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Download as PDF 57868 Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 191 / Tuesday, October 4, 2005 / Notices conditioners (MVACs). These regulations were published in 57 FR 31261 on July 14, 1992, and are codified at 40 CFR part 82, subpart B (§ 82.30 et seq.). The information required to be collected under the section 609 regulations is described below. This information is currently approved for use through September 30, 2005. The information required to be collected includes the following: submission of a program plan to EPA by organizations who want to participate as an EPA-technician certification program, submission of an application by independent laboratories that proves their general capacity to certify refrigerant recovery and/or recycling equipment to meet the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) standards for recycled refrigerant, and for equipment manufacturers or owners wanting to grandfather their equipment, the submission of an application, supporting documents, flow sheets, equipment components and other information which would indicate that the equipment is capable of recycling or recovering the refrigerant to standards set forth in Appendices A, B, C, D, E and F to the regulations. Motor vehicle air conditioning service establishments are required by section 609 of the Act to certify that they have purchased refrigerant recycling and/or recovery equipment by January 1, 1992. The Stratospheric Programs Division (SPD) uses the certificates to confirm compliance with section 609. In order for technicians to service or maintain MVACs, they must pass a certification test as stipulated in section 609 of the Act. In the interest of providing national harmony in promoting technician awareness in the proper handling of refrigerant, the Agency is charged through section 609 with the establishment of minimum national standards for technician certification. The SPD uses the information submitted by technician certification programs to determine if programs meet the standards established by the Agency. In addition, the SPD uses the information to insure that the programs are at least as stringent as the SAE J standards of the Society of Automotive Engineers. The information requested for all entities that service MVACs is required by section 609(d) of the Act with regard to the following: (1) Technician certification programs: Proposed automotive technician certification programs are required to be approved by EPA in accordance with section 609(b)(4); (2) Business certification requirements: Section 609(b)(2)(A) VerDate Aug<31>2005 16:55 Oct 03, 2005 Jkt 205001 requires EPA approval of independent laboratories that certify equipment for the extraction and reclamation of refrigerant from MVACs; (3) Manufacturers’ certification of recovery equipment: The submission of data for EPA determination of substantially identical equipment is addressed by section 609(b)(2)(B) (substantially identical equipment is equipment certified before the proposal of regulations under section 609 that is substantially identical to equipment currently meeting EPA’s standards); (4) Recordkeeping requirements: The recordkeeping requirements for the motor vehicle recycling program are derived from section 114 of the Act. 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. Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 0.11 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: New and used motor vehicle dealers, gasoline service stations, truck rental and leasing without drivers, passenger car rental, top, body, upholstery repair and paint shops, general automotive repair shops and automotive repair shops not elsewhere classified. Estimated Number of Respondents: 25,013. Frequency of Response: On occasion. Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 2,865. Estimated Total Annual Capital and O&M Costs: $0. Changes in the Estimates: The decrease in burden results from the fact that the number of service facilities entering the market and changing ownership was overstated in the PO 00000 Frm 00016 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 original ICR and was adjusted downward in the last revision to this ICR. In this revision to the ICR, we were able to acknowledge significant cost reductions in the public sector, because the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ data on salaries shows that our previous salary assumptions were arbitrarily inflated. In addition, a number of erroneous entries and inconsistencies were detected in the previous revision to the ICR. Correcting those errors has resulted in significant reductions in resultant burden. Dated: September 24, 2005. Oscar Morales, Director, Collection Strategies Division. [FR Doc. 05–19840 Filed 10–3–05; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6560–50–P ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY [OA–2005–0002; FRL–7978–8] Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Regulatory Pilot Projects (Renewal), EPA ICR Number 1755.07, OMB Control Number 2010–0026 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 for a renewal of an existing approved collection. This ICR was scheduled to expire on September 30, 2005. Under OMB regulations, the Agency may continue to conduct or sponsor the collection of information while this submission is pending at OMB. This ICR describes the nature of the information collection and its estimated burden and cost. DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before November 3, 2005. ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number OA– 2005–0002, 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, Regulatory Innovation Pilot Projects, MC 28221T, 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 E:\FR\FM\04OCN1.SGM 04OCN1 Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 191 / Tuesday, October 4, 2005 / Notices for EPA, 725 17th Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503. Mr. Douglas Heimlich in the Office of Environmental Policy Innovation may be reached by phone at (202) 566–2234, by e-mail at heimlich.douglas@epa.gov, or by FAX at (202) 566–2200. Or, contact Dr. Gerald Filbin in the Office of Environmental Policy Innovation at (202) 566–2182, by e-mail at filbin.gerald@epa.gov, or by FAX at (202) 566–2211. 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 June 8, 2005 (70 FR 33472), EPA sought comments on this ICR pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received no comments. EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID No. OA– 2005–0002, which is available for public viewing at the Office of the Administrator 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 the Administrator 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 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: VerDate Aug<31>2005 16:55 Oct 03, 2005 Jkt 205001 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: Regulatory Pilot Projects (Renewal). Abstract: In March 1995, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency initiated Regulatory Innovation Pilot Projects in response to a challenge to transform the environmental regulatory system to better meet the needs of a rapidly changing society while maintaining the nation’s commitment to protect human health and safeguard the natural environment. EPA’s first regulatory innovation pilot mechanism was Project XL, or eXcellence and Leadership (https://www.epa.gov/ ProjectXL/). EPA used Project XL to support a variety of innovation pilots to gather data and project experience that will help the Agency redesign current approaches to public health and environmental protection. Through sitespecific agreements with project sponsors, Project XL has given companies, communities, local governments, military bases, and universities flexibility from certain environmental regulations in exchange for commitments to achieve superior environmental performance at less cost. EPA no longer accepts new projects under the XL program, however, EPA is completing the earlier projects initiated under Project XL. Before submitting an official Project XL proposal to EPA, the project sponsor typically engaged in informal discussions with EPA about proposal design. Once a formal proposal was submitted, EPA along with the corresponding state environmental agency reviewed the proposal. EPA based acceptance of proposals on the extent to which proposals met the following eight criteria: (1) Superior environmental performance, (2) cost savings and reduced paperwork, (3) stakeholder involvement, (4) innovation or pollution prevention, (5) transferability, (6) feasibility, (7) monitoring, reporting and evaluation, and (8) no shifting of risk burden. If the proposal was accepted, EPA and the partnering state agency negotiated the conditions of the proposal with the project sponsor along with other interested stakeholders, including local and national environmental groups and nearby community residents. Once an agreement was reached regarding the conditions of the proposal and the PO 00000 Frm 00017 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 57869 necessary regulatory flexibility, the Final Project Agreement (FPA) was signed and the project sponsor began implementation. Starting in 2002, EPA developed a new mechanism for pilot projects that allowed the Agency to test regulatory innovation strategically and on a larger scale. Information collection for the purpose of grant competition solicitations are covered under another Agency ICR and will not be included here except for burden created in precompetition consultation with States on subject areas for inclusion in the annual State Innovation Grant solicitation. General information on the State Innovation Grant Program can be found at the following URL https:// www.epa.gov/innovation/stategrants/). 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: EPA estimates that each project sponsor for projects implemented under Project XL will use 20 hours, or 120 for all respondents, for the development of progress reports and a final project report and to address a small range of evaluation questions from EPA at the close of an individual project. Similarly, EPA anticipates that State Innovation Grants Projects may require States and Tribes that choose to respond to EPA’s invitation to comment to expend up 32 hours each, annually, or 768 hours collectively (average of 24 States and Tribes providing comment) each year in consultation with EPA. 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. 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 E:\FR\FM\04OCN1.SGM 04OCN1 57870 Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 191 / Tuesday, October 4, 2005 / Notices number. The OMB control numbers for EPA’s regulations are listed in 40 CFR Part 9 and 48 CFR Chapter 15. Respondents/Affected Entities: Companies, States or other entities in the voluntary Regulatory Pilot Projects. Estimated Number of Respondents: 30. Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 888 hours. Estimated Total Annual Costs: $40,704, that includes $0 Capital or O&M costs. Changes in the Estimates: There is a reduction of 71,411 hours. This difference is largely a result of moving away from individual facility proposals and toward state-wide projects, thus reducing substantially the number of pre-proposal submissions for testing while focusing on larger, more systemschange oriented projects. This difference is also a result of EPA’s ability to refine the estimates based upon 10 years of experience promoting regulatory innovation and a better understanding of the burden requirements necessary to develop and submit proposals for innovative pilot projects, and an improved understanding of innovative pilot projects and how to develop them. Dated: September 22, 2005. Oscar Morales, Director, Collection Strategies Division. [FR Doc. 05–19862 Filed 10–3–05; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6560–50–P ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY [OECA–2005–0030; FRL–7978–9] Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB Review and Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Source Categories: Generic Maximum Achievable Control Technology Standards (Renewal), ICR Number 1871.04, OMB Control Number 2060–0420 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Notice. AGENCY: SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, 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 December 31, 2005. Under OMB regulations, the Agency may continue to conduct or sponsor the VerDate Aug<31>2005 16:55 Oct 03, 2005 Jkt 205001 collection of information while this submission is pending at OMB. This ICR describes the nature of the information collection and its estimated burden and cost. DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before November 3, 2005. Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number OECA– 2005–0030, to (1) EPA online using EDOCKET (our preferred method), by email to docket.oeca@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental Protection Agency, Enforcement and Compliance Docket and Information Center, Mail Code 2201T, 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. ADDRESSES: FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Learia Williams, Compliance Assessment and Media Programs Division, Office of Compliance, Mail Code 2223A, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 564–4113; fax number: (202) 564–0050; e-mail address: williams.learia@epa.gov. EPA has submitted the following ICR to OMB for review and approval according to the procedures prescribed in 5 CFR 1320.12. On May 6, 2005 (70 FR 24020), EPA sought comments on this ICR pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received no comments. EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID Number OECA–2005–0030, which is available for public viewing at the Enforcement and Compliance Docket and Information Center in the EPA Docket Center (EPA/ DC), EPA West, Room B102, 1301 Constitution Avenue, 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 Enforcement and Compliance Docket and Information Center 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. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: PO 00000 Frm 00018 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 When 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, 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. Title: NESHAP for Source Categories: Generic Maximum Achievable Control Technology Standards (Renewal). Abstract: The National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) for Source Categories: Generic Maximum Achievable Control Technology (hereafter, this subpart is referred to as the ‘‘generic MACT’’), published at 40 CFR part 63, subpart YY, were proposed on October 14, 1998 (63 FR 55178), and promulgated on June 29, 1999 (64 FR 34854). The rule addressed hazardous air pollutant (HAP) emission sources in these four source categories: Polycarbonates (PC) Production, Acrylic and Modacrylic Fibers (AMF) Production, Acetal Resins (AR) Production and Hydrogen Fluoride (HF) Production. On November 22, 1999, the Agency proposed wastewater provisions amendments (64 FR 63779) to the promulgated generic MACT applicable to the AR, AMF, and PC production source categories. The HF production source category does not have wastewater streams. Respondents are required to submit one-time only reports of the (1) start of construction for new facilities or an initial notification if it is an existing source at the time of rule promulgation, (2) anticipated and actual start-up dates for new facilities, and (3) physical or operational changes to existing E:\FR\FM\04OCN1.SGM 04OCN1

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Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for 
Review and Approval; Comment Request; Regulatory Pilot Projects 
(Renewal), EPA ICR Number 1755.07, OMB Control Number 2010-0026

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 renewal of an 
existing approved collection. This ICR was scheduled to expire on 
September 30, 2005. Under OMB regulations, the Agency may continue to 
conduct or sponsor the collection of information while this submission 
is pending at OMB. This ICR describes the nature of the information 
collection and its estimated burden and cost.

DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before November 3, 
2005.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number OA-2005-
0002, 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, Regulatory Innovation Pilot Projects, MC 28221T, 
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

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for EPA, 725 17th Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Douglas Heimlich in the Office of 
Environmental Policy Innovation may be reached by phone at (202) 566-
2234, by e-mail at heimlich.douglas@epa.gov, or by FAX at (202) 566-
2200. Or, contact Dr. Gerald Filbin in the Office of Environmental 
Policy Innovation at (202) 566-2182, by e-mail at 
filbin.gerald@epa.gov, or by FAX at (202) 566-2211.

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 June 8, 2005 (70 FR 33472), EPA sought comments on this ICR 
pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received no comments.
    EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID 
No. OA-2005-0002, which is available for public viewing at the Office 
of the Administrator 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 the Administrator 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: Regulatory Pilot Projects (Renewal).
    Abstract: In March 1995, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 
initiated Regulatory Innovation Pilot Projects in response to a 
challenge to transform the environmental regulatory system to better 
meet the needs of a rapidly changing society while maintaining the 
nation's commitment to protect human health and safeguard the natural 
environment. EPA's first regulatory innovation pilot mechanism was 
Project XL, or eXcellence and Leadership (https://www.epa.gov/ProjectXL/
). EPA used Project XL to support a variety of innovation pilots to 
gather data and project experience that will help the Agency redesign 
current approaches to public health and environmental protection. 
Through site-specific agreements with project sponsors, Project XL has 
given companies, communities, local governments, military bases, and 
universities flexibility from certain environmental regulations in 
exchange for commitments to achieve superior environmental performance 
at less cost. EPA no longer accepts new projects under the XL program, 
however, EPA is completing the earlier projects initiated under Project 
XL.
    Before submitting an official Project XL proposal to EPA, the 
project sponsor typically engaged in informal discussions with EPA 
about proposal design. Once a formal proposal was submitted, EPA along 
with the corresponding state environmental agency reviewed the 
proposal. EPA based acceptance of proposals on the extent to which 
proposals met the following eight criteria: (1) Superior environmental 
performance, (2) cost savings and reduced paperwork, (3) stakeholder 
involvement, (4) innovation or pollution prevention, (5) 
transferability, (6) feasibility, (7) monitoring, reporting and 
evaluation, and (8) no shifting of risk burden. If the proposal was 
accepted, EPA and the partnering state agency negotiated the conditions 
of the proposal with the project sponsor along with other interested 
stakeholders, including local and national environmental groups and 
nearby community residents. Once an agreement was reached regarding the 
conditions of the proposal and the necessary regulatory flexibility, 
the Final Project Agreement (FPA) was signed and the project sponsor 
began implementation.
    Starting in 2002, EPA developed a new mechanism for pilot projects 
that allowed the Agency to test regulatory innovation strategically and 
on a larger scale. Information collection for the purpose of grant 
competition solicitations are covered under another Agency ICR and will 
not be included here except for burden created in pre-competition 
consultation with States on subject areas for inclusion in the annual 
State Innovation Grant solicitation. General information on the State 
Innovation Grant Program can be found at the following URL https://
www.epa.gov/innovation/stategrants/).
    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: EPA estimates that each project sponsor for 
projects implemented under Project XL will use 20 hours, or 120 for all 
respondents, for the development of progress reports and a final 
project report and to address a small range of evaluation questions 
from EPA at the close of an individual project. Similarly, EPA 
anticipates that State Innovation Grants Projects may require States 
and Tribes that choose to respond to EPA's invitation to comment to 
expend up 32 hours each, annually, or 768 hours collectively (average 
of 24 States and Tribes providing comment) each year in consultation 
with EPA.
    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. 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

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number. The OMB control numbers for EPA's regulations are listed in 40 
CFR Part 9 and 48 CFR Chapter 15.
    Respondents/Affected Entities: Companies, States or other entities 
in the voluntary Regulatory Pilot Projects.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 30.
    Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 888 hours.
    Estimated Total Annual Costs: $40,704, that includes $0 Capital or 
O&M costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is a reduction of 71,411 hours. 
This difference is largely a result of moving away from individual 
facility proposals and toward state-wide projects, thus reducing 
substantially the number of pre-proposal submissions for testing while 
focusing on larger, more systems-change oriented projects. This 
difference is also a result of EPA's ability to refine the estimates 
based upon 10 years of experience promoting regulatory innovation and a 
better understanding of the burden requirements necessary to develop 
and submit proposals for innovative pilot projects, and an improved 
understanding of innovative pilot projects and how to develop them.

    Dated: September 22, 2005.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. 05-19862 Filed 10-3-05; 8:45 am]
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