90 FR 99 pgs. 22089-22090 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request; NO X SIP Call (Renewal)

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Type: NOTICEVolume: 90Number: 99Pages: 22089 - 22090

Docket number: [EPA-HQ-OAR-2024-0335; FRL-12799-01-OMS]

FR document: [FR Doc. 2025-09299 Filed 5-22-25; 8:45 am]

Agency: Environmental Protection Agency

Official PDF Version: PDF Version

Pages: 22089, 22090

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2024-0335; FRL-12799-01-OMS]

Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request; NO X SIP Call (Renewal)

AGENCY:

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION:

Notice.

SUMMARY:

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), NO X SIP Call (EPA ICR Number 1857.13, OMB Control Number 2060-0445) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. This is a proposed extension of the ICR, which is currently approved through May 31, 2025. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register on September 5, 2024 during a 60-day comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.

DATES:

Comments may be submitted on or before June 23, 2025.

ADDRESSES:

[top] Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-OAR-2024-0335, to EPA online using www.regulations.gov (our preferred method), by email to a-and-r-docket@epamail.epa.gov, 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.

Submit written comments and recommendations to OMB for the proposed information collection within 30 days of publication of this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular information collection by selecting "Currently under 30-day Review-Open for Public Comments" or by using the search function.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Morgan Riedel, Clean Air and Power Division, Office of Atmospheric Protection, 6204A, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 564-1144; email address: riedel.morgan@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

This is a proposed extension of the ICR, which is currently approved through May 31, 2025. 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.

Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register on September 5, 2024 during a 60-day comment period (89 FR 72395). This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments. 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 NO X SIP Callwascreated to reduce emissions of nitrogen oxides (NO X ) from power plants and other large combustion sources.NO X is a prime ingredient in the formation of ground-level ozone (smog), a pervasive air pollution problem in many areas of the eastern United States. The NO X SIP Call requires affected states to include certain provisions in their state implementation plans (SIPs) addressing emissions of NO X that adversely affect air quality in other states. Although most large combustion sources affected under the NO X SIP Callare also subject to monitoring requirements under the Acid Rain Program or the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, this information collection is being renewed because some industrial sources in certain states are still required to monitor and report emissions data to EPA under these rules, so we will account for their burden. All data received by EPA will be treated as public information. The OMB control numbers for EPA's regulations in 40 CFR are listed in 40 CFR part 9.

Form Numbers: None.

Respondents/affected entities: Entities that participate in the NO X SIP Call.

Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (Sections 110(a) and 301(a) of the CAA).

Estimated number of respondents: 376 (total).

Frequency of response: Yearly, Quarterly, Occasionally.

Total estimated burden: 156,640 hours (per year). Burden is defined at 5 CFR 1320.03(b).

Total estimated cost: $25,058,685 (per year), which includes $10,398,033 annualized capital or operation & maintenance costs.

Changes in the estimates: There is an increase of 16,414 hours in the total estimated respondent burden compared with the ICR currently approved by OMB. This increase is due to an increased estimation of expected sources reporting under the NO X SIP Call. In the previous ICR, the EPA anticipated states and sources to exercise a newly implemented option to utilize less burdensome monitoring and reporting, but fewer states than expected exercised that option for sources within their borders.

Courtney Kerwin,

Director, Information Engagement Division.

[FR Doc. 2025-09299 Filed 5-22-25; 8:45 am]

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