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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 

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personnel are operating and maintaining 

control equipment properly. The NSPS 

for HMIWIs requires initial 

notifications, performance tests, and 

periodic reports. Owners or operators 

are also required to maintain records of 

the occurrence and duration of any 

start-up, shutdown, or malfunction in 

the operation of an affected facility, or 

any period during which the monitoring 

system is inoperative. These 

notifications, reports, and records are 

essential in determining compliance 

and are required of all sources subject 

to NSPS. 

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 are listed 

in 40 CFR part 9 and 48 CFR chapter 15, 

and are identified on the form and/or 

instrument, if applicable. 

Burden Statement: The annual public 

reporting and recordkeeping burden for 

this collection of information are 

estimated to average 145 hours per 

response. Burdens 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:

Facilities burning hospital waste and/or 

medical infectious waste. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 7. 

Frequency of Response: Initially, 

annually, semiannually, on occasion. 

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:

4,795 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Costs:

$327,929, which includes $2,000 

annualized capital/startup costs, 

$20,000 annual O&M costs, and 

$305,929 annual labor costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is an 

increase of two hundred and fifty-four 

hours in the total estimated burden 

currently identified in the OMB 

Inventory of Approved ICR Burdens. 

This is primarily due to an increase in 

the number of sources.

Dated: September 22, 2004. 

Oscar Morales, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division.

[FR Doc. 04–22873 Filed 10–8–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[OPP–2003–0357, FRL–7826–3] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to OMB; 

Comment Request; EPA ICR No. 

0155.08; OMB Control No. 2070–0029; 

Certification of Pesticide Applicators

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 the following 

Information Collection Request (ICR) 

has been forwarded to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and approval: Certification of 

Pesticide Applicators; EPA ICR No. 

0155.08; OMB Control No. 2070–0029. 

The ICR, which is abstracted below, 

describes the nature of the information 

collection activity and its expected 

burden and costs.

DATES: Additional comments may be 

submitted on or before November 12, 

2004.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Nathanael Martin, Field and External 

Affairs Division (7506C), Office of 

Pesticide Programs, Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460; 

telephone number: (703) 305–6475; fax 

number: (703) 305–5884; e-mail address: 

martin.nathanael@epa.gov.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing docket ID number OPP–

2003–0357, to (1) EPA online using 

EDOCKET (our preferred method), by 

email to opp-docket@epa.gov, or by mail 

to: Public Information and Records 

Integrity Branch (PIRIB), Office of 

Pesticide Programs (OPP), 

Environmental Protection Agency, 

Mailcode: 7502C, 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.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has 

submitted the following ICR to OMB for 

review and approval according to the 

procedures prescribed in 5 CFR 1320.12. 

The Federal Register document, 

required under 5 CFR 1320.8(d), 

soliciting comments on this collection 

of information was published on March 

31, 2004 (69 FR 16917). EPA received 

three comments on this ICR during the 

60-day comment period and they are 

addressed in the ICR. 

EPA has established a public docket 

for this ICR under Docket ID No. OPP–

2003–0357, which is available for public 

viewing at the Public Information and 

Records Integrity Branch (PIRIB), Rm. 

119, Crystal Mall #2, 1801 Bell St., 

Arlington, VA. This docket facility is 

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

through Friday, excluding legal 

holidays. The docket telephone number 

is (703) 305–5805. 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. 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. Please 

note, EPA’s policy is that public 

comments, whether submitted 

electronically or on paper, will be made 

available for public viewing in 

EDOCKET as EPA receives them and 

without change, unless the comment 

contains copyrighted material, 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 www.epa.gov/

edocket.

ICR Title: Certification of Pesticide 

Applicators 

ICR Status: This is a request for 

extension of an existing approved 

collection that is currently scheduled to 

expire on October 31, 2004. EPA is 

asking OMB to approve this ICR for