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progress reports. 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 49 CFR Chapter 15.

The EPA would like to solicit

comments on its ICR renewal.

Specifically, we would like comments

to help us 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

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 public

reporting and recordkeeping burden for

this collection of information is

estimated to average nine hours and 45

minutes per MOU response, four hours

and 45 minutes per Results Report

response, and eight hours and 30

minutes for additional information.

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:

Entities potentially affected by this

action are commercial businesses,

hospitals, educational institutions, and

multi-family housing units that

voluntarily join EPA’s WAVE Program.

Major respondents are hotels and

motels.

Estimated Number of Respondents:

55.

Frequency of Response: Annual.

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:

4,654 hours.

Estimated Total Annualized Cost

Burden: $269,295.00.

Dated: June 11, 1996.

Michael B. Cook,

Director Office of Wastewater Management.

[FR Doc. 96–15286 Filed 6–14–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

[OPPT–59353; FRL–5378–1]

Certain Chemicals; Approval of a Test

Marketing Exemption

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: This notice announces EPA’s

approval of an application for a test

marketing exemption (TME) under

section 5(h)(1) of the Toxic Substances

Control Act (TSCA) and 40 CFR 720.38.

EPA has designated this application as

TME–96–4. The test marketing

conditions are described below.

DATES: This notice becomes effective

June 7, 1996. Written comments will be

received until July 2, 1996.

ADDRESSES: Written comments,

identified by the docket number [OPPT–

59353] and the specific TME number

should be sent to: TSCA

nonconfidential center (NCIC), Office of

Pollution Prevention and Toxics,

Environmental Protection Agency, Rm.

NEB–607 (7407), 401 M St., SW.,

Washington, DC 20460, (202) 554–1404,

TDD (202) 554–0551.

Comments and data may be submitted

electronically by sending electronic

mail (e-mail) to: ncic@epamail.epa.gov.

Electronic comments must be submitted

as an ASCII file avoiding the use of

special characters and any form of

encryption. Comments and data will

also be accepted on disks in

WordPerfect in 5.1 file format or ASCII

file format. All comments and data in

electronic form must be identified

[OPPT–59353]. No Confidential

Business Information (CBI) should be

submitted through e-mail. Electronic

comments on this notice may be filed

online at many Federal Depository

Libraries. Additional information on

electronic submissions can be found

under ‘‘SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION’’.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Shirley D. Howard, New Chemicals

Branch, Chemical Control Division

(7405), Office of Pollution Prevention

and Toxics, Environmental Protection

Agency, Rm. E–447, 401 M St., SW.,

Washington, DC 20460, (202) 260–3780;

e-mail: Howard.sd@epamail.epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section

5(h)(1) of TSCA authorizes EPA to

exempt persons from premanufacture

notification (PMN) requirements and

permit them to manufacture or import

new chemical substances for test

marketing purposes if the Agency finds

that the manufacture, processing,

distribution in commerce, use and

disposal of the substances for test

marketing purposes will not present an

unreasonable risk of injury to human

health or the environment. EPA may

impose restrictions on test marketing

activities and may modify or revoke a

test marketing exemption upon receipt

of new information which casts

significant doubt on its finding that the

test marketing activity will not present

an unreasonable risk of injury.

EPA hereby approves TME–96–4. EPA

has determined that test marketing of

the new chemical substance described

below, under the conditions set out in

the TME application, and for the time

period and restrictions specified below,

will not present an unreasonable risk of

injury to human health or the

environment. Production volume, use,

and the number of customers must not

exceed that specified in the application.

All other conditions and restrictions

described in the application and in this

notice must be met.

A notice of receipt of this application

was not published in advance of

approval. Therefore, an opportunity to

submit comments is being offered at this

time. EPA may modify or revoke the test

marketing exemption if comments are

received which cast significant doubt on

its finding that the test marketing

activities will not present an

unreasonable risk of injury.

The following additional restrictions

apply to TME–96–4:

1. A bill of lading accompanying

each shipment must state that the use of

the substance is restricted to that

approved in the TME.

2. During manufacturing,

processing, and use of the substance at

any site controlled by the Applicant,

any person under the control of the

Applicant, including employees and

contractors, who may be dermally

exposed to the substance shall use:

a. Gloves determined by the

Applicant to be impervious to the

substance under the conditions of

exposure, including the duration of

exposure. The Applicant shall make this

determination either by testing the

gloves under the conditions of exposure
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or by evaluating the specifications

provided by the manufacturer of the

gloves. Testing or evaluation of

specifications shall include

consideration of permeability,

penetration, and potential chemical and

mechanical degradation by the PMN

substance and associated chemical

substances;

b. Clothing which covers any

other exposed areas of the arms, legs,

and torso; and

c. Chemical safety goggles or

equivalent eye protection.

3. The Applicant must affix a label

to each container of the substance or

formulations containing the substance.

The label shall include, at a minimum,

the following statement:

WARNING: Contact with skin may be

harmful. Similar chemicals have been found

to cause acute health effects, cancer,

mutagenicity, blood effects, and

developmental toxicity in laboratory animals.

To protect yourself, you must wear protective

gloves, clothing, and goggles.

4. The Applicant must obtain or

develop a Material Safety Data Sheet

(MSDS) for the TME substance. The

MSDS shall comply with 29 CFR

1910.1200(g).

5. The Applicant shall maintain the

following records until 5 years after the

date they are created, and shall make

them available for inspection or copying

in accordance with section 11 of TSCA:

a. Records of the quantity of the

TME substance produced and the date

of manufacture.

b. Records of dates of the

shipments to each customer and the

quantities supplied in each shipment.

c. Copies of the bill of lading that

accompanies each shipment of the

substance.

d. Copies of any determination

under paragraph 2.a. above that the

protective gloves used by the Applicant

are impervious to the substance.

e. Copies of the labels affixed to

containers of the substance or

formulations containing the substance.

f. Copies of the MSDS for the TME

substance.

T–96–4

Date of Receipt: April 18, 1996. The

extended comment period will close

(insert date 15 days after date of

publication in the Federal Register).

Applicant: Confidential.

Chemical: (G) Alkylated-nitrosatedBenzene.

Use: Pesticide Intermediate.

Production Volume: Confidential.

Number of Customers: Confidential.

Test Marketing Period: 12 months,

commencing on first day of commercial

manufacture.

Risk Assessment: EPA identified

concerns for acute toxicity,

methemoglobinemia, oncogenicity,

developmental toxicity, and

mutagenicity based on analogous

chemical substances. However, during

manufacturing, processing, and use,

exposure to workers will be prevented

by protective gloves, clothing, and

goggles. Therefore, the test market

activities will not present an

unreasonable risk of injury to human

health.

Although EPA expects the TME

substance to be toxic to aquatic

organisms, no releases of the TME

substance to surface waters are expected

because it will be completely consumed

in the reaction process and any

residuals will be recycled. Therefore,

the test market activities will not

present an unreasonable risk of injury to

the environment.

The Agency reserves the right to

rescind approval or modify the

conditions and restrictions of an

exemption should any new information

come to its attention which casts

significant doubt on its finding that the

test marketing activities will not present

an unreasonable risk of injury to health

or the environment.

A record has been established for this

notice under docket number [OPPT–

59353] (including comments and data

submitted electronically as described

above). A public version of this record,

including printed versions of electronic

comments, which does not include any

information claimed as CBI, is available

for inspection from 12 noon to 4 p.m.,

Monday through Friday, excluding legal

holidays. The public record is located in

the TSCA nonconfidential information

center (NCIC), Rm. NEB–607, 401 M St.,

SW., Washington, DC 20460.

The official record of this notice, as

well as the public version, as described

above will be kept in paper form.

Accordingly, EPA will transfer all

comments received electronically into

printed, paper form as they are received

and will place the paper copies in the

official record which will also include

all comments submitted directly in

writing. The official record is the paper

record maintained at the address in

‘‘ADDRESSES’’ at the beginning of this

document.

List of Subjects

Environmental protection, test

marketing exemptions.

Dated: June 7, 1996.

Paul J. Campanella,

Chief, New Chemicals Branch, Office of

Pollution Prevention and Toxics.

[FR Doc. 96–15284 Filed 6–14–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6560–50–F

FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE

CORPORATION

Sunshine Act Meeting

Pursuant to the provisions of the

‘‘Government in the Sunshine Act’’ (5

U.S.C. 552b), notice is hereby given that

at 10:05 a.m. on Tuesday, June 11, 1996,

the Board of Directors of the Federal

Deposit Insurance Corporation met in

closed session to consider the following

matters:

Matters relating to the Corporation’s

supervisory activities.

Matters relating to the probable failure of

an insured depository institution.

In calling the meeting, the Board

determined, on motion of Director

Joseph H. Neely (Appointive), seconded

by Director Jonathan L. Fiechter (Acting

Director, Office of Thrift Supervision),

concurred in by Ms. Julie Williams,

acting in the place and stead of Director

Eugene A. Ludwig (Comptroller of the

Currency), and Vice Chairman Andrew

C. Hove, Jr., that Corporation business

required its consideration of the matters

on less than seven days’ notice to the

public; that no earlier notice of the

meeting was practicable; that the public

interest did not require consideration of

the matters in a meeting open to public

observation; and that the matters could

be considered in a closed meeting by

authority of subsections (c)(4), (c)(6),

(c)(8), (c)(9)(B) of the ‘‘Government in

the Sunshine Act’’ (5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(4),

(c)(5), (c)(8), (c)(9)(A)(ii), and (c)(9)(B) of

the Government in the Sunshine Act’’ (5

U.S.C. 552b(c)(4), (c)(6), (c)(8),

(c)(9)(A)(ii), and (c)(9)(B).

The meeting was held in the Board

Room of the FDIC Building located at

550–17th Street, NW., Washington, DC.

Dated: June 12, 1996.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

Valerie J. Best,

Assistant Executive Secretary.

[FR Doc. 96–15387 Filed 6–13–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6714–01–M