Extension without change of a currently approved collection
No
Regular
05/30/2025
Requested
Previously Approved
36 Months From Approved
05/31/2025
1,725
1,244
156,640
140,226
10,398,033
9,194,261
This is a renewal of the Environmental
Protection Agencys (EPAs) information collection request (ICR)
addressing the burden and costs of information collection
activities indirectly required under the NOX SIP Call (the Rule).
The Rule requires affected states to include certain provisions in
their state implementation plans (SIPs) addressing emissions of
nitrogen oxides (NOX) that adversely affect air quality in other
states. Previously, one of the Rules requirements applicable to all
affected states was that the SIPs must include provisions requiring
large electricity generating units (EGUs) and large non-EGU boilers
and turbines to monitor and report their NOX mass emissions during
the May-September ozone season according to the provisions of 40
CFR part 75 (referred to here as Part 75 monitoring requirements).
In 2019, EPA amended the NOx SIP Call making the inclusion of Part
75 monitoring requirements in SIPs voluntary instead of mandatory,
allowing states to submit SIP revisions to EPA requiring sources to
perform other forms of monitoring. Although the Rule does not
impose any requirements directly on sources, the Part 75 monitoring
requirements were added to SIPs because of the Rule, and EPA has
therefore submitted and periodically renewed an ICR to account for
the information collection burden and costs of the Part 75
monitoring requirements imposed indirectly on sources. This ICR
includes estimates of burden and costs both for sources subject to
Part 75 monitoring requirements and sources performing other forms
of monitoring for NOX SIP Call purposes under approved SIP
revisions. Most large EGUs (and some large non-EGU boilers and
turbines) affected under the NOX SIP Call are also subject to
comparable Part 75 monitoring requirements under the Acid Rain
Program (ARP) and/or the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR)
trading programs. Both the ARP and CSAPR have approved ICRs (OMB
Control Nos. 2060-0258 and 2060-0667), and this ICR accounts for
information collection burden and costs only for sources that are
not required to perform Part 75 monitoring under the ARP or CSAPR
programs and whose information collection burden and costs
therefore are not accounted for in the ARP ICR or the CSAPR ICR.
This ICR also accounts for information collection burden and costs
for additional sources primarily smaller EGUs that states
voluntarily have made subject to Part 75 monitoring requirements
under the SIPs they adopted for NOX SIP Call compliance, going
beyond the Rules existing requirements. Under the NOx SIP Call,
states are required to report certain data regarding emissions of
sources in the state to EPA on an annual or triennial basis. The
Air Emission Reporting Rule (AERR) for the national emission
inventory includes very similar reporting requirements, and EPA
believes that there is no material incremental information
collection burden and cost associated with the required state
reporting for NOX SIP Call purposes beyond the burden and cost
estimates included in the AERR ICR (OMB Control Number 2060-0580).
Thus, the only information collection burden and costs addressed in
this ICR relate to the monitoring and reporting requirements
imposed on sources through the states SIPs for compliance with the
NOX SIP Call.
US Code:
42
USC 7410 Name of Law: Clean Air Act (CAA)
US Code: 42
USC 7601 Name of Law: Clean Air Act (CAA)
This ICR renewal has an
increase in industry burden of 16,414 hours and an increase in
industry annualized total costs of $4,436,079. The total burden and
cost have increased primarily due to changes in the estimated
numbers of respondents relative to the previous ICR renewal. For
purposes of this ICR renewal, EPA has based the estimated numbers
of sources using non-part 75 monitoring and reporting methodologies
for NOX SIP Call purposes on updated information about the actual
numbers of such sources.
$111,687
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Morgan Riedel 202
564-1144
No
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.
1857ss13.docx
1857.13 Suppl Doc- 40 CFR Part 52.pdf
NOx SIP Call