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D. What Information is EPA Particularly

Interested in?

Pursuant to PRA section

3506(c)(2)(A), EPA specifically solicits

comments and information to enable it

to:

1. Evaluate whether the proposed

collections of information are necessary

for the proper performance of the

functions of the Agency, including

whether the information will have

practical utility.

2. Evaluate the accuracy of the

Agency’s estimates of the burdens of the

proposed collections of information.

3. Enhance the quality, utility, and

clarity of the information to be

collected.

4. Minimize the burden of the

collections of information on those who

are to respond, including through the

use of appropriate automated or

electronic collection technologies or

other forms of information technology,

e.g., permitting electronic submission of

responses.

IV. What Information Collection

Activity or ICR Does this Action Apply

to?

EPA is seeking comments on the

following ICR:

Title: Asbestos-Containing Materials

in Schools Rule and Revised Asbestos

Model Accreditation Plan Rule.

ICR numbers: EPA ICR No. 1365.05,

OMB No. 2070–0091.

ICR status: This ICR is currently

scheduled to expire on May 31, 2001.

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 information collections appear on

the collection instruments or

instructions, in the Federal Register

notices for related rulemakings and ICR

notices, and, if the collection is

contained in a regulation, in a table of

OMB approval numbers in 40 CFR part

9.

Abstract: The Asbestos Hazard

Emergency Response Act (AHERA)

requires LEAs to conduct inspections,

develop management plans, and design

or conduct response actions with

respect to the presence of asbestoscontaining materials in school

buildings. AHERA also requires States

to develop model accreditation plans for

persons who perform asbestos

inspections, develop management

control plans, and design or conduct

response actions. This information

collection addresses the burden

associated with recordkeeping

requirements imposed on LEAs by the

asbestos in schools rule, and reporting

and recordkeeping requirements

imposed on States and training

providers related to the model

accreditation plan rule. Responses to the

collection of information are mandatory

(see 40 CFR part 763, subpart E).

Respondents may claim all or part of a

notice confidential. EPA will disclose

information that is covered by a claim

of confidentiality only to the extent

permitted by, and in accordance with,

the procedures in TSCA section 14 and

40 CFR part 2.

V. What are EPA’s Burden and Cost

Estimates for this ICR?

Under the PRA, ‘‘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 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.

The ICR provides a detailed

explanation of this estimate, which is

only briefly summarized in this notice.

The annual public burden for this

collection of information is estimated to

average in range between 5.5 hours per

respondent and 140 hours per

respondent, depending upon the

category of respondent. The following is

a summary of the estimates taken from

the ICR:

Respondents/affected entities:

107,759.

Estimated total number of potential

respondents: 107,759.

Frequency of response: On occasion.

Estimated total/average number of

responses for each respondent: One.

Estimated total annual burden hours:

2,212,151 hours.

Estimated total annual burden costs:

$58,860,737.

VI. Are There Changes in the Estimates

from the Last Approval?

There is a net decrease of 155,142

hours (from 2,367,293 hours to

2,212,151 hours) in the total estimated

respondent burden compared with that

identified in the information collection

request most recently approved by

OMB. This change reflects changes in

the numbers of school buildings

containing friable asbestos (adjustment),

offset slightly by an increase in the

burden that applies to training providers

(adjustment).

VII. What is the Next Step in the

Process for this ICR?

EPA will consider the comments

received and amend the ICR as

appropriate. The final ICR package will

then be submitted to OMB for review

and approval pursuant to 5 CFR

1320.12. EPA will issue another Federal

Register notice pursuant to 5 CFR

1320.5(a)(1)(iv) to announce the

submission of the ICR to OMB and the

opportunity to submit additional

comments to OMB. If you have any

questions about this ICR or the approval

process, please contact the technical

person listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT.

List of Subjects

Environmental protection, Reporting

and recordkeeping requirements.

Dated: October 11, 2000.

Susan H. Wayland,

Acting Assistant Administrator for

Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances.

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Agency Information Collection

Activities: Proposed Collection;

Comment Request; IAQ Practices in

Schools Survey

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 EPA is planning to submit the

following proposed Information

Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of

Management and Budget (OMB): IAQ

Practices in Schools Survey, EPA ICR

Number 1885.01. 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 December 19, 2000.

ADDRESSES: To obtain a copy of the ICR

without charge, contact: Mr. John

Guevin, Indoor Environments Division,

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Office of Radiation and Indoor Air, U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, (6609J),

Washington, D.C. 20460.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.

John Guevin by phone at (202) 564–

9055 or by e-mail at

guevin.john@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Affected entities: Entities potentially

affected by this action are all public and

private schools operating in the United

States during the school year

immediately preceding the year in

which the survey is conducted.

Title: IAQ Practices in Schools Survey

(EPA ICR No. 1885.01). This is a new

collection.

Abstract: As part of its authorization

under Title IV of SARA, 1986, the

Indoor Environments Division (IED) of

EPA’s Office of Radiation and Indoor

Air has been working to promote more

effective approaches for preventing,

identifying, and solving indoor air

quality (IAQ) problems in schools and

has developed low-cost guidance

entitled IAQ Tools for Schools for that

purpose.

The IAQ Practices in Schools Survey

will allow EPA to gain information

regarding the number of schools that

have implemented sound IAQmanagement practices, such as those

activities recommended in its guidance.

These data are essential for measuring

the effectiveness of EPA’s outreach

efforts against the Agency’s established

GPRA goal. EPA is working towards

achieving the implementation of sound

IAQ practices in 15 percent, or 16,650,

of the nation’s public and private

schools by 2005. The IAQ Practices in

Schools Survey is voluntary.

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 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: EPA estimates the

annual public reporting and record

keeping burden for this collection of

information to be 1.3 hours per mail

response and 0.8 hours per telephone

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.

This survey effort is expected to cost

approximately $27.60 per mail response

and $16.95 per telephone response.

Respondents will incur no capital or

start-up costs, and the only operation

and maintenance component of the

survey will be the cost to photocopy the

survey once completed (if desired).

Dated: October 6, 2000.

Mary T. Smith,

Director, Indoor Environments Division.

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Adequacy Status of Submitted State

Implementation Plans (SIP) for

Transportation Conformity Purposes:

Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) and

Beaumont-Port Arthur (BPA)

Attainment Demonstration SIPs for

Ozone

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of adequacy

determination.

SUMMARY: In this notice, the EPA is

announcing that the motor vehicle

emissions budgets contained in the

submitted DFW and BPA Attainment

Demonstration State Implementation

Plans (SIP) for ozone are adequate for

transportation conformity purposes. As

a result of this determination, the

budgets from the submitted attainment

SIPs must be used for transportation

conformity determinations in the DFW

and BPA areas. The EPA received no

public comments.

DATES: These budgets are effective

November 6, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.

J. Behnam, P.E., The U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency, 1445 Ross Avenue,

Dallas, Texas 75202; telephone (214)

665–7247.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Transportation conformity is required

by section 176(c) of the Clean Air Act.

The EPA’s conformity rule, 40 CFR part

93, requires that transportation plans,

programs, and projects conform to SIPs

and establishes the criteria and

procedures for determining whether or

not they do. Conformity to a SIP means

that transportation activities will not

produce new air quality violations,

worsen existing violations, or delay

timely attainment of the national

ambient air quality standards. The

criteria by which EPA determines

whether a SIP’s motor vehicle emission

budgets are adequate for conformity

purposes are outlined in 40 CFR

93.118(e)(4). An adequacy review is

separate from EPA’s completeness

review, and it should not be used to

prejudge EPA’s ultimate approval of the

SIP. Even if we find a budget adequate,

the SIP could later be disapproved.

On March 2, 1999, the United States

Court of Appeals for the District of

Columbia Circuit issued its opinion in

Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) v.

Environmental Protection Agency, 167

F.3d 641 (D.C. Cir. 1999), and ruled that

budgets contained in submitted SIPs

cannot be used for conformity

determinations unless EPA has

affirmatively found the conformity

budget adequate. We have described our

process for determining the adequacy of

submitted SIP budgets in the policy

guidance dated May 14, 1999, and titled

Conformity Guidance on

Implementation of March 2, 1999

Conformity Court Decision. You may

obtain a copy of this guidance from

EPA’s conformity web site: http://

www.epa.gov/oms/traq (once there,

click on ‘‘conformity’’ and then scroll

down) or by contacting us at the address

above.

By this notice, we are simply

announcing the DFW and BPA

adequacy determinations that we have

already made. The Governor of Texas