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603–8829, or by E-mail

Hippen.Randy@epa.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Randy Hippen, Tel: (703) 603–8829;

Fax: (703) 603–9104; E-mail:

Hippen.Randy@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Affected entities: Entities potentially

affected by this action are those state

agencies, Indian Tribes, and U.S.

Territories performing Superfund site

evaluation activities.

Title: Superfund Site Evaluation and

Hazard Ranking System; EPA ICR No.

1488.05; OMB Control No. 2050–0095;

Expiring 9/30/01.

Abstract: Section 105 of the

Comprehensive Environmental

Response, Compensation, and Liability

Act (CERCLA, 1980 and 1986) amends

the National Oil and Hazardous

Substances Contingency Plan (NCP) to

include criteria prioritizing releases

throughout the U.S. before undertaking

remedial action at uncontrolled

hazardous waste sites. The Hazard

Ranking System (HRS) is a model that

is used to evaluate the relative threats to

human health and the environment

posed by actual or potential releases of

hazardous substances, pollutants, and

contaminants. The HRS criteria take

into account the population at risk, the

hazard potential of the substances, as

well as the potential for contamination

of drinking water supplies, direct

human contact, destruction of sensitive

ecosystems, damage to natural resources

affecting the human food chain,

contamination of surface water used for

recreation or potable water

consumption, and contamination of

ambient air.

Under this ICR, the States will apply

the HRS by identifying and classifying

those releases that warrant further

investigation. The HRS score is crucial

since it is the primary mechanism used

to determine whether a site is eligible to

be included on the National Priorities

List (NPL). Only sites on the NPL are

eligible for Superfund-financed

remedial actions.

HRS scores are derived from the

sources described in this information

collection, including field

reconnaissance, taking samples at the

site, and reviewing available reports and

documents. States record the collected

information on HRS documentation

worksheets and include this in the

supporting reference package. States

then send the package to the EPA region

for a completeness and accuracy review,

and the Region then sends it to EPA

Headquarters for a final quality

assurance review. If the site scores

above the NPL designated cutoff value,

and if it meets the other criteria for

listing, it is then eligible to be proposed

on the NPL.

Burden Statement: Depending on the

number and type of activities

performed, burden for the collection of

site assessment information is estimated

to range from 10 to 1,900 hours per site.

The number of hours required to assess

a particular site depends on how far a

site progresses through the site

assessment process. Sites where only a

pre-CERCLIS screening action is

performed will typically require

approximately 10 hours, while sites that

progress to NPL listing based on an

integrated assessment approach may

require up to 1,900 hours. The burden

estimates include reporting activities

and minimal record keeping activities.

The States are reimbursed 100 percent

of their costs, except for record

maintenance. The ICR does not impose

burden for HRS activities on local

governments or private businesses.

Respondents: State agencies

performing Superfund site evaluation

activities.

Estimated Number of Respondents: 60

(States, U.S. Territories, and Indian

Tribes).

Estimated Total Annual Burden on

Respondents: 247,680.

Frequency of Collection: One time;

section 116(b) requires an HRS

evaluation within four years of the site’s

entry into the EPA CERCLIS database.

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 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: EPA estimates 60

States, Indian Tribes, and U.S.

Territories will likely respond, each

averaging 24 actions per year. EPA

further estimates the average hours per

action will require 172 hours (based on

historic data for the type of site

assessment activities to be conducted).

Thus, the burden for all respondents is

estimated at 247,680 hours and

approximately $18,075,686 each year.

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.

Dated: April 12, 2001.

Larry G. Reed,

Acting Director, Office of Emergency and

Remedial Response.

[FR Doc. 01–10433 Filed 4–25–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–6969–1]

Clean Air Act Federal Operating Permit

Program; Notice of Final Permit

Actions for Federal Operating Permits

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of approval of final Clean

Air Act Title V Federal operating

permits.

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that

the Environmental Protection Agency,

Region VIII issued Clean Air Act Title

V federal operating permits to

applicants located on the following

reservations:

Southern Ute Indian Reservation

BP Amoco, Inc.

(1) Four Queens Central Facility Gas

Compressor Station, #V–SU–0008–

00.00;

(2) Salvador I/II Central Facility Gas

Compressor Station, #V–SU–0009–

00.00; Issue date March 27, 2000.

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Coyote Gas Treating, LLC

Coyote Gulch Gas Treating Plant, #V–

SU–0012–00.00; Issue date March 27,

2000.

Red Cedar Gathering Company

(1) Arkansas Loop Gas Plant, #V–SU–

0010–00.00; Issue date March 27, 2000.

(2) Sidewinder Compressor Station,

#V–SU–0015–00.00; Issue date January

8, 2001.

(3) Capote Compressor Station, #V–

SU–0016–00.00; Issue date October 20,

2000.

(4) Diamondback Compressor Station,

#V–SU–0018–00.00; Issue date January

8, 2001.

(5) Bondad Compressor Station, #V–

SU–0011–00.00; Issue date March 7,

2001.

Vastar Resources, Inc.

(1) Treating Site #1 Compressor

Station, #V–SU–0001–00.00;

(2) Treating Site #2 Compressor

Station, #V–SU–0002–00.00;

(3) Treating Site #4 Compressor

Station, #V–SU–0003–00.00;

(4) Treating Site #5 Compressor

Station, #V–SU–0004–00.00;

(5) Treating Site #6 Compressor

Station, #V–SU–0005–00.00;

(6) Treating Site #7 Compressor

Station, #V–SU–0006–00.00;

(7) Treating Site #9 Compressor

Station, #V–SU–0007–00.00; Issue date

March 27, 2000.

(8) Treating Site #6B Compressor

Station, #V–SU–0024–00.00;

(9) Treating Site #7B Compressor

Station, #V–SU–0025–00.00;

(10) Treating Site #8 Compressor

Station, #V–SU–0026–00.00; Issue date

September 18, 2000.

Public Service Company

Tiffany Compressor Station, #V–SU–

0023–00.00; Issue date November 22,

2000.

Fort Peck Indian Reservation

Northern Border Pipeline Company

Compressor Station #2, #V–FP–0001–

00.00; Issue date July 31, 2000.

Uintah & Ouray Indian Reservation

Questar Pipeline Company

Fidlar Compressor Station, #V–OU–

0002–00.00; Issue date October 20,

2000.

Colorado Interstate Gas Company

Natural Buttes Compressor Station,

#V–OU–0003–00.00; Issue date

February 7, 2001.

ADDRESSES: Copies of the final permits,

statements of basis, and all other

supporting information are on file at

the: U.S. Environmental Protection

Agency, Region VIII, Air and Radiation

Program, 999 18th Street—Suite 300,

Denver, Colorado 80202. All documents

will be available for review at the U.S.

EPA Region VIII office Monday through

Friday from 8:00 a.m to 4:30 p.m.

(excluding federal holidays).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Monica Morales, Air Technical

Assistance Unit, EPA Region VIII,

telephone (303) 312–6936, e-mail

morales.monica@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Title

V permit program does not impose new

substantive requirements on an air

pollution source but does require that

sources subject to the federal operating

permit program obtain a renewable

operating permit that clarifies which air

quality requirements apply to the source

and provides methods for assessing the

source’s compliance with those

requirements.

Because the issuance of a Federal

Operating Permit has been delegated to

the Regional Administrator, judicial

review of a final operating permit under

section 307(b)(1) of the Clean Air Act

may be sought only by the filing of a

petition for review in the United States

Court of Appeals for the appropriate

regional circuit within 60 days from the

date on which this notice is published

in the Federal Register. A petition for

review must be filed by June 25, 2001.

Dated: April 13, 2001.

Carol Rushin,

Acting Regional Administrator, Region VIII.

[FR Doc. 01–10431 Filed 4–25–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[OPP–30509A; FRL–6778–3]

Pesticide Product; Corn Rootworm

Registration Application; Correction

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: In the Federal Register of

March 19, 2001 (66 FR 15435) (FRL–

6771–5), EPA announced receipt of an

application from Monsanto Company to

register a pesticide product containing a

new active ingredient not included in

any previously registered products

pursuant to the provisions of section

3(c)(4) of the Federal Insecticide,

Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act. On

page 15436, second column, first full

paragraph, last sentence, the

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico was

inadvertently omitted from the

proposed planting locations. The

sentence is corrected to read ‘‘Plantings

are proposed for the states of California,

Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Kansas,

Michigan, Nebraska, South Dakota,

Texas, Wisconsin, and the

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.’’ This

notice announces the correct proposed

planting sites.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: By

mail: Mike Mendelsohn, Biopesticides

and Pollution Prevention Division

(7511C), Office of Pesticide Programs,

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.,

Washington, DC 20460; telephone: (703)

308–8715; e-mail:

mendelsohn.mike@epa.gov.

List of Subjects

Environmental protection, Pesticides

and pests.

Dated: April 5, 2001.

Janet L. Andersen,

Director, Biopesticides and Pollution

Prevention Division, Office of Pesticide

Programs.

[FR Doc. 01–10437 Filed 4–25–01 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6560–50–S

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–6968–8]

New York State Prohibition on Marine

Discharges of Vessel Sewage; Receipt

of Petition and Tentative Determination

Notice is hereby given that a petition

was received from the State of New

York on November 3, 2000 requesting a

determination by the Regional

Administrator, Environmental

Protection Agency (EPA), pursuant to

section 312(f) of Public Law 92–500, as

amended by Public Law 95–217 and

Public Law 100–4 (the Clean Water Act),

that adequate facilities for the safe and

sanitary removal and treatment of

sewage from all vessels are reasonably

available for the waters of the Port

Jefferson Harbor Complex, County of

Suffolk, State of New York. The Harbor

complex consists of several waterbodies,

including Port Jefferson Harbor,

Setauket Harbor, Little Bay, the Narrows

and Conscience Bay. The boundary line

for the proposed No Discharge Area

shall extend from the easternmost point

at Old Field Beach northerly to the

westernmost point at White Beach.

This petition was made by the New

York State Department of

Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC)

in cooperation with the Town of

Brookhaven. Upon receipt of an

affirmative determination in response to