[Federal Register: September 28, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 187)]
[Notices]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[OPP-2004-0109, FRL-7820-8]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB;
Comment Request; EPA ICR No. 1911.02; OMB Control No. 2070-0164; Data
Acquisition for Anticipated Residue and Percent of Crop Treated
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)
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has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval: Data Acquisition for Anticipated Residue and
Percent of Crop Treated; EPA ICR No. 1911.02; OMB Control No. 2070-
0164. This is a request to renew an existing approved collection that
is currently scheduled to expire on September 30, 2004. Under OMB
regulations, the Agency may continue to conduct or sponsor the
collection of information while this submission is pending at OMB. 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 October 28,
2004.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nathanael R. Martin, 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: martin.nathanael@epa.gov.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number OPP-2004-
0109 to: (1) 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, Mailcode: 7502C, 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.
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 published on May
5, 2004 (69 FR 25079). EPA received no comments on this ICR during that
60-day comment period.
EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID
No. OPP-2004-0109 which is available for public viewing at the Public
Information and Records Integrity Branch (PIRIB), Rm. 119, Crystal Mall
2, 1801 Bell St., 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 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.Please note, EPA's policy is that public
comments, whether submitted electronically or on 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
.
ICR Title: Data Acquisition for Anticipated Residue and Percent of
Crop Treated.
ICR Numbers: EPA ICR No. 1911.02; OMB Control No. 2070-0164.
ICR Status: EPA is asking OMB to extend the existing approval of
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 ICR will enable EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs
(OPP) to obtain information needed to re-evaluate the Agency's original
tolerance decisions as mandated by the Food Quality Protection Act of
1996 (FQPA), which amended the two primary statutes regulating
pesticides, i.e., the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) and
the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). Among
other things, FQPA amended FFDCA to authorize the Agency to use
anticipated or actual residue (ARs) data and percent crop treated (PCT)
data to establish, modify, maintain, or revoke a tolerance for a
pesticide residue. The new law also requires that tolerance decisions
based on ARs or PCT data be verified to ensure that residues in or on
food are not above the residue levels relied on for establishing the
tolerance.
In order to conduct the required re-evaluation, a Pesticide
Registrant may be required to submit specific data necessary to
demonstrate that residues do not exceed the residue levels used to
establish the tolerance.
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 total annual ``respondent'' burden for this
ICR is estimated to be 28,569 hours. According to the Paperwork
Reduction Act, ``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. For this
collection, it is the time reading the regulations, planning the
necessary data collection activities, conducting tests, analyzing data,
generating reports and completing other required paperwork, and
storing, filing, and maintaining the data. The 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 following is a summary of the burden estimates taken from the
ICR:
Respondents/affected entities: Businesses engaged in the
manufacture of pesticides who file a petition asking the Agency to take
a specific tolerance action.
Estimated total number of potential respondents: 16.
Frequency of response: On occasion, i.e., once five years after
initial tolerance is established.
Estimated total/average number of responses for each respondent: 1.
Estimated total annual burden hours: 28,569.
Estimated total annual costs: $2,524,938, includes $0 annualized
capital or O&M costs.
Changes in the ICR Since the Last Approval: The total annual
respondent burden estimate for this ICR has decreased 1,238 hours, from
29,807 to 28,569, and the total respondent cost has decreased $248,928,
from $2,773,866 to $2,594,938. These reductions are adjustments due to
the
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fact that the Agency expects to issue fewer data call-ins under this
program than originally estimated.
Dated: September 21, 2004.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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