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programs annually and submit the 

results in a report to EPA. EPA’s 

assumption regulations establish 

minimum requirements for the annual 

report (40 CFR 233.52). 

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 

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 520 hours to 

request program assumption, 5 hours to 

complete a permit application and 80 

hours to prepare the annual report per 

assumed program. 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. 

The ICR provides a detailed 

explanation of the Agency’s estimate, 

which is only briefly summarized here: 

Estimated total number of potential 

respondents: 2 States/Tribes to request 

program assumption; 20,000 permit 

applicants, 4 assumed States/Tribes. 

Frequency of response: On occasion. 

Estimated total average number of 

responses for each respondent: One 

time to request assumption; one time 

when requesting a permit; annually for 

the annual permit and annual report. 

Estimated total annual burden hours: 

101,360 (520 hours to request 

assumption times two States/Tribes 

(1,040 hours); 20,000 permit applicants 

times 5 hours per application (100,000 

hours); 80 hours per annual report times 

4 States/Tribes (320 hours). 

Estimated total annual costs: $45,120 

(includes $0 annualized capital and 

O&M costs). 

Are There Changes in the Estimates 

From the Last Approval? 

There are changes in the estimates 

from the last approval. These changes 

are to account for increases in wages. 

What Is the Next Step in the Process for 

This ICR? 

EPA will consider the comments 

received and amend the ICR as 

appropriate. The final ICR package will 

then be submitted to OMB for review 

and approval pursuant to 5 CFR 

1320.12. At that time, EPA will issue 

another Federal Register notice 

pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.5(a)(1)(iv) to 

announce the submission of the ICR to 

OMB and the opportunity to submit 

additional comments to OMB. If you 

have any questions about this ICR or the 

approval process, please contact the 

technical person listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. 

Dated: August 19, 2009. 

Suzanne Schwartz, 

Acting Director, Office of Wetlands, Oceans, 

and Watersheds. 

[FR Doc. E9–20603 Filed 8–25–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OAR–2003–0162; FRL–8949–3] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to OMB for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; Information Collection 

Request for Proposed Regional Haze 

Regulations; EPA ICR No. 1813.07, 

OMB Control No. 2060–0412 

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 September 25, 

2009. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OAR–2003–0162, to (1) EPA online 

using http://www.regulations.gov (our 

preferred method), by e-mail: 

docket.oeca@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA 

Docket Center, Agency Information 

Collection Request Activities: Proposed 

Collection and Comment Request for the 

Regional Haze Regulations Docket, 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OAR–2003– 

0162, Environmental Protection Agency, 

Air and Radiation Docket and 

Information Center, Mailcode: 28221T, 

1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20460, and (2) OMB by 

mail to: Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs, Office of 

Management and Budget OMB, 

Attention: Desk Office for EPA, 725 17th 

Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Todd Hawes, Air Quality Policy 

Division, Office of Air Quality Planning 

and Standards, (C539–04), 

Environmental Protection Agency, 

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 

27711; telephone number: (919) 541– 

5591; fax number: (919) 541–0824; email address: hawes.todd@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 8, 2009 (74 FR 21680), EPA 

sought comments on this ICR pursuant 

to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received no 

comments during the comment period. 

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– 

HQ–OAR–2003–0162, which is 

available for online viewing at http:// 

www.regulations.gov, or in person at the 

Air Docket in the EPA Docket Center 

(EPA/DC), EPA West, Room 3334, 1301 

Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC. The EPA/DC 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 Docket is 

202–566–1742. 

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,’’ then 

key in the docket ID number identified 

above. 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 

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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: Proposed Regional Haze 

Regulations (Renewal). 

ICR numbers: EPA ICR No. 1813.07, 

OMB Control No. 2060–0412. 

ICR status: This ICR is scheduled to 

expire on October 31, 2009. 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, 

and 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: This ICR is for activities 

related to the implementation of EPA’s 

1999 regional haze rule for the time 

period between October 31, 2009, and 

October 30, 2012, and renews the 

previous ICR. The regional haze rule, as 

authorized by sections 169A and 169B 

of the Clean Air Act (CAA), requires 

States to develop implementation plans 

to protect visibility in 156 Federallyprotected Class I areas. Tribes may 

choose to develop implementation 

plans. For this time period, States will 

be completing their implementation 

plans to comply with the rule. Before 

any agency, department, or 

instrumentality of the Federal 

government engages in, supports in any 

way, provides financial assistance for, 

licenses, permits, approves any activity, 

that agency has the affirmative 

responsibility to ensure that such action 

conforms to the State Implementation 

Plan (SIP) required under the regional 

haze rule. Section 176(c) of the CAA (42 

U.S.C. 7401 et seq.) require that all 

Federal actions conform with the SIP 

requirements. Depending on the type of 

action, the Federal entities must collect 

information themselves, hire 

consultants to collect the information or 

require applicants/sponsors of the 

Federal action to provide the 

information. 

Burden Statement: The annual public 

reporting and recordkeeping burden for 

this collection of information is 

estimated to average 37 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 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. 

The ICR provides a detailed 

explanation of the Agency’s estimate, 

which is only briefly summarized here: 

Estimated total number of potential 

respondents: 859. 

Frequency of response: Annual. 

Estimated total average number of 

responses for each respondent: 1. 

Estimated total annual burden hours: 

31,841 hours. 

Estimated total annual costs: 

$1,880,000, which is comprised of labor 

costs exclusively. This includes $0 for 

both capital investment and 

maintenance and operational costs. 

Changes in the Estimates. There are 

only minor revisions to the cost 

estimates since the last renewal of this 

ICR (July 11, 2006; 71 FR 39104). The 

last collection request anticipated the 

program progressing from the planning 

stages to implementation. That 

transition has been somewhat delayed 

as most States were late in getting their 

implementation plans submitted by the 

December 2007 deadline. Also, the 

decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals 

for the DC Circuit to both vacate (on July 

11, 2008) and subsequently remand (on 

December 23, 2008) the Clean Air 

Interstate Rule has added much 

uncertainty to the implementation 

phase of the program. Consequently, the 

amount of effort anticipated in July 2006 

remains the same today, and burden 

estimates are essentially unchanged, 

except for revised labor and wage rates 

using 2007 cost estimates. Also, in 2006, 

it was estimated that one Tribe would 

submit a SIP; however no Tribes elected 

to submit SIPs and the number of 

respondents has been reduced by one. 

Dated: August 20, 2009. 

John Moses, 

Director, Collection of Strategies Division. 

[FR Doc. E9–20600 Filed 8–25–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2009–0143; FRL–8432–8] 

Birnbaum Interpreting Services; 

Transfer of Data 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces that 

pesticide related information submitted 

to EPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs 

(OPP) pursuant to the Federal 

Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide 

Act (FIFRA) and the Federal Food, Drug, 

and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), including 

information that may have been claimed 

as Confidential Business Information 

(CBI) by the submitter, will be 

transferred to Birnbaum Interpreting 

Services in accordance with 40 CFR 

2.307(h)(3) and 2.308(i)(2). Birnbaum 

Interpreting Services has been awarded 

multiple contracts to perform work for 

OPP, and access to this information will 

enable Birnbaum Interpreting Services 

to fulfill the obligations of the contract. 

DATES: Birnbaum Interpreting Services 

will be given access to this information 

on or before August 31, 2009. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Felicia Croom, Information Technology 

and Resources Management Division 

(7502P), Office of Pesticide Programs, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460–0001; telephone number: 

(703) 305–0786; e-mail address: 

croom.felicia@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information 

A. Does this Action Apply to Me? 

This action applies to the public in 

general. As such, the Agency has not 

attempted to describe all the specific 

entities that may be affected by this 

action. If you have any questions 

regarding the applicability of this action 

to a particular entity, consult the person 

listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

B. How Can I Get Copies of this 

Document and Other Related 

Information? 

1. Docket. EPA has established a 

docket for this action under docket 

identification (ID) number EPA–HQ– 

OPP–2009–0143. Publicly available 

docket materials are available either in 

the electronic docket at http:// 

www.regulations.gov, or, if only 

available in hard copy, at the Office of 

Pesticide Programs (OPP) Regulatory 

Public Docket in Rm. S–4400, One 


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