1 MEMORANDUM DATE: June 20, 2005 SUBJECT: Population and Projection of Stationary Engines FROM: Tanya Parise, Alpha Gamma Technologies, Inc.

TO: Sims Roy, EPA OAQPS ESD Combustion Group The purpose of this memorandum is to present the population of existing and projected number of new stationary compression ignition ( CI) and spark ignition ( SI) internal combustion engines. This memorandum will describe how the existing population and projected number of new CI and SI stationary engines were derived.

Introduction The population of existing and projection of new engines were based on information from the Power Systems Research ( PSR) 1998 North American Engine Partslink Data Base. This database was provided by the U. S. EPA's Office of Transportation and Air Quality ( OTAQ) who has purchased the rights to use this database. The database contains population estimates for road and nonroad engines. The EPA determined that it would be appropriate to use the data developed by PSR in estimating the number of existing and new CI and SI stationary engines for several reasons. These reasons were presented in the memorandum entitled " Decision on Using Estimates from PSR or the RICE NESHAP Population Database for Engines above 500 Horsepower," which is included as Attachment A.

Existing Population of Engines The existing population of engines in the U. S. was based on information from PSR's database. The most recent year for which population information was available from PSR's database was 1998. The information in PSR's database was separated by engine ignition type ( CI and SI), size range, and by application type. The information from PSR includes both mobile and stationary engines so it was necessary to determine which applications can be used for stationary purposes and distinguish the actual fraction of engines used in stationary applications. The following are used in stationary applications: 2 ° Generator Sets, ° Air Compressors, ° Pumps, ° Welders, ° Irrigation Sets, ° Hydro Power Units, and ° Gas Compressors.

For the development of OTAQ's nonroad rule, a set of fractional splits for mobile engines was established for the PSR engine population information. The stationary fraction of engines was determined by subtracting the mobile fraction from 1. The stationary fraction applies to the total engine population as a function of horsepower ( HP) rating. Table 1 shows the stationary fractions by HP range used to determine the number of stationary engines in PSR's database. The fractions shown in Table 1 were also assumed to apply to the projected number of new engines, discussed in the next section of this memorandum.

Table 1. Stationary Fraction of Engines HP Range Stationary Fraction of Total Engines 50 100 0.30 100 175 0.80 175 300 0.85 300 600 0.90 600 750 1.0 > 750 1.0 An assumption was made that there are no stationary engines smaller than 50 HP. This is consistent with other information EPA has reviewed including information gathered by the California Air Resources Board for the proposed Airborne Toxic Control Measure for stationary CI engines, which showed that no stationary engines below 25 HP were identified. In addition, other state rulemakings have used 50 HP as a cutoff for stationary engines. Therefore, only the stationary fractions for engines greater than 50 HP are shown in Table 1. The population of stationary CI and SI engines broken down by HP range is presented in Table 2. 3 Table 2. Population of CI and SI Stationary Engines ( as of 1998)

HP Range Population CI SI 50 100 124,064 44,872 100 175 197,076 53,983 175 300 130,744 13,583 300 600 140,058 6,502 600 750 24,359 1,027 > 750 47,478 5,814 Total 663,780 125,780 Projection of New Engines Engine sales information from PSR and information from the Engine Manufacturers Association ( EMA) was used to project the number of new CI and SI engines from the years 2006 through 2017. The information from PSR did not contain any data on the population of CI engines above 3,000 HP, therefore EPA asked EMA to provide an estimate of the number of new engines above 3,000 HP. Joe Suchecki of EMA provided an estimate to Sims Roy of EPA in an email on April 28, 2005; this email can be found in the docket for the New Source Performance Standards for stationary CI engines ( Docket Number OAR 2005 0029). The EMA estimated that approximately 160 stationary CI engines larger than 3,000 HP are sold each year. This estimate is included in the number of engines shown in Table 3.

As with the existing population of engines from PSR, the engine sales information from PSR also included both mobile and stationary engines and all applications. To determine the number of stationary engines sold, the stationary fractions listed in Table 1 were applied to total engine sales of applications used for stationary purposes. It was also assumed that there would not be many ( if any) stationary engines less than 50 HP sold. The number of projected new CI engines sold was estimated based on PSR engine sales from the years 1990 through 2000. The difference in engine sales from one year to the next was calculated for each HP range to obtain an average increase in engine sales over the 10 year period per HP range. The average increase in sales over the 10 year period was added to the 2000 engine sales to project engine sales in 2001. The average increase in sales over the 10 year period was added to the projected number of engines sold in 2001 to obtain estimates of engine sales in 2002, and so on to reach the 2006 through 2017 timeframe. 4 A similar methodology was followed to estimate the number of new SI engines, although less recent sales data were available for SI engines. The most recent year of sales available for SI engines from PSR's database was 1998. The projected number of new CI engines and SI engines is presented in Tables 3 and 4, respectively.

Table 3: Projected Number of New CI Engines by HP Range from 2006 through 2017 HP Range 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 50 100 17,669 18,432 19,194 19,956 20,719 21,481 22,243 23,006 23,768 24,530 25,293 26,055 100 175 16,292 16,846 17,400 17,954 18,507 19,061 19,615 20,168 20,722 21,276 21,829 22,383 175 300 15,825 16,506 17,187 17,868 18,549 19,230 19,911 20,592 21,273 21,954 22,635 23,316 300 600 6,181 6,345 6,510 6,674 6,839 7,004 7,168 7,333 7,498 7,662 7,827 7,991 600 750 877 894 910 927 943 960 976 993 1,009 1,026 1,042 1,059 > 750 4,150 4,276 4,402 4,529 4,655 4,781 4,908 5,034 5,160 5,287 5,413 5,539 Total 60,994 63,298 65,602 67,907 70,212 72,516 74,820 77,125 79,429 81,734 84,038 86,343 Table 4: Projected Number of New SI Engines by HP Range from 2006 through 2017 HP Range 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 50 100 5,940 6,134 6,327 6,520 6,713 6,906 7,099 7,293 7,486 7,679 7,872 8,065 100 175 7,499 7,555 7,611 7,667 7,723 7,779 7,836 7,892 7,948 8,004 8,060 8,116 175 300 1,774 1,844 1,915 1,986 2,056 2,127 2,198 2,269 2,339 2,410 2,481 2,552 300 600 797 824 851 879 906 933 960 988 1,015 1,042 1,070 1,097 5 600 750 55 51 48 45 41 38 35 32 28 2 > 750 1,955 2,051 2,146 2,242 2,337 2,433 2,528 2,624 2,719 2,8 Total 18,019 18,459 18,898 19,338 19,777 20,217 20,656 21,096 21,535 21,9 The engine sales information from PSR used to project the number of new SI engines from 2006 through 2017 was not broken down into engine type. The EPA consulted information developed for the national emission standards for hazardous air pollutants ( NESHAP) for stationary reciprocating internal combustion engines ( RICE). The EPA used the breakdown of SI engines in the projected number of new SI RICE developed for the RICE NESHAP. That information contained a breakdown of SI engine types, i. e., 2 stroke lean burn ( 2SLB), 4 stroke lean burn ( 4SLB), and 4 stroke rich burn ( 4SRB), for engines greater than 500 HP. It was assumed that the breakdown by engine type for engines in the 50 to 500 HP range obtained from PSR is the same as the breakdown by engine type for engines between 500 and 1,000 HP obtained from information developed for the RICE NESHAP. The percent each SI engine type represents out of the total number of SI engines is shown in Table 5.

Table 5: Percentage Each Engine Type Represents out of Total SI Engines HP Range Percent of Total SI Engines 2SLB 4SLB 4SRB 50 1,000 11% 47% 42%

1,000 5,000 None 59% 41%

5,000 10,000 None 50% 50%

The projected number of new SI engines broken down by engine type is presented in Tables 6 through 8. 6 Table 6: Projected Number of New 2SLB Engines by HP Range from 2006 through 2017 HP Range 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 50 100 653 675 696 717 738 760 781 802 823 845 866 887 100 175 825 831 837 843 850 856 862 868 874 880 887 893 175 300 195 203 211 218 226 234 242 250 257 265 273 281 300 600 88 91 94 97 100 103 106 109 112 115 118 121 600 750 6 6 5 5 5 4 4 3 3 3 2 2 > 750 44 46 48 50 52 54 56 58 60 62 64 66 Total 1,811 1,851 1,891 1,931 1,971 2,010 2,050 2,090 2,130 2,170 2,209 2,249 Table 7: Projected Number of New 4SLB Engines by HP Range from 2006 through 2017 HP Range 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 50 100 2,792 2,883 2,974 3,064 3,155 3,246 3,337 3,427 3,518 3,609 3,700 3,791 100 175 3,525 3,551 3,577 3,604 3,630 3,656 3,683 3,709 3,735 3,762 3,788 3,814 175 300 834 867 900 933 967 1,000 1,033 1,066 1,100 1,133 1,166 1,199 300 600 375 387 400 413 426 439 451 464 477 490 503 516 600 750 26 24 23 21 19 18 16 15 13 12 10 9 > 750 1,105 1,159 1,213 1,268 1,322 1,376 1,430 1,485 1,539 1,593 1,647 1,701 7 Total 8,655 8,871 9,087 9,303 9,519 9,735 9,951 10,166 10,382 10,598 10,814 11,030 Table 8: Projected Number of New 4SRB Engines by HP Range from 2006 through 2017 HP Range 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 50 100 2,495 2,576 2,657 2,738 2,819 2,901 2,982 3,063 3,144 3,225 3,306 3,387 100 175 3,150 3,173 3,197 3,220 3,244 3,267 3,291 3,315 3,338 3,362 3,385 3,409 175 300 745 775 804 834 864 893 923 953 982 1,012 1,042 1,072 300 600 335 346 358 369 380 392 403 415 426 438 449 461 600 750 23 22 20 19 17 16 15 13 12 10 9 8 > 750 806 845 884 924 963 1,002 1,042 1,081 1,120 1,160 1,199 1,238 Total 7,553 7,736 7,920 8,104 8,288 8,472 8,655 8,839 9,023 9,207 9,391 9,574 8 ATTACHMENT A 9 MEMORANDUM DATE: June 22, 2004 SUBJECT: Decision on Using Estimates from PSR or the RICE NESHAP Population Database for Engines above 500 Horsepower FROM: Melanie Taylor and Chuck Zukor, Alpha Gamma Technologies, Inc.

TO: Sims Roy and Jaime Pagán, EPA OAQPS ESD Combustion Group The purpose of this memorandum is to provide a recommendation of which data source to use for estimating the population of existing and new stationary RICE above 500 hp for both the NSPS and 112( k) rule development. The options are to use the data from the PSR database provided by OTAQ, or the estimates of existing and new engines developed for the RICE NESHAP. Alpha Gamma has analyzed the 1998 PSR data provided by OTAQ for spark ignition ( SI) population and sales and compression ignition population, and the 2000 PSR data for CI sales.

A comparison of the PSR data with the RICE NESHAP estimates shows that the estimates for CI RICE vary significantly. The PSR data indicate approximately eight times more existing CI RICE above 500 hp than accounted for in the RICE NESHAP database. Projections of new CI RICE above 500 hp based on the PSR sales data are approximately 3.5 times those used for the RICE NESHAP. For SI RICE, the PSR data indicate fewer existing engines above 500 hp than the RICE NESHAP database (~ 9,000 for PSR and ~ 13,000 for RICE NESHAP database). The projections of new SI RICE above 500 hp are fairly similar for both PSR and the RICE NESHAP.

Alpha Gamma recommends using the PSR data instead of the RICE NESHAP estimates for the following reasons:

° Alpha Gamma's rationale for using the RICE NESHAP data above 500 hp for the area source population was based primarily on using consistent data/ methods in the development/ integration of the 112( k) and NESHAP rules. However, the PSR data were not available in time to affect the RICE NESHAP ( which is now final). Thus, EPA may consider any new and enhanced data sources to develop the 112( k) and NSPS rules. 10 ° The inventory numbers that CARB has show more than 5,000 CI engines that are greater than 500 hp, of which 4,270 are above 750 hp and are therefore based on actual permit inventory. Using the numbers for the NESHAP, we would approximate about 14,000 existing CI engines above 500 hp nationwide. Comparing that to the CARB number makes Alpha Gamma believe the NESHAP estimate is low, since it is doubtful California has a third of the CI engines in the U. S.

 Note that CARB concluded that the PSR database underestimated the number of CI engines greater than 750 hp. They said that their district permit data were assumed to be more representative of the numbers of large engines ( greater than 750 hp) and the PSR data were used to allocate smaller engines ( less than 750 hp).

° The NESCAUM report has a table of permitted CI engines in the northeast states ( actual engines, not PSR estimates), and it shows more than 5,000 engines above 500 hp. Adding that to the CARB inventory totals to more than 10,000 existing CI engines just in California and the northeast. Comparing that to the total NESHAP estimate of 14,000 would appear to justify the argument that the NESHAP estimate is not accurate and underestimates the population.

One potential explanation for the large difference in CI RICE population counts is that the RICE NESHAP Population Database is only representative of permitted engines. For example, it is possible that most of the " unaccounted" CI RICE are in emergency use applications, thus they do not appear in permits.


  SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1 	PART A OF THE SUPPORTING STATEMENT

1.	Identification of the Information Collection

(a)	Title and Number of Information Collection.

	"Information Collection Requirements for the Control of Evaporative
Emissions from New and In-Use Portable Gasoline Containers", The
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) tracking number for this
information collection request (ICR) is 2213.01.  This is a new
collection.

(b)	Short Characterization.

	(i)	Type of collection.

	The information collection covered by this Information Collection is a
requirement on the manufactures of new portable gasoline containers for
their certification for sale in the United States by EPA.  The proposed
information collection represented by this ICR is included in the notice
of proposed rule making, “Control of Hazardous Air Pollutants from
Mobile Sources,” published in 40 CFR Parts 59, 80, 85 and 86, Docket
number EPA-HQ-OAR-2005-0036, RIN 2060-AK7040. This ICR is specific to
the process of certification documented in the proposed rule —CONTROL
OF EVAPORATIVE EMISSIONS FROM NEW AND IN-USE PORTABLE GASOLINE
CONTAINERS.  The requested information includes both reports and
recordkeeping.

	(ii)	Content of reports.

	All manufacturers of portable gasoline containers subject to the rule
mentioned in section (i) must submit applications and reports to EPA to
certify them for sale in the United States.  The application information
required is described in section (iii) (1) of this document and is
required preceding sale of new portable gasoline containers. A second
mandatory report is warranty and defect information on these products.
The information required in that report is described in section (iii)
(4).  The warranty and defect report is required annually in the July of
the year following the model year the portable gasoline container was
certified.

	(iii)	Recordkeeping requirements.

Respondents must organize and maintain the following records:

The respondent must organize and maintain all applications, their
amendments, and any summary information that is to be sent to EPA.  An
application is for an emissions family that describes a single or group
of portable fuel containers that are expected to have similar emission
characteristics.  In general fuel containers made with similar
materials, processes, emission control strategy, and design are subject
to pooling into a single emission family.  An emissions family is
limited to a single model year.   The information required in an
application is as follows;

Description of the emission family’s specifications, distinguishable
configuration, detachable parts, their part numbers, and other basic
parameters of the emission controls

Explanation emission control technology.

Description of the products selected for testing and the reasons for
selection.

Description of the test equipment and procedures used.

Fuel properties of the test fuel used for tests reported in the
application and how they compare to the test fuel specifications in the
regulation.

Maintenance, use instructions, and warrantee information provided with
product to the ultimate purchaser of each new portable gasoline
containers.

Description and example of the emission control information label.

A statement that the application’s emissions family products were
tested as described and met the requirements of the regulation.

The emission data for the application’s emissions family products that
indicates that it met the applicable emission standards except in the
cases where the products only differ in model year from those that were
previously certified.

Test results from invalid tests or tests that were not conducted as
specified in section §59.650 through 59.653 of the rule.

An unconditional certification by the respondent that all the products
in the emissions family comply with the requirements of the rule.

Estimates of U.S.-directed production volumes.

Name of an agent for service of process located in the United States for
any action by EPA related to the requirements for the rule.

The respondent must keep records for each portable gasoline container
tested (emission data unit) for the requirements of the rule.   For each
emission data unit, that would include the following information

The emission-data unit’s construction, including its origin and
buildup, steps taken to ensure that it represents production containers,
components built specially for it, and all the components you include in
the application for certification.

All emission tests, including documentation on routine and standard
tests, as specified the rule.  Each test report shall include

Test results

Purpose of test

Date and time of the test.

Test cell ambient conditions during the test such as temperature,
barometric pressure, and relative humidity.

Diagnostic data indicating test procedure conformance to the rule.

Significant events that may affect the products conformance with the
rule.

Production figures for each emissions family divided by assembly plant.

Maintenance instructions for the portable fuel containers in the engine
family.

A running list of portable gasoline container identification numbers for
all the containers produced under each certificate of conformity

All the above information must be kept five years after a certificate of
conformity is issued for the emissions family in question.  Data
covering test cell ambient conditions, however, is required to be kept
for one year only after a certificate of conformity is issued for the
emissions family in question.

(3) The stored records can be in any format and on any media, as long as
it can be promptly delivered to EPA on request.

(4) Annual successful warranty claims, including the reason for the
claim and defect report summarizing by emissions family are to be
provided to the agency.  These reports are due to EPA by July 1 for the
preceding calendar year.

2.	Need for and Use of the Collection

(a)	Need/Authority for the Collection.

The EPA is required under Section 183(e) of the Clean Air Act (Act) to
regulate VOC emissions from the use of consumer and commercial products.
 Pursuant to Section 183(e)(3), the EPA published a list of consumer and
commercial products and a schedule for their regulation on March 23,
1995 (60 FR 15264).  Consumer products were included in Group I of the
list, and standards were promulgated on September 11, 1998.  In the
Administrator's judgment, VOC emissions from the use of consumer
products contribute to ground-level ozone formation in ozone
non-attainment areas.

	Statutory authority for the portable gasoline container controls is
found in sections 183(e) and 111, 42 U.S.C. sections 7511b(e) and 7414.
This authority was granted to regulate Volatile Organic Compounds
emissions (VOCs) from the use of consumer and commercial products.
Portable gasoline containers are a consumer product which in and of
itself do not emit large amounts of VOCs.  However, they have been shown
to be deficient in preventing VOCs in the form of gasoline vapors from
being emitted into the air.  This Information Collection Request (ICR)
is part of the certification of new portable gasoline containers that
will significantly lower VOC emissions nation wide.

	The record keeping in an application for an emissions family of
portable gasoline containers is necessary to prove to the agency that
the emissions family meets the emission standard in the regulation. The
items specified in (iii)(1) for the application are specific enough to
provide enough information to allow the agency to issue a certificate of
compliance for the emissions family covered in application.

The information in the application is sufficient to allow the
manufacture to aggregate containers of like design into one emission
family.  This saves the manufacturer the expense of testing models of
similar but not identical design.  The information is also detailed
enough to allow recertification for subsequent new model years where the
only difference containers of the current and future model years is only
the model year itself.  The emissions family collection for similar
containers and the carry over provisions are seen as a reasonable
approach to simplify and lower the cost of gasoline container
certification program for the manufacture.

The warranty and defect reports provided by the manufactures to the
agency are needed to assure that the containers survive normal use and
provides to EPA confidence that they are minimally meeting the emission
standards.  Cans showing excessive warranty claims or high defect rates
could be candidates for in-use testing by EPA.  Though EPA does not have
the authority to recall portable fuel containers the warranty and defect
information along with in-use testing by EPA could be used as grounds to
withhold subsequent certification of containers that are not operating
as required by the regulation.

(b)	Use/Users of the Information.

	Agency enforcement personnel will use the information collected to;

Determine if a manufacture’s portable gasoline containers meet the
emission standard when new.

Allow the agency to issue a certificate of compliance to the
manufacturer so that they can market the approved containers.

Allow the agency to issue certificates in successive model years to
containers that differ only in model year to manufactures and waiving
the testing process required for a new design.

Allow the agency to issue certificates to the manufacture for containers
that are substantially similar to the tested prototype and waive the
testing process required for a new design.

Provide information to the agency to indicate that the portable gasoline
containers are meeting the standard in-use.

Provide information to the agency that a portable gasoline container
design is not meeting the standard in-use and provides a basis on which
to reject a manufactures application for that design in subsequent model
years.

3.	Non-duplication, Consultations, and Other Collection Criteria

(a)	Non-duplication.

	The information collected pursuant to the regulation is product and
manufacturing specifications, testing, successful warranty claims, and
defect data concerning portable gasoline containers.  Similar
information will be collected by the state of California for their
Portable Fuel Container regulation.  However, the California regulation
is different in several key areas that make the information unsuitable
for information collection required for Federal rule.  These are all due
to differences in the standards and certification requirements in the
two rules.

The test fuel and the temperature cycles used in the Federal program are
more in keeping with nation wide ambient temperatures and fuels while
those required in the California regulation are more suitable to
California fuels and ambient conditions.

The Federal rule requires the reporting of successful warranty claims
and defect reports concerning fuel containers sold as certified under
the rule.  While the California regulation does require that the
manufacturer issue warranties, it does not require them to report on the
outcomes of successful claims against them.

These differences make the California data unsuitable for the Federal
rule on fuel containers.

	Public Notice Required Prior to ICR Submission to OMB

The proposed information collection represented by this ICR is included
in the notice of proposed rule making, “Control of Hazardous Air
Pollutants from Mobile Sources,” 40 CFR Parts 59, 80, 85 and 86,
Docket number EPA-HQ-OAR-2005-0036, RIN 2060-AK70.  A copy of the
proposed rule is available in this docket and it will be submitted for
publication in the Federal Register.

(c)	Consultations

	EPA has had ongoing discussions with the gasoline container
manufactures concerning the gasoline container rule and its impact on
their business.   The dates and method of contact are listed below

Organization			Consultation

Blitz USA:  			Meetings on: 3/23/04, 4/15/04, 9/29/05

Phone discussions on: 2/17/04, 5/5/04, 5/13/04, 9/16/04, 3/22/05

Scepter				Meeting on: 11/9/04

Phone discussions on: 6/3/04, 4/27/05, 8/26/05

Wedco				Phone discussions on:  5/28/04, 4/19/05

Midwest Can Company     	Phone discussions on:   6/21/05, 7/28/05

No-Spill Research		Phone discussions on:   7/21/04

Industry wide			Conference call: 11/17/04

(d)	Effects of Less Frequent Collection.

	The requirement of the portable fuel container regulation is that
information is submitted on a yearly basis coinciding with the
manufacturer’s “model year.” The certificate of conformity is
effective until December 31of the model year for which it was issued.
For these reasons, a collection frequency longer than a year is not
possible. However, when a fuel container design is “carried over” or
a new version of a container that is for all intents purposes
substantially similar to a current container, the amount of new
information required is substantially reduced.  The manufactures can
modify the terms for certification under §59.621 which could
conceivably effect the frequency of data collection.  However, changes
would have to be approved by EPA and can not lead to less effective
emission control.

(e)	General Guidelines.

	This ICR adheres to the guidelines for Federal data requesters, as
provided at 5 CFR 1320.5.  The regulation requires that records
concerning the application for certification be maintained for 5 years
and testing data for 1 year.  Successfully awarded warranty information
and product defect reports are required for the preceding model by July
1rst of the following year.  There is no requirement to report
unsuccessful claims against container warranties and after the reporting
of the data to EPA. There is no requirement by EPA for the manufactures
to retain that information. These periods of record retention are
consistent with other ongoing and similar programs.  They are necessary
to allow enough record history for the agency to adequately monitor
compliance.

(f)	Confidentiality.

Any information submitted to EPA for which a claim of confidentiality is
made will be safeguarded according to EPA regulations at 40 C.F.R. 2.201
et. seq.

	Sensitive Questions.

	This section is not applicable because this ICR does not involve
matters of a sensitive nature.

4.	The Respondents and the Information Requested

(a)	Respondents/SIC and NAICS Codes.

	Respondents to this information collection are manufacturers of
portable fuel containers. They fall within standard industrial
classification (SIC) 3411 and within the North American Industrial
Classification System (NAICS) code of 324110.

(b)	Information Requested.

	(i)	Data items.

	Table 2, Source Data and Information Requirements, summarizes the
recordkeeping and reporting requirements.

	TABLE 2

	SOURCE DATA AND INFORMATION REQUIREMENTS

Group	Item	Sub Item	Requirement

Application (Report)	Emissions Family Specification	Physical
Configurations	§59.623

Application (Report)	Emissions Family Specification	Method of Emission
Control	§59.623

Application (Report)	Emissions Family Specification	Container Models
§59.623

Application (Report)	Testing	Test Equipment	§59.623

Application (Report)	Testing	Test Methods	§59.623

Application (Report)	Testing	Test Fuels	§59.623

Application (Report)	Testing	Emission Test Data	§59.623

Application (Report)	Compliance	Statement of Compliance of Tests
§59.623

Application (Report)	Compliance	Maintenance and Use Instructions to
Users	§59.623

Application (Report)	Compliance	Description of Emissions Control Label
§59.623

Application (Report)	Compliance	Statement of Compliance of Member
Containers to Emissions Family	§59.623

Application (Report)	Compliance	Name of Agent of Process for the
Application	§59.623

Application (Report)	Impact	Estimate of US Sales	§59.623

In-Use Report	Awarded Warranty Information	Reasons for Claim	§59.628

In-Use Report	Defect	List and number of defects by emissions family
§59.628

Record Keeping	Application (Report)

§59.628

Record Keeping	Annual In-Use Report

§59.628

Record Keeping	Emission-Data Unit (prototype test container)
Configuration and Components	§59.628

Record Keeping	Emission-Data Unit (prototype test container)	Build
Information	§59.628

Record Keeping	Emission-Data Unit (prototype test container)
Representativeness to Production Version	§59.628

Record Keeping	Emission-Data Unit (prototype test container)	All
Emission Test Data for Emission-Data Unit	§59.628

Record Keeping	Emission-Data Unit (prototype test container)	Date and
Time for 	§59.628

Record Keeping	Emission-Data Unit (prototype test container)	Ambient
Test Cell Conditions	§59.628

Record Keeping	Production Figures	By Emissions Family and Assembly Plant
§59.628

Record Keeping	Unique Container Serial Numbers	By Certificate of
Conformity	§59.628

	(ii)	Respondent Activities.

	The respondent will have to document fuel container specifications in
detail such as physical size, shapes, materials, quality of component
fit, and production methods.  There respondent shall have to keep
records on testing that was performed to assure compliance with the fuel
container regulation.  The respondent must collect and keep warranty and
defect information for annual reporting on in-use survival of their
products in the hands of consumers to EPA.  The respondent must also
retain records on the units produced, apply serial numbers to individual
containers, and track the serial numbers to their certificates of
conformance.  Many of these activities are those performed in the
production of any modern consumer product, but clearly some of the
information is uniquely required to the fuel container regulation

5.	The Information Collected--Agency Activities, Collection Methodology,
and Information Management.

(a)	Agency Activities.

	A significant portion of EPA’s activity for the fuel container
regulation will be spent reviewing applications to verify that the
correct tests have been conducted and necessary information submitted.
Running change submissions must also be reviewed for possible impacts
and manufacturers’ evaluations thereof. A part of this process
involves determining if “carry over” of data from a previous model
year or addition of a new container model to an existing emissions
family is appropriate, or if new testing will be required. EPA has the
right to select a number of containers for testing to confirm that the
cans are indeed meeting the emissions standards.

(b)	Collection Methodology and Management

	As noted in section 2(b) of this ICR, the information collected is a
necessary part of compliance determination for model year 2009
therefore, the information collected under this rule will not be
collected until calendar year 2008.  A database shall be developed to
store the information at that time.

(c)	Small Entity Flexibility.

	Under the rule, there are provisions for small entity flexibility.  All
respondents can apply for extension of deadlines, including new
container designs under existing emissions families.  They can also
apply for exceptions for particular product use for atypical
applications and sales.  Hardship exceptions are provided when a
manufacture is facing issues of solvency due to circumstances beyond
their control such as a natural disaster, a part supplier not meeting
contractual obligations, or the cost of conformance to the rule.

(d)	Collection Schedule.

	The portable fuel container regulation applies to all fuel containers
manufactured on or after January 1, 2009.  Containers excluded from the
rule are those specified in §59.699.  Information collections are on a
model year basis.  Model years end on December 31 of the model year
certified.

6.	Estimating the Burden and Cost of the Collection

	These estimates represent the average annual burden that will be
incurred by the affected industry during the 3-year period beginning in
2008.  It is believed that most of the record keeping and reporting
costs will shall be done at start up in 2008.

(a)	Estimating Respondent Burden.

	The average annual labor burden estimates for reporting and
recordkeeping requirements for all manufacturers presented in Table 3.

Table 3 – Estimated Annual Respondent Burden and Costs for labor

Salaries	Management Hours

Per

Emission Family	Technical

Hours

Per

Emission Family ours	Clerical

Hours Per

Emission Family	Total Hours	Costs

Application	6	8	1.6	                156 	$ 6,967

Record Keeping	4	4	1.6	                96 	$ 4,447

Testing	4	25	2	              310 	$ 10,261

Defect and Warranty Reporting	2	4	1.6	                76 	$ 3,011

Annual totals	14	41	6.8	638	$ 24,687

Estimating Respondent Costs.

(i) Estimating Labor Costs

	Table 3 also presents estimated labor costs for the required
recordkeeping and reporting activities.  Industry labor rates are based
on Bureau of Labor Statistics for a manager product inspector and office
and administrative support book keeping clerical.  Overhead of 100
percent was added, resulting in the following labor rates: management
($71.80); technical ($27.10); and clerical ($30.70).

(ii) Estimating Capital and Operations and Maintenance Costs

EPA estimates ongoing O&M costs associated with the reporting and
recordkeeping requirements for the portable gasoline container rule.
These costs will be associated with communication of information with
EPA.  Those costs are found in Table 4.   Respondents have indicated
that they do not plan on building their own facilities to perform the
required testing for the gasoline container regulation.  They shall
contract out the work to existing testing laboratories.

(iii) Estimating Start Up Capital and Operations and Maintenance Costs

	Start up capitol costs for the respondents are presented in Table 4.
These costs are associated with the development of the appropriate
information technology to store and report the required information.

Table 4- Capital, Operating and Maintenance Costs

Activity	Average Number per Year per Respondent	Total Costs Per Year

Familiarize with reporting requirements	One-time amortized cost	 $ 300

Update data collection Software	One-time amortized cost	 $ 119

Communication with EPA	3	 $ 100

Totals

 $ 519

(c)	Estimating Agency Burden and Cost.

	Agency burden and costs associated with the data collection are
presented in Table 4.

Table 5 - Estimated Agency Burden and Cost

Collection Activity	Burden Hours	Frequency	Annual Burden Hours	Annual
Costs

Modify database to manage the collected data, maintenance & computer
time [1]	4	1	4	 $     236.63

Answer Respondent Questions	3	5	15	 $     907.99

Review and Approve Can Manufacturers Application and Certification Data
20	20	400	 $24,213.12

Enter Data	1	20	20	 $  1,210.66

Annual Report	16	1	16	 $     968.52

Totals

	455	 $27,536.93

	Labor rates and associated costs are based on Office of Personnel
Management Table SALARY TABLE 2006-GS.  Overhead of 60 per cent was
added, resulting in the following labor rates: management (GS15 Step 5 -
$79.50); technical (GS13 Step 5 - $57.20); and clerical (GS7 Step 5 -
$27.12).  The number of management hours is assumed to equal 5 percent
of the number of technical hours; the number of clerical hours is
assumed to equal 1 percent of the number of technical hours

	Estimating the Respondent Universe and Total Burden and Costs

The following assumptions were used to estimate the respondent universe
and total burden and costs for industry to comply with the various
requirements of the rule:

There are ten  manufactures of fuel containers for the domestic market

The average number of emission families that will be produced per
manufacture in the first five years of the rule will be one.

The majority of the families will be carried over from successive model
years.

Manufactures will produce designs that will meet the standards.

(e)	Bottom Line Burden Hours and Cost Tables.

	(i)	Respondent Tally

	The bottom line respondent burden hours and cost, presented in Table 3,
are calculated by summing the person-hours column and by summing the
cost column.  The annual burden and cost averaged over the 5 years
beginning in the year 2008 are 638 hours, $ 24,791 in wages, capitol,
and operating and maintenance costs.   The average burden equals the
total burden (638 hours) divided by the number of respondents (10
respondents), or about 63.8 hours per respondent.

	(ii)	Agency Tally

	The bottom line Agency burden and cost are presented in Table 4.
Agency cost for each activity is calculated by summing the technical,
management, and clerical costs for each burden item.  The estimated
annual burden and cost averaged over the 3 years beginning in October
2008 are 455 hours and $27,536.93.

	(iii)	Variations in the annual bottom line.

	The EPA does not anticipate any significant annual variations in the
bottom line after the first year the rule is in effect.

(f)     Reasons for Change in Burden.

	The burden reported in this ICR is attributed to a new regulation.

(g)    Burden Statement

The annual public reporting and recordkeeping burden for this collection
of information is estimated to average 63.8 hours and $2,479.10 per
respondent.  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.  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.

	To comment on the Agency's need for this information, the accuracy of
the provided burden estimates, and any suggested methods for minimizing
respondent burden, including the use of automated collection techniques,
EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID No.
EPA-HQ-OAR-2005-0036, which is available for public viewing at the Air
and Radiation Docket and Information Center Docket in the EPA Docket
Center (EPA/DC), EPA West, Room B102, 1301 Constitution Avenue, NW,
Washington, DC. The EPA Docket Center 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<PHONE_NUMBER>, and the
telephone number for the Air and Radiation Docket and Information Center
is<PHONE_NUMBER>.  An electronic version of the public docket is
available at www.regulations.gov.  Use this site to submit or view
public comments, access the index listing of the contents of the public
docket, and to access those documents in the public docket that are
available electronically.  Once in the system, select “search,” then
key in the docket ID number identified above.  Also, you can send
comments to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of
Management and Budget, 725 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20503,
Attention: Desk Office for EPA.  Please include the EPA Docket ID No.
EPA-HQ-OAR-2005-0036 in any correspondence.

Part B of the Supporting Statement

This section is not applicable to this ICR.

 “Certification Procedure for Portable Fuel Containers and Spill-Proof
Spouts”, California Air Resources Board July 22, 2005

 http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/naics4_326100.htm#b11-0000

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