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for: 2 hours for notification of

construction; 4 hours for notification of

actual startup; 2 hours for notification of

initial performance test; and 2 hours for

notification of CMS performance

evaluation. Reconstructed sources (an

estimated one per year) will face a

burden of 10 hours per occurrence

broken out in the same manner. Ten

percent of all sources annually are

expected to be required to submit

notifications of process change for an

estimated burden of 8 hours per

occurrence.

Recurrent burden affecting all

respondents is estimated at 762 hours

per year. This is broken down as

follows: 188 hours for LDAR reporting

(40% of initial and annual monitoring

and repair labor); 78 hours to record

startup, shutdowns, and malfunctions;

320 hours to record continuous

monitoring data (one hour per day per

source times 320 operating days per

year); 96 hours to compile data; 32

hours to enter and verify data for

semiannual reports (16 hours per

occurrence times twice a year); 48 hours

for calibrating CMS.

In addition, there will be semiannual

reporting requirements for all plants,

differing in amount depending on

whether the plant experiences

exceedances. The estimated burden for

plants with no exceedances (estimated

at 90% of affected sources) is 16 hours

per respondent; the estimated burden in

the case of exceedances (10% of affected

sources) is 48 hours per respondent.

Finally, those existing sources opting

for an emissions averaging plan (10% of

existing sources only) is 20 hours per

respondent.

Dated: April 7, 2000.

Michael Stahl,

Acting Director, Office of Compliance.

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Agency Information Collection

Activities: Collection; Comment

Request; State Clean Air Act Section

507 Program Cooperative Agreement

Outreach Pilot Program Evaluation

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): State

Clean Air Act Section 507 Program

Cooperative Agreement Demonstration

Outreach Pilot Program Evaluation, EPA

ICR No. 1958.01. 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 June 19, 2000.

ADDRESSES: U.S. EPA Office of Policy

and Reinvention, Office of the Small

Business Ombudsman (2131), 1200

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington,

DC 20460.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Karen V. Brown, at EPA, by telephone

(202) 260–1390, via FAX on (202) 401–

2302, by e-mail at

brown.karen@epa.gov, or download off

the Internet at http://www.epa.gov/icr

and refer to EPA ICR No. 1958.01.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Affected entities: Entities potentially

affected by this action are those in

certain small business sectors.

Title: State Clean Air Act Section 507

Program Cooperative Agreement

Demonstration Outreach Pilot Program

Evaluation; EPA ICR No. 1958.01).

Abstract: The EPA Office of the Small

Business Ombudsman was authorized

and funded by the fiscal year 1999 VA/

HUD & Independent Agencies

Appropriations Act to award grants or

cooperative agreements to ‘‘Strengthen

State Small Business Ombudsman

(SBO) and State Technical Assistance

Programs (SBAP) Created Under Section

507 of The Clean Air Act Amendments

(CAAA).’’ The ultimate objective of

these awards is to make improvements

and strengthen these programs. The

Congress further emphasized the

important role these programs can play

in promoting small business compliance

with emission limitations set under

State Implementation Plans to attain

National Ambient Air Quality

Standards. Under the Congressional

mandate EPA must report on ‘‘the grants

(cooperative agreements), their use and

effectiveness,’’ and also provide

Congress with an estimate of emission

reductions achieved by these projects

more generally. Thus, through a

competitive process, the ten State

cooperative agreement awardees, are

required to measure the results/impacts

of their innovative developmental work

and outreach efforts. In order to do this,

some, but not all, awardees will need to

solicit information from the small

business community that voluntarily

use these programs. This information

will be confidential. This is a ‘‘generic’’

information collection request (ICR) to

enable the 10 State SBO or SBAP

Programs to collect information on the

results/effectiveness of their projects so

that the States and EPA can better

understand which types of outreach

were most effective. State SBOs/SBAPs

and EPA are interested in judging the

results of various measurement methods

such as comment/response cards, onsite interviews, mailed/Internet-surveys/

on-site question-naires, and telephone

surveys.

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 future 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: There is not an

annual reporting burden as a result of

this ICR. Rather, it is a one-time

reporting burden which may occur

during various time phases and aspects

of some of the 10 State SBO/SBAP

outreach projects. 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;

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complete and review the collection of

information; and transmit or otherwise

disclose the information.

Respondents/Affected: Respondents

for the purpose of this ICR will mostly

be small businesses like in the water

heater and boiler manufacturing

industry, reinforced plastics and boat

manufacturing industry, gasoline

dispensing sites an transport vehicles,

auto repair and salvage yards, and a

potential wide spectrum of other small

business types depending upon who

they come in contact with during the

development and outreach effort. A

broad rang of SIC codes could

conceivably thus be covered such as: 01,

07, 20 22, 23, 27, 28, 34, 35, 26, 37, and

55. Also, one or more of the following

State offices: environmental agency (SIC

9511), commerce or economic

development department (9611),

governor’s office (9111), or

ombudsman’s office (9511). These

departments are typically responsible

for the conduct of the State SBO or

SBAP.

Estimated Number of Respondents:

3,900.

Frequency of Response: sporadic—

one time.

Estimated Total Hours of Burden:

4,200.

Total Cost Burden: $135,000.

Dated: April 12, 2000.

Karen V. Brown,

Small Business Ombudsman.

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National Drinking Water Advisory

Council Notice of Open Meeting

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: Under section 10(a)(2) of

Public Law 92–423, ‘‘The Federal

Advisory Committee Act,’’ notice is

hereby given that a meeting of the

National Drinking Water Advisory

Council established under the Safe

Drinking Water Act, as amended (42

U.S.C.S3300f et seq.), will be held on

May 10, 2000, from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m.,

May 11, 2000, from 8:30 a.m. until 1:15

p.m., at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel, 450

Powell Street, San Francisco, California.

Panel discussions will be held on

sensitive subpopulations and the

CALFED Bay Delta Program. Other

agenda items include a regulatory

update, final report from the Small

Systems Implementation Working

Group, interim report from the

Contaminant Candidate List/Six Year

Review Working Group, Source Water

Strategy and follow up actions to the

Futures Forum held in December 1999.

The meeting is open to the public.

The Council encourages the hearing of

outside statements and will allocate one

hour for this purpose. Oral statements

will be limited to five minutes, and it is

preferred that only one person present

the statement. Any outside parties

interested in presenting an oral

statement should petition the Council

by telephone at (202) 260–2285 before

May 4, 2000.

Any person who wishes to file a

written statement can do so before or

after a Council meeting. Written

statements received prior to the meeting

will be distributed to all members of the

Council before any final discussion or

vote is completed. Any statements

received after the meeting will become

part of the permanent meeting file and

will be forwarded to the Council

members for their information.

Members of the public that would like

to attend the meeting, present an oral

statement, or submit a written

statement, should contact Ms. Charlene

Shaw, Designated Federal Officer,

National Drinking Water Advisory

Council, U.S. EPA, Office of Ground

Water and Drinking Water (4601), 401 M

Street SW., Washington, D.C. 20460.

The telephone number is Area Code

(202) 260–2285 or E-Mail

shaw.charlene@epa.gov.

Dated: April 12, 2000.

Cynthia C. Dougherty,

Director, Office of Ground Water and Drinking

Water.

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Science Advisory Board; Notification

of Public Advisory Committee Meeting

Pursuant to the Federal Advisory

Committee Act, Public Law 92–463,

notice is hereby given that the

Environmental Engineering Committee

(EEC) of the USEPA Science Advisory

Board (SAB) will meet by conference

call May 3, 2000 from 3–5 p.m. Eastern

Time. Participation in this conference

call is by telephone only; a limited

number of lines have been reserved for

members of the public wishing to

participate.

Purpose of the Meeting—The primary

purpose of the meeting is to allow the

Committee to consider the report of its

Technology Evaluation Subcommittee.

The Subcommittee reviewed the degree

to which quality management is built

into the Environmental Technology

Verification (ETV) program at a public

meeting March 6–8, 2000 as announced

in the February 15, 2000 Federal

Register (65 FR 7550). When the

Subcommittee’s report is approved by

the EEC, it will be forwarded to the

Executive Committee of the Science

Advisory Board for approval before

being transmitted to the Agency. To the

extent that time allows, the EEC will

conduct other routine business at the

meeting such as discussion of reports in

progress and planned activities.

The documents reviewed by the

Subcommittee are available from the

Office of Research and Development as

announced in the Federal Register,

Volume 65, Number 8 on January 12,

2000. Copies of the Subcommittee’s

draft report will be available from Ms.

Kathleen White Conway after April 25,

2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any

member of the public wishing further

information concerning this meeting or

wishing to submit brief oral comments

must contact Ms. Kathleen White

Conway, Designated Federal Officer,

Science Advisory Board (1400A), U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency, Ariel

Rios Building North, 1200 Pennsylvania

Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20460;

telephone (202) 564–4559; FAX (202)

501–0582; or via e-mail at

conway.katheen@epa.gov. Email is

preferred. Requests for oral comments

must be in writing (e-mail, fax or mail)

and received by Ms. Conway no later

than noon Eastern Time on April 26.

Providing Oral or Written Comments at

SAB Meetings

It is the policy of the Science

Advisory Board to accept written public

comments of any length, and to

accommodate oral public comments

whenever possible. The Science

Advisory Board expects that public

statements presented at its meetings will

not be repetitive of previously

submitted oral or written statements.

Oral Comments: In general, each

individual or group requesting an oral

presentation at a face-to-face meeting

will be limited to a total time of ten

minutes. For teleconference meetings,

opportunities for oral comment will

usually be limited to no more than three

minutes per speaker and no more than

fifteen minutes total. Deadlines for

getting on the public speaker list for a