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contain the policy and establish the 

procedures that BPA uses in the 

solicitation, award, and administration 

of its purchases of goods and services, 

including construction, are available in 

printed form for $30, or without charge 

at the following Internet address: http:/

/www.bpa.gov/Corporate/kgp/bpi/

bpi.htm. Copies of the Bonneville 

Financial Assistance Instructions 

(BFAI), which contain the policy and 

establish the procedures that BPA uses 

in the solicitation, award, and 

administration of financial assistance 

instruments (principally grants and 

cooperative agreements), are available in 

printed form for $15 each, or available 

without charge at the following Internet 

address: http://www.bpa.gov/Corporate/

kgp/bfai/bfai.htm.

ADDRESSES: Unbound copies of the BPI 

or BFAI may be obtained by sending a 

check for the proper amount to the Head 

of the Contracting Activity, Routing CK–

1, Bonneville Power Administration, 

P.O. Box 3621, Portland, Oregon 97208–

3621.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Manager, Corporate Communications, 

1–800–622–4519.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: BPA was 

established in 1937 as a Federal Power 

Marketing Agency in the Pacific 

Northwest. BPA operations are financed 

from power revenues rather than annual 

appropriations. BPA’s purchasing 

operations are conducted under 16 

U.S.C. 832 et seq. and related statutes. 

Pursuant to these special authorities, the 

BPI is promulgated as a statement of 

purchasing policy and as a body of 

interpretative regulations governing the 

conduct of BPA purchasing activities. It 

is significantly different from the 

Federal Acquisition Regulation, and 

reflects BPA’s private sector approach to 

purchasing the goods and services that 

it requires. BPA’s financial assistance 

operations are conducted under 16 

U.S.C. 832 et seq., and 16 U.S.C. 839 et 

seq. The BFAI express BPA’s financial 

assistance policy. The BFAI also 

comprise BPA’s rules governing 

implemenation of the principles 

provided in the following OMB 

circulars: 

A–21 Cost Principles for 

Educational Institutions. 

A–87 Cost Principles for State, Local 

and Indian Tribal Governments. 

A–102 Grants and Cooperative 

Agreements with State and Local 

Governments. 

A–110 Uniform Administrative 

Requirements for Grants and Other 

Agreements with Institutions of Higher 

Education, Hospitals and Other NonProfit Organizations 

A–122 Cost Principles for Non-Profit 

Organizations. 

A–133 Audits of States, Local 

Governments and Non-Profit 

Organizations. 

BPA’s solicitations and contracts 

include notice of applicability and 

availability of the BPI and the BFAI, as 

appropriate, for the information of 

offerors on particular purchases or 

financial assistance transactions.

Issued in Portland, Oregon, on August 27, 

2004. 

Kenneth R. Berglund, 

Manager, Contracts and Property 

Management.

[FR Doc. 04–22844 Filed 10–8–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6550–01–M

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[RCRA–2004–0007; FRL–7826–5 ] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to OMB for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; Identification, Listing and 

Rulemaking Petitions (Renewal), EPA 

ICR Number 1189.14, OMB Control 

Number 2050–0053

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (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. This ICR is scheduled to 

expire on November 30, 2004. Under 

OMB regulations, the Agency may 

continue to conduct or sponsor the 

collection of information while this 

submission is pending at OMB. This ICR 

describes the nature of the information 

collection and its expected burden and 

cost.

DATES: Additional comments may be 

submitted on or before November 12, 

2004.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing docket ID number RCRA–

2004–0007, to (1) EPA online using 

EDOCKET (our preferred method), by 

email to rcra-docket@epa.gov, or by 

mail to: EPA Docket Center, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 

Resource Conservation and Recovery 

Act (RCRA) Docket, Mail Code 5305T, 

1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20460, and (2) OMB at: 

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:

Narendra Chaudhari, Office of Solid 

Waste, Mail Code 5304W, U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460; telephone number: (703)308–

0454; fax number: (703)308–0514; email 

address: chaudhari.narendra@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 10, 2004 (69 FR 32545), EPA 

sought comments on this ICR pursuant 

to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received no 

comments on this ICR. 

EPA has established a public docket 

for this ICR under Docket ID number 

RCRA–2004–0007, which is available 

for public viewing at the RCRA Docket 

in the EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), 

EPA West, Room B102, 1301 

Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC. The EPA Docket Center Public 

Reading Room is open from 8:30 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 RCRA Docket is 

(202)566–0270. An electronic version of 

the public docket is available through 

EPA Dockets (EDOCKET) at http://

www.epa.gov/edocket. Use EDOCKET to 

obtain a copy of the draft collection of 

information, submit or view public 

comments, access the index listing of 

the contents of the public docket, and to 

access those documents in the public 

docket that are available electronically. 

Once in the system, select ‘‘search,’’

then key in the docket ID number 

identified above. 

Any comments related to this ICR 

should be submitted to EPA and OMB 

within 30 days of this notice. EPA’s 

policy is that public comments, whether 

submitted electronically or in paper, 

will be made available for public 

viewing in EDOCKET 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. When 

EPA identifies a comment containing 

copyrighted material, EPA will provide 

a reference to that material in the 

version of the comment that is placed in 

EDOCKET. The entire printed comment, 

including the copyrighted material, will 

be available in the public docket. 

Although identified as an item in the 

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official docket, information claimed as 

CBI, or whose disclosure is otherwise 

restricted by statute, is not included in 

the official public docket, and will not 

be available for public viewing in 

EDOCKET. For further information 

about the electronic docket, see EPA’s 

Federal Register notice describing the 

electronic docket at 67 FR 38102 (May 

31, 2002), or go to www.epa.gov/

epadocket. 

Title: Identification, Listing and 

Rulemaking Petitions (Renewal). 

Abstract: Under 40 CFR 260.20(b), all 

rulemaking petitioners must submit 

basic information with their 

demonstrations, including name, 

address, and statement of interest in the 

proposed action. Under § 260.21, all 

petitioners for equivalent testing or 

analytical methods must include 

specific information in their petitions 

and demonstrate to the satisfaction of 

the Administrator that the proposed 

method is equal to, or superior to, the 

corresponding method in terms of its 

sensitivity, accuracy, and 

reproducibility. Under § 260.22, 

petitions to amend part 261 to exclude 

a waste produced at a particular facility 

(more simply, to delist a waste) must 

meet extensive informational 

requirements. When a petition is 

submitted, the Agency reviews 

materials, deliberates, publishes its 

tentative decision in the Federal 

Register, and requests public comment. 

EPA also may hold informal public 

hearings (if requested by an interested 

person or at the discretion of the 

Administrator) to hear oral comments 

on its tentative decision. After 

evaluating all comments, EPA publishes 

its final decision in the Federal 

Register.

40 CFR 260.30–260.31, and 260.33 

comprise the standards, criteria, and 

procedures for variances from 

classification as a solid waste for three 

types of materials, materials that are 

collected speculatively without 

sufficient amounts being recycled; 

materials that are reclaimed and then 

reused within the original primary 

production process in which they were 

generated; and materials which have 

been reclaimed, but must be reclaimed 

further before the materials are 

completely recovered. Under 40 CFR 

260.32 and 260.33 are regulations 

governing the procedures and criteria 

for obtaining a variance for 

classification as a boiler. This variance 

is available to owners or operators of 

enclosed flame combustion devices. 

40 CFR 261.3 and 261.4 contain 

provisions that allow generators to 

obtain a hazardous waste exclusion for 

certain types of wastes. Facilities 

applying for these exclusions must 

submit a notification, or supporting 

information and/or keep detailed 

records. Under § 261.3(a)(2)(iv), 

generators may obtain a hazardous 

waste exclusion for wastewater mixtures 

subject to Clean Water Act regulation. 

Under § 261.3(c)(2)(ii)(C), generators 

may obtain an exclusion for certain nonwastewater residues resulting from high 

temperature metals recovery (HTMR) 

processing of K061, K062 and F006 

waste. Also, under § 261.4(a)(20)(ii)(A), 

generators and intermediate handlers 

may obtain a hazardous waste exclusion 

for zinc-bearing hazardous secondary 

materials that are to be incorporated 

into zinc fertilizers. In addition, under 

§ 261.4(b)(6), generators of chromiumcontaining waste may obtain a 

hazardous waste exclusion under 

certain conditions. 

Also addressed under this section is 

the shipment of samples between 

generators and laboratories for the 

purpose of testing to determine their 

characteristics or composition. Sample 

handlers who are not subject to the 

Department of Transportation (DOT) or 

the United States Postal Service (USPS) 

shipping requirements must comply 

with the information requirements of 

§ 261.4(d)(2). 

When intended for treatability 

studies, hazardous waste otherwise 

subject to regulation under Subtitle C of 

the Resource Conservation and 

Recovery Act (RCRA) is exempted from 

these regulations, provided that the 

requirements in § 261.4(e)–(f) are met, 

including the following information 

requests: initial notification, record 

keeping, reporting, and final 

notification. In addition, generators and 

collectors of treatability study samples 

also may request quantity limit 

increases and time extensions, as 

specified in § 261.4(e)(3). 

40 CFR 261.31(b)(2)(ii) governs 

procedures and informational 

requirements for generators and 

treatment, storage and disposal facilities 

to obtain exemptions from listing as 

F037 and F038 wastes. Also under this 

section are regulations promulgated in 

1990 under § 261.35(b) and (c) 

governing procedures and information 

requirements for the cleaning or 

replacement of all process equipment 

that may have come into contact with 

chlorophenolic formulations or 

constituents thereof, including, but not 

limited to, treatment cylinders, sumps, 

tanks, piping systems, drip pads, fork 

lifts, and trams. 

EPA anticipates that some data 

provided by respondents will be 

claimed as Confidential Business 

Information (CBI). Respondents may 

make a business confidentiality claim 

by marking the appropriate data as CBI. 

Respondents may not withhold 

information from the Agency because 

they believe it is confidential. 

Information so designated will be 

disclosed by EPA only to the extent set 

forth in 40 CFR part 2. 

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 40 

CFR are listed in 40 CFR part 9 and are 

identified on the form and/or 

instrument, if applicable. 

Burden Statement: The annual public 

reporting and recordkeeping burden for 

this collection varies depending on the 

type of petition or demonstration. For 

example, it is estimated that the average 

reporting burden per respondent ranges 

from 0.00 hours (equipment cleaning 

and replacement) to 788 hours 

(preparation of a delisting petition). The 

average recordkeeping burden per 

respondent ranges from 63.75 hours 

(equipment cleaning and replacement) 

to 1.75 hours (delisting petition). 

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; 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:

Business. 

Estimated Number of Respondents:

155. 

Frequency of Response: Varies. 

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:

21,511 hours. 

Estimated Total Annualized Cost 

Burden: $2,206,000, includes $895,000 

annualized capital/startup or O&M 

costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is an 

increase of 701 hours in the total 

estimated burden currently identified in 

the OMB Inventory of Approved ICR 

Burdens. This increase is due primarily 

to respondents submitting a greater 

number of relatively more complex 

delisting petitions to EPA, which 

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require collection of additional 

information and more time to prepare 

the petitions. The burden increase is an 

adjustment to the existing estimates 

based on data gathered through 

consultations with EPA Regional Offices 

and the regulated community and not a 

result of program changes.

Dated: September 28, 2004. 

Oscar Morales, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division.

[FR Doc. 04–22872 Filed 10–8–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[OECA–2004–0015; FRL–7826–4] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission for OMB Review 

and Approval; Comment Request; 

NSPS for Hospital/Medical/Infectious 

Waste Incinerators (40 CFR part 60, 

subpart Ec) (Renewal), ICR Number 

1730.04, OMB Number 2060–0363

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act, 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. This ICR is scheduled to 

expire on November 30, 2004. Under 

OMB regulations, the Agency may 

continue to conduct or sponsor the 

collection of information while this 

submission is pending at OMB. This ICR 

describes the nature of the information 

collection and its estimated burden and 

cost.

DATES: Additional comments may be 

submitted on or before November 12, 

2004.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing docket ID number OECA–

2004–0015, to (1) EPA online using 

EDOCKET (our preferred method), by 

email to docket.oeca@epa.gov, or by 

mail to: Environmental Protection 

Agency, EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), 

Enforcement and Compliance Docket 

and Information Center, Mail Code 

2201T, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, 

NW., Washington, DC 20460, and (2) 

OMB at: 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:

Learia Williams, Compliance 

Assessment and Media Programs 

Division, Office of Compliance, (Mail 

Code 2223A), Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, 

NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone 

number: (202) 564–4113; fax number: 

(202) 564–0050; e-mail address: 

williams.learia@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 May 25, 2004 (69 FR 29718), EPA 

sought comments on this ICR pursuant 

to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received no 

comments. 

EPA has established a public docket 

for this ICR under Docket ID No. OECA–

2004–0015, which is available for public 

viewing at the Enforcement and 

Compliance Docket and Information 

Center in the EPA Docket Center (EPA/

DC), EPA West, Room B102, 1301 

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, 

DC. The EPA Docket Center Public 

Reading Room is open from 8:30 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 and Information Center Docket 

is: (202) 566–1752. An electronic 

version of the public docket is available 

through EPA Dockets (EDOCKET) at 

http://www.epa.gov/edocket. Use 

EDOCKET to submit or view public 

comments, access the index listing of 

the contents of the public docket, and to 

access those documents in the public 

docket that are available electronically. 

When in the system, select ‘‘search,’’

then key in the docket ID number 

identified above. 

Any comments related to this ICR 

should be submitted to EPA and OMB 

within 30 days of this notice. EPA’s 

policy is that public comments, whether 

submitted electronically or in paper, 

will be made available for public 

viewing in EDOCKET 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. When 

EPA identifies a comment containing 

copyrighted material, EPA will provide 

a reference to that material in the 

version of the comment that is placed in 

EDOCKET. The entire printed comment, 

including the copyrighted material, will 

be available in the public docket. 

Although identified as an item in the 

official docket, information claimed as 

CBI, or whose disclosure is otherwise 

restricted by statute, is not included in 

the official public docket, and will not 

be available for public viewing in 

EDOCKET. For further information 

about the electronic docket, see EPA’s 

Federal Register notice describing the 

electronic docket at 67 FR 38102 (May 

31, 2002), or go to http://www.epa.gov/

edocket.

Title: NSPS for Hospital/Medical/

Infectious Waste Incinerators (40 CFR 

part 60, subpart Ec) (Renewal). 

Abstract: The New Source 

Performance Standards (NSPS) for 

Hospital/Medical/Infectious Waste 

Incinerators (HMIWI), burning hospital 

waste and/or medical infectious waste, 

are subject to specific reporting and 

recordkeeping requirements. 

Notification reports are required upon 

the construction, reconstruction, or 

modification of an HMIWI. Also, 

required are one-time-only reports of 

initial performance test data and 

continuous measurements of sitespecific operating parameters. Annual 

compliance reports are required on a 

variety of site-specific operating 

parameters, including exceedance of 

applicable limits. Semiannual 

compliance reports of emission rates or 

operating parameter data that were not 

obtained when exceedances of 

applicable limits occurred are also 

required. Affected entities must retain 

reports and records for five years under 

40 CFR part 60, subpart Ec and 40 CFR 

part 60, subpart A—General Provisions.

Co-fired combustors and incinerators 

burning only pathological, low-level 

radioactive, and/or chemotherapeutic 

waste are required to submit notification 

reports of an exemption claim, and an 

estimate of the relative amounts of 

waste and fuels to be combusted. These 

co-fired combustors and incinerators are 

also required to maintain records on a 

calendar quarter basis, of the weight of 

hospital waste combusted, the weight of 

medical/infectious waste combusted, 

and the weight of all other fuels and 

waste combusted. 

All reports required under NSPS and 

the General Provisions are submitted to 

the respondent’s state, tribal, or a local 

agency, whichever has been delegated 

enforcement authority by the EPA. The 

information is used by the EPA solely to 

determine that all sources subject to the 

NSPS are in compliance, and that the 

control system installed to comply with 

the standards is being properly operated 

and maintained. Based on reported 

information, EPA can decide which 

facilities should be inspected and what 

records or processes should be 

inspected at the facilities. The records 

that the owner/operators maintain 

would indicate to EPA whether facility