Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Selective Enforcement Auditing Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements for On-Highway Heavy-Duty Engines, Nonroad Large Compression Ignition Engines, and On-Highway Light-Duty Vehicles and Light-Duty Trucks

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-5512-4]

Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB

Review; Comment Request; Selective Enforcement Auditing Reporting and

Recordkeeping Requirements for On-Highway Heavy-Duty Engines, Nonroad

Large Compression Ignition Engines, and On-Highway Light-Duty Vehicles

and Light-Duty Trucks

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501

et seq.), this notice announces that the following Information

Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management

and Budget (OMB) for review and approval: Application for Selective

Enforcement Auditing Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements for On-

Highway Heavy-Duty Engines, Nonroad Large Compression Ignition Engines,

and On-Highway Light-Duty Vehicles and Light-Duty Trucks (OMB Control

No. 2060-0064, approved through 6/30/96). The ICR describes the nature

of the information collection and its expected burden and cost; where

appropriate, it includes the actual data collection instrument.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before July 1, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION OR A COPY CALL: Sandy Farmer at EPA, (202) 260-

2740, and refer to EPA ICR No. 0011.08.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: Selective Enforcement Auditing Reporting and Recordkeeping

Requirements for On-Highway Heavy-Duty Engines, Nonroad Large

Compression Ignition Engines, and On-Highway Light-Duty Vehicles and

Light-Duty Trucks (OMB Control No. 2060-0064; EPA ICR No. 0011.08)

expiring 6/30/96. This ICR request is an extension of a currently

approved collection activity.

Abstract: The On-Highway Light-Duty Vehicle (LDV), Light-Duty Truck

(LDT), and Heavy-Duty Engine (HDE) Selective Enforcement Auditing (SEA)

Programs as well as the Nonroad Large Compression-ignition Engine (CIE)

SEA Program use this information collection to enforce compliance with

applicable exhaust emission standards. Under section 206(d) of the

Clean Air Act (Act), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is

authorized to conduct emission testing of new, on-highway LDV, LDT, and

HDE production through SEAs (or Audits). Section 213(d) of the Act as

amended (Act) authorizes the Nonroad SEA Program. The Nonroad CIE SEA

Program was designed to parallel the on-highway SEA Programs, reference

40 CFR Part 86 Subpart K, and its information collection requirements.

The on-highway LDV and LDT SEA programs are conducted by the

Vehicle Programs and Compliance Division (VPCD), Office of Mobile

Sources (OMS), Office of Air and Radiation (OAR). The on-highway HDE

and nonroad CIE programs are conducted by the Engine Programs and

Compliance Division (EPCD), OMS, OAR.

This information collection requires manufacturers of on-highway

LDVs, LDTs, and HDEs, and nonroad CIEs to submit to EPA periodic

reports and information from SEAs. VPCD and EPCD collect this

information and evaluate it to determine if the applicable production

vehicles and engines comply with the Act. The information collected

specifically includes ``Pre-audit'' planning information and ``Audit''

information. Pre-audit information includes projected annual sales

data, production volumes at assembly plants, and voluntary assembly

line test data (ALT data) submittals. Audit information includes

detailed

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production information, records for test equipment, test data, and

reports.

The results of SEAs are used by the Office of Mobile Sources to

verify compliance of production vehicles and engines with applicable

emission standards. The data and test facility information from SEAs

may be used by OMS's Certification Programs to help evaluate a

manufacturer's future model year Applications for Certification, and

LDV and LDT SEA data will also be used by the VPCD's In-use Testing

Program to help target potential future in-use nonconformities.

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. The OMB control numbers for EPA's

regulations are listed in 40 CFR Part 9 and 48 CFR Chapter 15. The

Federal Register notice required under 5 CFR 1320.8(d), soliciting

comments on this collection of information was published on 2/12/9; no

comments were received.

Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping

burden for this collection of information is estimated to average

between 260 and 8,988 hours per response. Burden means the total time,

effort, or financial resources expended by persons to generate,

maintain, retain, or disclose or provide information to or for a

Federal agency. This includes the time needed to review instructions;

develop, acquire, install, and utilize technology and systems for the

purposes of collecting, validating, and verifying information,

processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and providing

information; adjust the existing ways to comply with any previously

applicable instructions and requirements; train personnel to be able to

respond to a collection of information; search data sources; complete

and review the collection of information; and transmit or otherwise

disclose the information.

The estimated annual cost resulting from this information

collection is $453,782, $1,646,612, and $82,440 for the HDE, CIE, and

LDV/LDT programs, respectively. The estimated annual cost to the CIE

industry segment includes start-up costs and ``learning curve'' costs.

The start-up and learning-factor costs apply to the first three years

of the nonroad CIE SEA program (which is the duration of this

information collection request) and are divided among the 28 CIE

manufacturers.

Respondents/Affected Entities: On-highway LDV, LDT, and HDE as well

as nonroad Large CIE manufacturers.

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Assembly line test reports HDE CIE LDV/LDT

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Estimated Number of Respondents................ 13 15 18

Frequency of Response.......................... 4 4 4

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden............. 780 hrs. 900 hrs. 1,080 hrs.

Estimated Total Annualized Cost Burden......... $43,368 $50,040 $60,048

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Assembly plant projected production volumes/

sales data HDE CIE LDV/LDT

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Estimated Number of Respondents................ 22 28 20

Frequency of Response.......................... 1 1 1

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden............. 572 hrs. 728 hrs. 260 hrs.

Estimated Total Annualized Cost Burden......... $33,352 $42,448 $15,160

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Selective enforcement audits HDE CIE LDV/LDT

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Estimated Number of Respondents................ 7 7 2

Frequency of Response.......................... 1.4 1.4 1

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden............. 6,291.6 hrs. 12,583.2 hrs. 110 hrs.

Estimated Total Annualized Cost Burden......... $377,062 $754,124 $7,232

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Send comments on the Agency's need for this information, the

accuracy of the provided burden estimates, and any suggested methods

for minimizing respondent burden, including through the use of

automated collection techniques to the following addresses. Please

refer to EPA ICR No. 0011.08 and OMB Control No. 2060-0064 in any

correspondence.

Ms. Sandy Farmer, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, OPPE Regulatory

Information Division (2136), 401 M Street, SW, Washington, DC 20460.

and

Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and

Budget, Attention: Desk Officer for EPA 725 17th Street, NW,

Washington, DC 20503.

Dated: May 23, 1996.

Joseph Retzec,

Director, Regulatory Information Division.

[FR Doc. 96-13577 Filed 5-29-96; 8:45 am]

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