67246 Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 249 / Friday, December 28, 2001 / Notices

excluding federal holidays. To review

docket materials, it is recommended

that the public make an appointment by

calling (703) 603–9230. The public may

copy a maximum of 100 pages from any

regulatory docket at no charge.

Additional copies are $0.15/page. This

notice and the supporting documents

that detail the ICR renewal are also

available.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For

general information, contact the RCRA

Hotline at 800 424–9346 or TDD 800

553–7672 (hearing impaired). In the

Washington, DC, metropolitan area, call

703 412–9810 or TDD 703 412–3323.

For more detailed information on

specific aspects of this rulemaking,

contact Tony Terrell, Office of Solid

Waste (5303W), U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460,

(703) 308–6496/8638,

terrell.tony@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Affected entities: Entities potentially

affected by this action are those which

are authorized to manage the federal

Hazardous waste program.

Title: Final Authorization for

Hazardous Waste Management

Programs, (OMB Control No. 2050–

0041, ICR No. 969.) expiring May 31,

2002.

Abstract: In order for a State to obtain

final authorization for a State hazardous

waste program or to revise its previously

authorized program, it must submit an

official application to the EPA Regional

office for approval. The purpose of the

application is to enable EPA to properly

determine whether the State’s program

meets the requirements of section 3006

of RCRA.

A State with an approved program

may voluntarily transfer program

responsibilities to EPA by notifying EPA

of the proposed transfer, as required by

section 271.23. Further, EPA may

withdraw a State’s authorized program

under section 271.23.

State program revision may be

necessary when the controlling Federal

or State statutory or regulatory authority

is modified or supplemented. In the

event that the State is revising its

program by adopting new Federal

requirements, the State shall prepare

and submit modified revisions of the

program description, Attorney General’s

statement, Memorandum of Agreement,

or such other documents as EPA

determines to be necessary. The State

shall inform EPA of any proposed

modifications to its basic statutory or

regulatory authority in accordance with

section 271.21. If a State is proposing to

transfer all or any part of any program

from the approved State agency to any

other agency, it must notify EPA in

accordance with section 271.21 and

submit revised organizational charts as

required under section 271.6, in

accordance with section 271.21. These

paperwork requirements are mandatory

under § 3006(a). EPA will use the

information submitted by the State in

order to determine whether the State’s

program meets the statutory and

regulatory requirements for

authorization. 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.

The EPA would like to solicit

comments 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

agency’s estimate 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 automatic 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 632 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; and transmit

or otherwise disclose the information.

Estimated Number of Respondents:

50.

Frequency of Response: 18.

Estimated Total Annual Burden

Hours: 11,376 hours.

Estimated Total Annualized Cost

Burden: $619,541.

Dated: December 17, 2001.

Elizabeth Cotsworth,

Director, Office of Solid Waste.

[FR Doc. 01–31941 Filed 12–27–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[OPP–34251; FRL–6818–5]

Technical Briefing on the Preliminary

Organophosphate Pesticide

Cumulative Risk Assessment

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: EPA is announcing a public

technical briefing on January 15, 2002,

to discuss the exposure methodologies

proposed for use in the

organophosphate (OP) cumulative risk

assessment for food, drinking water, and

residential exposures. The briefing will

provide the public with an explanation

in non-technical terms of the proposed

exposure methodologies. In addition,

the briefing will cover how the

computer software model calculates and

combines these exposure estimates. This

briefing follows the August 22, 2001,

briefing on the hazard portion of the

assessment, the October 3, 2001,

briefing on the water exposure

methodology, and the November 15,

2001, briefing on the food and

residential methodologies. This

technical briefing will complete the

background briefings on the proposed

OP cumulative risk assessment

methodology.

DATES: The technical briefing will be

held on Tuesday, January 15, 2002, from

9 a.m. to 5 p.m. On Wednesday, January

16, 2002, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., EPA and

the U.S. Department of Agriculture will

hold a public meeting of the CARAT

Workgroup on Cumulative Risk

Assessment/Public Participation

Process.

ADDRESSES: The technical briefing and

the CARAT Workgroup Meeting will be

held at the Hilton Alexandria Old

Town, 1767 King Street, Alexandria,

VA. The telephone number for the hotel

is (703) 837–0440. The hotel is located

across from the King Street Metro

Station.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: By

mail: Karen Angulo, Special Review and

Registration Division (7508C), Office of

Pesticide Programs, Environmental

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania

Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460;

telephone number: (703) 308–8004; email address: angulo.karen@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. General Information

A. Does this Action Apply to Me?

This action applies to the public in

general. As such, the Agency has not

attempted to specifically describe all the

entities potentially affected by this

action. The Agency believes that a wide

range of stakeholders will be interested

in technical briefings on

organophosphate pesticides, including

environmental, human health, and

agricultural advocates, the chemical

industry, pesticide users, and members

of the public interested in the use of

pesticides on food. If you have any

questions regarding the applicability of

this action to a particular entity, consult

the person listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT.

B. How Can I Get Additional

Information, Including Copies of this

Document and Other Related

Documents?

1. Electronically. You may obtain

electronic copies of this document, and

certain other related documents that

might be available electronically, from

the EPA Internet Home Page at http://

www.epa.gov/. To access this

document, on the Home Page select

‘‘Laws and Regulations,’’ ‘‘Regulations

and Proposed Rules,’’ and then look up

the entry for this document under the

‘‘Federal Register—Environmental

Documents.’’ You can also go directly to

the Federal Register listings at http://

www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/.

To access information about

organophosphate pesticides, you can

also go directly to the Home Page for the

Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) at

http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/op/. In

addition, information about the

cumulative process and the preliminary

organophosphate cumulative risk

assessment documents are found at

http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/

cumulative.

2. In person. The Agency has

established an official record under

docket control number OPP–34251. The

official record consists of the documents

specifically referenced in this action,

and other information related to this

action, including any information

claimed as Confidential Business

Information (CBI). This official record

includes the documents that are

physically located in the docket, as well

as the documents that are referenced in

those documents. The public version of

the official record does not include any

information claimed as CBI. The public

version of the official record, which

includes printed, paper versions of any

electronic comments submitted during

an applicable comment period is

available for inspection in the Public

Information and Records Integrity

Branch (PIRIB), Rm. 119, Crystal Mall

#2, 1921 Jefferson Davis Hwy.,

Arlington, VA, from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.,

Monday through Friday, excluding legal

holidays. The PIRIB telephone number

is (703) 305–5805.

II. How Can I Request to Participate in

this Meeting?

This meeting is open to the public.

Outside statements by observers are

welcome. Oral statements will be

limited to 3 to 5 minutes, and it is

preferred that only one person per

organization present the statement. Any

person who wishes to file a written

statement may do so immediately before

or after the meeting. These statements

will become part of the permanent

record and will be available for public

inspection at the address listed in Unit

I. of this document.

List of Subjects

Environmental protection,

Organophosphate pesticides.

Dated: December 19, 2001.

Lois A. Rossi,

Director, Special Review and Registration

Division, Office of Pesticide Programs.

[FR Doc. 01–31937 Filed 12–26–01; 11:01

am]

BILLING CODE 6560–50–S

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–7122–6 ]

EPA Science Advisory Board;

Notification of Public Advisory

Committee Meetings

Pursuant to the Federal Advisory

Committee Act, Public Law 92–463,

notice is hereby given that the

Environmental Engineering Committee

(EEC) of the US EPA Science Advisory

Board (SAB) will meet via public

teleconference on the dates and times

noted below. All times noted are Eastern

Time. All meetings are open to the

public, however, seating is limited and

available on a first come basis.

Important Notice: Documents that are

the subject of SAB reviews are normally

available from the originating EPA office

and are not available from the SAB

Office—information concerning

availability of documents from the

relevant Program Office (if any) is

included below. Subsequent

teleconference meetings of the EEC are

planned for March 13, 2002, May 1,

2002, July 3, 2002, September 4, 2002

and November 6, 2002. Information

concerning these meetings will appear

in future Federal Register notices.

1. Environmental Engineering

Committee (EEC)—January 30, 2002

The Environmental Engineering

Committee of the US EPA Science

Advisory Board (SAB), will conduct a

public teleconference meeting on

January 30, 2002 in Room 6450C

location, USEPA, Ariel Rios Building

North, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW,

Washington, DC 20004. The meeting

will begin at 12:00 pm and adjourn no

later than 2:00 pm. The meeting will be

coordinated through a conference call

connection in Room 6450C, USEPA,

Ariel Rios Building North, 1200

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington,

DC 20004. The public is encouraged to

attend the meeting in the conference

room noted above, however, the public

may also attend through a telephonic

link if lines are available. Additional

instructions about how to participate in

the conference call can be obtained by

calling Mary Winston (see contact

information below).

Purpose of the Meeting

The primary purpose of this meeting

will be to review for approval the

reports of the EEC’s Surface

Impoundments Study Subcommittee

and the Risk Reduction Options

Selection Subcommittee, if available. If

the reports are not available, the time

will be used to update the EEC on other

activities of the SAB and for planning

the committee’s FY2002 activities. The

Surface Impoundments Study

Subcommittee reviewed Industrial

Surface Impoundments in the United

States for the Office of Solid Waste as

announced in Federal Register notices

66 FR 30917–30920 June 8, 2001 and 66

FR 9671–49672 September 28, 2001. At

the request of the Committee, the Risk

Reduction Options Selection

Subcommittee has prepared an update

of the risk reduction options selection

methodology first proposed in the SAB’s

Toward Integrated Environmental

Decision-Making (EPA–SAB–EC–00–

011—Please see http://www.epa.gov/

sab/ecirp011.pdf).

Availability of Review Materials

The availability of Industrial Surface

Impoundments in the United States was