13790 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 50 / Tuesday, March 15, 2016 / Notices 

Dated: March 3, 2016. 

Karl Simon, 

Director, Transportation and Climate 

Division, Office of Transportation and Air 

Quality. 

[FR Doc. 2016–05817 Filed 3–14–16; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPPT–2015–0436; FRL–9943–14] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Proposed Renewal of an 

Existing Collection (EPA ICR No. 

1139.11); Comment Request 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA), this 

document announces that EPA is 

planning to submit an Information 

Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB). The 

ICR, entitled: ‘‘TSCA Section 4 Test 

Rules, Consent Orders, Enforceable 

Consent Agreements, Voluntary Testing 

Agreements, Voluntary Data 

Submissions, and Exemptions from 

Testing Requirements’’ and identified 

by EPA ICR No. 1139.11 and OMB 

Control No. 2070–0033, represents the 

renewal of an existing ICR that is 

scheduled to expire on August 31, 2016. 

Before submitting the ICR to OMB for 

review and approval, EPA is soliciting 

comments on specific aspects of the 

proposed information collection that is 

summarized in this document. The ICR 

and accompanying material are 

available in the docket for public review 

and comment. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before May 16, 2016. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by docket identification (ID) 

number EPA–HQ–OPPT–2015–0436, by 

one of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Do not submit electronically any 

information you consider to be 

Confidential Business Information (CBI) 

or other information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. 

• Mail: Document Control Office 

(7407M), Office of Pollution Prevention 

and Toxics (OPPT), Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460–0001. 

• Hand Delivery: To make special 

arrangements for hand delivery or 

delivery of boxed information, please 

follow the instructions at http://

www.epa.gov/dockets/contacts.html. 

Additional instructions on 

commenting or visiting the docket, 

along with more information about 

dockets generally, is available at 

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

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

technical information contact: Mike 

Mattheisen, Chemical Control Division 

(7405M), Office of Pollution Prevention 

and Toxics, Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., 

Washington, DC 20460–0001; telephone 

number: (202) 564–3077; email address: 

mattheisen.mike@epa.gov. 

For general information contact: The 

TSCA-Hotline, ABVI-Goodwill, 422 

South Clinton Ave., Rochester, NY 

14620; telephone number: (202) 554– 

1404; email address: TSCA-Hotline@

epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. What information is EPA particularly 

interested in? 

Pursuant to PRA section 3506(c)(2)(A) 

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

specifically solicits comments and 

information to enable it to: 

1. Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the Agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility. 

2. Evaluate the accuracy of the 

Agency’s estimates of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used. 

3. Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected. 

4. Minimize the burden of the 

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. 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: TSCA Section 4 Test Rules, 

Consent Orders, Enforceable Consent 

Agreements, Voluntary Testing 

Agreements, Voluntary Data 

Submissions, and Exemptions from 

Testing Requirements. 

ICR number: EPA ICR No. 1139.11. 

OMB control number: OMB Control 

No. 2070–0033. 

ICR status: This ICR is currently 

scheduled to expire on August 31, 2016. 

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 listed in 40 CFR part 9, 

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: Section 4 of the Toxic 

Substances Control Act (TSCA) is 

designed to assure that chemicals that 

may pose serious risks to human health 

or the environment undergo testing by 

manufacturers or processors, and that 

the results of such testing are made 

available to EPA. EPA uses the 

information collected under the 

authority of TSCA section 4 to assess 

risks associated with the manufacture, 

processing, distribution, use or disposal 

of a chemical, and to support any 

necessary regulatory action with respect 

to that chemical. 

EPA must assure that appropriate 

tests are performed on a chemical if it 

decides: (1) That a chemical being 

considered under TSCA section 4(a) 

may pose an ‘‘unreasonable risk’’ or is 

produced in ‘‘substantial’’ quantities 

that may result in substantial or 

significant human exposure or 

substantial environmental release of the 

chemical; (2) that additional data are 

needed to determine or predict the 

impacts of the chemical’s manufacture, 

processing, distribution, use or disposal; 

and (3) that testing is needed to develop 

such data. Rules and consent orders 

under TSCA section 4 require that one 

manufacturer or processor of a subject 

chemical perform the specified testing 

and report the results of that testing to 

EPA. TSCA section 4 also allows a 

manufacturer or processor of a subject 

chemical to apply for an exemption 

from the testing requirement if that 

testing will be or has been performed by 

another party. This information 

collection applies to reporting and 

recordkeeping activities associated with 

the information that EPA requires 

industry to provide in response to TSCA 

section 4 test rules, consent orders, test 

rule exemptions and other data 

submissions. 


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Responses to the collection of 

information are mandatory (see 40 CFR 

part 790). Respondents may claim all or 

part of a notice as CBI. EPA will 

disclose information that is covered by 

a CBI claim only to the extent permitted 

by, and in accordance with, the 

procedures in 40 CFR part 2. 

Burden statement: The annual public 

reporting and recordkeeping burden for 

this collection of information is 

estimated to range between 8.5 and 243 

hours per response, not including CDX 

registration, and 0.53 hours per CDX 

registration. 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 by this ICR 

are manufacturers, processors, 

importers, users, distributors or 

disposers of one or more specified 

chemical substances. 

Estimated total number of potential 

respondents: 15. 

Frequency of response: On occasion. 

Estimated total average number of 

responses for each respondent: 5.6. 

Estimated total annual burden hours: 

3,055 hours. 

Estimated total annual costs: 

$27,089,112. This includes an estimated 

burden cost of $58,917 and an estimated 

cost of $27,030,195 for capital 

investment or maintenance and 

operational costs (namely laboratory test 

costs). 

III. Are there changes in the estimates 

from the last approval? 

There is a decrease of 626,838 hours 

in the total estimated respondent 

burden compared with that identified in 

the ICR currently approved by OMB. 

This decrease mainly reflects 

corrections to the previous renewal of 

this collection, plus reduced levels of 

activity in test rules, methodological 

corrections and updates, and 

requirements for electronic reporting of 

information. This change is both a 

program change (electronic reporting) 

and an adjustment (all other). 

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 technical 

person listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT. 

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

Dated: March 3, 2016. 

James Jones, 

Assistant Administrator, Office of Chemical 

Safety and Pollution Prevention. 

[FR Doc. 2016–05821 Filed 3–14–16; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM 

Formations of, Acquisitions by, and 

Mergers of Bank Holding Companies 

The companies listed in this notice 

have applied to the Board for approval, 

pursuant to the Bank Holding Company 

Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C. 1841 et seq.) 

(BHC Act), Regulation Y (12 CFR part 

225), and all other applicable statutes 

and regulations to become a bank 

holding company and/or to acquire the 

assets or the ownership of, control of, or 

the power to vote shares of a bank or 

bank holding company and all of the 

banks and nonbanking companies 

owned by the bank holding company, 

including the companies listed below. 

The applications listed below, as well 

as other related filings required by the 

Board, are available for immediate 

inspection at the Federal Reserve Bank 

indicated. The applications will also be 

available for inspection at the offices of 

the Board of Governors. Interested 

persons may express their views in 

writing on the standards enumerated in 

the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1842(c)). If the 

proposal also involves the acquisition of 

a nonbanking company, the review also 

includes whether the acquisition of the 

nonbanking company complies with the 

standards in section 4 of the BHC Act 

(12 U.S.C. 1843). Unless otherwise 

noted, nonbanking activities will be 

conducted throughout the United States. 

Unless otherwise noted, comments 

regarding each of these applications 

must be received at the Reserve Bank 

indicated or the offices of the Board of 

Governors not later than April 8, 2016. 

A. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston 

(Prabal Chakrabarti, Senior Vice 

President) 600 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, 

Massachusetts 02210–2204. Comments 

can also be sent electronically to 

BOS.SRC.Applications.Comments@

bos.frb.org: 

1. Randolph Bancorp, Inc., Stoughton, 

Massachusetts; to become a bank 

holding company by acquiring 100 

percent of the voting shares of Randolph 

Savings Bank, Stoughton, 

Massachusetts, with the conversion of 

Randolph Bancorp, from mutual to 

stock form. 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, March 10, 2016. 

Michael J. Lewandowski, 

Associate Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. 2016–05778 Filed 3–14–16; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6210–01–P 

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM 

Proposed Agency Information 

Collection Activities; Comment 

Request 

AGENCY: Board of Governors of the 

Federal Reserve System. 

SUMMARY: On June 15, 1984, the Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) 

delegated to the Board of Governors of 

the Federal Reserve System (Board) its 

approval authority under the Paperwork 

Reduction Act (PRA), to approve of and 

assign OMB numbers to collection of 

information requests and requirements 

conducted or sponsored by the Board. 

Board-approved collections of 

information are incorporated into the 

official OMB inventory of currently 

approved collections of information. 

Copies of the PRA Submission, 

supporting statements and approved 

collection of information instruments 

are placed into OMB’s public docket 

files. The Federal Reserve may not 

conduct or sponsor, and the respondent 

is not required to respond to, an 

information collection that has been 

extended, revised, or implemented on or 

after October 1, 1995, unless it displays 

a currently valid OMB number. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before May 16, 2016. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by FR 4198 or FR 4203 by any 

of the following methods: 

• Agency Web site: http://

www.federalreserve.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments at 

http://www.federalreserve.gov/apps/

foia/proposedregs.aspx. 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Email: regs.comments@

federalreserve.gov. Include OMB 

number in the subject line of the 

message. 

• FAX: (202) 452–3819 or (202) 452– 

3102. 

• Mail: Robert deV. Frierson, 

Secretary, Board of Governors of the 

Federal Reserve System, 20th Street and 

Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, 

DC 20551. 


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