This information collection request is not approved at this time. The agency must resubmit this request at the time of final rulemaking, as required by 5 CFR 1320.11(h).
Inventory as of this Action
Requested
Previously Approved
08/31/2012
08/31/2012
08/31/2012
1,926
0
1,926
645,259
0
645,259
19,713,085
0
19,713,085
The Environmental Protection Agency and the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration are jointly proposing Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emission Standards and Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards changes designed to decrease emissions of greenhouse gasses (GHG). This ICR deals with EPA's portion of the proposal, which concerns EPA's motor vehicle and engine certification and in-use testing programs, covered by the ICR 0783 series.
Note that only 33 of the 53 respondents covered by the Certification IC are affected by this proposal; the rest are exempted as small businesses. Small businesses are already excluded from the IUVP IC. None of the other ICs are affected.
The proposed rule has three information collection cost increases. First, there are new CO2 emissions standards and new compliance standards for nitrous oxide (N2O) and methane (CH4) emissions. The CO2 and CH4 standards will require no new testing, only the reporting of data available from the existing required EPA city and highway tests in a new format, whereas the N2O standard may require the addition of new analyzer equipment for some manufacturers. Second, the manufacturer's in-use vehicle program (IUVP) will add a highway test to the current FTP test requirements, so that the information will be available to test in-use compliance with the new standards. This proposal will also require that the selected vehicles be tested for compliance with the N2O standard, entailing possible associated capital costs to install N2O analyzers. Third, there will be new reporting and recordkeeping burdens. The largest of these will be startup costs for reprogramming computer systems to report the new information EPA requires in the necessary formats; this having been accomplished, reporting will be done within the existing Verify information system. New reporting elements include a GHG compliance plan, analogous to the pre-model year report already supplied to NHTSA; and averaging, banking and trading accounting, analogous to ABT in the current Tier 2 program, but with some unique, optional credit provisions.
The "annual" costs to the federal government above includes startup costs.
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.
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Motor Vehicle Emission and Fuel Economy Compliance: Defect Reports and Voluntary Emissions Recall Reports