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E-Mail at

Farmer.Sandy@epamail.epa.gov or

download off the Internet at http://

www.epa.gov/icr and refer to EPA ICR

No. 1790.02. For technical questions

about the ICR contact Stephen Howie, at

202–564–4146.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: NESHAP—Phosphoric Acid

Manufacturing and Phosphate

Fertilizers Production OMB No. 2060–

0361, ICR No. 1790.02, expiration 6/30/

00. This is a request for extension of a

currently approved collection.

Abstract: Owners/operators of

affected phosphoric acid manufacturing

and phosphate fertilizer production

must submit one-time notifications

(where applicable) and annual reports

on performance test results. Semiannual

reports for periods of operation during

which the monitoring parameter

boundaries established during the initial

compliance test are exceeded (or reports

certifying that no exceedances have

occurred) also are required.

Subparts AA and BB require

respondents to install monitoring

devices to measure the pressure drop

and liquid flow rate for wet scrubbers.

These operating parameters are

permitted to vary within ranges

determined concurrently with

performance tests. Exceedances of the

operating ranges are considered

violations of the site-specific operating

limits.

The standards require sources to

determine and record the amount of

phosphatic feed material processed or

stored on a daily basis. Respondents

also maintain records of specific

information needed to determine that

the standards are being achieved and

maintained.

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 Federal Register document

required under 5 CFR 1320.8(d),

soliciting comments on this collection

of information was published on

January 21, 2000; no comments were

received.

Burden Statement: The annual public

reporting and recordkeeping burden for

this collection of information is

estimated to average 21.5 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:

Phosphoric Acid Manufacturing and

Phosphate Fertilizers Production Plants.

Estimated Number of Respondents:

15.

Frequency of Response: Initial, SemiAnnually.

Estimated Number of Responses: 193.

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:

4,143.

Estimated Total Annualized Capital,

O&M Cost Burden: $ 66,000.

Send comments on the Agency’s need

for this information, the accuracy of the

provided burden estimates, and any

suggested methods for minimizing

respondent burden, including through

the use of automated collection

techniques to the following addresses.

Please refer to EPA ICR No. 1790.02 and

OMB Control No. 2060–0361 in any

correspondence.

Ms. Sandy Farmer, U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency, Office of

Environmental Information,

Collection Strategies Division (2822),

1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW,

Washington, DC 20460;

and

Office of Information and Regulatory

Affairs, Office of Management and

Budget, Attention: Desk Officer for

EPA, 725 17th Street, NW,

Washington, DC 20503.

Dated: May 2, 2000.

Oscar Morales,

Director, Collection Strategies Division.

[FR Doc. 00–11816 Filed 5–10–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–6605–2]

Agency Information Collection

Activities: Submission for OMB

Review; Comment Request, Standards

of Performance for New Stationary

Sources Phosphate Fertilizer Industry

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 the following Information

Collection Request (ICR) has been

forwarded to the Office of Management

and Budget (OMB) for review and

approval: Standards of Performance for

New Stationary Sources —Phosphate

Fertilizer Industry— NSPS part 60,

subparts T, U, V, W, and X, OMB

Control No. 2060–0037, expiration 8/31/

00. The ICR describes the nature of the

information collection and its expected

burden and cost; where appropriate, it

includes the actual data collection

instrument.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on

or before June 12, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For

a copy of the ICR contact Sandy Farmer

at EPA by phone at (202) 260–2740, by

E-Mail at

Farmer.Sandy@epamail.epa.gov or

download off the Internet at http://

www.epa.gov/icr and refer to EPA ICR

No.1061.08. For technical questions

about the ICR, contact Stephen Howie,

(202) 564–4146.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: Standards of Performance for

Phosphate Fertilizer Industry, OMB

Control No. 2060–0037; EPA ICR No

1061.08, expiration 8/31/00. This is a

request for extension of a currently

approved collection.

Abstract: The Administrator has

judged that fluoride emissions from the

phosphate fertilizer industry cause or

contribute to air pollution that may

reasonably be anticipated to endanger

public health or welfare. Phosphate

fertilizer plant and phosphate bearing

feed owners/operators of phosphate

fertilizer plants must notify EPA of

construction, modification, start-ups,

shutdowns, malfunctions, and dates and

results of the initial performance test.

Owners/operators must install,

calibrate, and maintain monitoring

devices to continuously measure/record

pressure drop across scrubbers.

Recordkeeping shall consist of: the

occurrence and duration of all startups

and malfunctions as described; initial

performance tests results; amount of

phosphate feed material; equivalent

calculated amounts of P2O5, and

pressure drops across scrubber systems.

Startups, shutdowns and malfunctions

must be recorded as they occur.

Performance test records must contain

information necessary to determine

conditions of performance test and

performance test measurements.

Equivalent P2O5, stored or amount of

feed must be recorded daily. The CMS

shall record pressure drop across

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scrubbers continuously and

automatically.

Reporting shall include: initial

notifications listed; and initial

performance test results.

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 Federal Register document

required under 5 CFR 1320.8(d),

soliciting comments on this collection

of information was published on

January 21, 2000; no comments were

received.

Burden Statement: The annual public

reporting and recordkeeping burden for

this collection of information is

estimated to average 87.5 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:

Phosphate Fertilizer Industry.

Estimated Number of Respondents:

11.

Frequency of Response: 1.

Estimated Number of Responses: 11.

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:

963 hours.

Estimated Total Annualized Capital,

O&M Cost Burden: 0.

Send comments on the Agency’s need

for this information, the accuracy of the

provided burden estimates, and any

suggested methods for minimizing

respondent burden, including through

the use of automated collection

techniques to the following addresses.

Please refer to EPA ICR No.1061.08 and

OMB Control No. 2060–0037 in any

correspondence.

Ms. Sandy Farmer, U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency, Office of

Environmental Information,

Collection Strategies Division (2822),

1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW,

Washington, DC 20460;

and

Office of Information and Regulatory

Affairs, Office of Management and

Budget, Attention: Desk Officer for

EPA, 725 17th Street, NW,

Washington, DC 20503.

Dated: May 2, 2000.

Oscar Morales,

Director, Collection Strategies Division.

[FR Doc. 00–11819 Filed 5–10–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–6605–6]

Notice of Availability of Funds for

Source Water Protection

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA) seeks proposals from

organizations interested in working with

communities across the nation that are

served by public water systems with

highly or moderately susceptible

drinking water sources to protect their

sources of drinking water from

contamination using a watershed or

‘‘resource-based’’ approach.

EPA is providing this financial

support to:

• Facilitate the establishment of a

technical field presence nationwide to

help communities that would benefit

from collaborative source water

protection actions with other

communities; and

• Assist communities across the

country in addressing the obstacles to

protecting their water resources and

lowering the susceptibility of source

waters through a watershed or

‘‘resource-based’’ planning approach.

EPA intends to use at least part of the

funds to help an organization interested

in establishing a national network of

field technicians to assist communities

with watershed or resource-based

planning to protect their water supplies.

However, EPA is very interested in

seeing other types of approaches to help

communities across the country protect

drinking water sources, such as an

approach that provides direct financial

assistance and technical support to

communities through means other than

a field presence. Depending upon the

proposals received, EPA will consider

awarding a second grant that would

complement a field technician

approach.

DATES: All project proposals must be

received by EPA no later than June 12,

2000.

ADDRESSES: Send five copies of the

complete proposal to: Betsy Henry

(4606), Office of Ground Water and

Drinking Water, U.S. EPA, 1200

Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Washington, DC

20460.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Betsy Henry, (202) 260–2399.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

What Is a State or Tribal Source Water

Assessment?

As mandated by the Safe Drinking

Water Act Amendments of 1996, a

state’s source water assessment

identifies the area that supplies water to

each public drinking water system

within the state, inventories the

significant potential sources of

contamination, and analyzes how

susceptible the drinking water source is

to contamination (often referred to as a

‘‘susceptibility determination’’). The

Amendments allocated funding to states

to complete source water assessments

for all 170,000 public water systems.

The results of these assessments are to

be provided to each water supplier and

made widely accessible to the public by

2003. EPA is also helping Tribes

complete source water assessments of

public water supplies in Indian

Country.

The assessments are intended to give

communities the information that they

need to make informed decisions to

protect their drinking water sources

from contamination.

What Is a Highly or Moderately

Susceptible Source Water Area?

There is a high degree of flexibility in

how a state determines the

susceptibility of its public water

systems. The organization would need

to work with the state source water

programs to identify those public water

systems or areas of the state that the

state determines are highly or

moderately susceptible to

contamination and would most benefit

from source water protection planning

on a watershed or resource-wide scale.

What Is Source Water Protection?

Source water protection is the

establishment of barriers that

significantly lower the risk of

contaminants of concern entering waters

serving as public drinking water

supplies. Building upon State or Tribal

source water assessments, more

communities will be examining what

actions are necessary to protect their