Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 22 / Thursday, February 3, 2005 / Notices 5647

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: Source Compliance and State 

Action Reporting (Renewal). 

Abstract: Source Compliance and 

State Action Reporting is an activity 

whereby State, District, Local, and 

Commonwealth governments (hereafter 

referred to as ‘‘states/locals’’ or ‘‘state 

and local agencies’’) make air 

compliance information available to the 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 

(EPA or the Agency) on a cyclic basis 

via input to the Air Facility System 

(AFS). The information provided to EPA 

includes compliance activities and 

determinations, and enforcement 

activities. EPA uses this information to 

assess progress toward meeting 

emission requirements developed under 

the authority of the Clean Air Act (CAA 

or the Act) to protect and maintain the 

atmospheric environment and the 

public health. The EPA and many of the 

state and local agencies access the data 

in AFS to assist them in the 

management of their air pollution 

control programs. This renewal 

information collection request (ICR) 

affects oversight of approximately 

41,500 stationary sources by 93 state 

and local agencies and the Federal EPA, 

and is expected to require 144,089 labor 

hours per year and cost approximately 

$5.5 million annually. State and local 

agency burdens and costs are estimated 

as 110,809 hours and approximately 

$3.7 million annually. On average, this 

burden amounts to approximately onethird of a full-time equivalent employee 

for each small state and local agency, 

three-fourths of a full-time equivalent 

employee for each medium sized state 

and local agency and one and one-third 

of a full-time equivalent employee for 

each large sized state and local agency 

for national reporting of complianceand enforcement-related data under all 

of the applicable Clean Air Act 

programs. The first notice for the 

renewal of this collection sought to add 

the following new reporting 

requirements: Addition of the subpart 

identifier in the air program record, 

addition of the pollutant code to stack 

test actions, addition of the High 

Priority Violator (HPV) ‘‘Violation 

Discovered’’ activity and date, addition 

of the HPV violation type code and 

violating pollutants, revised reporting 

frequency for state/local agencies from 

quarterly to 30 days, reporting all Partial 

Compliance Evaluations (PCEs), and the 

reporting of Permit Program Data 

Elements (PPDEs). 

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 18,468 hours per 

response (six responses per year for a 

state/local agency). 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: State, 

local or tribal government. 

Estimated Number of Respondents:

93. 

Frequency of Response: Six times per 

year. 

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:

110,809 hours. 

Estimated Total Capital Annual Costs:

$3,699,481, which includes $0 

annualized capital/startup costs, $0 

annual O&M costs, and $3,699,481 

annual labor costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is an 

increase of 25,313 hours in the total 

estimated burden currently identified in 

the OMB Inventory of Approved ICR 

Burdens. This increase was attributable 

to several new data elements added to 

the new Minimum Data Requirements 

(MDRs) in this renewal ICR, with an 

adjustment to the baseline count of 

hours. The new MDRs will not be 

effective until October 1, 2005.

Dated: January 25, 2005. 

Oscar Morales, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division.

[FR Doc. 05–2067 Filed 2–2–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[ORD–2004–0013; FRL–7868–4] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to OMB for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; Application for Reference 

and Equivalent Method Determination 

(Renewal), EPA ICR Number 0559.08, 

OMB Control Number 2080–0005

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 February 28, 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 March 7, 2005.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing docket ID number ORD–

2004–0013, 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, Office of 

Environmental Information Docket, Mail 

Code 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 for EPA, 725 

17th Street, NW., Washington, DC 

20503.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Elizabeth T. Hunike, Environmental 

Protection Agency, Office of Research 

and Development, Human Exposure and 

Atmospheric Sciences Division, Process 

Modeling Research Branch, Mail Code 

D205–03, Research Triangle Park, NC 

27711; telephone number: (919) 541–

3737; fax number: (919) 541–1153; email: hunike.elizabeth@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 August 27, 2004 (69 FR 52663), EPA 

sought comments on this ICR pursuant 

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to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received no 

comments. 

EPA has established a public docket 

for this ICR under Docket ID No. ORD–

2004–0013, which is available for public 

viewing at the Office of Environmental 

Information 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 

Environmental Information 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: Application for Reference and 

Equivalent Method Determination 

(Renewal) 

Abstract: To determine compliance 

with the national ambient air quality 

standards (NAAQS), State air 

monitoring agencies are required to use, 

in their air quality monitoring networks, 

air monitoring methods that have been 

formally designated by the EPA as either 

reference or equivalent methods under 

EPA regulations at 40 CFR part 53. A 

manufacturer or seller of an air 

monitoring method (e.g. an air 

monitoring sampler or analyzer) that 

seeks to obtain such EPA designation of 

one of its products must carry out 

prescribed tests of the method. The test 

results and other information must then 

be submitted to the EPA in the form of 

an application for a reference or 

equivalent method determination in 

accordance with 40 CFR part 53. The 

EPA uses this information, under the 

provisions of part 53, to determine 

whether the particular method should 

be designated as either a reference or 

equivalent method. After a method is 

designated, the applicant must also 

maintain records of the names and 

mailing addresses of all ultimate 

purchasers of all analyzers or samplers 

sold as designated methods under the 

method designation. If the method 

designated is a method for fine 

particulate matter (PM2.5), the applicant 

must also submit checklist information 

confirmed by an ISO-certified auditor to 

indicate that the samplers or analyzers 

sold as part of the designated method 

are manufactured in an ISO 9001-

registered facility. Also, an applicant 

must submit a minor application to seek 

approval for any proposed 

modifications to previously designated 

methods. 

A response to this collection of 

information is voluntary, but it is 

required to obtain the benefit of EPA 

designation under 40 CFR part 53. 

Submission of some information that is 

claimed by the applicant to be 

confidential business information may 

be necessary for the EPA to make a 

reference or equivalent method 

determination. The confidentiality of 

any submitted information identified as 

confidential business information by the 

applicant will be protected in full 

accordance with 40 CFR 53.15 and all 

applicable provisions of 40 CFR part 2. 

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 860 hours per 

response full application and 30 hours 

per request for modification for a 

combined average of 524 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: 

primarily manufacturers and vendors of 

ambient air quality monitoring 

instruments that are used by state and 

local air quality monitoring agencies in 

their federally required air surveillance 

monitoring networks, and agents acting 

for such instrument manufacturers or 

vendors. 

Estimated Number of Respondents:

19. 

Frequency of Response: Once per 

application, plus requests for 

modifications as needed. 

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:

4,718 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost:

$426,966, including annualized capital/

startup cost of $19,651, O&M cost of 

$81,408, and respondent labor costs of 

$325,907. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is no 

change in hours in the total estimated 

burden currently identified in the OMB 

Inventory of Approved ICR Burdens.

Dated: January 25, 2005. 

Oscar Morales, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division.

[FR Doc. 05–2068 Filed 2–2–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[OPPT–2004–0095; FRL–7868–9] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to OMB for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; TSCA Sec. 8(a) Preliminary 

Assessment Information Rule (PAIR); 

EPA ICR No. 0586.10, OMB No. 2070–

0054

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