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Total estimated cost: $521,339 (per 

year), including $0 annualized capital or 

operation & maintenance costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: This is a 

new collection, and so does not involve 

any program changes or burden 

adjustments. 

Courtney Kerwin, 

Director, Regulatory Support Division. 

[FR Doc. 2025–01040 Filed 1–15–25; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OCFO–2024–0072; FRL–12560– 

01–OMS] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget for Review 

and Approval; Comment Request; 

Environmental Justice Collaborative 

Problem Solving and Government to 

Government Programs: Progress and 

Final Reporting Information 

Collections (New) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) has submitted an 

information collection request (ICR), 

Environmental Justice CPS and G2G 

Programs: Progress and Final Reporting 

Information Collections (EPA ICR 

Number 2807.01, OMB Control Number 

2035–NEW) to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and approval in accordance with 

the Paperwork Reduction Act. This is a 

request for approval of a new collection. 

Public comments were previously 

requested via the Federal Register on 

February 21, 2024 during a 60-day 

comment period. This notice allows for 

an additional 30 days for public 

comments. 

DATES: Comments may be submitted on 

or before February 18, 2025. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing Docket ID Number EPA– 

HQ–OEJECR–2023–0531, to EPA online 

using www.regulations.gov (our 

preferred method), by email to Docket_

OMS@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA 

Docket Center, Environmental 

Protection Agency, Mail Code 28221T, 

1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, 

Washington, DC 20460. 

EPA’s policy is that all comments 

received will be included in the public 

docket without change including any 

personal information provided, unless 

the comment includes profanity, threats, 

information claimed to be Confidential 

Business Information (CBI) or other 

information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. 

Submit written comments and 

recommendations to OMB for the 

proposed information collection within 

30 days of publication of this notice to 

www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. 

Find this particular information 

collection by selecting ‘‘Currently under 

30-day Review—Open for Public 

Comments’’ or by using the search 

function. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Aarti Iyer, Office of the Chief Financial 

Officer, Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, 

Washington, DC 20460; email address: 

iyer.aarti@epa.gov; phone: 202–564– 

0214. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a 

request for approval of a new collection. 

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. 

Public comments were previously 

requested via the Federal Register on 

February 21, 2024 during a 60-day 

comment period (89 FR 13079). This 

notice allows for an additional 30 days 

for public comments. Supporting 

documents, which explain in detail the 

information that the EPA will be 

collecting, are available in the public 

docket for this ICR. The docket can be 

viewed online at www.regulations.gov 

or in person at the EPA Docket Center, 

WJC West, Room 3334, 1301 

Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC. 

The telephone number for the Docket 

Center is 202–566–1744. For additional 

information about EPA’s public docket, 

visit https://www.epa.gov/dockets. 

Abstract: The U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency (EPA) makes 

competitive financial assistance awards 

to support projects that tackle 

environmental, public health, and 

energy challenges across the country. 

This is accomplished by working 

directly with community-based 

organizations (CBOs) and state, local, 

territorial, and tribal governments that 

have strong ties to the communities in 

which they are working. EPA fosters a 

collaborative approach to tackling some 

of the most critical challenges in the 

most overburdened communities by 

encouraging projects that involve 

multiple stakeholders including States, 

local governments, and tribal 

governments. To help get resources and 

funding to underserved and 

overburdened communities EPA offers 

Environmental Justice Collaborative 

Problem Solving (EJCPS) and 

Environmental Justice Government to 

Government (EJG2G) cooperative 

agreement programs. With this 

Information Collection Request (ICR), 

EPA seeks authorization to collect postaward information in the form of semiannual progress reports and final reports 

from each grantee to track their 

progress, with respect to effectiveness 

(e.g., the extent to which projects 

achieved their objectives, goals, and 

targets), efficiency (e.g., the extent to 

which projects delivered activities and 

outputs on schedule and within budget), 

and equity (e.g., the extent to which 

investments and benefits flowed to 

disadvantaged communities that are 

marginalized, underserved, and 

overburdened by pollution). Collection 

of this information enables EPA to 

assess and manage the EJCPS and EJG2G 

programs, which ensures responsible 

stewardship of public funds; rigorous 

evidence-based learning and 

improvement; and transparent 

accountability to the American public. 

Form Numbers: None. 

Respondents/affected entities: 

Recipients of financial assistance 

awards. 

Respondent’s obligation to respond: 

Mandatory for recipients of financial 

awards to obtain or retain a benefit (2 

CFR parts 200 and 1500). 

Estimated number of respondents: 

217. 

Frequency of response: Varies. 

Total estimated burden: 17,360 hours 

(per year). Burden is defined at 5 CFR 

1320.03(b). 

Total estimated cost: $994,554 (per 

year), including $0 annualized capital or 

operation & maintenance costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: This is a 

new collection, and so does not involve 

any program changes or burden 

adjustments. 

Courtney Kerwin, 

Director, Regulatory Support Division. 

[FR Doc. 2025–01041 Filed 1–15–25; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPPT–2018–0448; FRL–12439– 

01–OCSPP] 

Vinyl Chloride; Draft Scope of the Risk 

Evaluation Under the Toxic 

Substances Control Act (TSCA); Notice 

of Availability and Request for 

Comment 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 


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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA or Agency) is announcing 

the availability of and seeking public 

comment on the draft scope of the risk 

evaluation to be conducted under the 

Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) 

for vinyl chloride (ethene, chloro-; 

CASRN 75–01–4). Under TSCA, the 

scope documents must include the 

conditions of use, hazards, exposures, 

and the potentially exposed or 

susceptible subpopulations that EPA 

expects to consider in conducting the 

risk evaluation for this chemical 

substance. The purpose of risk 

evaluations under TSCA is to determine 

whether a chemical substance presents 

an unreasonable risk of injury to health 

or the environment under the 

conditions of use, including 

unreasonable risk to potentially exposed 

or susceptible subpopulations identified 

as relevant to the risk evaluation by 

EPA, and without consideration of costs 

or non-risk factors. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before March 3, 2025. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by docket identification (ID) 

number EPA–HQ–OPPT–2018–0448, 

online at https://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. 

Additional instructions on commenting 

and visiting the docket, along with more 

information about dockets generally, is 

available at https://www.epa.gov/ 

dockets. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

For technical information: Marcy 

Card, Existing Chemicals Risk 

Assessment Division (7403M), Office of 

Pollution Prevention and Toxics, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 

20460–0001; telephone number: (202) 

564–1202; email address: 

VinylChloride.TSCA@epa.gov. 

For general information: The TSCAHotline, ABVI-Goodwill, 422 South 

Clinton Ave., Rochester, NY 14620; 

telephone number: (202) 554–1404; 

email address: TSCA-Hotline@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Executive Summary 

A. Does this action apply to me? 

This action is directed to the public 

in general and may be of particular 

interest to those involved in the 

manufacture (defined under TSCA 

section 3(9) to include import), 

processing, distribution, use, and 

disposal of vinyl chloride, related 

industry trade organizations, nongovernmental organizations with an 

interest in human and environmental 

health, state and local governments, 

Tribal Nations, and/or those interested 

in the assessment of risks involving 

chemical substances and mixtures 

regulated under TSCA. As such, the 

Agency has not attempted to describe all 

the specific entities that this action 

might apply to. If you need help 

determining applicability, consult the 

technical contact listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. 

B. What is the Agency’s authority for 

taking this action? 

The draft scope of the risk evaluation 

is issued pursuant to TSCA section 

6(b)(4)(D), 15 U.S.C. 2605(b)(4)(D), and 

EPA’s implementing regulations at 40 

CFR 702.39(b). 

C. What action is the Agency taking? 

EPA is announcing the availability of 

and seeking public comment on the 

draft scope of the risk evaluation to be 

conducted under TSCA for vinyl 

chloride (ethene, chloro-; CASRN 75– 

01–4). Under TSCA, the scope 

documents must include the conditions 

of use, hazards, exposures, and the 

potentially exposed or susceptible 

subpopulations that EPA expects to 

consider in conducting the risk 

evaluation for this chemical substance. 

The purpose of risk evaluations under 

TSCA is to determine whether a 

chemical substance presents an 

unreasonable risk of injury to health or 

the environment under the conditions of 

use, including unreasonable risk to 

potentially exposed or susceptible 

subpopulations identified as relevant to 

the risk evaluation by EPA, and without 

consideration of costs or non-risk 

factors. 

D. What should I consider as I prepare 

my comments? 

1. Submitting CBI. Do not submit CBI 

to EPA through https://

www.regulations.gov or email. If you 

wish to include CBI in your comment, 

please follow the applicable instructions 

at https://www.epa.gov/dockets/ 

commenting-epa-dockets#rules and 

clearly mark the information that you 

claim to be CBI. Information so marked 

will not be disclosed except in 

accordance with procedures set forth in 

40 CFR parts 2 and 703, as applicable. 

2. Tips for preparing your comments. 

When preparing and submitting your 

comments, see the commenting tips at 

https://www.epa.gov/dockets/ 

commenting-epa-dockets. 

II. Background 

A. What is vinyl chloride? 

Vinyl chloride (ethene, chloro-), also 

known as chloroethylene, is a 

chlorinated ethene that does not occur 

naturally in the environment. Its 

primary use is as a reactant (monomer) 

in the production of polyvinyl chloride 

(PVC) in consumer, commercial, and 

industrial applications. Since 1986, the 

national aggregate production volume of 

vinyl chloride, as reported under the 

Chemical Data Reporting (CDR) rule, 

formerly known as the Inventory Update 

Rule (IUR) (40 CFR part 711), has been 

consistently over 1 billion pounds. In 

2011, over 16 billion pounds were 

reported to CDR and since 2012 

production volume has been reported 

between 10 billion and 20 billion 

pounds. 

Due to its physical state as a gas at 

room temperature and pressure, vinyl 

chloride is expected to be primarily 

present in the atmosphere in vapor 

phase and is not expected to partition to 

airborne particles. Exposure to vinyl 

chloride may result in a range of 

harmful health effects such as liver 

toxicity, neurotoxicity, immunotoxicity, 

and developmental toxicity. EPA 

previous determined that vinyl chloride 

is a ‘‘known human carcinogen.’’ 

B. Draft Scope for the Risk Evaluation 

of Vinyl Chloride 

In December 2024, EPA announced its 

designation of vinyl chloride as a high 

priority substance for risk evaluation 

under TSCA (Ref. 1), which initiated the 

risk evaluation phase and started the 3 

to 3.5 year statutory timeframe in which 

the risk evaluation is to be completed. 

The draft scope of the risk evaluation for 

this chemical substance (Ref. 2) 

includes the conditions of use, hazards, 

exposures, and the potentially exposed 

or susceptible subpopulations EPA 

expects to consider in the risk 

evaluation (15 U.S.C. 2605(b)(4)(D)). 

Development of the scope is the first 

step of a risk evaluation, and includes 

the following components (40 CFR 

702.39(b)): 

• The conditions of use, as 

determined by the Administrator, that 

EPA expects to consider in the risk 

evaluation; 

• The potentially exposed 

populations, including any potentially 

exposed or susceptible subpopulations 

identified as relevant to the risk 

evaluation by EPA under the conditions 

of use that EPA expects to evaluate; 

• The ecological receptors that EPA 

expects to evaluate; 


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• The hazards to health and the 

environment that EPA expects to 

evaluate; 

• A description of the reasonably 

available information and the science 

approaches that the Agency expects to 

use; 

• A conceptual model that describes 

the actual or predicted relationships 

between the chemical substance, its 

associated conditions of use through 

predicted exposure scenarios, and the 

identified human and environmental 

receptors and human and ecological 

health hazards; 

• An analysis plan that describes how 

EPA intends to assess hazards and 

exposures, and characterize risks; and 

• A plan for peer review. 

III. Request for Comment 

EPA seeks feedback on the 

approaches presented in the draft scope 

of the risk evaluation, use profile (Ref. 

3), and draft chemistry and fate 

technical support document (Ref. 4), 

copies of which are available in the 

docket. EPA encourages commenters to 

provide information they believe might 

be missing or may further inform the 

risk evaluation. To the extent possible, 

the Agency asks commenters to please 

cite any public data related to or that 

supports the comments provided, and, 

to the extent permissible, describe any 

supporting data that is not publicly 

available. 

IV. Next Steps 

EPA will consider comments received 

and prepare the final scope of the risk 

evaluation for vinyl chloride. EPA 

intends to publish a notice in the 

Federal Register announcing the 

availability of the final scope of the risk 

evaluation within six months of the 

designation of vinyl chloride as a highpriority substance for risk evaluation 

under TSCA (Ref. 1), i.e., by June 2025. 

For more information about the TSCA 

risk evaluation process for existing 

chemicals, go to https://www.epa.gov/ 

assessing-and-managing-chemicalsunder-tsca. 

V. References 

The following is a listing of the 

documents that are specifically 

referenced in this document. The docket 

includes these documents and other 

information considered by EPA, 

including documents that are referenced 

within the documents that are included 

in the docket, even if the referenced 

document is not physically located in 

the docket. For assistance in locating 

these other documents, please consult 

the person listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT. 

1. EPA. High-Priority Substance 

Designations Under the Toxic Substances 

Control Act (TSCA) and Initiation of Risk 

Evaluation on High-Priority Substances; 

Notice of Availability. Federal Register. 89 

FR 102900, December 18, 2024 (FRL–11581– 

07–OCSPP) 

2. EPA. Vinyl Chloride; Draft Scope of the 

Risk Evaluation under the Toxic Substances 

Control Act (TSCA). January 2025. 

3. EPA. Use Report for Vinyl Chloride. 

January 2025. 

4. EPA. Draft Chemistry and Fate Technical 

Support Document for Vinyl Chloride, 

January 2025. 

Authority: 15 U.S.C. 2601 et seq. 

Dated: January 10, 2025. 

Michal Freedhoff, 

Assistant Administrator, Office of Chemical 

Safety and Pollution Prevention. 

[FR Doc. 2025–00948 Filed 1–15–25; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OW–2020–0530; FRL 12558–01– 

OMS] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget for Review 

and Approval; Comment Request; 

Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring 

Rule (UCMR 5) (Renewal) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) has submitted an 

information collection request (ICR), 

Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring 

Rule (UCMR 5) (EPA ICR Number 

2683.03, OMB Control Number 2040– 

0304) to the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) for review and approval 

in accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act. This is a proposed 

extension of the original UCMR 5 ICR, 

which is currently approved through 

January 31, 2025. Public comments on 

the ICR renewal were previously 

requested during a 60-day comment 

period via the Federal Register on July 

30, 2024. This notice allows for an 

additional 30 days for public comments. 

DATES: Comments may be submitted on 

or before February 18, 2025. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing Docket ID Number EPA– 

HQ–OW–2020–0530, to EPA online 

using www.regulations.gov (our 

preferred method), or by mail to: EPA 

Docket Center, Environmental 

Protection Agency, Mail Code 28221T, 

1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, 

Washington, DC 20460. EPA’s policy is 

that all comments received will be 

included in the public docket without 

change including any personal 

information provided, unless the 

comment includes profanity, threats, 

information claimed to be Confidential 

Business Information (CBI) or other 

information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. 

Submit written comments and 

recommendations to OMB for the 

proposed information collection within 

30 days of publication of this notice to 

www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. 

Find this particular information 

collection by selecting ‘‘Currently under 

30-day Review—Open for Public 

Comments’’ or by using the search 

function. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Brenda Bowden, Standards and Risk 

Management Division, Office of Ground 

Water and Drinking Water (MS 140), 

Environmental Protection Agency, 26 

West Martin Luther King Drive, 

Cincinnati, Ohio 45268; telephone 

number: (513) 569–7961; email address: 

bowden.brenda@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a 

proposed extension of the ICR, which is 

currently approved through January 31, 

2025. 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. 

Public comments on the ICR renewal 

were previously requested during a 60- 

day comment period via the Federal 

Register on July 30, 2024 (89 FR 61112). 

This notice allows for an additional 30 

days for public comments. Supporting 

documents, which explain in detail the 

information that EPA will be collecting, 

are available in the public docket for 

this ICR. The docket can be viewed 

online at www.regulations.gov or in 

person at the EPA Docket Center, WJC 

West, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution 

Ave. NW, Washington, DC. The 

telephone number for the Docket Center 

is 202–566–1744. For additional 

information about EPA’s public docket, 

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

Abstract: Section 1445(a)(2) of the 

Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) 

requires that once every five years, 

beginning in 1999, EPA issue a new list 

of not more than 30 priority unregulated 

contaminants in drinking water to be 

monitored by public water systems 

(PWSs). Information collected under the 

program informs EPA’s decision making 

regarding whether or not to regulate 

particular contaminants in drinking 

water. UCMR 5 requires monitoring for 

30 chemical contaminants and was 

published in the Federal Register on 


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