35922 Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 109 / Tuesday, June 6, 2000 / Notices

agency’s comments must also be sent to

the Applicant’s representatives.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 00–14076 Filed 6–5–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–6709–8]

Agency Information Collection

Activities: Submission for OMB

Review; Comment Request; EPA

Indoor Environmental Quality

Questionnaire

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:

Title: EPA Indoor Environmental

Quality Questionnaire, OMB Control

Number 2060–0244, expiration date 5/

31/2000. 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 July 6, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Sandy Farmer at EPA by phone at (202)

260–2740, by e-mail at

Farmer.Sandy@epa.gov or download off

the Internet at http://www.epa.gov/icr

and refer to EPA ICR No. 1619.03.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: EPA Indoor Environmental

Quality Questionnaire, OMB Control

Number 2060–0244 EPA ICR Number

1619.03, expiration date 5/31/00. This is

a request for extension of a currently

approved collection.

Abstract: The Indoor Environmental

Quality Questionnaire is a component of

the EPA indoor air quality (IAQ)

research program, used in the Building

Assessment Survey and Evaluation

(BASE) and related intervention studies.

In this program, EPA is studying up to

200 large commercial and public

buildings. The purpose of this program

is to develop a national baseline

assessment of the indoor air in such

buildings and to test the effectiveness of

current EPA guidance for improving

IAQ. The activities EPA will conduct

under this program include an Indoor

Environmental Quality Questionnaire,

building inspections, interviews with

building maintenance workers,

environmental measurements (e.g.,

ventilation rates, concentrations of

indoor air pollutants), and other

quantitative and qualitative

assessments. By conducting this

research, EPA will begin to be able to

assess the key building parameters that

affect IAQ, the incidence of certain IAQrelated health and comfort problems,

and effectiveness of strategies to

improve IAQ and avoid IAQ problems.

The Indoor Environmental Quality

Questionnaire is a voluntary and

anonymous questionnaire asking for

information pertaining to work station

characteristics, working conditions,

exposure to pollutants, health and wellbeing, and stress. Data from the Indoor

Environmental Quality Questionnaire

will be used to compare the measured

building parameters and health effects.

Under the existing ICR authority, EPA

has used this Questionnaire in 113

buildings to date.

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

February 12, 1999 (64 FR 7188); 1

comment was received.

Burden Statement: The annual public

reporting and recordkeeping burden for

this collection of information is

estimated to average 14 minutes 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:

Occupants of commercial and public

facilities in wide variety of fields and

SIC codes.

Estimated Number of Respondents:

500.

Frequency of Response: One-time

response for 60% of respondents; 40%

of respondents will complete

questionnaire twice with a one-year

interval between responses.

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:

127.

Estimated Total Annualized 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. 1619.03 and

OMB Control No. 2060–0244 in any

correspondence.

Ms. Sandy Farmer, U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency, Office of

Environmental Information,

Collection Strategies Division, Mail

Code 2822, 1200 Pennsylvania

Avenue, 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 30, 2000.

Oscar Morales,

Director, Collection Strategies Division.

[FR Doc. 00–14180 Filed 6–5–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–6710–2]

Agency Information Collection

Activities: Submission for OMB

Review; Comment Request; New

Source Performance Standards

(NSPS), Surface Coating of Plastic

Parts for Business Machines

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: New Source Performance

Standards (NSPS), Subpart TTT, Surface

Coating of Plastic Parts for Business

Machines; OMB Control Number 2060–

0162; expiration date August 31, 2000.

The ICR describes the nature of the