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standards to protect human health and 

the environment. EPA grants a 

‘‘registration’’ or license that permits a 

pesticide’s distribution, sale, and use 

only after the company meets the 

scientific and regulatory requirements. 

In evaluating a pesticide registration 

application, EPA assesses a wide variety 

of potential human health and 

environmental effects associated with 

the use of the product. Applicants, or 

potential registrants, must generate or 

provide the scientific data necessary to 

address concerns pertaining to the 

identity, composition, potential adverse 

effects, and environmental fate of each 

pesticide. The data allow EPA to 

evaluate whether a pesticide has the 

potential to cause harmful effects on 

certain non-target organisms and 

endangered species that include: 

Humans; wildlife; plants; and surface 

water or ground water. 

Through a rigorous scientific and 

public process, EPA specifies the kinds 

of data and information necessary to 

make regulatory judgments about the 

risks and benefits of pesticide products 

under FIFRA sections 3, 4 and 5, as well 

as the data and information needed to 

determine the safety of pesticide 

chemical residues under FFDCA section 

408. The regulations in 40 CFR part 158 

describe the minimum data and 

information EPA typically requires to 

support an application for pesticide 

registration or amendment; support the 

reregistration of a pesticide product; 

support the maintenance of a pesticide 

registration by means of the data call-in 

process; or establish or maintain a 

tolerance or exemption from the 

requirements of a tolerance for a 

pesticide chemical residue. As 

described in 40 CFR 158.30, however, 

FIFRA provides EPA with flexibility to 

require, or not require, data and 

information for the purposes of making 

regulatory judgments for individual 

pesticide products, thereby allowing for 

the data required to be modified on an 

individual basis to fully characterize the 

use and properties, characteristics, or 

effects of specific pesticide products 

under review. The Agency encourages 

each applicant to consult with EPA to 

discuss the data requirements prior to 

and during the registration process. In 

addition, the Agency cautions 

applicants that the data routinely 

required by the regulations may not be 

sufficient to permit EPA to evaluate the 

potential of the product to cause 

unreasonable adverse effects on man or 

the environment. EPA may, therefore, 

require the submission of additional 

data or information beyond that 

specified in the regulations if such data 

or information are needed to evaluate a 

pesticide product as required by FIFRA 

and FFDCA. 

EPA uses the DCIs issued to acquire 

the data that has been deemed necessary 

for the Agency’s statutorily mandated 

review of a pesticide’s registration, 

which require it to assess whether the 

continued registration of an existing 

pesticide causes an unreasonable 

adverse effect on human health or the 

environment and whether the Agency 

will pursue regulatory measures. 

Respondents/affected entities: 

Pesticide registrants—North American 

Industrial Classification System 

(NAICS) code 325320 (Pesticide and 

Other Agricultural Chemical 

Manufacturing). 

Respondent’s obligation to respond: 

Mandatory under FIFRA section 

3(c)(2)(B). 

Estimated number of respondents: 

122 (total). 

Frequency of response: On occasion. 

Total estimated burden: 615,447 

hours (per year). Burden is defined at 5 

CFR 1320.03(b). 

Total estimated cost: $43,792,523 (per 

year). There are no capital investment or 

maintenance and operational costs 

associated with this collection. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is an 

increase of 353,146 hours in the total 

estimated respondent burden compared 

with that identified in the last ICR 

approved by OMB. The burden increase 

is a cumulative result of the program 

implementing new methodologies to 

calculate respondent burden, the 

inclusion of a new information 

collection group—consortium 

participants—to more accurately reflect 

the respondent burden, renaming and 

recalculating an existing information 

collection group from Enforcement and 

Unanticipated Incident activities to 

Maintenance DCIs, and the acceleration 

of the Registration Review Program. All 

of these activities have contributed to 

the significant increase in number of 

DCIs to be issued (221 versus 45) 

annually. 

Courtney Kerwin, 

Director, Regulatory Support Division. 

[FR Doc. 2018–01269 Filed 1–23–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

[CG Docket No. 03–123; DA 17–1214] 

Pleading Cycle Extended for Comment 

on Applications for State Certification 

for the Provision of 

Telecommunications Relay Service 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In this document, the 

Commission extends the deadlines for 

comment on applications for state 

certification for the provision of state 

telecommunications relay service (TRS) 

that were included in a Public Notice 

DA 17–1074. 

DATES: Interested parties may file 

comments no later than February 23, 

2018. Reply comments may be filed no 

later than March 12, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be filed 

using the Commission’s Electronic 

Comment Filing System (ECFS). See 

Electronic Filing of Documents in 

Rulemaking Proceedings, 63 FR 24121 

(1998). 

• Electronic Filers: Documents may 

be filed electronically using the internet 

by accessing ECFS: https://www.fcc.gov/ 

ecfs/. 

• Paper Filers: Parties who choose to 

file by paper must file an original and 

one copy of each filing. 

• Filings can be sent by hand or 

messenger delivery, by commercial 

overnight courier, or by first-class or 

overnight U.S. Postal Service mail. All 

filings must be addressed to the 

Commission’s Secretary, Office of the 

Secretary, Federal Communications 

Commission. 

• All hand-delivered or messengerdelivered paper filings for the 

Commission’s Secretary must be 

delivered to FCC Headquarters at 445 

12th Street SW, Room TW–A325, 

Washington, DC 20554. The filing hours 

are 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. All hand 

deliveries must be held together with 

rubber bands or fasteners. Any 

envelopes and boxes must be disposed 

of before entering the building. 

• Commercial overnight mail (other 

than U.S. Postal Service Express Mail 

and Priority Mail) must be sent to 9050 

Junction Drive, Annapolis Junction, MD 

20701. 

• U.S. Postal Service first-class, 

Express, and Priority mail must be 

addressed to 445 12th Street SW, 

Washington, DC 20554. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Dana Wilson, Consumer and 

Governmental Affairs Bureau at: (202) 

418–2247; email: Dana.Wilson@fcc.gov. 


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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Interested 

parties may file comments on or before 

the dates indicated above in the Dates 

portion of this notice. All filings must 

reference CG Docket No. 03–123 and the 

relevant state identification number of 

the state application for which 

comments are being submitted. 

To request materials in accessible 

formats for people with disabilities 

(Braille, large print, electronic files, 

audio format), send an email to fcc504@

fcc.gov or call the Consumer and 

Governmental Affairs Bureau at (202) 

418–0530 (voice), (844) 432–2275 

(videophone), or (202) 418–0432 (TTY). 

Documents DA 17–1074 and DA 17– 

1214 can also be downloaded in Word 

or Portable Document Format (PDF) at: 

https://www.fcc.gov/general/ 

telecommunications-relay-services-trs. 

Synopsis 

Section 64.606(a)(1) of the 

Commission’s rules requires that public 

notice of states filing for certification 

includes notification in the Federal 

Register. The original deadlines of 

December 1, 2017, for comments and 

December 18, 2017, for reply comments 

are therefore extended to February 23, 

2018 for comments and March 12, 2018 

for reply comments. 

Public Notice DA 17–1074 listed the 

states noted below as having submitted 

applications to the Commission for 

renewal of certification of their state 

TRS programs, for the five-year period 

from July 26, 2018 through July 25, 

2023. These applications can be found 

on the Commission’s website at: https:// 

www.fcc.gov/general/trs-state-andterritories. 

File No: TRS–19–17 

Regulatory Commission of Alaska, 

State of Alaska 

File No: TRS–32–17 

California Public Utilities 

Commission, State of California 

File No: TRS–23–17 

Colorado Public Utilities Commission, 

State of Colorado 

File No: TRS–48–17 

Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, 

State of Connecticut 

File No: TRS–50–17 

Florida Public Service Commission, 

State of Florida 

File No: TRS–22–17 

Hawaii Public Utilities Commission, 

State of Hawaii 

File No: TRS–08–17 

Telephone Relay Access Corporation, 

State of Indiana 

File No: TRS–13–17 

Louisiana Relay Administration 

Board, State of Louisiana 

File No: TRS–55–17 

Mississippi Public Service 

Commission, State of Mississippi 

File No: TRS–40–17 

Nebraska Public Service Commission, 

State of Nebraska 

File No: TRS–42–17 

New Hampshire Public Utilities, State 

of New Hampshire 

File No: TRS–30–17 

North Carolina Utilities Commission, 

State of North Carolina 

File No: TRS–59–17 

Rhode Island Public Utilities 

Commission, State of Rhode Island 

File No: TRS–11–17 

South Carolina Public Service 

Commission, State of South 

Carolina 

File No: TRS–20–17 

Tennessee Public Utility Commission, 

State of Tennessee 

File No: TRS–17–17 

Public Utility Commission of Texas, 

State of Texas 

File No: TRS–04–17 

Dept. for the Deaf and Hard of 

Hearing, Commonwealth of Virginia 

File No: TRS–27–17 

Office of the Deaf and Hard of 

Hearing, State of Washington 

File No: TRS–06–17 

Public Service Commission of West 

Virginia, State of West Virginia 

File No: TRS–01–17 

Wisconsin Dept. of Administration, 

State of Wisconsin 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Eliot Greenwald, 

Deputy Chief, Disability Rights Office, 

Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau. 

[FR Doc. 2018–01224 Filed 1–23–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6712–01–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

[OMB 3060–1147] 

Information Collection Being Reviewed 

by the Federal Communications 

Commission 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: As part of its continuing effort 

to reduce paperwork burdens, and as 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act (PRA) of 1995, the Federal 

Communications Commission (FCC or 

the Commission) invites the general 

public and other Federal agencies to 

take this opportunity to comment on the 

following information collection. 

Comments are requested concerning: 

Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

Commission, including whether the 

information shall have practical utility; 

the accuracy of the Commission’s 

burden estimate; ways to enhance the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information collected; ways to minimize 

the burden of the collection of 

information on the respondents, 

including the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology; and ways to 

further reduce the information 

collection burden on small business 

concerns with fewer than 25 employees. 

The FCC may not conduct or sponsor a 

collection of information unless it 

displays a currently valid control 

number. No person shall be subject to 

any penalty for failing to comply with 

a collection of information subject to the 

PRA that does not display a valid Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) 

control number. 

DATES: Written PRA comments should 

be submitted on or before March 26, 

2018. If you anticipate that you will be 

submitting comments, but find it 

difficult to do so within the period of 

time allowed by this notice, you should 

advise the contact listed below as soon 

as possible. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all PRA comments to 

Nicole Ongele, FCC, via email PRA@

fcc.gov and to Nicole.Ongele@fcc.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

additional information about the 

information collection, contact Nicole 

Ongele at (202) 418–2991. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As part of 

its continuing effort to reduce 

paperwork burdens, and as required by 

the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 

1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501–3520), the Federal 

Communications Commission (FCC or 

Commission) invites the general public 

and other Federal agencies to take this 

opportunity to comment on the 

following information collections. 

Comments are requested concerning: 

Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

Commission, including whether the 

information shall have practical utility; 

the accuracy of the Commission’s 

burden estimate; ways to enhance the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information collected; ways to minimize 

the burden of the collection of 

information on the respondents, 

including the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology; and ways to 

further reduce the information 

collection burden on small business 

concerns with fewer than 25 employees. 

OMB Control No.: 3060–1147. 


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