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Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Regulation of Fuels and Fuel Additives: Detergent Gasoline (Renewal); EPA ICR No. 1655.06, OMB Control No. 2060-0275 

[Federal Register: December 17, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 241)]
[Notices]
[Page 71402-71403]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OAR-2007-0595; FRL-8507-2]

Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Comment Request; Regulation of Fuels and Fuel
Additives: Detergent Gasoline (Renewal); EPA ICR No. 1655.06, OMB
Control No. 2060-0275

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (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. The ICR, which is abstracted below,
describes the nature of the information collection and its estimated
burden and cost.

DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before January 16, 2008.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-
2007-0595, to (1) EPA online using http://www.regulations.gov (our
preferred method), by email to a-and-r-Docket@epa.gov, or by mail to:
EPA Docket Center, Environmental Protection Agency, Air and Radiation
Docket and Information Center, Mailcode: 2822T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave.,
NW., Washington, DC 20460, and (2) OMB by mail to: Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget
(OMB), Attention: Desk Officer for EPA, 725 17th Street, NW.,
Washington, DC 20503.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jaimee Dong, Office of Transportation
and Air Quality, (Mailcode: 6406J), Environmental Protection Agency,
1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone number:
(202) 343-9672; fax number: (202) 343-2802; e-mail address: 
dong.jaimee@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 August 21, 2007 (72 FR 46629), EPA sought comments on this
ICR pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received no comments. Any
additional comments on this ICR should be submitted to EPA and OMB
within 30 days of this notice.
    EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID
No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2007-0595, which is available for online viewing at
http://www.regulations.gov, or in person viewing at the Air and
Radiation Docket in the EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West, Room
3334, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC. The EPA/DC 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 is 202-566-1742.
    Use EPA's electronic docket and comment system at 
http://www.regulations.gov, to submit or view public comments, access
the index listing of the contents of the docket, and to access those
documents in the docket that are available electronically. Once in the
system, select ``docket search,'' then key in the docket ID number
identified above. Please note that EPA's policy is that public
comments, whether submitted electronically or in paper, will be made
available for public viewing at http://www.regulations.gov as EPA
receives them and without change, unless the comment contains
copyrighted material, confidential business information (CBI), or other
information whose public disclosure is restricted by statute. For
further information about the electronic docket, go to 
http://www.regulations.gov.
    Title: Regulation of Fuels and Fuel Additives: Detergent Gasoline
(Renewal).
    ICR numbers: EPA ICR No. 1655.06, OMB Control No. 2060-0275.
    ICR Status: This ICR is scheduled to expire on January 31, 2008.
Under OMB regulations, the Agency may continue to conduct or sponsor
the collection of information while this submission is pending at OMB.
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 title 40 of the CFR, after appearing in the Federal Register when
approved, are listed in 40 CFR part 9, and are displayed either by
publication in the Federal Register or by other appropriate means, such
as on the related collection instrument or form, if applicable. The
display of OMB control numbers in certain EPA regulations is
consolidated in 40 CFR part 9.
    Abstract: Gasoline combustion results in the formation of engine
deposits that contribute to increased emissions. Detergent additives
deter deposit formation. The Clean Air Act requires gasoline to contain
a detergent additive. The regulations at 40 CFR part 80--subpart G
specify certification requirements for manufacturers of detergent
additives, recordkeeping or reporting requirements for blenders of
detergents into gasoline or post-refinery component (any gasoline
blending stock or any oxygenate which is blended with gasoline
subsequent to the gasoline refining process), and reporting or
recordkeeping requirements for manufacturers, transferors, or
transferees of detergents, gasoline, or post-refinery component (PRC).
These requirements ensure that (1) a detergent is effective before it
is certified by EPA, (2) a certified detergent, at the minimum
concentration necessary to be effective

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(known as the lowest additive concentration (LAC)), is blended into
gasoline, and (3) only gasoline which contains a certified detergent at
its LAC is delivered to the consumer. The EPA maintains a list of
certified gasoline detergents, which is publicly available. As of June
2007 there were 393 certified detergents and 18 detergent manufacturers.
    Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping
burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 3.2
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 which have subsequently changed; 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, transferors and
transferees, and blenders into gasoline or post-refinery component of
detergent additives; Manufacturers, transferors, and transferees of
gasoline or post-refinery components; and detergent additive researchers.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 1368.
    Frequency of Response: 50.8
    Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 220,608.
    Estimated Total Annual Cost: $15,547,566, includes $335,180
annualized capital or O&M costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is a decrease of 1200 hours and an
increase in total cost of $2,269,962 in the total estimated burden
currently identified in the OMB Inventory of Approved ICR Burdens.
These changes are due to a decrease in annual certification
applications, from 30 to 10, and an update in labor costs.

    Dated: December 10, 2007.
Sara Hisel-McCoy,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. E7-24351 Filed 12-14-07; 8:45 am]
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