[Federal Register: February 3, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 22)]
[Notices]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[OPPT-2004-0098; FRL-7869-1]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Comment Request; TSCA Section 4 Test Rules,
Consent Orders, Test Rule Exemptions, and Voluntary Data Submission;
EPA ICR No. 1139.07, OMB No. 2070-0033
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 the following 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
January 31, 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 cost.
DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before March 7, 2005.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID Number OPPT-
2004-0098, to (1) EPA online using EDOCKET (our preferred method), by
e-mail to oppt.ncic@epa.gov or by mail to: Document Control Office
(DCO), Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics (OPPT), Environmental
Protection Agency, Mail Code: 7407T, 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: Barbara Cunningham, Acting Director,
Environmental Assistance Division, Office of Pollution Prevention and
Toxics, Environmental Protection Agency, Mailcode: 7408, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: 202-
554-1404; e-mail address: TSCA-Hotline@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 June 30, 2004, EPA sought comments on this renewal ICR (69
FR 39464). EPA sought comments on this ICR pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d).
EPA received two comments during the comment period, which are
addressed in the Supporting Statement of the ICR.
EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID
No. OPPT-2004-0098, which is available for public viewing at the OPPT
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 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 Pollution Prevention and
Toxics Docket is 202-566-0280. 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: TSCA Section 4 Test Rules, Consent Orders, Test Rule
Exemptions, and Voluntary Data Submission.
Abstract: Section 4 of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) is
designed to assure that chemicals that may pose serious risks to human
health or the environment undergo testing by manufacturers or
processors, and that the results of such testing are made available to
EPA. EPA uses the information collected under the authority of TSCA
section 4 activity to assess risks associated with the manufacture,
processing, distribution, use or disposal of a chemical, and to support
any necessary regulatory action with respect to that chemical.
EPA must assure that appropriate tests are performed on a chemical
if it decides: (1) That a chemical being considered under TSCA section
4(a) may pose an ``unreasonable risk'' or is produced in
``substantial'' quantities that may result in substantial or
significant human exposure or substantial environmental release of the
chemical; (2) that additional data are needed to determine or predict
the impacts of the chemical's manufacture, processing, distribution,
use or disposal; and (3) that testing is needed to develop such data.
Rules and consent orders under TSCA section 4 require that one
manufacturer or processor of a subject chemical perform the specified
testing and report the results of that testing to EPA. TSCA section 4
also allows a manufacturer or processor of a subject chemical to apply
for an exemption from the testing requirement if that testing will be
or has been performed by another party.
Responses to the collection of information are mandatory (see 40
CFR part 790). Respondents may claim all or part of a notice as CBI.
EPA will disclose information that is covered by a CBI claim only to
the extent permitted by, and in accordance with, the procedures in 40
CFR part 2.
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 title 40 of the CFR, after appearing in the Federal
Register, are listed in 40 CFR part 9 and included on the related
collection instrument or form, if applicable.
Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping
burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 142
hour per response. Burden means the total time, effort or financial
resources expended by persons to generate, maintain, retain
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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 companies that manufacture, process, import, use,
distribute or dispose of chemicals.
Frequency of Collection: On occasion.
Estimated No. of Respondents: 396.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: 203,014 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Costs: $8,664,319.
Changes in Burden Estimates: This request reflects a decrease of
979,560 hours (from 1,182,574 hours to 203,014 hours) in the total
estimated respondent burden from that currently in the OMB inventory.
This decrease is due to a re-estimation of the numbers of test rules
and enforceable consent agreements that the Agency will issue, and a
re-estimation of the expected level of testing remaining to be done
under the HPV Challenge Program. In addition, the burden related to an
initiative that was previously included, has been transferred to
another ICR. The change in burden represents an adjustment.
Dated: January 27, 2005.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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