Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Safe Management of Recalled Airbags Rule (Renewal)

Courtney Kerwin
Environmental Protection Agency
29 April 2019

[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 82 (Monday, April 29, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Page 18028]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-08601]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OLEM-2018-0646, FRL-9993-00-OMS]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for 
Review and Approval; Comment Request; Safe Management of Recalled 
Airbags Rule (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), Safe Management of Recalled 
Airbags Rule (EPA ICR Number 2589.03, OMB Control Number 2050-0221) to 
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in 
accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. This is a proposed 
extension of the ICR, which is currently approved through April 30, 
2019. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal 
Register on November 30, 2018 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 June 28, 2019.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OLEM-
2018-0646, to (1) EPA, either online using www.regulations.gov (our 
preferred method), or by email to rcra-docket@epa.gov, or by mail to: 
RCRA Docket (2822T), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 
Pennsylvania Avenue 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: Joseph Krahe, Office of Resource 
Conservation and Recovery (mail code 5301P), Environmental Protection 
Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460; telephone 
number: 703-308-8615; fax number: 703-308-0513; email address: 
krahe.joseph@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 EPA issued the interim final rule in response to the 
urgent public health issue posed by recalled Takata airbag inflators 
still installed in vehicles. The rule facilitates a more expedited 
removal of defective Takata airbag inflators from vehicles by 
dealerships, salvage yards and other locations for safe and 
environmentally sound disposal by exempting the collection of airbag 
waste from hazardous waste requirements so long as certain conditions 
are met. The collection of information is necessary in order to ensure 
that the hazardous waste airbag modules and airbag inflators exempted 
under this rule are safely disposed of and that defective airbag 
modules and airbag inflators are not reinserted into vehicles where 
they would pose an unreasonable risk of death or serious injury. 
Information collection activities include maintaining at the airbag 
handler for no less than three years records of (1) all off-site 
shipments and (2) confirmations of receipt of airbag waste.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: Business or other for-profit.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Required to obtain or retain a 
benefit (sections 2002, 3001, 3002, 3003, 3004, 3006, 3010, and 3017 of 
the Solid Waste Disposal Act).
    Estimated number of respondents: 15,256.
    Frequency of response: On occasion.
    Total estimated burden: 4,270 hours per year. Burden is defined at 
5 CFR 1320.03(b).
    Total estimated cost: $130,791 (per year), includes $0 annualized 
capital or operation & maintenance costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is a slight increase of 70 hours in 
the total estimated respondent burden compared with the ICR currently 
approved by OMB. This increase is due to more accurate estimates of the 
hourly burden.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2019-08601 Filed 4-26-19; 8:45 am]
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