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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:

Ammonium sulfate manufacturing

facilities.

Estimated Number of Respondents: 2.

Frequency of Response: 1.

Estimated Number of Responses: 2.

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:

182 hours.

Estimated Total Annualized Capital,

O&M 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. 1066.03 and

OMB Control No. 2060–0032 in any

correspondence.

Dated: October 10, 2000.

Oscar Morales,

Director, Collection Strategies Division.

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AGENCY

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Gulf of Mexico Program Policy Review

Board; Notice of Charter Renewal

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of charter renewal.

SUMMARY: The Charter for the

Environmental Protection Agency’s Gulf

of Mexico Program Policy Review Board

(GMPPRB) will be renewed for an

additional two-year period, as a

necessary committee which is in the

public interest, in accordance with the

provisions of the Federal Advisory

Committee Act (FACA), 5 U.S.C. App

section 9(c). The purpose of GMPPRB is

to provide advice and recommendations

to the Administrator of EPA on issues

associated with environmental

management and policy of the Gulf of

Mexico.

It is determined that GMPPRB is in

the public interest in connection with

the performance of duties imposed on

the Agency by law.

Inquiries may be directed to Gloria

Car, U.S. EPA, Building 1103, Room

202, Stennis Space Center, MS 39529.

Dated: October 10, 2000.

Gloria D. Car,

Designated Federal Officer.

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Clean Water Act Class II: Proposed

Consent Agreement and Opportunity

to Comment Regarding the City of San

Buenaventura Proceeding Under Clean

Water Act Section 309(g)(1), (2)(B) and

40 CFR 22.13(b)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: EPA is providing notice of a

proposed Consent Agreement for alleged

violations of the Clean Water Act (Act).

EPA is also providing notice of

opportunity to comment on the

proposed Consent Agreement.

EPA is authorized under section

309(g) of the Act, 33 U.S.C. 1319(g), to

assess a civil penalty after providing the

person subject to the penalty notice of

the proposed penalty and the

opportunity for a hearing, and after

providing interested persons notice of

the proposed penalty and a reasonable

opportunity to comment on its issuance.

Under section 309(g), any person who

violates section 405 of the Clean Water

Act, 33 U.S.C. 1345, may be assessed a

penalty in a ‘‘Class II’’ administrative

penalty proceeding.

Class II proceedings under section

309(g) are conducted in accordance with

the ‘‘Consolidated Rules of Practice

Governing the Administrative

Assessment of Civil Penalties, Issuance

of Compliance or Corrective Action

Orders, and the Revocation,

Termination or Suspension of Permits,’’

40 CFR part 22 (‘‘Consolidated Rules’’),

published at 64 FR 40138, 40177 (July

23, 1999). The procedures through

which the public may submit written

comment on a proposed Class II order

or participate in a Class II proceeding,

and the procedures by which a

respondent may request a hearing, are

set forth in the Consolidated Rules. The

deadline for submitting public comment

on a proposed Class II order is forty (40)

days after publication of this notice.

On September 29, 2000, EPA filed

with Danielle Carr, Regional Hearing

Clerk, U.S. EPA, Region IX, 75

Hawthorne Street, San Francisco,

California 94105, (415) 744–1391, the

following Consent Agreement:

In the Matter of the City of San

Buenaventura, Docket No. CWA–09–99–

0014.

For the alleged violations set forth in

the Consent Agreement, Respondents

agree to pay to the United States a civil

penalty of $17,507 (seventeen thousand

five hundred and seven dollars) and

perform a Supplementary

Environmental Project of $86,493

(eighty six thousand, four hundred and

ninety three dollars), a total of $104,000

(one hundred and four thousand

dollars) for violations of section 405(a)

of the Act, 33 U.S.C. 1345(a), for the

application of sewage sludge at greater

than agronomic rates.

Procedures by which the public may

comment on a proposed Class II penalty

or participate in a Class II penalty

proceeding are set forth in the

Consolidated Rules. The deadline for

submitting public comment on a

proposed Class II penalty is thirty days

after issuance of public notice.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Persons wishing to receive a copy of

EPA’s Consolidated Rules, review the

Complaint or other documents filed in

this proceeding, comment upon the

proposed assessment, or otherwise

participate in the proceeding should

contact Danielle Carr, Regional Hearing

Clerk, U.S. EPA, Region IX, 75

Hawthorne Street, San Francisco,

California 94105, (415) 744–1391. The

administrative record for this

proceeding is located in the EPA

Regional Office identified above, and

the file will be open for public

inspection during normal business

hours. All information submitted by the

City of San Buenaventura is available as

part of the administrative record, subject

to provisions of law restricting public

disclosure of confidential information.

In order to provide opportunity for

public comment, EPA will issue no final

order assessing a penalty in these

proceedings prior to forty (40) days after

the date of publication of this notice.

Dated: October 11, 2000.

Alexis Strauss,

Director, Water Division.

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