Document ID: EPA-HQ-OPP-2019-0563-0009
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Pesticide Registration Fees Program
Posted Date: 2020-09-29T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 189 (Tuesday, September 29, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60995-60996]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-21529]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OPP-2019-0563; FRL-10009-21-OMS]

Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; Pesticide Registration Fees Program 
(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), Pesticide Registration Fees 
Program (EPA ICR Number 2330.04, OMB Control Number 2070-0179) 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 December 3, 2019 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-2019-0563, 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.

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    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 Comments'' or by using the search function.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Carolyn Siu, Field and External 
Affairs Division, Office of Pesticide Programs, 7506P, Environmental 
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460; 
telephone number: (703) 347-0159; email address: siu.carolyn@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 ICR covers the paperwork burden hours and costs 
associated with the information collection activities under the 
pesticide registration fee programs implemented through the Office of 
Pesticide Programs (OPP), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). 
Pesticide registrants are required by statute to pay an annual 
registration maintenance fee for all products registered under Section 
3 and Section 24(c) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and 
Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). In addition, the Pesticide Registration 
Improvement Act (PRIA) amended FIFRA in 2004 to create a registration 
service fee system for applications for specific pesticide 
registration, amended registration, and associated tolerance actions 
(Section 33). This ICR specifically covers the activities related to 
the collection of the annual registration maintenance fees, the 
registration service fees and the burden associated with the submission 
of requests for fees to be waived.
    Form Numbers: 8570-30.
    Respondents/affected entities: North American Industrial 
Classification System (NAICS) codes: 3250A1--Pesticide and other 
agricultural chemical manufacturing; 32518--Other Basic Inorganic 
Chemical Manufacturing; 32519--Other Basic Organic Chemical 
Manufacturing and 9641--Regulation of Agricultural Marketing and 
Commodities.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory under FIFRA sections 
4(i)(5) and 33.
    Estimated number of respondents: 1,523 (total).
    Frequency of response: Annually and on occasion.
    Total estimated burden: 8,540 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.03(b).
    Total estimated cost: $687,301 (per year), which includes $3,600 
annualized capital or operation & maintenance costs.
    Changes in the estimates: There is an increase of 229 hours in the 
total estimated respondent burden compared with the ICR currently 
approved by OMB. This modest addition is associated with an increase in 
respondents for pesticide registration maintenance fees (from 1,471 to 
1,523) and in refinements of the burden calculations. The total 
estimated annual respondent burden for service fee waivers has not 
changed.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2020-21529 Filed 9-28-20; 8:45 am]
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