EPA charges user fees for
administering its vehicle and engine certification programs. In
2004 the fees were extended to include certification applications
for recently regulated categories of off-road vehicles and engines.
Manufacturers and importers of covered vehicles and engines are
required to pay the applicable certification fee prior to their
certification applications being renewed. This involves submitting
payments along with a filing form identifying the engine family to
be covered by the fee. There are also correction and refund forms.
This ICR estimates the paperwork burden of submitting these fees
and forms. This is a renewal ICR for the entire motor vehicle and
engine compliance fees program. The baseline assumes that the
on-road fees program burden has been transferred from ICR 0783.47
(OMB 2060-0104) to 2080.02 according to a previously submitted
"83-C type" non-substantive change request. Consequently, this
renewal updates paperwork burden estimates for the entire
certification fees program, to be hereafter considered in one,
rather than two, analyses and Paperwork Reduction Act approvals.
This is appropriate because the fees program is, in fact,
administered as a single program covering both on-road and off-road
vehicles and engines.
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USC 7552 Name of Law: Clean Air Act
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USC 9701 Name of Law: Appropriations Act
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.