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Burden Statement: The annual

‘‘respondent’’ burden for this ICR is

estimated to range from 59 hours to

13,636 hours per response, depending

on the type of DCI.

According to the Paperwork

Reduction Act, ‘‘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.

For this collection, it is the time reading

the regulations, planning the necessary

data collection activities, conducting

tests, analyzing data, generating reports

and completing other required

paperwork, and storing, filing, and

maintaining the data. The 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 number for this

information collection appear at the

beginning and the end of this document.

In addition OMB control numbers for

EPA’s regulations, after initial display in

the final rule, are listed in 40 CFR part

9 and 48 CFR Chapter 15.

Respondents/Affected Entities:

Pesticide registrants.

Estimated Number of Annual

Respondents: 31.

Frequency of Response: Once. Five

years after tolerance decision.

Estimated number of annual

responses for each respondent: 1.

Estimated Total Annual Burden:

29,807 hours.

Estimated Total Annualized Burden

Costs: $2,773,866.

Dated: May 10, 2000.

Oscar Morales,

Director, Collection Strategies Division.

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

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Agency Information Collection

Activities: Submission for OMB

Review; Comment Request; National

Emission Standards for Hazardous Air

Pollutants (NESHAP) for

Perchloroethylene (PCE) Dry Cleaning

Facilities

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: NESHAP for

Perchloroethylene (PCE) Dry Cleaning

Facilities Subpart M, OMB Control

Number 2060–0234 and expiration date

of 6/30/00. 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 16, 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.1415.04.

For technical questions about the ICR

contact Joyce Chandler at (202) 564–

7073, by email at

chandler.joyce@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: National Emission Standards for

Hazardous Air Pollutants for

Perchloroethylene (PCE) Dry Cleaning

Facilities Subpart M (OMB Control No.

2060–0234; EPA ICR No. 1415.04)

expiring 6/30/00. This is a request for

extension of a currently approved

collection.

Abstract: These standards apply to

owners or operators of dry cleaning

facilities that use perchloroethylene

(PCE). Owners or operators of such

facilities must provide EPA, or the

delegated State regulatory authority,

with the one-time notifications and

reports. The owners or operators must

also perform weekly monitoring (or

biweekly for the smallest facilities) and

must keep records for 5 years. The

notification and reports enable EPA or

the delegated State regulatory authority

to determine whether the appropriate

control technology is installed and

properly operated and maintained, and

to schedule inspections and/or

compliance assistance activities. The

responses to this information collection

are mandatory under Clean Air Act

section 112 and 40 CFR part 63, subpart

M. The responses are not anticipated to

be kept confidential due to the nature of

the information collected; however, any

information submitted to the Agency for

which a claim of confidentiality is made

will be safeguarded according to the

Agency policies set forth in 40 CFR part

2. 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 10/29/

99 (64 FR 58396); No comments were

received.

Burden Statement: The annual public

reporting and recordkeeping burden for

this collection of information is

estimated to average 230 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: Dry

Cleaning Plants.

Estimated Number of Respondents:

25,090.

Frequency of Response: 2 per new

facility.

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:

1,212,129.

Estimated Total Annualized Capital

and Operating & Maintenance 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. 1415.04 and

OMB Control No. 2060–0234 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.

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Dated: May 10, 2000.

Oscar Morales,

Director, Collection Strategies Division.

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Integrated Risk Information System

(IRIS): Announcement of 2000

Program—Addendum; Request for

Information

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency.

ACTION: Notice; addendum to

announcement of IRIS 2000 program

and request for scientific information on

health effects that may result from

chronic exposure to chemical

substances.

SUMMARY: The Integrated Risk

Information System (IRIS) is an

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

data base that contains EPA scientific

consensus positions on human health

effects that may result from chronic

exposure to chemical substances in the

environment. On January 12, 2000, EPA

announced the 2000 IRIS agenda and

solicited scientific information from the

public for consideration in assessing

health effects from specific chemical

substances. This notice adds the

chemical substances hexachlorobenzene

and hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-triazine

(‘‘RDX’’) to the IRIS agenda, and solicits

scientific data and evaluations for

consideration in EPA’s assessments.

DATES: Please submit information in

response to this notice by July 17, 2000.

ADDRESSES: Please send relevant

scientific information to the IRIS

Submission Desk in accordance with the

instructions provided under

‘‘Submission of Information’’ in this

notice.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For

information on the IRIS program,

contact Amy Mills, National Center for

Environmental Assessment (mail code

8601D), U.S. Environmental Protection

Agency, Washington, DC 20460, or call

(202) 564–3204, or send electronic mail

inquiries to mills.amy@epa.gov. For

general questions about access to IRIS,

or the content of IRIS, please call the

Risk Information Hotline at (513) 569–

7254.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

IRIS is an EPA data base containing

Agency consensus scientific positions

on potential adverse human health

effects that may result from chronic (or

lifetime) exposure to chemical

substances found in the environment.

IRIS currently provides health effects

information on over 500 specific

chemical substances.

IRIS contains chemical-specific

summaries of qualitative and

quantitative health information in

support of the first two steps of the risk

assessment process, i.e., hazard

identification and dose-response

evaluation. IRIS information includes

the reference dose for noncancer health

effects resulting from oral exposure, the

reference concentration for noncancer

health effects resulting from inhalation

exposure, and the carcinogen

assessment for both oral and inhalation

exposure. Combined with specific

situational exposure assessment

information, the summary health hazard

information in IRIS may be used as a

source in evaluating potential public

health risks from environmental

contaminants.

The IRIS Program

EPA’s process for developing IRIS

consists of: (1) An annual Federal

Register announcement of EPA’s IRIS

agenda and call for scientific

information from the public on the

selected chemical substances, (2) a

search of the current literature, (3)

development of health assessments and

draft IRIS summaries, (4) peer review

within EPA, (5) peer review outside

EPA, (6) EPA consensus review and

management approval, (7) preparation

of final IRIS summaries and supporting

documents, and (8) entry of summaries

and supporting documents into the IRIS

data base.

Purpose of This Notice

EPA is adding the chemical

substances hexachlorobenzene (CAS No.

118–74–1) and hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitrotriazine or ‘‘RDX,’’ (CAS No.121–82–4)

to its assessment agenda for fiscal year

2000. EPA is hereby requesting

scientific information from the public

for consideration in these two

assessments.

As described in the January 12, 2000,

Federal Register document (63 FR 1863)

announcing the IRIS agenda for fiscal

year 2000, EPA is testing ways to

cooperate with external parties,

including other government agencies, in

the development of supporting

documentation for IRIS. The Agency is

initiating these two assessments to build

upon a common interest with other

federal agencies. EPA’s Superfund

program has identified a strong need to

update the existing IRIS entry for

hexachlorobenzene. This substance is

frequently found at Superfund sites and

is critical to a number of human health

risk assessments. Concurrently, the

Agency for Toxic Substances and

Disease Registry (ATSDR) has identified

hexachlorobenzene as a priority

substance for developing a revised

Toxicological Profile. EPA and ATSDR

will therefore coordinate their efforts in

developing the IRIS Toxicological

Review and the revised ATSDR

Toxicological Profile for

Hexachlorobenzene. Similarly, the U.S.

Army has identified a strong need to

update the existing IRIS entry for RDX,

which frequently occurs at federal

facilities operated by the U.S. Army and

is critical to a number of human health

risk assessments. EPA and the U.S.

Army will coordinate their efforts in

developing a Toxicological Review for

RDX. New scientific information is

available to evaluate and reassess the

potential health effects of both

substances.

These joint efforts with other federal

agencies is a pilot effort to utilize

federal resources more effectively and

provide more consistent information to

the public. Completion of the

hexachlorobenzene and RDX

assessments and addition to the IRIS

data base is expected by fiscal year

2002.

Submission of Information

As in previous Federal Register

documents announcing the annual IRIS

agenda, EPA is soliciting public

information on hexachlorobenzene and

RDX. While EPA conducts a thorough

literature search for each chemical

substance, there may be other articles or

unpublished studies we are not aware

of. We would greatly appreciate

receiving scientific information from the

public during the information gathering.

Interested persons should provide

scientific comments, analyses, studies,

and other pertinent scientific

information. The most useful

documents for EPA are unpublished

studies or other primary technical

sources that we may not otherwise

obtain through open literature searches.

Also note that if you have submitted

certain information previously, there is

no need to resubmit that information.

Information from the public is being

solicited for 60 days via this notice.

Procedures for Submission

As described in the January 12, 2000,

Federal Register document,

submissions will be handled in a threestep process:

1. Submission Inventory: First, you

should simply provide a list within 60