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number. The OMB control numbers for 

EPA’s regulations are listed in 40 CFR 

Part 9 and 48 CFR Chapter 15. 

Respondents/Affected Entities: 

Companies, States or other entities in 

the voluntary Regulatory Pilot Projects. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

30. 

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 

888 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Costs: 

$40,704, that includes $0 Capital or 

O&M costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is a 

reduction of 71,411 hours. This 

difference is largely a result of moving 

away from individual facility proposals 

and toward state-wide projects, thus 

reducing substantially the number of 

pre-proposal submissions for testing 

while focusing on larger, more systemschange oriented projects. This 

difference is also a result of EPA’s 

ability to refine the estimates based 

upon 10 years of experience promoting 

regulatory innovation and a better 

understanding of the burden 

requirements necessary to develop and 

submit proposals for innovative pilot 

projects, and an improved 

understanding of innovative pilot 

projects and how to develop them. 

Dated: September 22, 2005. 

Oscar Morales, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division. 

[FR Doc. 05–19862 Filed 10–3–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[OECA–2005–0030; FRL–7978–9] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission for OMB Review 

and Approval; Comment Request; 

NESHAP for Source Categories: 

Generic Maximum Achievable Control 

Technology Standards (Renewal), ICR 

Number 1871.04, OMB Control Number 

2060–0420 

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 December 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 November 3, 

2005. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing docket ID number OECA–

2005–0030, to (1) EPA online using 

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

to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental 

Protection Agency, Enforcement and 

Compliance Docket and Information 

Center, Mail Code 2201T, 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: 

Learia Williams, Compliance 

Assessment and Media Programs 

Division, Office of Compliance, Mail 

Code 2223A, Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20460; telephone 

number: (202) 564–4113; fax number: 

(202) 564–0050; e-mail address: 

williams.learia@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 6, 2005 (70 FR 24020), 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 Number 

OECA–2005–0030, which is available 

for public viewing at the Enforcement 

and Compliance 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 Enforcement and Compliance 

Docket and Information Center Docket 

is: (202) 566–1752. 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. 

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 http://www.epa.gov/ 

edocket. 

Title: NESHAP for Source Categories: 

Generic Maximum Achievable Control 

Technology Standards (Renewal). 

Abstract: The National Emission 

Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants 

(NESHAP) for Source Categories: 

Generic Maximum Achievable Control 

Technology (hereafter, this subpart is 

referred to as the ‘‘generic MACT’’), 

published at 40 CFR part 63, subpart 

YY, were proposed on October 14, 1998 

(63 FR 55178), and promulgated on June 

29, 1999 (64 FR 34854). The rule 

addressed hazardous air pollutant 

(HAP) emission sources in these four 

source categories: Polycarbonates (PC) 

Production, Acrylic and Modacrylic 

Fibers (AMF) Production, Acetal Resins 

(AR) Production and Hydrogen Fluoride 

(HF) Production. On November 22, 

1999, the Agency proposed wastewater 

provisions amendments (64 FR 63779) 

to the promulgated generic MACT 

applicable to the AR, AMF, and PC 

production source categories. The HF 

production source category does not 

have wastewater streams. 

Respondents are required to submit 

one-time only reports of the (1) start of 

construction for new facilities or an 

initial notification if it is an existing 

source at the time of rule promulgation, 

(2) anticipated and actual start-up dates 

for new facilities, and (3) physical or 

operational changes to existing 

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facilities. Owners and operators must 

also submit periodic reports 

(semiannual or according to the 

schedule for Title V), and leak detection 

and repair (LDAR) semiannual reports 

which could be submitted with the 

periodic reports. The specific 

monitoring and recordkeeping 

requirements will vary for each of the 

four source categories depending on the 

required control equipment and 

monitoring equipment. All records and 

reports are to be maintained by the 

facility for a minimum of five years. 

All reports are sent to the delegated 

state or local authority. In the event that 

there is no such delegated authority, the 

reports are sent directly to the EPA 

regional office. 

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 133 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; to 

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; to adjust the 

existing ways to comply with any 

previously applicable instructions and 

requirements; to train personnel to be 

able to respond to a collection of 

information; to search data sources; to 

complete and review the collection of 

information; and to transmit or 

otherwise disclose the information. 

Respondents/Affected Entities: 

Owners or operators of acetal resins 

production, acrylic and modacrylic 

fibers production, hydrogen fluoride 

production, and polycarbonates 

production. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

10. 

Frequency of Response: On occasion, 

semiannually, and initally. 

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 

4,004 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Costs: 

$438,560, which includes $0 annualized 

Capital/startup costs, $107,414 in 

annual O&M costs, and $331,146 in 

Respondent Labor costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is a 

decrease of 73 hours in the estimated 

burden currently identified in the OMB 

Inventory of Approved ICR Burdens. 

This is due to minor calculation errors 

in the active ICR. There is an increase 

in the labor costs associated with this 

ICR, which is due to an updated hourly 

wage rate that is provided by the United 

States Department of Labor. Because 

there are no new sources with reporting 

requirements, no capital/startup costs 

are incurred. A cost of $107,414 per 

year, is incurred for operation and 

maintenance of the emission monitoring 

equipment with this ICR. 

Dated: September 21, 2005. 

Oscar Morales, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division. 

[FR Doc. 05–19866 Filed 10–3–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–7532–9] 

Toxics Release Inventory 2006 Burden 

Reduction 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: EPA’s Toxics Release 

Inventory Program is today announcing 

its intent to explore potential 

approaches for modification of the 

reporting frequency of facilities that 

report to TRI. Among the options to be 

considered is alternate year reporting, 

which would require Congressional 

notification as discussed in section 

313(i) of the Emergency Planning and 

Community Right-to-Know-Act 

(EPCRA). EPA has notified Congress, as 

required by this provision, of its intent 

to initiate a rulemaking to modify TRI 

reporting frequency. Today’s notice is in 

addition to the Agency’s recent 

proposal, Toxics Release Inventory 

Burden Reduction Proposed Rule 

elsewhere in Today’s Federal Register, 

designed to reduce reporting burden on 

facilities reporting to TRI by increasing 

eligibility for the Form A Certification 

Statement. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Suzanne Ackerman, 

ackerman.suzanne@epa.gov, 202–564–

4355, Office of Public Affairs. Details 

and additional information will also be 

posted on EPA’s TRI Web site, http:// 

www.epa.gov/tri, as they become 

available. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the 

coming months, the Agency will give 

consideration to additional measures 

that would provide burden relief to TRI 

reporting facilities on an every other 

year basis. These options may include a 

modification in reporting frequency as 

discussed in EPCRA section 313(i). 42 

U.S.C. 11023(i). In order to modify TRI 

reporting frequency, section 313(i) of 

EPCRA requires EPA to make a finding 

that modifying the reporting frequency 

is consistent with the purposes of the 

TRI as listed in section 313(h) of 

EPCRA. See, 42 U.S.C. 11023(h). This 

finding must be based on previous 

experience gained from past TRI 

reporting, the extent to which the public 

has used TRI data, the extent to which 

information is readily available from 

other sources and the extent to which 

the change would impose additional 

and unreasonable burdens on reporting 

facilities. 42 U.S.C. 11023(i)(2)–(3). As 

outlined in EPCRA, the Agency must 

first notify Congress of its intent to 

initiate a rulemaking to modify the 

reporting frequency. After notifying 

Congress, EPA must delay initiating the 

rulemaking for 12 months but no more 

than 24 months. In following the 

process described in EPCRA to make 

such a change, the Agency recently 

notified Congress of its intent to initiate 

a rulemaking to modify the reporting 

frequency. EPA’s Assistant 

Administrator Kimberly T. Nelson 

mailed the letter below to the following 

individuals: The Honorable Richard B. 

Cheney, President, United States Senate, 

The Honorable William H. Frist, 

Majority Leader, United States Senate, 

The Honorable Harry Reid, Minority 

Leader, United States Senate, The 

Honorable J. Dennis Hastert, Speaker, 

United States House of Representatives, 

The Honorable Tom DeLay, Majority 

Leader, United States House of 

Representatives, The Honorable Nancy 

Pelosi, Minority Leader, United States 

House of Representatives, and The 

Honorable David M. Walker, 

Comptroller General of the United 

States, Government Accountability 

Office. 

Since the late 1980s, the United States 

(U.S.) Environmental Protection Agency 

(EPA) Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) 

program has been an important source 

of public information on releases of 

toxic chemicals and a successful tool in 

our efforts at promoting pollution 

prevention. Under Section 313 of the 

Emergency Planning and Community 

Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) of 1986, 

facilities annually report data to EPA on 

releases and transfers of certain listed 

toxic chemicals, which EPA compiles 

and makes available to the public. The 

Pollution Prevention Act (PPA) of 1990