81 FR 22080 - Proposed Information Collection Request; Comment Request; Registration of Fuels and Fuel Additives-Health-Effects Research Requirements for Manufacturers; EPA ICR No. 1696.09, OMB Control No. 2060-0297
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 72 (April 14, 2016)
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| FR Document | 2016-08628 |
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 72 (Thursday, April 14, 2016)] [Notices] [Pages 22080-22081] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2016-08628] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY [EPA-HQ-OAR-2006-0525; FRL-9944-97-OAR] Proposed Information Collection Request; Comment Request; Registration of Fuels and Fuel Additives--Health-Effects Research Requirements for Manufacturers; EPA ICR No. 1696.09, OMB Control No. 2060-0297 AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency is planning to submit an Information Collection Request (ICR), Registration of Fuels and Fuel Additives--Health-Effects Research Requirements for Manufacturers, EPA ICR No. 1696.09, OMB Control No. 2060-0297, to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). Before doing so, EPA is soliciting public comments on specific aspects of the proposed information collection as described below. This is a proposed extension of the ICR, which is currently approved through September 30, 2016. 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: Comments must be submitted on or before June 13, 2016. ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR- 2006-0525, online using www.regulations.gov (our preferred method), by email to [email protected], 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. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: James W. Caldwell, Compliance Division, Office of Transportation and Air Quality, Mailcode: 6406J, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 343-9303; fax number: (202) 343-2800; email address: [email protected]. 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. [[Page 22081]] Pursuant to section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA, EPA is soliciting comments and information to enable it to: (1) 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; (2) 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; (3) enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (4) 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. EPA will consider the comments received and amend the ICR as appropriate. The final ICR package will then be submitted to OMB for review and approval. At that time, EPA will issue another Federal Register notice to announce the submission of the ICR to OMB and the opportunity to submit additional comments to OMB. Abstract: In accordance with the regulations at 40 CFR part 79, subparts A, B, C, and D, Registration of Fuels and Fuel Additives, manufacturers (including importers) of motor-vehicle gasoline, motor- vehicle diesel fuel, and additives for those fuels, are required to have these products registered by the EPA prior to their introduction into commerce. Registration involves providing a chemical description of the fuel or additive, and certain technical, marketing, and health- effects information. The development of health-effects data, as required by 40 CFR part 79, subpart F, is the subject of this ICR. The information collection requirements for subparts A through D, and the supplemental notification requirements of subpart F (indicating how the manufacturer will satisfy the health-effects data requirements) are covered by a separate ICR (EPA ICR Number 309.14, OMB Control Number 2060-1050). The health-effects data will be used to determine if there are any products which have evaporative or combustion emissions that may pose an unreasonable risk to public health, thus meriting further investigation and potential regulation. This information is required for specific groups of fuels and additives as defined in the regulations. For example, gasoline and gasoline additives which consist of only carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and/or sulfur, and which involve a gasoline oxygen content of less than 1.5 weight percent, fall into a ``baseline'' group. Oxygenated additives, such as ethanol, when used in gasoline at an oxygen level of at least 1.5 weight percent, define separate ``nonbaseline'' groups for each oxygenate. Additives which contain elements other than carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur fall into separate ``atypical'' groups. There are similar grouping requirements for diesel fuel and diesel fuel additives. Manufacturers may perform the research independently or may join with other manufacturers to share in the costs for each applicable group. Several research consortiums (groups of manufacturers) have been formed. The largest consortium, organized by the American Petroleum Institute (API), represents most of the manufacturers of baseline gasoline, baseline diesel fuel, baseline fuel additives, and the prominent nonbaseline oxygenated additives for gasoline. The research is structured into three tiers of requirements for each group. Tier 1 requires an emissions characterization and a literature search for information on the health effects of those emissions. Voluminous Tier 1 data for gasoline and diesel fuel were submitted by API and others in 1997. Tier 1 data have been submitted for biodiesel, water/diesel emulsions, several atypical additives, and renewable gasoline and diesel fuels. Tier 2 requires short-term inhalation exposures of laboratory animals to emissions to screen for adverse health effects. Tier 2 data have been submitted for baseline diesel, biodiesel, and water/diesel emulsions. Alternative Tier 2 testing can be required in lieu of standard Tier 2 testing if EPA concludes that such testing would be more appropriate. EPA reached that conclusion with respect to gasoline and gasoline-oxygenate blends, and alternative requirements were established for the API consortium for baseline gasoline and six gasoline-oxygenate blends. Alternative Tier 2 requirements have also been established for the manganese additive MMT manufactured by the Afton Chemical Corporation (formerly the Ethyl Corporation). Tier 3 provides for follow-up research, at EPA's discretion, when remaining uncertainties as to the significance of observed health effects, welfare effects, and/or emissions exposures from a fuel or fuel/ additive mixture interfere with EPA's ability to make reasonable estimates of the potential risks posed by emissions from a fuel or additive. To date, EPA has not imposed any Tier 3 requirements. Under regulations promulgated pursuant to Section 211 of the Clean Air Act, (1) submission of the health-effects information is necessary for a manufacturer to obtain registration of a motor-vehicle gasoline, diesel fuel, or fuel additive, and thus be allowed to introduce that product into commerce, and (2) the information shall not be considered confidential. Form Numbers: None. Respondents/affected entities: Manufacturers of motor-vehicle gasoline, motor-vehicle diesel fuel, and additives for those fuels. Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory per 40 CFR part 79. Estimated number of respondents: 2. Frequency of response: On occasion. Total estimated burden: 17,600 hours per year. Burden is defined at 5 CFR 1320.03(b). Total estimated cost: $2 million per year, includes $0.6 million annualized capital or operation & maintenance costs. Changes in Estimates: There is a decrease of 1,600 hours in the total estimated respondent burden compared with the ICR currently approved by OMB. This decrease is due to a revision in the estimate for conducting the Tier 1 literature search. Dated: April 7, 2016. Byron J. Bunker, Director, Compliance Division, Office of Transportation and Air Quality, Office of Air and Radiation. [FR Doc. 2016-08628 Filed 4-13-16; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6560-50-P
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identifying or contact information 9607(a). For thirty (30) days following SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection
provided in the body of a comment will the date of publication of this Notice in Agency is planning to submit an
be included as part of the comment that the Federal Register, the Agency will Information Collection Request (ICR),
is placed in the official public docket, receive written comments relating to the Registration of Fuels and Fuel
and made available in EPA’s electronic settlement. The Agency will consider all Additives—Health-Effects Research
public docket. If EPA cannot read your comments received and may modify or Requirements for Manufacturers, EPA
comment due to technical difficulties withdraw its consent to the settlement ICR No. 1696.09, OMB Control No.
and cannot contact you for clarification, if comments received disclose facts or 2060–0297, to the Office of Management
EPA may not be able to consider your considerations which indicate the and Budget (OMB) for review and
comment. proposed settlement is inappropriate, approval in accordance with the
Use of the www.regulations.gov Web improper, or inadequate. The Agency’s Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44
site to submit comments to EPA response to any comments received will U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). Before doing so,
electronically is EPA’s preferred method be available for public inspection at 75 EPA is soliciting public comments on
for receiving comments. The electronic Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA specific aspects of the proposed
public docket system is an ‘‘anonymous 94105. information collection as described
access’’ system, which means EPA will DATES: Pursuant to section 122(i) of below. This is a proposed extension of
not know your identity, email address, CERCLA, EPA will receive written the ICR, which is currently approved
or other contact information unless you comments relating to this proposed through September 30, 2016. An Agency
provide it in the body of your comment. settlement on or before May 16, 2016. may not conduct or sponsor and a
In contrast to EPA’s electronic public ADDRESSES: The proposed settlement is
person is not required to respond to a
docket, EPA’s electronic mail (email) available for public inspection at EPA collection of information unless it
system is not an ‘‘anonymous access’’ Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San displays a currently valid OMB control
system. If you send an email comment Francisco, California. A copy of the number.
directly to the Docket without going proposed settlement may be obtained DATES: Comments must be submitted on
through www.regulations.gov, your from Rachel Tennis, Assistant Regional or before June 13, 2016.
email address is automatically captured Counsel (ORC–3), U.S. EPA Region IX, ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
and included as part of the comment 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA
that is placed in the official public referencing Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–
94105; phone: (415) 972–3746. OAR–2006–0525, online using
docket, and made available in EPA’s Comments should reference the
electronic public docket. www.regulations.gov (our preferred
Yosemite Slough Site, San Francisco, method), by email to a-and-r-docket@
Dated: April 6, 2016. California and should be addressed to epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA Docket
Lorie J. Schmidt, Rachel Tennis at the above address. Center, Environmental Protection
Associate General Counsel. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Agency, Mail Code 28221T, 1200
[FR Doc. 2016–08626 Filed 4–13–16; 8:45 am] Rachel Tennis, Assistant Regional Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington,
BILLING CODE 6560–50–P Counsel (ORC–3), U.S. EPA Region IX, DC 20460.
75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA EPA’s policy is that all comments
94105; phone: (415) 972–3746; fax: (417) received will be included in the public
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 947–3570; email: tennis.rachel@epa.gov. docket without change including any
AGENCY SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Party to personal information provided, unless
[FRL–9944–99–Region 9] the Proposed Settlement: Development the comment includes profanity, threats,
Specialists, Inc., solely in its capacity as information claimed to be Confidential
Yosemite Slough Site, San Francisco, assignee for the benefit of creditors of Business Information (CBI) or other
California; Notice of Proposed Romic Environmental Technologies. information whose disclosure is
CERCLA Ability To Pay Settlement Dated: March 17, 2016. restricted by statute.
Enrique Manzanilla, FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
AGENCY: Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA). Director, Superfund Division, U.S. EPA, James W. Caldwell, Compliance
Region IX. Division, Office of Transportation and
ACTION: Notice; request for comment.
[FR Doc. 2016–08627 Filed 4–13–16; 8:45 am] Air Quality, Mailcode: 6406J,
SUMMARY: In accordance with section BILLING CODE 6560–50–P Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
122(i) of the Comprehensive Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington,
Environmental Response, Compensation DC 20460; telephone number: (202)
and Liability Act of 1980, as amended ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 343–9303; fax number: (202) 343–2800;
(CERCLA), 42 U.S.C. 9622(i), notice is AGENCY email address: caldwell.jim@epa.gov.
hereby given of a proposed [EPA–HQ–OAR–2006–0525; FRL–9944–97– SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
administrative settlement with one OAR] Supporting documents which explain in
ability to pay party for recovery of detail the information that the EPA will
response costs concerning the Yosemite Proposed Information Collection be collecting are available in the public
Slough Site in San Francisco, California. Request; Comment Request; docket for this ICR. The docket can be
The settlement is entered into pursuant Registration of Fuels and Fuel viewed online at www.regulations.gov
Additives—Health-Effects Research
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to Section 122(h)(1) of CERCLA, 42 or in person at the EPA Docket Center,
U.S.C. 9622(h)(1), and it requires the Requirements for Manufacturers; EPA WJC West, Room 3334, 1301
settling party to pay $193,000 to the ICR No. 1696.09, OMB Control No. Constitution Ave. NW., Washington,
United States Environmental Protection 2060–0297 DC. The telephone number for the
Agency (Agency). The settlement AGENCY: Environmental Protection Docket Center is 202–566–1744. For
includes a covenant not to sue the Agency (EPA). additional information about EPA’s
settling party pursuant to Sections 106 public docket, visit http://www.epa.gov/
ACTION: Notice.
or 107(a) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9606 or dockets.
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Pursuant to section 3506(c)(2)(A) of sulfur, and which involve a gasoline regulations promulgated pursuant to
the PRA, EPA is soliciting comments oxygen content of less than 1.5 weight Section 211 of the Clean Air Act, (1)
and information to enable it to: (1) percent, fall into a ‘‘baseline’’ group. submission of the health-effects
Evaluate whether the proposed Oxygenated additives, such as ethanol, information is necessary for a
collection of information is necessary when used in gasoline at an oxygen manufacturer to obtain registration of a
for the proper performance of the level of at least 1.5 weight percent, motor-vehicle gasoline, diesel fuel, or
functions of the Agency, including define separate ‘‘nonbaseline’’ groups fuel additive, and thus be allowed to
whether the information will have for each oxygenate. Additives which introduce that product into commerce,
practical utility; (2) evaluate the contain elements other than carbon, and (2) the information shall not be
accuracy of the Agency’s estimate of the hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur considered confidential.
burden of the proposed collection of fall into separate ‘‘atypical’’ groups. Form Numbers: None.
information, including the validity of There are similar grouping requirements Respondents/affected entities:
the methodology and assumptions used; for diesel fuel and diesel fuel additives. Manufacturers of motor-vehicle
(3) enhance the quality, utility, and Manufacturers may perform the gasoline, motor-vehicle diesel fuel, and
clarity of the information to be research independently or may join additives for those fuels.
collected; and (4) minimize the burden with other manufacturers to share in the Respondent’s obligation to respond:
of the collection of information on those costs for each applicable group. Several Mandatory per 40 CFR part 79.
who are to respond, including through research consortiums (groups of Estimated number of respondents: 2.
the use of appropriate automated manufacturers) have been formed. The Frequency of response: On occasion.
electronic, mechanical, or other largest consortium, organized by the Total estimated burden: 17,600 hours
technological collection techniques or American Petroleum Institute (API), per year. Burden is defined at 5 CFR
other forms of information technology, represents most of the manufacturers of 1320.03(b).
e.g., permitting electronic submission of baseline gasoline, baseline diesel fuel, Total estimated cost: $2 million per
responses. EPA will consider the baseline fuel additives, and the year, includes $0.6 million annualized
comments received and amend the ICR prominent nonbaseline oxygenated capital or operation & maintenance
as appropriate. The final ICR package additives for gasoline. The research is costs.
will then be submitted to OMB for structured into three tiers of Changes in Estimates: There is a
review and approval. At that time, EPA requirements for each group. Tier 1 decrease of 1,600 hours in the total
will issue another Federal Register requires an emissions characterization estimated respondent burden compared
notice to announce the submission of and a literature search for information with the ICR currently approved by
the ICR to OMB and the opportunity to on the health effects of those emissions. OMB. This decrease is due to a revision
submit additional comments to OMB. Voluminous Tier 1 data for gasoline and in the estimate for conducting the Tier
Abstract: In accordance with the diesel fuel were submitted by API and 1 literature search.
regulations at 40 CFR part 79, subparts others in 1997. Tier 1 data have been Dated: April 7, 2016.
A, B, C, and D, Registration of Fuels and submitted for biodiesel, water/diesel Byron J. Bunker,
Fuel Additives, manufacturers emulsions, several atypical additives, Director, Compliance Division, Office of
(including importers) of motor-vehicle and renewable gasoline and diesel fuels. Transportation and Air Quality, Office of Air
gasoline, motor-vehicle diesel fuel, and Tier 2 requires short-term inhalation and Radiation.
additives for those fuels, are required to exposures of laboratory animals to [FR Doc. 2016–08628 Filed 4–13–16; 8:45 am]
have these products registered by the emissions to screen for adverse health BILLING CODE 6560–50–P
EPA prior to their introduction into effects. Tier 2 data have been submitted
commerce. Registration involves for baseline diesel, biodiesel, and water/
providing a chemical description of the diesel emulsions. Alternative Tier 2 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS
fuel or additive, and certain technical, testing can be required in lieu of COMMISSION
marketing, and health-effects standard Tier 2 testing if EPA concludes
information. The development of that such testing would be more Federal Advisory Committee Act;
health-effects data, as required by 40 appropriate. EPA reached that Technological Advisory Council
CFR part 79, subpart F, is the subject of conclusion with respect to gasoline and
this ICR. The information collection gasoline-oxygenate blends, and AGENCY: Federal Communications
requirements for subparts A through D, alternative requirements were Commission.
and the supplemental notification established for the API consortium for ACTION: Notice of public meeting.
requirements of subpart F (indicating baseline gasoline and six gasoline-
SUMMARY: In accordance with the
how the manufacturer will satisfy the oxygenate blends. Alternative Tier 2
Federal Advisory Committee Act, this
health-effects data requirements) are requirements have also been established
notice advises interested persons that
covered by a separate ICR (EPA ICR for the manganese additive MMT
the Federal Communications
Number 309.14, OMB Control Number manufactured by the Afton Chemical
Commission’s (FCC) Technological
2060–1050). The health-effects data will Corporation (formerly the Ethyl
Advisory Council will hold a meeting.
be used to determine if there are any Corporation). Tier 3 provides for follow-
products which have evaporative or up research, at EPA’s discretion, when DATES: Thursday, June 9th, 2016 in the
combustion emissions that may pose an remaining uncertainties as to the Commission Meeting Room, from 12:30
p.m. to 4 p.m.
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unreasonable risk to public health, thus significance of observed health effects,
meriting further investigation and welfare effects, and/or emissions ADDRESSES: Federal Communications
potential regulation. This information is exposures from a fuel or fuel/additive Commission, 445 12th Street SW.,
required for specific groups of fuels and mixture interfere with EPA’s ability to Washington, DC 20554.
additives as defined in the regulations. make reasonable estimates of the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
For example, gasoline and gasoline potential risks posed by emissions from Walter Johnston, Chief, Electromagnetic
additives which consist of only carbon, a fuel or additive. To date, EPA has not Compatibility Division, 202–418–0807;
hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and/or imposed any Tier 3 requirements. Under Walter.Johnston@FCC.gov.
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| FR Citation | 81 FR 22080 |
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