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requires an emissions characterization
and a literature search for information
on the health effects of those emissions.
Voluminous Tier 1 data for gasoline and
diesel fuel were submitted by API and
others in 1997. Tier 1 data have been
submitted for biodiesel, water/diesel
emulsions, several atypical additives,
and renewable gasoline and diesel fuels.
Tier 2 requires short-term inhalation
exposures of laboratory animals to
emissions to screen for adverse health
effects. Tier 2 data have been submitted
for baseline diesel, biodiesel, and water/
diesel emulsions. Alternative Tier 2
testing can be required in lieu of
standard Tier 2 testing if EPA concludes
that such testing would be more
appropriate. EPA reached that
conclusion with respect to gasoline and
gasoline-oxygenate blends, and
alternative requirements were
established for the API consortium for
baseline gasoline and six gasolineoxygenate blends. Alternative Tier 2
requirements have also been established
for the manganese additive MMT
manufactured by the Afton Chemical
Corporation (formerly the Ethyl
Corporation). Tier 3 provides for followup research, at EPA’s discretion, when
remaining uncertainties as to the
significance of observed health effects,
welfare effects, and/or emissions
exposures from a fuel or fuel/additive
mixture interfere with EPA’s ability to
make reasonable estimates of the
potential risks posed by emissions from
a fuel or additive. To date, EPA has not
imposed any Tier 3 requirements. Under
regulations promulgated pursuant to
Section 211 of the Clean Air Act, (1)
submission of the health-effects
information is necessary for a
manufacturer to obtain registration of a
motor-vehicle gasoline, diesel fuel, or
fuel additive, and thus be allowed to
introduce that product into commerce,
and (2) the information shall not be
considered confidential.
Form Numbers: None.
Respondents/affected entities:
Manufacturers of motor-vehicle
gasoline, motor-vehicle diesel fuel, and
additives for those fuels.
Respondent’s obligation to respond:
Mandatory per 40 CFR 79.
Estimated number of respondents: 2.
Frequency of response: On occasion.
Total estimated burden: 19,200 hours
per year. Burden is defined at 5 CFR
1320.03(b).
Total estimated cost: $2 million per
year, includes $0.5 million annualized
capital or operation & maintenance
costs.
Changes in Estimates: There is a
decrease of 2,000 hours in the total
estimated respondent burden compared

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with the ICR currently approved by
OMB. This decrease is due to the
conclusion of a testing program
included in the previous ICR.
Dated: February 13, 2013.
Byron J. Bunker,
Director, Compliance Division.
[FR Doc. 2013–03839 Filed 2–19–13; 8:45 am]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[EPA–HQ –OAR–2005–0161; FRL–9782–4]

Proposed Information Collection
Request; Comment Request;
Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS2)
Program
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

The Environmental Protection
Agency is planning to submit an
information collection request (ICR),
‘‘Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS2)
Program’’ (EPA ICR No. 2333.03, OMB
Control No. 2060–0640) to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval in accordance with
the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
3501 et seq.). Before doing so, EPA is
soliciting public comments on specific
aspects of the proposed information
collection as described below. This is a
‘‘RENEWAL’’ of the ICR, which is
currently approved through June 31,
2013. 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.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before April 22, 2013.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
referencing Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–
OAR–2005–0161 online using
www.regulations.gov, or in person
viewing at the Air Docket in the EPA
Docket Center in Washington, DC (EPA/
DC). The docket is located in the EPA
West Building, 1301 Constitution
Avenue NW., Room 3334, and is open
from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Eastern
Standard Time, Monday through Friday,
excluding legal holidays, or by mail to:
EPA Docket Center, Environmental
Protection Agency, Mail Code 28221T,
1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.,
Washington, DC 20460. EPA’s policy is
that all comments received will be
included in the public docket without
change including any personal
information provided, unless the
comment includes profanity, threats,
information claimed to be Confidential
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Business Information (CBI) or other
information whose disclosure is
restricted by statute.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Geanetta Heard, Environmental
Protection Specialist, Fuels Compliance
Center, 6406J Environmental Protection
Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.,
Washington, DC 20460; telephone
number: 202–343–9017 fax number:
202–343–2800; email address:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Supporting documents which explain in
detail the information that the EPA will
be collecting are available in the public
docket for this ICR. The docket can be
viewed online at www.regulations.gov
or in person at the EPA Docket Center,
EPA West, Room 3334, 1301
Constitution Ave. NW., Washington,
DC. The telephone number for the
Docket Center is 202–566–1744. For
additional information about EPA’s
public docket, visit http://www.epa.gov/
dockets.
Pursuant to section 3506(c)(2)(A) of
the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA),
EPA is soliciting comments and
information to enable it to: (i) Evaluate
whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
Agency, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(ii) evaluate the accuracy of the
Agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
(iii) enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (iv) minimize the burden
of the collection of information on those
who are to respond, including through
the use of appropriate automated
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submission of
responses. EPA will consider the
comments received and amend the ICR
as appropriate. The final ICR package
will then be submitted to OMB for
review and approval. At that time, EPA
will issue another Federal Register
notice to announce the submission of
the ICR to OMB and the opportunity to
submit additional comments to OMB.
Abstract: EPA would like to continue
to collect annual compliance reports
from obligated parties, quarterly reports
for all EPA Moderated Transaction
System (EMTS) users, generation and
assignment of Renewable Identification
Numbers (RINs) quarterly reports from
biofuels producers and importers and
third party disclosure reports from

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biofuel feedstock producers by way of
the Agency’s Central Data Exchange
(CDX). The recordkeeping and reporting
of this regulation will allow EPA to
monitor compliance with the RFS
program. We inform respondents that
they may assert claims of business
confidentiality (CBI) for information
they submit in accordance with 40 CFR
2.203.
Form Numbers:
RFS0103: RFS2 Q1 2012 Activity Report
RFS0104: RFS2 Activity Report
RFS0201: RFS1 RIN Transaction Report
(only if RFS1 RINs were bought, sold,
retired, or reinstated)
RFS0600: RFS2 Renewable Fuel
Producer Supplemental Report (if
applicable)
RFS0701: RFS2 Renewable Fuel
Producer Co-products Report
RFS0801: RFS2 Renewable Biomass
Report
RFS0901: RFS2 Production Outlook
Report
EMTS: RFS2 RIN Transaction Report
EMTS: RFS2 RIN Generation Report
(Equivalent to RFS0400)
RFS0301: RFS2 2010 Annual
Compliance Report
RFS0302: RFS2 2011 Annual
Compliance Report
EMTS: RFS2 RIN Transaction Report
Respondents/affected entities:
Producers of Renewable Fuels,
Importers, Obligated Parties, Parties
who own RINS (including foreign RIN
owners).
Respondent’s obligation to respond:
mandatory Sections 114 and 208 of the
Clean Air Act (CAA), 42 U.S.C. 7414
and 7542.
Estimated number of respondents:
2,092,731.
Frequency of response: Quarterly.
Total estimated burden: 6,379,263
hours (per year). Burden is defined at 5
CFR 1320.03(b).
Total estimated cost: $60,459,623 (per
year), includes $ 320 annualized capital
or operation & maintenance costs.
Changes in Estimates: EMTS was
introduced at the onset of the RFS2
program and was not a feature of RFS1.
For the new EMTS system, all parties
who owned RINs were required to reregister, disclose feedstock sources,
prepare quarterly reports on RIN activity
and submit annual compliance reports
(obligated party only). Re-submittal
provisions utilized in RFS1 are no
longer required, resulting in a decrease
in total responses for this ICR. The total
responses for industry dropped from
4,525,625 to 2,092,731 a difference of
2,432,894 responses. Currently, biofuels
producers and importers submit
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their third party disclosure on feedstock
producers to EPA. All users of the
EMTS system are required to submit
quarterly RIN reports.
The number of respondents or users
of the EMTS system has more than
doubled from 1,059,326 to 2,092,731 an
increase of 1,639,992 users due to the
additional response burden for mapping
foreign and domestic plantation/forest
land owners and foreign biofuel
feedstock producers which were not
reflected in the previous ICR reporting
period. With an increase in the number
of respondents, total burden hours have
increased by more than 4 million
costing the industry $60,459,623;
however, a decrease of $47,882,366 was
realized. The reduction in the total cost
for this renewal is due to the fact that
the EMTS system is automated and
more efficient and helps users to
prepare reports instantly, reducing the
amount of time and the cost associated
with responding, even with more than
a million added users. This notable
factor increased the industry burden
hours, but will lower the total cost of
this information collection request if
renewed.
Dated: February 13, 2013.
Byron Bunker,
Director, Transportation and Regional
Programs Division.
[FR Doc. 2013–03840 Filed 2–19–13; 8:45 am]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[EPA–HQ–OPPT–2013–0053; FRL–9377–4]

Certain New Chemicals; Receipt and
Status Information
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

The Toxic Substances Control
Act (TSCA) requires any person who
intends to manufacture (defined by
statute to include import) a new
chemical (i.e., a chemical not on the
TSCA Chemical Substances Inventory
(TSCA Inventory)) to notify EPA and
comply with the statutory provisions
pertaining to the manufacture of new
chemicals. In addition under TSCA,
EPA is required to publish in the
Federal Register a notice of receipt of a
premanufacture notice (PMN) or an
application for a test marketing
exemption (TME), and to publish in the
Federal Register periodic status reports
on the new chemicals under review and
the receipt of notices of commencement
(NOC) to manufacture those chemicals.

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This document, which covers the period
from December 1, 2012 to January 11,
2013, and provides the required notice
and status report, consists of the PMNs
and TME, both pending or expired, and
the NOC to manufacture a new chemical
that the Agency has received under
TSCA section 5 during this time period.
DATES: Comments identified by the
specific PMN number or TME number,
must be received on or before March 22,
2013.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
identified by docket identification (ID)
number EPA–HQ–OPPT–2013–0053,
and the specific PMN number or TME
number for the chemical related to your
comment, by one of the following
methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the online
instructions for submitting comments.
• Mail: Document Control Office
(7407M), Office of Pollution Prevention
and Toxics (OPPT), Environmental
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania
Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460–0001.
• Hand Delivery: OPPT Document
Control Office (DCO), EPA East Bldg.,
Rm. 6428, 1201 Constitution Ave. NW.,
Washington, DC. The DCO is open from
8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through
Friday, excluding legal holidays. The
telephone number for the DCO is (202)
564–8930. Such deliveries are only
accepted during the DCO’s normal
hours of operation, and special
arrangements should be made for
deliveries of boxed information.
Instructions: EPA’s policy is that all
comments received will be included in
the docket without change and may be
made available online at http://
www.regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided, unless
the comment includes information
claimed to be Confidential Business
Information (CBI) or other information
whose disclosure is restricted by statute.
Do not submit information that you
consider to be CBI or otherwise
protected through regulations.gov or
email. The regulations.gov Web site is
an ‘‘anonymous access’’ system, which
means EPA will not know your identity
or contact information unless you
provide it in the body of your comment.
If you send an email comment directly
to EPA without going through
regulations.gov, your email address will
be automatically captured and included
as part of the comment that is placed in
the docket and made available on the
Internet. If you submit an electronic
comment, EPA recommends that you
include your name and other contact
information in the body of your
comment and with any disk or CD–ROM

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