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treatments, and provisions requiring
employers to notify employees when an
exception/exemption to the WPS is
being implemented. The 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 number for this
information collection appear at the
beginning and the end of this document.
In addition OMB control numbers for
EPA’s regulations, after initial display in
the final rule, are listed in 40 CFR part
9.
The following is a summary of the
burden estimates taken from the ICR:
Respondents/affected entities:
Agricultural workers, pesticide
handlers, employers in farms, nurseries,
forestry, and greenhouse establishments.
Estimated total number of potential
respondents: 3,245,393.
Frequency of response: As needed.
Estimated total/average number of
responses for each respondent: 3.
Estimated total annual burden hours:
2,293,364.
Estimated total annual labor costs:
$109,436,947.
Changes in the ICR since the last
approval: The total annual burden
associated with this ICR has decreased
by 1,261 hours, from 2,294,625 hours in
the previous ICR to 2,293,364 hours for
this ICR. This change reflects a slight
program adjustment and is described in
the ICR.
Dated: February 20, 2005.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. 05–3997 Filed 3–1–05; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6560–50–P
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[OA–2004–0005; FRL–7879–7]
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Pretest of the Pollution
Abatement Costs and Expenditures
(PACE) Survey; EPA ICR Number
2158.01
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
3501 et seq.), this document announces
that an Information Collection Request
(ICR) has been forwarded to the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval. This is a request
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for a new collection. This ICR describes
the nature of the information collection
and its estimated burden and cost.
DATES: Additional comments may be
submitted on or before April 1, 2005.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
referencing docket ID number OA–
2004–0005, to (1) EPA online using
EDOCKET (our preferred method), by email to oei.docket@epa.gov, or by mail
to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental
Protection Agency, Office of
Environmental Information Docket, Mail
Code 2822T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave.,
NW., Washington, DC 20460, and (2)
OMB at: Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Office of
Management and Budget (OMB),
Attention: Desk Officer for EPA, 725
17th Street, NW., Washington, DC
20503.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.
Kelly Maguire, U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, Office of Policy,
Economics and Innovation, National
Center for Environmental Economics,
Mail Code 1809T, 1200 Pennsylvania
Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460;
telephone number: (202) 566–2273; fax
number: (202) 566–2339; e-mail address:
maguire.kelly@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has
submitted the following ICR to OMB for
review and approval according to the
procedures prescribed in 5 CFR 1320.12.
On August 19, 2004 (69 FR 51461), EPA
sought comments on this ICR pursuant
to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA has addressed
the comments received.
EPA has established a public docket
for this ICR under Docket ID No. OA–
2004–0005, which is available for public
viewing at the Office of Environmental
Information 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 Office of
Environmental Information Docket is
(202) 566–1752. An electronic version of
the public docket is available through
EPA Dockets (EDOCKET) at https://
www.epa.gov/edocket. Use EDOCKET to
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 and OMB
within 30 days of this notice. EPA?s
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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,
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.
Title: Pretest of the Pollution
Abatement Costs and Expenditures
(PACE) Survey.
Abstract: The Pollution Abatement
Costs and Expenditures (PACE) Survey
was conducted by the U.S. Bureau of
Census annually between 1973 and
1994 (excluding 1987) and again in
1999. This pretest is to evaluate a
revised PACE survey instrument.
The data from the PACE survey are
mainly used by the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) to better satisfy
legislative and executive requirements
to track the costs of regulatory programs
and to provide aggregate national
statistics on costs and expenditures for
pollution abatement activities. Other
users of these aggregate data include
trade associations, manufacturers,
marketing and research companies,
universities, financial and
environmental institutions, other
Federal agencies, State and local
governments, and environmental
reporters.
This information request is to conduct
a pretest of the redesigned survey
instrument being considered for use in
reinstating the annual PACE survey
conducted by the Bureau of the Census.
The survey collects information on
facility-specific costs and expenditures
for pollution abatement activities among
manufacturing, mining, and electric
utility facilities. Pollution abatement
includes treatment, recycling, waste
disposal, pollution prevention, and
other pollution management activities,
such as monitoring and testing and
recordkeeping and reporting.
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Participation in the pretest of the
PACE survey will be voluntary. EPA,
through its contractors, ICF Consulting,
and RTI, International, will recruit 24
facilities from the pulp and paper, iron
and steel, electric utility, petroleum,
and other industries to participate in the
pretest. Facilities will complete the
survey and then participate in a followup discussion of the results with
engineers from RTI, International. The
engineers will seek to better understand
the results provided on the survey and
walk through the facility to identify
pollution abatement techniques. The
engineers will develop independent
estimates of costs for each facility which
will serve to better assist the facility in
understanding the sources of various
cost elements and enhance the survey
instrument.
The survey responses from the pretest
will only be used to assess the
redesigned survey instrument. All
responses will be kept confidential at
RTI, International and will be destroyed
after 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 in 40
CFR are listed in 40 CFR part 9 and are
identified on the form and/or
instrument, if applicable.
Burden Statement: The annual public
reporting and recordkeeping burden for
this collection of information is
estimated to average 16 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.
Respondents/Affected Entities:
manufacturing facilities from the pulp
and paper, petroleum, electric utility,
iron and steel, and other select
industries.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
24.
Frequency of Response: one-time.
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Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:
378.
Estimated Total Annual Cost:
$11,000, which includes $0 annual
capital/startup or O&M costs and
$11,000 annual labor costs.
Dated: February 20, 2005.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. 05–3998 Filed 3–1–05; 8:45 am]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[OW–2004–0027; FRL–7879–8]
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Comment
Response; Information Collection
Request for Cooling Water Intake
Structures—New Facility (Renewal),
EPA ICR Number 1973.03, OMB
Control Number 2040–0241
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
3501 et seq.), this document announces
that an Information Collection Request
(ICR) has been forwarded to the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval. This is a request
to renew an existing approved
collection. This ICR is scheduled to
expire on February 28, 2005. Under
OMB regulations, the Agency may
continue to conduct or sponsor the
collection of information while this
submission is pending at OMB. The ICR
describes the nature of the information
collection and its estimated burden and
cost.
DATES: Additional comments may be
submitted on or before April 1, 2005.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
referencing docket ID number OW–
2004–0027, to (1) EPA online using
EDOCKET (our preferred method), by email to OW-Docket@epa.gov, or by mail
to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental
Protection Agency, Water Docket, Mail
Code 4101T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave.
NW., Washington, DC 20460, and (2)
OMB at: Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Office of
Management and Budget (OMB),
Attention: Desk Officer for EPA, 725
17th Street, NW., Washington, DC
20503.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Faulk, Office of Wastewater
Management, Mail Code 4203M,
PO 00000
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Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington,
DC 20460; telephone number: 202–564–
0768; fax number: 202–564–6431; e-mail
address: faulk.jack@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has
submitted the following ICR to OMB for
review and approval according to the
procedures prescribed in 5 CFR 1320.12.
On August 30, 2004 (69 FR 52883), EPA
sought comments on this ICR pursuant
to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received no
comment.
EPA has established a public docket
for this ICR under Docket ID No. OW–
2004–0027, which is available for public
viewing at the Water 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 Water
Docket is (202) 566–2426. An electronic
version of the public docket is available
through EPA Dockets (EDOCKET) at
https://www.epa.gov/edocket. Use
EDOCKET to 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 and OMB
within 30 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,
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.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[OA-2004-0005; FRL-7879-7]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Comment Request; Pretest of the Pollution
Abatement Costs and Expenditures (PACE) Survey; EPA ICR Number 2158.01
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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 an Information Collection
Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and approval. This is a request for a new collection.
This ICR describes the nature of the information collection and its
estimated burden and cost.
DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before April 1, 2005.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number OA-2004-
0005, to (1) EPA online using EDOCKET (our preferred method), by e-mail
to oei.docket@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental
Protection Agency, Office of Environmental Information Docket, Mail
Code 2822T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460, and (2)
OMB at: Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of
Management and Budget (OMB), Attention: Desk Officer for EPA, 725 17th
Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Kelly Maguire, U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, Office of Policy, Economics and Innovation, National
Center for Environmental Economics, Mail Code 1809T, 1200 Pennsylvania
Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 566-2273; fax
number: (202) 566-2339; e-mail address: maguire.kelly@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has submitted the following ICR to OMB
for review and approval according to the procedures prescribed in 5 CFR
1320.12. On August 19, 2004 (69 FR 51461), EPA sought comments on this
ICR pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA has addressed the comments
received.
EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID
No. OA-2004-0005, which is available for public viewing at the Office
of Environmental Information 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 Office of Environmental Information Docket is (202) 566-1752.
An electronic version of the public docket is available through EPA
Dockets (EDOCKET) at https://www.epa.gov/edocket. Use EDOCKET to 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 and OMB
within 30 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, 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.
Title: Pretest of the Pollution Abatement Costs and Expenditures
(PACE) Survey.
Abstract: The Pollution Abatement Costs and Expenditures (PACE)
Survey was conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Census annually between 1973
and 1994 (excluding 1987) and again in 1999. This pretest is to
evaluate a revised PACE survey instrument.
The data from the PACE survey are mainly used by the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to better satisfy legislative and
executive requirements to track the costs of regulatory programs and to
provide aggregate national statistics on costs and expenditures for
pollution abatement activities. Other users of these aggregate data
include trade associations, manufacturers, marketing and research
companies, universities, financial and environmental institutions,
other Federal agencies, State and local governments, and environmental
reporters.
This information request is to conduct a pretest of the redesigned
survey instrument being considered for use in reinstating the annual
PACE survey conducted by the Bureau of the Census. The survey collects
information on facility-specific costs and expenditures for pollution
abatement activities among manufacturing, mining, and electric utility
facilities. Pollution abatement includes treatment, recycling, waste
disposal, pollution prevention, and other pollution management
activities, such as monitoring and testing and recordkeeping and
reporting.
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Participation in the pretest of the PACE survey will be voluntary.
EPA, through its contractors, ICF Consulting, and RTI, International,
will recruit 24 facilities from the pulp and paper, iron and steel,
electric utility, petroleum, and other industries to participate in the
pretest. Facilities will complete the survey and then participate in a
follow-up discussion of the results with engineers from RTI,
International. The engineers will seek to better understand the results
provided on the survey and walk through the facility to identify
pollution abatement techniques. The engineers will develop independent
estimates of costs for each facility which will serve to better assist
the facility in understanding the sources of various cost elements and
enhance the survey instrument.
The survey responses from the pretest will only be used to assess
the redesigned survey instrument. All responses will be kept
confidential at RTI, International and will be destroyed after 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 in 40 CFR are listed in 40 CFR part 9 and are identified on
the form and/or instrument, if applicable.
Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping
burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 16
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.
Respondents/Affected Entities: manufacturing facilities from the
pulp and paper, petroleum, electric utility, iron and steel, and other
select industries.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 24.
Frequency of Response: one-time.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 378.
Estimated Total Annual Cost: $11,000, which includes $0 annual
capital/startup or O&M costs and $11,000 annual labor costs.
Dated: February 20, 2005.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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