Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure Plans

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-5936-5]

Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;

Comment Request; Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure Plans

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 EPA is planning to submit the

Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasures Plan continuing

Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and

Budget. The ICR expires on May 31, 1998 (ICR 0328.05, OMB No. 20050-

0021). Before submitting the ICR to OMB for review and approval, EPA is

soliciting comments on specific aspects of the proposed information

collection as described below.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before February 17, 1998.

ADDRESSES: Oil Program Center, 401 M Street, SW (5203G), Washington,

D.C. 20460. Materials relevant to this ICR may be inspected from 8:30

a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, by visiting the Public

Docket, located at 1235 Jefferson Davis Highway (ground floor),

Arlington, Virginia. A reasonable fee may be charged for copying docket

material.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Hugo Paul Fleischman, (703) 603-8769.

Facsimile number: (703) 603-9116. Electronic address:

[email protected]. Note that questions but not comments

will be accepted electronically.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Affected Entities

The Oil Pollution Prevention regulation applies only to non-

transportation-related facilities that could reasonably be expected to

discharge oil into or upon the navigable waters of the U.S., or

adjoining shorelines, and that have a total underground buried oil

storage capacity of more than 42,000 gallons; or a total aboveground

oil storage capacity of more than 660 gallons in a single container.

The specific private industry sectors expected to be affected by

this action include petroleum and coal products manufacturing (NAICS

324); petroleum bulk stations and terminals (NAICS 42271); crude

petroleum and natural gas extraction (NAICS 211111); transportation

(including pipelines), warehousing, and marinas (NAICS 482-486/488112-

48819/4883/4889/492-493/71393); electric power generation,

transmission, and distribution (NAICS 2211); other manufacturing (NAICS

31-33); gasoline stations/automotive rental and leasing (NAICS 4471/

5321); heating oil dealers (NAICS 454311); coal mining, non-metallic

mineral mining and quarrying (NAICS 2121/2123/213114/213116); heavy

construction (NAICS 234); elementary and secondary schools, colleges

(NAICS 6111-6113); hospitals/nursing and residential care facilities

(NAICS 622-623); and crop and animal production (NAICS 111-112).

Title

``Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) Plans,'' OMB

Control Number 2050-0021. EPA Control Number 328.05. Expiration date:

May 31, 1998.

Abstract

Under section 311 of the Clean Water Act, EPA's Oil Pollution

Prevention regulation requires facilities to prepare and implement SPCC

Plans to help ``minimize the potential for oil discharges.'' This

regulation is codified at 40 CFR part 112. The SPCC Plan must be ``a

carefully thought-out plan, prepared in accordance with good

engineering practices.'' Preparation of the SPCC Plan requires that a

facility's staff analyze how the facility will prevent oil discharges,

thereby encouraging appropriate facility design and operations. The

information in the SPCC Plan also promotes efficient response in the

event of a discharge. Finally, proper maintenance of the SPCC Plan will

promote important spill-reducing measures, facilitate leak detection,

and generally ensure that the facility is at peak capability for

deterring discharges. The specific activities and reasons for the

information collection are described below.

New Plan

Preparation of the Plan, required under section 112.3, involves

several tasks, mostly conducted by the facility's technical personnel.

These tasks include: field investigations to understand facility design

and possible failures and to predict the flow paths of spilled oil and

the potential harm that the spilled oil would have on navigable waters;

a regulatory review to ensure that personnel are fully aware of all

requirements and limitations imposed in the rule; an evaluation of

current spill prevention and control practices the facility employs;

preparation of the Plan according to the specification of section

112.7, and certification by a Registered Professional Engineer (P.E.)

Modification of Plan

Under section 112.5(a) the SPCC Plan must be amended whenever there

is a change in the facility's design, construction, operation, and

maintenance that materially affects the facility's potential to

discharge oil into navigable waters or onto adjoining shorelines. The

amended Plan must also be certified by a P.E.

Triennial Review

Under section 112.5(b), owners or operators of regulated facilities

must review and evaluate the Plan at least once every three years. This

involves review of spill prevention and control procedures being

implemented under the current Plan, as well as a regulatory review.

Facility owners/operators must amend the SPCC Plan within six months of

the review to include more effective

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prevention and control technology if such technology will significantly

reduce the likelihood of a spill event; and such technology has been

field-proven at the time of the review. If amended, the Plan must also

be certified by a P.E.

Oil Discharge

Under section 112.4, in the event of certain oil discharges,

facility owner/operators must submit information to the Regional

Administrator within 60 days. Discharges of oil that trigger the

reporting requirements are a single spill event of more than 1,000 U.S.

gallons into navigable waters; or two or more spills (in a twelve month

period) of harmful quantities as defined in 40 CFR part 110.

Submitting a Plan after a discharge involves time to collect the

required information, as well as time for review by management. The

facility must also submit a copy of this information to the appropriate

state agency in charge of water pollution control activities. After the

Regional Administrator and the appropriate state agency have reviewed

the Plan, the Regional Administrator may require amendment of the SPCC

Plan. The amended Plan must be certified by a P.E. prior to

implementation. Facilities may appeal a decision made by the Regional

Administrator requiring an amendment to an SPCC Plan.

Recordkeeping

Under section 112.3, the facility owner/operator must maintain a

copy of the SPCC Plan at the facility, or under certain circumstances,

at the nearest field office. The Plan must be available for review

during normal working hours. In addition, facilities must maintain (and

update) records of Plan-specific inspections as outlined under section

112.7(e).

Purpose of Data Collection

EPA does not collect the information required by the Oil Pollution

Prevention regulation (i.e., the SPCC Plan) on a routine basis.

Preparation, implementation, and maintenance of the SPCC Plan by the

facility help prevent oil discharges, and mitigate environmental damage

caused by such discharges. Therefore, the primary user of the data is

the facility itself. For example:

(i) As facility staff accumulate the necessary data, they must

analyze the facility's capability to prevent oil discharges, facilitate

safety awareness, and promote appropriate modifications to facility

design and operations;

(ii) Because facility staff keep the required information in a

single document, they can respond efficiently in the event of a

discharge;

(iii) To implement the Plan according to the specifications of

section 112.7, the facility must meet certain design and operational

standards that reduce the likelihood of an oil discharge;

(iv) Inspection records help facilities to promote important

maintenance, facilitate leak detection, and demonstrate compliance with

the SPCC requirements; and

(v) When facility staff review the Plan every three years, they

ensure implementation of more effective spill prevention control

technology.

EPA recognizes that the additional data would help to better

demonstrate the effectiveness of the program and better understand the

nature of the threat of oil pollution posed by facilities regulated

under the SPCC program. As such, in 1995, EPA surveyed a random sample

of potentially regulated facilities that produce, use, or store oil

products. In July 1996, EPA published a report on the effectiveness of

the SPCC program, using the data from the 1995 survey. In the 1996

report, EPA found that approximately 438,000 facilities were regulated

under the SPCC program in 1996. The industries that make up the

greatest proportion of potentially-regulated facilities are farms (37

percent) and oil production facilities (33 percent). The results of the

EPA analysis indicate that facilities with larger storage capacity are

likely to have a greater number of oil spills, larger volumes of oil

spilled, and greater cleanup costs. Similar increases were found at

facilities with more tanks and greater annual throughput. The results

of the analysis also appear to indicate that there are no statistically

significant relationships between certain other facility

characteristics and spill risk. In particular, EPA did not identify a

strong and stable relationship between the type of business conducted

at a facility and the number of spills or volume of oil spilled. The

analysis also revealed that the average age of a facility's tanks, the

annual number of transfers, and the annual average tank turnover do not

appear to be strongly related to oil spills. The report is available to

the public for review at the Public Docket. EPA requests comments on

that report.

Although the facility is the primary data user, EPA also uses the

data in certain situations. EPA primarily uses SPCC plan data to ensure

that facilities comply with the regulation, including design and

operation specifications and inspection requirements. EPA reviews SPCC

Plans when facilities submit the Plans because of oil discharges, and

as part of EPA's inspection program. State and local governments also

use the data, which is not necessarily available elsewhere and can

greatly assist local emergency preparedness planning efforts.

Coordination with state governments is facilitated when, after certain

spill events, a facility sends a copy of the SPCC Plan and additional

information on the spill to the relevant state agency.

As part of the Agency's efforts to reduce the overall paperwork

burden on regulated facilities, EPA would like to solicit comments on

how the Agency could best reduce the total paperwork burden hours for

this rule while maintaining an effective level of environmental

protection.

EPA would also like to solicit public comments 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.

Additionally, the Agency has recently proposed revisions to the

SPCC rule to reduce the burden imposed on regulated facilities (cite FR

date). Proposed revisions would give facility owners or operators

flexibility to use alternative formats for SPCC Plans; allow the use of

certain records maintained pursuant to usual and customary business

practices, or pursuant to the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination

System (NPDES) program, to be used in lieu of records mandated by the

SPCC requirements; reduce the information required to be submitted

after certain spill events; and extend the period in which SPCC Plans

must be reviewed and evaluated.

Burden Statement

This document first presents the estimated number of existing and

new storage and production facilities regulated under the Oil Pollution

Prevention Regulation. Next, the estimated burden hours and costs to

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facilities to perform required actions are presented. Costs are

composed of facility labor costs, the cost to use consultants, and any

associated capital and operation and maintenance (O&M) expenditures.

The cost to a facility to use consultants is listed as an O&M

expenditure for purposes of this analysis. Finally, the estimated total

annual burden hours and costs for all facilities to comply with the

requirements of this regulation are presented. The burden hours shown

for each action represent the hours in both the existing ICR and the

corresponding hours in the ICR renewal, where there are differences.

Costs have been updated to 1997 dollars.

To account for the role of consultants in the process of developing

and updating SPCC Plans, EPA re-allocated a percentage of the burden

for completing certain paperwork and recordkeeping activities (50

percent for large facilities, 25 percent for medium facilities, and

five percent for small facilities) from facility personnel to

consultants. The analysis assumes that the burden to a consultant to

perform these activities would approximately be equal to that of

facility personnel. In reality, a consultant may take slightly less

time due to the expected economies of scale associated with performing

similar tasks for different facilities (e.g., rule familiarization) but

on average, especially when it comes to performing more physical

activities (e.g., reviews/inspections, modifications) the burden is

expected to remain relatively constant regardless of who performs the

activity.

As of January 1998, approximately 451,000 existing facilities are

assumed to be regulated under the SPCC program with approximately 4,500

new facilities joining the program in 1998. These numbers are based on

the previous ICR estimate of approximately 446,500 existing and new

facilities as of January 1996. A one percent annual growth in the

number of facilities is assumed. For purposes of this ICR, all

facilities were grouped into two distinct categories: production

facilities (facilities whose operations and oil storage activities are

exclusively limited to oil production) and storage facilities (all

other SPCC-regulated facilities whose operations do not include oil

production). This categorization of facilities reflects differences in

the estimated burden of compliance activities depending on the nature

of the facility's operations.

The current ICR assumes that storage facilities make up 65 percent

of small facilities, 69 percent of medium facilities, and 98 percent of

large facilities. Production facilities make up 35 percent of small

facilities, 31 percent of medium facilities, and two percent of large

facilities. These ratios, as well as the Agency's estimate concerning

the number of regulated facilities, are based on the results of a 1995

survey of SPCC regulated facilities conducted by EPA. The results of

this survey are available for public review at the Public Docket. The

definitions of small, medium, and large facility are based on oil

storage capacity and are defined as follows, based on the Agency's

January 1991 ``SPCC Facilities Study'':

(i) Small facility--a facility that has aboveground storage

capacity greater than 1,320 gallons (or 660 gallons in a single

container), but less than or equal to 42,000 gallons;

(ii) Medium facility--a facility that has total (aboveground or

underground) storage capacity greater than 42,000 gallons but less than

or equal to one million gallons; and

(iii) Large facility--a facility that has total storage capacity

greater than one million gallons.

An estimate of the number of existing and new storage and

production facilities in 1998 are shown in Exhibits 1 and 2.

Exhibit 1.--Estimated Number of Existing Facilities (1998)

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Small Medium Large Total

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Storage..................................................... 231,406 57,697 13,188 302,290

Production.................................................. 122,812 25,551 309 148,672

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Total................................................. 354,217 83,248 13,497 450,963

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Exhibit 2.--Estimated Number of New Facilities (1998)

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Small Medium Large Total

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Storage..................................................... 2,314 577 132 3,023

Production.................................................. 1,228 256 3 1,487

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Total....................................................... 3,542 832 135 4,510

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The facility cost estimates for each category of activities are

based on 1997 hourly wage rates for managerial ($38.59), technical

($28.26), and clerical ($17.71) work. These wage rates include wages

and salaries, benefit costs, and overhead costs and reflect private

industry averages, which were estimated by the U.S. Bureau of Labor

Statistics. The Agency recognizes that these wage rates may

underestimate the actual wages received by some SPCC personnel but

overestimate the actual wage rate received by other facility personnel.

The Agency estimated wage rates for consultants using the 1994 Facility

Response Plan Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA). This RIA ``loaded'' the

direct, private industry wages by a factor of 2.75 to develop wage

rates for consultants. Consequently, this loading factor was applied to

the direct labor rates for private industry managerial, technical, and

clerical workers to estimate the following rates: managerial ($106.12),

technical ($77.72), and clerical ($48.70).

Each exhibit represents separate burden estimates for small,

medium, and large storage and production facilities. Exhibits 3 through

8 summarize the estimated facility burden associated with performing

each separate task associated with an SPCC Plan. Not all of the

activities will be performed on an annual basis by all facilities. For

the purposes of estimating respondent burden, EPA assumes that

consultants are retained by some facilities to assist in the following

activities: preparation of a new plan; modification of an existing

plan; and conducting a triennial review. Again, EPA assumed that a

large facility would use outside consultants about 50 percent of the

time, a medium facility would use outside consultants about 25 percent

of the time, and a small facility

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would use outside consultants about five percent of the time to perform

the above activities.

New Plan

Exhibit 3 presents the estimated burden and costs for a facility to

perform the activities associated with preparing an SPCC Plan. All new

facilities must prepare and implement an SPCC Plan.

Exhibit 3.--Estimated Burden Hours and Costs--Preparation of New Plan

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Burden hours Cost

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Type of Facility Total

Managerial Technical Clerical burden Capital O&M Total \1\

$38.59 $28.26 $17.71 hours

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Storage:

Small.................................................... 5.7 23.8 3.8 33.3 0 $86 $1,044

Medium................................................... 4.5 33.0 4.5 42.0 0 672 1,858

Large.................................................... 3.0 38.0 4.0 45.0 0 2,141 3,402

Production:

Small.................................................... 5.7 26.6 3.8 36.1 0 93 1,132

Medium................................................... 4.5 34.5 4.5 43.5 0 696 1,924

Large.................................................... 3.0 38.5 4.0 43.5 0 2,165 3,440

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\1\ Total cost includes the cost of facility labor, capital, and O&M costs.

Modification of Plan

Exhibit 4 presents the burden hours and costs for a facility to

revise an SPCC Plan after any modification that materially affects the

facility's potential to discharge oil into navigable waters. An

estimated ten percent of facilities will need to modify their SPCC

Plans each year.

Exhibit 4.--Estimated Annual Burden Hours and Costs--Modification of Plan

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Burden Hours Cost

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Type of facility Total

Managerial Technical Clerical burden Capital O&M Total \1\

$38.59 $28.26 $17.71 hours

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Storage:

Small.................................................... 0.0 4.3 1.0 5.2 $0 $12 $150

Medium................................................... 0.0 3.4 0.8 4.1 0 61 170

Large.................................................... 0.0 2.3 0.5 2.8 0 123 195

Production:

Small.................................................... 0.0 4.3 1.0 5.2 0 12 150

Medium................................................... 0.0 3.4 0.8 4.1 0 61 170

Large.................................................... 0.0 2.3 0.5 2.8 0 123 195

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\1\ Total cost includes the cost of facility labor, capital, and O&M costs.

Triennial Review

Exhibits 5 and 6 present the estimated burden hours and costs for a

facility to complete a triennial review, with and without amendment. As

a result of the review process, the facility may need to amend its

Plan, incurring additional costs. Annual burdens and costs per facility

are one-third of the values in Exhibits 5 and 6. An estimated three

percent of all existing facilities will need to amend their Plans each

year.

Exhibit 5.--Estimated Annual Burden Hours and Costs--Triennial Review--No Amendment

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Burden hours Cost

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Type of facility Total

Managerial Technical Clerical burden Capital O&M Total \1\

$38.59 $28.26 $17.71 hours

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Storage:

Small.................................................... 1.0 2.4 0.5 3.8 $0 $10 $122

Medium................................................... 0.8 3.4 0.8 4.9 0 78 216

Large.................................................... 0.5 4.0 0.5 5.0 0 240 381

Production:

Small.................................................... 1.0 3.3 0.5 4.8 0 12 151

Medium................................................... 0.8 4.1 0.8 5.6 0 90 249

Large.................................................... 0.5 4.5 0.5 5.5 0 264 419

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\1\ Total cost includes the cost of facility labor, capital, and O&M costs.

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Exhibit 6.--Estimated Annual Burden Hours and Costs--Triennial Review--Amendment

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Burden hours Cost

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Type of facility Total

Managerial Technical Clerical burden Capital O&M Total \1\

$38.59 $28.26 $17.71 hours

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Storage:

Small.................................................... 1.0 6.7 1.9 9.5 $0 $23 $281

Medium................................................... 0.8 6.8 1.5 9.0 0 140 386

Large.................................................... 0.5 6.3 1.0 7.8 0 363 577

Production:

Small.................................................... 1.0 7.6 1.9 10.5 0 26 311

Medium................................................... 0.8 7.5 1.5 9.8 0 151 419

Large.................................................... 0.5 6.8 1.0 8.3 0 387 615

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\1\ Total cost includes the cost of facility labor, capital, and O&M costs.

Oil Discharge

Exhibit 7 presents estimated burden hours and costs for a facility

to submit information to the Regional Administrator in the event of

certain discharges of oil into navigable waters. It is assumed that the

probability of a facility having such a spill in any given year is 0.15

percent.

Exhibit 7.--Estimated Burden Hours and Costs--Oil Discharge

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Burden hours Cost

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Type of facility Total

Managerial Technical Clerical burden Capital O&M Total \1\

$38.59 $28.26 $17.71 hours

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Storage:

Small.................................................... 1.0 1.0 0.0 2.0 $0 $0 $67

Medium................................................... 1.0 1.0 0.0 2.0 0 0 67

Large.................................................... 1.0 1.0 0.0 2.0 0 0 67

Production:

Small.................................................... 1.0 1.0 0.0 2.0 0 0 67

Medium................................................... 1.0 1.0 0.0 2.0 0 0 67

Large.................................................... 1.0 1.0 0.0 2.0 0 0 67

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\1\ Total cost includes the cost of facility labor, capital, and O&M costs.

Recordkeeping

Exhibit 8 presents the burden hours and costs for a facility to

perform Plan maintenance and Plan-specific recordkeeping activities.

All regulated facilities are subject to these requirements.

Exhibit 8.--Estimated Annual Burden Hours and Costs-Recordkeeping

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Burden hours Cost

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Type of facility Total

Managerial Technical Clerical burden Capital O&M Total \1\

$38.59 $28.26 $17.71 hours

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Storage:

Small.................................................... 0.0 2.0 0.5 2.5 $0 $0 $65

Medium................................................... 0.0 4.5 0.5 5.0 0 0 136

Large.................................................... 0.0 9.5 0.5 10.0 0 0 277

Production:

Small.................................................... 0.0 3.0 0.5 3.5 0 0 94

Medium................................................... 0.0 3.0 0.5 3.5 0 0 94

Large.................................................... 0.0 3.0 0.5 3.5 0 0 94

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\1\ Total cost includes the cost of facility labor, capital, and O&M costs.

Annual Expected Facility Burden

The total annual burden per facility reflects the sum of the annual

burdens incurred by the facility for each category of activities

outlined above. The estimated annual burden for an existing facility is

shown in Exhibit 9. Exhibit 10 presents the estimated annual burden for

a new facility.

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Exhibit 9.--Estimated Burden Hours and Costs Per Facility-Existing Facilities

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Burden hours Cost

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Type of facility Total

Managerial Technical Clerical burden Capital O&M Total

$38.59 $28.26 $17.71 hours

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Storage:

Small.................................................... 0.3 3.3 0.8 4.3 $0 $5 $123

Medium................................................... 0.3 6.0 0.8 7.1 0 33 227

Large.................................................... 0.2 11.1 0.7 12.0 0 94 426

Production:

Small.................................................... 0.3 4.6 0.8 5.7 0 6 161

Medium................................................... 0.3 4.7 0.8 5.8 0 37 195

Large.................................................... 0.2 4.7 0.7 5.6 0 102 255

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Exhibit 10.--Estimated Burden Hours and Costs Per Facility--New Facilities

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Burden hours Cost

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Type of facility Total

Managerial Technical Clerical burden Capital O&M Total

38.59 28.26 17.71 hours

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Storage:

Small.................................................... 5.7 26.2 4.4 36.3 $67 $87 $1,192

Medium................................................... 4.5 37.8 5.1 47.4 67 678 2,078

Large.................................................... 3.0 47.7 4.6 55.3 67 2,153 3,765

Production:

Small.................................................... 5.7 30.0 4.4 40.1 67 94 1,308

Medium................................................... 4.5 37.8 5.1 47.4 67 702 2,102

Large.................................................... 3.0 41.7 4.6 49.3 67 2,177 3,620

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Total Annual Expected Facility Burdens

The total annual burdens for all existing facilities and all new

facilities are shown in Exhibits 11 and 12. The approximately 451,000

existing facilities will incur a combined burden of about 2.42 million

hours and 72 million. In addition, around 4,500 new facilities will

incur a combined burden of about 180,137 hours at a cost of 6.6

million. The total annual reporting and recordkeeping burden to the

regulated community as a result of the SPCC Program is estimated to be

approximately 2.6 million hours at a cost of about 78.6 million.

Exhibit 11.--Estimated Annual Burden Hours and Costs--All Existing Facilities

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Burden hours Cost

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Type of facility Total

Managerial Technical Clerical burden Capital O&M Total

$38.59 $28.26 $17.71 hours

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Storage:

Small.................................................... 73,626 755,173 177,623 1,006,422 $0 $1,091,079 $28,418,284

Medium................................................... 14,511 346,051 48,033 408,595 0 1,891,286 13,080,463

Large.................................................... 2,218 146,152 9,517 157,887 0 1,233,329 5,617,205

Production:

Small.................................................... 39,075 562,489 94,268 695,832 0 677,170 19,749,279

Medium................................................... 6,426 121,312 21,272 149,010 0 939,632 4,992,377

Large.................................................... 52 1,468 223 1,743 0 31,375 78,810

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Exhibit 12.--Estimated Annual Burden Hours and Costs--All New Facilities

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Burden hours Cost

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Type of facility Total

Managerial Technical Clerical burden Capital O&M Total

$38.59 $28.26 $17.71 hours

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Storage:

Small.................................................... 13,194 60,580 10,170 83,944 $155,042 $201,558 $2,757,678

Medium................................................... 2,597 21,832 2,928 27,357 38,657 391,318 1,198,967

Large.................................................... 396 6,294 600 7,290 8,836 283,996 496,585

Production:

Small.................................................... 7,002 36,879 5,398 49,279 82,284 115,801 1,605,988

Medium................................................... 1,150 9,668 1,297 12,115 17,119 179,422 537,095

Large.................................................... 9 129 14 152 207 6,730 11,189

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No person is 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 displayed at 40 CFR part 9.

Send comments regarding these matters, or any other aspects of

information collection, including suggestions for reducing the burden,

to the address listed above under ADDRESSES near the top of this

document.

Dated: December 11, 1997.

Elaine F. Davies,

Deputy Director, Office of Emergency and Remedial Response.

[FR Doc. 97-33078 Filed 12-17-97; 8:45 am]

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