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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 

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Potomac Yard (South Bldg.), 2777 S. 

Crystal Dr., Arlington, VA. The hours of 

operation of this Docket Facility are 

from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, excluding legal 

holidays. The Docket Facility telephone 

number is (703) 305–5805. 

2. Electronic access. You may access 

this Federal Register document 

electronically through the EPA Internet 

under the ‘‘Federal Register’’ listings at 

http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr. 

II. Contractor Requirements 

Under these contract numbers, the 

contractor will perform the following: 

Under Contract No. EP-08-H000383, 

The Birnbaum Intrepreting Services will 

provide with Sign Language interpreting 

services. The work will be performed in 

a space to be designated by EPA, 

primarily at EPA Headquarters and 

other Washington, DC area EPA 

facilities. Occasional travel will be 

involved. The sign language personnel 

will report to the location specified by 

the EPA Headquarters Interpreting 

Coordinator, also identified as the 

Project Officer under this contract. The 

contract does not employ any 

subcontractors. 

The OPP has determined that the 

contracts described in this document 

involve work that is being conducted in 

connection with FIFRA, in that 

pesticide chemicals will be the subject 

of certain evaluations to be made under 

this contract. These evaluations may be 

used in subsequent regulatory decisions 

under FIFRA. 

Some of this information may be 

entitled to confidential treatment. The 

information has been submitted to EPA 

under sections 3, 4, 6, and 7 of FIFRA 

and under sections 408 and 409 of 

FFDCA. 

In accordance with the requirements 

of 40 CFR 2.307(h)(3), the contracts with 

Birnbaum Interpreting Services, 

prohibits use of the information for any 

purpose not specified in these contracts; 

prohibits disclosure of the information 

to a third party without prior written 

approval from the Agency; and requires 

that each official and employee of the 

contractor sign an agreement to protect 

the information from unauthorized 

release and to handle it in accordance 

with the FIFRA Information Security 

Manual. In addition, Birnbaum 

Interpreting Services is required to 

submit for EPA approval a security plan 

under which any CBI will be secured 

and protected against unauthorized 

release or compromise. No information 

will be provided to Birnbaum 

Interpreting Services until the 

requirements in this document have 

been fully satisfied. Records of 

information provided to Birnbaum 

Interpreting Services will be maintained 

by EPA Project Officers for these 

contracts. All information supplied to 

Birnbaum Interpreting Services by EPA 

for use in connection with these 

contracts will be returned to EPA when 

Birnbaum Interpreting Services has 

completed its work. 

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection, Business 

and industry, Government contracts, 

Government property, Security 

measures. 

Dated: August 19, 2009. 

Oscar Morales, 

Acting Director, Office of Pesticide Programs. 

[FR Doc. E9–20606 Filed 8–25–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–S 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–8941–2] 

Final EPA Region 4 National Pollutant 

Discharge Elimination System 

(NPDES) General Permit for 

Stormwater Discharges From 

Construction Activities 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of final permit issuance. 

SUMMARY: EPA Region 4 is issuing the 

final National Pollutant Discharge 

Elimination System (NPDES) general 

permit for stormwater discharges from 

new dischargers engaged in large and 

small construction activities on Indian 

Country Lands within Region 4. 

Hereinafter, this NPDES general permit 

will be referred to as ‘‘permit’’ or ‘‘2009 

construction general permit’’ or ‘‘2009 

CGP.’’ ‘‘New dischargers’’ are those who 

did not file a notice of intent (‘‘NOI’’) to 

be covered under the 2004 construction 

general permit (‘‘2004 CGP’’) before it 

expired. Existing dischargers who 

properly filed an NOI to be covered 

under the 2004 CGP continue to be 

authorized to discharge under that 

permit according to its terms. This 2009 

CGP contains generally the same limits 

and conditions as the National CGP that 

was issued by other EPA regions and 

became effective on June 30, 2008 

(‘‘2008 National CGP’’). EPA Region 4 is 

issuing this CGP for a period not to 

exceed two (2) years and will make the 

permit available to new construction 

activities and unpermitted ongoing 

activities only. 

DATES: The effective date of this permit 

is September 1, 2009 and will expire at 

midnight August 31, 2011. This 

effective date is necessary to provide 

dischargers with the immediate 

opportunity to comply with Clean Water 

Act requirements in light of the 

expiration of the 2004 CGP. In 

accordance with 40 CFR part 23, this 

permit shall be considered issued for 

the purpose of judicial review on 

September 15, 2009. Under Section 

509(b) of the Clean Water Act, judicial 

review of this general permit can be had 

by filing a petition for review in the 

United States Court of Appeals within 

120 days after the permit is considered 

issued for purposes of judicial review. 

Under section 509(b)(2) of the Clean 

Water Act, the requirements in this 

permit may not be challenged later in 

civil or criminal proceedings to enforce 

these requirements. In addition, this 

permit may not be challenged in other 

agency proceedings. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Alanna Conley, Water Protection 

Division, Stormwater and Nonpoint 

Source Section, Environmental 

Protection Agency, Region 4, 61 Forsyth 

Street, SW., Atlanta, GA 30303; 

telephone number: (404) 562–9443. In 

addition, copies of the permit and fact 

sheet may be downloaded at http:// 

www.epa.gov/region4/water/permits/

stormwater.html. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information 

A. Does This Action Apply to Me? 

If a discharger chooses to apply to be 

authorized to discharge under the 2009 

construction general permit (‘‘2009 

CGP’’), the permit provides specific 

requirements for preventing 

contamination of stormwater discharges 

from the following construction 

activities: 


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