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comments, access the index listing of 

the contents of the public docket, and to 

access those documents in the public 

docket that are available electronically. 

When in the system, select ‘‘search,’’

then key in the docket ID number 

identified above. 

Any comments related to this ICR 

should be submitted to EPA and OMB 

within 30 days of this notice. EPA’s 

policy is that public comments, whether 

submitted electronically or in paper, 

will be made available for public 

viewing in EDOCKET as EPA receives 

them and without change, unless the 

comment contains copyrighted material, 

Confidential Business Information (CBI), 

or other information whose public 

disclosure is restricted by statute. When 

EPA identifies a comment containing 

copyrighted material, EPA will provide 

a reference to that material in the 

version of the comment that is placed in 

EDOCKET. The entire printed comment, 

including the copyrighted material, will 

be available in the public docket. 

Although identified as an item in the 

official docket, information claimed as 

CBI, or whose disclosure is otherwise 

restricted by statute, is not included in 

the official public docket, and will not 

be available for public viewing in 

EDOCKET. For further information 

about the electronic docket, see EPA’s 

Federal Register notice describing the 

electronic docket at 67 FR 38102 (May 

31, 2002), or go to www.epa.gov/ 

edocket. 

Title: NSPS for Metallic Mineral 

Processing Plants (Renewal). 

Abstract: The New Source 

Performance Standards (NSPS) for 

Metallic Mineral Processing Plants were 

proposed on August 24, 1982, and 

promulgated on February 21, 1984. 

These standards apply to the following 

facilities in Metallic Mineral Processing 

Plants: Each crusher and screen in openpit mines; each crusher, screen, bucket 

elevator, conveyor belt transfer point, 

thermal dryer, product packaging 

station, storage bin, enclosed storage 

area, truck loading and unloading 

station at the mill or concentrator, 

commencing construction, modification 

or reconstruction after the date of 

proposal. The NSPS does not apply to 

facilities located in underground mines, 

or to facilities performing the 

beneficiation of uranium ore at uranium 

ore processing plants. 

Particulate matter (PM) is the 

pollutant regulated under this subpart. 

The standards limit the particulate 

matter emissions from the stack to 0.05 

grams per dry standard cubic meter and 

to 7 percent opacity. Those sources that 

are using a wet scrubbing control device 

are exempted from the 7 percent opacity 

requirement. No affected facility may 

discharge any process fugitive emissions 

that exhibit greater than 10 percent 

opacity. 

Response to the collection of 

information is mandatory under 40 CFR 

part 60, subpart LL. Owners or operators 

of the affected facilities described must 

make initial notifications, including 

notification of any physical or 

operational change to an existing facility 

that may increase the regulated 

pollutant emission rate; notification of 

the demonstration of the continuous 

monitoring system (CMS), and 

notification of the initial performance 

test. Performance test reports are needed 

as these are the Agency’s records of a 

source’s initial capability to comply 

with emission standards, and note the 

operating conditions, flow rate and 

pressure drop, under which compliance 

was achieved. Owners of affected 

facilities are required to install, 

calibrate, maintain, and operate a 

continuous monitoring system to 

measure the change in the pressure of 

the gas stream through the scrubber and 

the scrubbing liquid flow rate. Owners 

or operators are also required to 

maintain records of the occurrence and 

duration of any startup, shutdown, or 

malfunction in the operation of an 

affected facility, or any period during 

which the monitoring system is 

inoperative. 

Semiannual excess emissions reports 

and monitoring systems performance 

reports will include the exceeded 

findings of any control device operating 

parameters, (specified in CFR 40 60.735, 

Recordkeeping and Reporting), the date 

and time of the deviance, the nature and 

cause of the malfunction (if known) and 

the corrective measures taken, and 

identification of the time period during 

which the CMS was inoperative (this 

does not include zero and span checks 

nor typical repairs/adjustments). These 

notifications, reports and records are 

required, in general, of all sources 

subject to NSPS. 

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, 

and are identified on the form and/or 

instrument, if applicable. 

Burden Statement: The annual public 

reporting and recordkeeping burden for 

this collection of information is 

estimated to average 52 hours per 

response. Burden means the total time, 

effort, or financial resources expended 

by persons to generate, maintain, retain, 

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. 

Respondents/Affected Entities: 

Metallic Mineral Processing Plants. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

20. 

Frequency of Response: On occasion, 

initially and semiannually. 

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 

2,306 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Costs: 

$199,140 which includes $0 annualized 

capital/startup costs, $13,000 annual 

O&M costs, and $186,140 Respondent 

Labor costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is an 

increase of 546 hours in the total 

estimated burden currently identified in 

the OMB Inventory of Approved ICR 

Burdens. This increase is due to an 

increase in the estimated number of 

sources that will be reconstructed or 

make or physical/operational changes. 

In addition, the increase in burden is 

due to the inclusion of burden hour 

estimates for management and clerical 

personnel at the plant. 

Dated: August 22, 2005. 

Oscar Morales, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division. 

[FR Doc. 05–17368 Filed 8–30–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[OW–2003–0030; FRL–7964–1] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to OMB for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; National Pollutant Discharge 

Elimination System Great Lakes Water 

Quality Guidance, EPA ICR Number 

1639.05, OMB Control Number 2040–

0180 

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 

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that an Information Collection Request 

(ICR) has been forwarded to the Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and approval. This is a request 

to renew an existing approved 

collection. This ICR is scheduled to 

expire on August 31, 2005. Under OMB 

regulations, the Agency may continue to 

conduct or sponsor the collection of 

information while this submission is 

pending at OMB. This ICR describes the 

nature of the information collection and 

its estimated burden and cost. 

DATES: Additional comments may be 

submitted on or before September 30, 

2005. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing docket ID number OW–

2003–0030, to (1) EPA online using 

EDOCKET (our preferred method), by email to ow-docket@epa.gov, or by mail 

to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental 

Protection Agency, Water Docket, Mail 

Code 4101T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., 

NW., Washington, DC 20460, and (2) 

OMB at: Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs, Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB), 

Attention: Desk Officer for EPA, 725 

17th Street, NW., Washington, DC 

20503. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Lynn Stabenfeldt, Office of Wastewater 

Management. 4201M, Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460; 

telephone number: (202) 564–0602; fax 

number: (202) 501–2399; e-mail address: 

stabenfeldt.lynn@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has 

submitted the following ICR to OMB for 

review and approval according to the 

procedures prescribed in 5 CFR 1320.12. 

On May 31, 2005 (70 FR 30944–30955), 

EPA sought comments on this ICR 

pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA 

received no comments. 

EPA has established a public docket 

for this ICR under Docket ID No. OW–

2003–0030, which is available for public 

viewing at the Water Docket in the EPA 

Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West, 

Room B102, 1301 Constitution Ave., 

NW., Washington, DC. The EPA Docket 

Center Public Reading Room is open 

from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, excluding legal 

holidays. The telephone number for the 

Reading Room is (202) 566–1744, and 

the telephone number for the Water 

Docket is (202) 566–2426. An electronic 

version of the public docket is available 

through EPA Dockets (EDOCKET) at 

http://www.epa.gov/edocket. Use 

EDOCKET to submit or view public 

comments, access the index listing of 

the contents of the public docket, and to 

access those documents in the public 

docket that are available electronically. 

Once in the system, select ‘‘search,’’

then key in the docket ID number 

identified above. 

Any comments related to this ICR 

should be submitted to EPA and OMB 

within 30 days of this notice. EPA’s 

policy is that public comments, whether 

submitted electronically or in paper, 

will be made available for public 

viewing in EDOCKET as EPA receives 

them and without change, unless the 

comment contains copyrighted material, 

CBI, or other information whose public 

disclosure is restricted by statute. When 

EPA identifies a comment containing 

copyrighted material, EPA will provide 

a reference to that material in the 

version of the comment that is placed in 

EDOCKET. The entire printed comment, 

including the copyrighted material, will 

be available in the public docket. 

Although identified as an item in the 

official docket, information claimed as 

CBI, or whose disclosure is otherwise 

restricted by statute, is not included in 

the official public docket, and will not 

be available for public viewing in 

EDOCKET. For further information 

about the electronic docket, see EPA’s 

Federal Register notice describing the 

electronic docket at 67 FR 38102 (May 

31, 2002), or go to http://www.epa.gov/ 

edocket. 

Title: National Pollutant Discharge 

Elimination System Great Lakes Water 

Quality Guidance. 

Abstract: The primary objective of the 

Clean Water Act (CWA) is ‘‘to restore 

and maintain the chemical, physical 

and biological integrity of the nation’s 

waters’’ (Section 101(a)). CWA Section 

402 establishes the National Pollutant 

Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) 

permit program to regulate the discharge 

of any pollutant or combination of 

pollutants from point sources into the 

waters of the United States. CWA 

Section 402(a), as amended, authorizes 

the EPA Administrator to issue permits 

for the discharge of pollutants if those 

discharges meet the following 

requirements: 

• All applicable requirements of 

CWA Sections 301, 302, 306, 307, 308, 

and 403; and 

• Any conditions the Administrator 

determines are necessary to carry out 

the provisions and objectives of the 

CWA. 

Section 101 of the Great Lakes Critical 

Programs Act (CPA) amends section 118 

of the CWA and directs EPA to publish 

water quality guidance for the Great 

Lakes System. Provisions of the 

Guidance are codified in 40 CFR part 

132. The Guidance establishes 

minimum water quality criteria, 

implementation procedures, and 

antidegradation provisions for the Great 

Lakes System. 

Permitting authorities currently 

require dischargers to provide 

information such as the name, location, 

and description of facilities to identify 

the facilities that require permits. EPA 

and authorized NPDES States store 

much of this basic information in the 

Permit Compliance System (PCS) 

database. PCS provides EPA with a 

nationwide inventory of NPDES permit 

holders. EPA Headquarters uses the 

information contained in the PCS to 

develop reports on permit issuance, 

backlogs, and compliance rates. The 

Agency also uses the information to 

respond to public and Congressional 

inquiries, develop and guide its 

policies, formulate its budgets, assist 

States in acquiring authority for 

permitting programs, and manage its 

programs to ensure national consistency 

in permitting. 

NPDES permit applications and 

requests for supplemental information 

currently require information about 

wastewater treatment systems, 

pollutants, discharge rates and volumes, 

whole effluent toxicity testing and other 

data. Additional information collection 

requirements that may be necessary to 

implement State, Tribal, or EPA 

promulgated provisions consistent with 

the final Guidance include: (1) 

Monitoring (pollutant-specific and 

whole effluent toxicity or WET); (2) 

pollutant minimization programs; (3) 

antidegradation policy/demonstrations; 

and, (4) regulatory relief options (e.g., 

variances from water quality criteria). 

This information may be used to 

ensure compliance with provisions 

consistent with the Guidance and reevaluate existing permit conditions and 

monitoring requirements. Data on 

discharges is entered into STORET and 

PCS, EPA’s databases for ambient water 

quality data and NPDES permits, 

respectively. Results of water quality 

criteria testing will be entered into an 

EPA Information Clearinghouse 

database. 

Permit applications may contain 

confidential business information. If 

this is the case, the respondent may 

request that such information be treated 

as confidential. All confidential data 

will be handled in accordance with 40 

CFR 122.7, 40 CFR part 2, and EPA’s 

Security Manual part III, chapter 9, 

dated August 9, 1976. However, CWA 

Section 308(b) specifically states that 

effluent data may not be treated as 

confidential. No questions of a sensitive 

nature are associated with this 

information collection. 

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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 in 40 

CFR are listed in 40 CFR part 9 and are 

identified on the form and/or 

instrument, if applicable. 

Burden Statement: The annual public 

reporting and recordkeeping burden for 

this collection of information is 

estimated to average 26,781 hours per 

response. 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. 

Respondents/Affected Entities: (1) 

Industries discharging toxic pollutants 

to waters in the Great Lakes System as 

defined in 40 CFR 132.2 and (2) 

publicly-owned treatment works 

discharging toxic pollutants to waters of 

the Great Lakes System as defined in 40 

CFR 132.2. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

2,710 

Frequency of Response: Varies 

depending on discharger’s effluent 

characteristics. 

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 

28,797 

Estimated Total Annual Cost: 

$3,070,186, includes $0 annualized 

capital or O&M costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is a 

decrease of 94,066 hours in the total 

estimated burden currently identified in 

the OMB Inventory of Approved ICR 

Burdens. This decrease is due to a 

transfer of burden hours to the Water 

Quality Standards ICR (OMB Control 

Number 2040–0049) and a decrease in 

the number of potentially affected 

entities. 

Dated: August 23, 2005. 

Oscar Morales, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division. 

[FR Doc. 05–17369 Filed 8–30–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[OPPT–2003–0004; FRL–7733–7] 

Access to Confidential Business 

Information by Systems Research and 

Applications Corporation 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: EPA has authorized its 

contractor Systems Research and 

Applications Corporation (SRA), of 

Arlington and Fairfax, Virginia, access 

to information which has been 

submitted to EPA under all sections of 

the Toxic Substances Control Act 

(TSCA). Some of the information may be 

claimed or determined to be 

Confidential Business Information (CBI). 

DATES: Access to the confidential data 

will occur no sooner than September 8, 

2005. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Colby Lintner, Regulatory Coordinator, 

Environmental Assistance Division 

(7408M), Office of Pollution Prevention 

and Toxics, Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20460; telephone 

number: (202) 554–1404; e-mail address: 

TSCA–Hotline@.epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information 

A. Does this Notice Apply to Me? 

This action is directed to the public 

in general. This action may, however, be 

of interest to those persons who are or 

may be required to conduct testing of 

chemical substances under TSCA. Since 

other entities may also be interested, the 

Agency has not attempted to describe all 

the specific entities that may be affected 

by this action. If you have any questions 

regarding the applicability of this action 

to a particular entity, consult the person 

listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

B. How Can I Get Copies of this 

Document and Other Related 

Documents? 

1. Docket. EPA has established an 

official public docket for this action 

under docket identification (ID) number 

OPPT–2003–0004. The official public 

docket consists of the documents 

specifically referenced in this action, 

any public comments received, and 

other information related to this action. 

Although a part of the official docket, 

the public docket does not include CBI 

or other information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. The official public 

docket is the collection of materials that 

is available for public viewing at the 

EPA Docket Center, Rm. B102-Reading 

Room, EPA West, 1301 Constitution 

Ave., NW., Washington, DC. The EPA 

Docket Center is open from 8:30 a.m. to 

4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, 

excluding legal holidays. The EPA 

Docket Center Reading Room telephone 

number is (202) 566–1744 and the 

telephone number for the OPPT Docket, 

which is located in EPA Docket Center, 

is (202) 566–0280. 

2. Electronic access. You may access 

this Federal Register document 

electronically through the EPA Internet 

under the ‘‘Federal Register’’ listings at 

http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/. 

An electronic version of the public 

docket is available through EPA’s 

electronic public docket and comment 

system, EPA Dockets. You may use EPA 

Dockets at http://www.epa.gov/edocket/ 

to submit or view public comments, 

access the index listing of the contents 

of the official public docket, and to 

access those documents in the public 

docket that are available electronically. 

Although not all docket materials may 

be available electronically, you may still 

access any of the publicly available 

docket materials through the docket 

facility identified in Unit I.B.1. Once in 

the system, select ‘‘search,’’ then key in 

the appropriate docket ID number. 

II. What Action is the Agency Taking? 

Under Contract Number EP–W–05–

024, SRA of 2000 15th Street, North 

Arlington, VA 22201, and 4300 Fair 

Lakes Court, Fairfax, VA 22033, will 

assist EPA in preparing OPPT’s Target 

Information Architecture, involving 

enterprise architecture documentation, 

development, requirements analysis, 

design, testing and change management. 

In accordance with 40 CFR 2.306(j), 

EPA has determined that under Contract 

Number EP–W–05–024, SRA will 

require access to CBI submitted to EPA 

under all sections of TSCA, to perform 

successfully the duties specified under 

the contract. 

SRA personnel will be given 

information submitted to EPA under all 

sections of TSCA. Some of the 

information may be claimed or 

determined to be CBI. 

EPA is issuing this notice to inform 

all submitters of information under all 

sections of TSCA, that the Agency may 

provide SRA access to these CBI 

materials on a need-to-know basis only. 

All access to TSCA CBI under this 

contract will take place at EPA 

Headquarters. 

Clearance for access to TSCA CBI 

under Contract Number EP–W–05–024 

may continue until April 14, 2010.