[Federal Register: September 16, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 179)]
[Notices]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[OA-2003-0007; FRL-7814-1]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Comment Request; Annual Reporting Form for State
Small Business Stationary Source Technical and Environmental Compliance
Assistance Program (SBTCP), EPA ICR Number 1748.03, OMB Control Number
2060-0337
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 October 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 October 18,
2004.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number OA-2003-
0007, to (1) EPA online using EDOCKET (our preferred method), by e-mail
to http://www.epa.gov/docket, or by mail to: EPA Docket Center,
Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Environmental Information
(OEI) Docket, Mail Code 28221T, 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: Karen V. Brown, Office of Policy,
Economics and Innovation, National Center for Environmental Innovation,
Office of Business and Community Innovation, Small Business Division
1807T, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.,
Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 566-2816; fax number:
(202) 566-2848; e-mail address: brown.karen@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 November 13, 2004 (68 FR 219), EPA sought comments on this
ICR pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received no comments.
EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID
No. OA-2003-0007, 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 OEI 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 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: Annual Reporting Form for State Small Business Stationary
Source Technical and Environmental Compliance Assistance Programs
(SBTCPs).
Abstract: As part of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, the U.S.
Congress included, as part of Section 507, the requirement that each
state establish a Small Business Stationary Source Technical and
Environmental Compliance Assistance Program (SBTCP) to assist small
businesses in complying with the Act. EPA must provide the Congress
with periodic reports from the EPA Small Business Ombudsman on these
programs, including their effectiveness, difficulties encountered, and
other relevant information. Each state assistance program will submit
requested information to EPA for compilation and summarization.
Information collection includes number of full time employees,
annual budgets, activities provided and number of small businesses
assisted by the SBTCP. Small business case studies and
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success stories are also requested by EPA. Response to the collection
is not required to obtain or retain a benefit. Information in the
annual Report to Congress is aggregated and is not of a confidential
nature. None of the information collected by this action results in or
requests sensitive information of any nature from the states.
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 record keeping
burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 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: States.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 53.
Frequency of Response: Annually.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 2,120.
Estimated Total Annual Cost: $93,216 includes $0 annualized capital
or O&M costs. Changes in the Estimates: Since there is no increase or
decrease, the burden hour remains at 2,120.
Dated: September 4, 2004.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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