[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 243 (Thursday, December 18, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 66360-66366]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-33078]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-5936-5]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure Plans
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 document announces that EPA is planning to submit the
Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasures Plan continuing
Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and
Budget. The ICR expires on May 31, 1998 (ICR 0328.05, OMB No. 20050-
0021). 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 February 17, 1998.
ADDRESSES: Oil Program Center, 401 M Street, SW (5203G), Washington,
D.C. 20460. Materials relevant to this ICR may be inspected from 8:30
a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, by visiting the Public
Docket, located at 1235 Jefferson Davis Highway (ground floor),
Arlington, Virginia. A reasonable fee may be charged for copying docket
material.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Hugo Paul Fleischman, (703) 603-8769.
Facsimile number: (703) 603-9116. Electronic address:
[email protected]. Note that questions but not comments
will be accepted electronically.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Affected Entities
The Oil Pollution Prevention regulation applies only to non-
transportation-related facilities that could reasonably be expected to
discharge oil into or upon the navigable waters of the U.S., or
adjoining shorelines, and that have a total underground buried oil
storage capacity of more than 42,000 gallons; or a total aboveground
oil storage capacity of more than 660 gallons in a single container.
The specific private industry sectors expected to be affected by
this action include petroleum and coal products manufacturing (NAICS
324); petroleum bulk stations and terminals (NAICS 42271); crude
petroleum and natural gas extraction (NAICS 211111); transportation
(including pipelines), warehousing, and marinas (NAICS 482-486/488112-
48819/4883/4889/492-493/71393); electric power generation,
transmission, and distribution (NAICS 2211); other manufacturing (NAICS
31-33); gasoline stations/automotive rental and leasing (NAICS 4471/
5321); heating oil dealers (NAICS 454311); coal mining, non-metallic
mineral mining and quarrying (NAICS 2121/2123/213114/213116); heavy
construction (NAICS 234); elementary and secondary schools, colleges
(NAICS 6111-6113); hospitals/nursing and residential care facilities
(NAICS 622-623); and crop and animal production (NAICS 111-112).
Title
``Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) Plans,'' OMB
Control Number 2050-0021. EPA Control Number 328.05. Expiration date:
May 31, 1998.
Abstract
Under section 311 of the Clean Water Act, EPA's Oil Pollution
Prevention regulation requires facilities to prepare and implement SPCC
Plans to help ``minimize the potential for oil discharges.'' This
regulation is codified at 40 CFR part 112. The SPCC Plan must be ``a
carefully thought-out plan, prepared in accordance with good
engineering practices.'' Preparation of the SPCC Plan requires that a
facility's staff analyze how the facility will prevent oil discharges,
thereby encouraging appropriate facility design and operations. The
information in the SPCC Plan also promotes efficient response in the
event of a discharge. Finally, proper maintenance of the SPCC Plan will
promote important spill-reducing measures, facilitate leak detection,
and generally ensure that the facility is at peak capability for
deterring discharges. The specific activities and reasons for the
information collection are described below.
New Plan
Preparation of the Plan, required under section 112.3, involves
several tasks, mostly conducted by the facility's technical personnel.
These tasks include: field investigations to understand facility design
and possible failures and to predict the flow paths of spilled oil and
the potential harm that the spilled oil would have on navigable waters;
a regulatory review to ensure that personnel are fully aware of all
requirements and limitations imposed in the rule; an evaluation of
current spill prevention and control practices the facility employs;
preparation of the Plan according to the specification of section
112.7, and certification by a Registered Professional Engineer (P.E.)
Modification of Plan
Under section 112.5(a) the SPCC Plan must be amended whenever there
is a change in the facility's design, construction, operation, and
maintenance that materially affects the facility's potential to
discharge oil into navigable waters or onto adjoining shorelines. The
amended Plan must also be certified by a P.E.
Triennial Review
Under section 112.5(b), owners or operators of regulated facilities
must review and evaluate the Plan at least once every three years. This
involves review of spill prevention and control procedures being
implemented under the current Plan, as well as a regulatory review.
Facility owners/operators must amend the SPCC Plan within six months of
the review to include more effective
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prevention and control technology if such technology will significantly
reduce the likelihood of a spill event; and such technology has been
field-proven at the time of the review. If amended, the Plan must also
be certified by a P.E.
Oil Discharge
Under section 112.4, in the event of certain oil discharges,
facility owner/operators must submit information to the Regional
Administrator within 60 days. Discharges of oil that trigger the
reporting requirements are a single spill event of more than 1,000 U.S.
gallons into navigable waters; or two or more spills (in a twelve month
period) of harmful quantities as defined in 40 CFR part 110.
Submitting a Plan after a discharge involves time to collect the
required information, as well as time for review by management. The
facility must also submit a copy of this information to the appropriate
state agency in charge of water pollution control activities. After the
Regional Administrator and the appropriate state agency have reviewed
the Plan, the Regional Administrator may require amendment of the SPCC
Plan. The amended Plan must be certified by a P.E. prior to
implementation. Facilities may appeal a decision made by the Regional
Administrator requiring an amendment to an SPCC Plan.
Recordkeeping
Under section 112.3, the facility owner/operator must maintain a
copy of the SPCC Plan at the facility, or under certain circumstances,
at the nearest field office. The Plan must be available for review
during normal working hours. In addition, facilities must maintain (and
update) records of Plan-specific inspections as outlined under section
112.7(e).
Purpose of Data Collection
EPA does not collect the information required by the Oil Pollution
Prevention regulation (i.e., the SPCC Plan) on a routine basis.
Preparation, implementation, and maintenance of the SPCC Plan by the
facility help prevent oil discharges, and mitigate environmental damage
caused by such discharges. Therefore, the primary user of the data is
the facility itself. For example:
(i) As facility staff accumulate the necessary data, they must
analyze the facility's capability to prevent oil discharges, facilitate
safety awareness, and promote appropriate modifications to facility
design and operations;
(ii) Because facility staff keep the required information in a
single document, they can respond efficiently in the event of a
discharge;
(iii) To implement the Plan according to the specifications of
section 112.7, the facility must meet certain design and operational
standards that reduce the likelihood of an oil discharge;
(iv) Inspection records help facilities to promote important
maintenance, facilitate leak detection, and demonstrate compliance with
the SPCC requirements; and
(v) When facility staff review the Plan every three years, they
ensure implementation of more effective spill prevention control
technology.
EPA recognizes that the additional data would help to better
demonstrate the effectiveness of the program and better understand the
nature of the threat of oil pollution posed by facilities regulated
under the SPCC program. As such, in 1995, EPA surveyed a random sample
of potentially regulated facilities that produce, use, or store oil
products. In July 1996, EPA published a report on the effectiveness of
the SPCC program, using the data from the 1995 survey. In the 1996
report, EPA found that approximately 438,000 facilities were regulated
under the SPCC program in 1996. The industries that make up the
greatest proportion of potentially-regulated facilities are farms (37
percent) and oil production facilities (33 percent). The results of the
EPA analysis indicate that facilities with larger storage capacity are
likely to have a greater number of oil spills, larger volumes of oil
spilled, and greater cleanup costs. Similar increases were found at
facilities with more tanks and greater annual throughput. The results
of the analysis also appear to indicate that there are no statistically
significant relationships between certain other facility
characteristics and spill risk. In particular, EPA did not identify a
strong and stable relationship between the type of business conducted
at a facility and the number of spills or volume of oil spilled. The
analysis also revealed that the average age of a facility's tanks, the
annual number of transfers, and the annual average tank turnover do not
appear to be strongly related to oil spills. The report is available to
the public for review at the Public Docket. EPA requests comments on
that report.
Although the facility is the primary data user, EPA also uses the
data in certain situations. EPA primarily uses SPCC plan data to ensure
that facilities comply with the regulation, including design and
operation specifications and inspection requirements. EPA reviews SPCC
Plans when facilities submit the Plans because of oil discharges, and
as part of EPA's inspection program. State and local governments also
use the data, which is not necessarily available elsewhere and can
greatly assist local emergency preparedness planning efforts.
Coordination with state governments is facilitated when, after certain
spill events, a facility sends a copy of the SPCC Plan and additional
information on the spill to the relevant state agency.
As part of the Agency's efforts to reduce the overall paperwork
burden on regulated facilities, EPA would like to solicit comments on
how the Agency could best reduce the total paperwork burden hours for
this rule while maintaining an effective level of environmental
protection.
EPA would also like to solicit public 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.
Additionally, the Agency has recently proposed revisions to the
SPCC rule to reduce the burden imposed on regulated facilities (cite FR
date). Proposed revisions would give facility owners or operators
flexibility to use alternative formats for SPCC Plans; allow the use of
certain records maintained pursuant to usual and customary business
practices, or pursuant to the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination
System (NPDES) program, to be used in lieu of records mandated by the
SPCC requirements; reduce the information required to be submitted
after certain spill events; and extend the period in which SPCC Plans
must be reviewed and evaluated.
Burden Statement
This document first presents the estimated number of existing and
new storage and production facilities regulated under the Oil Pollution
Prevention Regulation. Next, the estimated burden hours and costs to
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facilities to perform required actions are presented. Costs are
composed of facility labor costs, the cost to use consultants, and any
associated capital and operation and maintenance (O&M) expenditures.
The cost to a facility to use consultants is listed as an O&M
expenditure for purposes of this analysis. Finally, the estimated total
annual burden hours and costs for all facilities to comply with the
requirements of this regulation are presented. The burden hours shown
for each action represent the hours in both the existing ICR and the
corresponding hours in the ICR renewal, where there are differences.
Costs have been updated to 1997 dollars.
To account for the role of consultants in the process of developing
and updating SPCC Plans, EPA re-allocated a percentage of the burden
for completing certain paperwork and recordkeeping activities (50
percent for large facilities, 25 percent for medium facilities, and
five percent for small facilities) from facility personnel to
consultants. The analysis assumes that the burden to a consultant to
perform these activities would approximately be equal to that of
facility personnel. In reality, a consultant may take slightly less
time due to the expected economies of scale associated with performing
similar tasks for different facilities (e.g., rule familiarization) but
on average, especially when it comes to performing more physical
activities (e.g., reviews/inspections, modifications) the burden is
expected to remain relatively constant regardless of who performs the
activity.
As of January 1998, approximately 451,000 existing facilities are
assumed to be regulated under the SPCC program with approximately 4,500
new facilities joining the program in 1998. These numbers are based on
the previous ICR estimate of approximately 446,500 existing and new
facilities as of January 1996. A one percent annual growth in the
number of facilities is assumed. For purposes of this ICR, all
facilities were grouped into two distinct categories: production
facilities (facilities whose operations and oil storage activities are
exclusively limited to oil production) and storage facilities (all
other SPCC-regulated facilities whose operations do not include oil
production). This categorization of facilities reflects differences in
the estimated burden of compliance activities depending on the nature
of the facility's operations.
The current ICR assumes that storage facilities make up 65 percent
of small facilities, 69 percent of medium facilities, and 98 percent of
large facilities. Production facilities make up 35 percent of small
facilities, 31 percent of medium facilities, and two percent of large
facilities. These ratios, as well as the Agency's estimate concerning
the number of regulated facilities, are based on the results of a 1995
survey of SPCC regulated facilities conducted by EPA. The results of
this survey are available for public review at the Public Docket. The
definitions of small, medium, and large facility are based on oil
storage capacity and are defined as follows, based on the Agency's
January 1991 ``SPCC Facilities Study'':
(i) Small facility--a facility that has aboveground storage
capacity greater than 1,320 gallons (or 660 gallons in a single
container), but less than or equal to 42,000 gallons;
(ii) Medium facility--a facility that has total (aboveground or
underground) storage capacity greater than 42,000 gallons but less than
or equal to one million gallons; and
(iii) Large facility--a facility that has total storage capacity
greater than one million gallons.
An estimate of the number of existing and new storage and
production facilities in 1998 are shown in Exhibits 1 and 2.
Exhibit 1.--Estimated Number of Existing Facilities (1998)
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Small Medium Large Total
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Storage..................................................... 231,406 57,697 13,188 302,290
Production.................................................. 122,812 25,551 309 148,672
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Total................................................. 354,217 83,248 13,497 450,963
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Exhibit 2.--Estimated Number of New Facilities (1998)
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Small Medium Large Total
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Storage..................................................... 2,314 577 132 3,023
Production.................................................. 1,228 256 3 1,487
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Total....................................................... 3,542 832 135 4,510
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The facility cost estimates for each category of activities are
based on 1997 hourly wage rates for managerial ($38.59), technical
($28.26), and clerical ($17.71) work. These wage rates include wages
and salaries, benefit costs, and overhead costs and reflect private
industry averages, which were estimated by the U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics. The Agency recognizes that these wage rates may
underestimate the actual wages received by some SPCC personnel but
overestimate the actual wage rate received by other facility personnel.
The Agency estimated wage rates for consultants using the 1994 Facility
Response Plan Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA). This RIA ``loaded'' the
direct, private industry wages by a factor of 2.75 to develop wage
rates for consultants. Consequently, this loading factor was applied to
the direct labor rates for private industry managerial, technical, and
clerical workers to estimate the following rates: managerial ($106.12),
technical ($77.72), and clerical ($48.70).
Each exhibit represents separate burden estimates for small,
medium, and large storage and production facilities. Exhibits 3 through
8 summarize the estimated facility burden associated with performing
each separate task associated with an SPCC Plan. Not all of the
activities will be performed on an annual basis by all facilities. For
the purposes of estimating respondent burden, EPA assumes that
consultants are retained by some facilities to assist in the following
activities: preparation of a new plan; modification of an existing
plan; and conducting a triennial review. Again, EPA assumed that a
large facility would use outside consultants about 50 percent of the
time, a medium facility would use outside consultants about 25 percent
of the time, and a small facility
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would use outside consultants about five percent of the time to perform
the above activities.
New Plan
Exhibit 3 presents the estimated burden and costs for a facility to
perform the activities associated with preparing an SPCC Plan. All new
facilities must prepare and implement an SPCC Plan.
Exhibit 3.--Estimated Burden Hours and Costs--Preparation of New Plan
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Burden hours Cost
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Type of Facility Total
Managerial Technical Clerical burden Capital O&M Total \1\
$38.59 $28.26 $17.71 hours
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Storage:
Small.................................................... 5.7 23.8 3.8 33.3 0 $86 $1,044
Medium................................................... 4.5 33.0 4.5 42.0 0 672 1,858
Large.................................................... 3.0 38.0 4.0 45.0 0 2,141 3,402
Production:
Small.................................................... 5.7 26.6 3.8 36.1 0 93 1,132
Medium................................................... 4.5 34.5 4.5 43.5 0 696 1,924
Large.................................................... 3.0 38.5 4.0 43.5 0 2,165 3,440
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\1\ Total cost includes the cost of facility labor, capital, and O&M costs.
Modification of Plan
Exhibit 4 presents the burden hours and costs for a facility to
revise an SPCC Plan after any modification that materially affects the
facility's potential to discharge oil into navigable waters. An
estimated ten percent of facilities will need to modify their SPCC
Plans each year.
Exhibit 4.--Estimated Annual Burden Hours and Costs--Modification of Plan
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Burden Hours Cost
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Type of facility Total
Managerial Technical Clerical burden Capital O&M Total \1\
$38.59 $28.26 $17.71 hours
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Storage:
Small.................................................... 0.0 4.3 1.0 5.2 $0 $12 $150
Medium................................................... 0.0 3.4 0.8 4.1 0 61 170
Large.................................................... 0.0 2.3 0.5 2.8 0 123 195
Production:
Small.................................................... 0.0 4.3 1.0 5.2 0 12 150
Medium................................................... 0.0 3.4 0.8 4.1 0 61 170
Large.................................................... 0.0 2.3 0.5 2.8 0 123 195
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\1\ Total cost includes the cost of facility labor, capital, and O&M costs.
Triennial Review
Exhibits 5 and 6 present the estimated burden hours and costs for a
facility to complete a triennial review, with and without amendment. As
a result of the review process, the facility may need to amend its
Plan, incurring additional costs. Annual burdens and costs per facility
are one-third of the values in Exhibits 5 and 6. An estimated three
percent of all existing facilities will need to amend their Plans each
year.
Exhibit 5.--Estimated Annual Burden Hours and Costs--Triennial Review--No Amendment
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Burden hours Cost
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Type of facility Total
Managerial Technical Clerical burden Capital O&M Total \1\
$38.59 $28.26 $17.71 hours
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Storage:
Small.................................................... 1.0 2.4 0.5 3.8 $0 $10 $122
Medium................................................... 0.8 3.4 0.8 4.9 0 78 216
Large.................................................... 0.5 4.0 0.5 5.0 0 240 381
Production:
Small.................................................... 1.0 3.3 0.5 4.8 0 12 151
Medium................................................... 0.8 4.1 0.8 5.6 0 90 249
Large.................................................... 0.5 4.5 0.5 5.5 0 264 419
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\1\ Total cost includes the cost of facility labor, capital, and O&M costs.
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Exhibit 6.--Estimated Annual Burden Hours and Costs--Triennial Review--Amendment
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Burden hours Cost
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Type of facility Total
Managerial Technical Clerical burden Capital O&M Total \1\
$38.59 $28.26 $17.71 hours
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Storage:
Small.................................................... 1.0 6.7 1.9 9.5 $0 $23 $281
Medium................................................... 0.8 6.8 1.5 9.0 0 140 386
Large.................................................... 0.5 6.3 1.0 7.8 0 363 577
Production:
Small.................................................... 1.0 7.6 1.9 10.5 0 26 311
Medium................................................... 0.8 7.5 1.5 9.8 0 151 419
Large.................................................... 0.5 6.8 1.0 8.3 0 387 615
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\1\ Total cost includes the cost of facility labor, capital, and O&M costs.
Oil Discharge
Exhibit 7 presents estimated burden hours and costs for a facility
to submit information to the Regional Administrator in the event of
certain discharges of oil into navigable waters. It is assumed that the
probability of a facility having such a spill in any given year is 0.15
percent.
Exhibit 7.--Estimated Burden Hours and Costs--Oil Discharge
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Burden hours Cost
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Type of facility Total
Managerial Technical Clerical burden Capital O&M Total \1\
$38.59 $28.26 $17.71 hours
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Storage:
Small.................................................... 1.0 1.0 0.0 2.0 $0 $0 $67
Medium................................................... 1.0 1.0 0.0 2.0 0 0 67
Large.................................................... 1.0 1.0 0.0 2.0 0 0 67
Production:
Small.................................................... 1.0 1.0 0.0 2.0 0 0 67
Medium................................................... 1.0 1.0 0.0 2.0 0 0 67
Large.................................................... 1.0 1.0 0.0 2.0 0 0 67
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\1\ Total cost includes the cost of facility labor, capital, and O&M costs.
Recordkeeping
Exhibit 8 presents the burden hours and costs for a facility to
perform Plan maintenance and Plan-specific recordkeeping activities.
All regulated facilities are subject to these requirements.
Exhibit 8.--Estimated Annual Burden Hours and Costs-Recordkeeping
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Burden hours Cost
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Type of facility Total
Managerial Technical Clerical burden Capital O&M Total \1\
$38.59 $28.26 $17.71 hours
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Storage:
Small.................................................... 0.0 2.0 0.5 2.5 $0 $0 $65
Medium................................................... 0.0 4.5 0.5 5.0 0 0 136
Large.................................................... 0.0 9.5 0.5 10.0 0 0 277
Production:
Small.................................................... 0.0 3.0 0.5 3.5 0 0 94
Medium................................................... 0.0 3.0 0.5 3.5 0 0 94
Large.................................................... 0.0 3.0 0.5 3.5 0 0 94
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\1\ Total cost includes the cost of facility labor, capital, and O&M costs.
Annual Expected Facility Burden
The total annual burden per facility reflects the sum of the annual
burdens incurred by the facility for each category of activities
outlined above. The estimated annual burden for an existing facility is
shown in Exhibit 9. Exhibit 10 presents the estimated annual burden for
a new facility.
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Exhibit 9.--Estimated Burden Hours and Costs Per Facility-Existing Facilities
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Burden hours Cost
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Type of facility Total
Managerial Technical Clerical burden Capital O&M Total
$38.59 $28.26 $17.71 hours
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Storage:
Small.................................................... 0.3 3.3 0.8 4.3 $0 $5 $123
Medium................................................... 0.3 6.0 0.8 7.1 0 33 227
Large.................................................... 0.2 11.1 0.7 12.0 0 94 426
Production:
Small.................................................... 0.3 4.6 0.8 5.7 0 6 161
Medium................................................... 0.3 4.7 0.8 5.8 0 37 195
Large.................................................... 0.2 4.7 0.7 5.6 0 102 255
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Exhibit 10.--Estimated Burden Hours and Costs Per Facility--New Facilities
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Burden hours Cost
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Type of facility Total
Managerial Technical Clerical burden Capital O&M Total
38.59 28.26 17.71 hours
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Storage:
Small.................................................... 5.7 26.2 4.4 36.3 $67 $87 $1,192
Medium................................................... 4.5 37.8 5.1 47.4 67 678 2,078
Large.................................................... 3.0 47.7 4.6 55.3 67 2,153 3,765
Production:
Small.................................................... 5.7 30.0 4.4 40.1 67 94 1,308
Medium................................................... 4.5 37.8 5.1 47.4 67 702 2,102
Large.................................................... 3.0 41.7 4.6 49.3 67 2,177 3,620
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Total Annual Expected Facility Burdens
The total annual burdens for all existing facilities and all new
facilities are shown in Exhibits 11 and 12. The approximately 451,000
existing facilities will incur a combined burden of about 2.42 million
hours and 72 million. In addition, around 4,500 new facilities will
incur a combined burden of about 180,137 hours at a cost of 6.6
million. The total annual reporting and recordkeeping burden to the
regulated community as a result of the SPCC Program is estimated to be
approximately 2.6 million hours at a cost of about 78.6 million.
Exhibit 11.--Estimated Annual Burden Hours and Costs--All Existing Facilities
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Burden hours Cost
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Type of facility Total
Managerial Technical Clerical burden Capital O&M Total
$38.59 $28.26 $17.71 hours
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Storage:
Small.................................................... 73,626 755,173 177,623 1,006,422 $0 $1,091,079 $28,418,284
Medium................................................... 14,511 346,051 48,033 408,595 0 1,891,286 13,080,463
Large.................................................... 2,218 146,152 9,517 157,887 0 1,233,329 5,617,205
Production:
Small.................................................... 39,075 562,489 94,268 695,832 0 677,170 19,749,279
Medium................................................... 6,426 121,312 21,272 149,010 0 939,632 4,992,377
Large.................................................... 52 1,468 223 1,743 0 31,375 78,810
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Exhibit 12.--Estimated Annual Burden Hours and Costs--All New Facilities
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Burden hours Cost
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Type of facility Total
Managerial Technical Clerical burden Capital O&M Total
$38.59 $28.26 $17.71 hours
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Storage:
Small.................................................... 13,194 60,580 10,170 83,944 $155,042 $201,558 $2,757,678
Medium................................................... 2,597 21,832 2,928 27,357 38,657 391,318 1,198,967
Large.................................................... 396 6,294 600 7,290 8,836 283,996 496,585
Production:
Small.................................................... 7,002 36,879 5,398 49,279 82,284 115,801 1,605,988
Medium................................................... 1,150 9,668 1,297 12,115 17,119 179,422 537,095
Large.................................................... 9 129 14 152 207 6,730 11,189
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No person is 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 displayed at 40 CFR part 9.
Send comments regarding these matters, or any other aspects of
information collection, including suggestions for reducing the burden,
to the address listed above under ADDRESSES near the top of this
document.
Dated: December 11, 1997.
Elaine F. Davies,
Deputy Director, Office of Emergency and Remedial Response.
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