[Federal Register: June 15, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 114)]
[Notices]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[OAR-2004-0077, FRL-7773-2]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Comment Request; Significant New Alternatives
Policy (SNAP) Program Final Rulemaking Under Title VI of the Clean Air
Act Amendments of 1990, EPA ICR Number 1596.06, OMB Control Number
2006-0226
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
continuing Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB). This is a request to renew an existing
approved collection. This ICR is scheduled to expire on October 31,
2004. 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 August 16, 2004.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number OAR-2004-
0077, to EPA online using EDOCKET (our preferred method), by e-mail to
A-And-R-Docket@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA Docket Center, Air and
Radiation Docket, Environmental Protection Agency, Mailcode 6102T, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Karen Thundiyil, Global Programs
Division, Mail Code 6205J, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202)
343-9464; fax number: (202) 343-2363; e-mail address:
thundiyil.karen@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has established a public docket for this
ICR under Docket ID number OAR-2004-0077, which is available for public
viewing at the Air and Radiation 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
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the Air and Radiation Docket is (202) 566-1742. 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, confidential business
information (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
aremanufacturers, importers, formulators and processors of substitutes
for ozone-depleting substances.
Title: Significant New Alternatives Policy (SNAP) Program Final
Rulemaking Under Title VI of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990.
Abstract: Information collected under this rulemaking is necessary
to implement the requirements of the Significant New Alternatives
Policy (SNAP) program for evaluating and regulating substitutes for
ozone-depleting chemicals being phased out under the stratospheric
ozone protection provisions of the Clean Air Act (CAA). Under CAA
section 612, EPA is authorized to identify and restrict the use of
substitutes for class I and class II ozone-depleting substances where
EPA determines other alternatives exist that reduce overall risk to
human health and the environment. The SNAP program, based on
information collected from the manufacturers, formulators, and/or
sellers of such substitutes, identifies acceptable substitutes.
Responses to the collection of information are mandatory under section
612 for anyone who sells or, in certain cases, uses substitutes for an
ozone-depleting substance after April 18, 1994, the effective date of
the final rule. Under CAA section 114(c), emissions information may not
be claimed as confidential.
To develop the lists of acceptable and unacceptable substitutes,
the Agency must assess and compare ``overall risks to human health and
the environment'' posed by use of substitutes in the context of
particular applications. EPA requires submission of information
covering a wide range of health and environmental factors. These
include intrinsic properties such as physical and chemical information,
ozone depleting potential, global warming potential, toxicity, and
flammability, and use-specific data such as substitute applications,
process description, environmental release data, environmental fate and
transport, and cost information. Once a completed submission has been
received, a 90 day review period under the SNAP program will commence.
Any substitute which is a new chemical must also be submitted to the
Agency under the Premanufacture Notice program under the Toxic
Substances Control Act (TSCA). Alternatives that will be used in
pesticide formulations must be filed jointly with EPA's Office of
Pesticide Programs and with SNAP.
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: For persons filing a SNAP Information Notice or
petition, the reporting burden is estimated to average 150 hours per
year from each of approximately 14 submitters, with estimated labor
costs of roughly $8400 and average annualized startup costs of $3153
for gathering information from each respondent. For persons filing a
TSCA/SNAP Addendum, the reporting burden is estimated to average 46
hours per year from each of two submitters at a labor cost of $2576
each. For persons filing a notification of test marketing activity, the
reporting burden is estimated to average 2 hours per year from one
submitter at a cost of $112. For persons keeping records supporting use
of a substitute subject to narrowed use limits, the recordkeeping
burden is estimated to average 27 hours per year from approximately 250
users, at an average cost of $1512 each. For persons keeping records of
a small volume use, the recordkeeping burden is estimated to average 12
hours per year from each of approximately ten companies at an average
cost of $672 each. The total burden on respondents is estimated at 8972
hours per year at a cost of roughly $547,000.
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: June 1, 2004.
Brian J. McLean,
Director, Office of Atmospheric Programs.
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