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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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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

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

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cutoff shall make semiannual estimates

of projected annual amount of solvent

use and maintain records of actual

solvent use.

Each owner or operator of an affected

magnetic tape coating operation shall

install, calibrate, maintain, and operate

a monitoring device that continuously

indicates and records the concentration

level of organic compounds in the outlet

gas stream. Certain facilities will also be

required to continuously measure and

record either the combustion

temperature of the incinerator (for those

facilities controlled by a thermal

incinerator) or the condenser exhaust

temperature (for those facilities

controlled by a condensation system).

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

demonstration of the continuous

monitoring system (CMS); notification

of the date of the initial performance

test; and the results of the initial

performance test.

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 March

31, 2000 (65 FR 17259). No comments

were received.

Burden Statement: The annual public

reporting and recordkeeping burden for

this collection of information is

estimated to average 69 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 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:

Magnetic Tape Manufacturing.

Estimated Number of Respondents:

13.

Frequency of Response: On occasion,

quarterly, semi-annually.

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:

3891 hours.

Estimated Total Annualized Capital

and O&M Cost Burden: $93,000.

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 following addresses.

Please refer to EPA ICR No. 1135.07 and

OMB Control No. 2060–0171 in any

correspondence.

Dated: October 19, 2000.

Oscar Morales,

Director, Collection Strategies Division.

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–6894–7]

Request for Applications for Essential

Use Exemptions to the Production and

Import Phaseout of Ozone Depleting

Substances Under the Montreal

Protocol for the Years 2002 and 2003

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: Through this notice, the

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

is requesting applications for

consideration at the Thirteenth Meeting

of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol

on Substances that Deplete the Ozone

Layer (the Protocol) to be held in 2001,

for exemptions to the production and

import phaseout in 2002 and 2003 for

ozone-depleting substances (including

halons 1211 and 1301, CFC–11, CFC–12,

CFC–113, CFC–114, CFC–115, CFC–13,

CFC–111, CFC–112, CFC–211, CFC–212,

CFC–213, CFC–214, CFC–215, CFC–216,

CFC–217, carbon tetrachloride, and

methyl chloroform).

DATES: Applications for essential use

exemptions must be submitted to EPA

no later than December 1, 2000 in order

for the United States (U.S.) government

to complete its review and to submit

nominations to the United Nations

Environment Programme (UNEP) and

the Protocol Parties in a timely manner.

ADDRESSES: Send two copies of

application materials to: Erin Birgfeld,

Stratospheric Protection Division

(6205J), Environmental Protection

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue,

NW, Washington, DC 20460. If

submitting applications by courier, the

office address is 501 3rd Street, NW,

Washington, DC 20001. Send one copy

of your application materials to: Air

Docket A–93–39, 401 M Street, SW,

(6102), Room M1500, Washington, DC

20460.

Confidentiality: Applications should

not contain confidential or proprietary

information. Such confidential

information should be submitted under

separate cover and be clearly identified

as ‘‘trade secret,’’ ‘‘proprietary,’’ or

‘‘company confidential.’’ Information

covered by a claim of business

confidentiality will be disclosed by EPA

only to the extent, and by means of the

procedures, set forth at 40 CFR Part 2,

Subpart B (41 FR 36902). If no claim of

confidentiality accompanies the

information when it is received by EPA,

the information may be made available

to the public by EPA without further

notice to the company (40 CFR 2.203).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Erin

Birgfeld at the above address or at (202)

564–9079 telephone, (202) 565–2095

fax, or birgfeld.erin@epa.gov. General

information may be obtained from the

Stratospheric Ozone Hotline at 1–800–

296–1996.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Table of Contents

I. Background—The Essential Use

Nomination Process

II. Information Required for Essential Use

Applications for Production or Importation

of Class I Substances in 2002 and 2003

I. Background—The Essential Use

Nomination Process

As described in previous Federal

Register (FR) notices (58 FR 29410, May

20, 1993; 59 FR 52544, October 18,

1994; 60 FR 54349, October 23, 1995; 61

FR 51110, 0 30, 1996, 62 FR 51655,

October 2, 1997; 63 FR 42629, August

10, 1998; and 64 FR 50083 , September

15, 1999), the Parties to the Protocol

agreed during the Fourth Meeting in

Copenhagen on November 23–25, 1992,

to accelerate the phase-out schedules for

Class I ozone-depleting substances.

Specifically, the Parties agreed that nonArticle 5 Parties (developed countries)

would phase out the production and

consumption of halons by January 1,

1994, and the production and

consumption of other Class I substances

(under 40 CFR 82, Subpart A), except

methyl bromide, by January 1, 1996.