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actions include required corrective or 

complying actions (i.e., injunctive relief) 

that will return facilities to compliance 

in a specific time frame; (6) The degree 

to which a state takes timely and 

appropriate enforcement actions, in 

accordance with policy relating to 

specific media; (7) The degree to which 

a state includes both gravity and 

economic benefit calculations for all 

penalties, appropriately using the BEN 

model or similar state model (where in 

use and consistent with national 

policy); (8) The degree to which 

penalties in final enforcement actions 

collect appropriate economic benefit 

and gravity in accordance with 

applicable penalty procedures; (9) The 

degree to which enforcement 

commitments in the PPA/PPG/ 

categorical grants (i.e., written 

agreements to deliver a product/project 

at a specified time), if they exist, are met 

and any products or projects are 

completed; (10) The degree to which the 

minimum data requirements are timely; 

(11) The degree to which the minimum 

data requirements are accurate; (12) The 

degree to which the minimum data 

requirements are complete, unless 

otherwise negotiated by the region and 

state or prescribed by a national 

initiative; and (13) (Optional) Other 

program activities (e.g., using outcome 

data, compliance assistance, selfdisclosure programs, innovative 

approaches, etc.). In the interest of 

accuracy and efficiency, the Framework 

also includes a four-step protocol for 

managing the process: (1) Pre-review 

and offsite review; (2) onsite review; (3) 

drafting of the report; and (4) composing 

the final report and follow-up. After 

reviewing the level of performance 

based on metrics developed to support 

the 12 required performance elements, 

EPA will determine if a state or Region 

meets adequate performance levels. 

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 384 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: 50 

states. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

40. 

Frequency of Response: one time over 

a three year period. 

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 

5,122. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost: 

$169,035 including $0 annualized 

capital or O&M costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: N/A. 

Dated: August 24, 2005. 

Oscar Morales, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division. 

[FR Doc. 05–17361 Filed 8–30–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[OAR–2002–0073; FRL–7963–3] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to OMB for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; Recordkeeping and Periodic 

Reporting of the Production, Import, 

Export, Recycling, Destruction, 

Transhipment, and Feedstock Use of 

Ozone-Depleting Substances 

(Renewal), EPA ICR Number 1432.25, 

OMB Control Number 2060–0170 

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 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. 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 OAR–

2002–0073, to (1) EPA online using 

EDOCKET (our preferred method), by email to a-and-r-Docket@epa.gov, or by 

mail to: Environmental Protection 

Agency, EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), 

Air and Radiation Docket and 

Information Center, Mail Code 6102T, 

1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, 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: 

Kirsten M. Cappel, Office of 

Atmospheric Programs, Stratospheric 

Protection Division, Mail Code 6205J, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20460; telephone 

number: (202) 343–9556; fax number: 

(202) 343–2338; e-mail address: 

cappel.kirsten@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 June 14th, 2005 (70 FR 34470) 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. OAR–

2002–0073 which is available for public 

viewing at the Air and Radiation Docket 

and Information Center in the EPA 

Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West, 

Room B102, 1301 Constitution Avenue, 

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 Air and 

Radiation Docket and Information 

Center is (202) 566–1742. 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, 

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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 http://www.epa.gov/ 

edocket. 

Title: Recordkeeping and Periodic 

Reporting of the Production, Import, 

Export, Recycling, Destruction, 

Transhipment, and Feedstock Use of 

Ozone-Depleting Substances (Renewal) 

Abstract: The international treaty The 

Montreal Protocol on Substances that 

Deplete the Ozone and Title VI of the 

Clean Air Act (CAA) established limits 

on total United States (U.S.) production, 

import, and export of class I and class 

II controlled ozone depleting substances 

(ODS). Under its Protocol commitments, 

the United States is obliged to cease 

production and import of class I 

controlled substances with exemptions 

for essential uses, critical uses, 

previously used material, and material 

that will be transformed, destroyed, or 

exported to developing countries. The 

Protocol also establishes limits and 

reduction schedules leading to the 

eventual phaseout of class II controlled 

substances with similar exemptions 

beyond the phaseout. Additionally, the 

CAA has its own limits on production 

and consumption of controlled 

substances that EPA must adhere to and 

enforce. 

To ensure the United States 

compliance with the limits and 

restrictions established by the Protocol 

and the CAA, the ODS phaseout 

regulations establish control measures 

for individual companies. The limits 

and restrictions for individual United 

States companies are monitored by EPA 

through the recordkeeping and reporting 

requirements established in the 

regulations stated in 40 CFR part 82, 

subpart A. To submit required 

information, regulated entities can 

download reporting forms from EPA’s 

stratospheric ozone Web site (http:// 

www.epa.gov/ozone/record.index.html), 

complete them, and then send them to 

EPA via U.S. Mail or fax. Upon receipt 

of the reports, the data is entered and 

subsequently stored in the Stratospheric 

Protection Tracking System (Tracking 

System). The Tracking System is a 

secure database that maintains all of the 

data that is submitted to EPA and allows 

the Agency to: (1) Maintain control over 

total production and consumption of 

controlled substances to satisfy 

conditions of the CAA and fulfill the 

United States obligations under the 

Protocol; (2) monitor compliance with 

limits and restrictions on production, 

imports, exports, and specific 

exemptions to the phaseout for 

individual U.S. companies; and (3) 

enforce against illegal imports and 

violations related to the control of class 

I and class II substances. Additionally, 

reporting on the exemptions permits an 

entity to retain the benefit of being able 

to produce or import a controlled class 

I ODS beyond the date of complete 

phaseout. 

EPA is developing an electronic 

reporting system through the Agency’s 

Central Data Exchange (CDX) that will 

allow regulated entities to download, 

complete, and submit reports 

electronically. Electronic reporting is 

expected to make the reporting process 

more effective and efficient for reporting 

companies and EPA. When electronic 

reporting becomes available, EPA will 

change its guidance document and its 

ICR to indicate a reduction in burden 

hours. 

Pursuant to regulations 40 CFR part 2, 

subpart B, reporting businesses are 

entitled to assert a business 

confidentiality claim covering any part 

of the submitted business information as 

defined in 40 CFR 2.201(c). 

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 about seven hours 

per response per respondent. 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: 

Persons that produce, import, export, 

destroy, transform as a feedstock, 

distribute, or apply controlled ODS. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

1,138. 

Frequency of Response: On occasion, 

quarterly, and annually (as applicable). 

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 

8,370. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost: 

$714,160, which includes $0 annualized 

capital/startup costs, $5,580 annual 

O&M costs, and $708,520 annual labor 

costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is a 

decrease of 1,567 hours in the total 

estimated burden currently identified in 

the OMB Inventory of Approved ICR 

Burdens. This decrease is largely 

attributed to the reduction of the 

number of responses and respondents. 

The decrease in Agency hours is due to 

the longevity of the regulatory program 

and its implementation. Estimates have 

also been refined based on historical 

information. 

Dated: August 25, 2005. 

Oscar Morales, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division. 

[FR Doc. 05–17362 Filed 8–30–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[OECA–2004–0037; FRL–7963–4] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission for OMB Review 

and Approval; Comment Request; 

NESHAP for Natural Gas Transmission 

and Storage (Renewal), ICR Number 

1789.05, OMB Number 2060–0418 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act, this 

document announces 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 September 30, 2005. Under 

OMB regulations, the Agency may