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requirements covered by 40 CFR part 

761. 

To meet its statutory obligations to 

regulate PCBs, EPA must obtain 

sufficient information to conclude that 

specified activities do not result in an 

unreasonable risk of injury to health or 

the environment. EPA uses the 

information collected under the 40 CFR 

part 761 requirements to ensure that 

PCBs are managed in an 

environmentally safe manner and that 

activities are being conducted in 

compliance with the PCB regulations. 

The information collected by these 

requirements will update the Agency’s 

knowledge of ongoing PCB activities, 

ensure that individuals using or 

disposing of PCBs are held accountable 

for their activities, and demonstrate 

compliance with the PCB regulations. 

Specific uses of the information 

collected include determining the 

efficacy of a disposal technology; 

evaluating exemption requests and 

exclusion notices; targeting compliance 

inspections; and ensuring adequate 

storage capacity for PCB waste. 

Responses to the collection of 

information are mandatory (see 40 CFR 

part 761). Respondents may claim all or 

part of a notice as CBI. EPA will 

disclose information that is covered by 

a CBI claim only to the extent permitted 

by, and in accordance with, the 

procedures 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 title 40 

of the CFR, after appearing in the 

Federal Register, are listed in 40 CFR 

part 9 and included on the related 

collection instrument or form, if 

applicable. 

Burden Statement: The annual public 

reporting and recordkeeping burden for 

this collection of information is 

estimated to average about 1 hour 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:

Persons who currently possess PCB 

Items, PCB-contaminated equipment, or 

other PCB waste. 

Frequency of Collection: On occasion. 

Estimated No. of Respondents:

814,120. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden on 

Respondents: 824,778 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Costs:

$23,005,750. 

Changes in Burden Estimates: This 

request reflects an increase of 83,517 

hours (from 741,261 hours to 824,778 

hours) in the total estimated respondent 

burden from that currently in the OMB 

inventory. This increase is due to 

revisions to the total number of 

respondents. In some cases, the total 

number of respondents was based on 

number of facilities, in other cases, the 

total number of respondents was 

calculated by estimating the total 

number of pieces of equipment that 

respondents must monitor for a 

particular requirement. These burden 

changes were the result of new data 

gathered for this ICR renewal as well as 

a recent PCB regulatory analysis, 

estimate adjustments made for 

consistency with a recent Agency 

report, and updated Agency data 

regarding total numbers of regulated 

entities. The change in burden 

represents an adjustment.

Dated: November 9, 2004. 

Oscar Morales, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division.

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[OPP–2004–0252, FRL–7839–6] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to OMB; 

Comment Request; EPA ICR No. 

0596.08; OMB Control No. 2070–0032; 

Application and Summary Report for 

an Emergency Exemption for 

Pesticides

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: Application and 

Summary Report for an Emergency 

Exemption for Pesticides; EPA ICR No. 

0596.08; OMB Control No. 2070–0032. 

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 December 22, 

2004.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Cameo Smoot, Field and External 

Affairs Division (7506C), Office of 

Pesticide Programs, Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460; 

telephone number: (703) 305–5454; fax 

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

smoot.cameo@epa.gov.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing docket ID number OPP–

2004–0252 , 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 August 

27, 2004 (69 FR 52664). EPA received 

one comment in response to that notice 

during the 60-day comment period and 

has addressed it in the ICR. 

EPA has established a public docket 

for this ICR under Docket ID No. OPP–

2004–0252, 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 

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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 http://www.epa.gov/

edocket.

ICR Title: Application and Summary 

Report for an Emergency Exemption for 

Pesticides. 

ICR Status: This is a request for 

extension of an existing approved 

collection that is currently scheduled to 

expire on November 30, 2004. EPA is 

asking OMB to approve this ICR for 

three years. Under OMB regulations at 

5 CFR 1320.12(b)(2), the Agency may 

continue to conduct or sponsor the 

collection of information while the 

submission is pending at OMB. 

Abstract: Section 18 of the Federal 

Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide 

Act (FIFRA) authorizes EPA to grant 

emergency exemptions to State, U.S. 

Territorial and Federal agencies to allow 

an unregistered use of a pesticide for a 

limited time if EPA determines that 

emergency conditions exist, whether 

use of the pesticide under the 

exemption will be protective of human 

health and the environment, and to 

evaluate the effectiveness of the 

requested product in allaying the 

emergency. This data collection 

program is designed to provide EPA 

with necessary data to evaluate an 

application for a permit for the 

temporary shipment and use of a 

pesticide product for an unregistered 

use to mitigate an emergency situation 

and to evaluate the effectiveness of that 

product in allaying the emergency. 

State, U.S. Territorial, and Federal 

agencies submit applications for section 

18 emergency exemptions at their 

discretion in accordance with 40 CFR 

part 166. After EPA has granted a 

section 18 emergency exemption to a 

given government agency, the 

requesting agency must submit to EPA 

information related to any unexpected 

adverse effects resulting from the use of 

the pesticide and a report summarizing 

the results of the pesticide use. These 

government agencies must also maintain 

records for all treatments involving the 

first food use of a pesticide and make 

them available to EPA upon request. 

Burden Statement: The annual 

‘‘respondent’’ burden for this ICR is 

estimated to be 99 hours per response. 

According to the Paperwork Reduction 

Act, ‘‘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. For this collection, 

it is the time reading the regulations, 

planning the necessary data collection 

activities, conducting tests, analyzing 

data, generating reports and completing 

other required paperwork, and storing, 

filing, and maintaining the data. The 

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 number for 

this information collection appear at the 

beginning and the end of this document. 

In addition OMB control numbers for 

EPA’s regulations, after initial display in 

the final rule, are listed in 40 CFR part 

9. 

The following is a summary of the 

burden estimates taken from the ICR: 

Respondents/affected entities: State 

Agency, U.S. Territory, or Federal 

Agency. 

Estimated total number of potential 

respondents: 50. 

Frequency of response: On occasion. 

Estimated total/average number of 

responses for each respondent: 10. 

Estimated total annual burden hours:

49,500. 

Estimated total annual labor costs:

$2,683,000. 

Changes in the ICR Since the Last 

Approval: The annual burden has 

decreased from 59,400 to 49,500 hours 

due to the drop in the overall number 

of section 18 emergency exemption 

applications filed annually, from 600 for 

the period 1998–2000 to approximately 

500 for the period 2001–2003. The 9,900 

hour decrease in annual burden reflects 

an adjustment to the estimated annual 

burden for this ICR.

Dated: November 9, 2004. 

Oscar Morales, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division.

[FR Doc. 04–25821 Filed 11–19–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[OECA–2004–0021; FRL–7839–7] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission for OMB Review 

and Approval; Comment Request; 

NSPS for Portland Cement Plants 

(Renewal), ICR Number 1051.09, OMB 

Number 2060–0025

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 December 22, 

2004.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing docket ID number OECA–

2004–0022, 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:

Gregory Fried, 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) 564–7016; fax number: