Proposed Information Collection Request; Comment Request; Reformulated Gasoline Commingling Provisions (Renewal)

Byron Bunker
Environmental Protection Agency
23 November 2016

[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 226 (Wednesday, November 23, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 84577-84578]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-28260]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2006-0745; FRL-9955-55-OAR]


Proposed Information Collection Request; Comment Request; 
Reformulated Gasoline Commingling Provisions (Renewal)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is planning to 
submit an

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information collection request (ICR), ``Reformulated Gasoline 
Commingling Provisions'' (EPA ICR No 2228.05, 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.). 
Before doing so, EPA is soliciting public comments on specific aspects 
of the proposed information collection as described below. This is a 
renewal of the ICR, which is currently approved through December 31, 
2016. 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: Comments must be submitted on or before January 23, 2017.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-
2006-0745, 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.
    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, Fuels Compliance 
Center, 6406J, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. 
NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: 202-343-9017; fax number: 
202-565-2085; 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, 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.
    Pursuant to section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA, EPA is soliciting 
comments and information to enable it to: (i) Evaluate whether the 
proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper 
performance of the functions of the Agency, including whether the 
information will have practical utility; (ii) evaluate the accuracy of 
the Agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of 
information, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions 
used; (iii) enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the 
information to be collected; and (iv) minimize the burden of the 
collection of information on those who are to respond, including 
through the use of appropriate automated electronic, mechanical, or 
other technological collection techniques or other forms of information 
technology, e.g., permitting electronic submission of responses. EPA 
will consider the comments received and amend the ICR as appropriate. 
The final ICR package will then be submitted to OMB for review and 
approval. At that time, EPA will issue another Federal Register notice 
to announce the submission of the ICR to OMB and the opportunity to 
submit additional comments to OMB.
    Abstract: With this information collection request (ICR), the 
Office of Air and Radiation (OAR) is seeking permission to accept 
notifications from gasoline retailers and wholesale purchaser-consumers 
related to commingling of ethanol blended and non-ethanol-blended 
reformulated gasoline (RFG) under Sec.  1513 of the Energy Policy Act 
of 2005 (EPAct) and 40 CFR 80.78(a)(8)(ii)(B); and to provide for a 
compliance option whereby a retailer or wholesale purchaser-consumer 
may demonstrate compliance via test results under
    Sec.  80.78(a)(8)(iii)(A). These provisions are designed to grant 
compliance flexibility. Parties were first subject to this 
recordkeeping and reporting on June 1, 2006.
    Section 1513 of the EPAct addresses the combining of ethanol-
blended RFG with non-ethanol-blended RFG. This provision amended the 
Clean Air Act (CAA) to add a new Sec.  211(s) providing retail outlets 
two ten-day opportunities during a single VOC-control season to blend 
batches of ethanol-blended and non-ethanol- blended RFG. Under this new 
section, retail outlets are allowed to sell non-ethanol-blended RFG 
which has been combined with ethanol blended RFG under certain 
conditions.
    Form Numbers: No.
    Respondents/Affected Entities: Gasoline Stations, Gasoline stations 
with convenience stores, Gasoline stations without convenience stores
    Respondent's Obligation to Respond: mandatory Section 114 and 208 
of the Clean Air Act (CAA), 42 U.S.C. 7414 and 7542
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 39,165 (total).
    Frequency of Response: Annually
    Total Estimated Burden: 19,116 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.03(b)
    Total Estimated Cost: $344,093 (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 5,750 
members. The number of responses also declined from 84,050 to 76,465, a 
difference of 7,585 reports, which reduced the industry burden hours 
from 21,013 hours to 19,116 hours, a difference of 1,897 hours. With 
the decline of respondents, burden hours and responses, the cost 
associated with this ICR is $344,093 a difference of $13,128 calculated 
from the prior collection approved by OMB.

    Dated: November 16, 2016.
Byron Bunker,
Director, Compliance Division, Office of Transportation and Air 
Quality, Office of Air and Radiation, U.S. Environmental Protection 
Agency.
[FR Doc. 2016-28260 Filed 11-22-16; 8:45 am]
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