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conditioners (MVACs). These 

regulations were published in 57 FR 

31261 on July 14, 1992, and are codified 

at 40 CFR part 82, subpart B (§ 82.30 et 

seq.). The information required to be 

collected under the section 609 

regulations is described below. This 

information is currently approved for 

use through September 30, 2005. 

The information required to be 

collected includes the following: 

submission of a program plan to EPA by 

organizations who want to participate as 

an EPA-technician certification 

program, submission of an application 

by independent laboratories that proves 

their general capacity to certify 

refrigerant recovery and/or recycling 

equipment to meet the Society of 

Automotive Engineers (SAE) standards 

for recycled refrigerant, and for 

equipment manufacturers or owners 

wanting to grandfather their equipment, 

the submission of an application, 

supporting documents, flow sheets, 

equipment components and other 

information which would indicate that 

the equipment is capable of recycling or 

recovering the refrigerant to standards 

set forth in Appendices A, B, C, D, E 

and F to the regulations. 

Motor vehicle air conditioning service 

establishments are required by section 

609 of the Act to certify that they have 

purchased refrigerant recycling and/or 

recovery equipment by January 1, 1992. 

The Stratospheric Programs Division 

(SPD) uses the certificates to confirm 

compliance with section 609. 

In order for technicians to service or 

maintain MVACs, they must pass a 

certification test as stipulated in section 

609 of the Act. In the interest of 

providing national harmony in 

promoting technician awareness in the 

proper handling of refrigerant, the 

Agency is charged through section 609 

with the establishment of minimum 

national standards for technician 

certification. The SPD uses the 

information submitted by technician 

certification programs to determine if 

programs meet the standards established 

by the Agency. In addition, the SPD 

uses the information to insure that the 

programs are at least as stringent as the 

SAE J standards of the Society of 

Automotive Engineers. 

The information requested for all 

entities that service MVACs is required 

by section 609(d) of the Act with regard 

to the following: 

(1) Technician certification programs: 

Proposed automotive technician 

certification programs are required to be 

approved by EPA in accordance with 

section 609(b)(4); 

(2) Business certification 

requirements: Section 609(b)(2)(A) 

requires EPA approval of independent 

laboratories that certify equipment for 

the extraction and reclamation of 

refrigerant from MVACs; 

(3) Manufacturers’ certification of 

recovery equipment: The submission of 

data for EPA determination of 

substantially identical equipment is 

addressed by section 609(b)(2)(B) 

(substantially identical equipment is 

equipment certified before the proposal 

of regulations under section 609 that is 

substantially identical to equipment 

currently meeting EPA’s standards); 

(4) Recordkeeping requirements: The 

recordkeeping requirements for the 

motor vehicle recycling program are 

derived from section 114 of the Act. 

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. 

Burden Statement: The annual public 

reporting and recordkeeping burden for 

this collection of information is 

estimated to average 0.11 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: New 

and used motor vehicle dealers, gasoline 

service stations, truck rental and leasing 

without drivers, passenger car rental, 

top, body, upholstery repair and paint 

shops, general automotive repair shops 

and automotive repair shops not 

elsewhere classified. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

25,013. 

Frequency of Response: On occasion. 

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 

2,865. 

Estimated Total Annual Capital and 

O&M Costs: $0. 

Changes in the Estimates: The 

decrease in burden results from the fact 

that the number of service facilities 

entering the market and changing 

ownership was overstated in the 

original ICR and was adjusted 

downward in the last revision to this 

ICR. In this revision to the ICR, we were 

able to acknowledge significant cost 

reductions in the public sector, because 

the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ data on 

salaries shows that our previous salary 

assumptions were arbitrarily inflated. In 

addition, a number of erroneous entries 

and inconsistencies were detected in the 

previous revision to the ICR. Correcting 

those errors has resulted in significant 

reductions in resultant burden. 

Dated: September 24, 2005. 

Oscar Morales, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[OA–2005–0002; FRL–7978–8] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to OMB for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; Regulatory Pilot Projects 

(Renewal), EPA ICR Number 1755.07, 

OMB Control Number 2010–0026 

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 

for a renewal of an existing approved 

collection. This ICR was scheduled to 

expire on September 30, 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 OA–

2005–0002, to (1) EPA online using 

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

to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental 

Protection Agency, Regulatory 

Innovation Pilot Projects, MC 28221T, 

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 

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for EPA, 725 17th Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20503. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Douglas Heimlich in the Office of 

Environmental Policy Innovation may 

be reached by phone at (202) 566–2234, 

by e-mail at heimlich.douglas@epa.gov, 

or by FAX at (202) 566–2200. Or, 

contact Dr. Gerald Filbin in the Office 

of Environmental Policy Innovation at 

(202) 566–2182, by e-mail at 

filbin.gerald@epa.gov, or by FAX at 

(202) 566–2211. 

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 8, 2005 (70 FR 33472), 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. OA–

2005–0002, which is available for public 

viewing at the Office of the 

Administrator 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 Office of 

the Administrator 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. 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: Regulatory Pilot Projects 

(Renewal). 

Abstract: In March 1995, the U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency 

initiated Regulatory Innovation Pilot 

Projects in response to a challenge to 

transform the environmental regulatory 

system to better meet the needs of a 

rapidly changing society while 

maintaining the nation’s commitment to 

protect human health and safeguard the 

natural environment. EPA’s first 

regulatory innovation pilot mechanism 

was Project XL, or eXcellence and 

Leadership (http://www.epa.gov/ 

ProjectXL/). EPA used Project XL to 

support a variety of innovation pilots to 

gather data and project experience that 

will help the Agency redesign current 

approaches to public health and 

environmental protection. Through sitespecific agreements with project 

sponsors, Project XL has given 

companies, communities, local 

governments, military bases, and 

universities flexibility from certain 

environmental regulations in exchange 

for commitments to achieve superior 

environmental performance at less cost. 

EPA no longer accepts new projects 

under the XL program, however, EPA is 

completing the earlier projects initiated 

under Project XL. 

Before submitting an official Project 

XL proposal to EPA, the project sponsor 

typically engaged in informal 

discussions with EPA about proposal 

design. Once a formal proposal was 

submitted, EPA along with the 

corresponding state environmental 

agency reviewed the proposal. EPA 

based acceptance of proposals on the 

extent to which proposals met the 

following eight criteria: (1) Superior 

environmental performance, (2) cost 

savings and reduced paperwork, (3) 

stakeholder involvement, (4) innovation 

or pollution prevention, (5) 

transferability, (6) feasibility, (7) 

monitoring, reporting and evaluation, 

and (8) no shifting of risk burden. If the 

proposal was accepted, EPA and the 

partnering state agency negotiated the 

conditions of the proposal with the 

project sponsor along with other 

interested stakeholders, including local 

and national environmental groups and 

nearby community residents. Once an 

agreement was reached regarding the 

conditions of the proposal and the 

necessary regulatory flexibility, the 

Final Project Agreement (FPA) was 

signed and the project sponsor began 

implementation. 

Starting in 2002, EPA developed a 

new mechanism for pilot projects that 

allowed the Agency to test regulatory 

innovation strategically and on a larger 

scale. Information collection for the 

purpose of grant competition 

solicitations are covered under another 

Agency ICR and will not be included 

here except for burden created in precompetition consultation with States on 

subject areas for inclusion in the annual 

State Innovation Grant solicitation. 

General information on the State 

Innovation Grant Program can be found 

at the following URL http:// 

www.epa.gov/innovation/stategrants/). 

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: EPA estimates that 

each project sponsor for projects 

implemented under Project XL will use 

20 hours, or 120 for all respondents, for 

the development of progress reports and 

a final project report and to address a 

small range of evaluation questions from 

EPA at the close of an individual 

project. Similarly, EPA anticipates that 

State Innovation Grants Projects may 

require States and Tribes that choose to 

respond to EPA’s invitation to comment 

to expend up 32 hours each, annually, 

or 768 hours collectively (average of 24 

States and Tribes providing comment) 

each year in consultation with EPA. 

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. 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 

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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