[Federal Register: January 22, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 14)]
[Notices]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[OPA-2003-0001; FRL-7611-9]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Comment Request; National Oil and Hazardous
Substances Pollution Contingency Plan Regulation, Subpart J, EPA ICR
Number 1664.05, OMB Control Number 2050-0141
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 an Information Collection
Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and approval. This is a request to renew an existing
approved collection. This ICR is scheduled to expire on January 31,
2004. Under OMB regulations, the Agency may continue to conduct or
sponsor the collection of information while this submission is pending
at OMB. This ICR describes the nature of the information collection and
its estimated burden and cost.
DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before February 23,
2004.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number OPA-2003-
0001, to (1) EPA online using EDOCKET (our preferred method), by e-mail
to superfund.docket@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA Docket Center,
Environmental Protection Agency, SUPERFUND Docket (5202T), 1200
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460, and (2) 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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: William ``Nick'' Nichols, Oil Program,
Office of Emergency Prevention, Preparedness, and Response (OEPPR)
(5203G), Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.,
Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (703) 603-9918; fax number:
(703) 603-9116; e-mail address: nichols.nick@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. On July 7, 2003 (68 FR 40262), EPA sought comments on this ICR
pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA has addressed the comment received.
EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID
No. OPA-2003-0001, which is available for public viewing at the Office
of Emergency Prevention, Preparedness, and Response Oil Program 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
Emergency Prevention, Preparedness, and Response Oil Program Docket is
(202) 566-2426. 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. 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
.
Title: National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency
Plan Regulation, Subpart J.
Abstract: Subpart J of the NCP allows and regulates the use of
chemical and biological oil spill cleanup and control agents. The
information collected is supplied by the manufacturer of such products.
This information and data are then analyzed by EPA to determine the
appropriateness, and under which category, the product may be listed on
the NCP Product Schedule. This product data is critical for EPA to
obtain in order to assure that effectiveness and toxicity data for
these products is available to the oil spill community in order to use
them legally and effectively. Responses to the collection of
information are mandatory if EPA determines that the products
specifications require its listing under subpart J (40 CFR 300.5a
Definitions). However, manufacturers volunteer to have their product
analyzed. The authority to review and use a product is 40 CFR 300.910.
Confidentiality of data, ingredients, and other proprietary information
for the products is maintained by EPA. Manufacturers may use any
certified lab in the U.S. to test their product's effectiveness and
toxicity. The cost of such tests range from $1,200 to $15,000 per test.
The process to have a product listed takes at least 30 days, but no
longer than 60 days, depending on the accuracy and completeness of the
product information package provided to EPA by the manufacturer. Due to
the technical and graphical data required to be listed, electronic
submissions are not accepted.
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 and are identified on
the form and/or instrument, if applicable.
Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping
burden for this collection of information is estimated to average
between 13.4 and 40 hours per response. 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.
Respondents/Affected Entities: Entities potentially affected by
this
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action are those which manufacture, sell, distribute and/or use oil
spill dispersants, other chemicals, and other spill mitigating devices
and substances that may be used in carrying out the NCP, as listed in
40 CFR 300.900 on land or waters of the United States.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 14.
Frequency of Response: Respondents must submit information only
when they apply to list a new product on the Schedule, or when the
composition, formulation, application, or contact information of a
product currently listed on the Schedule is changed.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 390.
Estimated Total Annual Cost: $95,558, includes $82,800 annualized
capital, $0 O&M costs, and $12,758 labor costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is a decrease of 436 hours in the
total estimated burden currently identified in the OMB Inventory of
Approved ICR Burdens. This decrease is due to the following three
adjustments to the estimates: (1) Manufacturers will apply to list 14
new oil spill mitigating agents on the Schedule per year over a three-
year period versus an estimated 28 per year during the three-year
period of the current ICR; (2) a decrease in the number of sorbent
manufacturer certification requests per year (from 20 to 10); and (3) a
decrease in the burden estimate per sorbent manufacturer respondent
(from 5 to 3 hours).
Dated: January 7, 2004.
Doreen Sterling,
Acting Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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