Document ID: EPA-HQ-OPP-2019-0644-0022
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Application for New and Amended Pesticide Registration
Posted Date: 2020-09-29T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 189 (Tuesday, September 29, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60992-60993]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-21524]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OPP-2019-0644; FRL-10010-16-OMS]

Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; Application for New and Amended Pesticide 
Registration (Renewal)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an 
information collection request (ICR), Application for New and Amended 
Pesticide Registration (EPA ICR Number 0277.20, OMB Control Number 
2070-0060) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and 
approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. This is a 
proposed extension of the ICR, which is currently approved through 
September 30, 2020. Public comments were previously requested via the 
Federal Register on February 6, 2020 during a 60-day comment period. 
This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments. A 
fuller description of the ICR is given below, including its estimated 
burden and cost to the public. 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.

DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before October 29, 
2020.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to EPA, referencing Docket ID No. EPA-
HQ-OPP-2019-0644, online using www.regulations.gov (our preferred 
method), or by mail to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental Protection 
Agency, Mail Code 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 
20460. EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included in 
the public docket without change including any personal information 
provided, unless the comment includes profanity, threats, information 
claimed to be Confidential Business Information (CBI), or other 
information whose disclosure is restricted by statute.
    Submit written comments and recommendations to OMB for the proposed 
information collection within 30 days of publication of this notice to 
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular information 
collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--Open for 
Public

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Comments'' or by using the search function.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Callie Koller, Field and External 
Affairs Division, Office of Pesticide Programs, 7650P, Environmental 
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460; 
telephone number: (703) 347-8248; email address: koller.callie@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supporting documents, which explain in 
detail the information that the EPA will be collecting, are available 
in the public docket for this ICR. The docket can be viewed online at 
www.regulations.gov or in person at the EPA Docket Center, WJC West, 
Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC. The telephone 
number for the Docket Center is 202-566-1744. For additional 
information about EPA's public docket, visit http://www.epa.gov/dockets.
    Abstract: This information collection request (ICR) is designed to 
provide the EPA with the necessary information to evaluate an 
application for the registration of a pesticide product, as required 
under section 3 of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide 
Act (FIFRA) and section 408 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act 
(FFDCA). FIFRA provides EPA with the authority to regulate the 
distribution, sale and use of pesticides in the United States to ensure 
that they will not pose unreasonable adverse effects to human health 
and the environment. Pesticides that meet this test receive a license 
or ``registration.''
    Form Numbers: 8570-1, 8570-4, 8570-27, 8570-34, 8570-35, 8570-36, 
8570-37.
    Respondents/affected entities: Pesticide and other agricultural 
chemical manufacturing engaged in activities related to the 
registration of a pesticide product.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Responses to the collection of 
information are mandatory under FIFRA Sec.  3 and FFDCA Sec.  408 as 
amended by FQPA.
    Estimated number of respondents: 1,808 (total).
    Frequency of response: On occasion.
    Total estimated burden: 1,562,517 hours (per year). Burden is 
defined at 5 CFR 1320.03(b).
    Total estimated cost: $120,563,052 (per year), which includes $0 
annualized capital or operation & maintenance costs.
    Changes in the estimates: The activities in this ICR increase net 
respondent burden by 37,624 hours annually over the levels in the 
currently approved collection. While burden per response levels remain 
unchanged, the number of responses expected in certain categories has 
shifted as a result of using an updated data set (Section 3 
registration actions annually, on average, during the years 2015-2017) 
to predict future registration application levels. Additionally, in 
this iteration of the ICR, the Agency calculates the expected annual 
application burden of three proposed programs that are anticipated to 
come online in the next three years.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2020-21524 Filed 9-28-20; 8:45 am]
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