81_FR_7566 81 FR 7537 - Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Recordkeeping and Reporting Related to RFS2 Voluntary RIN Quality Assurance Program (Renewal)

81 FR 7537 - Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Recordkeeping and Reporting Related to RFS2 Voluntary RIN Quality Assurance Program (Renewal)

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 29 (February 12, 2016)

Page Range7537-7538
FR Document2016-02921

The Environmental Protection Agency has submitted an information collection request (ICR), ``Recordkeeping and Reporting Related to RFS2 Voluntary RIN Quality Assurance Program'' (EPA ICR No. 2473.03, OMB Control No. 2060-0688) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). This is a proposed revision of the ICR, which is currently approved through 12/31/2017. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register (80 FR 30455) on May 28, 2015 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.

Federal Register, Volume 81 Issue 29 (Friday, February 12, 2016) 
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 29 (Friday, February 12, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7537-7538]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2016-02921]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OARM-2011-0997; FRL-9939-93-OEI]


Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; Recordkeeping and Reporting Related to RFS2 
Voluntary RIN Quality Assurance Program (Renewal)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency has submitted an 
information collection request (ICR), ``Recordkeeping and Reporting 
Related to RFS2 Voluntary RIN Quality Assurance Program'' (EPA ICR No. 
2473.03, OMB Control No. 2060-0688)

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to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in 
accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). 
This is a proposed revision of the ICR, which is currently approved 
through 12/31/2017. Public comments were previously requested via the 
Federal Register (80 FR 30455) on May 28, 2015 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 March 14, 
2016.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OAR-2005-1121, to (1) EPA 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, and (2) OMB via email 
to [email protected]. 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: Geanetta Heard, Fuel Compliance 
Center, 64106J, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. 
NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: 202-343-9017; fax number: 
202-565-2085; 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.
    Abstract: The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program began in 2006 
pursuant to the requirements in the Clean Air Act (CAA) section 211(o) 
which were added through the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct). The 
statutory requirements for the RFS program were subsequently modified 
through the Energy Independence and Security act of 2007 (EISA), 
resulting in the promulgation of major revisions to the regulatory 
requirements on March 26, 2010. The RFS program requires that specified 
volumes of renewable fuel be used as transportation fuel, heating oil, 
and/or jet fuel each year. To accomplish this, the Environmental 
Protection Agency (EPA) publishes applicable percentage standards 
annually that apply to the sum of all gasoline and diesel produced or 
imported. Obligated parties demonstrate compliance with the standards 
through the acquisition of unique Renewable Identification Numbers 
(RINs) assigned by the producer or importer to every batch of renewable 
fuel produced or imported. This regulation will help EPA to monitor 
compliance with the RFS program and will ensure that the RIN system 
operates as originally intended. The data generated by the Quality 
Assurance Plan (QAP) program will assist obligated parties and smaller 
renewable fuel producers to comply with the requirements of the RFS 
program by supporting the validity of RINs.
    Form Numbers: EPA Forms 5900-354, 5900-355, 5900-356, 5900-323, 
5900-357, 5900-358, 5900-359, 5900-360, and 5900-361.
    Respondents/affected entities:
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Voluntary (40 CFR part 80).
    Estimated number of respondents: 1,222 (total).
    Frequency of response: Quarterly, yearly and semiannually.
    Total estimated burden: 26,830 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.03(b).
    Total estimated cost: $2,984,207 (per year), includes $0 annualized 
capital or operation & maintenance costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is a decrease of 236,914 hours in 
the total estimated respondent burden compared with the ICR currently 
approved by OMB. This is due to a reduction in burden hours due to EMTS 
system's automation structure.

Courtney Kerwin,
Acting Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. 2016-02921 Filed 2-11-16; 8:45 am]
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Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 29 / Friday, February 12, 2016 / Notices 7537 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, demonstrated. After a certificate of information to or for a Federal agency. excluding legal holidays. The telephone conformity has been issued, the Agency This includes the time needed to review number for the Reading Room is (202) may request additional information to instructions; develop, acquire, install, 566–1744, and the telephone number for verify that the product continues to and utilize technology and systems for the Air and Radiation Docket is (202) meet its certified emissions standards the purposes of collecting, validating, 566–1744. An electronic version of the throughout its useful life. An agency and verifying information, processing public docket is available through EPA may not conduct or sponsor, and a and maintaining information, and Dockets (EDOCKET) at http:// person is not required to respond to, a disclosing and providing information; www.epa.gov/edocket. Use EDOCKET to collection of information unless it adjust the existing ways to comply with obtain a copy of the draft collection of displays a currently valid OMB control any previously applicable instructions information, submit or view public number. The OMB control numbers for and requirements; train personnel to be comments, access the index listing of EPA’s regulations in 40 CFR are listed able to respond to a collection of the contents of the public docket, and to in 40 CFR part 9. The EPA would like information; search data sources; access those documents in the public to solicit comments to: complete and review the collection of docket that are available electronically. (i) Evaluate whether the proposed information; and transmit or otherwise Once in the system, select ‘‘search,’’ collection of information is necessary disclose the information. then key in the docket ID number for the proper performance of the Respondents/Affected Entities: identified above. Any comments related functions of the Agency, including Entities potentially affected by this to this ICR should be submitted to EPA whether the information will have action are on-highway motorcycles within 60 days of this notice. EPA’s practical utility; manufacturers and importers. policy is that public comments, whether (ii) Evaluate the accuracy of the Estimated Number of Respondents: submitted electronically or in paper, Agency’s estimate of the burden of the 74. will be made available for public proposed collection of information, Frequency of Response: Quarterly and viewing in EDOCKET as EPA receives including the validity of the annually. them and without change, unless the methodology and assumptions used; Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: comment contains copyrighted material, (iii) Enhance the quality, utility, and 3,594. CBI, or other information whose public clarity of the information to be Estimated Total Annual Cost: disclosure is restricted by statute. When collected; and $386,088, which includes $151,150 EPA identifies a comment containing (iv) Minimize the burden of the annualized operation and maintenance copyrighted material, EPA will provide collection of information on those who costs, $113,834 annualized capital/ a reference to that material in the are to respond, including through the startup costs, and $168,614 annual labor version of the comment that is placed in use of appropriate automated electronic, costs. These estimates reflect an update EDOCKET. The entire printed comment, mechanical, or other technological to the previous cost estimates for on- including the copyrighted material, will collection techniques or other forms of highway motorcycles previously culled be available in the public docket. information technology, e.g., permitting and compiled for the current ICR for Although identified as an item in the electronic submission of responses. light-duty vehicle emissions official docket, information claimed as EPA will consider the comments certification and in-use testing. CBI, or whose disclosure is otherwise received and amend the ICR as Dated: February 8, 2016. restricted by statute, is not included in appropriate. The final ICR package will then be submitted to OMB for review Byron J. Bunker, the official public docket, and will not Director, Compliance Division, Office of be available for public viewing in and approval. At that time, EPA will Transportation and Air Quality, Office of Air EDOCKET. For further information issue another Federal Register notice to and Radiation. about the electronic docket, see EPA’s announce the submission of the ICR to [FR Doc. 2016–02956 Filed 2–11–16; 8:45 am] Federal Register notice describing the OMB and the opportunity to submit BILLING CODE 6560–50–P electronic docket at 67 FR 38102 (May additional comments to OMB. 31, 2002), or go to http://www.epa.gov./ The current ICR for on-highway edocket. motorcycle emissions certification and compliance information is set to expire ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION Affected entities: Entities potentially AGENCY affected by this action are on-highway on September 30, 2016. This program motorcycle manufacturers and was previously included under the [EPA–HQ–OARM–2011–0997; FRL–9939– importers. current ICR for light-duty vehicle 93–OEI] Title: Information Collection Request emissions certification and in-use (ICR) for On-Highway Motorcycle testing [EPA ICR No. 0783.62, OMB Information Collection Request Certification and Compliance Program. Control No. 2060–0104]. Submitted to OMB for Review and Abstract: Under the Clean Air Act (42 Burden Statement: EPA estimates that Approval; Comment Request; U.S.C. 7521 et seq.) manufacturers and 74 respondents will submit information Recordkeeping and Reporting Related importers of on-highway motorcycles each year spending a total of 542,118 to RFS2 Voluntary RIN Quality must have a certificate of conformity hours and incurring an annualized cost Assurance Program (Renewal) issued by EPA covering any vehicle they of 10.9 million dollars. The average AGENCY: Environmental Protection intend to offer for sale in the United burden per respondent varies greatly; it Agency (EPA). asabaliauskas on DSK9F6TC42PROD with NOTICES2 States. A certificate of conformity is a function of the diversity of the ACTION: Notice. represents that the respective vehicle products produced or imported. (A conforms to all applicable emissions large, diversified motor vehicle SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection requirements. In issuing a certificate of manufacturer will have a much greater Agency has submitted an information conformity, EPA reviews vehicle burden than a small importer of a few collection request (ICR), information and emissions test data to identical vehicles.) Burden means the ‘‘Recordkeeping and Reporting Related determine if the required testing has total time, effort, or financial resources to RFS2 Voluntary RIN Quality been performed and the required expended by persons to generate, Assurance Program’’ (EPA ICR No. emissions levels have been maintain, retain, or disclose or provide 2473.03, OMB Control No. 2060–0688) VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:38 Feb 11, 2016 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 Frm 00041 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\12FEN1.SGM 12FEN1

7538 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 29 / Friday, February 12, 2016 / Notices to the Office of Management and Budget Clean Air Act (CAA) section 211(o) ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION (OMB) for review and approval in which were added through the Energy AGENCY accordance with the Paperwork Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct). The [ER–FRL–9025–5] Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). statutory requirements for the RFS This is a proposed revision of the ICR, program were subsequently modified Environmental Impact Statements; which is currently approved through through the Energy Independence and Notice of Availability 12/31/2017. Public comments were Security act of 2007 (EISA), resulting in previously requested via the Federal the promulgation of major revisions to Responsible Agency: Office of Federal Register (80 FR 30455) on May 28, 2015 the regulatory requirements on March Activities, General Information (202) during a 60-day comment period. This 26, 2010. The RFS program requires that 564–7146 or http://www2.epa.gov/nepa. notice allows for an additional 30 days specified volumes of renewable fuel be Weekly receipt of Environmental for public comments. A fuller used as transportation fuel, heating oil, Impact Statements (EISs), Filed 02/01/ description of the ICR is given below, 2016 Through 02/05/2016, Pursuant to and/or jet fuel each year. To accomplish including its estimated burden and cost 40 CFR 1506.9. this, the Environmental Protection to the public. An Agency may not Agency (EPA) publishes applicable Notice conduct or sponsor and a person is not percentage standards annually that required to respond to a collection of Section 309(a) of the Clean Air Act apply to the sum of all gasoline and requires that EPA make public its information unless it displays a diesel produced or imported. Obligated comments on EISs issued by other currently valid OMB control number. parties demonstrate compliance with Federal agencies. EPA’s comment letters DATES: Additional comments may be the standards through the acquisition of on EISs are available at: http:// submitted on or before March 14, 2016. unique Renewable Identification cdxnodengn.epa.gov/cdx-nepa-public/ ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, Numbers (RINs) assigned by the action/eis/search. referencing Docket ID Number EPA– producer or importer to every batch of HQ–OAR–2005–1121, to (1) EPA online EIS No. 20160028, Final, FHWA, WI, I– renewable fuel produced or imported. 94 East-West Corridor (70th St—16th using www.regulations.gov (our This regulation will help EPA to preferred method), by email to a-and-r- St) Project, Review Period Ends: 03/ monitor compliance with the RFS 14/2016, Contact: Michael Davies, Docket@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA program and will ensure that the RIN Docket Center, Environmental 608–829–7500. system operates as originally intended. EIS No. 20160029, Final, BPA, WA, I– Protection Agency, Mail Code 28221T, The data generated by the Quality 5 Corridor Reinforcement Project, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Assurance Plan (QAP) program will Review Period Ends: 03/14/2016, Washington, DC 20460, and (2) OMB via assist obligated parties and smaller Contact: Nancy A. Wittpenn 503–230– email to oira_submission@omb.eop.gov. renewable fuel producers to comply 3297. Address comments to OMB Desk Officer with the requirements of the RFS for EPA. program by supporting the validity of Amended Notices EPA’s policy is that all comments EIS No. 20150346, Draft, OSM, TN, RINs. received will be included in the public North Cumberland Wildlife docket without change including any Form Numbers: EPA Forms 5900–354, 5900–355, 5900–356, 5900–323, 5900– Management Area, Tennessee, Lands personal information provided, unless Unsuitable for Mining, Comment the comment includes profanity, threats, 357, 5900–358, 5900–359, 5900–360, and 5900–361. Period Ends: 02/26/2016, Contact: information claimed to be Confidential Earl Bandy 865–545–4103 ext. 130, Business Information (CBI) or other Respondents/affected entities: Revision to FR Notice Published 12/ information whose disclosure is 11/2015; OSM reopened the comment Respondent’s obligation to respond: restricted by statute. period that ended 01/025/2016 and Voluntary (40 CFR part 80). FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: extended to 02/26/2016. Geanetta Heard, Fuel Compliance Estimated number of respondents: Center, 64106J, Environmental 1,222 (total). Dated: February 9, 2016. Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Frequency of response: Quarterly, Dawn Roberts, Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460; yearly and semiannually. Management Analyst, NEPA Compliance telephone number: 202–343–9017; fax Division, Office of Federal Activities. Total estimated burden: 26,830 hours number: 202–565–2085; email address: [FR Doc. 2016–02937 Filed 2–11–16; 8:45 am] (per year). Burden is defined at 5 CFR heard.geanetta@epa.gov. 1320.03(b). BILLING CODE 6560–50–P SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supporting documents which explain in Total estimated cost: $2,984,207 (per detail the information that the EPA will year), includes $0 annualized capital or ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION be collecting are available in the public operation & maintenance costs. AGENCY docket for this ICR. The docket can be Changes in the Estimates: There is a [EPA–HQ–OAR–2006–0407; FRL–9941–79– viewed online at www.regulations.gov decrease of 236,914 hours in the total OEI] or in person at the EPA Docket Center, estimated respondent burden compared WJC West, Room 3334, 1301 with the ICR currently approved by Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and asabaliauskas on DSK9F6TC42PROD with NOTICES2 Constitution Ave. NW., Washington, OMB. This is due to a reduction in DC. The telephone number for the burden hours due to EMTS system’s Approval; Comment Request; EPA’s Docket Center is 202–566–1744. For automation structure. ENERGY STAR Program in the additional information about EPA’s Commercial and Industrial Sectors Courtney Kerwin, (Revision) public docket, visit http://www.epa.gov/ dockets. Acting Director, Collection Strategies Division. AGENCY: Environmental Protection Abstract: The Renewable Fuel Agency (EPA). Standard (RFS) program began in 2006 [FR Doc. 2016–02921 Filed 2–11–16; 8:45 am] ACTION: Notice. pursuant to the requirements in the BILLING CODE 6560–50–P VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:38 Feb 11, 2016 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 Frm 00042 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\12FEN1.SGM 12FEN1


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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice.
DatesAdditional comments may be submitted on or before March 14, 2016.
ContactGeanetta Heard, Fuel Compliance Center, 64106J, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: 202-343-9017; fax number:
FR Citation81 FR 7537 
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