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Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Auto Body Compliance Assessment Pilot Project (New); EPA ICR No. 2344.01, OMB Control No. 2020-NEW

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[Federal Register: July 2, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 126)]
[Notices]
[Page 31729-31730]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OECA-2009-0124; FRL-8925-5]

Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Comment Request; Auto Body Compliance Assessment
Pilot Project (New); EPA ICR No. 2344.01, OMB Control No. 2020-NEW

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44
U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that an Information
Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. This is a request for a new
collection. The ICR, which is abstracted below, describes the nature of
the information collection and its estimated burden and cost.

DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before August 3, 2009.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID No. EPA HQ-OECA-
2009-0124, to (1) EPA online using www.regulations.gov (our preferred
method), by e-mail to docket.oeca@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA Docket
Center (EPA/DC), Environmental Protection Agency, Enforcement and
Compliance Docket and Information Center, mail code 28221T, 1200
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460, and (2) OMB by mail to:
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget (OMB), Attention: Desk Officer for EPA, 725 17th Street, NW.,
Washington, DC 20503.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kenneth Harmon, Office of Compliance,
(2224A), Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.,
Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 564-7049; fax number:
(202) 564-7083; e-mail address: harmon.kenneth@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has submitted the following ICR to OMB
for review and approval according to the procedures prescribed in 5 CFR
1320.12. On February 25, 2009 (74 FR 8534), EPA sought comments on this
ICR pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received no comments. Any
additional comments on this ICR should be submitted to EPA and OMB
within 30 days of this notice.
    EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID
No. EPA-HQ-OECA-2009-0124, which is available for online viewing at
www.regulations.gov, or in person viewing at the OECA Docket in the EPA
Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave.,
NW., Washington, DC. The EPA/DC Public Reading Room is open from 8:30
a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays. The
telephone number for the Reading Room is 202-566-1744, and the
telephone number for OECA Docket is 202-566-1752.
    Use EPA's electronic docket and comment system at
www.regulations.gov, to submit or view public comments, access the
index listing of the contents of the docket, and to access those
documents in the docket that are available electronically. Once in the
system, select ``docket search,'' then key in the docket ID number
identified above. Please note that EPA's policy is that public
comments, whether submitted electronically or in paper, will be made
available for public viewing at www.regulations.gov as EPA receives
them and without change, unless the comment contains copyrighted
material, confidential business information (CBI), or other information
whose public disclosure is restricted by statute. For further
information about the electronic docket, go to www.regulations.gov.
    Title: Auto Body Compliance Assessment Pilot Project (New).
    ICR Numbers: EPA ICR No. 2344.01, OMB Control No. 2020-NEW.
    ICR Status: This ICR is for a new information collection activity.
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. The OMB control numbers for EPA's regulations
in title 40 of the CFR, after appearing in the Federal Register when
approved, are listed in 40 CFR part 9, are displayed either by
publication in the Federal Register or by other appropriate means, such
as on the related collection instrument or form, if applicable. The
display of OMB control numbers in certain EPA regulations is
consolidated in 40 CFR part 9.
    Abstract: The purpose of the ICR is two-fold. First, it is to
authorize the collection of information as part of a pilot study
undertaken by EPA to evaluate whether and how EPA's specific compliance
assistance activities in Region 1 helped owners or operators of auto
body shops improve their operations. The ICR would authorize the
administration of surveys, by telephone and on-site, to a random sample
of auto body shops subject to National Emission Standards for Hazardous
Air Pollutants: Paint Stripping and Miscellaneous Surface Coating
Operations at Area Sources (NESHAP Subpart HHHHHH, hereinafter referred
to as the Surface Coating Rule.). Specifically, the study has been
designed to assess whether or not the assistance provided helped owners
or operators understand these and other applicable environmental
regulations, and whether or not the assistance helped owners or
operators implement operational changes that improved environmental
practices; including changes in behavior that resulted in the auto body
shop either returning to compliance with regulations or taking steps
toward achieving compliance. EPA has two objectives in collecting this
information for the pilot study: (1) EPA's primary objective is to
assess the degree to which its compliance assistance activities can be
correlated to improved environmental performance at auto body shops;
(2) EPA's secondary objective is to assess the validity of
environmental performance information collected by telephone surveys.
The Agency frequently relies on telephone surveys to gather information
about environmental performance, but such self-reported data may not be
accurate, and may suffer from non-response bias. The design for this
study addresses both concerns.
    The second use for this ICR is to authorize the use of these
surveys to collect anecdotal information as part of the Agency's
efforts to assess outcomes associated with the Office of Air Quality
Planning and Standard's Collision Repair Campaign (CRC). The CRC is a
two-year campaign during which the EPA Headquarters Office of Air
Quality Planning and Standards (OAQPS) and the ten EPA Regions will
address health threats by reducing toxic auto body coating emissions at
the national level. Each EPA regional office involved in the campaign
will work with its respective partners (e.g., community, industry,

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small businesses, etc.) to help shop owners reduce paint, solvent and
related hazardous waste disposal costs. The CRC also aims to achieve
enhanced compliance with the Surface Coating Rule by encouraging shops
to reduce pollutant emissions early and to levels beyond those required
by the rule. The CRC team will use the surveys to collect anecdotal
information about the use of emission reduction best practices at auto
body shops and measure the effectiveness of particular outreach,
education, and training activities undertaken as part of the CRC. The
team will use that information to judge the success and efficacy of the
specific outreach activity surveyed, and information collected can be
used to help improve program implementation.
    The information obtained under this ICR will not be used to make
major policy decisions. No confidential or sensitive data will be
collected under this ICR. This is a pilot project designed to help EPA
improve its data collection methods and improve its analyses of the
Agency's compliance assistance program.
    A respondent's participation in this information collection process
will be voluntary. The survey questions are designed to assess whether
the assistance provided during the pilot helped the owner/operator
understand the applicable environmental regulations, and whether the
assistance helped the owner/operator implement operational changes that
resulted in improved environmental practices. Improved environmental
practices include a change in behavior that resulted in a shop either
returning to compliance with regulations or taking steps toward
achieving compliance.
    Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping
burden for this collection of information is estimated to be average a
response time of 10 minutes for each phone survey, and 75 minutes for
each on-site visit. Burden means the total time, effort, or financial
resources expended by persons to generate, maintain, retain, or
disclose or provide information to or for a Federal agency. This
includes the time needed to review instructions; develop, acquire,
install, and utilize technology and systems for the purposes of
collecting, validating, and verifying information, processing and
maintaining information, and disclosing and providing information;
adjust the existing ways to comply with any previously applicable
instructions and requirements which have subsequently changed; train
personnel to be able to respond to a collection of information; search
data sources; complete and review the collection of information; and
transmit or otherwise disclose the information.
    Respondents/Affected Entities: Automotive body, paint, and interior
repair and maintenance shops located in risk-based clusters in
Massachusetts, Oklahoma and Virginia. Surveys conducted for the
Collision Repair Campaign may be administered to owners or operators of
collision repair or auto body shops who have completed training
provided by the CRC team and their partners or who have requested and
received materials developed by the team such as DVDs, brochures, Web
sites, etc., anywhere in the U.S.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 1,840 for the auto body shop
study, and 7,500 for the Collision Repair Campaign.
    Frequency of Response: 3,113 responses annually.
    Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 1,617 hours.
    Estimated Total Annual Cost: $152,510 includes $0 annualized
capital or O&M costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: This is a new collection.

    Dated: June 24, 2009.
John Moses,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. E9-15690 Filed 7-1-09; 8:45 am]
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