Document ID: EPA-HQ-OPP-2018-0266-0009
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Foreign Purchaser Acknowledgement Statement of Unregistered Pesticides
Posted Date: 2019-03-26T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 58 (Tuesday, March 26, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11296-11297]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-05709]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OPP-2018-0266; FRL-9987-28-OMS]

Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; Foreign Purchaser Acknowledgement Statement 
of Unregistered Pesticides (Renewal)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted the 
following information collection request (ICR) to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with 
the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA): Foreign Purchaser Acknowledgement 
Statement of Unregistered Pesticides and identified by EPA ICR No. 
0161.14 and OMB Control No. 2070-0027. This is a request to renew the 
approval of an existing ICR. The ICR, which is available in the docket 
along with other related materials, provides a detailed explanation of 
the collection activities and the burden estimate that is only briefly 
summarized in this document. EPA did not receive any comments in 
response to the previously provided public review opportunity issued in 
the Federal Register on July 25, 2018. With this submission, EPA is 
providing an additional 30 days for public review and comment.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before April 25, 2019.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by docket identification 
(ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2018-0266 and OMB Control No. 2070-0027, to: (1) 
EPA online using http://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; and (2) 
OMB via email to oira_submission@omb.eop.gov. Address comments to OMB 
Desk Officer for EPA.
    EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included in the 
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. Do not submit electronically any 
information you consider to be CBI or other information whose 
disclosure is restricted by statute.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Carolyn Siu, Field External Affairs 
Division (7506P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental 
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460-
0001; telephone number: (703) 543-9488; email address: 
siu.carolyn@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Docket: Supporting documents, including the ICR that explains in 
detail the information collection activities and the related burden and 
cost estimates that are summarized in this document, are available in 
the docket for this ICR. The docket can be viewed online at http://www.regulations.gov or in person at the EPA Docket Center, West William 
Jefferson Clinton Bldg., Rm. 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.
    ICR status: This ICR is currently scheduled to expire on March 31, 
2019. Under OMB regulations, the Agency may continue to conduct or 
sponsor the collection of information while this submission is pending 
at OMB. Under PRA, 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
    Abstract: This ICR addresses the information collection activities 
associated with the statutory mandate requiring EPA to provide notice 
to foreign purchasers of unregistered pesticides exported from the 
United States that the pesticide product cannot be sold in the United 
States. Section 17(a)(2) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and 
Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) requires an exporter of any pesticide not 
registered under FIFRA section 3 or sold under FIFRA section 6(a)(1) to 
obtain a signed statement from the foreign purchaser acknowledging that 
the purchaser is aware that the pesticide is not registered for use in, 
and cannot be sold in, the United States. A copy of this statement; 
which is known as the Foreign Purchaser Acknowledgement Statement, or 
FPAS, must be transmitted to the Designated National Authority or 
appropriate official of the government in the importing country. This 
information is submitted in the form of annual or per-shipment 
statements to the EPA, which maintains original records and transmits 
copies, along with an explanatory letter to appropriate government 
officials of the countries that are importing the pesticide. In 
addition to the export notification for unregistered pesticides, FIFRA 
requires that all exported pesticides include appropriate labeling. 
There are different requirements for registered and unregistered 
products. Export labeling requirements meet the definition of third-
party notification. In the interests of consolidating various related 
information collection requests, this ICR includes the burden estimates 
for the FPAS requirement for unregistered pesticides, as well as the 
labeling requirement for all exported pesticides, both registered and 
unregistered.
    Respondents/Affected Entities: Individuals or entities that either 
manufacture and export pesticides or that reformulate or repackage and 
export

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pesticides. The North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) 
code assigned to the parties responding to this information is 3250A1.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory.
    Estimated total number of potential respondents: 2,240 annually.
    Frequency of response: On occasion.
    Estimated total burden: 16,660 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
    Estimated total costs: $1,087,102. This is the estimated burden 
cost, which includes no capital investment or maintenance and 
operational costs.
    Changes in the estimates: There is a decrease of 1,333 hours in the 
total estimated respondent burden compared with the ICR currently 
approved by OMB. This decrease reflects a reduction in the annual 
number of foreign purchaser acknowledgment statements received by EPA 
(from 3,024 to 2,774), which resulted in a corresponding decrease in 
the estimated annual burden hours for respondents (from 3,205 to 2,940 
hours); and a reduction in the estimated annual burden associated with 
labeling requirements. The respondent burden associated with labeling 
requirements for unregistered exported pesticides decreased from 4,888 
to 4,480 hours; and from 9,900 to 9,240 hours associated with labeling 
requirements for registered exported pesticides. The decrease in burden 
associated with labeling requirements is due to a reduction in the 
number of respondents per calendar years 2015-2017. Total labor costs 
for respondents decreased due to a decrease in the estimated number of 
respondents per calendar year from 2015-2017 and an update to the wage 
rate estimates, which incorporated higher estimates for benefits than 
was used in the previous renewal. These changes qualify as adjustments.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2019-05709 Filed 3-25-19; 8:45 am]
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