70824 Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 225 / Wednesday, November 23, 2005 / Notices 

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: Toxic Chemical Release 

Reporting, Alternate Threshold for Low 

Annual Reportable Amounts (Form A) 

(Renewal) 

Abstract: The Emergency Planning 

and Community Right-to-Know Act 

(EPCRA) section 313 requires certain 

facilities that manufacture, process, or 

otherwise use certain toxic chemicals in 

excess of specified threshold quantities 

to report their environmental releases of 

such chemicals annually. Each such 

facility must file a separate report for 

each such chemical. 

In accordance with the authority 

provided by EPCRA, EPA has 

established an alternate reporting 

threshold for those facilities with low 

amounts of a listed toxic chemical in 

wastes. A facility that otherwise meets 

the current reporting thresholds, but 

estimates that the total amount of the 

chemical that is released, disposed of, 

treated, recycled, or combusted for 

energy recovery does not exceed 500 

pounds per year, and that the chemical 

was manufactured, processed, or 

otherwise used in an amount not 

exceeding 1 million pounds during the 

reporting year, can take advantage of 

reporting under the alternate threshold 

option for that chemical for that 

reporting year. 

Each qualifying facility that chooses 

to apply the alternate threshold may file 

the Form A Certification Statement 

(EPA Form 9350–2) in lieu of a 

complete TRI reporting Form R (EPA 

Form 9350–1). In submitting the Form A 

Certification Statement, the facility 

certifies that the sum of the amount of 

EPCRA section 313 chemical released, 

disposed of, treated, recycled, or 

combusted for energy recovery does not 

exceed 500 pounds for the reporting 

year, and that the chemical was 

manufactured, processed, or otherwise 

used in an amount not exceeding 1 

million pounds during the reporting 

year. Use of the Form A Certification 

Statement represents a substantial 

savings to respondents, both in burden 

hours and in labor costs. Form A was 

recently modified by certain changes 

that were promulgated in the TRI 

Reporting Forms Modification Rule (70 

FR 39931). These changes eliminated 

certain fields from the Form A. 

The Form A Certification Statement 

provides communities with information 

that the chemical is being 

manufactured, processed, or otherwise 

used at facilities. Additionally, the Form 

A Certification Statement provides 

compliance monitoring and 

enforcement programs and other 

interested parties with a means to track 

chemical management activities and 

verify overall compliance with the rule. 

Responses to this collection of 

information are mandatory (see 40 CFR 

part 372) and facilities subject to 

reporting must submit either a Form A 

Certification Statement or a Form R. 

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 83.6 hours per first 

year response and 20.5 hours per 

subsequent year 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: 

Owners or operators of certain facilities 

that manufacture process, or otherwise 

use certain specified toxic chemicals 

and chemical categories are required to 

report annually on the environmental 

releases, transfers, and waste 

management activities for such 

chemicals. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

4920. 

Frequency of Response: Annual. 

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 

259,192 burden hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost: 

$11,919,489 in labor cost. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is a 

decrease of 22,847 hours in the total 

estimated burden currently identified in 

the OMB Inventory of Approved ICR 

Burdens. This decrease is due to 

adjustments to estimates in the number 

of responses (from 5,000 responses to 

4,920 responses) and to first and 

subsequent year form completion 

burden reduction due to the TRI 

Reporting Forms Modification Rule 

(first year form completion fell from 2.1 

hours to 1.6 hours and subsequent year 

form completion fell from 1.4 hours to 

1.3 hours). 

Dated: November 15, 2005. 

Joseph A. Sierra, 

Acting Director, Collection Strategies 

Division. 

[FR Doc. 05–23220 Filed 11–22–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–8001–2] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities OMB Responses 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This document announces the 

Office of Management and Budget’s 

(OMB) responses to Agency Clearance 

requests, in compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

3501 et Seq.). 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. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Susan Auby (202) 566–1672, or e-mail at 

auby.susan@epa.gov and please refer to 

the appropriate EPA Information 

Collection Request (ICR) Number. 

Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 225 / Wednesday, November 23, 2005 / Notices 70825 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

OMB Responses to Agency Clearance 

Requests 

OMB Approvals 

EPA ICR No. 1057.10; NSPS for 

Sulfuric Acid Plants (Renewal); in 40 

CFR part 60, subpart H; was approved 

October 19, 2005; OMB Number 2060–

0041; expires October 31, 2008. 

EPA ICR No. 2181.01; Vehicle Service 

Information Web Site Audit; was 

approved October 19, 2005; OMB 

Number 2060–0574; expires October 31, 

2008. 

EPA ICR No. 1658.04; Control 

Technology Determinations for 

Constructed or Reconstructed Major 

Sources of Hazardous Air Pollutants 

(Renewal); in 40 CFR part 63, subpart B; 

was approved October 20, 2005; OMB 

Number 2060–0373; expires October 31, 

2008. 

EPA ICR No. 0370.19; Underground 

Injection Control Program (Renewal); in 

40 CFR part 144–40 CFR part 148; was 

approved October 25, 2005; OMB 

Control Number 2040–0042; expires 

April 30, 2007. 

EPA ICR No. 2015.02; Certification in 

Lieu of Chloroform Minimum 

Monitoring Requirements for Direct and 

Indirect Discharging Mills in the 

Bleached Papergrade Kraft and Soda 

Subcategory of the Pulp, Paper and 

Paperboard Point Source Category 

(Renewal); in 40 CFR 430.02(f); was 

approved October 25, 2005; OMB 

Number 2040–0242; expires October 31, 

2008. 

EPA ICR No. 2097.02; The National 

Primary Drinking Water Regulations; 

Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water 

Treatment Rule (Final Rule); in 40 CFR 

142.14–40 CFR 142.16, 40 CFR 131.33; 

was approved October 26, 2005; OMB 

Number 2040–0266; expires October 31, 

2008. 

EPA ICR No. 0783.47; Motor Vehicle 

Emission and Fuel Economy 

Compliance: Light Duty Vehicles, Light 

Duty Trucks, and Highway Motorcycles 

(Renewal); in 40 CFR part 85, subparts 

R, S, T, V, W, and Y, 40 CFR part 86, 

subparts B, E, F, G, H, J, K, L, O, P, R, 

and S, 40 CFR part 600, subparts A, B, 

D, and F; was approved November 1, 

2005; OMB Number 2060–0104; expires 

November 30, 2008. 

EPA ICR No. 2185.01; State Review 

Framework; in 40 CFR 70.4(j)(1), 40 CFR 

70.10(c)(1)(iii), 40 CFR 271.17(a), 40 

CFR 123.41, 40 CFR 123.43; was 

approved November 1, 2005; OMB 

Number 2020–0031; expires November 

30, 2008. 

EPA ICR No. 1069.08; NSPS for 

Primary and Secondary Emissions from 

Basic Oxygen Furnaces (Renewal); in 40 

CFR part 60, subparts N and Na; was 

approved November 1, 2005; OMB 

Number 2060–0029; expires November 

30, 2008. 

EPA ICR No. 1996.03; National 

Survey on Environmental Management 

of Asthma; was approved November 1, 

2005; OMB Number 2060–0490; expires 

November 30, 2008. 

EPA ICR No. 1983.04; NESHAP for 

Carbon Black, Ethylene, Cyanide, and 

Spandex (Renewal); in 40 CFR part 63, 

subpart YY; was approved November 2, 

2005; OMB Number 2060–0489; expires 

November 30, 2008. 

EPA ICR No. 0988.09; Water Quality 

Standards Regulation (Renewal); in 40 

CFR 131.6–131.8, 131.20–131.22, 132.1–

132.5, part 132 Appendices A–E, and 

Procedures 1 and 2 of Appendix F; was 

approved November 8, 2005; OMB 

Number 2040–0049; expires November 

30, 2008. 

EPA ICR No. 1829.03; Best 

Management Practices (BMP) for the 

Bleached Papergrade Kraft and Soda 

Subcategory and the Papergrade Kraft 

Sulfite Subcategory of the Pulp, Paper 

and Paperboard Point Source Category 

(Renewal); in 40 CFR 430.03 and 40 CFR 

122.44(k); was approved November 8, 

2005; OMB Number 2040–0207; expires 

November 30, 2008. 

EPA ICR No. 2048.02; BEACH Act 

Grant Program (Renewal); was approved 

November 8, 2005; OMB Number 2040–

0244; expires on November 30, 2008. 

EPA ICR No. 1877.03; Milestones 

Plans for the Bleached Papergrade Kraft 

and Soda Subcategory of the Pulp, Paper 

and Paperboard Manufacturing Category 

(Renewal); in 40 CFR 430.24(b)(c); was 

approved November 8, 2005; OMB 

Number 2040–0202; expires November 

30, 2008. 

EPA ICR No. 0277.14; Application for 

New and Amended Pesticide 

Registration; in 40 CFR part 152, 40 CFR 

part 156, and 40 CFR part 158; was 

approved November 8, 2005; OMB 

Number 2070–0060; expires November 

30, 2008. 

EPA ICR No. 2053.01; Best 

Workplaces for Commuters Program; 

was approved November 9, 2005; OMB 

Number 2060–0571; expires November 

30, 2008. 

EPA ICR No. 0619.10; Highway 

Vehicle Activity and Emissions 

(Renewal); was approved November 9, 

2005; OMB Number 2060–0078; expires 

November 30, 2008. 

EPA ICR No. 1285.06; 

Nonconformance Penalties for HeavyDuty Engines and Heavy-Duty Vehicles, 

Including Light-Duty Trucks (40 CFR 

part 86, subpart L) (Renewal); in 40 CFR 

part 86, subpart L; was approved 

November 9, 2005; OMB Number 2060–

0132; expires November 30, 2008. 

Comment Filed 

EPA ICR No. 2086.01; Dioxin and 

Dioxin-Like Compounds; Toxic 

Equivalency Reporting; Community 

Right-to-Know Toxic Chemical Release 

Reporting (Proposed Rule); OMB filed 

comments October 25, 2005. 

EPA ICR No. 2192.01; Revisions to the 

Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring 

Regulation (UCMR) for Public Water 

Systems (Proposed Rule); OMB filed 

comments November 8, 2005. 

Dated: November 14, 2005. 

Oscar Morales, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division. 

[FR Doc. 05–23222 Filed 11–22–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[RCRA–2005–0010; FRL–8000–9] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to OMB for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; Reporting and 

Recordkeeping Requirements Under 

EPA’s WasteWise Program (Renewal), 

EPA ICR Number 1698.06, OMB 

Control Number 2050–0139 

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 November 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 December 23, 

2005. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing docket ID number RCRA–

2005–0010, to (1) EPA online using 

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

to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental 

Protection Agency, Mail Code 5305T, 

1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20460, and (2) OMB at: