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] 

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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 

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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 companies that manufacture, 

process, import, use, distribute or 

dispose of chemicals. 

Frequency of Collection: On occasion. 

Estimated No. of Respondents: 396. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden on 

Respondents: 203,014 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Costs:

$8,664,319. 

Changes in Burden Estimates: This 

request reflects a decrease of 979,560 

hours (from 1,182,574 hours to 203,014 

hours) in the total estimated respondent 

burden from that currently in the OMB 

inventory. This decrease is due to a reestimation of the numbers of test rules 

and enforceable consent agreements that 

the Agency will issue, and a reestimation of the expected level of 

testing remaining to be done under the 

HPV Challenge Program. In addition, 

the burden related to an initiative that 

was previously included, has been 

transferred to another ICR. The change 

in burden represents an adjustment.

Dated: January 27, 2005. 

Oscar Morales, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division.

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EXPORT-IMPORT BANK

[Public Notice 72] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Submission for OMB 

Review; Comment Request

AGENCY: Export-Import Bank of the U.S.

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The Export-Import Bank, as a 

part of its continuing effort to reduce 

paperwork and respondent burden, 

invites the general public and other 

Federal Agencies to comment on the 

proposed information collection as 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice is soliciting comments from the 

public concerning the proposed 

collection of information to (1) evaluate 

whether the proposed collection is 

necessary for the paper performance of 

the functions of the agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; (2) evaluate the 

accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the 

burden of the proposed collection of 

information; (3) enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and minimize the burden 

of collection of information on those 

who are to respond, including through 

the use of appropriate automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology, e.g., permitting 

electronic submission of responses.

DATES: Written comments should be 

received on or before March 7, 2005 to 

be assured of consideration.

ADDRESSES: Direct all comments to 

David Rostker, Officer of Management 

and Budget, Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs, NEOB, Room 10202, 

Washington, DC 20503 (202) 395–3897. 

Title and Form Number: ExportImport Bank of the United States LongTerm Preliminary Commitment and 

Final Commitment Application, EIB 95–

10. 

OMB Number: 3048–0013. 

Type of Review: Revision and 

extension of a currently approved 

collection. 

Need and Use: The information 

requested enables the applicant to 

provide Ex-Im Bank with the 

information necessary to determine 

eligibility for the loan and guarantee 

programs. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit. 

Respondents: Entities involved in the 

provision of financing or arranging of 

financing for foreign buyers of U.S. 

exports. 

Estimated Annual Respondents: 70. 

Estimated Time per Respondent: 1.5 

hours. 

Estimated Annual Burden: 105 hours. 

Frequency of Response: When 

applying for a long-term preliminary or 

final commitment.

Dated: January 31, 2005. 

Solomon Bush, 

Agency Clearance Officer.

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