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the addition of virucidal claims to 

products that meet the criteria for food/ 

non-food contact sanitizer claims 

consistent with current test guidelines. 

This guidance specifically covers the 

addition of a virucidal claim to a 

product that has met the criteria for a 

bactericidal disinfectant and/or 

sanitizer. 

Pursuant to this guidance, the Agency 

intends to grant the addition of 

virucidal claims associated with 

sanitizer claims for a time-limited 

period of a maximum of ten years. Prior 

to the end of the ten-year period, the 

Agency will review the record and may 

terminate the policy, make suggestions 

for changes to the policy, as necessary, 

or decide to make the policy permanent. 

The methods and performance 

standards applicable to this expanded 

availability of virucidal claims are the 

same test methods and performance 

standards that are currently used to 

support existing virucidal claims and 

thus there are no expectations of a 

reduction of product performance 

against viruses. 

II. Background 

Historically, EPA has approved claims 

for efficacy against viruses only as 

additional claims on certain 

antimicrobial products, such as those 

with sterilant and disinfectant claims, 

but not those that bear only sanitizer 

claims. 

This guidance is intended to allow 

registrants to provide consumers with 

additional products that are effective 

against viruses including SARS-CoV–2. 

This guidance reiterates recommended 

test methods and guidance for the 

addition of virucidal claims to products 

that meet the criteria for hard surface 

disinfection claims in OCSPP 810.2200, 

Disinfectants for Use on Environmental 

Surfaces, Guidance for Efficacy Testing. 

Products with only sanitizer claims 

should meet the test guidance 

requirements as described in OCSPP 

810.2300 Sanitizers for Use on Hard 

Surfaces—Efficacy Data 

Recommendations (food or non-food 

contact sanitization) to treat hard, nonporous surfaces before a virucidal claim 

is added pursuant to this guidance. 

Since there will be no changes to the 

test methods or performance standards 

recommended for virus claims, there is 

no concern about a reduced level of 

efficacy against viruses. Products that 

meet the basic criteria to allow for 

sanitizer claims and have data to 

support the addition of virucidal label 

claims pursuant to this guidance, may 

be used in non-healthcare use-sites in 

residential, commercial, and 

institutional settings (e.g., cafeterias 

specifically on hard, non-porous 

surfaces). 

Additional anticipated benefits 

include the availability of more 

products with reduced contact times 

(time the surface must remain wet) and/ 

or more products on EPA’s Design for 

the Environment list that are also 

effective against viruses. The expansion 

of the availability of virucidal claims 

under this guidance will facilitate the 

addition of virus claims to products 

bearing only sanitizer claims. 

III. Do guidance documents contain 

binding requirements? 

As guidance, these documents are not 

binding on the Agency or any outside 

parties, and the Agency may depart 

from it where circumstances warrant 

and without prior notice. While EPA 

has made every effort to ensure the 

accuracy of the discussion in the 

guidance, the obligations of EPA and the 

regulated community are determined by 

statutes, regulations, or other legally 

binding documents. In the event of a 

conflict between the discussion in the 

guidance documents and any statute, 

regulation, or other legally binding 

document, the guidance documents will 

not be controlling. 

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 136 et seq. 

Dated: October 4, 2024. 

Michal Freedhoff, 

Assistant Administrator, Office of Chemical 

Safety and Pollution Prevention. 

[FR Doc. 2024–23471 Filed 10–9–24; 8:45 am] 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OW–2023–0580; FRL–12332–01– 

OMS] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget for Review 

and Approval; Comment Request; 

Publicly Owned Treatment Works 

(POTW) Influent Per- and 

Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) 

Study and National Sewage Sludge 

Survey (NSSS) (New) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) has submitted an 

information collection request (ICR), 

Publicly Owned Treatment Works 

(POTW) Influent Per- and 

Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) 

Study and National Sewage Sludge 

Survey (NSSS) (EPA ICR Number 

2799.01, OMB Control Number 2040– 

NEW) to the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) for review and approval 

in accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act. This is a request for 

approval of a new collection. Public 

comments were previously requested 

via the Federal Register on March 26, 

2024 during a 60-day comment period. 

This notice allows for an additional 30 

days for public comments. 

DATES: Comments may be submitted on 

or before November 12, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing Docket ID Number EPA– 

HQ–OW–2023–0580, to EPA online 

using www.regulations.gov (our 

preferred method), by email to OWDocket@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA 

Docket Center, Environmental 

Protection Agency, Mail Code 28221T, 

1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, 

Washington, DC 20460. EPA’s policy is 

that all comments received will be 

included in the public docket without 

change including any personal 

information provided, unless the 

comment includes profanity, threats, 

information claimed to be Confidential 

Business Information (CBI) or other 

information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. 

Submit written comments and 

recommendations to OMB for the 

proposed information collection within 

30 days of publication of this notice to 

www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. 

Find this particular information 

collection by selecting ‘‘Currently under 

30-day Review—Open for Public 

Comments’’ or by using the search 

function. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Sean Dempsey, Engineering and 

Analysis Division, Office of Science and 

Technology, (4303T), Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460; 

telephone number: 202–564–5088; 

email address: Dempsey.Sean@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a 

request for approval of a new collection. 

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. 

Public comments were previously 

requested via the Federal Register on 

March 26, 2024 during a 60-day 

comment period (89 FR 20962). This 

notice allows for an additional 30 days 

for public comments. Supporting 

documents, which explain in detail the 

information that the EPA will be 

collecting, are available in the public 

docket for this ICR. The docket can be 

viewed online at www.regulations.gov 

or in person at the EPA Docket Center, 


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WJC West, Room 3334, 1301 

Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC. 

The telephone number for the Docket 

Center is 202–566–1744. For additional 

information about EPA’s public docket, 

visit http://www.epa.gov/dockets. 

Abstract: This data collection is 

intended to gather essential data to 

identify and quantify sources of perand polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) 

discharges, prioritize industrial 

categories for potential regulation, and 

establish a current national data set of 

sewage sludge characteristics. The data 

collection will support two separate 

EPA studies—the POTW Influent PFAS 

Study and the National Sewage Sludge 

Survey (NSSS). 

The Clean Water Act directs the EPA 

to develop national regulations known 

as Effluent Limitations Guidelines and 

Standards (ELGs) to place limits on the 

pollutants that are discharged by 

categories of industry to surface waters 

and POTWs. Additionally, Section 

405(d) of the Clean Water Act requires 

that the EPA establish requirements for 

the use or disposal of sewage sludge and 

review the regulations every two years 

to identify additional pollutants. 

For many decades, industrial facilities 

have used and discharged PFAS into the 

environment. PFAS are a class of 

synthetic chemicals of concern to the 

EPA because of their widespread use 

and potential to accumulate in the 

environment. Certain PFAS are known 

to cause adverse ecological and human 

health effects. 

The EPA will require, through an 

OMB-approved Information Collection 

Request, a subset of large POTWs across 

the United States to complete an 

electronic questionnaire and collect and 

analyze wastewater and sewage sludge 

samples. The data collection activities 

will produce a robust data set that will 

characterize the type and quantity of 

PFAS in wastewater discharges from 

industrial users (including industrial 

categories that the EPA has determined 

historically or currently use PFAS but 

for which there is insufficient PFAS 

monitoring data available), domestic 

wastewater or sewage, and POTW 

influent, effluent, and sewage sludge. 

The wastewater sampling data will 

primarily be used to identify and 

prioritize industrial point source 

categories where additional study or 

regulations may be warranted to control 

PFAS discharges. The sewage sludge 

sampling will fulfill the EPA’s data 

needs for the upcoming NSSS by 

establishing a current national data set 

of sewage sludge characteristics which 

the EPA will subsequently use to inform 

upcoming risk assessments and the need 

for future regulations and guidance 

pertaining to the management of sewage 

sludge. 

As part of the POTW Influent PFAS 

Study and NSSS, the EPA estimates that 

approximately 400 POTWs (individual 

wastewater or standalone wastewater 

treatment plans, as defined by Section 

212 of the Clean Water Act, which is 

owned by a state or municipality) with 

a daily design flow rates greater than or 

equal to 10 million gallons per day 

(MGD) and a service population greater 

than or equal to 50,000 people will be 

required to complete an electronic 

questionnaire. The questionnaire will 

gather POTW-specific information and 

data on industrial users discharging to 

the POTW, known or suspected sources 

of PFAS discharges to the POTW, and 

wastewater and sewage sludge 

management practices of the POTW. 

The EPA will use the information and 

data collected in the questionnaire to 

select a subset of 200 to 300 of the 400 

POTWs to participate in the POTW 

Influent PFAS Study and the NSSS’s 

sampling programs. 

Form numbers: None. 

Respondents/affected entities: 400 

POTWs with a daily design flow rate 

greater than or equal to 10 million 

gallons per day (MGD) and a service 

population greater than or equal to 

50,000 people will be required to 

complete an electronic questionnaire. 

200–300 of the 400 POTWs will be 

required to conduct wastewater and 

sewage sludge sampling. 

Respondent’s obligation to respond: 

Mandatory (Clean Water Act Section 

308). 

Estimated number of respondents: 

400 (total). 

Frequency of response: One-time data 

collection. 

Total estimated burden: 25,640 hours. 

Burden is defined at 5 CFR 1320.03(b). 

Total estimated cost: $5,486,816 (onetime cost), which includes $3,891,520 in 

capital or operation & maintenance 

costs. 

Changes in the estimates: This is a 

new data collection request and is a 

one-time temporary increase to the 

agency’s burden. 

Courtney Kerwin, 

Director, Regulatory Support Division. 

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AGENCY 

[FRL–12247–01–OMS] 

Senior Executive Service Performance 

Review Board; Membership 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of the 

membership of the U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency (EPA) Performance 

Review Board for 2024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Lizabeth Engebretson, Acting Director, 

Strategic HR Insights Division, 3606R, 

Office of Human Resources Strategy, 

Office of Mission Support, U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1300 

Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20460, telephone number: (202) 

564–0804, email address: 

engebretson.lizabeth@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

4314(c)(1) through (5) of title 5, U.S.C., 

requires each agency to establish in 

accordance with regulations prescribed 

by the Office of Personnel Management, 

one or more SES performance review 

boards. This board shall review and 

evaluate the initial appraisal of a senior 

executive’s performance by the 

supervisor, along with any 

recommendations to the appointment 

authority relative to the performance of 

the senior executive. Members of the 

2024 EPA Performance Review Board 

are: 

Denise Benjamin-Sirmons, Director, 

Office of Small and Disadvantaged 

Business Utilization, Office of the 

Administrator. 

Erica Canzler, Director, National 

Enforcement Investigations Center, 

Office of Enforcement and Compliance 

Assurance. 

Louis D’Amico, Associate Director for 

Science, Office of Science Advisor, 

Policy and Engagement, Office of 

Research and Development. 

Jeffrey Dawson, Senior Science 

Advisor, Office of Chemical Safety and 

Pollution Prevention. 

Lizabeth Engebretson, (Ex-Officio) 

Deputy Director, Strategic HR Insights 

Division, Office of Human Resources 

Strategy, Office of Mission Support. 

Caroline Freeman, Director, 

Superfund and Emergency Management 

Division, Region 4. 

Alice Gilliland, Deputy Director for 

Management, Center for Environmental 

Measurement and Modeling, Office of 

Research and Development. 

Michael Harris, Director, Enforcement 

and Compliance Division, Region 5. 


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