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None of this information is confidential; 

thus confidentiality is not an issue. 

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 652 hours per 

response for POTWs and 86 hours per 

response for States. 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: 

Entities potentially affected by this 

action are those municipalities that 

currently have section 301(h) waivers 

from secondary treatment, have applied 

for a renewal of a section 301(h) waiver, 

or those with a pending section 301(h) 

waiver application, and the states 

within which these municipalities are 

located. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

50. 

Frequency of Response: The 

frequency of response varies from one 

time to once every five years, to case-bycase, depending on the category of 

information. 

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 

61,377 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost: 

$1,343,393, includes $0 annualized 

capital or O&M costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is a 

decrease of 3,680 hours in the total 

estimated burden currently identified in 

the OMB Inventory of Approved ICR 

Burdens. This decrease is an adjustment 

to the estimates because the universe of 

POTWs in the 301(h) program and 

subject to the 301(h) information has 

decreased. 

Dated: September 24, 2005. 

Oscar Morales, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division. 

[FR Doc. 05–19839 Filed 10–3–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[OAR–2004–0389; FRL–7979–2] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to OMB for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; Servicing of Motor Vehicle 

Air Conditioners, EPA ICR Number 

1617.05, OMB Control Number 2060–

0247 

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 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 OAR–

2004–0389, to (1) EPA online using 

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

mail to: EPA Docket Center, 

Environmental Protection Agency, EPA 

Air Docket, MC6102T, 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: 

Nancy Smagin, Office of Atmospheric 

Programs, MC 6205J, Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460; 

telephone number: 202–343–9126; fax 

number: 202–343–2338; e-mail address: 

smagin.nancy@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 April 11, 2005, (70 FR 18395), 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–

2004–0389, which is available for public 

viewing at the EPA Air 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 EPA Air 

Docket 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, 

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: Servicing of Motor Vehicle Air 

Conditioners. 

Abstract: In 1992, EPA developed 

regulations under section 609 of the 

Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 

(Act) for the recycling of 

chlorofluorocarbons and their 

substitutes in motor vehicle air 

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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. 

[FR Doc. 05–19840 Filed 10–3–05; 8:45 am] 

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