28508 Federal Register / Vol. 63, No. 100 /Tuesday, May 26, 1998 / Notices

CAG–44.

Docket# CP92–633, 001, Public Service

Company of Colorado

CAG–45. Omitted

CAG–46.

Docket# CP98–357, 000, El Paso Natural

Gas Company

CAG–47. Omitted

CAG–48.

Docket# CP98–263, 000, Louisiana-Nevada

Transit Company

Other#s CP98–264, 000, Arkla, a Division

of Noram Energy Corp.

CAG–49.

Docket# CP98–100, 000, Algonquin Gas

Transmission Company

Hydro Agenda

H–1.

Reserved

Electric Agenda

E–1.

Reserved

Oil and Gas Agenda

I.

Pipeline Rate Matters

PR–1.

Reserved

II.

Pipeline Certificate Matters

PC–1.

Docket# RM98–8, 000, Alternative Methods

For Regulating Natural Gas Pipeline

Facilities and Services on the Outer

Continental Shelf

Notice of Inquiry.

PC–2.

Docket# CP96–610, 000, Granite State Gas

Transmission, Inc. Application to

Construct and Operate LNG Facility in

Wells, Maine.

David P. Boergers,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 98–14001 Filed 5–21–98; 3:12 pm]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–6102–4]

Agency Information Collection

Activities: Submission for OMB

Review; Comment Request; NESHAP

for Epoxy Resins and Non-Nylon

Polyamide Resin

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: In compliance with the

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.

3501 et seq.), this document announces

that the following Information

Collection Request (ICR) has been

forwarded to the Office of Management

and Budget (OMB) for review and

approval: National Emission Standards

for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP)

for Epoxy Resins and Non-nylon

Polyamide Production, OMB Control

Number 2060–0290, expiration date July

31, 1998. The ICR describes the nature

of the information collection and its

expected burden and cost; where

appropriate, it includes the actual data

collection instrument.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on

or before June 25, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For

a copy of the ICR, call Sandy Farmer at

EPA, by phone at (202) 260–2740, by EMail at Farmer.Sandy@epamail.epa.gov

or download off the Internet at http://

www.epa.gov/icr/icr.htm, and refer to

EPA ICR No. 1681.03.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: NESHAP for Epoxy Resin and

Non-nylon Polyamide Resin Production,

Subpart W, OMB Control No. 2060–

0290; EPA ICR No. 1681.03 expiring 07/

31/98. This is a request for extension of

a currently approved collection.

Abstract: The ICR contains

recordkeeping and reporting

requirements that are mandatory for

compliance with 40 CFR part 63,

subpart W, regulating hazardous air

pollutants from process vents, storage

vessels, wastewater systems and

equipment leaks. The standards require

recordkeeping and reporting to

document process information related to

the source’s ability to comply with the

standards. This information is used by

the Agency to identify sources subject to

the standards and to insure that the

maximum achievable control

technology is being properly applied.

Section 112 of the Clean Air Act, as

amended in 1990, requires that EPA

establish standards to limit emissions of

hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) from

stationary sources. The sources subject

to these provisions emit the HAPs

epichlorohydrin, and in lesser amounts,

hydrochloric acid and methanol. In the

Administrator’s judgment, hazardous air

pollutant emissions in this industry

cause or contribute to air pollution that

may be reasonably expected to endanger

public health or welfare. Respondents

are owners or operators of new and

existing facilities that manufacture

polymers and resins from

epichlorohydrin. Source categories

include basic liquid epoxy resin (BLR)

producers and producers of

epichlorohydrin-modified non-nylon

polyamide resins, also known as wet

strength resins (WSR).

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 are listed

in 40 CFR part 9 and 48 CFR chapter 15.

The Federal Register document

required under 5 CFR 1320.8(d),

soliciting comments on this collection

of information was published on 12/02/

97 (62 FR 63703); no comments were

received.

Burden Statement: The annual public

reporting and recordkeeping burden for

this collection of information is

estimated to average 156 hours per

respondent. Burden means the total

time, effort, or financial resources

expended by persons to generate,

maintain, retain, or disclose or provide

information to or for a Federal agency.

This includes the time needed to review

instructions; develop, acquire, install,

and utilize technology and systems for

the purposes of collecting, validating,

and verifying information, processing

and maintaining information, and

disclosing and providing information;

adjust the existing ways to comply with

any previously applicable instructions

and requirements; train personnel to be

able to respond to a collection of

information; search data sources;

complete and review the collection of

information; and transmit or otherwise

disclose the information.

Respondents/Affected Entities:

Owners or operators of new and existing

facilities that manufacture polymers and

resins from epichlorohydrin

Estimated Number of Respondents:

13.

Frequency of Response: Semiannually

(some quarterly).

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:

4525 hours.

Estimated Total Annualized Cost

Burden: $9,000.

Send comments on the Agency’s need

for this information, the accuracy of the

provided burden estimates, and any

suggested methods for minimizing

respondent burden, including through

the use of automated collection

techniques to the following addresses.

Please refer to EPA ICR No. 1681.03 and

OMB Control No. 2060–0290 in any

correspondence.

Ms. Sandy Farmer, U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency, OPPE Regulatory

Information Division (2137), 401 M

Street, SW, Washington, DC 20460;

and

Office of Information and Regulatory

Affairs, Office of Management and

Budget, Attention: Desk Officer for

EPA, 725 17th Street, NW,

Washington, DC 20503.
Federal Register / Vol. 63, No. 100 /Tuesday, May 26, 1998 / Notices 28509

Dated: May 18, 1998.

Richard T. Westlund,

Acting Director, Regulatory Information

Division.

[FR Doc. 98–13854 Filed 5–22–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[OPPTS–400130; FRL–5792–5]

Public Meetings on the Toxics Release

Inventory Reporting Form

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of public meetings.

SUMMARY: EPA will hold approximately

nine public meetings to solicit

comments relating to the Toxics Release

Inventory (TRI) reporting form, the

Form R. The purpose of the meetings is

to obtain comments from stakeholders

on ways to improve the type of right-toknow information available to

communities and to help streamline

right-to-know reporting to ease the

paperwork burden for businesses

affected by the requirements. The first

five meetings were held in November

1997 and February and April 1998. This

notice announces two upcoming

meetings. Additional meeting dates will

be announced through future Federal

Register notices.

DATES: The meetings will take place: 1. Thursday, June 18, 1998, 9 a.m. to

12 p.m., at the Ramada Inn, 70 John

Wesley Dobbs Avenue, Atlanta, GA

30303. Participants must register to

speak by 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, June

11, 1998.

2. Wednesday, June 24, 1998, 9 a.m.

to 12 p.m., at the Holiday Inn City

Center, 1215 Wyandotte Street, Kansas

City, MO 64105. Participants must

register to speak by 5:00 p.m. on

Wednesday, June 17, 1998.

ADDRESSES: Each comment must bear

the docket control number ‘‘OPPTS–

400130.’’ All comments should be sent

in triplicate to: OPPT Document Control

Officer (7407), Office of Pollution

Prevention and Toxics, Environmental

Protection Agency, 401 M St., SW., Rm.

G–099, East Tower, Washington, DC

20460.

Comments and data may also be

submitted electronically to:

oppt.ncic@epamail.epa.gov. Follow the

instructions under Unit II. of this

document. No Confidential Business

Information (CBI) should be submitted

through e-mail. All comments which contain

information claimed as CBI must be

clearly marked as such. Three sanitized

copies of any comments containing

information claimed as CBI must also be

submitted and will be placed in the

public record for this action. Persons

submitting information on any portion

of which they believe is entitled to

treatment as CBI by EPA must assert a

business confidentiality claim in

accordance with 40 CFR 2.203(b) for

each such portion. This claim must be

made at the time that the information is

submitted to EPA. If a submitter does

not assert a confidentiality claim at the

time of submission, EPA will consider

this as a waiver of any confidentiality

claim and the information may be made

available to the public by EPA without

further notice to the submitter.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Vicki R. Anderson, (Mail Stop 7408),

Environmental Protection Agency, 401

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

telephone: (202) 260–3544; fax number:

(202) 401–8142; e-mail:

anderson.vicki@epamail.epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

EPA plans to hold approximately nine

public meetings to solicit comments

relating to the Toxics Release Inventory

(TRI) reporting form, the Form R. The

first five meetings took place in

November 1997 and February and April

1998. The docket control number for the

November meetings is ‘‘OPPTS–

400117’’ and the docket control number

for the February and April meetings is

‘‘OPPTS–400124.’’ Comments presented

at these meetings are available for

review as described in Unit II. of this

document.

The purpose of the meetings is to

obtain comments from stakeholders on

ways to improve the type of right-toknow information available to

communities and to help streamline

right-to-know reporting to ease the

paperwork burden for businesses

affected by the requirements. Topics for

comment include the format of the Form

R; nomenclature used in the Form R;

opportunities for burden reduction in

both the Form R and Form A; additional

clarification of the elements in the Form

R; and EPA’s presentation of the data in

public information documents. EPA

would like to receive comments on

these issues from interested parties for

changes, modifications, deletions, and/

or additions of data elements to the

Form R and the Form A. These issues

are outlined in greater detail in an issue

paper available on the TRI Home Page

at http://www.epa.gov/opptintr/tri

under the heading ‘‘TRI Stakeholder

Dialogue’’ and the subheading ‘‘TRI

Public Meetings.’’ The sections of the Form R that EPA

would like specific comment on are

sections 5, 6, and 8. In section 5, there

have been a number of issues raised

with regard to the definition of

‘‘release,’’ particularly with respect to

Class I underground injection wells and

Resource Conservation and Recovery

Act (RCRA) subtitle C landfills. Several

commenters believe that EPA’s

interpretation of the Emergency

Planning and Community Right-ToKnow Act (EPCRA) definition of

‘‘release’’ will lead to the misperception

that a reported EPCRA section 313

‘‘release’’ necessarily results in an actual

exposure of people or the environment

to a toxic chemical. The Agency would

like to hear suggestions on ways to

collect and disseminate the data that are

consistent with the Agency’s

interpretation of the EPCRA definition

of ‘‘release’’ and would address the

concerns raised regarding public

misperception.

There have also been a number of

issues raised with regard to the

reporting of toxic chemicals in wastes in

section 8 of the Form R. Section 8

collects information on waste managed

at the facility whether or not the waste

was generated at the reporting facility.

Some individuals are concerned about

public misperception of the data in

section 8 because of the focus on the

amount of waste managed at the facility

and not the waste generated. EPA would

like comments on ways to change

section 8 of the Form R, which would

continue to allow the user to assess

wastes managed by the facility but

would minimize the perception that the

wastes reported in section 8 were

generated by the reporting facility.

Individuals wishing to attend these

meetings or participate via conference

call must sign-up in advance in order to

assure that all participants have an

opportunity to speak. Depending on the

number of individuals registered, oral

presentations or statements will be

limited to approximately 5 to 15

minutes. To register, contact Vicki

Anderson at (202) 260–3544. For those

who cannot travel to the public meeting

location, there will be 10 conference call

lines available on a first come, first

served basis. When registering, give

your name, organization, postal (and

electronic, if any) mailing address,

telephone, and fax number. If there is

insufficient interest in any of the

meetings, that meeting may be canceled.

Individuals registered will be notified in

the event a meeting is canceled. The

Agency bears no responsibility for

attendees’ decision to purchase

nonrefundable transportation tickets or

accommodation reservations.