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Justice (‘‘DOJ’’) may withhold or

withdraw consent to the proposed

consent decree if the comments disclose

facts or circumstances that indicate that

such consent is inappropriate,

improper, inadequate, or inconsistent

with the requirements of the Act. Unless

EPA or DOJ determines, following the

comment period, that consent is

inappropriate, the final consent decree

will establish deadlines for specific

actions under sections 112 (m)(5) and

(m)(6) of the Act.

A copy of the proposed consent

decree was lodged with the Clerk of the

United States District Court for the

District of Columbia on March 14, 1997.

A copy of the proposed consent decree

is also available from Phyllis J. Cochran,

Air and Radiation Division (2344),

Office of General Counsel, U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency, 401

M Street, SW., Washington, DC 20460,

(202) 260–7606. Written comments

should be sent to Michael W. Thrift at

the above address and must be

submitted on or before April 24, 1997.

Dated: March 18, 1997.

Scott C. Fulton,

Acting General Counsel.

[FR Doc. 97–7372 Filed 3–24–97; 8:45 am]

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[FRL–5801–7]

Middlefield-Ellis-Whisman (‘‘MEW’’)

Superfund Site Proposed Notice Of

Administrative Settlement

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice; request for public

comment.

SUMMARY: In accordance with the

Comprehensive Environmental

Response, Compensation and Liability

Act of 1980, as amended by the

Superfund Amendments and

Reauthorization Act of 1986

(‘‘CERCLA’’), 42 U.S.C. 9600 et seq.,

notice is hereby given that a proposed

Prospective Purchaser Agreement

associated with the Middlefield-EllisWhisman (‘‘MEW’’) Superfund Site was

executed by the United States

Environmental Protection Agency

(‘‘EPA’’) on February 20, 1997. The

proposed Prospective Purchaser

Agreement would resolve certain

potential claims of the United States

under sections 106 and 107 of CERCLA,

42 U.S.C. 9606 and 9607, and section

7003 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act, as

amended, 42 U.S.C. 6973, against 464

Ellis Street Associates, L.P. (the

‘‘Purchaser’’). The Purchaser plans to

acquire approximately 80 acres located

within the MEW Superfund Site in

Mountain View, California for the

purpose of developing an office building

which will house high technology and

other businesses. The proposed

settlement would require the Purchaser

to pay EPA a one-time payment of

$200,000.

For thirty (30) calendar days

following the date of publication of this

notice, EPA will receive written

comments relating to the proposed

settlement. If requested prior to the

expiration of this public comment

period, EPA will provide an opportunity

for a public meeting in the affected area.

EPA’s response to any comments

received will be available for public

inspection at the U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency, 75 Hawthorne

Street, San Francisco, CA 94105.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on

or before April 24, 1997.

AVAILABILITY: The proposed Prospective

Purchaser Agreement and additional

background documentation relating to

the settlement are available for public

inspection at the U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency, 75 Hawthorne

Street, San Francisco, CA 94105. A copy

of the proposed settlement may also be

obtained from Danita Yocom, Assistant

Regional Counsel (RC–3), Office of

Regional Counsel, U.S. EPA Region IX,

75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA

94105. Comments should reference ‘‘464

Ellis Street Associates, L.P.—

Middlefield-Ellis-Whisman (‘‘MEW’’)

Superfund Site’’ and ‘‘Docket No. 97–

04’’ and should be addressed to Danita

Yocom at the above address.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Danita Yocom, Assistant Regional

Counsel (RC–3), Office of Regional

Counsel, U.S. EPA Region IX, 75

Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA

94105; E-mail:

yocom.danita@epamail.epa.gov;

Telephone (415) 744–1347.

Dated: March 5, 1997.

Keith Takata,

Director, Superfund Division, U.S. EPA,

Region IX.

[FR Doc. 97–7493 Filed 3–24–97; 8:45 am]

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FEDERAL EMERGENCY

MANAGEMENT AGENCY

Agency Information Collection

Activities: Proposed Collection;

Comment Request

ACTION: Notice and request for

comments.

SUMMARY: The Federal Emergency

Management Agency, as part of its

continuing effort to reduce paperwork

and respondent burden, invites the

general public and other Federal

agencies to take this opportunity to

comment on proposed continuing

information collections. In accordance

with the Paperwork Reduction Act of

1995 (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)), this

notice seeks comments concerning the

marketing of flood insurance. The

federal government will be a guarantor

of flood insurance coverage for WYO

company policies issued under the

WYO arrangement. To insure that any

policy holder money is accounted for

and appropriately expended, the

Federal Insurance Administration (FIA)

and WYO companies will implement a

Financial Control Plan. This plan

requires that each WYO company

submit financial data on a monthly

basis.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: FEMA

regulation 44 CFR Part 62, Appendix B

explains the operational and financial

control procedures governing the

issuance of flood insurance coverage

under the National Flood Insurance

Program (NFIP) by private sector

property insurance companies under the

WYO programs. The WYO companies

are required to submit financial data on

a monthly basis. The NFIP examines the

data to insure that the policy holder

funds are accounted for and

appropriately expended. Monthly

financial statements are prepared by the

NFIP for the WYO program based on the

data submitted by the WYO companies.

Collection of Information

Title: Write-Your-Own (WYO)

Program.

Type of Information Collection:

Extension.

OMB Number: 3067–0169.

Form Number: None.

Abstract: Under the Write-Your-Own

program, private sector insurance

companies may offer flood insurance to

eligible property owners. The federal

government is a guarantor of flood

insurance coverage for WYO companies,

issued under the WYO arrangement. In

order to maintain adequate financial

control over federal funds, the NFIP

requires each WYO company to submit

a monthly financial report.

Affected Public: Businesses or other

for-profit.

Estimated Total Annual Burden

Hours: The area currently 120 WYO

companies reporting monthly to NFIP.

This number will remain stable with

minimal increases or decreases

throughout year 2000. Is is estimated

that a total of 33 minutes is required per
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WYO company per monthly report, to

satisfy all requirements in the Financial

Control Plan and WYO Accounting

Procedures Manual. The 33-minute

burden estimate is based on manual

posting of company data onto these

reports. Total annual burden for this

request is 792 hours.

Frequency of Reporting: Monthly.

Estimated Cost: Actual ‘‘cost’’ of the

WYO program to the government is

difficult to assess because, were it not

for the WYO companies, the

government would incur operating

expenses, agent’s commission expenses

and loss adjustment expense in

connection with the policies issued by

the WYO company. The annualized cost

of the report in question to the Federal

government and to the respondents is

negligible.

COMMENTS: Written comments are

solicited to (a) evaluate whether the

proposed data collection is necessary for

the proper performance of the agency,

including whether the information shall

have practical utility; (b) evaluate the

accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the

burden of the proposed collection of

information, including the validity of

the methodology and assumptions used;

(c) enhance the quality, utility, and

clarity of the information to be

collected; and (d) minimize the burden

of collection of information on those

who are to respond, including through

the use of appropriate automated,

electronic, mechanical, or other

technological collection techniques or

other forms of information technology,

e.g. permitting electronic submission of

responses. Comments should be

received within 60 days from the date

of this notice.

ADDRESSES: Interested persons should

submit written comments to Muriel B.

Anderson, FEMA Information

Collections Officer, Federal Emergency

Management Agency, 500 C Street, SW.,

Room 311, Washington, DC 20472.

Telephone number (202) 646–2625.

FAX number (202) 646–3524.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Contact Kevin F. Montgomery, Financial

Management Specialist, Federal

Insurance Administration, (202) 646–

2944 for additional information. Contact

Ms. Anderson at (202) 646–2625 for

copies of the proposed collection of

information.

Dated: March 17, 1997.

Reginald Trujillo,

Director, Program Services Division,

Operations Support Directorate.

[FR Doc. 97–7490 Filed 3–24–97; 8:45 am]

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Agency Information Collection

Activities: Proposed Collection;

Comment Request

ACTION: Notice and request for

comments.

SUMMARY: The Federal Emergency

Management Agency (FEMA), as part of

its continuing effort to reduce

paperwork and respondent burden,

invites the general public and other

Federal agencies to take this

opportunity to comment on proposed

continuing information collections. In

accordance with the Paperwork

Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C.

3506(c)(2)(A)), this notice seeks

comments concerning FEMA’s request

for personal financial data from its

individual debtors.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under

FEMA’s debt collection regulations, 44

CFR § 11.36(b), FEMA Debt Collection

Officers (DCO’s) are required to

maintain current credit data on FEMA’s

debtors including, but not limited to,

the individual debtor’s own financial

statement, executed under penalty for

false claim, concerning his/her assets

and liabilities and his/her income and

expenses. FEMA Form 22–13, Debt

Collection Financial Statement, collects

such data directly from the individual

debtor. FEMA DCO’s use these data for

collecting debts due the United States

and arising from operations of FEMA

programs. DCO’s also use these data to

determine debtor’s ability to pay debts

due FEMA, to locate debtor’s assets, and

for skip-tracing purposes.

Collection of Information

Title: Debt Collection Financial

Statement.

Type of Information Collection:

Extension.

OMB Number: 3067–0122.

Form Number. FEMA Form 22–13,

Debt Collection Financial Statement.

Abstract: FEMA may request of

individuals who are debtors to provide

personal financial information on FEMA

Form 22–13 concerning their current

financial position. This information

includes debtors’ home and

employment addresses, names of spouse

(if any), any children, their ages,

amounts and sources of the debtors’ and

spouses’ (if any) salaries, stocks, bonds

and other securities, real and personal

property owned and bank accounts and

names of creditors and amounts owed to

these creditors.

With this information, FEMA DCO’s

can evaluate whether to allow debtors to

pay the FEMA debts under installment

repayment agreements and, if so, under

what terms and amounts. FEMA DCO’s

also use these data to determine

whether FEMA should suspend or

terminate collection efforts or

compromise the respondent’s debts.

These data also are used for skip-tracing

missing debtors and for location of

debtors’ assets if the debts are to be

judicially enforced.

Providing information on FEMA Form

22–13 is voluntary on the part of the

debtor. However, if the debtor does not

provide the information requested by

FEMA, the FEMA DCO may use more

severe collection methods.

Affected Public: Persons who owe

debts to the United States under

programs administered by FEMA and

who wish to either (1) enter into

installment repayment agreements with

FEMA, or (2) have their FEMA debts

compromised, suspended or terminated

under the provisions of 44 CFR §§ 11.50

and 11.51.

Estimated Total Annual Burden

Hours: 3,000.

Estimated Cost: None to the debtor

since he/she is retrieving information

from memory or from the debtor’s own,

readily available, personal records.

COMMENTS: Written comments are

solicited to (a) evaluate whether the

proposed data collection is necessary for

the proper performance of the agency,

including whether the information shall

have practical utility; (b) evaluate the

accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the

burden of the proposed collection of

information, including the validity of

the methodology and assumptions used;

(c) enhance the quality, utility, and

clarity of the information to be

collected; and (d) minimize the burden

of collection of information on those

who are to respond, including through

the use of appropriate automated,

electronic, mechanical, or other

technological collection techniques or

other forms of information technology,

e.g. permitting electronic submission of

responses. Comments should be

received by [insert 60 days from the date

of publication of this notice].

ADDRESSES: Interested persons should

submit written comments to Muriel B.

Anderson, FEMA Information

Collections Officer, Federal Emergency

Management Agency, 500 C Street, SW,

Room 311, Washington, DC 20472.

Telephone number (202) 646–2625.

FAX number (202) 646–3524.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Contact Richard S. Buck, IV, Financial

Management Specialist, Financial

Policy Division, Office of Financial

Management, Federal Emergency

Management Agency (FM-FP-PS), 500 C

Street, SW, Washington, DC 20742.

Telephone number (202) 646–4091.