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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 of ethylene dichloride, 

vinyl chloride monomer, and polyvinyl 

chloride. 

Estimated Number of Respondents:

28. 

Frequency of Response: Initially, 

quarterly, and on occasion. 

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:

11,825 hours. 

Estimated Total Capital and 

Operations & Maintenance (O&M) 

Annual Costs: $2,014,515, which 

includes $0 annualized capital/startup, 

$1,260,000 annual O&M costs, and 

$754,515 Respondent Labor Costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is a 

decrease of 4,334 hours in the total 

estimated hours burden currently 

identified in the OMB Inventory of 

Approved ICR Burdens. This decrease 

in the burden from the most recently 

approved ICR is due to a decrease in the 

number of existing sources. Our data 

indicates that there are approximately 

forty-four sources in the active ICR 

compared to twenty-eight sources in the 

renewal, reflected in the change in the 

hourly burden.

Dated: November 13, 2004. 

Oscar Morales, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division.

[FR Doc. 04–25819 Filed 11–19–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[OPPT–2004–0087; FRL–7839–8] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to OMB for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; PCBs; Consolidated 

Reporting and Recordkeeping 

Requirements; EPA ICR No. 1446.08, 

OMB No. 2070–0112

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 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 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 cost.

DATES: Additional comments may be 

submitted on or before December 22, 

2004.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing docket ID Number OPPT–

2004–0087, to (1) EPA online using 

EDOCKET (our preferred method), by email to oppt.ncic@epa.gov or by mail to: 

Document Control Office (DCO), Office 

of Pollution Prevention and Toxics 

(OPPT), Environmental Protection 

Agency, Mailcode: 7407T, 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:

Barbara Cunningham, Acting Director, 

Environmental Assistance Division, 

Office of Pollution Prevention and 

Toxics, Environmental Protection 

Agency, Mailcode: 7408, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 

554–1404; e-mail address: TSCA–

Hotline@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 April 30, 2004, 

EPA sought comments on this renewal 

ICR (69 FR 23747). EPA sought 

comments on this ICR pursuant to 5 

CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received one 

comment during the comment period, 

which is addressed in the Supporting 

Statement. 

EPA has established a public docket 

for this ICR under Docket ID No. OPPT–

2004–0087, which is available for public 

viewing at the OPPT 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 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 Pollution 

Prevention and Toxics Docket is (202) 

566–0280. 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: PCBs; Consolidated Reporting 

and Recordkeeping Requirements. 

Abstract: Section 6(e)(1) of the Toxic 

Substances Control Act (TSCA), 15 

U.S.C. 2605(e), directs EPA to regulate 

the marking and disposal of PCBs. 

Section 6(e)(2) bans the manufacturing, 

processing, distribution in commerce, 

and use of PCBs in other than a totally 

enclosed manner. Section 6(e)(3) 

establishes a process for obtaining 

exemptions from the prohibitions on the 

manufacture, processing, and 

distribution in commerce of PCBs. Since 

1978, EPA has promulgated numerous 

rules addressing all aspects of the life 

cycle of PCBs as required by the statute. 

The regulations are intended to prevent 

the improper handling and disposal of 

PCBs and to minimize the exposure of 

human beings or the environment to 

PCBs. These regulations have been 

codified in the various subparts of 40 

CFR part 761. There are approximately 

100 specific reporting, third-party 

reporting, and recordkeeping 

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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.

[FR Doc. 04–25820 Filed 11–19–04; 8:45 am] 

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