[Federal Register: June 27, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 122)]
[Notices]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[OW-2004-0024; FRL-7927-8]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Comment Request; Milestones Plans for the Bleached
Papergrade Kraft and Soda Subcategory of the Pulp, Paper and Paperboard
Manufacturing Category (Renewal), EPA ICR Number 1877.03, OMB Control
Number 2040-0202
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.
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 June 30, 2005.
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 July 27, 2005.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number OW-2004-
0024, to (1) EPA online using EDOCKET (our preferred method), by e-mail
to OW-Docket@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental
Protection Agency, Water Docket, Mail Code 4101T, 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: Lynn Stabenfeldt, Environmental
Protection Agency, Mail Code 4201 M, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.,
Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 564-0602; fax number:
(202) 501-2396; e-mail address: stabenfeldt.lynn@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 August 30, 2004 (69 FR 52883), 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. OW-2004-0024, which is available for public viewing at the Water
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 Water 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: Milestones Plans for the Bleached Papergrade Kraft and Soda
Subcategory of the Pulp, Paper and Paperboard Manufacturing Category
(Renewal).
Abstract: The information to be collected is a Milestones Plan,
which is required as part of a new Voluntary Advanced Technology
Incentives Program (VATIP) established under the Pulp, Paper, and
Paperboard Effluent Limitations Guidelines and Standards (40 CFR part
430) portion of the Cluster Rule promulgated on April 15, 1998. Only
direct discharging bleached papergrade kraft and soda mills are
eligible to participate in the VATIP. Furthermore, the Milestones Plan
is required only of those mills that voluntarily choose to enroll in
the incentives program. The VATIP (40 CFR 430.24(b)) is intended to
encourage existing and new direct discharging mills to move beyond
today's baseline BAT and NSPS technologies.
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 120
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 action are those existing, direct discharging mills with
operations that chemically pulp wood fiber using kraft or soda methods
to produce bleached papergrade pulp, paperboard, coarse paper, tissue
paper, fine paper, and/or paperboard and that choose to participate in
the Voluntary Advanced Technology Incentives Program established under
40 CFR 430.24(b).
Estimated Number of Respondents: 29.
Frequency of Response: Annually.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 1,418.
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Estimated Total Annual Cost: $150,000, includes $0 annualized
capital or O&M costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is no change in the total estimated
burden hours currently identified in the OMB Inventory of Approved ICR
Burdens.
Dated: June 20, 2005.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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