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for the proper performance of the

functions of the agency, including

whether the information will have

practical utility;

(ii) evaluate the accuracy of the

agency’s estimate of the burden of the

proposed collection of information,

including the validity of the

methodology and assumptions used;

(iii) enhance the quality, utility, and

clarity of the information to be

collected; and

(iv) minimize the burden of the

collection of information on those who

are to respond, including through the

use of appropriate automated electronic,

mechanical, or other technological

collection techniques or other forms of

information technology, e.g., permitting

electronic submission of responses.

Burden Statement: The annual public

reporting and recordkeeping burden for

this collection of information is

estimated to average 0.7 hours per

response (OMB #2060–0095), and 0.5

hours per response (OMB #2060–0294)

respectively. 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.

OMB #2060–0095

Respondents/Affected entities:

Individuals and businesses importing

motor vehicles, motor vehicle engines.

Estimated Number of Respondents:

13,000

Frequency of Response: 1.6

responses/year

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:

14,200

Estimated Total Annualized Costs

Burden: $1,296,000

OMB #2060–0294

Respondents/Affected entities:

Individuals and businesses importing

compression-ignition nonroad engines

and small spark-ignition nonroad

engines, including those incorporated

into nonroad equipment or vehicles.

Estimated Number of Respondents:

1500

Frequency of Response: 100

responses/year

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:

75,385

Estimated Total Annualized Costs

Burden: $4,686,450

Dated: April 20, 2000.

Robert Brenner,

Acting Assistant Administrator, Office of Air

and Radiation.

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–6586–5]

Agency Information Collection

Activities: Proposed Collection;

Comment Request; 2000 Meat

Products Industry Survey

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 EPA is planning to submit the

following proposed Information

Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of

Management and Budget (OMB): 2000

Meat Products Industry Survey (EPA

ICR No. 1961.01). This industry

includes red meat and poultry

slaughtering, processing and rendering.

Before submitting the ICR to OMB for

review and approval, EPA is soliciting

comments on specific aspects of the

proposed information collection as

described below.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on

or before June 30, 2000.

ADDRESSES: Comments may be mailed to

Ms. Samantha Lewis, U.S. EPA (4303),

Ariel Rios Building, 1200 Pennsylvania

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460.

Comments may also be submitted

electronically to

lewis.samantha@epa.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To

request a copy of the information

collection request, including a draft of

the survey instrument, contact Ms.

Samantha Lewis at (202)–260–7149.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Affected Entities: Entities potentially

affected by this action include red meat

and poultry slaughtering, processing

and rendering facilities. The survey is

intended to identify and collect data

from meat product facilities that

generate and discharge process

wastewater associated with industrial

activities.

Title: 2000 Meat Products Industry

Survey (EPA ICR No. 1961.01).

Abstract: The survey is intended to

collect technical and economic

information required by EPA to develop

revised effluent limitations guidelines

for the meat products industry point

source category. The current meat

product regulations at 40 CFR 432 do

not contain effluent limitations

guidelines or pretreatment standards for

the poultry slaughtering or processing

industry. EPA is required by section

304(m) of the Clean Water Act (33

U.S.C. 1314(m)) to review effluent

limitations guidelines and standards

periodically. These reviews determine

whether the current regulations remain

appropriate in light of changes in the

industrial category caused by advances

in manufacturing technologies, inprocess pollution prevention, or end-ofpipe wastewater treatment. EPA is also

required by the terms of a Consent

Decree with the Natural Resources

Defense Council (NRDC), to develop

revised effluent limitations guidelines

and standards for the Meat Products

Industry (D.D.C. Civ. No. 89–2980,

January 31, 1992, as modified). This

survey is being conducted pursuant to

those legislative and judicial

requirements.

This survey instrument will be issued

under authority of section 308 of the

Clean Water Act of 1987 (Federal Water

Pollution Control Act, 5 U.S.C. 1318);

responses from data collection survey

instrument recipients will be

mandatory. The survey instrument will

be mailed to respondents after OMB

approves the ICR. The ICR submitted by

EPA to OMB will include discussion of

the comments received in response to

today’s announcement.

The proposed survey instrument is a

necessary part of the effluent limitations

guidelines development process. The

proposed survey instrument will

provide EPA with the technical and

economic data required to evaluate

effective pollution control technologies

and the economic achievability of any

final rule that the Agency issues. Any

burden reduction suggestions must

consider the need to collect information

on the pollutants being discharged by

the industries, the processes that

generate the pollutants, alternative

controls, the economic achievability of

the proposed regulations, and the

benefits derived from reducing

pollution in our oceans, lakes, rivers,

and streams. EPA will consider both

technical performance and economic

achievability when making final

decisions on 40 CFR part 432.

Regulations governing the

confidentiality of business information

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are contained in the Code of Federal

Regulations (CFR) at Title 40 Part 2,

Subpart B. A business confidentiality

claim may be submitted by the

respondent covering part or all of the

response to this survey, other than

effluent data, as described in 40 CFR

2.203(b):

(b) Method and time of asserting business

confidentiality claim. A business which is

submitting information to EPA may assert a

business confidentiality claim covering the

information by placing on (or attaching to)

the information, at the time it is submitted

to EPA, a cover sheet, stamped or typed

legend, or other suitable form of notice

complying language such as ‘trade secret,’

‘proprietary,’ or ‘company confidential.’

Allegedly confidential portions of otherwise

nonconfidential documents should be clearly

identified by the business, and may be

submitted separately to facilitate

identification and handling by EPA. If the

business desires confidential treatment only

until a certain date or until the occurrence of

a certain event, the notice should so state.

If no business confidentiality claim

accompanies the information when it is

received by EPA, EPA may make the

information available to the public

without further notice.

The proposed survey instrument was

developed in such a manner as to

reduce burden and improve clarity. EPA

has conducted one outreach meeting

with the major industry trade

associations. Additionally, the survey

instrument was distributed in advance

of this notice to industry trade

associations, including: American Meat

Institute, National Chicken Council, and

the National Renderers Association.

Because of the complexity of the

industry and the substantial changes in

the meat products industry since 40

CFR Part 432 was promulgated over

twenty years ago, EPA has decided to

prepare a survey instrument to

characterize accurately current

conditions in the meat products

industry as a basis for establishing

equitable regulations.

EPA sometimes develops and

distributes a screener questionnaire in

order to better define the target

population for a regulation. The

screener allows the agency to eliminate

facilities from consideration which are

not anticipated to fit under the scope of

the regulation. However, for the meat

products industry, a number of factors

make this additional step unnecessary.

These factors include the existence of

well-organized trade associations,

facility lists from a variety of data

sources, and past agency experience.

EPA believes that the facilities

potentially affected by this regulation

can be adequately characterized by

sending the questionnaire to only a

percentage of facilities in the industry

(approximately 250 facilities). (This

number may change before the survey is

mailed as we refine our methodology for

determining the percentage of facilities

to receive the questionnaire.) Therefore,

there will be no screener questionnaire.

The Agency solicits comment on this

decision.

Finally, EPA will maintain a

temporary, toll-free telephone number

once the survey instrument has been

mailed that survey recipients may call

to obtain assistance in completing the

survey instrument. EPA believes that

the toll-free telephone number will

greatly reduce burden by helping

recipients to answer specific questions

within the context of their individual

operations.

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.

The EPA would like to solicit

comments to:

(i) Evaluate whether the proposed

collection of information is necessary

for the proper performance of the

functions of the agency, including

whether the information will have

practical utility;

(ii) Evaluate the accuracy of the

agency’s estimate of the burden of the

proposed collection of information,

including the validity of the

methodology and assumptions used;

(iii) Enhance the quality, utility, and

clarity of the information to be

collected; and

(iv) Minimize the burden of the

collection of information on those who

are to respond, including through the

use of appropriate automated electronic,

mechanical, or other technological

collection techniques or other forms of

information technology, e.g., permitting

electronic submission of responses.

Burden Statement: 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.

The EPA burden estimate on

industrial facilities is based on an

estimated 250 facilities completing the

questionnaire with different

configurations of meat product

processes (large complex

slaughterhouses to small stand alone

facilities). EPA estimates that the total

cost burden will be approximately

$521,250 and the hour burden will be

7,500 hours, as described in more detail

in the tables below.

RESPONDENT AVERAGE BURDEN PER

SURVEY RESPONSE ACTIVITY

Respondent activity

Total burden

per activity

(hours)

Read Instructions .................. 3

Gather Information/Data ....... 12

Complete Survey Form ........ 12

Review Survey Responses .. 3

All Activities ................ 30

COLLECTION OF MEAT PRODUCTS INDUSTRY DATA, TOTAL RESPONDENT BURDEN AND COSTS

Total number of

responses

Average burden

per respondent

(in hours)

Total burden

(in hours)

Average labor

costs per

respondent

(in dollars)

Total labor

costs

(in dollars)

Average O&M

costs per

respondent

(in dollars)

Total O&M cost

(in dollars)

Total costs

(in dollars)

250 30 7,500 $2,076 $519,000 $9.00 $2,250 $521,250

In addition, EPA also solicits

comments and suggestions regarding the

substance and form of the draft survey

instrument. For example, are the

directions and questions clear and

concise; are the definitions consistent

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with industry jargon and use of terms;

are the right questions in the survey; if

not, please suggest more appropriate

ones; do the questions adequately cover

all pertinent factors relevant to

developing equitable guidelines; if not,

what needs to be added? EPA is also

soliciting comments on means of

reducing the data collection burden.

Dated: April 24, 2000.

James Hanlon,

Acting Director, Office of Science and

Technology.

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–6587–2]

Notice of Availability of the Project XL

Proposed Final Project Agreement:

Naval Station Mayport Project—

Beneficial Reuse of Dredged Material;

Regulatory Reinvention (XL) Pilot

Projects

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency.

ACTION: Notice of availability of the

Project XL Proposed Final Project

Agreement: Naval Station Mayport

Project—Beneficial Reuse of Dredged

Material.

SUMMARY: EPA is requesting comments

on a proposed Project XL Final Project

Agreement (FPA) for Naval Station

Mayport (hereafter ‘‘NS Mayport’’). The

FPA is a voluntary agreement developed

collaboratively by NS Mayport, the

Jacksonville District of the U.S. Army

Corps of Engineers (COE), the Florida

Department of Environmental Protection

(DEP), the City of Jacksonville

(Jacksonville) and EPA. Project XL,

announced in the Federal Register on

May 23, 1995 (60 FR 27282), gives

regulated entities the flexibility to

develop alternative strategies that will

replace or modify specific regulatory or

procedural requirements on the

condition that they produce greater

environmental benefits. EPA has set a

goal of implementing fifty XL projects

undertaken in full partnership with the

states.

In order to maintain operations at NS

Mayport, 600,000 cubic yards of

sediment must be dredged every 18–24

months from the facility’s entrance

channel and turning basin. Since 1993,

NS Mayport has been disposing of this

material into the ocean. To reduce and

eventually eliminate ocean disposal, NS

Mayport proposes to use this excess

dredged material as the foundation for

the production of construction blocks

and artificial reef material. Initially, the

dredged material for construction of the

building blocks and the artificial reef

material will be derived from two

existing upland holding sites. In the

future, the dredged material will come

(either directly or indirectly through

temporary storage at the upland holding

sites) from the facility’s maintenance

dredging projects thereby eliminating

the need for ocean disposal of this

material. By the year 2020, NS Mayport

has estimated that without this project,

it will have disposed of approximately

ten (10) million cubic yards of dredged

material into the ocean. Additionally,

NS Mayport is considering use of excess

flyash produced by Jacksonville’s

electrical generating plant as a

solidification material for the

construction blocks. No flyash will be

used to make materials for artificial

reefs.

In order for NS Mayport to dredge its

entrance channel and turning basin, and

dispose of the material into the ocean,

it is required to obtain two permits from

the COE: a Section 10 permit for

dredging and a Section 103 permit for

ocean disposal. COE 103 permits for

ocean disposal are subject to EPA

concurrence. NS Mayport is also

required to obtain from Florida DEP an

Environmental Resource Permit and any

associated Sovereign Submerged Land

authorizations. As noted above, NS

Mayport is currently required to obtain

three permits, with three different timelines, to dredge and dispose of its

maintenance dredged material. This

creates a confusing process during the

permit’s renewal and public comment

periods. Through Project XL, NS

Mayport is asking EPA to participate in

a partnership with COE, Florida DEP,

Jacksonville, and interested

Stakeholders to synchronize the

dredging and ocean disposal permitting

process. The COE regulations state that

ocean disposal permits will not exceed

three (3) years. These regulations,

however, allow the COE district

engineer to grant permit extensions.

Though the regulations allow

extensions, EPA Region 4 and the

Jacksonville District of the COE do not

have procedures for such extensions.

This Project establishes procedures for

EPA Region 4 and the Jacksonville

District of the COE by proposing a fiveyear (5) permit sequence, consisting of

a three-year (3) permit with a two-year

(2) permit extension when appropriate.

This XL project has no bearing on the

separate discussions surrounding the

Agency’s final regulatory determination

for flyash. Further, this Federal Register

Notice is not soliciting comments on the

Agency’s final regulatory determination

for flyash. NS Mayport is not seeking

any relief from regulatory requirements,

including any that may result from EPA

action pursuant to the regulatory

determination for flyash.

DATES: The period for submission of

comments ends on May 22, 2000.

ADDRESSEES: All comments on the

proposed Final Project Agreement

should be sent to: Ms. Michelle Glenn,

US EPA, Region 4, 61 Forsyth Street,

Atlanta, GA 30303, or Ms. Lisa Reiter

US EPA, Ariel Rios Building, Mail Code

1802, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW,

Washington, DC 20460. Comments may

also be faxed to Michelle Glenn (404)

562–8063 or Lisa Reiter (202) 260–3125.

Comments may also be received via

electronic mail sent to:

glenn.michelle@epa.gov or

reiter.lisa@epa.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: To obtain a

copy of the Project Fact Sheet or the

proposed Final Project Agreement,

contact: Michelle Glenn, US EPA,

Region 4, 61 Forsyth Street, Atlanta, GA

30303, or Lisa Reiter, US EPA, Mail

Code 1802, Ariel Rios Building, 1200

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington,

DC 20460. The FPA and related

documents are also available via the

Internet at the following location: http:/

/www.epa.gov/ProjectXL. In addition,

the proposed FPA will be available at

the Beaches Branch Public Library—600

Third St., Neptune Beach, FL. Questions

to EPA regarding the documents can be

directed to Michelle Glenn at (404) 562–

8674 or Lisa Reiter at (202) 260–9041.

To be included on the NS Mayport

Project XL mailing list about future

public meetings, XL progress reports

and other mailings from NS Mayport on

the XL project, contact Cheryl Mitchell,

Environmental Director, NS Mayport,

Mayport, FL 32228–0067 or (904) 270–

6730. For information on all other

aspects of the XL Program, contact

Christopher Knopes at the following

address: Office of Policy and

Reinvention, US EPA, Mail Code 1802,

Ariel Rios Building, 1200 Pennsylvania

Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20460.

Additional information on Project XL,

including documents referenced in this

notice, other EPA policy documents

related to Project XL, regional XL

contacts, application information, and

descriptions of existing XL projects and

proposals, is available via the Internet at

http://www.epa.gov/ProjectXL.