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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Steven D. Giordano, Office of Water, 

4504T, Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20460; telephone 

number: (202) 566–1272; fax number: 

(202) 566–1546; e-mail address: 

giordano.steven@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 August 26, 2004 (69 FR 52505), 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. OW–

2004–0030, which is available for public 

viewing at the Water 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 Water 

Docket is (202) 566–2426. 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: Establishing No-Discharge 

Zones (NDZs) Under Clean Water Act 

Section 312 (Renewal). 

Abstract: (A) Sewage No-discharge 

Zones: The need for EPA to obtain 

information for the establishment of nodischarge zones (NDZs) for vessel 

sewage in State waters stems from CWA 

sections 312(f)(3), (f)(4)(A), and (f)(4)(B), 

and subsequent regulations at 40 CFR 

140.4(a–c). NDZs are established to 

provide State and local governments 

with additional protection of waters 

from treated or untreated vessel sewage. 

There are 3 ways in which NDZs for 

vessel sewage can be established. This 

ICR discusses the information 

requirements associated with the 

establishment of NDZs for vessel 

sewage. The responses to this collection 

of information are required to obtain the 

benefit of a sewage NDZ (see 33 U.S.C. 

1322). The information collection 

activities discussed in this ICR do not 

require the submission of any 

confidential information. 

(B) UNDS No-discharge Zones: Under 

section 312(n) of the Clean Water Act 

(‘‘Uniform National Discharge Standards 

for Vessels of the Armed Forces’’ or 

‘‘UNDS’’) NDZs for discharges from 

Armed Forces vessels may be 

established by either State prohibition 

or EPA prohibition following the 

procedures in 40 CFR part 1700. UNDS 

also provides that the Governor of any 

State may petition EPA and the 

Secretary of Defense to review any 

determination or standard promulgated 

under the UNDS program if there is 

significant new information that could 

reasonably result in a change to the 

determination or standard. This ICR 

discusses the information that will be 

required from a State if it decides to 

establish a NDZ by State prohibition or 

apply for a NDZ by EPA prohibition, 

and the information that will be 

required from a State if it decides to 

submit a petition for review. The 

responses to this collection of 

information are required to obtain the 

benefit of an UNDS NDZ or a review of 

an UNDS determination or standard (see 

33 U.S.C. 1322(n)). The information 

collection activities discussed in this 

ICR do not require the submission of 

any confidential information. 

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 138 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; 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 by this 

action are State, Tribal, and local 

governments. 

Estimated Number of Respondents:

16. 

Frequency of Response: One-time 

reporting. 

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:

2,207. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost:

$87,000, which includes $2,000 

annualized capital or O&M costs and 

$85,000 annual labor costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is no 

change in the total estimated burden 

currently identified in the OMB 

Inventory of Approved ICR Burdens.

Dated: October 26, 2004. 

Joseph A. Sierra, 

Acting Director, Collection Strategies 

Division.

[FR Doc. 04–24413 Filed 11–1–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[OAR–2004–0077; FRL–7833–1] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to OMB for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; Significant New Alternatives 

Policy (SNAP) (Renewal), EPA ICR 

Number 1596.06, OMB Control Number 

2060–0226

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

3501 et seq.), this notice announces that 

the following 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. The ICR describes the 

nature of the information collection and 

its expected burden and cost.

DATES: Additional comments may be 

submitted on or before December 2, 

2004.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing docket ID number OAR–

2004–0077, to (1) EPA online using 

EDOCKET (our preferred method), by email to a-and-r-Docket@epa.gov, or by 

mail to: Environmental Protection 

Agency, EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), 

Air and Radiation Docket and 

Information Center, Mail Code 6102T, 

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:

Karen Thundiyil, Office of Atmospheric 

Programs, Mail Code 6205J, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave, NW., Washington, 

DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 

343–9464; fax number: (202) 343–2363; 

e-mail address: 

thundiyil.karen@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 15, 2004 (69 FR 33383), 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. OAR–

2004–0077, which is available for public 

viewing at the Air and Radiation 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 Air and 

Radiation Docket and Information 

Center is (202) 566–1742. 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, 

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: Significant New Alternatives 

Policy (SNAP) (40 CFR Part 82, Subpart 

G) (Renewal). 

Abstract: Information collected under 

this rulemaking is necessary to 

implement the requirements of the 

Significant New Alternatives Policy 

(SNAP) program for evaluating and 

regulating substitutes for ozonedepleting chemicals being phased out 

under the stratospheric ozone protection 

provisions of the Clean Air Act (CAA). 

Under CAA section 612, EPA is 

authorized to identify and restrict the 

use of substitutes for class I and class II 

ozone-depleting substances where EPA 

determines other alternatives exist that 

reduce overall risk to human health and 

the environment. The SNAP program, 

based on information collected from the 

manufacturers, formulators, and/or 

sellers of such substitutes, identifies 

acceptable substitutes. Responses to the 

collection of information are mandatory 

under section 612 for anyone who sells 

or, in certain cases, uses substitutes for 

an ozone-depleting substance after April 

18, 1994, the effective date of the final 

rule. Under CAA section 114(c), 

emissions information may not be 

claimed as confidential. 

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: For persons filing 

a SNAP Information Notice or petition, 

the reporting burden is estimated to 

average 150 hours per year. For persons 

filing a TSCA/SNAP Addendum, the 

reporting burden is estimated to average 

46 hours per year. For persons filing a 

notification of test marketing activity, 

the reporting burden is estimated to 

average 2 hours per year. For persons 

keeping records of use of a substitute 

subject to narrowed use limits, the 

recordkeeping burden is estimated to 

average 27 hours per year. For persons 

keeping records of a small volume use, 

the recordkeeping burden is estimated 

to average 12 hours per year. 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:

Manufacturers, importers, formulators 

and processors of substitutes for ozonedepleting substances. 

Estimated Number of Respondents:

279. 

Frequency of Response: On occasion. 

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:

8972. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost:

$546,834, which includes $44,142 

annualized capital/startup costs, $260 

annual O&M costs, and $502,432 annual 

labor costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is a 

decrease of 1391 hours in the total 

estimated burden currently identified in 

the OMB Inventory of Approved ICR 

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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] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

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)