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not file comments within the time

specified for filing comments, it will be

presumed to have no comments. One

copy of an agency’s comments must also

be sent to the Applicant’s

representatives.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 98–16190 Filed 6–17–98; 8:45 am]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[SWH–FRL–6112–4]

Agency Information Collection

Activities-Proposed Collection;

Comment Request; Survey of the

Chlorinated Aliphatics Industry

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 EPA is planning to submit the

following proposed Information

Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of

Management and Budget (OMB): Survey

of Chlorinated Aliphatics Industry, ICR

Number 1866.01. This ICR includes

information about clarifications to

updated information from the initial

RCRA section 3007 questionnaire and

possible site visits anticipated for this

information collection effort. Before

submitting the ICR to OMB for review

and approval, EPA is soliciting

comments on specific aspects of the

proposed information collection as

described below.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on

or before August 17, 1998.

ADDRESSES: Commenters must send an

original and two copies of their

comments referencing docket number

F–98–CAIP–FFFFF to: RCRA Docket

Information Center, Office of Solid

Waste (5305G), U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency Headquarters (EPA,

HQ), 401 M Street, SW, Washington, DC

20460. Hand deliveries of comments

should be made to the Arlington, VA,

address below. Comments also may be

submitted electronically through the

Internet to: rcradocket@epamail.epa.gov.

Comments in electronic format also

should be identified by the docket

number F–98–CAIP–FFFFF. All

electronic comments must be submitted

as an ASCII. All electronic comments

must be submitted as an ASCII file

avoiding the use of special characters

and any form of encryption.

Commenters should not submit

electronically any confidential business

information (CBI). An original and two

copies of CBI must be submitted under

separate cover to: RCRA CBI Document

Control Officer, Office of Solid Waste

(5305W), U.S. EPA, 401 M Street, SW,

Washington, DC 20460.

Public comments and supporting

materials are available for viewing in

the RCRA Information Center (RIC),

located at Crystal Gateway I, First Floor,

1235 Jefferson Davis Highway,

Arlington, VA. The RIC is open from 9

am to 4 pm, Monday through Friday,

excluding federal holidays. To review

docket materials, it is recommended

that the public make an appointment by

calling (703) 603–9230. The public may

copy a maximum of 100 pages from any

regulatory docket at no charge.

Additional copies cost $0.15/page. The

index and some supporting materials

are available electronically.

The ICR is available on the Internet.

Follow these instructions to access the

information electronically;

WWW: http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/

osw/hazwaste. htm#id

FTP: ftp.epa.gov

Login: anonymous

Password: your internet address

Files are located in /pub/epaoswer

The official record or this action will

be kept in paper form. Accordingly, EPA

will transfer all comments received

electronically into paper form and place

them in the official record, which also

will include all comments submitted

directly in writing.

EPA responses to comments, whether

the comments are written or electronic,

will be in a document in the Fedeal

Register. EPA will not reply

immediately to commenters

electronically other than to seek

clarification of electronic comments that

may be garbled in transmission or

during conversion to paper form, as

discussed above.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For

general information, contact the RCRA

Hotline at (800) 424–9346 or TDD (800)

553–7672 (Hearing impaired).In the

Washington, DC metropolitan area, call

(703) 412–9810 or TDD (703) 412–3323.

For more detailed information on

specific aspects of this rulemaking,

contact Wanda Levine, Office of Solid

Waste (5304W), U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency, 401 M Street, SW,

Washington, DC 20460, (703) 308–0438,

or levine. wanda@epamail.epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Affected entities: Entities potentially

affected by this action are those

generating, transporting, storing or

disposing of the wastes of interest from

the chlorinated aliphatics industry.

Title: Survey of Chlorinated

Aliphatics Industry ICR, Number

1866.01.

Abstract: Under the Industry Studies

Program, EPA’s Office of Solid Waste is

planning to conduct surveys of various

industries during the rest of this fiscal

year through FY 1999, primarily for the

purpose of developing hazardous waste

listing determinations as part of a

rulemaking effort under sections 3001

and 3004 of the Resources Conservation

and Recovery Act (RCRA). Information

collected under authority of this ICR

specifically will be used to establish and

expand an information data base with

regard to hazardous waste generation

and management by industry to support

a goal of more effective regulation under

sections 3001 and 3004 of RCRA.

The information acquired through the

Industry Studies Program has

contributed to the effective development

and implementation of the hazardous

waste regulatory program. The ICR, once

approved, will allow continued and

expanded data collection for the

following program areas:

• Listing.

• Land Disposal Restrictions (LDR)

and Capacity.

1• Source Reduction and Recycling.

• Risk Assessment.

To support these hazardous waste

program areas, EPA has been

conducting surveys and site visits for

the chlorinated aliphatics industry since

1992 under authority granted under

RCRA section 3007 and OMB #2050–

0042. Responses to the surveys were

received and site visits conducted in

early 1993 to collect data for

development of hazardous waste

rulemakings as required by a consent

decree signed December 9, 1994, which

resulted from the EDF v. Reilly case.

For the chlorinated aliphatics that is

the subject of this information

collection, the main data to be collected

will be clarifications to updated survey

information, and possibly site visits if

necessary.

The information collected will be

used primarily to determine if wastes

from the chlorinated aliphatics industry

should be listed as hazardous. In

addition, this information also will be

used to support other RCRA activities

including developing engineering

analyses; conducting regulatory impact

analyses, economic analyses, and risk

assessments; and developing land

disposal restrictions treatment standards

and waste minimization programs.

EPA anticipates that some data

provided by respondents will be
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claimed as confidential business

information (CBI). Respondents may

make a business confidentially claim by

marking the appropriate data as CBI.

Respondents may not withhold

information from the Agency because

they believe it is confidential.

Information so designated will be

disclosed by EPA only to the extent set

forth in 40 CFR part 2.

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.

EPA would like to solicit comments

to:

(i) 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;

(ii) 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;

(iii) Enhance the quality, utility, and

clarity of the information to be

collected; and

(iv) 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.

Burden Statement: 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.

The average annual burden imposed

by the clarification to the survey

updates is approximately 20.0 hours per

respondent. The average number of

responses for each respondent is 1. The

estimated number of likely respondents

is 25. The average annual burden

imposed by site visits is approximately

16 hours per respondent. The average

number of responses for each

respondent is 1.

The estimated number of likely

respondents is 3.

Data will be collected from the

chlorinated aliphatics industry that

generate wastes that may be listed as

hazardous.

Dated: June 2, 1998.

Elizabeth A. Cotsworth,

Acting Director, Office of Solid Waste.

[FR Doc. 98–16257 Filed 6–17–98; 8:45 am]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[ER–FRL–5497–7]

Second Public Scoping Meeting for

EPA’s Environmental Impact

Statement for the Final Rule for

Environmental Impact Assessment of

Nongovernmental Activities in

Antarctica

AGENCY: U.S. Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of second public scoping

meeting for EPA’s Environmental

Impact Statement (EIS) for the final rule

for environmental impact assessment

(EIA) of nongovernmental activities in

Antarctica.

SUMMARY: The U.S. EPA, in accordance

with Section 102(2)(c) of the National

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), will

prepare a Draft EIS for proposed final

regulations that will provide for: (1)

environmental impact assessment of

nongovernmental activities, including

tourism, in Antarctica for which the

United States is required to give

advance notice under paragraph 5 of

Article VII of the Antarctic Treaty of

1959; and (2) coordination of the review

of information regarding environmental

impact assessments received by the

United States from other Parties to the

Protocol on Environmental Protection to

the Antarctic Treaty. These final

regulations will be prepared pursuant to

the Antarctic Science, Tourism, and

Conservation Act of 1996. EPA held its

first public scoping meeting on July 8,

1997, and, at the request of the

International Association of Antarctica

Tour Operators, individual Antarctica

tour operators, and The Antarctica

Project on behalf of the Antarctic and

Southern Ocean Coalition, agreed to

conduct a second scoping meeting

following the 1997–1998 Antarctic tour

season, the first such season following

promulgation of EPA’s Interim Final

Rule governing Environmental Impact

Assessment of Nongovernmental

Activities in Antarctica (Federal

Register/Vol. 62, No. 83/ Wednesday,

April 30, 1997/Rules and Regulations).

EPA invites comments and suggestions

on the scope of the rulemaking with

regard to the environmental and

regulatory issues to be addressed in the

EIS.

DATES: The public scoping meeting will

be on Tuesday, July 14, 1998, from 1:00

PM until 4:30 PM, at the Washington

Information Center—EPA Conference

Service Center, Conference Room 3

North, Waterside Mall, 4th and M Street

SW, Washington, DC. To access

Conference Room 3 North, enter

Waterside Mall through the entrance

directly in front of the Waterfront-SEU

Metro Station (green line), turn right at

the central hallway, left at the end of

this hallway, and enter the North

Conference Center through the last door

on the right. Written comments from the

public may also be sent directly to EPA

to the contacts listed below and will be

accepted by EPA through July 31, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.

Joseph Montgomery or Ms. Katherine

Biggs, Office of Federal Activities

(2252A), U.S. Environmental Protection

Agency, 401 M Street SW, Washington,

DC 20460; telephone: (202)564–7157 or

(202)564–7144, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Please

refer to the Public Scoping Meeting

Notice for the July 8, 1997 meeting

(Federal Register/Vol. 62, No. 105/

Monday, June 2, 1997/Notices), and the

Notice of Intent to Prepare an EIS for the

final rule for EIA of nongovernmental

activities in Antarctica (Federal

Register/Vol. 62, No. 90/Friday, May 9,

1997/Notices). Copies of documents

pertinent to this project are available

from the contacts listed above and also

on the World Wide Web at: http://

www.epa.gov/oeca/ofa.

Richard E. Sanderson,

Director, Office of Federal Activities.

[FR Doc. 98–16209 Filed 6–17–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–6112–3]

Common Sense Initiative Council

(CSIC)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notification of Public Advisory

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