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OMB Control No: 2060-0445	ICR Reference No: 202505-2060-003
Status: Received in OIRA	Previous ICR Reference No: 202110-2060-008
Agency/Subagency: EPA/OAR	Agency Tracking No: 1857.13
Title: NOX SIP Call (Renewal)
Type of Information Collection: Extension without change of a currently approved collection	Common Form ICR: No
Type of Review Request: Regular	Date Submitted to OIRA: 05/30/2025

	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	36 Months From Approved	12/31/2025
Responses	1,725	1,244
Time Burden (Hours)	156,640	140,226
Cost Burden (Dollars)	10,398,033	9,194,261

Abstract: This is a renewal of the Environmental Protection Agencys (EPAs) information collection request (ICR) addressing the burden and costs of information collection activities indirectly required under the NOX SIP Call (the Rule). The Rule requires affected states to include certain provisions in their state implementation plans (SIPs) addressing emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOX) that adversely affect air quality in other states. Previously, one of the Rules requirements applicable to all affected states was that the SIPs must include provisions requiring large electricity generating units (EGUs) and large non-EGU boilers and turbines to monitor and report their NOX mass emissions during the May-September ozone season according to the provisions of 40 CFR part 75 (referred to here as Part 75 monitoring requirements). In 2019, EPA amended the NOx SIP Call making the inclusion of Part 75 monitoring requirements in SIPs voluntary instead of mandatory, allowing states to submit SIP revisions to EPA requiring sources to perform other forms of monitoring. Although the Rule does not impose any requirements directly on sources, the Part 75 monitoring requirements were added to SIPs because of the Rule, and EPA has therefore submitted and periodically renewed an ICR to account for the information collection burden and costs of the Part 75 monitoring requirements imposed indirectly on sources. This ICR includes estimates of burden and costs both for sources subject to Part 75 monitoring requirements and sources performing other forms of monitoring for NOX SIP Call purposes under approved SIP revisions. Most large EGUs (and some large non-EGU boilers and turbines) affected under the NOX SIP Call are also subject to comparable Part 75 monitoring requirements under the Acid Rain Program (ARP) and/or the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) trading programs. Both the ARP and CSAPR have approved ICRs (OMB Control Nos. 2060-0258 and 2060-0667), and this ICR accounts for information collection burden and costs only for sources that are not required to perform Part 75 monitoring under the ARP or CSAPR programs and whose information collection burden and costs therefore are not accounted for in the ARP ICR or the CSAPR ICR. This ICR also accounts for information collection burden and costs for additional sources primarily smaller EGUs that states voluntarily have made subject to Part 75 monitoring requirements under the SIPs they adopted for NOX SIP Call compliance, going beyond the Rules existing requirements. Under the NOx SIP Call, states are required to report certain data regarding emissions of sources in the state to EPA on an annual or triennial basis. The Air Emission Reporting Rule (AERR) for the national emission inventory includes very similar reporting requirements, and EPA believes that there is no material incremental information collection burden and cost associated with the required state reporting for NOX SIP Call purposes beyond the burden and cost estimates included in the AERR ICR (OMB Control Number 2060-0580). Thus, the only information collection burden and costs addressed in this ICR relate to the monitoring and reporting requirements imposed on sources through the states SIPs for compliance with the NOX SIP Call.

Authorizing Statute(s): US Code: 42 USC 7410 Name of Law: Clean Air Act (CAA)
US Code: 42 USC 7601 Name of Law: Clean Air Act (CAA)

Citations for New Statutory Requirements: None

Associated Rulemaking Information
RIN:	Stage of Rulemaking:	Federal Register Citation:	Date:
	Not associated with rulemaking

Federal Register Notices & Comments
60-day Notice:	Federal Register Citation:	Citation Date:
	89 FR 72395	09/25/2024
30-day Notice:	Federal Register Citation:	Citation Date:
	90 FR 22089	05/23/2025
Did the Agency receive public comments on this ICR? No

Number of Information Collection (IC) in this ICR: 1

IC Title	Form No.	Form Name
NOx SIP Call

ICR Summary of Burden

	Total Request	Previously Approved	Change Due to Adjustment in Estimate
Annual Number of Responses	1,725	1,244	481
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	156,640	140,226	16,414
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars)	10,398,033	9,194,261	1,203,772

Burden increases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: No

Burden Increase Due to:

Burden decreases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: No

Burden Reduction Due to:

Short Statement: This ICR renewal has an increase in industry burden of 16,414 hours and an increase in industry annualized total costs of $4,436,079. The total burden and cost have increased primarily due to changes in the estimated numbers of respondents relative to the previous ICR renewal. For purposes of this ICR renewal, EPA has based the estimated numbers of sources using non-part 75 monitoring and reporting methodologies for NOX SIP Call purposes on updated information about the actual numbers of such sources.

Annual Cost to Federal Government: $111,687

Does this IC contain surveys, censuses, or employ statistical methods? No

Does this ICR request any personally identifiable information (see OMB Circular No. A-130 for an explanation of this term)? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination. No

Does this ICR include a form that requires a Privacy Act Statement (see 5 U.S.C. §552a(e)(3))? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination. No

Is this ICR related to the Affordable Care Act [Pub. L. 111-148 & 111-152]? No

Is this ICR related to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, [Pub. L. 111-203]? No

Is this ICR related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)? No

Is this ICR related to the Pandemic Response? No

Agency Contact: Morgan Riedel 202 564-1144

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