[Federal Register: October 3, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 192)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[ORD-2003-0010, FRL-7567-9]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; Detroit Exposure and Aerosol Research Study (DEARS),
EPA ICR Number 1887.01, OMB Control Number 20XX-XXXX
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 a
proposed Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB). This is a request for a new collection.
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 December 2, 2003.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number ORD-2003-
0010, to EPA online using EDOCKET (our preferred method), by email to oei.docket@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental
Protection Agency, Office of Environmental Information Docket, Mail
Code 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Barbara Blackwell, Environmental
Protection Agency, MD E205-01, RTP, NC 27711; telephone number: (919)
541-2886; fax number: (919) 541-0905; email address: blackwell.barbara@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has established a public docket for this
ICR under Docket ID number ORD-2003-0010, which is available for public
viewing at the Office of Environmental Information Docket in the EPA
Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West, Room B102, 1301 Constitution Ave.,
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 (202) 566-1744,
and the telephone number for the Office of Environmental Information
Docket is (202) 566-1752. An electronic version of the public docket is
available through EPA Dockets (EDOCKET) at http://www.epa.gov/edocket.
Use EDOCKET to obtain a copy of the draft collection of information,
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 within
60 days of this notice. 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 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.
Affected entities: Entities potentially affected by this action are
persons living in Wayne County, MI.
Title: Detroit Exposure and Aerosol Research Study (DEARS)
Abstract: EPA's Office of Research and Development proposes to
conduct a residential and personal exposure field monitoring study in
the city of Detroit, MI over a three-year period from 2004 to 2006. The
primary goal of the study is to evaluate and describe the relationship
between air toxics and PM constituents measured at a central site
monitor and measurements of residential and personal concentrations. An
emphasis is placed on understanding the impact of local sources (point
and mobile) on outdoor residential concentrations and the impact of
housing type and house operation on indoor concentrations.
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Personal monitoring will be conducted to determine the impact of time
spent in nonresidential locations and personal activities on exposure.
Approximately 120 persons will voluntarily agree to wear certain
personal air monitors and to allow their homes to be equipped with
other monitors to measure indoor air quality. Each home will be
monitored for five consecutive days in the summer and five consecutive
days in the winter. The study is a continuation and expansion of
previous OMB-approved studies of human exposure to particles,
undertaken in response to recommendations of the National Academy of
Sciences (EPA ICR 1887.01 and 1887.02; OMB Approval 2080;
1997-2003). The study also extends the approach developed in the
Atlanta ARIES study as recommended by Dr. John Graham of OMB.
Further details on the study design and the complete set of
questionnaires are available for public viewing in the on-line EDOCKET
at http://www.epa.gov/edocket. 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 in 40 CFR are listed in 40 CFR
part 9.
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: Respondents will be asked to fill out a Time-
Activity Diary which aids them in maintaining a log of activities over
the course of each day. The following morning, a technician will go
over their previous day's activity log with them and correct any
omissions or mistakes. The time-activity diaries will take
approximately 30 minutes to complete each day. In addition, a
technician will administer a Follow-up questionnaire each day and will
ask the participant questions about cooking and cleaning activities in
the home over the previous 24 hours. This will take approximately 10
minutes a day. Over the course of five days in each of two seasons, the
total time burden is estimated to be 450 minutes per respondent. There
are projected to be 120 respondents.
The cost to each respondent will be the electrical power consumed
in operating the indoor monitors. This has been estimated to amount to
$5/day. Respondents will be reimbursed for this cost. 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: September 24, 2003.
Jewel F. Morris,
Acting Director, National Exposure Research Laboratory.
[FR Doc. 03-25131 Filed 10-2-03; 8:45 am]
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