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$132,936 annual O&M costs, and 

$1,121,046 annual labor costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is a 

decrease of 1,900 hours in the total 

estimated burden currently identified in 

the OMB Inventory of Approved ICR 

Burdens. This decrease is because the 

partnership has stabilized at 24 partner 

companies representing 80 percent of 

the U.S. industry and no new partners 

are expected to join over the next three 

years. Therefore, activities related to 

reviewing and signing a memorandum 

of understanding were removed from 

the burden estimate.

Dated: November 17, 2004. 

Oscar Morales, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division.

[FR Doc. 04–26078 Filed 11–23–04; 8:45 am] 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[OAR–2004–0082, FRL–7841–7] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to OMB for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; Reporting and 

Recordkeeping Requirements Under 

EPA’s Natural Gas STAR Program 

(Renewal), ICR Number 1736.04, OMB 

Number 2060–0328

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 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 27, 

2004.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing docket ID number OAR–

2004–0082, to 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, MC 6102T, 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20460.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Kevin Tingley, Natural Gas STAR 

Program, U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, Mail Code 6207J, 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, 

DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 

343–9086; fax number: (202) 343–2208; 

e-mail address: tingley.kevin@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 29, 2004 (69 FR 38893), 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–

2004–0082, 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: Reporting and Recordkeeping 

Requirements Under EPA’s Natural Gas 

STAR Program (Renewal). 

Abstract: Natural Gas STAR is an 

EPA-sponsored, voluntary program that 

encourages natural gas companies to 

adopt cost effective methods for 

reducing methane emissions. Natural 

Gas STAR Partners agree to implement 

cost-effective Best Management 

Practices, which will save participants 

money and improve environmental 

quality. EPA needs to collect 

information to establish program 

participation and to obtain general 

information on new Natural Gas STAR 

Partners. EPA also uses the information 

collection to evaluate a Partner’s 

progress and performance, assess overall 

program results, and develop technical 

guidance documents for the benefit of 

the industry. Information collection is 

accomplished through the use of an 

annual reporting process that allows 

companies to report their 

accomplishments in either a traditional 

hard-copy format or electronically. 

Participation in Natural Gas STAR is 

voluntary. Natural Gas STAR Partners 

may designate information submitted 

under this ICR as confidential business 

information. EPA will treat all such 

information as confidential business 

information and will not make the 

company or agency-specific information 

collected under this ICR available to the 

general public.

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. 

OMB has requested that EPA 

determine the extent to which 

reductions reported to the Natural Gas 

STAR Program would have occurred in 

the absence of the program. EPA has 

performed a sensitivity analysis in order 

to address this issue. Details are 

provided in the Supporting Statement 

for this notice. 

Burden Statement: The annual public 

reporting and recordkeeping burden for 

this collection of information is 

estimated to average 44 hours per 

response. Burden means the total time, 

effort, or financial resources expended

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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:

Natural Gas Companies. 

Estimated Number of Respondents:

108. 

Frequency of Response: Varies. 

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:

4,705. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost:

$402,162, which includes $0 annualized 

capital/startup costs, $21 annual O&M 

costs, and $402,141 annual labor costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is an 

increase of 646 hours in the total 

estimated burden currently identified in 

the OMB Inventory of Approved ICR 

Burdens. This increase is due to an 

increased number of program 

participants, but is tempered by a 

reduction in the amount of time spent 

filling out and submitting the annual 

report due to the introduction of on-line 

reporting in 2002.

Dated: November 17, 2004. 

Oscar Morales, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division.

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[Petition IV–2003–1; FRL–7842–2] 

Clean Air Act Operating Permit 

Program; Petition for Objection to 

State Operating Permit for Hercules, 

Inc.; Brunswick (Glynn County), GA

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of final order on petition 

to object to a state operating permit. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 505(b)(2) 

of the Clean Air Act (the Act) and 40 

CFR 70.8(d), the EPA Administrator 

signed an order, dated November 10, 

2004, denying a petition to object to a 

state operating permit issued by the 

Georgia Environmental Protection 

Division (EPD) to Hercules, Inc. 

(Hercules) located in Brunswick, Glynn 

County, Georgia. This order constitutes 

final action on the petition submitted by 

the Glynn Environmental Coalition and 

the Center for a Sustainable Coast 

(Petitioners). Pursuant to section 

505(b)(2) of the Act, any person may 

seek judicial review in the United States 

Court of Appeals for the appropriate 

circuit within 60 days of this notice 

under section 307 of the Act.

ADDRESSES: Copies of the final order, the 

petition, and all pertinent information 

relating thereto are on file at the 

following location: EPA Region 4, Air, 

Pesticides and Toxics Management 

Division, 61 Forsyth Street SW., Atlanta, 

Georgia 30303–8960. The final order is 

also available electronically at the 

following address: http://www.epa.gov/

region7/programs/artd/air/title5/

petitiondb/petitions/ 

hercules_decision2003.pdf.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Art 

Hofmeister, Air Permits Section, EPA 

Region 4, at (404) 562–9115 or 

hofmeister.art@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Act 

affords EPA a 45-day period to review 

and, as appropriate, to object to 

operating permits proposed by state 

permitting authorities under title V of 

the Act, 42 U.S.C. 7661–7661f. Section 

505(b)(2) of the Act and 40 CFR 70.8(d) 

authorize any person to petition the 

EPA Administrator to object to a title V 

operating permit within 60 days after 

the expiration of EPA’s 45-day review 

period if EPA has not objected on its 

own initiative. Petitions must be based 

only on objections to the permit that 

were raised with reasonable specificity 

during the public comment period 

provided by the state, unless the 

petitioner demonstrates that it was 

impracticable to raise these issues 

during the comment period or the 

grounds for the issues arose after this 

period. 

On January 23, 2003, the 

Administrator received a petition 

requesting that EPA object to a state title 

V operating permit issued by EPD to 

Hercules. The Petitioners maintain that 

the Hercules permit is inconsistent with 

the Act because: (1) The permit fails to 

include all applicable requirements, 

specifically Georgia Rule 391–3–1–

.02(2)(a)1. and (2) the permit fails to 

assure compliance with said rule. 

On November 10, 2004, the 

Administrator issued an order denying 

this petition. The order explains the 

reasons behind EPA’s conclusion that 

the Petitioners failed to demonstrate 

that the Hercules permit is not in 

compliance with the requirements of the 

Act on the grounds raised.

Dated: November 18, 2004. 

J.I. Palmer, Jr., 

Regional Administrator, Region 4.

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–7841–9] 

Clean Air Scientific Advisory 

Committee Science Advisory Board 

(SAB) Staff Office Clean Air Scientific 

Advisory Committee (CASAC) Ozone 

Review Panel; Additional Opportunity 

To Submit Nominations

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency (EPA or Agency) 

Science Advisory Board (SAB) Staff 

Office is reopening the public 

nomination process for experts to serve 

on the Clean Air Scientific Advisory 

Committee (CASAC) Ozone Review 

Panel (Panel), and is hereby soliciting 

additional nominations for this Panel.

DATES: New nominations should be 

submitted by December 8, 2004.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any 

member of the public wishing further 

information regarding this Request for 

Nominations may contact Mr. Fred 

Butterfield, Designated Federal Officer 

(DFO), EPA Science Advisory Board 

Staff, at telephone/voice mail: (202) 

343–9994; or via e-mail at: 

butterfield.fred@epa.gov. General 

information concerning the CASAC or 

the SAB can be found on the EPA Web 

site at: http://www.epa.gov/sab.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background: The CASAC, which 

comprises seven members appointed by 

the EPA Administrator, was established 

under section 109(d)(2) of the Clean Air 

Act (42 U.S.C. 7409) as an independent 

scientific advisory committee, in part to 

provide advice, information and 

recommendations on the scientific and 

technical aspects of issues related to air 

quality criteria and NAAQS under 

sections 108 and 109 of the Act. The 

CASAC is a Federal advisory committee 

chartered under the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (FACA), as amended, 5 

U.S.C., App. 

The SAB Staff Office previously 

announced in the Federal Register in 

June 2003 (68 FR 35212, June 12, 2003) 

the formation of the CASAC Ozone 

Review Panel, to conduct reviews of