[Federal Register: January 27, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 17)]
[Notices]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[OPP-2003-0085, FRL-7613-5]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB;
Comment Request; Pesticide Product Registration Maintenance Fee
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) has been forwarded to the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval: Pesticide
Product Registration Maintenance Fee; EPA ICR Number: 1214.06; OMB
Control Number: 2070-0100. 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 February 26,
2004.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number OPP-2003-
0085, 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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nancy Vogel, 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: vogel.nancy@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. The Federal Register document, required under 5 CFR 1320.8(d),
soliciting comments on this collection of information was published on
April 2, 2003 (68 FR 16023). EPA received no comments on this ICR
during the 60-day comment period.
EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID
No. OPP-2003-0085, which is available for public viewing at the Public
Information and Records Integrity Branch (PIRIB), Rm. 119, Crystal Mall
2, 1921 Jefferson Davis Hwy., 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
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. Please note, 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
.
ICR Title: Pesticide Product Registration Maintenance Fee (EPA ICR
1214.06, OMB Control No. 2070-0100).
ICR Status: This is a request for extension of an existing approved
collection that is currently scheduled to expire on January 31, 2004.
EPA is asking OMB to approve 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 information collection activity provides the Agency
with the means to collect registration maintenance fees from pesticide
registrants as required by law. Respondents complete and submit EPA
Form 8570-30, indicating their liability for the registration
maintenance fee. No changes in the substance or in the method of
collection is proposed in this ICR renewal request. Each affected firm
is required to complete the filing form and submit their fee payment by
January 15 of each year.
Every year, the Agency provides registrants a list of the
registered products currently registered with the Agency. Registrants
are provided the opportunity to review the list, determine its
accuracy, and remit payment of the maintenance fee. The list of
products has space identified for marking those products to be
supported and those products that are to be canceled. The registrants
are also instructed to identify any products on the list which they
believe to be transferred to another company, and to add to the list
any products which the company believes to be registered that are not
on the Agency-provided list. The failure to pay the required fee for a
product will result in cancellation of that product.
Burden Statement: The annual ``respondent'' burden for this ICR is
estimated to be 1,763 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,
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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 OMB control number for this information collection appears at the
beginning and the end of this document. In addition OMB control numbers
for EPA's regulations, after initial display in the final rule, are
listed in 40 CFR part 9.
The following is a summary of the burden estimates taken from the
ICR:
Respondents/affected entities: Pesticide
registrants.
Estimated total number of potential respondents:
1,900.
Frequency of response: Annual.
Estimated total/average number of responses for
each respondent: 1.
Estimated total annual burden hours: 1,763
hours.
Estimated total annual burden costs: $178,690.
Changes in the ICR Since the Last Approval: The total estimated
annual respondent cost for this ICR has decreased by 95 hours (from
1,858 to 1,763), due mainly to a decrease in the number of responses
expected. Although the number of responses have decreased over those in
the previous ICR, estimated costs have increased by about $820 (from
roughly $177,871 to $178,690) because of an increase in the estimated
labor rates for respondents. These changes are explained more fully in
the ICR.
According to the procedures prescribed in 5 CFR 1320.12, EPA has
submitted this ICR to OMB for review and approval. Any comments related
to the renewal of this ICR should be submitted within 30 days of this
notice, as described above.
Dated: January 20, 2004.
Doreen Sterling,
Acting Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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