4066 Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 16 / Tuesday, January 26, 2010 / Notices 

John Moses, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division. 

[FR Doc. 2010–1469 Filed 1–25–10; 8:45 am] 

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[EPA–R03–CPB–2009–0500; FRL–9106–9] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to OMB for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; Chesapeake Registry; EPA 

ICR No. 2365.02, OMB Control No. 

2003–0001 

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 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. The ICR, 

which is abstracted below, describes the 

nature of the information collection and 

its estimated burden and cost. 

DATES: Additional comments may be 

submitted on or before February 25, 

2010. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing Docket ID Number EPA– 

R03–CBP–2009–0500, to both EPA and 

OMB. For EPA use one of the following 

three methods: 

• http://www.regulations.gov (our 

preferred method). Follow the on-line 

instructions for submitting. 

• Mail: EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), 

Environmental Protection Agency, 

Enforcement and Compliance Docket 

and Information Center, mail code 

28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, 

NW., Washington, DC 20460. 

• E-mail: docket.oeca@epa.gov. 

For OMB mail to: 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: 

Marguerite Duffy, USEPA Region III— 

Chesapeake Bay Program, Annapolis 

City Marina, 410 Severn Avenue Suite 

109 (3CB10), Annapolis, MD 21403; 

telephone number: (410) 267–5764; fax 

number: (410) 267–5777; e-mail address: 

duffy.marguerite@epa.gov; or Doreen 

Vetter, telephone number (410) 267– 

5780; e-mail address: 

vetter.doreen@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 October 23, 2009 (74 FR 54801), EPA 

sought comments on this ICR pursuant 

to 5 CFR 1320.8(d) and received no 

comments. Any additional comments on 

this ICR should be submitted to EPA 

and OMB within 30 days of this notice. 

EPA has established a public docket 

for this ICR under Docket ID No. EPA– 

R03–CBP–2009–0500, which is 

available for online viewing at http:// 

www.regulations.gov, or in person 

viewing at EPA Docket Center (EPA/ 

DC), EPA West, Room 3334, 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 Enforcement and Compliance 

Docket is (202) 566–1752. 

Use EPA’s electronic docket and 

comment system at http:// 

www.regulations.gov, to submit or view 

public comments, access the index 

listing of the contents of the docket, and 

to access those documents in the docket 

that are available electronically. Once in 

the system, select ‘‘docket search,’’ key 

in the docket ID number identified 

above, and hit the ‘‘Submit’’ icon. Please 

note that EPA’s policy is that public 

comments, whether submitted 

electronically or in paper, will be made 

available for public viewing at http:// 

www.regulations.gov 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. For 

further information about the electronic 

docket, go to http:// 

www.regulations.gov. 

Title: Chesapeake Registry. 

ICR numbers: EPA ICR No. 2365.02, 

OMB Control No. 2003–0001. 

ICR Status: This ICR is scheduled to 

expire on February 28, 2010. Under 

OMB regulations, the Agency may 

continue to conduct or sponsor the 

collection of information while this 

submission is pending at OMB. 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 

when approved, are listed in 40 CFR 

part 9, are displayed either by 

publication in the Federal Register or 

by other appropriate means, such as on 

the related collection instrument or 

form, if applicable. The display of OMB 

control numbers in certain EPA 

regulations is consolidated in 40 CFR 

part 9. 

Abstract: In 2008, EPA’s Region III 

Chesapeake Bay Program Office (CBPO) 

and its partners developed the 

Chesapeake Action Plan (CAP) to 

strengthen and expand partnerships in 

the watershed, enhance coordination of 

restoration activities, and increase the 

collective accountability for protecting 

the Chesapeake Bay. One component 

described in the CAP is a Web-enabled 

reporting system known as the Activity 

Integration Plan now titled Chesapeake 

Registry. Through this reporting system, 

participating organizations provide data 

about the activities in which they are 

currently engaged, or plan to be engaged 

in, to protect and restore the Chesapeake 

Bay and its watershed. The ability to 

capture and account for Bay-wide 

implementation activities was 

developed in response to 

recommendations by the Government 

Accountability Office and directives of 

the Explanatory Statement of the Fiscal 

Year (FY) 2008 Consolidated 

Appropriations Act (Pub. L. 110–161). 

CBPO conducted its first activity data 

call in 2008 that included 10 Federal 

agencies, 7 States, and 2 local 

organizations. 

The EPA, on behalf of the partnership, 

intends to expand the data call to more 

than 10 non-federal agencies and 

organizations to strengthen the 

information base on which to support 

implementation decisions and more 

recently, to support Executive Order 

(EO) 13508, signed by President Barack 

Obama on May 12, 2009. Section 203(d) 

of the EO directs EPA to identify the 

‘‘mechanisms that will assure that 

governmental and other activities, 

including data collection and 

distribution, are coordinated and 

effective, relying on existing 

mechanisms where appropriate.’’ 

Section 204 further directs that 

‘‘Federal actions to protect and restore 

the Chesapeake Bay are closely 

coordinated with actions by State and 

local agencies in the watershed and that 

the resources, authorities, and expertise 

of Federal, State, and local agencies are 

used as efficiently as possible.’’ The 

Chesapeake Registry and associated data 

calls provide a mechanism for 

coordinated data collections among 

federal and nonfederal entities 

protecting and restoring the Bay and its 

watershed, and the information 

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necessary to adaptively manage the 

program in support of these mandates. 

The Chesapeake Registry includes 

detailed information about the activities 

and funding conducted and planned by 

partner and stakeholder organizations. 

The organizations provide project 

information on the nature of the 

activity, responsible organization, 

organizational point of contact, resource 

levels, geographic location, and major 

milestones on progress towards 

Chesapeake Bay protection and 

restoration efforts. Funds reported in the 

Chesapeake Registry are linked to an 

organization’s own resource base so that 

data associated with a set of funds is 

entered only by the originator of the 

funding. The information is organized 

by programmatic goal and desired 

result, which aligns activities to the 

goals of the program and helps to 

provide an accurate depiction of 

restoration activities, progress, and 

results. The information collection, as 

envisioned, will be conducted annually. 

Summary level information from the 

Chesapeake Registry is available at 

http://cap.chesapeakebay.net. 

Each reporting organization is 

assigned a user ID and password. 

Security measures have been 

established to protect data that have 

been entered, including maintaining the 

data on a secure server on a secure 

network, and confirming the data with 

each reporting organization. Participants 

in the information collection are able to 

search the reporting system database 

application and view standard reports. 

Partners will use the enhanced and 

expanded data to update performance 

management dashboards that 

summarize and synthesize information 

so the program partners and 

stakeholders can understand, at a 

glance, the progress being made in key 

program areas. The dashboards include 

measures of progress, information about 

resources and strategic analyses of what 

needs to be done to improve 

implementation. In addition, EPA 

anticipates that some of the partners and 

stakeholders will use the reporting 

system as a tool for their own 

management and planning efforts. 

Burden Statement: The annual public 

reporting and recordkeeping burden for 

this collection of information is 

estimated to average 64.8 hours per 

response for state and local government 

agencies and 11.5 hours per response for 

non-government organizations. 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 which have subsequently 

changed; 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: State 

and local governments and nongovernment organizations within the 

Chesapeake Bay watershed. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 50 

(30 State and local governments, 20 

non-government organizations) initially 

but will likely increase over time. 

Frequency of Response: Annual. 

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 

1,001. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost: 

$56,738. 

Changes in the Estimates: EPA 

anticipates an annual, gradual change in 

the total estimated respondent burden 

compared with that identified in the ICR 

currently approved by OMB. 

Dated: January 20, 2010. 

John Moses, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division. 

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[EPA–HQ–OAR–2007–0492; FRL–9105–9] 

Release of Draft Documents Related to 

the Review of the National Ambient Air 

Quality Standards for Particulate 

Matter 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Availability of draft documents 

for public comment. 

SUMMARY: On or about January 19, 2010, 

the Office of Air Quality Planning and 

Standards (OAQPS) of EPA is making 

available for public comment a draft 

assessment document titled, Particulate 

Matter Urban-Focused Visibility 

Assessment—Second External Review 

Draft. On or about January 29, 2010, 

OAQPS is making available for public 

comment a second draft assessment 

document titled, Quantitative Health 

Risk Assessment for Particulate 

Matter—Second External Review Draft. 

These two draft assessment documents 

describe the quantitative analyses that 

are being conducted as part of the 

review of the national ambient air 

quality standards (NAAQS) for 

particulate matter (PM). In addition, on 

or about February 26, 2010, OAQPS will 

make available for public comment a 

third draft document titled, Policy 

Assessment for the Review of the 

Particulate Matter National Ambient Air 

Quality Standards—First External 

Review Draft. 

DATES: Comments should be submitted 

on or before March 15, 2010, for the 

draft document titled, Particulate Matter 

Urban-Focused Visibility Assessment— 

Second External Review Draft and 

Quantitative Health Risk Assessment for 

Particulate Matter—Second External 

Review Draft. Comments should be 

submitted on or before April 12, 2010, 

for the draft document titled, Policy 

Assessment for the Review of the 

Particulate Matter National Ambient Air 

Quality Standards—First External 

Review Draft. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OAR–2007–0492, by one of the 

following methods: 

• http://www.regulations.gov: Follow 

the on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• E-mail: Comments may be sent by 

electronic mail (e-mail) to a-and-rdocket@epa.gov, Attention Docket ID 

No. EPA–HQ–OAR–2007–0492. 

• Fax: Fax your comments to 202– 

566–9744, Attention Docket ID No. 

EPA–HQ–OAR–2007–0492. 

• Mail: Send your comments to: Air 

and Radiation Docket and Information 

Center, Environmental Protection 

Agency, Mailcode: 2822T, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460, Attention Docket ID No. 

EPA–HQ–OAR–2007–0492. 

• Hand Delivery or Courier: Deliver 

your comments to: EPA Docket Center, 

1301 Constitution Ave., NW., Room 

3334, Washington, DC. Such deliveries 

are only accepted during the Docket’s 

normal hours of operation, and special 

arrangements should be made for 

deliveries of boxed information. 

Instructions: Direct your comments to 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OAR–2007– 

0492. The EPA’s policy is that all 

comments received will be included in 

the public docket without change and 

may be made available on-line at 

http://www.regulations.gov, including 

any personal information provided, 

unless the comment includes 

information claimed to be Confidential 

Business Information (CBI) or other 

information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. Do not submit 

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