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Agency (SMMPA). Under the

Transmission Service Agreement, IPW

will provide non-firm point-to-point

transmission service to SMMPA.

Comment date: April 21, 1997, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

11. Wisconsin Public Service

Corporation

[Docket No. ER97–2231–000]

Take notice that on March 24, 1997,

Wisconsin Public Service Corporation

(WPSC) tendered for filing an executed

Transmission Service Agreement

between WPSC and Wisconsin Power &

Light Company. The Agreement

provides for transmission service under

the Open Access Transmission Service

Tariff, FERC Original Volume No. 11.

Comment date: April 21, 1997, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

12. Illinois Power Company

[Docket No. ER97–2232–000]

Take notice that on March 24, 1997,

Illinois Power Company (Illinois

Power), 500 South 27th Street, Decatur,

Illinois 62526, tendered for filing a

Power Sales Tariff, Service Agreement

under which PacifiCorp Power

Marketing, Inc. will take service under

Illinois Power Company’s Power Sales

Tariff. The agreements are based on the

Form of Service Agreement in Illinois

Power’s tariff.

Illinois Power has requested an

effective date of March 20, 1997.

Comment date: April 21, 1997, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

13. MidAmerican Energy Company

[Docket No. ER97–2234–000]

Take notice that on March 25, 1997,

MidAmerican Energy Company

(MidAmerican) submitted for filing with

the Commission a Service Agreement

dated February 28, 1997 with the City

of Geneseo, Illinois (Geneseo) entered

into pursuant to MidAmerican’s Rate

Schedule for Power Sales, FERC Electric

Tariff, Original Volume No. 5 (Tariff),

and the First Amended and Restated

Interchange Agreement (Restated

Agreement) dated February 26, 1997

with Geneseo entered into pursuant to

the Service Agreement and the Tariff.

MidAmerican requests an effective

date of March 1, 1997 for these

Agreements, and accordingly seeks a

waiver of the Commission’s notice

requirement. MidAmerican has served a

copy of the filing on Geneseo, the Iowa

Utilities Board, the Illinois Commerce

Commission and the South Dakota

Public Utilities Commission.

Comment date: April 21, 1997, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

Standard Paragraph

E. Any person desiring to be heard or

to protest said filing should file a

motion to intervene or protest with the

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,

888 First Street, N.E., Washington, D.C.

20426, in accordance with Rules 211

and 214 of the Commission’s Rules of

Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211

and 18 CFR 385.214). All such motions

or protests should be filed on or before

the comment date. Protests will be

considered by the Commission in

determining the appropriate action to be

taken, but will not serve to make

protestants parties to the proceeding.

Any person wishing to become a party

must file a motion to intervene. Copies

of this filing are on file with the

Commission and are available for public

inspection.

Lois D. Cashell,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–9765 Filed 4–15–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[OPP–00476; FRL–5596–8]

Renewal of Pesticide Information

Collection Activities

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: This notice announces that

the following Information Collection

Requests (ICRs) are coming up for

renewal. The ICRs titled ‘‘Notice of

Supplemental Distribution of a

Registered Pesticide Product’’ (ICR No.

0278.06, OMB No. 2070-0044) and

‘‘FIFRA Reregistration Fees’’ (ICR No.

1495.04, OMB No. 2070-0101) will

expire on August 31, 1997, and the ICR

titled ‘‘Pesticide Product Registration

Maintenance Fees’’ (ICR No. 1214.04,

OMB No. 2070-0100) will expire on

September 30, 1997. Before submitting

the renewal packages to the Office of

Management and Budget (OMB), EPA is

soliciting comments on specific aspects

of these collections as described below.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on

or before June 16, 1997.

ADDRESSES: Submit written comments

identified by the docket control number

OPP–00476 and the appropriate ICR

number by mail to: Public Response

Section, Field Operations Division

(7506C), Office of Pesticide Programs,

Environmental Protection Agency, 401

M St., SW., Washington, DC 20460. In

person, bring comments directly to the

OPP docket which is located in Rm.

1132 of Crystal Mall #2, 1921 Jefferson

Davis Highway, Arlington, VA.

Comments and data may also be

submitted electronically by sending

electronic mail (e-mail) to: oppdocket@epamail.epa.gov. Electronic

comments must be submitted as an

ASCII file avoiding the use of special

characters and any form of encryption.

Comments and data will also be

accepted on disks in WordPerfect in 5.1

file format or ASCII file format. All

comments and data in electronic form

must be identified by the docket number

‘‘OPP–00476’’ and the appropriate ICR

number. No Confidential Business

Information (CBI) should be submitted

through e-mail. Electronic comments on

this document may be filed online at

many Federal Depository Libraries.

Additional information on electronic

submissions can be found in Unit III. of

this document.

Information submitted as a comment

concerning this document may be

claimed to be confidential by marking

any part or all of that information as

CBI. Information so marked will not be

disclosed except in accordance with

procedures set forth in 40 CFR part 2.

A copy of the comment that does not

contain CBI must be submitted for

inclusion in the public record.

Information not marked confidential

may be disclosed publicly by EPA

without prior notice. All nonconfidential written comments will be

available for public inspection in Rm.

1132 at the Virginia address given above

from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday

through Friday, excluding legal

holidays.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Ellen Kramer, Policy and Special

Projects Staff, Office of Pesticide

Programs, Environmental Protection

Agency, Mail Code (7506C), 401 M St.,

SW., Washington, DC 20460, Telephone:

(703) 305-6475, e-mail:

kramer.ellen@epamail.epa.gov. Copies

of the complete ICR and accompanying

appendices may be obtained by

contacting Ellen Kramer.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Electronic Availability: Electronic

copies of this document and the ICRs

are available from the EPA home page

at the Environmental Sub-Set entry for

this document under ‘‘Regulations’’

(http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/).

I. Information Collection Requests

EPA is seeking comments on the

following Information Collection

Requests (ICRs).
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ICR No. 0278.06

Title: Notice of Supplemental

Distribution of a Registered Pesticide

Product, ICR No. 0278.06, OMB No.

2070-0044. Expiration date: August 31,

1997.

Affected entities: Parties affected by

this information collection are

registrants of pesticide products.

Abstract: Under section 3(e) of the

Federal, Insecticide, Fungicide, and

Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), as amended,

products which ‘‘have the same

formulation, are manufactured by the

same person, the labeling of which

contains the same claims, and the labels

of which bear a designation identifying

the product as the same pesticide may

be registered as a single pesticide, and

additional names and labels shall be

added to the registration by

supplemental statements.’’ This

information collection activity is the

completion and submission of the

supplemental statements referred to in

FIFRA section 3(e). A standard form

(EPA Form 8570-5) is provided for the

applicant’s convenience in providing

the necessary information (name and

address of the basic product registrant

and of the distributor, and the name and

EPA Registration Number of the product

involved in the distributorship

agreement) to EPA. The pesticide

registrant notifies EPA with the use of

this form, that it has entered into an

agreement with a second company

which will distribute the registrant’s

product under the second company’s

name and product name.

Burden Statement: The information

covered by this request is collected on

occasion when the producer of a

pesticide product enters into agreement

with a supplemental distributor. As

small businesses are involved in this

information collection activity, their

needs have been taken into account so

that the burden imposed is the

minimum level at which the program

can run effectively under the

requirements specified under FIFRA.

The annual respondent burden for

this program is estimated to average

0.24 hours per response, including time

for: reading instructions; processing,

compiling, and reviewing the

information for appropriateness;

completing and submitting forms; and

storing, filing, and maintaining the data.

ICR No. 1495.04

Title: FIFRA Reregistration Fees. ICR

No. 1495.04, OMB No. 2070-0101.

Expiration date: August 31, 1997.

Affected entities: Parties affected by

this information collection are

manufacturers of pesticide chemicals

who have not previously paid

reregistration fees.

Abstract: This reporting and

recordkeeping activity is mandated by

FIFRA which authorizes the collection

of reregistration fees from pesticide

registrants. These fees (with waivers and

exemptions) apply to the pesticide

active ingredients registered under

FIFRA before November 1, 1984, which

are subject to reregistration. The 1988

amendments to FIFRA established onetime reregistration fees and required

EPA to apportion those fees on the basis

of market share. Without information on

market share, exempt status of

registrants, and eligibility for small

business waivers, the Agency would not

be able to fully implement the statutory

requirements of FIFRA or to collect the

total amount of required fees, and thus

could encounter a shortfall in budget

projections.

A small portion of the registrant

population (those maintaining

registrations for certain biological

pesticides) was granted reregistration

fee deferrals extending the time for

payment of reregistration fees to up to

5 years (1994-1999). These registrants

will be involved only in the

reregistration fee deferral information

collection process. This renewal is for

the few remaining biological pesticide

cases only.

The data required under this

information collection request will be

generated through the use of three

forms: the Reregistration Fee

Apportionment Form, the Small

Business Waiver Certification Form, and

the Biological Active Ingredient Sales

Reporting Form.

Burden Statement: This is a one-time

collection activity. A Small Business

Waiver Certification Form was

developed out of a concern for the

burden on small entities. Thus, eligible

small entities will qualify for fee

waivers. Additionally, the burden

associated with billing and payment is

minimal.

The annual respondent burden for

this program is estimated to average 3.7

hours per response, including time for:

reviewing instructions, searching

existing data sources, gathering and

maintaining the data needed, and

completing and reviewing the collection

of information.

ICR No. 1214.04

Title: Pesticide Product Registration

Maintenance Fees. ICR No. 1214.04.

OMB No. 2070-0100. Expiration date:

September 30, 1996.

Affected entities: Parties affected by

this information collection are

registrants of pesticide products holding

currently active registrations under

FIFRA section 3 and section 24(c).

Abstract: FIFRA as amended in 1988

makes provisions for registration

maintenance fees under Section 4(I)(5).

These fees apply to all products

registered under section 3 and section

24(c) of FIFRA. The fees are to be paid

annually for each product registered and

are payable on January 15 of each year.

The authority to collect fees under the

1988 amendments would have

terminated on September 30, 1997;

however, the Food Quality Protection

Act of 1996 extended the authority to

collect these fees for another 3 years,

beginning in 1998.

The information collected is used by

the Agency to ensure that the fees

prescribed by FIFRA have been paid by

each registrant. The information is also

used to adjust OPP’s computer files to

reflect changes in the status of

registrations resulting from registrant

responses. For example, a registrant may

choose not to pay the fee and allow a

registration to be canceled.

In order to provide an efficient system

to bill, collect, and account for

registration maintenance fees, the

Agency has used a filing form which is

sent to all registrants of currently active

products.

Burden Statement: This information

is collected annually and is due to EPA

every January 15. The needs of small

businesses were of primary concern in

designing the filing form; therefore,

respondents are asked to provide only

readily available information. The

annual respondent burden for this

program is estimated to average 0.94

hours per response, including time for:

reading instructions, planning activities,

reviewing information, completing

paperwork, and filing information. The

estimated burden per response has not

changed since the previous ICR.

Any 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

contained in 40 CFR part 9.

II. Request for Comments

EPA solicits comments to:

(i) Evaluate whether the proposed

collections of information described

above are necessary for the proper

performance of the functions of the

agency, including whether the

information will have practical utility.

(ii) Evaluate the accuracy of the

agency’s estimates of the burdens of the

proposed collections of information.

(iii) Enhance the quality, utility, and

clarity of the information to be

collected.
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(iv) Minimize the burden of the

collections of information on those who

are to respond, including through the

use of appropriate automated or

electronic collection technologies or

other forms of information technology,

e.g., permitting electronic submission of

responses.

Send comments regarding these

matters, or any other aspect of these

information collections, including

suggestions for reducing the burdens, to

the docket under ADDRESSES listed

above.

III. Public Record

A record has been established for this

notice under docket control number

OPP–00476 (including comments and

data submitted electronically as

described below). A public version of

the record, including printed, paper

versions of electronic comments, which

does not include any information

claimed as CBI, is available for

inspection from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.,

Monday through Friday, excluding legal

holidays. The public record is located in

Room 1132 of the Public Response and

Resources Branch, Field Operations

Division (7506C), Office of Pesticide

Programs, Environmental Protection

Agency, Crystal Mall #2, 1921 Jefferson

Davis Highway, Arlington, VA.

Electronic comments can be sent

directly to EPA at:

opp-docket@epamail.epa.gov

Electronic comments must be

submitted as an ASCII file avoiding the

use of special characters and any form

of encryption.

The official record for this

rulemaking, as well as the public

version, as described above will be kept

in paper form. Accordingly, EPA will

transfer all comments received

electronically into printed, paper form

as they are received and will place the

paper copies in the official rulemaking

record which will also include all

comments submitted directly in writing.

The official rulemaking record is the

paper record maintained at the address

in ‘‘ADDRESSES’’ at the beginning of

this document.

List of Subjects

Environmental protection and

Information collection requests.

Dated: April 8, 1997.

Lynn R. Goldman,

Assistant Administrator for Prevention,

Pesticides and Toxic Substances.

[FR Doc. 97–9688 Filed 4–15–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6560–50–F

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–5812–6]

Acid Rain Program: Draft Permits and

Permit Modifications

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of draft permits and

permit modifications.

SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency (EPA) is issuing for

comment draft Phase I Acid Rain

permits and permit modifications

including nitrogen oxides (NOX)

compliance plans in accordance with

the Acid Rain Program regulations (40

CFR parts 72 and 76). Because the

Agency does not anticipate receiving

adverse comments, the permits and

permit modifications are also being

issued as a direct final action in the

notice of permits and permit

modifications published elsewhere in

today’s Federal Register.

DATES: Comments on the draft permits

and permit modifications must be

received no later than 30 days after the

date of this notice or 30 days after the

date of publication of a similar notice in

a local newspaper, whichever is later.

ADDRESSES: Administrative Records.

The administrative record for the

permits, except information protected as

confidential, may be viewed during

normal operating hours at the following

locations: for plants in New York, EPA

Region 2, 290 Broadway, New York, NY,

10007–1866; for plants in Alabama,

Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, North

Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee,

EPA Region 4, 100 Alabama St., NW,

Atlanta, GA, 30303; for plants in

Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota,

Ohio, and Wisconsin, EPA Region 5, 77

West Jackson Blvd., Chicago, IL, 60604;

for plants in Colorado, Montana, North

Dakota, Utah and Wyoming, EPA Region

8, 999 18th St., Denver, CO, 80202.

Comments. Send comments, requests

for public hearings, and requests to

receive notices of future actions to: for

plants in New York, EPA Region 2,

Division of Environmental Planning &

Protection, Attn: Gerry DeGaetano

(address above); for plants in Alabama,

Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, North

Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee,

EPA Region 4, Air, Pesticides and

Toxics Management Division, Attn:

Scott Davis (address above); for plants

in Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio, EPA

Region 5, Air and Radiation Division,

Attn: Cecilia Mijares (address above); for

plants in Michigan, Minnesota, and

Wisconsin, EPA Region 5, Air and

Radiation Division, Attn: Beth

Valenziano (address above); for plants

in Colorado, Montana, North Dakota,

Utah and Wyoming, EPA Region 8, Air

and Toxics Division, Attn: Mike Owens

(address above). Submit comments in

duplicate and identify the permit to

which the comments apply, the

commenter’s name, address, and

telephone number, and the commenter’s

interest in the matter and affiliation, if

any, to the owners and operators of all

units in the plan. All timely comments

will be considered, except those

pertaining to standard provisions under

40 CFR 72.9 or issues not relevant to the

permit or the permit modification.

Hearings. To request a public hearing,

state the issues proposed to be raised in

the hearing. EPA may schedule a

hearing if EPA finds that it will

contribute to the decision-making

process by clarifying significant issues

affecting a NOX compliance plan.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For

plants in New York, call Gerry

DeGaetano, 212–637–4020; for plants in

Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky,

North Carolina, South Carolina and

Tennessee, call Scott Davis, 404–562–

9127; for plants in Illinois, Indiana, and

Ohio, call Cecilia Mijares, 312–886–

0968; for plants in Michigan, Minnesota,

and Wisconsin, call Beth Valenziano,

312–886–2703; for plants in Colorado,

Montana, North Dakota, Utah and

Wyoming, call Mike Owens, 303–312–

6440.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: If no

significant, adverse comments are

timely received, no further activity is

contemplated in relation to these draft

permits and draft permit modifications

and the permits and permit

modifications issued as a direct final

action in the notice of permits and

permit modifications published

elsewhere in today’s Federal Register

will automatically become final on the

date specified in that notice. If

significant, adverse comments are

timely received on any permit or permit

modification, that permit or permit

modification in the notice of permits

and permit modifications will be

withdrawn and public comment

received on that permit or permit

modification based on this notice of

draft permits and permit modifications

will be addressed in a subsequent notice

of permit or permit modification.

Because the Agency will not institute a

second comment period on this notice

of draft permits and permit

modifications, any parties interested in

commenting should do so during this

comment period.