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52–000 on December 13, 2004.
On January 12, 2005, New England
Power Pool and ISO New England, Inc.,
filed a request for a technical session so
that interested stakeholders may discuss
their concerns with Staff regarding the
establishment of Hydro Quebec
Capacity Credit values. Take notice that
a Staff technical conference on the
determination of Hydro Quebec
Interconnection Capacity Credit values
will be held for one day, on Monday
February 14, 2005, at 10 a.m. (EST), in
a room to be designated at the offices of
the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, 888 First Street, NE.,
Washington, DC 20426.
All interested persons are permitted
to attend. Additionally, all interested
persons who wish to monitor the
technical conference by telephone must
contact Valerie Martin, either by e-mail
at valerie.martin@ferc.gov or by
telephone at (202) 502–6139 no later
than 5 p.m. Thursday February 10,
2005, stating your name, the name of the
entity you represent, and an e-mail
address or telephone number where you
can be reached.
The technical conference telephone
number and other information will be
provided to those submitting requests to
monitor the conference, preferably by
return e-mail.
Linda Mitry,
Deputy Secretary.
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Magalie R. Salas,
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Southern Natural Gas Company;
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Conference
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
February 8, 2005.
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. ER05–52–000]
ISO New England, Inc. and New
England Power Pool; Notice of Staff
Technical Conference
February 8, 2005.
On December 13, 2004, a data request
was issued directing the New England
Power Pool and ISO New England, Inc.,
to provide additional information
regarding the data used to develop the
Hydro Quebec Interconnection Capacity
Credit values for the 2005/2006 Power
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Take notice that an informal
settlement conference will be convened
in this proceeding commencing at 10
a.m. (e.s.t.) on Wednesday, February 23,
2005, in a room to be designated at the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,
888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC
20426, for the purpose of exploring the
possible settlement of the abovereferenced docket.
Any party, as defined by 18 CFR
385.102(c), or any participant as defined
by 18 CFR 385.102(b), is invited to
attend. Persons wishing to become a
party must move to intervene and
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385.214).
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(TTY), or send a FAX to 202–208–2106
with the required accommodations.
For additional information, please
contact Bob Keegan at (202) 502–8158,
James.Keegan@ferc.gov.
Magalie R. Salas,
Secretary.
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Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; National Emission
Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants
(NESHAPs): Radionuclides, EPA ICR
Number 1100.12, OMB Control Number
2060–0191
Environmental Protection
Agency.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
3501 et seq.), this document announces
that EPA is planning to submit a
continuing Information Collection
Request (ICR) to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB). This is
a request to renew an existing approved
collection. This ICR is scheduled to
expire on August 25, 2005. Before
submitting the ICR to OMB for review
and approval, EPA is soliciting
comments on specific aspects of the
proposed information collection as
described below.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before April 18, 2005.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
referencing docket ID number OAR–
2005–0017, to EPA online using
EDOCKET (our preferred method), Air
and Radiation.Docket@epa.gov, or by
mail to: EPA Docket Center,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation Docket and Information
Center, https://www.epa.gov/oar/
docket.html, Mail Code 6102T, 1200
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20460.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Eleanor Thornton-Jones, Radiation
Protection Division, Center for the
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Waste Management, Office of Radiation
and Indoor Air, Mail Code: 6608J;
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington,
DC 20460; telephone number: (202)
343–9773; fax number: (202) 343–2306;
email address:
thornton.eleanord@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has
established a public docket for this ICR
under Docket ID number OAR–2005–
0017, which is available for public
viewing at the Air Docket in the EPA
Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West,
Room B102, 1301 Constitution Ave.,
NW., Washington, DC. The EPA Docket
Center Public Reading Room is open
from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday
through Friday, excluding legal
holidays. The telephone number for the
Reading Room is (202) 566–1744, and
the telephone number for the Air Docket
is (202) 566–1742. An electronic version
of the public docket is available through
EPA Dockets (EDOCKET) at https://
www.epa.gov/edocket. Use EDOCKET to
obtain a copy of the draft collection of
information, submit or view public
comments, access the index listing of
the contents of the public docket, and to
access those documents in the public
docket that are available electronically.
Once in the system, select ‘‘search,’’
then key in the docket ID number
identified above.
Any comments related to this ICR
should be submitted to EPA within 60
days of this notice. EPA’s policy is that
public comments, whether submitted
electronically or in paper, will be made
available for public viewing in
EDOCKET as EPA receives them and
without change, unless the comment
contains copyrighted material,
Confidential Business Information (CBI),
or other information whose public
disclosure is restricted by statute. When
EPA identifies a comment containing
copyrighted material, EPA will provide
a reference to that material in the
version of the comment that is placed in
EDOCKET. The entire printed comment,
including the copyrighted material, will
be available in the public docket.
Although identified as an item in the
official docket, information claimed as
CBI, or whose disclosure is otherwise
restricted by statute, is not included in
the official public docket, and will not
be available for public viewing in
EDOCKET. For further information
about the electronic docket, see EPA’s
Federal Register notice describing the
electronic docket at 67 FR 38102 (May
31, 2002), or go to https://www.epa.gov/
edocket.
Affected entities: Entities affected by
this action are those which own or
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operate Department of Energy (DOE)
facilities, elemental phosphorus plants,
Non-DOE federal facilities and
phosphogypsum stacks, underground
uranium mines and uranium mill
tailings piles.
Title: National Emission Standards for
Hazardous Air Pollutants:
Radionuclides, OMB No. 2060–0191,
expiring 8/25/05.
Abstract: On December 15, 1989
pursuant to section 112 of the Clean Air
Act as amended in 1977 (42 U.S.C.
1857), EPA promulgated NESHAPs to
control radionuclide emissions from
several source categories. The
regulations were published in 54 FR
51653, and are codified at 40 CFR part
61, subparts B, H, I, K, R, T, and W.
Information is being collected pursuant
to Federal regulation 40 CFR 61. The
pertinent sections of the regulation for
reporting and record keeping are listed
below for each source category:
Department of Energy Facilities—
Sections 61.93, 61.94, 61.95
Elemental Phosphorous—Sections
61.123, 61.124, 61.126
Non-DOE Federal Facilities—Sections
61.103, 61.104, 61.105, 61.107
Phosphogypsum Stacks—Sections
61.203, 61.206, 61.207, 61.208,
61.209
Underground Uranium Mines—Sections
61.24, 61.25
Uranium Mill Tailings Piles—Sections
61.223, 61.224, 61.253, 61.254,
61.255
Data and information collected is
used by EPA to ensure that public
health continues to be protected from
the hazards of airborne radionuclides by
compliance with NESHAPs. If the
information were not collected, it is
unlikely that potential violations of the
standards would be identified and
corrective action would be initiated to
bring the facilities back into
compliance. Compliance is
demonstrated through emission testing
and/or dose calculation. Results are
submitted to EPA annually for
verification of compliance and
maintained for a period of 5 years. 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;
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(ii) Evaluate the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information;
(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 automated collection
techniques or other forms of information
technology, e.g., permitting electronic
submission of responses.
Burden Statement: The estimated
burden for each respondent is 32 hours
per response. This estimate is based on
experience gained in preparing
radionuclide NESHAPs enforcement
and compliance guidance material and
in demonstrating the use of EPA’s
COMPLY computer program to the
uninitiated.
Respondent
Number of
facilities
Department of Energy ..............
Elemental Phosphorus .............
Non-DOE not licensed by NRC
Phosphogypsum Stacks ...........
Underground Uranium Mines ...
Uranium Mill Tailings Piles .......
(Subparts T and W)
42
2
20
35
7
13
Total ...................................
124
It is estimated that 124 facilities
would be required to report emissions
and/or effective dose equivalent
annually and retain supporting records
for five years. The total record keeping
and reporting burden hours is 288 hours
times 124 respondents = 35,712 hours.
The estimated annualized capital/start
up costs are: $45,000 and the annual
operation and maintenance costs are
$1,581,120.
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.
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Dated: February 8, 2005.
Bonnie C. Gitlin,
Acting Director, Radiation Protection
Division, Office of Radiation and Indoor Air.
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AGENCY
[CA 313–0476; FRL–7872–9]
Adequacy Status of the San Joaquin
Valley Unified Air Pollution Control
District, California, Submitted Ozone
Attainment Plan for Transportation
Conformity Purposes
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of adequacy
determination.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: In this notice, EPA is
notifying the public that we have found
that the motor vehicle emissions
budgets contained in the submitted
2004 State Implementation Plan for
Ozone in the San Joaquin Valley are
adequate for transportation conformity
purposes.
As a result of our finding, the various
transportation planning agencies in the
San Joaquin Valley and the Federal
Highway Administration must use the
VOC and NOX motor vehicle emissions
budgets from the submitted 2004 State
Implementation Plan for Ozone in the
San Joaquin Valley for future conformity
determinations.
DATES: This determination is effective
March 2, 2005.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The
finding is available at EPA’s conformity
Web site: https://www.epa.gov/oms/
transp/traqconf.htm (once there, click
on the ‘‘Transportation Conformity’’
link, then look for ‘‘Adequacy Web
Pages’’).
You may also contact David Wampler,
U.S. EPA, Region IX, Air Division AIR–
2, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco,
CA 94105; (415) 972–3975, or
wampler.david@epa.gov.
This
notice announces our finding that the
emissions budgets contained in the 2004
State Implementation Plan 1 for Ozone
in the San Joaquin Valley (‘‘Ozone
Plan’’), submitted by the State of
California on behalf of the San Joaquin
Valley Unified Air Pollution Control
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
1 The submitted Ozone Plan includes a rate-ofprogress demonstration for milestone years 2008
and 2010 and a demonstration that the San Joaquin
Valley will attain by no later than the 2010
attainment date for areas classified ‘‘extreme’’ under
the federal 1-hour ozone standard.
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District on November 15, 2004, are
adequate for transportation conformity
purposes. EPA Region IX made this
finding in a letter to the State of
California, Air Resources Board on
February 7, 2005. We are also
announcing this finding on our
conformity Web site: https://
www.epa.gov/oms/transp/traqconf.htm
(once there, click on the
‘‘Transportation Conformity’’ link, then
look for ‘‘Adequacy Web Pages’’).
Transportation conformity is required
by section 176(c) of the Clean Air Act.
Our conformity rule requires that
transportation plans, programs, and
projects conform to state air quality
implementation plans (SIPs) and
establishes the criteria and procedures
for determining whether or not they do.
Conformity to a SIP means that
transportation activities will not
produce new air quality violations,
worsen existing violations, or delay
timely attainment of the national
ambient air quality standards.
The criteria by which we determine
whether a SIP’s motor vehicle emission
budgets are adequate for conformity
purposes are outlined in 40 CFR
93.118(e)(4). One of these criteria is that
the motor vehicle emissions budgets,
when considered together with all other
emission sources, is consistent with
applicable requirements for the
reasonable further progress plan. We
have preliminarily determined that the
2004 State Implementation Plan for
Ozone in the San Joaquin Valley plan
meets the necessary rate of progress
reductions for milestone years 2008 and
2010 and demonstrates attainment by no
later than 2010. Therefore, the motor
vehicle emissions budgets can be found
adequate. Please note that an adequacy
review is separate from EPA’s
completeness review, and it also should
not be used to prejudge EPA’s ultimate
approval of the submitted plan itself.
Even if we find a budget adequate, the
submitted plan could later be
disapproved.
We have described our process for
determining the adequacy of submitted
SIP budgets in guidance (May 14, 1999
memo titled ‘‘Conformity Guidance on
Implementation of March 2, 1999
Conformity Court Decision’’). This
guidance is now reflected in the
amended transportation conformity
rule, July 1, 2004 (69 FR 40004), and in
the correction notice, July 20, 2004 (69
FR 43325). We followed this process in
making our adequacy determination on
the motor vehicle emissions budgets
contained in the 2004 State
Implementation Plan for Ozone in the
San Joaquin Valley.
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Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401–7671q.
Dated: February 8, 2005.
Karen Schwinn,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region IX.
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Science Advisory Board Staff Office;
Request for Nominations for the
Science Advisory Board’s
Consultation on EPA’s Framework for
Revising the Aquatic Life Criteria
Guidelines
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The EPA Science Advisory
Board (SAB) Staff Office is requesting
nominations to augment expertise on
the SAB Ecological Processes and
Effects Committee for a panel to provide
consultation to EPA on the framework
for revising the Aquatic Life Criteria
Guidelines.
Nominations should be
submitted by March 1, 2005 per the
instructions below.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any
member of the public wishing further
information regarding this Request for
Nominations may contact Dr. Thomas
Armitage, Designated Federal Officer
(DFO), via telephone/voice mail at (202)
343–9995; via e-mail at
armitage.thomas@epa.gov; or at the U.S.
EPA Science Advisory Board (1400F),
1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.,
Washington, DC 20460. General
information about the SAB can be found
in the SAB Web site at https://
www.epa.gov/sab.
DATES:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: EPA’s recommended
ambient water quality criteria for
aquatic life provide guidance to states
and tribes for adopting water quality
standards which are the basis for
controlling discharges or releases of
pollutants. Currently, ambient water
quality criteria for aquatic life
protection are derived according to the
Guidelines for Derivation of Ambient
Water Quality Criteria for the Protection
of Aquatic Life and Their Uses,
published in 1985. To ensure that
ambient water quality criteria are
derived from the best available science,
EPA’s Office of Water assessed the need
to update the Guidelines and identified
issues that should be addressed in the
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[OAR-2005-0017, FRL-7873-5]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air
Pollutants (NESHAPs): Radionuclides, EPA ICR Number 1100.12, OMB
Control Number 2060-0191
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501
et seq.), this document announces that EPA is planning to submit a
continuing Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB). This is a request to renew an existing
approved collection. This ICR is scheduled to expire on August 25,
2005. Before submitting the ICR to OMB for review and approval, EPA is
soliciting comments on specific aspects of the proposed information
collection as described below.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before April 18, 2005.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number OAR-2005-
0017, to EPA online using EDOCKET (our preferred method), Air and
Radiation.Docket@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA Docket Center,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air and Radiation Docket and
Information Center, https://www.epa.gov/oar/docket.html, Mail Code
6102T, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Eleanor Thornton-Jones, Radiation
Protection Division, Center for the
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Waste Management, Office of Radiation and Indoor Air, Mail Code: 6608J;
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.,
Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 343-9773; fax number:
(202) 343-2306; email address: thornton.eleanord@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has established a public docket for this
ICR under Docket ID number OAR-2005-0017, which is available for public
viewing at the Air Docket in the EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West,
Room B102, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC. The EPA Docket
Center Public Reading Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday
through Friday, excluding legal holidays. The telephone number for the
Reading Room is (202) 566-1744, and the telephone number for the Air
Docket is (202) 566-1742. An electronic version of the public docket is
available through EPA Dockets (EDOCKET) at https://www.epa.gov/edocket.
Use EDOCKET to obtain a copy of the draft collection of information,
submit or view public comments, access the index listing of the
contents of the public docket, and to access those documents in the
public docket that are available electronically. Once in the system,
select ``search,'' then key in the docket ID number identified above.
Any comments related to this ICR should be submitted to EPA within
60 days of this notice. EPA's policy is that public comments, whether
submitted electronically or in paper, will be made available for public
viewing in EDOCKET as EPA receives them and without change, unless the
comment contains copyrighted material, Confidential Business
Information (CBI), or other information whose public disclosure is
restricted by statute. When EPA identifies a comment containing
copyrighted material, EPA will provide a reference to that material in
the version of the comment that is placed in EDOCKET. The entire
printed comment, including the copyrighted material, will be available
in the public docket. Although identified as an item in the official
docket, information claimed as CBI, or whose disclosure is otherwise
restricted by statute, is not included in the official public docket,
and will not be available for public viewing in EDOCKET. For further
information about the electronic docket, see EPA's Federal Register
notice describing the electronic docket at 67 FR 38102 (May 31, 2002),
or go to https://www.epa.gov/edocket.
Affected entities: Entities affected by this action are those which
own or operate Department of Energy (DOE) facilities, elemental
phosphorus plants, Non-DOE federal facilities and phosphogypsum stacks,
underground uranium mines and uranium mill tailings piles.
Title: National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants:
Radionuclides, OMB No. 2060-0191, expiring 8/25/05.
Abstract: On December 15, 1989 pursuant to section 112 of the Clean
Air Act as amended in 1977 (42 U.S.C. 1857), EPA promulgated NESHAPs to
control radionuclide emissions from several source categories. The
regulations were published in 54 FR 51653, and are codified at 40 CFR
part 61, subparts B, H, I, K, R, T, and W. Information is being
collected pursuant to Federal regulation 40 CFR 61. The pertinent
sections of the regulation for reporting and record keeping are listed
below for each source category:
Department of Energy Facilities--Sections 61.93, 61.94, 61.95
Elemental Phosphorous--Sections 61.123, 61.124, 61.126
Non-DOE Federal Facilities--Sections 61.103, 61.104, 61.105, 61.107
Phosphogypsum Stacks--Sections 61.203, 61.206, 61.207, 61.208, 61.209
Underground Uranium Mines--Sections 61.24, 61.25
Uranium Mill Tailings Piles--Sections 61.223, 61.224, 61.253, 61.254,
61.255
Data and information collected is used by EPA to ensure that public
health continues to be protected from the hazards of airborne
radionuclides by compliance with NESHAPs. If the information were not
collected, it is unlikely that potential violations of the standards
would be identified and corrective action would be initiated to bring
the facilities back into compliance. Compliance is demonstrated through
emission testing and/or dose calculation. Results are submitted to EPA
annually for verification of compliance and maintained for a period of
5 years. 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;
(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 automated
collection techniques or other forms of information technology, e.g.,
permitting electronic submission of responses.
Burden Statement: The estimated burden for each respondent is 32
hours per response. This estimate is based on experience gained in
preparing radionuclide NESHAPs enforcement and compliance guidance
material and in demonstrating the use of EPA's COMPLY computer program
to the uninitiated.
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Number of
Respondent facilities
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Department of Energy....................................... 42
Elemental Phosphorus....................................... 2
Non-DOE not licensed by NRC................................ 20
Phosphogypsum Stacks....................................... 35
Underground Uranium Mines.................................. 7
Uranium Mill Tailings Piles................................ 13
(Subparts T and W)
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Total.................................................. 124
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It is estimated that 124 facilities would be required to report
emissions and/or effective dose equivalent annually and retain
supporting records for five years. The total record keeping and
reporting burden hours is 288 hours times 124 respondents = 35,712
hours. The estimated annualized capital/start up costs are: $45,000 and
the annual operation and maintenance costs are $1,581,120.
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.
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Dated: February 8, 2005.
Bonnie C. Gitlin,
Acting Director, Radiation Protection Division, Office of Radiation and
Indoor Air.
[FR Doc. 05-2894 Filed 2-14-05; 8:45 am]
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