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burden of 12 hours and $432 per

response for minor related responses,

based on an estimated 18 such

responses per year. The expected

frequency of all responses is on

occasion. These average burden

estimates include the following costs:

The cost of capital equipment and

supplies, annualized over expected

useful life, is estimated to be $14,000.

An annual recordkeeping burden of 150

hours is estimated at an annual cost of

$2,700. ISO facility registration and

document upgrade is estimated to

require 2128 hours per year at a cost of

$200,944.

The Agency’s total annual burden to

process these responses is estimated to

be 1015 hours at an estimated cost of

$44,460. Annual contractual services are

estimated to require $300,000.

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: September 30, 1997

Gary J. Foley,

Director, National Exposure Research

Laboratory.

[FR Doc. 97–26530 Filed 10–6–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–5906–5]

Acid Rain Program: Notice of Annual

Adjustment Factors for Excess

Emission Penalty

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of annual adjustment

factors for excess emissions penalty.

SUMMARY: Under the Acid Rain Program,

affected units must hold enough

allowances to cover their sulfur dioxide

emissions and meet an emission limit

for nitrogen oxides. Under 40 CFR 77.6,

units that do not meet these

requirements must pay a penalty

without demand to the Administrator

based on the number of excess tons

emitted times $2000 as adjusted by an

annual adjustment factor that must be

published in the Federal Register.

The annual adjustment factor for

adjusting the penalty for excess

emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen

oxides under 40 CFR part 77 for

compliance year 1997 is 1.2624. This

value is derived from the Consumer

Price Index for 1990 and 1997, as

defined in 40 CFR part 72, and

corresponds to a penalty of $2525 per

excess ton of sulfur dioxide or nitrogen

oxides emitted.

The annual adjustment factor for

adjusting the penalty for excess

emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen

oxides under 40 CFR part 77 for

compliance year 1998 is 1.2905. This

value is derived from the Consumer

Price Index for 1990 and 1998, as

defined in 40 CFR part 72, and

corresponds to a penalty of $2581 per

excess ton of sulfur dioxide or nitrogen

oxides emitted.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Donna Deneen, Acid Rain Division

(6204J), U.S. Environmental Protection

Agency, 401 M Street SW, Washington,

DC 20460 at (202) 233–9089.

Dated: September 29, 1997.

Brian J. McLean,

Director, Acid Rain Division, Office of

Atmospheric Programs, Office of Air and

Radiation.

[FR Doc. 97–26531 Filed 10–6–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–5906–6 ]

Project XL Final Project Agreement

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency.

ACTION: Notice of Final Project

Agreement with HADCO Corporation

and Response to Public Comment.

SUMMARY: The United States

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

is announcing the signing of its Final

Project Agreement (FPA) with HADCO

Corporation, New York and New

Hampshire, under EPA’s Project XL

program. Through this notice, EPA is

also responding to public comments

received on the draft FPA. As the

comments below indicate, many

suggested changes were incorporated

into the FPA.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Kenneth Rota, EPA Region I, (617) 565–

3349; Jim Sullivan, EPA Region 2, (212)

637–4138; or Lisa Hunter, EPA

Headquarters, (202) 260–4744.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background:

HADCO, EPA, the New Hampshire

Department of Environmental Services

(NH DES), the New York State

Department of Environmental

Conservation (NYS DEC) signed an

agreement applicable to HADCO’s

facilities in New Hampshire and New

York under EPA’s ‘‘Project XL’’

initiative.

HADCO is one of the first companies

accepted into EPA’s Project XL program.

EPA created Project XL in 1995 as an

initiative providing regulatory flexibility

for industry to achieve environmental

performance that is superior to what

would be achieved through compliance

with existing and reasonably anticipated

future regulations. The HADCO FPA

was developed by EPA staff in Regions

I, II and its Headquarters, the NH DES,

the NYS DEC, and HADCO Corporation

(‘‘the parties’’). The FPA is the

document that memorializes the parties

intentions concerning Project XL for the

HADCO facilities in Owego, NY,

Hudson, NH, Derry, NH and Salem, NH.

This XL project concerns the

classification under RCRA Subtitle C of

wastewater treatment (WWT) sludge

generated from printed wire board

manufacturing facilities (SIC 3672).

Presently this WWT sludge is classified

as a listed hazardous waste, having the

waste code F006, pursuant to

regulations promulgated under the

Resource Conservation and Recovery

Act (40 CFR 261.31(a)). Because of this

hazardous waste designation, HADCO,

and others in the PWB industry, must

currently ship this waste to a separate

facility licensed to handle hazardous

wastes before it can be reclaimed. The

project seeks to test whether (a)

classifying the WWT sludge generated

by HADCO as an F006 waste pursuant

to Subtitle C is not necessary to protect

human health and the environment, (b)

the WWT sludge can be safely reclaimed

without all of the strict regulatory

controls imposed by RCRA Subtitle C;

and (c) a conditional delisting or solid

waste variance will yield substantial

economic and environmental benefits.

The HADCO FPA details a procedure

through which HADCO will extensively

test its sludge generated from the

treatment of wastewater associated with

circuit board manufacture. This data

will be reviewed by EPA, NH DES and

NYS DEC, in order to determine if such

data supports removal of the sludge

from regulation as a hazardous waste, as