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Burdens. This decrease is an adjustment 

to estimates based upon more widely 

available alternatives reducing the total 

number of users needing to keep records 

for alternatives subject to narrowed use 

limits.

Dated: October 26, 2004. 

Joseph A. Sierra, 

Acting Director, Collection Strategies 

Division.

[FR Doc. 04–24414 Filed 11–1–04; 8:45 am] 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[OECA–2004–0026; FRL–7832–5] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to OMB for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; Environmental Impact 

Assessment of Nongovernmental 

Activities in Antarctica (Renewal), EPA 

ICR Number 1808.04, OMB Control 

Number 2020–0007

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA).

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 October 31, 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 December 2, 

2004.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing docket ID number OECA–

2004–0026, to (1) EPA online using 

EDOCKET (our preferred method), by email to docket.oeca@epa.gov, or by mail 

to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental 

Protection Agency, Enforcement and 

Compliance Docket and Information 

Center, Mail Code 2201T, 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:

Katherine Biggs, Office of Federal 

Activities, Mail Code 2252A, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460; telephone number (202) 564–

7144; fax number: (202) 564–0072; email address: biggs.katherine@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 Friday, May 14, 2004 (69 FR 26814), 

EPA sought comments on this ICR 

pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA has 

addressed the comments received. 

EPA has established a public docket 

for this ICR under Docket ID No. OECA–

2004–0026, 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 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 Enforcement and Compliance 

Docket and Information Center is (202) 

564–1752. 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. 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, 

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: Environmental Impact 

Assessment of Nongovernmental 

Activities in Antarctica (Renewal). 

Abstract: The Environmental 

Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) regulations 

at 40 CFR part 8, Environmental Impact 

Assessment of Nongovernmental 

Activities in Antarctica (Final 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 requirements of the 

Final Rule apply to operators of 

nongovernmental expeditions organized 

in or proceeding from the territory of the 

United States to Antarctica and include 

commercial and non-commercial 

expeditions. 

Environmental Documentation.

Persons subject to the Final 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). 

The Protocol and the Final 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. 

The record developed through these 

measures needs to be designed to: (a) 

Enable assessments to be made of the 

extent to which environmental impacts 

of nongovernmental expeditions are 

consistent with the Protocol; and (b) 

provide information useful for 

minimizing and mitigating those 

impacts and, where appropriate, on the 

need for suspension, cancellation, or 

modification of the activity. 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. 

Should an activity require a CEE, the 

operator should consult with EPA to: (a) 

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Identify the monitoring regime 

appropriate to that activity, and (b) 

determine whether and how the 

operator might utilize relevant 

monitoring data collected by the U.S. 

Antarctic Program. OFA would consult 

with the National Science Foundation 

and other interested Federal agencies 

regarding the monitoring regime. 

In cases of emergency relating 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 

Final 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. 

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 of information is 

estimated to average 1,548 hours 

annually, or 70 hours per response. This 

hourly burden reflects annual 

submission of different levels of 

environmental documentation by an 

anticipated 22 respondents (e.g., U.S.-

based nongovernmental operators). 

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:

Entities potentially affected are all 

nongovernmental operators with 

activities in Antarctica, including tour 

operators. 

Estimated Number of Respondents:

22. 

Frequency of Response: Annually. 

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:

1,548. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost:

$124,000, includes $4,000 annualized 

capital or O&M costs and $120,000 

annual labor costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is an 

increase of 986 hours and $4,000 in the 

total estimated burden currently 

identified in the OMB Inventory of 

Approved ICR Burdens. This increased 

adjustment is the result of an increase 

in the number of respondents 

anticipated during the 3-year ICR 

renewal period and the level of 

environmental documentation EPA 

anticipates the respondents will submit.

Dated: October 26, 2004. 

Joseph A. Sierra, 

Acting Director, Collection Strategies 

Division.

[FR Doc. 04–24415 Filed 11–1–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[ORD–2004–0016, FRL–7832–9] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request; Application of 

Measures of Spontaneous Motor 

Activity for Behavioral Assessment in 

Human Infants, EPA ICR Number: 

2166.01

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 EPA is planning to submit a 

proposed Information Collection 

Request (ICR) to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB). This is 

a request for a new collection. Before 

submitting the ICR to OMB for review 

and approval, EPA is soliciting 

comments on specific aspects of the 

proposed information collection as 

described below.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before January 3, 2005.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing docket ID number ORD–

2004–0016, to EPA online using 

EDOCKET (our preferred method), by email to ord.docket@epa.gov, or by mail 

to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental 

Protection Agency, ORD Docket 28221–

T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20460.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Susan Auby, Environmental Protection 

Agency, Office of Information 

Collection, Mail Code 28221T, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 

566–1672; fax number: (202) 566–1753; 

e-mail address: auby.susan@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has 

established a public docket for this ICR 

under Docket ID number ORD–2004–

0016, which is available for public 

viewing at the Office of Research and 

Development 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 1752XXXX. 

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 within 60 

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, 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.

Affected Entities: Entities potentially 

affected by this action are families with 

children between 4 and 14 months of 

age residing in the Research Triangle 

Park, NC area.