[Federal Register: December 4, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 233)]
[Notices]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[OPP-2002-0320; FRL-7417-6]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB;
Comment Request; EPA ICR No. 0161.09/OMB No. 2070-0027; Foreign
Purchaser Acknowledgment Statement of Unregistered Pesticides
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44
U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that the following
Information Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval: Foreign
Purchaser Acknowledgment Statement of Unregistered Pesticides; OMB No.
2070-0027; EPA No. 0161.09. The ICR, which is abstracted below,
describes the nature of the information collection activity and its
expected burden and costs.
DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before January 3,
2003.
ADDRESSES: Follow the detailed instructions in the SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION section.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nancy Vogel, Field and External
Affairs Division (7506C), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460;
telephone number: (703) 305-6475; fax number: (703) 305-5884; e-mail
address: vogel.nancy@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has submitted the following ICR to OMB
for review and approval according to the procedures prescribed in 5 CFR
1320.12. The Federal Register document, required under 5 CFR 1320.8(d),
soliciting comments on this collection of information was published on
December 12, 2001 (66 FR 64246). EPA received no comments on this ICR
during the 60-day comment period.
EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID
No. OPP-2002-0320 (formerly Docket Control No. OPP-00751), which is
available for public viewing at the Public Information and Records
Integrity Branch (PIRIB), Rm. 119, Crystal Mall 2, 1921
Jefferson Davis Hwy., Arlington, VA. This docket facility is open from
8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays.
The docket telephone number is (703) 305-5805. An electronic version of
the public docket is available through EPA Dockets (EDOCKET) at http://www.epa.gov/edocket.
Use EDOCKET 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.
Any comments related to this ICR should be submitted to EPA and OMB
within 30 days of this notice, and according to the following detailed
instructions: (1) Submit your comments to EPA online using EDOCKET (our
preferred method), by e-mail to opp-docket@epa.gov, or by mail to:
Public Information and Records Integrity Branch (PIRIB), Office of
Pesticide Programs (OPP), Environmental Protection Agency (7502C), 1200
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460-0001, Attention: Docket ID
Number OPP-2002-0320; and (2) Mail your comments to OMB at: Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget
(OMB), Attention: Desk Officer for EPA, 725 17th Street, NW.,
Washington, DC 20503.
EPA's policy is that public comments, whether submitted
electronically or in paper, will be made available for public viewing
in EDOCKET as EPA receives them and without change, unless the comment
contains copyrighted material, CBI, or other information whose public
disclosure is restricted by statute. When EPA identifies a comment
containing copyrighted material, EPA will provide a reference to that
material in the version of the comment that is placed in EDOCKET. The
entire printed comment, including the copyrighted material, will be
available in the public docket. Although identified as an item in the
official docket, information claimed as CBI, or whose disclosure is
otherwise
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restricted by statute, is not included in the official public docket,
and will not be available for public viewing in EDOCKET. For further
information about the electronic docket, see EPA's Federal Register
notice describing the electronic docket at 67 FR 38102 (May 31, 2002),
or go to http;//www.epa.gov./edocket.
ICR Title: Foreign Purchaser Acknowledgment Statement of
Unregistered Pesticides (OMB NO. 2070-0027; EPA No. 0161.09)
ICR Status: This is a request for extension of an existing approved
collection that is currently scheduled to expire on November 30, 2002.
EPA is asking OMB to approve this ICR for three years. Under 5 CFR
1320.12(b)(2), the Agency may continue to conduct or sponsor the
collection of information while the submission is pending at OMB.
Abstract: This information collection program is designed to enable
the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to provide notice to foreign
purchasers of unregistered pesticides exported from the United States
that the pesticide product cannot be sold in the United States. Section
17(a)(2) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
(FIFRA) requires an exporter of any pesticide not registered under
FIFRA section 3 or sold under FIFRA section 6(a)(1) to obtain a signed
statement from the foreign purchaser acknowledging that the purchaser
is aware that the pesticide is not registered for use in, and cannot be
sold in, the United States. A copy of this statement must be
transmitted to an appropriate official of the government in the
importing country. The purpose of the purchaser acknowledgment
statement requirement is to notify the government of the importing
country that a pesticide judged hazardous to human health or the
environment, or for which no such hazard assessment has been made, will
be imported into that country. This information is submitted in the
form of annual or per-shipment statements to the EPA, which maintains
original records and transmits copies thereof to appropriate government
officials of the countries which are importing the pesticide.
Burden Statement: The annual ``respondent'' burden for this ICR is
estimated to be 24,753 hours. According to the Paperwork Reduction Act
(PRA), ``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. The Agency may not
conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to a
collection of information that is subject to approval under the PRA,
unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. The OMB
control numbers for EPA's information collections appear on the
collection instruments or instructions, in the Federal Register notices
for related rulemakings and ICR notices, and, if the collection is
contained in a regulation, in a table of OMB approval numbers in 40 CFR
part 9.
The following is a summary of the burden estimates taken from the
ICR:
Respondents/affected entities: Individuals or entities engaged in
activities related to the registration of a pesticide product.
Estimated total number of potential respondents: 2,500.
Frequency of response: Annual or per-shipment.
Estimated total/average number of responses for each respondent: 1.
Estimated total annual burden hours: 24,753.
Estimated total annual burden costs: $1,902,400.
According to the procedures prescribed in 5 CFR 1320.12, EPA has
submitted this ICR to OMB for review and approval. Any comments related
to the renewal of this ICR should be submitted within 30 days of this
notice, as described above.
Dated: November 22, 2002.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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