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first time. FIFRA section 4 directs EPA 

to use FIFRA section 3(c)(2)(B) authority 

to obtain the required data. While most 

Reregistration Eligibility Decisions are 

expected to be completed by 2008, the 

Agency may still need to issue DCIs 

after FY 2008 to close out the program. 

(2) Registration review program. 

Section 3(g) of FIFRA contains 

provisions to help achieve the goal of 

reviewing each pesticide every 15 years 

to assure that the pesticide continues to 

pose no risk of unreasonable adverse 

effects on human health or the 

environment. FIFRA section 3(g) 

instructs EPA to use the FIFRA section 

3(c)(2)(B) authority to obtain the 

required data. 

(3) Special review program. Though 

rare, EPA may conduct a Special Review 

if EPA believes that a pesticide poses 

risks of unreasonable adverse effects on 

human health or the environment. 

Section 3(c)(2)(B) of FIFRA provides a 

means of obtaining any needed data. 

(4) Anticipated residue/percent crop 

treated information. Under section 408 

of FFDCA, before a pesticide may be 

used on food or feed crops, the Agency 

must establish a tolerance for the 

pesticide residues on that crop or 

established an exemption from the 

requirement to have a tolerance. Section 

408(b)(2)(E) and (F) of FFDCA authorize 

the use of anticipated or actual residue 

(ARs) data and percent crop treated 

(PCT) data to establish, modify, 

maintain, or revoke a tolerance for a 

pesticide. The FFDCA requires that if 

AR data are used, data must be reviewed 

five years after a tolerance is initially 

established. If PCT data are used, the 

FFDCA affords EPA the discretion to 

obtain additional data if any or all of 

several conditions are met. 

The Agency issues DCIs when it has 

determined that more information is 

necessary to make decision about 

pesticides pursuant to the mandates in 

FIFRA and FFDCA. Agency decisions 

requiring additional data are based on 

the data requirements set forth in 40 

CFR parts 150 through 180, with the 

majority of the data requirements 

captured in 40 CFR part 158. 

Burden Statement: The annual public 

reporting and recordkeeping burden for 

this collection of information is 

estimated to range form 59 to 13,636 

hours per response, depending on the 

review program and type of DCI issued. 

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 ICR 

include pesticide registrants, which may 

be identified by the North American 

Industrial Classification System 

(NAICS) code 32532, pesticide and 

other agricultural chemical 

manufacturing. 

Frequency of Collection: On Occasion. 

Estimated No. of Potential 

Respondents: 1,643. 

Estimated No. of Total Annual 

Responses: 184. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden on 

Respondents: 262,301 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Costs: 

$12,506,726. 

Changes in the Estimates: The total 

estimated burden for this consolidated 

renewal ICR is 262,301 hours, which 

reflects a net decrease of 106,030 hours 

per year for this consolidated renewal 

ICR over the combined burden estimates 

for the currently approved ICRs. The 

primary cause of this reduction is the 

fact that EPA’s Reregistration program is 

ending and that the Agency thus expects 

to issue fewer reregistration DCIs. The 

decreased burden associated with the 

reduction in the number of 

reregistration DCIs that will be issued is 

somewhat offset by an expected burden 

increase related to increase in the 

number of registration review DCIs that 

will be issued. These changes are 

adjustments. The Agency is also 

including a new category of DCIs for 

enforcement and unanticipated 

incidents. Although EPA expects that 

the issuance of this type of DCI will be 

rare, the related burdens represent a 

program change. The Supporting 

Statement includes detailed analyses of 

these revised estimates. 

Dated: September 15, 2008. 

Sara Hisel-McCoy, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division. 

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Clean Water Act; Contractor Access to 

Information Claimed as Confidential 

Business Information 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of intended transfer of 

information claimed as confidential 

business information to contractors and 

subcontractors. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) intends to transfer 

information claimed as confidential 

business information (CBI) collected 

from several industries, including 

health services, drinking water 

treatment, and airport deicing to Abt 

Associates and its subcontractors, to PG 

Environmental, LLC, and its 

subcontractors, and to Westat. Transfer 

of the information will allow the 

contractors and subcontractors to 

support EPA in the planning, 

development, review, and 

implementation of effluent limitation 

guidelines and standards under the 

Clean Water Act (CWA). The 

information being transferred was or 

will be collected, in part, under the 

authority of section 308 of the CWA. 

Interested persons may submit 

comments on this intended transfer of 

information to the address noted below. 

DATES: Comments on the transfer of data 

are due October 1, 2008. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be sent to 

Mr. M. Ahmar Siddiqui, Document 

Control Officer, Engineering and 

Analysis Division (4303T), Room 6231S 

EPA West, U.S. EPA, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

M. Ahmar Siddiqui, Document Control 

Officer, at (202) 566–1044, or via e-mail 

at siddiqui.ahmar@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has 

transferred CBI to various contractors 

and subcontractors over the history of 

the effluent guidelines program. EPA 

determined that this transfer was 

necessary to enable the contractors and 

subcontractors to perform their work in 

supporting EPA in planning, 

developing, reviewing, and 

implementing effluent guidelines and 

standards for certain industries. 

Today, pursuant to 40 CFR 

2.302(h)(2)(iii), incorporating by 

reference 40 CFR 2.301(h)(2)(iii), EPA is 

giving notice that it has entered into 

contracts with Abt Associates (Abt), 

contract number EP–C–07–023, located 

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Environmental, LLC (PG), contract 

number EP–C–07–029, located in 

Herndon, VA, and with Westat, contract 

numbers EP–D–07–109 and GS–23F– 

8144H, located in Rockville, MD. The 

purpose of these contracts is to secure 

economic, technical, and statistical 

analysis support for EPA in its 

development, review, implementation, 

and defense of effluent limitation 

guidelines and standards for, and 

studies of the environmental impacts 

and potential mitigation of effluent 

discharges for, a variety of industries, 

such as the drinking water treatment 

industry and the airport deicing 

industry. To obtain assistance in 

performing these contracts, Abt and PG 

have entered into contracts with their 

subcontractors. In particular, Abt has 

obtained the services of the following 

subcontractors: RTI International 

(located in Research Triangle Park, NC, 

subcontract number 21043); ICF 

Consulting (located in Fairfax, VA, 

subcontract number 21052); Great Lakes 

Environmental Center (located in 

Traverse City, MI, subcontract number 

21040); Horizon Systems Corporation 

(located in Herndon, VA, subcontract 

number 21050); Aqua Terra (located in 

Mountain View, CA, subcontract 

number 21049); ETI (located in 

Westford, MA, subcontract number 

21171); Stratus Consulting, Inc. (located 

in Washington, DC, subcontract number 

20657); Indtai Inc. (located in Falls 

Church, VA, subcontract number 

21046); and independent consultants 

Frank Arnold, Brynhildur Davidsdottir, 

Lori Snyder Bennear, Robert Johnston, 

Tim Bondelid, and Kurt Stephenson. PG 

has obtained the services of the 

following subcontractors: Amendola 

Engineering, Inc. (located in Westlake, 

OH, subcontract number EAD/029–003); 

Tetra Tech, Inc. (located in Fairfax, VA, 

subcontract number EAD/029–002); and 

Eastern Research Group (located in 

Chantilly, VA, subcontract number 

EAD/029–001). 

All EPA contractor, subcontractor, 

and consultant personnel are bound by 

the requirements and sanctions 

contained in their contracts with EPA 

and in EPA’s confidentiality regulations 

found at 40 CFR Part 2, Subpart B. Abt, 

PG, and Westat will adhere to EPAapproved security plans which describe 

procedures to protect CBI. Abt, PG, and 

Westat will apply the procedures in 

these plans to CBI previously gathered 

by EPA and to CBI that may be gathered 

in the future for the airport deicing 

industry, the drinking water treatment 

industry, and other industries. The 

security plans specify that contractor 

personnel are required to sign nondisclosure agreements and are briefed 

on appropriate security procedures 

before they are permitted access to CBI. 

No person is automatically granted 

access to CBI: a need to know must 

exist. 

The information that will be 

transferred to Abt, PG, and Westat and 

their subcontractors consists, in part, of 

information previously collected by 

EPA to support the development, 

review, implementation, and defense of 

effluent limitations guidelines and 

standards under the CWA and for 

studies of the environmental impacts of 

and potential mitigation of effluent 

discharges from the airport deicing 

point source category, the drinking 

water treatment industry, the health 

services industry, and other industries. 

The information that will be transferred 

consists of material claimed as trade 

secrets, intellectual property, 

commercial, financial, and other 

information. It includes information 

about operations, processes, products, 

and company finances but does not 

include information which is inherently 

public, such as effluent discharge data. 

EPA also intends to transfer to Abt, 

PG, and Westat all information 

described in this notice, of the type 

described above (including CBI) that 

may be collected in the future under the 

authority of section 308 of the CWA or 

voluntarily submitted (e.g., in comments 

in response to a Federal Register 

notice), as is necessary to enable Abt, 

PG, and Westat to carry out the work 

required by their contracts to support 

EPA. 

Dated: September 16, 2008. 

Ephraim S. King, 

Director, Office of Science and Technology. 

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Science Advisory Board Staff Office 

Clean Air Scientific Advisory 

Committee (CASAC); Notification of a 

Public Advisory Committee 

Teleconference of the CASAC Oxides 

of Nitrogen Primary NAAQS Review 

Panel 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) Science Advisory Board 

(SAB) Staff Office announces a public 

teleconference of the Clean Air 

Scientific Advisory Committee’s 

(CASAC) Oxides of Nitrogen Primary 

NAAQS Review Panel (Panel) to 

conduct a peer review of the draft 

Exposure and Health Risk 

Characterization chapter for EPA’s Risk 

and Exposure Assessment to Support 

the Review of the NO2 Primary National 

Ambient Air Quality Standard: Second 

Draft. 

DATES: The teleconference will be held 

on October 22, 2008 from 11 a.m. to 1 

p.m. (Eastern Daylight Time). 

ADDRESSES: The public teleconference 

will be conducted by telephone only. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Members of the public who wish to 

obtain the call-in number and access 

code to participate in the teleconference 

may contact Dr. Angela Nugent, 

Designated Federal Officer (DFO), EPA 

Science Advisory Board (1400F), U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20460; via telephone/ 

voice mail (202) 343–9981; fax (202) 

233–0643; or e-mail at 

nugent.angela@epa.gov. General 

information concerning the CASAC and 

the CASAC documents cited below can 

be found on the EPA Web site at 

http://www.epa.gov/casac. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background: The Clean Air Scientific 

Advisory Committee (CASAC) was 

established under section 109(d)(2) of 

the Clean Air Act (CAA or Act) (42 

U.S.C. 7409) as an independent 

scientific advisory committee. CASAC 

provides advice, information and 

recommendations on the scientific and 

technical aspects of air quality criteria 

and national ambient air quality 

standards (NAAQS) under sections 108 

and 109 of the Act. The CASAC is a 

Federal advisory committee 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 all appropriate 

SAB Staff Office procedural policies. 

Section 109(d)(1) of the CAA requires 

that the Agency periodically review and 

revise, as appropriate, the air quality 

criteria and the NAAQS for the six 

‘‘criteria’’ air pollutants, including 

oxides of nitrogen (NOX). EPA is in the 

process of reviewing the primary 

NAAQS for nitrogen dioxide (NO2), an 

indicator for NOX. Primary standards set 

limits to protect public health, 

including the health of ‘‘sensitive’’ 

populations such as asthmatics, 

children, and the elderly. 

As part of its scientific advice to 

support EPA’s review of the primary 

NAAQS for nitrogen dioxide (NO2), 

CASAC met on September 9–10, 2008 to 


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