5648 Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 22 / Thursday, February 3, 2005 / Notices 

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 

Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 22 / Thursday, February 3, 2005 / Notices 5649

that the following 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 January 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 cost.

DATES: Additional comments may be 

submitted on or before March 7, 2005.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing docket ID Number OPPT–

2004–0095, to (1) EPA online using 

EDOCKET (our preferred method), by email to oppt.ncic@epa.gov or by mail to: 

Document Control Office (DCO), Office 

of Pollution Prevention and Toxics 

(OPPT), Environmental Protection 

Agency, Mailcode: 7407T, 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:

Barbara Cunningham, Acting Director, 

Environmental Assistance Division, 

Office of Pollution Prevention and 

Toxics, Environmental Protection 

Agency, Mailcode: 7408, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460; telephone number: 202–554–

1404; e-mail address: TSCAHotline@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 June 8, 2004, EPA sought comments 

on this renewal ICR (69 FR 31993) 

pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA 

received one comment during the 

comment period, which is addressed in 

the Supporting Statement of the ICR. 

EPA has established a public docket 

for this ICR under Docket ID No. OPPT–

2004–0095, which is available for public 

viewing at the OPPT 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 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 Pollution 

Prevention and Toxics Docket is 202–

566–0280. 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: TSCA Sec. 8(a) Preliminary 

Assessment Information Rule (PAIR). 

Abstract: Section 8(a) of the Toxic 

Substances Control Act (TSCA) 

authorizes EPA to promulgate rules 

under which manufacturers, importers 

and processors of chemical substances 

and mixtures must maintain records and 

submit reports to EPA. EPA has 

promulgated the Preliminary 

Assessment Information Rule (PAIR) 

under TSCA section 8(a). EPA uses 

PAIR to collect information to identify, 

assess and manage human health and 

environmental risks from chemical 

substances, mixtures and categories. 

PAIR requires chemical manufacturers 

and importers to complete a 

standardized reporting form to help 

evaluate the potential for adverse 

human health and environmental effects 

caused by the manufacture or 

importation of identified chemical 

substances, mixtures or categories. 

Chemicals identified by EPA or any 

other federal agency, for which a 

justifiable information need for 

production, use or exposure-related data 

can be satisfied by the use of the PAIR 

are proper subjects for TSCA section 

8(a) PAIR rulemaking. In most instances 

the information that EPA receives from 

a PAIR report is sufficient to satisfy the 

information need in question. 

Responses to the collection of 

information are mandatory (see 40 CFR 

part 712). Respondents may claim all or 

part of a notice as CBI. EPA will 

disclose information that is covered by 

a CBI claim only to the extent permitted 

by, and in accordance with, the 

procedures in 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 title 40 

of the CFR, after appearing in the 

Federal Register, are listed in 40 CFR 

part 9 and included on the related 

collection instrument or form, if 

applicable. 

Burden Statement: The annual public 

reporting and recordkeeping burden for 

this collection of information is 

estimated to average about 30 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:

Manufacturers or importers of chemical 

substances, mixtures or categories. 

Frequency of Collection: On occasion. 

Estimated No. of Respondents: 11. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden on 

Respondents: 580 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Costs:

$48,972. 

Changes in Burden Estimates: This 

request reflects a decrease of 2,775 

hours (from 3,355 hours to 580 hours) 

in the total estimated respondent 

burden from that currently in the OMB 

inventory. This decrease is attributable 

to a reduction in the assumed number 

of PAIR reports filed annually, and in a 

reduction in the annual average 

numbers of respondents (reporting 

sites). The change in burden represents 

an adjustment.

5650 Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 22 / Thursday, February 3, 2005 / Notices 

Dated: January 27, 2005. 

Oscar Morales, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division.

[FR Doc. 05–2070 Filed 2–2–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[OPPT–2004–0098; FRL–7869–1] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to OMB for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; TSCA Section 4 Test Rules, 

Consent Orders, Test Rule 

Exemptions, and Voluntary Data 

Submission; EPA ICR No. 1139.07, 

OMB No. 2070–0033

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 the following 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 January 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 cost.

DATES: Additional comments may be 

submitted on or before March 7, 2005.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing docket ID Number OPPT–

2004–0098, to (1) EPA online using 

EDOCKET (our preferred method), by email to oppt.ncic@epa.gov or by mail to: 

Document Control Office (DCO), Office 

of Pollution Prevention and Toxics 

(OPPT), Environmental Protection 

Agency, Mail Code: 7407T, 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:

Barbara Cunningham, Acting Director, 

Environmental Assistance Division, 

Office of Pollution Prevention and 

Toxics, Environmental Protection 

Agency, Mailcode: 7408, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460; telephone number: 202–554–

1404; e-mail address: TSCAHotline@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 June 30, 2004, EPA sought 

comments on this renewal ICR (69 FR 

39464). EPA sought comments on this 

ICR pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA 

received two comments during the 

comment period, which are addressed 

in the Supporting Statement of the ICR. 

EPA has established a public docket 

for this ICR under Docket ID No. OPPT–

2004–0098, which is available for public 

viewing at the OPPT 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 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 Pollution 

Prevention and Toxics Docket is 202–

566–0280. 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: TSCA Section 4 Test Rules, 

Consent Orders, Test Rule Exemptions, 

and Voluntary Data Submission. 

Abstract: Section 4 of the Toxic 

Substances Control Act (TSCA) is 

designed to assure that chemicals that 

may pose serious risks to human health 

or the environment undergo testing by 

manufacturers or processors, and that 

the results of such testing are made 

available to EPA. EPA uses the 

information collected under the 

authority of TSCA section 4 activity to 

assess risks associated with the 

manufacture, processing, distribution, 

use or disposal of a chemical, and to 

support any necessary regulatory action 

with respect to that chemical. 

EPA must assure that appropriate 

tests are performed on a chemical if it 

decides: (1) That a chemical being 

considered under TSCA section 4(a) 

may pose an ‘‘unreasonable risk’’ or is 

produced in ‘‘substantial’’ quantities 

that may result in substantial or 

significant human exposure or 

substantial environmental release of the 

chemical; (2) that additional data are 

needed to determine or predict the 

impacts of the chemical’s manufacture, 

processing, distribution, use or disposal; 

and (3) that testing is needed to develop 

such data. Rules and consent orders 

under TSCA section 4 require that one 

manufacturer or processor of a subject 

chemical perform the specified testing 

and report the results of that testing to 

EPA. TSCA section 4 also allows a 

manufacturer or processor of a subject 

chemical to apply for an exemption 

from the testing requirement if that 

testing will be or has been performed by 

another party. 

Responses to the collection of 

information are mandatory (see 40 CFR 

part 790). Respondents may claim all or 

part of a notice as CBI. EPA will 

disclose information that is covered by 

a CBI claim only to the extent permitted 

by, and in accordance with, the 

procedures in 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 title 40 

of the CFR, after appearing in the 

Federal Register, are listed in 40 CFR 

part 9 and included on the related 

collection instrument or form, if 

applicable. 

Burden Statement: The annual public 

reporting and recordkeeping burden for 

this collection of information is 

estimated to average 142 hour per 

response. Burden means the total time, 

effort or financial resources expended 

by persons to generate, maintain, retain