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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 21, 2004 (69 FR 34346), 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. 

SFUND–2004–0005, which is available 

for public viewing at the Superfund 

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 Superfund Docket is (202) 566–

0276. 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 www.epa.gov/

edocket. 

Title: Superfund Site Evaluation and 

Hazard Ranking System (Renewal). 

Abstract: Section 105 of the 

Comprehensive Environmental 

Response, Compensation, and Liability 

Act (CERCLA, 1980 and 1986) amends 

the National Oil and Hazardous 

Substances Pollution Contingency Plan 

(NCP) to include criteria prioritizing 

releases throughout the U.S. before 

undertaking remedial action at 

uncontrolled hazardous waste sites. The 

Hazard Ranking System (HRS) is a 

model that is used to evaluate the 

relative threats to human health and the 

environment posed by actual or 

potential releases of hazardous 

substances, pollutants, and 

contaminants. The HRS criteria take 

into account the population at risk, the 

hazard potential of the substances, as 

well as the potential for contamination 

of drinking water supplies, direct 

human contact, destruction of sensitive 

ecosystems, damage to natural resources 

affecting the human food chain, 

contamination of surface water used for 

recreation or potable water 

consumption, and contamination of 

ambient air. 

Under this ICR, the States or Tribal 

authorities will apply the HRS by 

identifying and classifying those 

releases that warrant further 

investigation. The information collected 

under this ICR is required to help 

determine whether an individual site is 

eligible to be included on the National 

Priorities List (NPL). Only sites on the 

NPL are eligible for Superfund-financed 

remedial actions. 

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 166.1 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: States, 

Indian Tribes, and U.S. territories 

performing Superfund site evaluation 

activities. 

Estimated Number of Respondents:

607. 

Frequency of Response: On occasion. 

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:

150,285. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost:

$13,580,375, includes $0 annualized 

capital expenditure, $0 O&M costs, and 

$13,580,375 Respondent Labor Costs, 

though costs are fully reimbursed by the 

Agency. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is a 

decrease of 80,248 hours in the total 

estimated burden currently identified in 

the OMB Inventory of Approved ICR 

Burdens. This decrease is due to 

adjustments to the estimates because 

fewer site assessment activities are 

conducted nationally.

Dated: November 29, 2004. 

Oscar Morales, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division.

[FR Doc. 04–26818 Filed 12–6–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[E–DOCKET ID No. ORD–2004–0003; FRL–

7845–9] 

Draft Proposed Sampling Program To 

Determine Extent of World Trade 

Center Impacts to the Indoor 

Environment

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency.

ACTION: Notice of second extension of 

public comment period for Draft 

Proposed Sampling Program to 

Determine Extent of World Trade Center 

Impacts to the Indoor Environment. 

SUMMARY: On October 21, 2004, EPA 

published a Federal Register notice (69 

FR 61838) announcing the availability 

of the External Review Draft entitled, 

Draft Proposed Sampling Program to 

Determine Extent of World Trade Center 

Impacts to the Indoor Environment 

(EPA/600/R–04/169A), and the 

beginning of a 30-day public comment 

period. On November 19, 2004, EPA 

published a Federal Register notice (69 

FR 67735) extending the public 

comment period until January 3, 2005, 

as requested by members of the Lower 

Manhattan community and labor 

organizations who said a 45-day 

extension was needed for them to 

formulate their comments. Subsequently 

a new request for an additional 

extension was received from members 

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of the Lower Manhattan community and 

labor organizations; therefore, EPA is 

now extending the public comment 

period until January 18, 2005. EPA will 

consider the public comment 

submissions in revising the document.

DATES: The public comment period will 

end on January 18, 2005. Technical 

comments should be in writing and 

must be postmarked by January 18, 

2005.

ADDRESSES: The External Review Draft, 

Draft Proposed Sampling Program to 

Determine Extent of World Trade Center 

Impacts to the Indoor Environment, is 

available via the Internet on the Web 

page of the World Trade Center (WTC) 

Expert Technical Review Panel, http://

www.epa.gov/wtc/panel/. Comments 

may be submitted electronically, by 

mail, by facsimile or by hand delivery/

courier. Please follow the detailed 

instructions as provided in the 

Supplementary Information section 

below.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information on the draft 

sampling proposal, please contact 

Matthew Lorber at (202) 564–3243 or 

lorber.matthew@epa.gov. For further 

information regarding the WTC Expert 

Technical Review Panel, please contact 

Lisa Matthews at (202) 564–6669 or 

matthews.lisa@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

1. How to Submit Information to EDocket: EPA has established an official 

public docket for information pertaining 

to this action, Docket ID No. ORD–

2004–0003. The official public docket is 

the collection of materials, excluding 

Confidential Business Information (CBI) 

or other information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute, that is available for 

public viewing at the Office of 

Environmental Information (OEI) Docket 

in the Headquarters EPA Docket Center 

(EPA/DC), EPA West Building, 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 

Public Reading Room is (202) 566–1744, 

and the telephone number for the OEI 

Docket is (202) 566–1752; facsimile: 

(202) 566–1753; or e-mail: 

ORD.Docket@epa.gov. 

An electronic version of the official 

public docket is available through EPA’s 

electronic public docket and comment 

system, EPA Dockets. You may use EPA 

Dockets at http://www.epa.gov/edocket/

to submit or view public comments, to 

access the index listing of the contents 

of the official public docket, and to view 

those documents in the public docket 

that are available electronically. Once in 

the system, select ‘‘search,’’ then key in 

the appropriate docket identification 

number. 

Certain types of information will not 

be placed in EPA Dockets. As indicated 

above, information claimed as CBI and 

other information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute is not included in 

the official public docket; the same 

information will not be available for 

public viewing in EPA Dockets. 

Copyrighted material also will not be 

placed in EPA Dockets but will be 

referenced there and available as 

printed material in the official public 

docket. 

Persons submitting information 

should note that EPA’s policy makes the 

information available as received and at 

no charge for public viewing in EPA 

Dockets. This policy applies to 

information submitted electronically or 

in paper, except where restricted by 

copyright, CBI or statute. 

Unless restricted as above, 

information submitted on computer 

disks that are mailed or delivered to the 

docket will be transferred to EPA 

Dockets. Physical objects will be 

photographed, where practical, and the 

photograph will be placed in EPA 

Dockets along with a brief description 

written by the docket staff. 

You may submit information 

electronically, by mail, by facsimile or 

by hand delivery/ courier. To ensure 

proper receipt by EPA, include the 

appropriate docket identification 

number with your submission. Please 

adhere to the specified submitting 

period. Information received or 

submitted past the close date will be 

marked ‘‘late’’ and will only be 

considered if time permits. 

If you submit information 

electronically, EPA recommends that 

you include your name, mailing 

address, and an e-mail address or other 

details for contacting you. Also include 

these contact details on the outside of 

any disk or CD ROM you submit and in 

any cover letter accompanying the disk 

or CD ROM. This ensures that you can 

be identified as the person submitting 

the information and allows EPA to 

contact you in case the Agency cannot 

read what you submit due to technical 

difficulties or needs to clarify issues 

raised by what you submit. If EPA 

cannot read what you submit due to 

technical difficulties and cannot contact 

you for clarification, this situation may 

delay or prevent the Agency’s 

consideration of the information. 

To access EPA’s electronic public 

docket from the EPA Internet Home 

Page, select ‘‘Information Sources,’’

‘‘Dockets,’’ and ‘‘EPA Dockets.’’ Once in 

the system, select ‘‘search,’’ and then 

key in Docket ID No. ORD–2004–0003. 

The system is an ‘‘anonymous access’’

system, which means EPA will not 

know your identity, e-mail address or 

other contact details unless you provide 

it with the information you submit. 

Information may be sent by electronic 

mail (e-mail) to ORD.Docket@epa.gov, 

Attention Docket ID No. ORD–2004–

0003. In contrast to EPA’s electronic 

public docket, EPA’s e-mail system is 

not an ‘‘anonymous access’’ system. If 

you send an e-mail directly to the 

docket without going through EPA’s 

electronic public docket, EPA’s e-mail 

system automatically captures your email address, and it becomes part of the 

information in the official public docket 

and is made available in EPA’s 

electronic public docket. 

You may submit information on a 

disk or CD ROM that you mail to the 

OEI Docket mailing address. Files will 

be accepted in WordPerfect, Word or 

ASCII file format. Avoid the use of 

special characters and any form of 

encryption. 

If you provide information in writing, 

please submit one unbound original, 

with pages numbered consecutively, 

and three copies. For attachments, 

provide an index, number pages 

consecutively with the main text, and 

submit an unbound original and three 

copies.

Dated: December 2, 2004. 

William H. Farland, 

Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator for 

Science, EPA Office of Research and 

Development.

[FR Doc. 04–26815 Filed 12–6–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–7845–7] 

Notice of Proposed NPDES General 

Permit for Discharges From 

Concentrated Animal Feeding 

Operations (CAFOs) in New Mexico, 

Oklahoma, and on Indian Lands in New 

Mexico and Oklahoma (NMG010000 

and OKG010000)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of draft NPDES general 

permit. 

SUMMARY: EPA Region 6 is proposing to 

reissue NPDES General Permit No. 

NMG010000 and OKG010000 for 

discharges from CAFOs in New Mexico, 

Oklahoma, and on Indian lands in New