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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: Federal law (CERCLA 

section 103(a) and CWA section 311) 

requires the person in charge of a 

facility or vessel to immediately notify 

the Federal government of a release of 

a reportable quantity or more of a 

hazardous substance into the 

environment and of an oil spill into U.S. 

navigable waters if the spill causes a 

sheen or violates applicable water 

quality standards. The reporting of 

hazardous substance releases and oil 

spills allows the Federal government to 

determine whether a response action is 

required to protect public health and the 

environment. Further, release 

information helps the Federal 

government evaluate the need for 

additional regulations and informs 

emergency response planners. 

Burden Statement: The annual public 

reporting and recordkeeping burden for 

this collection of information is 

estimated to average 4 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: Any 

facility that uses and could potentially 

release oil into the environment. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

24,041. 

Frequency of Response: On occasion. 

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 

98,568. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost: 

$3,121,796, includes $0 annualized 

capital or O&M costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is a 

decrease of 7,462 hours in the total 

estimated burden currently identified in 

the OMB Inventory of Approved ICR 

Burdens. The decrease is due to a 

projected continued decline in the 

number of reportable releases. 

Dated: January 6, 2011. 

John Moses, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OECA–2007–0468; FRL–9251–4] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to OMB for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; Environmental Impact 

Assessment of Nongovernmental 

Activities in Antarctica; EPA ICR No. 

1808.06, OMB Control No. 2020–0007 

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 February 11, 

2011. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OECA–2007–0468, to (1) EPA online 

using http://www.regulations.gov (our 

preferred method), by e-mail to 

docket.oeca.epa.gov or by mail to: EPA 

Docket Center, Environmental 

Protection Agency, Enforcement and 

Compliance Docket, Environmental 

Protection Agency, Mailcode: 2822T, 

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: 

Aimee Hessert, NEPA Compliance 

Division, Office of Federal Activities, 

2252A, Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20460; telephone 

number: 202–564–0993; fax number: 

202–564–0072; e-mail address: 

hessert.aimee@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 July 30, 2010, (75 FR 44944), EPA 

sought comments on this ICR pursuant 

to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received 1 

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–OECA–2007–0468, which is 

available for online viewing at http:// 

www.regulations.gov, or in person 

viewing at the Enforcement and 

Compliance Docket in the EPA Docket 

Center (EPA/DC), EPA West, Room 

3334, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC. The EPA/DC 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 Enforcement and Compliance 

Docket is 202–566–1511. 

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, confidential 

business information (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: Environmental Impact 

Assessment of Nongovernmental 

Activities in Antarctica. 

ICR numbers: EPA ICR No. [1808.06], 

OMB Control No. 2020–0007. 

ICR Status: This ICR is scheduled to 

expire on January 31, 2011. 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 

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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: The Environmental 

Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) regulations 

at 40 CFR part 8, Environmental Impact 

Assessment of Nongovernmental 

Activities in Antarctica (Rule), were 

promulgated pursuant to the Antarctic 

Science, Tourism, and Conservation Act 

of 1996 (Act), 16 U.S.C. 2401 et seq., as 

amended, 16 U.S.C. 2403a, which 

implements the Protocol on 

Environmental Protection (Protocol) to 

the Antarctic Treaty of 1959 (Treaty). 

The Rule provides for assessment of the 

environmental impacts of 

nongovernmental activities in 

Antarctica, including tourism, for which 

the United States is required to give 

advance notice under Paragraph 5 of 

Article VII of the Treaty, and for 

coordination of the review of 

information regarding environmental 

impact assessments received from other 

Parties under the Protocol. The 

requirements of the Rule apply to 

operators of nongovernmental 

expeditions organized or proceeding 

from the territory of the United States to 

Antarctica and include commercial and 

non-commercial expeditions. 

Expeditions may include ship-based 

tours; yacht, skiing or mountaineering 

expeditions; privately funded research 

expeditions; and other nongovernmental 

activities. The Rule does not apply to 

individual U.S. citizens or groups of 

citizens planning travel to Antarctica on 

an expedition for which they are not 

acting as an operator. The provisions of 

the Rule are intended to ensure that 

potential environmental effects of 

nongovernmental activities undertaken 

in Antarctica are appropriately 

identified and considered by the 

operator during the planning process 

and that to the extent practicable 

appropriate environmental safeguards 

which would mitigate or prevent 

adverse impacts on the Antarctic 

environment are identified by the 

operator. 

Environmental Documentation: 

Persons subject to the Rule must prepare 

environmental documentation to 

support the operator’s determination 

regarding the level of environmental 

impact of the proposed expedition. 

Environmental documentation includes 

a Preliminary Environmental Review 

Memorandum (PERM), an Initial 

Environmental Evaluation (IEE), or a 

Comprehensive Environmental 

Evaluation (CEE). The environmental 

document is submitted to the Office of 

Federal Activities (OFA). If the operator 

determines that an expedition may 

have: (1) Less than a minor or transitory 

impact, a PERM needs to be submitted 

no later than 180 days before the 

proposed departure to Antarctica; (2) no 

more than minor or transitory impacts, 

an IEE needs to be submitted no later 

than 90 days before the proposed 

departure; or (3) more than minor or 

transitory impacts, a CEE needs to be 

submitted. Operators who anticipate 

such activities are encouraged to consult 

with EPA as soon as possible regarding 

the date for submittal of the CEE. The 

Protocol and the Rule also require an 

operator to employ procedures to assess 

and provide a regular and verifiable 

record of the actual impacts of an 

activity which proceeds on the basis of 

an IEE or CEE. Moreover, an operator 

needs to monitor key environmental 

indicators for an activity proceeding on 

the basis of a CEE. An operator may also 

need to carry out monitoring in order to 

assess and verify the impact of an 

activity for which an IEE would be 

prepared. For activities that require an 

IEE, an operator should be able to use 

procedures currently being voluntarily 

utilized by operators to provide the 

required information. In cases of 

emergency related to the safety of 

human life or of ships, aircraft, 

equipment and facilities of high value, 

or the protection of the environment 

which would require an activity to be 

undertaken without completion of the 

documentation procedures set out in the 

Rule, the operator would need to notify 

the Department of State within 15 days 

of any activities which would have 

otherwise required preparation of a CEE, 

and provide a full explanation of the 

activities carried out within 45 days of 

those activities. Environmental 

documents (e.g., PERM, IEE, CEE) are 

submitted to OFA. Environmental 

documents are reviewed by OFA, in 

consultation with the National Science 

Foundation and other interested Federal 

agencies, and also made available to 

other Parties and the public as required 

under the Protocol or otherwise 

requested. 

Burden Statement: The annual public 

reporting and recordkeeping burden for 

this collection of information is 

estimated to average 1,708 hours 

annually, or 78 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: 

Nongovernmental operators with 

activities in Antarctica. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

22. 

Frequency of Response: Annual. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 1,708 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost: 

$136,675, includes $4,256 annualized 

capital or O&M costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is an 

increase of 45 hours in the total 

estimated burden currently identified in 

the OMB Inventory of Approved ICR 

Burdens. This increase is the result of a 

change in the type of environmental 

documentation EPA anticipates the 

respondents will submit. 

Dated: January 6, 2011. 

John Moses, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division. 

[FR Doc. 2011–498 Filed 1–11–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–ORD–2011–0970; FRL–9252–3] 

Human Studies Review Board; Notice 

of Public Meeting 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency (EPA or Agency) 

Office of the Science Advisor (OSA) 

announces a public meeting of the 

Human Studies Review Board (HSRB) to 

advise the Agency on EPA’s scientific 

and ethical reviews of research with 

human subjects. 

DATES: This public meeting will be held 

on January 26, 2011, from 

approximately 8:30 a.m. to 

approximately 5 p.m. Eastern Time. The 

meeting will be held at the 

Environmental Protection Agency, 

Conference Center—Lobby Level, One 

Potomac Yard (South Bldg.), 2777 S. 

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