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number 1630.06 is associated with this

rulemaking.

All facility response plan (FRP)

reporting and recordkeeping activities

are mandatory. Each FRP is submitted to

EPA. The Agency, in turn, reviews and

approves plans from facilities identified

as having the potential to cause

‘‘significant and substantial harm’’ to

the environment for oil discharges.

Other low risk, regulated facilities that

are not required to prepare facility

response plans are required to

document their determination that they

do not meet the ‘‘substantial harm’’

criteria.

None of the information to be

gathered for this collection is believed

to be confidential. 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 May 31, 2000 (65 FR

34690–34698). No comments were

received.

Burden Statement: The annual public

reporting and recordkeeping burden for

this collection of information is

estimated as follows: An average of 0.1

hours of recordkeeping for newly

regulated facilities not required to

prepare FRPs (i.e., facilities that certify

that they do not meet the ‘‘substantial

harm’’ criteria); 8.3 hours for

recordkeeping and 239 hours for

reporting for the newly regulated

facilities required to prepare FRPs (i.e.,

first year costs for plan development);

1.2 hours for recordkeeping and 98

hours for reporting for facilities

maintaining FRPs (i.e., subsequent costs

for annual plan maintenance). 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.

Respondents/Affected Entities:

Owners and operators of oil discharges

into waterways.

Estimated Number of Respondents:

10,310.

Frequency of Response: One-time

certification, one time plan

development. Annual plan review and

revision as needed.

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:

583,130 hours.

Estimated Total Annualized Capital,

O&M Cost Burden: $22,000.

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 No. 1630.07 and

OMB Control No. 2050–0135 in any

correspondence.

Dated: October 23, 2000.

Oscar Morales,

Director, Collection Strategies Division.

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–6893–8]

Agency Information Collection

Activities; Toxic Chemical Release

Reporting; Submission of EPA ICR No.

1704.05 to OMB

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of submission to OMB.

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 continuing Information

Collection Request (ICR) entitled:

‘‘Alternate Threshold for Low Annual

Reportable Amounts; Toxic Chemical

Release Reporting,’’ (EPA ICR No.

1704.05; OMB Control No. 2070–0143)

to the Office of Management and Budget

(OMB) pursuant to the procedures

described in 5 CFR 1320.12. The ICR,

which is abstracted below, describes the

nature of the information collection and

its estimated cost and burden. The

Agency is requesting that OMB renew

for 3 years the existing approval for this

ICR, which is scheduled to expire on

February 28, 2001. 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 6, 2000 (65 FR 41653). EPA

received comments on this ICR which

have been addressed.

DATES: Additional comments may be

submitted on or before December 1,

2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Sandy Farmer at EPA by phone on (202)

260–2740, by e-mail:

‘‘farmer.sandy@epa.gov,’’ or download

off the Internet at http://www.epa.gov/

icr/icr.htm and refer to EPA ICR No.

1704.05.

ADDRESSES: Send comments, referencing

EPA ICR No. 1704.05 and OMB Control

No. 2070–0143, to the following

addresses: Ms. Sandy Farmer, Office of

Environmental Information (2822), U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200

Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington,

DC 20460; and to Office of Information

and Regulatory Affairs, Office of

Management and Budget (OMB),

Attention: Desk Officer for EPA, 725

17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20503.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Review Requested: This is a request to

renew a currently approved information

collection.

Title: Alternate Threshold for Low

Annual Reportable Amounts; Toxic

Chemical Release Reporting.

Abstract: 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 of such

chemicals annually. Each such facility

must file a separate report for each such

chemical.

In accordance with the authority in

EPCRA, EPA has established an

alternate threshold for those facilities

with low amounts of a listed toxic

chemical in wastes. A facility that meets

the current reporting thresholds but

estimates that the total amount of the

chemical in total 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 (EPA Form 9350–2) in lieu

of a complete TRI reporting Form R

(EPA Form 9350–1). In submitting the

Form A, 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

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amount not exceeding 1 million pounds

during the reporting year. Use of the

Form A in place of the Form R

represents a substantial savings to

respondents, both in burden hours and

in labor costs.

The primary function served by the

submission of the Form A is to satisfy

the statutory requirement to maintain

reporting on a substantial majority of

releases for all listed chemicals. Without

the Form A, users of TRI data would not

have access to any information on these

chemicals. The Form A also serves as a

de facto range report, which is useful to

any party interested in amounts being

handled at a particular facility or for

broader statistical purposes.

Additionally, the Form A 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 either submit a Form A

or a Form R.

Burden Statement: The annual public

burden for this collection of

information, which is approved under

OMB Control No. 2070–0143, is

estimated to average 34.6 hours per each

form, for a facility which certifies one

chemical per form A. For facilities

which choose to certify two chemicals

per form A, the estimated burden is 67.8

hours per form. 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. The burden of

determining eligibility for certification

is estimated to average 33.2 hours for

each chemical that is certified. The

burden of completing the Form A 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.

EPA estimates that as many as 7,397

respondents may submit a Form A with

these responses containing a total of

14,793 certifications. Total respondent

burden and cost for completing those

Form As are estimated at approximately

582,000 burden hours and $52 million

per year. (The alternate threshold may

save reporting facilities up to 189,000

hours, with a dollar value of $11

million, compared to the cost of

reporting on Form R.) The estimated

burden in this supporting statement

differs from what is currently in OMB’s

inventory for alternate threshold

reporting (13,157 respondents, 9,072

responses, and 646,875 burden hours) as

a result of both an adjustment and a

program change. The adjustment was

made by calculating the number of

eligible respondents and responses from

the manufacturing sector based on TRI

data from the 1998 reporting year (the

most recent TRI data available). This

adjustment reduced reporting burden by

62,772 hours. The program change was

made by excluding the reporting of PBT

chemicals on Form A. This change

reduces the burden associated with this

collection. The portion of the change

due to this regulatory change decreases

burden by 2,114 hrs.

Estimated No. of Respondents: 7,397

respondents.

Estimated Total Annual Burden on

Respondents: 582,000 burden hours.

Frequency of Collection: Annual.

Dated: October 23, 2000.

Oscar Morales,

Director, Collection Strategies Division.

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–6893–7]

Agency Information Collection

Activities: Submission for OMB

Review; Comment Request; New

Source Performance Standard (NSPS

Subpart SSS) for Magnetic Tape

Coating Facilities

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 the following Information

Collection Request (ICR) has been

forwarded to the Office of Management

and Budget (OMB) for review and

approval: NSPS, Subpart SSS, for

Magnetic Tape Coating Facilities, OMB

Control Number: 2060–0171, expiration

date: 11/30/2000. The ICR describes the

nature of the information collection and

its expected burden and cost; where

appropriate, it includes the actual data

collection instrument.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on

or before December 1, 2000.

ADDRESSES: Send comments, referencing

EPA ICR No. 1135.07 and OMB Control

No. 2060–0171, to the following

addresses: Sandy Farmer, U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency,

Collection Strategies Division (Mail

Code 2822), 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue,

NW, Washington, DC 20460; and to

Office of Information and Regulatory

Affairs, Office of Management and

Budget (OMB), Attention: Desk Officer

for EPA, 725 17th Street, NW,

Washington, DC 20503

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For

a copy of the ICR contact Sandy Farmer

at EPA by phone at (202) 260–2740, by

E-Mail at

Farmer.Sandy@epamail.epa.gov or

download off the Internet at http://

www.epa.gov/icr and refer to EPA ICR

No.1135.07. For technical questions

about the ICR contact Anthony Raia in

the Office of Compliance at 202–564–

6045.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: Standards of Performance for

Magnetic Tape Coating Facilities (OMB

Control No.2060–0171; EPA ICR No

1135.07). Expiration date: 11/30/00.

This is a request for extension of a

currently approved collection.

Abstract: The New Source

Performance Standards (NSPS) for

Magnetic Tape Coating Facilities were

proposed on January 22, 1986, and

promulgated on October 3, 1988. These

standards apply to each coating

operation and each piece of coating mix

preparation equipment for which

construction, modification or

reconstruction commenced after January

22, 1986. Volatile organic compounds

(VOC) are the pollutants regulated

under the standards.

Owners or operators of the affected

facilities described must make the

following one time-only reports:

notification of the date of construction

or reconstruction; notification of the

anticipated and actual dates of startup;

notification of any physical or

operational change to an existing facility

which may increase the regulated

pollutant emission rate; notification of

the date of the initial performance test

(not required under section 60.393(a));

and the results of the initial

performance test.

Owners or operators also are required

to maintain records of the occurrence

and duration of any startup, shutdown,

or malfunction in the operation of an

affected facility. These notifications,

reports and records are required, in

general, of all sources subject to NSPS.

Monitoring requirements specific to

these magnetic tape operations consist

mainly of VOC measurements,

including monthly records of VOC

content of all coatings applied, total

amount and percent VOC recovered,

and the total amount of coating applied.

In addition, facilities utilizing less

solvent annually than the applicable