Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Reformulated Gasoline Commingling Provisions (Renewal)

Topics:  Gasoline

John Moses
Environmental Protection Agency
August 22, 2013

[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 163 (Thursday, August 22, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52191-52192]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-20458]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2006-0745; FRL 9535-3]


Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; Reformulated Gasoline Commingling Provisions 
(Renewal)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency has submitted an 
information collection request (ICR), Reformulated Gasoline Commingling 
Provisions (Renewal) (EPA ICR No. 2228.04, OMB Control No. 2060-0587), 
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 August 31, 2013. Public comments were previously requested via 
the Federal Register (78 FR 20102) on April 3, 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 September 23, 
2013.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OAR-2006-0745, 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: Geanetta Heard, Fuel Compliance 
Center, 6406J, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. 
NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: 202-343-9017 fax number: 
202-566-1744 email address: heard.geanetta@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, William 
Jefferson Clinton Federal Building 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: EPA would like to continue collecting notifications from 
gasoline retailers and wholesale purchaser-consumer related to 
commingling of ethanol blended and non-ethanol blended reformulated 
gasoline. The test results will allow EPA to monitor compliance with 
the Reformulated Gasoline Commingling Provisions. We inform respondents 
that they may assert claims of business confidentiality (CBI) for 
information they submit in accordance with 40 CFR part 2.203.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: Gasoline stations, Gasoline stations 
with convenience stores, Gasoline stations without convenience stores.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory under the Clean Air 
Act (CAA), 42 U.S.C. Sec. Sec.  7414 and 7542.
    Estimated number of respondents: 43,050.
    Frequency of response: Annually.
    Total estimated burden: 21,013 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.03(b).
    Total estimated cost: $357,221 (per year), includes $0 annualized 
capital or operation & maintenance costs.
    Changes in Estimates: The change in burden from the prior ICR is 
due in part to better numbers extracted from business and industry 
economic statistics that assisted in calculating the numbers of 
respondents. These better numbers reduced the party size by 13,650 
members. The number of responses also declined from 110,700 to 84,050 a 
difference of 26,650 reports, which reduced the industry burden hours 
from 27,675 to 21,013. We also found that the original cost per 
response was overstated by a factor of 2. With the decline of 
respondents, burden hours and responses, and revision of the cost per 
response, the cost associated with this ICR is $357,221, a difference 
of

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$528,379, calculated from the prior collection approved by OMB.

John Moses,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. 2013-20458 Filed 8-21-13; 8:45 am]
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