.  80.101). 
The regulations also contain reporting and recordkeeping requirements 
for the production, importation, transport and storage of gasoline, in 
order to demonstrate compliance and facilitate compliance and 
enforcement.
    The program is run by the Transportation and Regional Programs 
Division, Office of Transportation and Air Quality, Office of Air and 
Radiation. Enforcement is done by the Air Enforcement Division, Office 
of Regulatory Enforcement, Office of Enforcement and Compliance 
Assurance. This program excludes California, which has separate 
requirements for gasoline.
    Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping 
burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 2.4 
hours per response. Burden means the total time, effort, or financial 
resources expended by persons to generate, maintain, retain, or 
disclose or provide information to or for a Federal agency. This 
includes the time needed to review instructions; develop, acquire, 
install, and utilize technology and systems for the purposes of 
collecting, validating, and verifying information, processing and 
maintaining information, and disclosing and providing information; 
adjust the existing ways to comply with any previously applicable 
instructions and requirements which have subsequently changed; train 
personnel to be able to respond to a collection of information; search 
data sources; complete and review the collection of information; and 
transmit or otherwise disclose the information.
    Respondents/Affected Entities: Refiners, Oxygenate Blenders, and 
Importers of Gasoline; Requirements for Parties in the Gasoline 
Distribution Network.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 4,068.
    Frequency of Response: Once, Quarterly, Annually, On Occasion.
    Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 127,041.
    Estimated Total Annual Cost: $35,255,669, which includes 
$25,092,389 in annualized capital or O&M costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is an increase of 5,351 hours in 
the total estimated burden currently identified in the OMB Inventory of 
Approved ICR Burdens. This increase is due to new requirements.

    Dated: November 20, 2007.
Sara Hisel-McCoy,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. E7-23074 Filed 11-26-07; 8:45 am]

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