Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Source Categories: Gasoline Distribution (Stage I)

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB

Review; Comment Request; National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air

Pollutants for Source Categories: Gasoline Distribution (Stage I)

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 document announces that the following Information

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

and Budget (OMB) for review and approval: National Emission Standards

for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Source Categories: Gasoline

Distribution (Stage I), 40 CFR part 63, subpart R, OMB Control Number

2060-0325, expiring on December 31, 1997. 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 December 5, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For information or a copy of the ICR,

call Sandy Farmer at EPA, (202) 260-2740, or download off the Internet

at http://www.epa.gov/icr/icr.htm and refer to EPA ICR No. 1659.03.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for

Source Categories: Gasoline Distribution (Stage I), 40 CFR part 63,

subpart R, (OMB Control Number 2060-0325; EPA ICR No. 1659.03) expiring

on December 31, 1997. This is a request for extension of a currently

approved collection.

Abstract: Effective enforcement of this rule is necessary due to

the hazardous nature of benzene (a known human carcinogen) and the

toxic nature of the other 10 Hazardous Air Pollutants emitted from

gasoline distribution facilities. The EPA is charged under section 112

of the Clean Air Act (CAA or Act), as amended, to establish national

emission standards for hazardous air pollutants (NESHAP). Section 114

of the Act allows the Administrator to require inspections, monitoring,

and entry into facilities to ensure compliance with a section 112

emission standard. Records and reports are necessary to enable the EPA

to identify facilities that may not be in compliance with the

standards. The information will be used by agency personnel to: (1)

identify sources subject to the standards; (2) ensure that leakage

emissions from cargo tanks and process piping equipment components

(both liquid and vapor) during loading are being minimized; (3) ensure

that emission control devices are being properly operated and

maintained; and (4) ensure that emissions from storage vessels are

minimized and rim seal and fitting defects are repaired on a timely

basis. 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

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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

June 18, 1997 (62 FR 33068); no comments were received.

Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping

burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 62

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.

Respondents/Affected Entities: New and existing bulk gasoline

terminals and pipeline breakout stations

Estimated Number of Respondents: 263.

Frequency of Response: 2 plus on occasion.

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 32,575 hours.

Estimated Total Annualized Cost Burden: $850,500.

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. 1659.03 and OMB Control No. 2060-0325 in any

correspondence.

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

Information Division (2137), 401 M Street, SW, Washington, DC 20460.

(or E-Mail Farmer.S[email protected])

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: October 30, 1997.

Richard T. Westlund,

Acting Director, Regulatory Information Division.

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