[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 231 (Friday, December 1, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61696-61697]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-29360]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[AMS-FRL-5338-1]
Agency Information Collection Activities Up for Renewal; Request
for Comments: Investigation Into Possible Noncompliance of Motor
Vehicles With Federal Emission Standards
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501
et seq.), this notice announces that EPA is planning to submit the
following proposed and/or continuing Information Collection Request
(ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Before submitting
the ICR to OMB for review and approval, EPA is soliciting comments on
specific aspects of the proposed information collection as described
below.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before January 30, 1996.
ADDRESSES: Requests for a copy of the ICR should be sent to Karl Simon,
U.S. EPA, 401 M Street S.W. (6405J), Washington, D.C., 20460. Please
include a daytime telephone number, a current mailing address, and if
available, an E-mail address, with any request.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Karl Simon, Vehicle Programs and
Compliance Division, U.S. EPA, 401 M Street, S.W. (6405J), Washington,
D.C., 20460; (202) 233-9299, FAX (202) 233-9596, E-mail address:
Simon.Karl@epamail.epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Affected entities: Parties potentially affected by this action are
those individuals and businesses who either own cars or trucks or
repair such vehicles in the Washington, D.C., Ann Arbor, Michigan, or
Denver, Colorado metropolitan areas.
Title: Investigation into Possible Noncompliance of Motor Vehicles
with Federal Emission Standards, OMB No. 2060-0086, Expiration Date
March 31, 1996.
Abstract: This information collection is composed of instruments
used by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in its Mobile Source
Control Program to elicit information from the public needed for
fulfilling its responsibilities under the Clean Air Act. The
information collected, specifically motor vehicle or engine operational
and maintenance histories, is used to identify properly maintained and
used motor vehicles and engines that might
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be subsequently tested in the Agency's in-use emissions testing
programs. The self-addressed postcard and owner telephone questionnaire
are completed using information readily available to and given by owner
of vehicles from a vehicle class under investigation for possible
emissions noncompliance. The maintenance verification form is
administered to representatives of repair facilities that performed
maintenance on vehicles whose owners have responded to the owner
telephone questionnaire. The main method of information collection is
through telephone calls between vehicle or engine owners and EPA
contractor or grantee staff. Respondents are not required to develop or
maintain data records solely due to this information request since
requested data comes from records vehicle or engine owners would keep
as part of their personal or business records. Responses to these
information requests are completely voluntary. Data received under this
ICR is made available only to EPA and the automobile manufacturer whose
engine class is being tested.
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 are listed in 40 CFR part 9 and 48 CFR chapter 15.
The EPA would like to solicit comments 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.
Burden Statement: EPA's burden estimates for this information
collection are broken down according to the three different items in
this collection, namely the postcard, telephone questionnaire, and the
maintenance verification form. EPA estimates that the 15,000 people
annually who receive a postcard will require six minutes to read and
respond to it. The 2,100 people who will respond to administered
telephone questionnaires, based on annual averages, will require one-
half an hour on average to respond. Parties responding to the postcards
and telephone questionnaires will only do so once per year. Parties
responding to the maintenance verification form, an estimated total of
50 repair facility personnel, will need approximately one-quarter hour
to respond, and might be required to provide the requested information
twice a year. Costs to respondents associated with this ICR are
attributed to individual or staff time involved in responding to the
information requests. The costs of responding to the postcard, the
telephone questionnaire, and the maintenance verification form are
$2.00, $10.00, and $10.00, respectively. 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; 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.
Dated: November 9, 1995.
Donald Zinger,
Acting Director, Office of Mobile Sources.
[FR Doc. 95-29360 Filed 11-30-95; 8:45 am]
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