Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 199 / Monday, October 17, 2005 / Notices 60335 

Magalie R. Salas, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E5–5694 Filed 10–14–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[SFUND–2005–0003, FRL–7984–4] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request; Brownfields 

Program Revitalization Grantee 

Reporting, EPA ICR Number 2104.01, 

OMB Control Number 2050–0192 

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 EPA is planning to submit a 

continuing Information Collection 

Request (ICR) to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB). This is 

a request to renew an existing approved 

collection. This ICR is scheduled to 

expire on August 31, 2006. Before 

submitting the ICR to OMB for review 

and approval, EPA is soliciting 

comments on specific aspects of the 

proposed information collection as 

described below. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before December 16, 2005. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing docket ID number SFUND–

2005–0003, to EPA online using 

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

by mail to: EPA Docket Center, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 

OSWER Docket, 5202T, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Stacy Swartwood, Office of Solid Waste 

and Emergency Response (OSWER), 

Office of Brownfields Cleanup and 

Redevelopment (OBCR) 5105T, U.S. 

EPA Headquarters, Ariel Rios Building, 

1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20460; telephone 

number: (202) 566–1391; fax number: 

(202) 566–2757; e-mail address: 

swartwood.stacy@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has 

established a public docket for this ICR 

under Docket ID number SFUND–2005–

0003, which is available for public 

viewing at the OSWER 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 OSWER 

Docket is (202) 566–0276. An electronic 

version of the public docket is available 

through EPA Dockets (EDOCKET) at 

http://www.epa.gov/edocket. Use 

EDOCKET to obtain a copy of the draft 

collection of information, 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 within 60 

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 www.epa.gov/ 

edocket. 

Affected entities: Entities potentially 

affected by this action are states, tribes, 

local governments, and certain nongovernmental organizations that apply 

for and receive grants from EPA to 

support the assessment, cleanup and 

redevelopment of brownfields 

properties. 

Title: Brownfields Program—Grant 

Reporting Information Collection 

Request. 

Abstract: The Small Business Liability 

Relief and Brownfields Revitalization 

Act (Pub. L. 107–118) (‘‘the Brownfields 

Amendments’’) was signed into law on 

January 11, 2002. The Act amends the 

Comprehensive Environmental 

Response, Compensation, and Liability 

Act (CERCLA), as amended, and 

authorizes EPA to award grants to 

States, tribes, local governments, and 

other eligible entities to assess and clean 

up brownfields sites. Under the 

Brownfields Amendments, a 

brownfields site means real property, 

the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse 

of which may be complicated by the 

presence or potential presence of a 

hazardous substance, pollutant, or 

contaminant. For grant funding 

purposes, EPA uses the term 

‘‘brownfields property(ies)’’

synonymously with the term 

‘‘brownfields sites.’’ The Brownfields 

Amendments authorize EPA to award 

several types of grants to eligible entities 

on a competitive basis. 

Under subtitle A of the Small 

Business Liability Relief and 

Brownfields Revitalization Act, States, 

tribes, local governments, and other 

eligible entities can receive assessment 

grants to inventory, characterize, assess, 

and conduct planning and community 

involvement related to brownfields 

properties; cleanup grants to carry out 

cleanup activities at brownfields 

properties; grants to capitalize revolving 

loan funds and provide subgrants for 

cleanup activities; and job training 

grants to support the creation and 

implementation of environmental job 

training and placement programs. Under 

subtitle C of the Small Business 

Liability Relief and Brownfields 

Revitalization Act, State and tribes can 

receive grants to establish and enhance 

their response programs. The grants 

support activities necessary to establish 

or enhance four elements of state and 

tribal response programs and to meet 

the public record requirements under 

the statute. The four elements include: 

(a) Timely survey and inventory of 

brownfield sites in the State or in the 

tribal land; (b) oversight and 

enforcement authorities or other 

mechanisms and resources; (c) 

mechanisms and resources to provide 

meaningful opportunities for public 

participation; and (d) mechanisms for 

approval of a cleanup plan and 

verification and certification that 

cleanup is complete. States and tribes 

that receive funding under subtitle C 

must establish a public record system 

during the grant funding period unless 

an adequate public record system is 

already established. 

Grant recipients have general 

reporting and record keeping 

requirements as a condition of their 

grant that result in burden. A portion of 

this reporting and record keeping 

burden is authorized under 40 CFR 

parts 30 and 31 and identified in the 

EPA’s general grants ICR (OMB Control 

Number 2030–0020). EPA requires 

Brownfields program grant recipients to 

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maintain and report additional 

information to EPA on the uses and 

accomplishments associated with the 

funded brownfields activities. EPA uses 

several forms to assist grantees in 

reporting the information and to ensure 

consistency of the information 

collected. EPA uses this information to 

meet Federal stewardship 

responsibilities to manage and track 

how program funds are being spent, to 

evaluate the performance of the 

Brownfields Cleanup and 

Redevelopment Program, to meet the 

Agency’s reporting requirements under 

the Government Performance Results 

Act, and to report to Congress and other 

program stakeholders on the status and 

accomplishments of the grants program. 

This ICR addresses the burden 

imposed on grant recipients that are 

associated with those reporting and 

recordkeeping requirements that are 

specific to grants awarded under the 

Small Business Liability Relief and 

Brownfields Revitalization Act. This 

ICR renewal modifies the annual 

reporting and recordkeeping burden 

under the previous ICR. The modified 

burden reflects an increase in the 

number of respondents subject to the 

reporting and recordkeeping 

requirements, and improvements to the 

reporting forms based on EPA’s 

experience implementing the grant 

program. Specifically, subtitle C grant 

recipients are now subject to the 

reporting and recordkeeping 

requirements previously established for 

subtitle A grant recipients. By using the 

same form to report information on 

grant activities, EPA is adopting a 

streamlined approach that avoids 

potential confusion among grant 

recipients and allows the Agency to 

collect and report program information 

consistently across all brownfields 

grants. EPA is also modifying the 

reporting form to simplify and clarify 

the reporting requirements, which will 

improve the accuracy of information 

reported and minimize the burden to 

grant recipients. 

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. 

The EPA would like to solicit 

comments to: 

(i) Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the Agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; 

(ii) Evaluate the accuracy of the 

Agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; 

(iii) Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and 

(iv) Minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on those who 

are to respond, including through the 

use of appropriate automated electronic, 

mechanical, or other technological 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology, e.g., permitting 

electronic submission of responses. 

Burden Statement: The annual 

reporting and record keeping burden for 

this collection of information is 

estimated to average 5 hours per 

response for job training grant 

recipients. The annual reporting and 

record keeping burden for this 

collection of information is estimated to 

average 1.25 hours per response for 

subtitle A assessment, cleanup, and 

revolving loan fund grant recipients and 

subtitle C grant recipients. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

294. 

Frequency of Response: Bi-annual for 

subtitle C grant recipients; quarterly for 

subtitle A grant recipients. 

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 

8,683. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost: 

$260,648 

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. 

Dated: September 13, 2005. 

Linda Garczynski, 

Director, Office of Brownfields Cleanup and 

Redevelopment, Office of Solid Waste and 

Emergency Response. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–7984–2] 

Science Advisory Board Staff Office; 

Scientific and Technological 

Achievement Awards Review Panel 

(FY2006–FY2009) Request for 

Nominations 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The EPA Science Advisory 

Board (SAB) Staff Office is requesting 

nominations for experts to serve on a 

SAB Scientific and Technological 

Achievement Awards (STAA) Review 

Panel (FY2006–FY2009). This Panel 

reviews peer-reviewed publications 

from EPA scientists and makes 

recommendations for awards. 

DATES: Nominations should be 

submitted by November 7, 2005 per 

instructions below. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any 

member of the public wishing further 

information regarding this Notice and 

Request for Nominations may contact 

Ms. Vivian Turner, Designated Federal 

Officer (DFO), SAB Staff Office, by 

telephone/voice mail at (202) 343–9697; 

by fax at (202) 233–0643 or via e-mail 

at turner.vivian@epa.gov. General 

information concerning the EPA Science 

Advisory Board can be found at the EPA 

SAB Web site at: http://www.epa.gov/ 

sab. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has 

established the STAA to honor and 

recognize EPA employees who have 

made outstanding contributions to 

science and technology through 

publication in peer-reviewed journals. 

EPA’s Office of Research and 

Development (ORD) has requested the 

SAB to review the nominated scientific 

publications. Accordingly, the SAB Staff 

Office, under the auspices of the SAB, 

is forming a new panel to review the 

nominated publications. The SAB is 

chartered under the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (FACA), as amended (5 

U.S.C. App.). The Panel will comply 

with the provisions of FACA and SAB 

procedural policies, including the SAB 

process for panel formation described in 

the Overview of the Panel Formation 

Process at the Environmental Protection 

Agency Science Advisory Board, which 

can found on the SAB Web site at: 

http://www.epa.gov/sab/pdf/ 

ecm02003.pdf. The Panel will hold a 

closed meeting to develop award 

recommendations.