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(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: 

Wendy Hoffman, Regulations 

Implementation Division, Office of 

Emergency Management, Mail Code 

5104A, Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, 

Washington, DC 20460; telephone 

number: (202) 564–8794; email address: 

hoffman.wendy@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Supporting documents, which explain 

in detail the information that EPA will 

be collecting, are available in the public 

docket for this ICR. The docket can be 

viewed online at http://

www.regulations.gov. For further 

information about the EPA’s public 

docket, Docket Center services and the 

current status, please visit us online at 

https://www.epa.gov/dockets. The 

telephone number for the Docket Center 

is 202–566–1744. 

Abstract: Section 103(a) of the 

Comprehensive Environmental 

Response, Compensation, and Liability 

Act (CERCLA), as amended, requires the 

person in charge of a facility or vessel 

to immediately notify the National 

Response Center (NRC) of a hazardous 

substance release into the environment 

if the amount of the release equals or 

exceeds the substance’s reportable 

quantity (RQ) limit. The RQs for the 

hazardous substance can be found in 

Table 302.4 of 40 CFR 302.4. Section 

311 of the Clean Water Act (CWA) as 

amended, requires the person in charge 

of a vessel to immediately notify the 

NRC of an oil spill into U.S. navigable 

waters if the spill causes a sheen, 

violates applicable water quality 

standards, or causes a sludge or 

emulsion to be deposited beneath the 

surface of the water or upon adjoining 

shorelines. The reporting of a hazardous 

substance release that is at or above the 

substance’s RQ allows the federal 

government to determine whether a 

federal response action is required to 

control or mitigate any potential adverse 

effects to public health or welfare or the 

environment. Likewise, the reporting of 

oil spills allows the federal government 

to determine whether cleaning up the 

oil spill is required to mitigate or 

prevent damage to public health or 

welfare or the environment. The 

hazardous substance and oil release 

information collected under CERCLA 

section 103(a) and CWA section 311 

also is available to EPA program offices 

and other federal agencies that use the 

information to evaluate the potential 

need for additional regulations, new 

permitting requirements for specific 

substances or sources, or improved 

emergency response planning. 

Release notification information is 

stored in EPA’s WebEOC, a web-based 

crisis management system which 

supports response management for 

significant incidents and daily 

operations in the Regional Response 

Centers and EPA’s Headquarters 

Emergency Operations Center. State and 

local government authorities and the 

regulated community use release 

information for purposes of local 

emergency response planning. The 

public has access to release information 

through the Freedom of Information 

Act. The public may request release 

information for purposes of maintaining 

an awareness of what types of releases 

are occurring in different localities and 

what actions, if any, are being taken to 

protect public health and welfare and 

the environment. 

Form Numbers: None. 

Respondents/affected entities: 

Facilities and vessels that may have 

releases of any hazardous substances or 

oil at or above its RQ. 

Respondent’s obligation to respond: 

Mandatory under CERCLA section 103 

(a). 

Estimated number of respondents: 

19,450. 

Frequency of response: As releases 

occur from a facility or a vessel. 

Total estimated burden: 19,839 hours 

(per year). Burden is defined at 5 CFR 

1320.03(b). 

Total estimated cost: $553,337 (per 

year), which includes no capital or 

operation and maintenance costs 

associated with this ICR. 

Changes in Estimates: Based on actual 

NRC release notifications from the 

previous ICR period, the projected 

number of annual release notifications 

in this renewal (19,450) is slightly 

higher than what EPA projected in the 

previous ICR (18,447). This resulted in 

a higher total estimated respondent 

burden of 19,839 hours for this ICR 

renewal compared to 18,816 hours in 

the previous renewal. 

Courtney Kerwin, 

Director, Regulatory Support Division. 

[FR Doc. 2022–05564 Filed 3–15–22; 8:45 am] 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OW–2021–0736; FRL–9659–01– 

OMS] 

Information Collection Request 

Submitted to OMB for Review and 

Approval; Comment Request; Meat 

and Poultry Products Industry Data 

Collection 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency has submitted an information 

collection request (ICR), ‘‘Meat and 

Poultry Products Industry Data 

Collection’’ (EPA ICR No. 2701.01, OMB 

Control No. 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 

November 19, 2021, during a 60-day 

comment period. This notice allows for 

an additional 30 days for public 

comments. A fuller description of the 

ICR is given below, including its 

estimated burden and cost to the public. 

An agency may not conduct or sponsor 

and a person is not required to respond 

to a collection of information addressed 

to ten or more entities unless it displays 

a currently valid OMB control number. 

DATES: Additional comments may be 

submitted on or before April 15, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to 

EPA, referencing Docket ID No. EPA– 

HQ–OW–2021–0736, online using 

www.regulations.gov (our preferred 

method), by email to OW-Docket@

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. 


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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Stephen Whitlock, Engineering and 

Analysis Division, Office of Science and 

Technology, 4303T, Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460; 

telephone number: 202–566–1541; 

email address: Whitlock.Steve@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

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: Under the Clean Water Act 

(CWA), EPA develops effluent 

limitations guidelines (ELGs) to limit 

pollutants discharged from industrial 

point source categories. EPA initially 

promulgated ELGs for the Meat and 

Poultry Products (MPP) category in 1974 

and amended the regulations in 2004. 

The current regulation covers 

wastewater directly discharged by meat 

and poultry slaughterhouses and further 

processors as well as independent 

renderers. Small poultry facilities and 

indirect dischargers are not included in 

the current rule. 

In EPA’s review of nutrients in 

industrial wastewater, the MPP category 

ranked among the top two industrial 

categories discharging nutrients based 

on 2018 data, and EPA announced a 

detailed study of the MPP category in 

2020. During the study, EPA collected 

publicly available data and met with 

industry trade associations. EPA found 

that there are existing, affordable 

technologies that can reduce nutrient 

concentrations in MPP wastewater, and 

that pretreatment standards may be 

needed as publicly available data shows 

pollutants from MPP facilities may 

passthrough and cause interference for 

some publicly owned treatment works 

(POTWs). 

Publicly available data on MPP 

facilities that is needed to support a 

rulemaking is limited. To identify the 

base population of approximately 7,000 

MPP facilities, EPA collected data from 

the US Department of Agriculture 

(USDA) Food Safety Inspection Service 

(FSIS). Using this base population, EPA 

attempted to find data on MPP 

wastewater, effluent limits, and 

treatment technologies by collecting 

publicly available facility permits and 

consulting the Integrated Compliance 

Information System (ICIS) dataset. 

Available data was limited to only those 

facilities directly discharging 

wastewater or to facilities discharging 

indirectly through POTWS in individual 

states that require pretreatment permits 

to be reported, leaving a large data gap. 

Thus, a survey of the current MPP 

industry will be an essential portion of 

the rulemaking process, necessary for 

EPA to determine appropriateness of 

current regulations. 

The data collection activities 

described in this Information Collection 

Request (ICR) are designed to obtain a 

robust dataset that characterizes 

wastewater generation, treatment, and 

discharge from MPP facilities. A short 

questionnaire will be administered as an 

industry census to confirm general 

information on the type and size (both 

production and employees) of the 

facility and gather information on 

wastewater generation and treatment. 

To reduce burden on the industry, a 

statistically representative subset of 

MPP facilities will complete a detailed 

survey collecting additional details on 

processing operations, types and 

amount of wastewater generated by 

operation, wastewater treatment details, 

and economic data. A small number of 

MPP facilities will also be asked to 

collect and analyze wastewater samples 

to characterize raw waste streams, 

wastewater treatment systems, and 

treated effluent for pollutants of interest. 

The current rule contains 12 subparts, 

reflecting that the industry engages in a 

wide range of activities. Facilities range 

in size from very small (less than 10 

employees) to large (over 500 

employees). For EPA to complete the 

detailed technical and economic 

analysis for the entire industry 

necessary for the rulemaking process, 

the short questionnaire, detailed 

questionnaire, and sampling activities 

are essential. 

Confidential Business Information 

(CBI) may be collected. In accordance 

with 40 CFR part 2, subpart B, section 

2.203, the MPP Surveys inform 

respondents of their right to claim 

information as confidential. Each survey 

provides instructions for claiming 

confidentiality and informs respondents 

of the terms and rules governing the 

protection of CBI under the CWA and 40 

CFR 2.203. Survey respondents are 

requested to mark any claimed 

confidential responses as CBI. EPA and 

its contractors will follow EAD’s 

existing procedures to protect data 

labeled as CBI. 

Form Numbers: 6100–074, 6100–075. 

Respondents/affected entities: All 

Meat and Poultry Products facilities in 

the U.S. 

Respondent’s obligation to respond: 

Mandatory (Clean Water Act section 

308). 

Estimated number of respondents: 

7,000 (total). 

Frequency of response: One-time data 

collection. 

Total estimated burden: 70,807 hours. 

Burden is defined at 5 CFR 1320.03(b). 

Total estimated cost: $3,219,484, 

which includes $85,708 annualized 

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. 

[FR Doc. 2022–05490 Filed 3–15–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPPT–2017–0652; FRL–9660–01– 

OMS] 

Information Collection Request 

Submitted to OMB for Review and 

Approval; Comment Request; 

Expanded Access to TSCA 

Confidential Business Information 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) has submitted an 

information collection request (ICR), 

Expanded Access to Toxic Substances 

Control Act Confidential Business 

Information, (EPA ICR Number 2570.02, 

OMB Control Number 2070–0209) 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 March 31, 2022. 

Public comments were previously 

requested via the Federal Register on 

August 12, 2021 during a 60-day 

comment period. This notice allows for 

an additional 30 days for public 

comments. A fuller description of the 

ICR is given below, including its 

estimated burden and cost to the public. 

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. 

DATES: Additional comments may be 

submitted on or before April 15, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to 

EPA, referencing Docket ID No. EPA– 


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