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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: Cooperative Agreements and 

Superfund State Contracts for 

Superfund Response Actions (Renewal). 

Abstract: This ICR authorizes the 

collection of information under 40 CFR 

part 35, subpart O, which establishes 

the administrative requirements for 

cooperative agreements funded under 

the Comprehensive Environmental 

Response, Compensation, and Liability 

Act (CERCLA) for State, Federallyrecognized Indian tribal governments, 

and political subdivision response 

actions. This regulation also codifies the 

administrative requirements for 

Superfund State Contracts for non-State 

lead remedial responses. This regulation 

includes only those provisions 

mandated by CERCLA, required by 

OMB Circulars, or added by EPA to 

ensure sound and effective financial 

assistance management under this 

regulation. The information is collected 

from applicants and/or recipients of 

EPA assistance and is used to make 

awards, pay recipients, and collect 

information on how Federal funds are 

being utilized. EPA requires this 

information to meet its Federal 

stewardship responsibilities. Recipient 

responses are required to obtain a 

benefit (Federal funds) under 40 CFR 

part 31, ‘‘Uniform Administrative 

Requirements for Grants and 

Cooperative Agreements to State and 

Local Governments’’ and under 40 CFR 

part 35, ‘‘State and Local Assistance.’’

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 estimated 

annual public reporting and 

recordkeeping burden for this collection 

is estimated to average 10.5 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 States, Federally-recognized 

Indian tribes and Tribal Consortia, and 

political subdivisions which apply to 

EPA for financial assistance under a 

Superfund cooperative agreement or a 

Superfund State Contract. 

Estimated Number of Respondents:

581. 

Frequency of Response: Annually, 

On-occasion. 

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:

6,063 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost:

$215,000, includes $0 annualized 

capital/startup and O&M costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is an 

increase of 948 hours from the most 

recently approved ICR. This increase is 

due to the correction of calculation 

errors in the prior ICR and revised 

Regional input.

Dated: November 13, 2004. 

Oscar Morales, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division.

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[OECA–2004–0019; FRL–7840–1 ] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission for OMB Review 

and Approval; Comment Request; 

NESHAP for Pulp and Paper 

Production (Renewal), ICR Number 

1657.05, OMB Number 2060–0387

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–

2004–0019, 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:

Leonard Lazarus, 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) 564–6369; fax number: 

(202) 564–0050; e-mail address: 

lazarus.leonard@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–

2004–0019, 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 

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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: NESHAP for Pulp and Paper 

Production (40 CFR part 63, subpart S) 

(Renewal). 

Abstract: This National Emission 

Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants 

(NESHAP) covering emissions from the 

pulping process relies on the capture 

and destruction of hazardous air 

pollutants (HAP) by either burning them 

in a boiler or kiln or by introducing 

them into the wastewater treatment 

system. HAP’s captured from bleaching 

systems are controlled with a chlorine 

gas scrubber. The recordkeeping, 

notification and reporting requirements 

of the standard are critically important 

as they allow the Agency to determine 

to which facilities the standards apply 

and they enable the Agency to monitor 

initial and ongoing compliance with the 

standards. As much as possible, in order 

to reduce the burden, the compliance 

monitoring and recordkeeping 

requirements are designed to cover 

parameters that are already being 

monitored as part of the manufacturing 

process. 

Pulp mill owners or operators 

(respondents) are required to submit 

initial notifications, maintain records of 

the occurrence and duration of any 

startup, shutdown, or malfunction in 

the operation of an affected facility, or 

any period during which the monitoring 

system is inoperative. Respondents are 

required to monitor and keep records of 

specific operating parameters for each 

control device and to perform and 

document periodic inspections of the 

closed vent and wastewater conveyance 

systems. All respondents must submit 

semiannual summary reports of 

monitored parameters, and they must 

submit an additional monitoring report 

during each quarter in which monitored 

parameters were outside the ranges 

established in the standard or during 

initial performance tests. A source 

identified to be out of compliance with 

the NESHAP will be required to submit 

quarterly reports until the Administrator 

is satisfied that the source has corrected 

its compliance problem. These 

notifications, reports, and records are 

essential in determining compliance, 

and are required of all sources subject 

to Maximum Achievable Control 

Technology (MACT) standards. Since 

none of the required reports to the 

Agency have been deemed confidential 

business information, they will not be 

treated as such. Responses are 

mandatory (40 CFR part 63, subpart S). 

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 is 

estimated to average 104 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: Pulp 

mill owners or operators. 

Estimated Number of Respondents:

137. 

Frequency of Response: Initial, 

Quarterly, Semiannually. 

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:

42,444 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Costs:

$3,085,125, which includes $0 

annualized capital/startup costs, 

$377,000 annual O&M costs, and 

$2,708,125 annual labor costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is a 

decrease of 7,788 hours in the total 

estimated burden currently identified in 

the OMB Inventory of Approved ICR 

Burdens. This decrease is due to a 

reduction in annual burden due to an 

improved estimate of the number of 

facilities.

Dated: November 13, 2004. 

Oscar Morales, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division.

[FR Doc. 04–25818 Filed 11–19–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[OECA–2004–0011; FRL–7839–9] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission for OMB Review 

and Approval; Comment Request; 

NESHAP for Vinyl Chloride (Renewal), 

EPA ICR Number 0186.10, OMB 

Control Number 2060–0071

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.