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become subject to the standard during 

this time period. Volatile Organic 

Compounds (VOCs) are the pollutants 

regulated under this subpart, and this 

information is being collected to assure 

compliance with 40 CFR part 60, 

subpart WW. 

Owners or operators of the affected 

facilities described must make initial 

reports when a source becomes subject, 

conduct and report on a performance 

test, demonstrate and report on 

continuous monitor performance, and 

maintain records of the occurrence and 

duration of any startup, shutdown, or 

malfunction in the operation of an 

affected facility. Semiannual reports of 

excess emissions are required. These 

notifications, reports, and records are 

essential in determining compliance; 

and are required, in general, of all 

sources subject to NSPS. 

Any owner or operator subject to the 

provisions of this part shall maintain a 

file of these measurements, and retain 

the file for at least 2 years following the 

date of such measurements, 

maintenance reports, and records. The 

estimated total cost of this ICR will be 

$1,085,853 over the next three years 

(including labor hours, operating & 

maintenance costs, and start up costs; 

$361,951 × 3 years). All reports are sent 

to the delegated State or Local authority. 

In the event that there is no such 

delegated authority, the reports are sent 

directly to the EPA Regional Office. 

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 June 

20, 2002. Comments were not received. 

Burden Statement: The annual public 

reporting and recordkeeping burden for 

this collection of information is 

estimated to average 38 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 

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:

Owners/Operators of beverage can 

surface coating facilities. 

Estimated Number of Respondents:

48. 

Frequency of Response: semiannual 

for all, every other year for excess 

emission report. 

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:

4642. 

Estimated Total Annualized Capital, 

O&M Cost Burden: $96,800. 

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 addresses listed above. 

Please refer to EPA ICR Number 0663.08 

and OMB Control Number 2060–0001 in 

any correspondence.

Dated: November 18, 2002. 

Oscar Morales, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division.

[FR Doc. 02–30760 Filed 12–3–02; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[OEI–2002–0004; FRL–7417–4] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Submission of EPA ICR No. 

1704.06 (OMB No. 2070–0143) to OMB 

for Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; Toxic Chemical Release 

Reporting; Alternate Threshold for Low 

Annual Reportable Amounts

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA)(44 

U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice 

announces that the following continuing 

Information Collection Request (ICR) 

has been forwarded to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and approval pursuant to the 

procedures described in 5 CFR 1320.12: 

Alternate Threshold for Low Annual 

Reportable Amounts, Toxic Chemical 

Release Reporting (EPA ICR No. 

1704.06, OMB No. 2070–0143). The ICR, 

which is described below, describes the 

nature of the information collection and 

its estimated burden and cost; where 

appropriate, it includes the actual data 

collection instrument. 

The Agency is requesting that OMB 

renew for 3 years the existing approval 

for this ICR, which is scheduled to 

expire on January 31, 2003. A Federal 

Register notice announcing the 

Agency’s intent to seek the renewal of 

this ICR and the 60-day public comment 

opportunity, requesting comments on 

the request and the contents of the ICR, 

was issued on July 1, 2002 (67 FR 

44197). A Federal Register correction 

notice, correcting the address for 

submission of comments in person, was 

issued on July 15, 2002 (67 FR 46503). 

EPA received a number of comments on 

this ICR during the comment period, 

which have been addressed. The 

comments and EPA’s responses are 

included in an attachment to the ICR 

Supporting Statement that is being 

submitted to OMB with this ICR 

renewal request, and will be made 

available in the docket for OEI–2002–

0004 and on the EPA TRI Web site at 

www.epa.gov/tri.

DATES: Additional comments may be 

submitted on or before January 3, 2003.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Judith Kendall, TRI Program Division, 

Office of Environmental Information, 

Mailcode 2844, Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460; 

telephone number: (202) 566–0750; email address: kendall.judith@epa.gov;

fax number: (202)566–0741.

ADDRESSES: Follow the detailed 

instructions in the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Review Requested: This is a request to 

renew a currently approved information 

collection pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.12. 

ICR Numbers: EPA ICR 1704.06; OMB 

Control No. 2070–0143. 

Current Expiration Date: Current 

OMB approval expires on January 31, 

2003. 

EPA has established a public docket 

for this ICR under Docket ID No. OEI–

2002–0004, which is available for public 

viewing at the OEI Docket in the EPA 

Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West, 

Room B102, 1301 Constitution Ave., 

NW., Washington, DC. The EPA Docket 

Center Public Reading Room is open 

from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, excluding legal 

holidays. The telephone number for the 

Reading Room is (202) 566–1744, and 

the telephone number for the OEI 

Docket is (202) 566–1752. An electronic 

version of the public docket is available 

through EPA Dockets (EDOCKET) at 

http://www.epa.gov/edocket. Use 

EDOCKET to submit or view public 

comments, access the index listing of 

the contents of the public docket, and to 

access those documents in the public 

docket that are available electronically. 

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Once in the system, select ‘‘search,’’

then key in the docket ID number 

identified above. 

Any comments related to this ICR 

should be submitted to EPA and OMB 

within 30 days of this notice, and 

according to the following detailed 

instructions: (1) Submit your comments 

to EPA online using EDOCKET (our 

preferred method), by e-mail to 

oei.docket@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA 

Docket Center, Environmental 

Protection Agency, Mailcode: 2844, 

1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20460, and (2) Mail 

your comments to OMB at: Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB), Attention: Desk Officer for EPA, 

725 17th Street, NW., Washington, DC 

20503. 

EPA’s policy is that public comments, 

whether submitted electronically or in 

paper, will be made available for public 

viewing in EDOCKET as EPA receives 

them and without change, unless the 

comment contains copyrighted material, 

CBI, or other information whose public 

disclosure is restricted by statute. When 

EPA identifies a comment containing 

copyrighted material, EPA will provide 

a reference to that material in the 

version of the comment that is placed in 

EDOCKET. The entire printed comment, 

including the copyrighted material, will 

be available in the public docket. 

Although identified as an item in the 

official docket, information claimed as 

CBI, or whose disclosure is otherwise 

restricted by statute, is not included in 

the official public docket, and will not 

be available for public viewing in 

EDOCKET. For further information 

about the electronic docket, see EPA’s 

Federal Register notice describing the 

electronic docket at 67 FR 38102 (May 

31, 2002), or go to http://www.epa.gov./

edocket.

Title: Toxic Chemical Release 

Reporting, Alternate Threshold for Low 

Annual Reportable Amounts, 

Recordkeeping, Supplier Notification 

and Petitions under section 313 of the 

Emergency Planning and Community 

Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA).

Background: EPCRA section 313 

requires certain facilities manufacturing, 

processing, or otherwise using certain 

toxic chemicals in excess of specified 

threshold quantities to report their 

environmental releases and other waste 

management quantities of such 

chemicals annually. Each such facility 

must file a separate report for each such 

chemical. 

EPA has established an alternate 

threshold for those facilities with low 

amounts of a listed toxic chemical in 

wastes. A facility that otherwise exceeds 

the current reporting thresholds, but 

estimates that the total amount of the 

chemical in waste does not exceed 500 

pounds per year, and that the chemical 

was manufactured, processed, or 

otherwise used in an amount not 

exceeding 1 million pounds during the 

reporting year, can take advantage of 

reporting under the alternate threshold 

option for that chemical for that 

reporting year. 

Each qualifying facility that chooses 

to apply the revised threshold must file 

the Form A Certification Statement 

(EPA Form 9350–2) to certify that they 

are not required to file a Form R (EPA 

Form 9350–1). In submitting the Form A 

Certification Statement, the facility 

certifies that the sum of the amount of 

the EPCRA section 313 chemical in 

wastes did not exceed 500 pounds for 

the reporting year, and that the chemical 

was manufactured, processed, or 

otherwise used in an amount not 

exceeding 1 million pounds during the 

reporting year. Use of the Form A 

Certification Statement represents a 

substantial savings to respondents, both 

in burden hours and in labor costs. 

The Form A Certification Statement 

provides communities with information 

that the chemical is being 

manufactured, processed or otherwise 

used at facilities. Additionally, the Form 

A Certification Statement provides 

compliance monitoring and 

enforcement programs and other 

interested parties with a means to track 

chemical management activities and 

verify overall compliance with the rule. 

Responses to this collection of 

information are mandatory (see 40 CFR 

part 372) and facilities subject to 

reporting must submit either a Form A 

Certification Statement or a Form R, as 

appropriate. 

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. 

Burden Statement: 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 annual public burden for this 

collection of information, which is 

approved under OMB Control No. 2070–

0143, is estimated to average 13.7 hours 

for a facility that certifies one chemical 

per Form A Certification Statement. 

Responding to this information 

collection requires (1) determining 

whether a listed toxic chemical is 

eligible for certification under the 

alternate threshold, and (2) completing 

the Form A Certification Statement. The 

burden of determining eligibility for 

certification and associated 

recordkeeping is estimated to average 

12.3 hours for each chemical that is 

certified. The burden of completing the 

Form A Certification Statement is 

estimated to average 1.4 hours, 

regardless of the number of chemicals 

being certified. The total burden per 

response is the combination of these 

two, and will vary depending on the 

number of listed toxic chemicals being 

certified. 

The ICR supporting statement 

provides a detailed explanation of the 

burden estimates that are summarized 

in this notice. The following is a 

summary of the estimates taken from the 

ICR supporting statement: 

Estimated No. of Respondents: 5,451 

respondents. 

Frequency of Responses: Annual. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 172,313 burden hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden Costs:

$7.57 million. 

Changes in the Burden Estimates: The 

estimated burden described above 

differs from what is currently in OMB’s 

inventory for alternate threshold 

reporting: 14,793 responses (chemicals) 

and 644,761 burden hours. The burden 

estimated in this supporting statement 

differs from OMB’s inventory as a result 

of adjustments to estimates of the 

number of responses (from 14,793 

responses (chemicals) to 5,121 

responses (Form A Certification 

Statements)), changes to subsequent 

year unit reporting burden estimates 

(from 30.2 to 9.2 burden hours per 

chemical certified on a Form A 

Certification Statement), and an 

adjustment for use of TRI–ME for those 

forms completed using TRI–ME. These 

changes are described in greater detail 

in the supporting statement for this ICR, 

available in the public version of the 

official record. 

According to the procedures 

prescribed in 5 CFR 1320.12, EPA has 

submitted this ICR to OMB for review 

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and approval. Any comments related to 

the renewal of this ICR should be 

submitted within 30 days of this notice, 

as described above.

Dated: November 22, 2002. 

Oscar Morales, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division, Office 

of Environmental Information.

[FR Doc. 02–30761 Filed 12–3–02; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[OEI–2002–0003; FRL–7417–3] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission of EPA ICR No. 

1363.12 (OMB No. 2070–0093) to OMB 

for Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; Toxic Chemical Release 

Reporting

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44 

U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice 

announces that the Information 

Collection Request (ICR) (EPA ICR No. 

1363.12; OMB Control No. 2070–0093) 

for the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) 

Form R has been forwarded to the Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and approval pursuant to the 

OMB procedures in 5 CFR 1320.12. The 

ICR, which is summarized below, 

describes the nature of the information 

collection and its estimated burden and 

cost, and it includes the actual data 

collection instrument where 

appropriate. 

The Agency is requesting that OMB 

renew for three years the existing 

approval for this ICR, which is 

scheduled to expire on January 31, 

2003. A Federal Register notice 

announcing the Agency’s intent to seek 

the renewal of this ICR and the 60-day 

public comment opportunity, requesting 

comments on the request and the 

contents of the ICR, was issued on July 

1, 2002 (67 FR 44213). A Federal 

Register correction notice, correcting 

the address for submission of comments 

in person, was issued on July 15, 2002 

(67 FR 46502). EPA received a number 

of comments on this ICR during the 

comment period, and EPA has 

developed responses to those 

comments. The comments and EPA’s 

responses are included in an attachment 

to the ICR Supporting Statement that is 

being submitted to OMB with this ICR 

renewal request, and will be made 

available in the docket for OEI–2002–

0003 and on the EPA TRI Web site at 

http://www.epa.gov/tri.

DATES: Additional comments may be 

submitted on or before January 3, 2003.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Judith Kendall, TRI Program Division, 

Office of Environmental Information, 

Mailcode 2844, Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460; 

telephone number: (202)566–0750; email address: kendall.judith@epa.gov;

fax number: (202)566–0741.

ADDRESSES: Follow the detailed 

instructions in SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Review Requested: This is a request to 

renew a currently approved information 

collection pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.12. 

ICR Numbers: EPA ICR 1363.12; OMB 

Control No. 2070–0093. 

Current Expiration Date: Current 

OMB approval expires on January 31, 

2003. 

EPA has established a public docket 

for this ICR under Docket ID No. OEI–

2002–0003, which is available for public 

viewing at the OEI Docket in the EPA 

Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West, 

Room B102, 1301 Constitution Ave., 

NW., Washington, DC. The EPA Docket 

Center Public Reading Room is open 

from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, excluding legal 

holidays. The telephone number for the 

Reading Room is (202) 566–1744, and 

the telephone number for the OEI 

Docket is (202) 566–1752. An electronic 

version of the public docket is available 

through EPA Dockets (EDOCKET) at 

http://www.epa.gov/edocket. Use 

EDOCKET to submit or view public 

comments, access the index listing of 

the contents of the public docket, and to 

access those documents in the public 

docket that are available electronically. 

Once in the system, select ‘‘search,’’

then key in the docket ID number 

identified above. 

Any comments related to this ICR 

should be submitted to EPA and OMB 

within 30 days of this notice, and 

according to the following detailed 

instructions: (1) Submit your comments 

to EPA online using EDOCKET (our 

preferred method), by e-mail to 

oei.docket@epa.gov or by mail to: EPA 

Docket Center, Environmental 

Protection Agency, Mailcode: 2844, 

1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20460, and (2) Mail 

your comments to OMB at: Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB), Attention: Desk Officer for EPA, 

725 17th Street, NW., Washington, DC 

20503. 

EPA’s policy is those public 

comments, whether submitted 

electronically or in paper, will be made 

available for public viewing in 

EDOCKET as EPA receives them and 

without change, unless the comment 

contains copyrighted material, CBI, or 

other information whose public 

disclosure is restricted by statute. When 

EPA identifies a comment containing 

copyrighted material, EPA will provide 

a reference to that material in the 

version of the comment that is placed in 

EDOCKET. The entire printed comment, 

including the copyrighted material, will 

be available in the public docket. 

Although identified as an item in the 

official docket, information claimed as 

CBI, or whose disclosure is otherwise 

restricted by statute, is not included in 

the official public docket, and will not 

be available for public viewing in 

EDOCKET. For further information 

about the electronic docket, see EPA’s 

Federal Register notice describing the 

electronic docket at 67 FR 38102 (May 

31, 2002), or go to http://www.epa.gov/

edocket. 

Title: Toxic Chemical Release 

Reporting, Recordkeeping, Supplier 

Notification and Petitions under Section 

313 of the Emergency Planning and 

Community Right-to-Know Act 

(EPCRA). 

Background: EPCRA section 313 

requires owners and operators of certain 

facilities that manufacture, process, or 

otherwise use any of the more than 650 

listed toxic chemicals and chemical 

categories in excess of applicable 

threshold quantities to report annually 

to the Environmental Protection Agency 

and to the states in which such facilities 

are located on their environmental 

releases and other waste management 

quantities of such chemicals. In 

addition, section 6607 of the Pollution 

Prevention Act (PPA) requires that 

facilities provide information on the 

quantities of the toxic chemicals in 

waste streams and the efforts made to 

reduce or eliminate those quantities. 

Annual reporting of toxic chemical 

releases and other waste management 

information under EPCRA section 313 

provides citizens with a more complete 

picture of the total disposition of 

chemicals in their communities and 

helps focus industries’ attention on 

pollution prevention and source 

reduction opportunities. EPA believes 

that the public has a right to know about 

the disposition of chemicals within 

communities and the management of 

such chemicals by facilities in 

industries subject to EPCRA section 313 

reporting. This reporting has been 

successful in providing communities 

with important information regarding