Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Comment Request; Emission Defect Information
Reports and Voluntary Emission Recall Reports (Renewal), EPA ICR Number
0282.13, OMB Control Number 2060-0048
[Federal Register: February 12, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 29)]
[Notices]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[OAR-2003-0059; FRL-7621-6]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Comment Request; Emission Defect Information
Reports and Voluntary Emission Recall Reports (Renewal), EPA ICR Number
0282.13, OMB Control Number 2060-0048
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 an Information Collection
Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and approval. This is a request to renew an existing
approved collection. This ICR is scheduled to expire on 1/31/2004.
Under OMB regulations, the Agency may continue to conduct or sponsor
the collection of information while this submission is pending at OMB.
This ICR describes the nature of the information collection and its
estimated burden and cost.
DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before March 15, 2004.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number OAR-2003-
0059, to (1) EPA online using EDOCKET (our preferred method), by e-mail
to a-and-r-Docket@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA Docket Center,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air and Radiation Docket and
Information Center, Mail Code 6102T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.,
Washington, DC 20460, and (2) OMB at: Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Attention:
Desk Officer for EPA,
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725 17th Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Nydia Y. Reyes-Morales,
Certification and Compliance Division, Office of Transportation and Air
Quality, Office of Air and Radiation, Mail Code 6403J, Environmental
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460;
telephone number: (202) 343-9264; fax number: (202) 343-2804; e-mail
address: reyes-morales.nydia@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has submitted the following ICR to OMB
for review and approval according to the procedures prescribed in 5 CFR
1320.12. On November 26, 2003 (68 FR 66412), EPA sought comments on
this ICR pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received no comments.
EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID
number OAR-2003-0059, which is available for public viewing at the Air
and Radiation Docket and Information Center in the EPA Docket Center
(EPA/DC), EPA West, Room B102, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW., Washington,
DC. The EPA Docket Center Public Reading Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to
4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays. The
telephone number for the Reading Room is (202) 566-1744, and the
telephone number for the Air and Radiation Docket and Information
Center is (202) 566-1742. An electronic version of the public docket is
available through EPA Dockets (EDOCKET) at http://www.epa.gov/edocket.
Use EDOCKET to submit or view public comments, access the index listing
of the contents of the public docket, and to access those documents in
the public docket that are available electronically. Once in the
system, select ``search,'' then key in the docket ID number identified
above.
Any comments related to this ICR should be submitted to EPA and OMB
within 30 days of this notice. EPA's policy is that public comments,
whether submitted electronically or in paper, will be made available
for public viewing in EDOCKET as EPA receives them and without change,
unless the comment contains copyrighted material, CBI, or other
information whose public disclosure is restricted by statute. When EPA
identifies a comment containing copyrighted material, EPA will provide
a reference to that material in the version of the comment that is
placed in EDOCKET. The entire printed comment, including the
copyrighted material, will be available in the public docket. Although
identified as an item in the official docket, information claimed as
CBI, or whose disclosure is otherwise restricted by statute, is not
included in the official public docket, and will not be available for
public viewing in EDOCKET. For further information about the electronic
docket, see EPA's Federal Register notice describing the electronic
docket at 67 FR 38102 (May 31, 2002), or go to http://www.epa.gov/edocket.
Title: Emission Defect Information Reports and Voluntary Emission
Recall Reports (Renewal).
Abstract: Per sections 207(c)(1) and 213 of the Clean Air Act
(CAA), when emission testing shows that a substantial number of
properly maintained and used engines produced by a manufacturer do not
conform to emission standards, the manufacturer is required to recall
the engines. Manufacturers are also required to submit Defect
Information Reports (DIRs) to alert EPA of the existence of emission-
related defects on certain classes of engines that may cause the
engines' emissions to exceed the standards and ultimately may lead to a
recall. EPA uses these reports to target potentially nonconforming
classes of engines for future testing, to monitor compliance with
applicable regulations and to order a recall, if necessary.
Manufacturers can also initiate a recall voluntarily by submitting a
Voluntary Emission Recall Report (VERR). VERRs and VERR updates allow
EPA to determine whether the manufacturer conducting the recall is
acting in accordance with the CAA and to examine and monitor the
effectiveness of the recall campaign.
The information is collected by the Engine Programs Group,
Certification and Compliance Division, Office of Transportation and Air
Quality, Office of Air and Radiation. Confidentiality of proprietary
information submitted by manufacturers is granted in accordance with
the Freedom of Information Act, EPA regulations at 40 CFR part 2, and
class determinations issued by EPA's Office of General Counsel.
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 in 40 CFR are listed in 40 CFR part 9 and are identified on
the form and/or instrument, if applicable.
Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping
burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 260
hours per respondent. 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: Manufacturers of on-highway heavy-
duty trucks, non-road compression-ignition engines, non-road spark-
ignition engines, marine engines, locomotives and locomotive engines.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 17.
Frequency of Response: On occasion and quarterly.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 4,417.
Estimated Total Annual Cost: $265,971 includes $0 annualized
capital/startup costs, $413 annual O&M costs and $265,558 annual labor
costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is a decrease of 508 hours in the
total estimated burden currently identified in the OMB Inventory of
Approved ICR Burdens. This decrease is due to the correction of a
mistake made in the original calculations. The decrease in burden is,
therefore, due to an adjustment to the estimates.
Dated: January 27, 2004.
Doreen Sterling,
Acting Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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