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Information Collection Request

Emissions Monitoring Provisions in State Implementation Plans Required Under the NOX SIP Call (Final Rule)

ICR 202005-2060-003 · OMB 2060-0445 · Active

Forms and Documents
DocumentTypeStatusAvailability
1857ss11.docx Supporting Statement A Uploaded 2020-05-28 Available
IC Document Collections
IC IDCollectionTypeStatusForm
24660 NOX Budget Trading Program to Reduce the Regional Transport of Ozone Modified
ICR Details
2060-0445 202005-2060-003
Active 201809-2060-006
EPA/OAR 1857.11
Emissions Monitoring Provisions in State Implementation Plans Required Under the NOX SIP Call (Final Rule)
Revision of a currently approved collection   No
Regular
Approved without change 09/09/2020
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA) 07/15/2020
This ICR was submitted over a year after the final rule was published. The burden estimates are only for 2019-2021, and 2020 is nearly over. OMB is issuing a one year approval of this information collection. Upon resubmission, OMB requests that EPA use actual burden estimates based on any SIP revisions that may or may not have occurred because of the 2019 final rule, Emissions Monitoring Provisions in State Implementation Plans Required Under the NOX SIP Call (RIN 2060–AU08).
  Inventory as of this Action Requested Previously Approved
12/31/2021 36 Months From Approved 01/31/2021
1,180 0 1,600
131,945 0 189,261
8,256,087 0 12,227,456
The NOx Budget Trading Program was a market-based cap and trade program created to reduce emissions of nitrogren oxides (NOx) from power plants and other large combustion sources in the eastern United States. NOx 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 NOx Budget Trading Program was designed to reduce NOx emissions during the warm summer months, referred to as the ozone season, when ground-level ozone concentrations are highest. In 2009, the program was replaced by an ozone-season NOx trading program under the Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR), which has in turn been replaced by the ozone-season NOx trading programs under the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR). Although the NOx Budget Trading Program was replaced after the 2008 compliance season, this information collection is being renewed because 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.
US Code: 40 USC 51 Name of Law: null
  
None
2060-AU08 Final or interim final rulemaking 84 FR 8422 03/08/2019
No
1
IC Title Form No. Form Name
NOX Budget Trading Program to Reduce the Regional Transport of Ozone
  Total Approved Previously Approved Change Due to New Statute Change Due to Agency Discretion Change Due to Adjustment in Estimate Change Due to Potential Violation of the PRA
Annual Number of Responses 1,180 1,600 0 -340 -80 0
Annual Time Burden (Hours) 131,945 189,261 0 -48,004 -9,312 0
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars) 8,256,087 12,227,456 0 -3,402,895 -568,474 0
No
Yes
Changing Regulations
A rule amendment gives states an option to establish lower-cost monitoring requirements for some sources.
$200,600
No
    No
    No
No
No
No
No
Karen VanSickle 2023439220 [email protected]
  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.
07/15/2020