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Abstract: The affected entities are 

subject to the General Provisions of the 

NESHAP at 40 CFR part 63, subpart A, 

and any changes, or additions to the 

Provisions specified at 40 CFR part 63, 

subpart NNNNN. 

Owners or operators of the affected 

facilities must submit initial 

notification, performance tests, and 

periodic reports and results. Owners or 

operators are also required to maintain 

records of the occurrence and duration 

of any startup, shutdown, or 

malfunction in the operation of an 

affected facility, or any period during 

which the monitoring system is 

inoperative. Reports, at a minimum, are 

required semiannually. 

Burden Statement: The annual public 

reporting and recordkeeping burden for 

this collection of information is 

estimated to average 565 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: 

Owners or operators of hydrochloric 

acid production facilities. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

81. 

Frequency of Response: Initially, 

occasionally, and semiannually. 

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 

105,033. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost: 

$10,789,637, which includes 

$10,086,076 in labor costs, $1,424 in 

capital/startup costs, and $702,137 in 

operation and maintenance (O&M) 

costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is an 

increase in burden hours to the 

respondent as compared to the most 

recently approved ICR. The increase is 

due to industry growth in the past three 

years, resulting in additional number of 

respondents that are subject to this 

standard, and corrections to 

mathematical errors found in the 

previous ICR. The growth in respondent 

universe also results in an increase in 

the total O&M costs. 

In addition, there is an increase in 

burden costs to both the respondent and 

the Agency due to an adjustment in 

labor rates. This ICR uses the most 

recent labor rates from the Bureau of 

Labor Statistics in calculating the labor 

costs. 

There is a decrease in capital/startup 

costs in this ICR as compared to the 

most recently approved ICR. The 

previous ICR includes startup costs for 

all existing and new respondents. This 

ICR was updated to correctly reflect 

capital/startup costs associated with 

new sources only. 

John Moses, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division. 

[FR Doc. 2012–22405 Filed 9–11–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OAR–2003–0162; FRL 9521–6] 

Information Collection Request 

Submitted to OMB for Review and 

Approval; Comment Request; Regional 

Haze Regulations (Renewal) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency has submitted an information 

collection request (ICR), ‘‘Regional Haze 

Regulations’’ (EPA ICR No. 1813.08, 

OMB Control No. 2060–0421), to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and approval in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). 

This is a proposed extension of the ICR, 

which is currently approved through 

October 31, 2012. Public comments 

were previously requested via the 

Federal Register (77 FR 24952) on April 

26, 2012, during a 60-day comment 

period. This notice allows for an 

additional 30 days for public comments. 

A fuller description of the ICR is given 

below, including its estimated burden 

and cost to the public. 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. 

DATES: Additional comments may be 

submitted on or before October 12, 

2012. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OAR–2003–0162, to (1) EPA online 

using www.regulations.gov (our 

preferred method), by email to : a-andr-docket@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA 

Docket Center, Environmental 

Protection Agency, Mail Code 28221T, 

1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., 

Washington, DC 20460, and (2) OMB via 

email to oira_submission@omb.eop.gov. 

Address comments to OMB Desk Officer 

for EPA. 

The EPA’s policy is that all comments 

received will be included in the public 

docket without change including any 

personal information provided, unless 

the comment includes profanity, threats, 

information claimed to be Confidential 

Business Information (CBI) or other 

information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Gobeail McKinley (919) 541–5246, 

mckinley.gobeail@epa.gov, Office of Air 

Quality Planning and Standards, Air 

Quality Policy Division, Mail Code 

C539–04, Research Triangle Park, NC 

27711. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Supporting documents, which explain 

in detail the information that the EPA 

will be collecting, are available in the 

public docket for this ICR. The docket 

can be viewed online at 

www.regulations.gov or in person at the 

EPA Docket Center, EPA West, Room 

3334, 1301 Constitution Avenue NW., 

Washington, DC The telephone number 

for the Docket Center is 202–566–1744. 

For additional information about EPA’s 

public docket, visit http://www.epa.gov/ 

dockets. 

Abstract: This ICR is for activities 

related to the implementation of the 

EPA’s 1999 regional haze rule, for the 

time period between October 31, 2012 

and October 30, 2015, and renews the 

previous ICR. The regional haze rule, as 

authorized by sections 169A and 169B 

of the Clean Air Act (CAA), requires 

states to develop implementation plans 

to protect visibility in 156 federallyprotected Class I areas. Tribes may 

choose to develop implementation 

plans. For this time period, states will 

be completing their implementation 

plans to comply with the rule. Before 

any agency, department, or 

instrumentality of the federal 

government engages in, supports in any 

way, provides financial assistance for, 

licenses, permits, or approves any 

activity, that agency has the affirmative 

responsibility to ensure that such action 

conforms to the State Implementation 

Plan (SIP) required under the regional 

haze rule. Section 176(c) of the CAA 

requires that all Federal actions conform 

with the SIP requirements. Depending 

on the type of action, the federal entities 

must collect information themselves, 

hire consultants to collect the 

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information or require applicants/ 

sponsors of the federal action to provide 

the information. 

Respondents/affected entities: Entities 

potentially affected by this action are 

state, local, and tribal air quality 

agencies, regional planning 

organizations and facilities potentially 

regulated under the regional haze rule. 

Respondents/affected entities: States 

and Federal Land Managers. 

Respondent’s obligation to respond: 

Mandatory. 

Estimated number of respondents: 53. 

Frequency of response: Annual. 

Total estimated burden: 6,048 hours. 

Total estimated cost: $293,631. This 

includes an estimated labor cost of 

$293,631 and an estimated cost of $0 for 

capital investment or maintenance and 

operational costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is a 

decrease of 25,793 hours in the total 

estimated burden currently identified in 

the OMB Inventory of Approved ICR 

Burdens. The last collection request 

anticipated the program progressing 

from the planning stages to 

implementation. The change in burden 

reflects changes in labor rates, changes 

in the activities conducted due to the 

normal progression of the program, and 

the fact that the aggregate initial 

regional haze SIPs and best available 

retrofit technology (BART) 

determinations will be acted on by the 

EPA by November 2012 and the states 

will be evaluating reasonable progress 

and implementation stages for the goals 

in those SIPs. 

John Moses, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division. 

[FR Doc. 2012–22404 Filed 9–11–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–ORD–2012–9727–3] 

Notification of an External Peer Review 

Meeting for the Draft Framework for 

Human Health Risk Assessment to 

Inform Decision Making 

AGENCY: U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency. 

ACTION: Notice of an external peer 

review meeting. 

SUMMARY: The EPA Office of the Science 

Advisor announces that Versar, Inc., a 

contractor to the EPA, will convene an 

independent panel of experts to review 

the draft document, Framework for 

Human Health Risk Assessment to 

Inform Decision Making. Any member 

of the public may register to attend this 

peer review meeting as an observer. 

Time will be set aside for observers to 

give brief oral comments on the draft 

document at the meeting. The draft 

document is available via the internet 

on the Risk Assessment Forum web 

page (http://www.epa.gov/raf/ 

frameworkhhra.htm). 

DATES: The peer review panel meeting 

on the draft document, Framework for 

Human Health Risk Assessment to 

Inform Decision Making will be held on 

October 9, 2012, from 9:00 a.m. to 

approximately 5:00 p.m. Eastern 

Daylight Time, with registration 

beginning at 8:30 a.m. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Hyatt Regency Crystal City, 2799 

Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, VA 

22202. 

Internet: The draft document can be 

downloaded from http://www.epa.gov/ 

raf/frameworkhhra.htm. 

Instructions: To attend the peer 

review meeting as an observer, register 

no later than October 2, 2012 by calling 

Kathy Coon at Versar, Inc., on (703) 

750–3000 ext. 545 or toll free on (800) 

283–7727; sending a facsimile to (703) 

642–6809 (subject line: HHRA 

Framework Meeting; and include your 

name, title, affiliation, full address and 

contact information in the body of the 

facsimile), or sending an email to 

saundkat@versar.com (subject line: 

HHRA Framework Meeting; and include 

your name, title, affiliation, full address 

and contact information in the body of 

the email). Space is limited, and 

registrations will be accepted on a firstcome, first-served basis. There will be a 

limited time for comments from the 

public at the peer review meeting. 

Please inform Versar, Inc., in your 

registration request, if you wish to make 

oral comments during the meeting. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Julie 

Fitzpatrick, Office of the Science 

Advisor, Mail Code 8105–R, U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, 

DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 

564–4212; fax number: (202) 564–2070, 

email: fitzpatrick.julie@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The EPA 

has an established history of conducting 

human health risk assessments. The 

final Framework is intended to foster 

increased implementation of existing 

agency guidance for conducting human 

health risk assessments and improve the 

utility of risk assessment in the 

decision-making process. 

In developing the draft Framework, 

the relevant recommendations 

presented in the National Research 

Council’s report Science and Decisions: 

Advancing Risk Assessment have been 

taken into consideration. Specifically, 

the recommendations that the EPA 

formalize and implement planning, 

scoping and problem formulation early 

in the risk assessment process and that 

the agency adopt a framework for riskbased decision-making are included in 

this Framework. 

The draft Framework highlights the 

important roles of planning and scoping 

as well as problem formulation in 

designing a human health risk 

assessment process. In accord with longstanding agency policy, it also 

emphasizes the importance of both 

scientific review and public 

involvement. The Framework presents 

the concept of ‘‘fit for purpose’’ to 

address the development of risk 

assessments and associated products 

that are for informing risk management 

decisions. The final Framework will 

also highlight the agency’s emphasis on 

the importance of transparency in 

human health risk assessment and 

decision-making processes. 

This document is not intended to 

supersede existing agency guidance; 

instead, by citing and discussing 

existing guidance in the context of the 

proposed framework, it is intended to 

foster more effective implementation of 

that guidance. 

The EPA previously announced the 

release of the draft Framework for a 60 

day comment period (77 FR 44613), 

which ends on September 28, 2012. 

Public comments submitted during the 

public comment period may be viewed 

at http://www.regulations.gov under 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD–2012– 

0579. The EPA will forward all public 

comments to Versar, Inc., for 

distribution to the members of the 

review panel. The external review draft 

does not represent agency policy. As it 

finalizes the draft document, the EPA 

intends to consider the comments from 

the external peer review meeting, along 

with public comments received by 

September 28, 2012, in accordance with 

77 FR 44613. 

Dated: September 6, 2012. 

Glenn Paulson, 

Science Advisor. 

[FR Doc. 2012–22453 Filed 9–11–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2009–1017; FRL–9359–1] 

Product Cancellation Order for Certain 

Pesticide Registrations 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

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