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finishing, cleaning materials and

adhesives used; (6) monthly weighted

average emission calculations; (7)

documentation of area source status, if

claimed; and (8) records of performance

and CMS tests.

Most recordkeeping and reporting

provisions of the rule consist of

emissions-related data and other

information not considered confidential.

However, the confidentiality of certain

information obtained by the Agency is

safeguarded according to Agency

policies set forth in title 40, chapter I,

part 2, subpart B—Confidentiality of

Business Information (see 40 CFR part 2;

41 FR 36902, September 1, 1976:

amended by 43 FR 3999, September 8,

1978; 43 FR 42251, September 20, 1987;

44 FR 17674, March 23, 1979).

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 the Agency’s regulations

are listed in 40 CFR part 9.

The Agency 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: The previous ICR,

approved for use through February 10,

1998, indicates an average annual

person-hours burden, during the first

three years of rule implementation, of

140,603 person-hours. However, it

should be recognized that the burden

costs the first year of operation under

the rule are somewhat different than the

burden costs to maintain compliance

with the rule year-after-year. As

explained below, the first year burden

costs include certain initial, one-timeonly, reporting costs plus the same

recordkeeping burden costs as the

second and third year. The second and

third year reporting burden costs

include recurring costs associated with

subsequent years of operation (in

addition to the same recordkeeping

costs incurred the first year of

operation). By adding the annual

person-hour figures for the first three

years of operation and dividing by three,

an average annual person-hour figure of

140,603 is computed.

The initial reporting costs unique to

the first year of operation include: (1)

8,835 technical person-hours, 442

management person-hours, and 884

clerical person-hours to report on the

various initial performance and CMS

tests required to determine the capture/

control equipment efficiencies; (2)

45,000 technical person-hours, 2,250

management person-hours, and 4,500

clerical person-hours to develop a work

practice implementation manual; (3)

1,532 technical person-hours, 77

management person-hours, and 153

clerical person-hours to notify the

Agency of rule applicability to their

manufacturing and to report on the

initial performance/CMS test results;

and (4) 640 technical person-hours, 36

management person-hours, and 64

clerical person-hours to develop startup,

shutdown, malfunctions, and CMS

quality control plans. The first year

reporting costs also include: (1) 750

technical person-hours, 38 management

person-hours, and 75 clerical personhours to read instructions, and (2) 1,654

technical person-hours, 84 management

person-hours, and 166 clerical personhours to notify the Agency of any

construction, reconstruction, physical,

operational change, or actual startup,

and to provide excess emissions reports

as required.

Reporting burdens after the first year

of operation include: (1) 152 technical

person-hours, 8 management personhours, 15 clerical person-hours for

subsequent construction/reconstruction

application and approval; (2) 750

technical person-hours, 38 management

person-hours, and 75 clerical personhours to read instructions; (3) 7,526

technical person-hours, 378

management person-hours, and 753

clerical person-hours to notify the

Agency of any construction,

reconstruction, physical, operational

change, or actual startup, and to provide

compliance status and excess emissions

reports as required; and (4) 58,500

technical person-hours, 2,925

management person-hours, and 5,850

clerical person-hours to maintain lists of

the types and quantities of volatile HAP

materials used.

Recordkeeping burdens during the

first year of operation and each year

thereafter are the same and include the

following: (1) An estimated 30,000

technical person-hours; 1,500

management person-hours and 3,000

clerical person-hours to develop

recordkeeping systems; (2) a total of

4,272 technical person-hours; 213

management person-hours and 427

clerical person-hours to record startup,

shutdown, malfunction information,

document completion of operator

training courses, compile records of

CMS parameters and the types/

quantities of volatile HAP materials

used; (3) a total of 24,000 technical

person-hours; 1,200 management

person-hours and 2,400 clerical personhours to train in-plant personnel to

various surfacing coating and control

equipment in compliance with the rule.

To compute the annual cost burden in

dollars expended, the technical personhours were multiplied by an hourly rate

of $33, the management person-hours

were multiplied by an hourly rate of $49

per hour, and the clerical person-hours

multiplied by $15 per hour. Using these

hourly rates an average annual dollar

cost figure is $4,517,642.

As described above, the burden

estimates include 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.

Dated: August 12, 1997.

Bruce Weddle,

Acting Director, Office of Compliance.

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–5877–4]

Agency Information Collection

Activities: Proposed Collection;

Comment Request; Mid-Atlantic

Integrated Assessment (MAIA)

Inventory of Environmental Data

Collection Programs and Sites

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: In compliance with the

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.

3501 et seq.), this notice announces that
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EPA is planning to submit the following

proposed Information Collection

Request (ICR) to the Office of

Management and Budget (OMB): MidAtlantic Integrated Assessment (MAIA)

Inventory of Environmental Data

Collection Programs and Sites (EPA ICR

#1819.01). 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 October 20, 1997.

ADDRESSES: Comments must be

submitted to Office of Research and

Development, Community Based

Assessment Team, 201 Defense

Highway, Suite 200, Annapolis, MD

21401.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Patricia Gant, phone (410) 573–2744,

facsimile (410) 573–2771, e-mail:

gant.patricia@epamail.epa.gov

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Affected entities: Entities potentially

affected by this action are those which

conduct environmental monitoring

programs within the states of

Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West

Virginia, Delaware, and the District of

Columbia. Parts of states which have

water bodies that drain into the

Delaware River (New Jersey),

Chesapeake Bay (New York), and

Albemarle-Pamlico Sound (North

Carolina) also are included in this

information collection. The affected

organizations include state and county

governments, interstate groups such as

river basin commissions and some

nongovernmental groups.

Title: Mid-Atlantic Integrated

Assessment (MAIA) Inventory of

Environmental Data Collection

Programs and Sites (EPA ICR #1819.01).

Abstract: The National Environmental

Monitoring Initiative is a program

designed to link large-scale survey

information and remote sensing with

ecological process research at a network

of multi-resource, intensive monitoring

areas. The goal, through this integration,

is to provide a greater understanding of

the factors that control ecosystem health

at regional scales where resource

management decisions are made. The

development of this program is being

led by the White House Office of

Science and Technology Policy

Committee on the Environment and

Natural Resources (CENR).

The CENR has recommended within

that a georeferenced data base

containing metadata about ongoing

monitoring programs be developed and

made available on the Internet. This

data base would become part of a

framework for integrating the nation’s

environmental monitoring and research

network. Potential resource manager

and scientist users would then be able

to easily determine the relevance of

each program’s data to their own

application.

One such application supports the

Community-Based Environmental

Protection (CBEP) approach which is an

EPA initiative which relies on science,

information sharing, partnershipbuilding, and socioeconomics. These

factors are integrated in a geographic

context to optimize benefits for human

and ecological communities. Region III

has joined with the Office of Research

and Development (ORD) to form the

Community-Based Assessment Team

(CBAT) to support this initiative to

integrate science, technology, and

information management into a

complete package of science-based tools

that can be applied to environmental

planning at the community level. To

this end, the CBAT is spearheading an

effort to produce an interactive, spatial

inventory of environmental monitoring

programs in the Mid-Atlantic region as

an information resource on the extent of

environmental data bases. This

inventory also will support the CENR

and the InterAgency Multi-Resolution

Land Characteristics (MRLC)

Consortium as a format and prototype

for additional U.S. regions.

The data in the inventory will be

available electronically and on the

Internet for use by a variety of resource

managers, regulators, the scientific

community, and the informed public. It

will allow the user to identify the

location, purpose, agency/institution

participation, parameter characteristics

(type, frequency, format), and data

disposition for each inventoried

program. The specific application made

by the MAIA CBAT is to identify data

that may be used in ongoing and future

ecological assessments in the midAtlantic region.

The inventory will contain

information on program design, program

administration, and specific meta-data

on parameters that are monitored in

aquatic, terrestrial, atmospheric media.

The survey will be distributed in paper

form to monitoring program managers

and voluntary response will be made

with the assistance, in person or by

telephone, of EPA representatives. 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 of

EPA’s regulations are listed in 40 CFR

part 9 and 48 CFR ch. 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: The average hour

burden to respond to the survey

questionnaire is eight hours. Only one

response is requested. Approximately

300 respondents have been identified.

No start-up costs are anticipated as it is

expected that monitoring information

being requested is readily available. The

total hour burden is thus estimated at

2,400 hours. This burden translates to a

cost of $161,538 (based upon average

salary of $70,000/annum times 2 for

benefits). 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.

Dated: August 8, 1997.

Patricia M. Jackson,

Acting Director, National Health and

Environmental Effects Laboratory.

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