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What is the next step in the process for 

this ICR? 

EPA will consider the comments 

received and amend the ICR as 

appropriate. The final ICR package will 

then be submitted to OMB for review 

and approval pursuant to 5 CFR 

1320.12. At that time, EPA will issue 

another Federal Register notice 

pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.5(a)(1)(iv) to 

announce the submission of the ICR to 

OMB and the opportunity to submit 

additional comments to OMB. If you 

have any questions about this ICR or the 

approval process, please contact the 

technical person listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. 

Dated: October 12, 2010. 

Peter Tsirigotis, 

Director, Sector Policies and Program 

Division. 

[FR Doc. 2010–26452 Filed 10–19–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OECA–2010–0413; FRL–9216–2; 

EPA ICR No. 0234.10; OMB Control No. 

2080–0021] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to OMB for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; Performance Evaluation 

Studies on Wastewater Laboratories 

(Renewal) 

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 November 19, 

2010. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OECA–2010–0413 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, Mailcode 28221T, 

1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20460, 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: 

Patrick Yellin, Office of Compliance, 

Agriculture Division, 2225A, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460; telephone number: 202–564– 

2970; fax number: 202–564–0085; e-mail 

address: yellin.patrick@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 16, 2010 (75 FR 34110), EPA 

sought comments on this ICR pursuant 

to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received no 

comments. 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–2010–0413, 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 202–566–1752. 

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: Performance Evaluation Studies 

on Wastewater Laboratories (Renewal). 

ICR numbers: EPA ICR No. 0234.10, 

OMB Control No. 2080–0021. 

ICR Status: This ICR is scheduled to 

expire on December 31, 2010. 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: Discharge Monitoring 

Report-Quality Assurance (DMR–QA) 

participation is mandatory for major and 

selected minor permit holders under the 

Clean Water Act’s National Pollution 

Discharge Elimination System (NPDES), 

Section 308. The DMR–QA study is 

designed to evaluate the analytic ability 

of the laboratories that perform 

chemical, microbiological and whole 

effluent toxicity (WET) analyses 

required in the NPDES permits for 

reporting results in the Discharge 

Monitoring Reports (DMR). Under 

DMR–QA, the permit holder is 

responsible: For having their in-house 

and/or contract laboratories perform 

proficiency test samples and submit 

results for grading by proficiency testing 

(PT) providers. Graded results are 

transmitted by either the permittee or 

PT provider to the appropriate Federal 

or State NPDES regulatory authority. 

Permit holders are responsible for 

submitting corrective action reports to 

the appropriate regulatory authority. 

Burden Statement: The annual public 

reporting and recordkeeping burden for 

this collection of information is 

estimated to average 6.3 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; 


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search data sources; complete and 

review the collection of information; 

and transmit or otherwise disclose the 

information. 

Respondents/Affected Entities: 

NPDES permittees designated by the 

EPA region or State with permitting 

responsibility and laboratories doing 

chemical/microbiological analysis and 

whole-effluent toxicity testing for these 

major dischargers. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

6,589. 

Frequency of Response: Annual. 

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 

41,511. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost: 

$2,461,426, includes $1,251,910 

annualized capital or O&M costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is a 

decrease of 5,840 hours in the total 

estimated burden currently identified in 

the OMB Inventory of Approved ICR 

Burdens. This decrease reflects EPA’s 

granting a waiver for four States to use 

their laboratory certification program as 

a substitute for the DMR–QA program. 

This resulted in a reduction in the 

average number of participants from 

7,516 to 6,589. The maintenance and 

operational cost has increased by 

$11,770 due to increased costs for 

obtaining proficiency testing samples. 

Dated: October 13, 2010. 

John Moses, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division. 

[FR Doc. 2010–26455 Filed 10–19–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2008–0842; FRL–8849–1] 

Methamidophos Registration Review 

Final Decision; Notice of Availability 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

availability of EPA’s final registration 

review decision for the pesticide, 

methamidophos, case 0043. Registration 

review is EPA’s periodic review of 

pesticide registrations to ensure that 

each pesticide continues to satisfy the 

statutory standard for registration, that 

is, that the pesticide can perform its 

intended function without causing 

unreasonable adverse effects on human 

health or the environment. Through this 

program, EPA is ensuring that each 

pesticide’s registration is based on 

current scientific and other knowledge, 

including its effects on human health 

and the environment. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

pesticide specific information, contact: 

K. Avivah Jakob, Pesticide Reevaluation Division (7508P), Office of 

Pesticide Programs, Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460– 

0001; telephone number: (703) 305– 

1328; fax number: (703) 308–8090; email address: jakob.kathryn@epa.gov. 

For general information on the 

registration review program, contact: 

Kevin Costello, Pesticide Re-evaluation 

Division (7508P), Office of Pesticide 

Programs, Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20460–0001; telephone 

number: (703) 305–5026; fax number: 

(703) 308–8090; e-mail address: 

costello.kevin @epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information 

A. Does this action apply to me? 

This action is directed to the public 

in general, and may be of interest to a 

wide range of stakeholders including 

environmental, human health, farm 

worker, and agricultural advocates; the 

chemical industry; pesticide users; and 

members of the public interested in the 

sale, distribution, or use of pesticides. 

Since others also may be interested, the 

Agency has not attempted to describe all 

the specific entities that may be affected 

by this action. If you have any questions 

regarding the applicability of this action 

to a particular entity, consult the 

pesticide specific contact person listed 

under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

B. How can I get copies of this document 

and other related information? 

EPA has established a docket for this 

action under docket identification (ID) 

number EPA–HQ–OPP–2008–0842. 

Publicly available docket materials are 

available either in the electronic docket 

at http://www.regulations.gov, or, if only 

available in hard copy, at the Office of 

Pesticide Programs (OPP) Regulatory 

Public Docket in Rm. S–4400, One 

Potomac Yard (South Bldg.), 2777 S. 

Crystal Dr., Arlington, VA. The hours of 

operation of this Docket Facility are 

from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, excluding legal 

holidays. The Docket Facility telephone 

number is (703) 305–5805. 

II. Background 

A. What action is the agency taking? 

Pursuant to 40 CFR 155.58(c), this 

notice announces the availability of 

EPA’s final registration review decision 

for methamidophos, case 0043. 

Methamidophos is a restricted use 

organophosphate insecticide, that as of 

2009 was registered for use on potato, 

cotton, tomato, and alfalfa grown for 

seed. However, in 2009, the sole 

methamidophos registrant, Bayer 

CropScience, informed the Agency that 

they were requesting to voluntarily 

cancel all of their remaining 

methamidophos product registrations. 

Following publication of a Federal 

Register notice announcing receipt of 

those requests and the completion of the 

corresponding public comment period, 

the Agency issued the product 

cancellation order on September 23, 

2009, for all methamidophos product 

registrations. Details of the cancellation 

dates can be found in the 

Methamidophos Registration Review 

Decision document. 

Pursuant to 40 CFR 155.57, a 

registration review decision is the 

Agency’s determination whether a 

pesticide meets, or does not meet, the 

standard for registration in FIFRA. EPA 

has considered methamidophos in light 

of the FIFRA standard for registration 

and has concluded the methamidophos 

registration review. No further action is 

needed as all registrations of 

methamidophos have been cancelled. 

The Methamidophos Final Decision 

document in the docket describes the 

Agency’s rationale for issuing a 

registration review final decision for 

this pesticide. 

In addition to the final registration 

review decision document, the 

registration review docket for 

methamidophos also includes other 

relevant documents related to the 

registration review of this case. The 

proposed registration review decision 

was posted to the docket and the public 

was invited to submit any comments or 

new information. During the 60-day 

comment period, no public comments 

were received. 

Pursuant to 40 CFR 155.58(c), the 

registration review case docket for 

methamidophos will remain open until 

all actions required in the final decision 

have been completed. 

Background on the registration review 

program is provided at: http:// 

www.epa.gov/oppsrrd1/ 

registration_review. Links to earlier 

documents related to the registration 

review of this pesticide are provided at: 

http://www.epa.gov/oppsrrd1/ 

registration_review/methamidophos/ 

index.htm. 

B. What is the agency’s authority for 

taking this action? 

Section 3(g) of FIFRA and 40 CFR part 

155, subpart C, provide authority for 

this action. 


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