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mechanical, or other technological 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology, e.g., permitting 

electronic submission of responses. In 

particular, EPA is requesting comments 

from very small businesses (those that 

employ less than 25) on examples of 

specific additional efforts that EPA 

could make to reduce the paperwork 

burden for very small businesses 

affected by this collection. 

II. What information collection activity 

or ICR does this action apply to? 

Title: Assessment of Environmental 

Performance Standards and Ecolabels 

for Federal Procurement. 

EPA ICR No.: 2516.05. 

OMB Control No.: 2070–0199. 

ICR status: This ICR is currently 

approved through September 30, 2025. 

Under the PRA, 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 in title 40 of the Code of 

Federal Regulations (CFR), after 

appearing in the Federal Register when 

approved, are displayed either by 

publication in the Federal Register or 

by other appropriate means, such as on 

the related collection instrument or 

form, if applicable. The display of OMB 

control numbers for certain EPA 

regulations is consolidated in 40 CFR 

part 9. 

Abstract: This ICR covers the 

information collection activities 

associated with the Agency’s evaluation 

of private sector standards and ecolabels 

per EPA’s Framework for the 

Assessment of Environmental 

Performance Standards and Ecolabels 

for Federal Purchasing (Framework), 

formerly referred to as the Guidelines. 

EPA’s goal in developing this 

Framework is to create a transparent, 

fair, and consistent approach to 

selecting product environmental 

performance standards and ecolabels to 

support the Agency’s mission and 

federal sustainable acquisition goals and 

mandates. The fundamental aim of this 

Framework is to establish a cross-sector 

approach to be used in recognizing 

private sector environmental 

performance standards (and 

consequently, environmentally 

preferable products and services 

meeting these standards) for use in 

federal purchasing. 

Burden statement: The annual public 

reporting and recordkeeping burden for 

this collection of information is 

estimated to average 8.5 hours per 

response. Burden is defined in 5 CFR 

1320.3(b). 

The ICR, which is available in the 

docket along with other related 

materials, provides a detailed 

explanation of the collection activities 

and the burden estimate that is only 

briefly summarized here: 

Respondents/affected entities: Entities 

potentially affected are standard 

development organizations, ecolabel 

programs, and certification entities that 

manage product or service 

environmental performance standards 

and/or ecolabels that could be 

considered for use in United States 

federal sustainable procurement efforts. 

Respondent’s obligation to respond: 

Voluntary. See 15 U.S.C. 3701 and 42 

U.S.C. 13103(b)(11). 

Forms: EPA Form No. 9600–038. 

Frequency of response: On Occasion. 

Total estimated number of potential 

respondents: 100. 

Total estimated average number of 

responses for each respondent: 2. 

Total estimated annual burden hours: 

613 hours. 

Total estimated annual respondent 

costs: $49,284 which includes $0 for 

capital investment or maintenance and 

operational costs. 

III. Are there changes in the estimates 

from the last approval? 

There is a decrease in burden of 94 

hours. The burden decrease is a result 

of the decrease of respondents that were 

not previously assessed per EPA 

Framework. This change is an 

adjustment. 

IV. What is the next step in the process 

for this ICR? 

EPA will consider the comments 

received and amend the ICR as 

appropriate. The final ICR package will 

then be submitted to OMB for review 

and approval pursuant to 5 CFR 

1320.12. EPA will issue another Federal 

Register document pursuant to 5 CFR 

1320.5(a)(1)(iv) to announce the 

submission of the ICR to OMB and the 

opportunity to submit additional 

comments to OMB. If you have any 

questions about this ICR or the approval 

process, please contact the person listed 

under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq. 

Dated: November 21, 2024. 

Michal Freedhoff, 

Assistant Administrator, Office of Chemical 

Safety and Pollution Prevention. 

[FR Doc. 2024–27816 Filed 11–26–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OEI–2006–0037; FRL–12444–01– 

OMS] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget for Review 

and Approval; Comment Request; 

Exchange Network Grants Progress 

Reports (Renewal) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) has submitted an 

information collection request (ICR), 

Exchange Network Grants Program (EPA 

ICR Number 2207.09, OMB Control 

Number 2025–0006) to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and approval in accordance with 

the Paperwork Reduction Act. This is a 

proposed extension of the ICR, which is 

currently approved through November 

30, 2024. Public comments were 

previously requested via the Federal 

Register on September 19, 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 December 27, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing Docket ID Number EPA ICR 

Number 2207.09, OMB Control Number 

2025–0006 to EPA online using 

www.regulations.gov (our preferred 

method), 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: Erin 

McGown, Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, 

Washington, DC 20460; email address: 

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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a 

proposed extension of the ICR, which is 

currently approved through November 

30, 2024. 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 

September 19, 2024 (89 FR 76826) 

during a 60-day comment period. 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, 

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: The Environmental 

Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of 

Mission Support provides funding via 

grants to EPA’s Exchange Network 

partners (states, territories, and federally 

recognized Indian tribes) to support the 

development of the Exchange Network 

(EN). The EN facilitates the sharing of 

environmental data, especially through 

shared and reusable services; 

streamlines data collection and 

exchanges to improve timeliness for 

decision making; increases the quality 

and access to environmental data; 

reduces burden and costs for coregulators and the regulated community; 

supports better decisions on 

environmental and health issues; and 

increases capacity for environmental 

data management for tribes and U.S. 

territories. As part of the terms and 

conditions of the EN grant program, 

recipients are required to submit the 

following forms: (i) Semi-Annual 

Progress Reports (EPA Form 5300–26) 

twice annually throughout the lifetime 

of the project, Final Progress Report 

(EPA Form 5300–26) within 120 

calendar days after the period of 

performance end date, and the IT 

Component and Project Registration 

Form, at the time of grant close-out. The 

information gathered on items (i) and 

(ii) help EPA to ensure that projects are 

on schedule to meet identified project 

goals and produce high quality 

environmental outputs. The registration 

form (item iii) provides a detailed 

summary of the completed project and 

any developed/reused IT components; 

this information is made available to 

future applicants to inform the 

development of their proposed projects, 

promote the reuse of technologies, and 

connect to potential project partners and 

mentors. 

Form Numbers: 5300–26. 

Respondents/affected entities: 

Employees of state, tribal, or territorial 

environmental government offices. 

Respondent’s obligation to respond: 

Required to obtain or retain a benefit (2 

CFR part 200, ‘‘Uniform Administrative 

Requirements, Cost Principles, and 

Audit Requirements for Federal 

Awards). 

Estimated number of respondents: 

223 (149 semi-annually for the semiannual progress report form; 38 

annually for the IT Component and 

Project Registration Form, and 38 

annually for the Final Progress Report 

Form). 

Frequency of response: EPA assumes 

that each grant recipient will submit 

two Semi-Annual Progress Report 

Forms each year the grant is active. In 

addition, the grantees will submit the 

Final Progress Report to RENC no later 

than 120 days after the grant 

performance period end date. At this 

time, the IT Component and Project 

Registration Form will likewise be 

submitted. 

Total estimated burden: 493 hours 

(per year). Burden is defined at 5 CFR 

1320.03(b). 

Total estimated cost: $29,530 (per 

year), includes $0 annualized capital or 

operation & maintenance costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is a 

slight decrease of 15 (493 hours in 2024 

vs 508 hours in 2021) hours in the total 

estimated respondent burden as 

compared with the ICR currently 

approved by OMB. The number of open 

active grants each year was estimated at 

149, which matches the 2021 estimate, 

as the number of new assistance 

agreements has remained consistent 

since 2021. Estimates for the Final 

Progress Reporting Form is also very 

similar to the 2021 estimate, with only 

a slight increase in the number of 

expected closed-out grants (from 36 in 

2021 to 38 in 2024). This slight increase 

reflects an expectation for more EN 

assistance agreements to close out in the 

upcoming years, as projects which were 

initially delayed due to workplace 

changes associated with COVID–19 are 

now being completed. The slight 

decrease in burden hours for 

respondents can be attributed primarily 

to the retiring of the Quality Assurance 

Reporting Form, which was previously 

required within 90 days of each new 

assistance agreement. There was a new 

form added for this ICR, which was not 

present in the 2021 version. The IT 

Component and Project Registration 

Form is a fillable PDF form, that is 

submitted by the grantee to their 

Regional Exchange Network Coordinator 

(RENC) at the time of grant close-out. As 

this form is due at the time of grant 

close-out, the estimated number 

matches the estimated number of Final 

Progress Reports (38). This new form is 

estimated to take 2 hours to complete, 

which is a decrease of 0.6 compared to 

the retired Quality Assurance Reporting 

Form. 

Courtney Kerwin, 

Director, Regulatory Support Division. 

[FR Doc. 2024–27729 Filed 11–26–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPPT–2024–0057; FRL–11683– 

10–OCSPP] 

Certain New Chemicals; Receipt and 

Status Information for October 2024 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: EPA is required under the 

Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), 

as amended by the Frank R. Lautenberg 

Chemical Safety for the 21st Century 

Act, to make information publicly 

available and to publish information in 

the Federal Register pertaining to 

submissions under TSCA section 5, 

including notice of receipt of a 

Premanufacture notice (PMN), 

Significant New Use Notice (SNUN) or 

Microbial Commercial Activity Notice 

(MCAN), including an amended notice 

or test information; an exemption 

application (Biotech exemption); an 

application for a test marketing 

exemption (TME), both pending and/or 

concluded; a notice of commencement 

(NOC) of manufacture (including 

import) for new chemical substances; 

and a periodic status report on new 

chemical substances that are currently 

under EPA review or have recently 

concluded review. This document 

covers the period from October 1, 2024 

to October 31, 2024. 

DATES: Comments identified by the 

specific case number provided in this 

document must be received on or before 

December 27, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by docket identification (ID) 

number EPA–HQ–OPPT–2024–0057, 

through the Federal eRulemaking Portal 

at https://www.regulations.gov. Follow 

the online instructions for submitting 

comments. Do not submit electronically 

any information you consider to be 

Confidential Business Information (CBI) 


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