[Federal Register: August 21, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 161)]
[Notices]
[Page 46627-46628]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr21au07-62]
=======================================================================
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0861; FRL-8457-8]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Comment Request; Compliance Requirement for Child-
Resistant Packaging; EPA ICR No. 0616.09, OMB Control No. 2070-0052
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (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. The ICR, which is abstracted below,
describes the nature of the information collection and its estimated
burden and cost.
DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before September 20,
2007.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OPP-
2006-0861, to (1) EPA online using http://www.regulations.gov (our preferred method), by e-mail to opp.ncic@epa.gov, or by mail to: OPP Regulatory
Public Docket (7502P), Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP),
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.,
Washington, DC 20460-0001, and (2) OMB by mail to: 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: Joseph Hogue, Field and External
Affairs Division (7506-P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460-
0001; telephone number: (703) 308-9072; fax number: (703) 305-5884; e-
mail address: hogue.joe@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 March 21, 2007 (72 FR 13274), EPA sought comments on this
ICR pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received one comment during the
comment period, which is addressed in the ICR. Any additional comments
on this ICR should be submitted to EPA and OMB within 30 days of this
notice.
EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID
No. EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0861, which is available for online viewing at
http://www.regulations.gov, or in person viewing at the OPP Regulatory Public
Docket in Rm. S-4400, One Potomac Yard (South Building), 2777 S.
Crystal Drive, 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.
Use EPA's electronic docket and comment system at
http://www.regulations.gov, to submit or view public comments, access the
index listing of the contents of the docket, and to access those
documents in the docket that are available electronically. Once in the
system, select ``docket search,'' then key in the docket ID number
identified above. Please note that EPA's policy is that public
comments, whether submitted electronically or in paper, will be made
available for public viewing at http://www.regulations.gov as EPA receives
them and without change, unless the comment contains copyrighted
material, CBI, or other information whose public disclosure is
restricted by statute. For further information about the electronic
docket, go to http://www.regulations.gov.
Title: Compliance Requirement for Child-Resistant Packaging.
ICR numbers: EPA ICR No. 0616.09, OMB Control No. 2070-0052.
ICR Status: This ICR is scheduled to expire on August 31, 2007.
Under OMB regulations, the Agency may continue to conduct or sponsor
the collection of information while this submission is pending at OMB.
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 when
approved, are listed in 40 CFR part 9, are displayed either by
publication in the Federal Register or by other appropriate means, such
as on the related collection instrument or form, if applicable. The
display of OMB control numbers in certain EPA regulations is
consolidated in 40 CFR part 9.
Abstract: This ICR is designed to provide the EPA with assurances
that the packaging of pesticide products sold and distributed to the
general public in the United States meets standards set forth by the
Agency pursuant to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide
Act (FIFRA). Unless a pesticide product qualifies for an exemption, if
the product meets certain
[[Page 46628]]
criteria regarding toxicity and use, it must be sold and distributed in
child-resistant packaging. Section 25(c)(3) of FIFRA authorizes EPA to
establish standards for packaging of pesticide products and pesticidal
devices to protect children and adults from serious illness or injury
resulting from accidental ingestion or contact. The law requires that
these standards are designed to be consistent with those under the
Poison Prevention Packaging Act, administered by the Consumer Product
Safety Commission (CPSC). Pesticide registrants must certify to the
Agency that the packaging or device meets these standards. EPA reviews
a registrant's child-resistant packaging (CRP) certification to
determine if there are human safety/health risk concerns. Exemption
requests are reviewed to ascertain if there is a health risk, and if
CRP is technically feasible, practicable, and appropriate.
Responses to this collection of information are mandatory under
authority of 40 CFR 157.34. Although submission of confidential
information is not required as a part of this information collection,
there has been at least one instance where confidential data have been
submitted voluntarily as supporting material for an exemption request
from CRP compliance requirements. When any trade secret or Confidential
Business Information (CBI) is provided to EPA, such information is
protected from disclosure under section 10 of FIFRA. Data submitted to
EPA is handled strictly in accordance with the provisions of the FIFRA
Confidential Business Information Manual.
Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping
burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 4.9
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 which have subsequently changed; 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: All registrants of pesticide
products meeting the use criteria which trigger Child-Resistant
Packaging (CRP) requirements.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 2,109.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 3,473.
Estimated Total Annual Cost: $193,567.
Changes in the Estimates: There is an increase of 1,364 hours in
the total estimated burden currently identified in the OMB Inventory of
Approved ICR Burdens. This increase is an adjustment to the burden
estimate. Neither the number of responses nor the average burden
estimate for each response type has changed. However, the distribution
of those responses among the four response types has changed, with a
net shift from less-burdensome to more-burdensome type responses.
Dated: August 14, 2007
Sara Hisel-McCoy,
Acting Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. E7-16439 Filed 8-20-07; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6560-50-P