Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Regulation of Fuels and Fuel Additives: Detergent Gasoline (Renewal)

Courtney Kerwin
Environmental Protection Agency
September 25, 2014

[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 186 (Thursday, September 25, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 57552-57553]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-22749]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2007-0595; FRL-9917-04-OEI]


Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; Regulation of Fuels and Fuel Additives: 
Detergent Gasoline (Renewal)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency has submitted an 
information collection request (ICR), ``Regulation of Fuels and Fuel 
Additives: Detergent Gasoline (Renewal)'' (EPA ICR No. 1655.09, OMB 
Control No. 2060-0275) 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 September 30, 2014. Public comments were 
previously requested via the Federal Register (79 FR 24417) on April 
30, 2014 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 27, 
2014.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OAR-2007-0595, to (1) EPA 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 
oirasubmission@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: Jaimee Dong, Office of Transportation 
and Air Quality, (Mail Code: 6406J), Environmental Protection Agency, 
1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: 
(202) 343-9672; fax number: (202) 343-2802; email address: 
dong.jaimee@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, 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: Gasoline combustion results in the formation of engine 
deposits that contribute to increased emissions. Detergent additives 
deter deposit formation. The Clean Air Act requires gasoline to contain 
a detergent additive. The regulations at 40 CFR part 80, subpart G 
specify certification requirements for manufacturers of detergent 
additives, recordkeeping and reporting requirements for blenders of 
detergents into gasoline or post-refinery component (any gasoline 
blending stock or any oxygenate which is blended with gasoline 
subsequent to the gasoline refining process), and recordkeeping and 
reporting requirements for manufacturers, transferors, or transferees 
of detergents, gasoline, or post-refinery component (PRC). These 
requirements ensure that (1) a detergent is effective before it is 
certified by EPA, (2) a certified detergent, at the minimum 
concentration necessary to be effective (known as the lowest additive 
concentration (LAC)), is blended into gasoline, and (3) only gasoline 
which contains a certified detergent at its LAC is delivered to the 
consumer. The EPA maintains a list of certified gasoline detergents, 
which is publicly available.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: Manufacturers, transferors and 
transferees, and blenders into gasoline or post-refinery component of 
detergent additives; and detergent additive researchers.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory.
    Estimated number of respondents: 1354 (total).

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    Frequency of response: Once, occasionally annually.
    Total estimated burden: 220,181 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.03(b).
    Total estimated cost: $18,854,168 including $335,040 annualized 
capital or O&M costs.
    Changes in the estimates: There is no change in the total estimated 
burden currently identified in the OMB Inventory of Approved ICR 
Burdens.

Courtney Kerwin,
Acting Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. 2014-22749 Filed 9-24-14; 8:45 am]
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