Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Reformulated Gasoline and Conventional Gasoline: Requirements for Refiners, Oxygenate Blenders, and Importers of Gasoline; Requirements for Parties in the Gasoline Distribution Network (Renewal)

Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Reformulated Gasoline and Conventional Gasoline: Requirements for Refiners, Oxygenate Blenders, and Importers of Gasoline; Requirements for Parties in the Gasoline Distribution Network (Renewal)

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Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Reformulated Gasoline and Conventional Gasoline: Requirements for Refiners, Oxygenate Blenders, and Importers of Gasoline; Requirements for Parties in the Gasoline Distribution Network (Renewal)

Courtney Kerwin
Environmental Protection Agency
22 May 2020

[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 100 (Friday, May 22, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Page 31183]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-11066]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2014-0548; FRL 10005-92-OMS]

Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and
Approval; Comment Request; Reformulated Gasoline and Conventional
Gasoline: Requirements for Refiners, Oxygenate Blenders, and Importers
of Gasoline; Requirements for Parties in the Gasoline Distribution
Network (Renewal)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an
information collection request (ICR), Reformulated Gasoline and
Conventional Gasoline: Requirements for Refiners, Oxygenate Blenders,
and Importers of Gasoline; Requirements for Parties in the Gasoline
Distribution Network (EPA ICR Number 1591.27, OMB Control Number 2060-
0277) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and
approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA). This is
a proposed extension of the ICR, which is currently approved through
May 31, 2020. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal
Register on August 20, 2019 during a 60-day comment period. This notice
allows for an additional 30 days for public comment. 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 must be submitted on or before June 22,
2020.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to EPA, referencing Docket ID No. EPA-
HQ-OAR-2014-0548, 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. 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.
Submit written comments and recommendations to OMB for the proposed
information collection within 30 days of publication of this notice to
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular information
collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--Open for
Public Comments'' or by using the search function.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jose Solar, Compliance Division,
Office of Transportation and Air Quality, (Mail Code 6405A),
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington,
DC 20460; telephone number: 202-343-9027; fax number: 202-343-2801;
email address: Solar.Jose@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: The regulations at 40 CFR 80 require gasoline be
reformulated to reduce toxic and ozone-forming emissions. 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. For example, refiners must report on the benzene content
of gasoline and other properties. Information claimed as confidential
is handled in accordance with EPA Freedom of Information Act
regulations at 40 CFR part 2. Electronic files received by the Agency
are stored in a secure data base.
Form Numbers: RFG0302, RFG0303, RFG0400, RFG0500, RFG0800, RFG0900,
RFG1000, RFG1200, RFG1300, RFG1400, RFG1600, RFG1700, RFG1800, RFG1900,
RFG2000, RFG2200, RFG2500, 3520-27, GSF0402, 5900-321. All information
about registration and links to reporting forms and the URF standard
reporting template are available at https://www.epa.gov/fuels-registration-reporting-and-compliance-help.
Respondents/affected entities: Refiners, importers, terminals,
pipelines, truckers and other distributors and retailers/wholesale
purchase-consumers. Some refiners are importers but that is not always
the case.
Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory per 40 CFR part 80.
Estimated number of respondents: 4,281.
Frequency of response: Quarterly, annually, or on occasion.
Total estimated burden: 126,846 hours (per year). Burden is defined
at 5 CFR 1320.03(b).
Total estimated cost: $39,450,368 (per year), includes $24,713,032
annualized capital or operation & maintenance costs.
Changes in Estimates: The burden estimate for each of the listed
categories has a slight reduction of 400 hours and one fewer report
compared to the existing clearance; these are due to the expiration of
the provision allowing for the submittal of a Foreign Refinery Baseline
Petition. Thus, there is a decrease of the estimated burden hours from
127,246 currently identified in the OMB Inventory of Approved ICR
Burdens to 126,846 hours and a decrease in the number of reports from
54,078 to 54,076.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2020-11066 Filed 5-21-20; 8:45 am]
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