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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: EPA has already received 

approval from OMB for its information 

collection request, entitled ‘‘EPA 

Information Collection Request Number 

1360.08, Underground Storage Tanks: 

Technical and Financial Requirements, 

and State Program Approval 

Procedures.’’ This approval grants EPA 

authority to collect information from 

owners and operators, as specified in 40 

CFR part 280, that may otherwise be 

subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act, 

including owner and operator 

requirements to bring a tank into 

service, pursuant to 40 CFR 280.22, and 

owner and operator requirements to 

notify the implementing agency of any 

decision to permanently close or make 

a change-in-service at an UST system, 

pursuant to 40 CFR 280.71. Although 

OMB has approved this information 

collection request, EPA, Region 9, is 

seeking additional approval from OMB 

to revise and expand the scope of the 

original information collection request 

beyond what EPA originally envisioned 

when it initially sought the ICR. 

EPA Region 9’s Underground Storage 

Tanks Program Office (R9 USTPO) is 

planning to undertake an effort to 

increase the rate of compliance in 

Region 9. R9 USTPO has direct 

implementation responsibilities in 

Indian country and our data has shown 

a low rate of compliance. While Indian 

country is our highest priority because 

of our direct implementation 

responsibility, we have also reviewed 

data that suggest facilities outside 

Indian country are also of concern. In 

FY 08, the rate of compliance in Region 

9 Indian country was 36% and outside 

of Indian country the average was 68%. 

An information request pursuant to 

RCRA section 9005 directed to UST 

facility owners and operators in order to 

determine compliance will help to 

increase the rate of compliance. 

As a result, R9 USTPO would like to 

send an information request letter in 

accordance with RCRA Section 9005 

and 40 CFR 280.34 annually to 

approximately 500 UST facilities. This 

letter will request that the facility owner 

or operator send to the R9 USTPO the 

compliance records that they are already 

required to keep, but have not 

previously been asked to submit to the 

Agency. The information request letter 

authority was codified in 40 CFR 280.34 

of the UST regulations and this 

regulation and other provisions of the 

UST regulations also contain specific 

ongoing facility reporting and record 

keeping obligations. In accordance with 

40 CFR 280.34(c), these records should 

be kept either on-site or must be readily 

available at an alternative site and, thus, 

should be easy to locate. The 

information is routinely reviewed 

during inspections, but we believe there 

is suspected non-compliance that 

warrants additional collection and 

believe that these requests will 

encourage owners and operators to 

maintain regulatory compliance and 

will allow the R9 USTPO to better 

ensure compliance with regulatory 

requirements for those facilities. The R9 

USTPO seeks to continue this request 

for records from facilities indefinitely 

and would monitor whether our efforts 

to increase compliance are successful. 

Burden Statement: The annual public 

reporting and recordkeeping burden for 

this collection of information is 

estimated to average 2 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: 

Underground storage tank owners and 

operators within EPA Region 9 

(Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, 

Pacific Islands, 147 Tribes). 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

500. 

Frequency of Response: Annual. 

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 

1,000. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost: 

$29,025, includes $4,025 annualized 

capital or O&M costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: This is a 

new collection. 

Dated: March 1, 2011. 

John Moses, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division. 

[FR Doc. 2011–5049 Filed 3–4–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9276–3] 

A Method To Assess Climate-Relevant 

Decisions: Application in the 

Chesapeake Bay 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of cancellation of peerreview panel workshop. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing 

the cancellation of a March 11, 2011 

external peer review meeting of the draft 

document titled, ‘‘A Method to Assess 

Climate-Relevant Decisions: Application 

in the Chesapeake Bay’’ (EPA/600/R–10/ 

096a), announced earlier (76 FR 4345, 

January 25, 2011). EPA has received the 

written reviews from the external peer 

review members as well as public 

comments received during the public 

comment period from August 31 to 

November 1, 2010 (announced in 75 FR 

168, August 31, 2010). EPA has 

concluded that a public peer review 

meeting is not warranted as the 

comments from the peer reviewers and 

the public are not controversial or 

conflicting and can be readily 

accommodated. Consistent with EPA 

practices, we will post all of the peer 

reviewer’s comments and those of the 

public along with EPA’s responses 

when the final report is released 

publicly, within the next 120 days. 

DATES: March 11, 2011. The peer review 

panel workshop scheduled to begin at 

8:30 a.m. and end at 4 p.m. at the Navy 

League Building, 2300 Wilson 

Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22201, has 

been cancelled. 

Dated: February 28, 2011. 

Darrell A. Winner, 

Acting Director, National Center for 

Environmental Assessment. 

[FR Doc. 2011–5043 Filed 3–4–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

FARM CREDIT ADMINISTRATION 

Farm Credit Administration Board; 

Sunshine Act; Regular Meeting 

AGENCY: Farm Credit Administration. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given, 

pursuant to the Government in the 

Sunshine Act (5 U.S.C. 552b(e)(3)), of 

the regular meeting of the Farm Credit 

Administration Board (Board). 

DATE AND TIME: The regular meeting of 

the Board will be held at the offices of 

the Farm Credit Administration in 

McLean, Virginia, on March 10, 2011, 


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