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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 which have subsequently
changed; 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.
The ICR provides a detailed
explanation of the Agency’s estimate,
which is only briefly summarized here:
Estimated total number of potential
respondents: 12.
Frequency of response: 0.33.
Estimated total average number of
responses for each respondent: 1.
Estimated total annual burden hours:
968.
Estimated total annual costs:
$117,586. This includes an estimated
labor burden cost of $117,586 and an
estimated cost of $0 for capital
investment or maintenance and
operational costs.
What Is the Next Step in the Process for
This ICR?
EPA will consider the comments
received and amend the ICR as
appropriate. The final ICR package will
then be submitted to OMB for review
and approval pursuant to 5 CFR
1320.12. At that time, EPA will issue
another Federal Register notice
pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.5(a)(1)(iv) to
announce the submission of the ICR to
OMB and the opportunity to submit
additional comments to OMB. If you
have any questions about this ICR or the
approval process, please contact the
technical person listed under FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[EPA–HQ–ORD–2008–0067, FRL–8562–
2]
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; Technology
Performance and Product Information
to Support Vendor Information
Summaries (Renewal), EPA ICR
Number 2154.03, OMB Control Number
2050–0194
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (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 May 31, 2008. 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: Comments must be submitted on
or before June 5, 2008.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
referencing docket ID number EPA–HQ–
ORD–2008–0067, to (1) EPA online
using https://www.regulations.gov (our
preferred method), by e-mail to
ord.docket@epa.gov or by mail to: EPA
Docket Center, Environmental
Protection Agency, ORD 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:
Shannon D. Serre, Environmental
Protection Agency, 109 T.W. Alexander
Drive, E343–06, Research Triangle Park,
NC, 27711; telephone number: 919–
541–3817; fax number: 919–541–0496;
email address: serre.shannon@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 February 12, 2008 (73 FR 8040) EPA
sought comments on this ICR pursuant
to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received no
comments.
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EPA has established a public docket
for this ICR under Docket ID No. EPA–
HQ–ORD–2008–0067, which is
available for online viewing at
www.regulations.gov, or in person
viewing at the Office of Research and
Development (ORD) Docket in the EPA
Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West,
Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave.,
NW., Washington, DC. The EPA/DC
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 ORD Docket is 202–566–
1752.
Use EPA’s electronic docket and
comment system at
www.regulations.gov, to submit or view
public comments, access the index
listing of the contents of the docket, and
to access those documents in the docket
that are available electronically. Once in
the system, select ‘‘docket search,’’ then
key in the docket ID number identified
above. Please note that EPA’s policy is
that public comments, whether
submitted electronically or in paper,
will be made available for public
viewing at www.regulations.gov 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. For further
information about the electronic docket,
go to https://www.regulations.gov.
Title: Technology Performance and
Product Information to Support Vendor
Information Summaries (Renewal).
Abstract: The U.S. EPA Office of
Research and Development’s National
Homeland Security Research Center
(NHSRC) is helping to protect human
health and the environment from
adverse impacts resulting from
intentional acts of terror. With an
emphasis on decontamination and
consequence management, water
infrastructure protection, and threat and
consequence assessment, NHSRC
scientists and engineers are working to
develop tools and information that will
help detect the intentional introduction
of chemical, biological, and radiological
contaminants in buildings or water
systems, the containment of these
contaminants, the decontamination of
buildings and/or water systems, and the
disposal of material resulting from
cleanups.
An important facet of the NHSRC
mission is identifying, testing, and
evaluating technologies to support
emergency response personnel,
consequence managers, decisionmakers, and government officials. EPA
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has initiated this effort to develop brief
vendor information summaries of
available technologies relevant to the
detection and decontamination of
drinking water systems, building
materials, building structures, and
indoor air that may become
contaminated with chemical, biological,
or radiological contaminants. These
summaries will be based upon vendorgenerated or provided information
including any independent, validated
test data generated by governmental or
other organizations and provided to
EPA through this ICR. Information
provided will be used to produce 4–10
page summaries on each of the
technologies for which vendors
voluntarily agreed to submit the
requested information. These
summaries will be shared with EPA and
other emergency response personnel,
building and facility managers, and
water utility operators. The information
provided by technology developers and
vendors will also be used by the
NHSRC’s Technology Testing and
Evaluation Program (TTEP) to identify
technologies that may be suitable
candidates for testing and evaluation
and to track those technologies under
development that may eventually be
ready for rigorous testing and
evaluation.
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 15 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 which have subsequently
changed; 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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Estimated total number of potential
respondents: 70.
Frequency of response: On occasion.
Estimated total average number of
responses for each respondent: 1.
Estimated total annual burden hours:
1050 hours.
Estimated total annual costs: $81,620.
This includes an estimated burden cost
of $81,200 and an estimated cost of $420
for capital investment or maintenance
and operational costs.
Changes in the estimates: There is no
change estimated to occur.
Dated: April 29, 2008.
Sara Hisel-McCoy,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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formally disseminated by EPA. It does
not represent and should not be
construed to represent any Agency
policy or determination.
Versar, Inc., invites the public to
register to attend this workshop as
observers. In addition, Versar, Inc.,
invites the public to give brief oral
comments at the workshop regarding
the draft document under review. The
draft document and EPA’s peer review
charge are available via the Internet on
NCEA’s home page or Recent Additions
at https://www.epa.gov/ncea and is also
accessible from the IRIS home page or
Recent Additions at https://
www.epa.gov/iris. When finalizing the
draft document, EPA intends to
consider any public comments that EPA
receives in accordance with this notice.
The peer-review panel workshop
will be held on July 8, 2008, at 9 a.m.
The 60-day public comment period
begins on May 5, 2008, and ends June
30, 2008. Technical comments should
be in writing and must be received by
EPA by June 30, 2008. EPA intends to
submit comments from the public
received by this date to Versar, Inc.,
prior to the workshop for consideration
by the panel.
DATES:
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[FRL–8562–5; Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD–
2008–0111]
Draft Toxicological Review of Cerium
Oxide and Cerium Compounds:In
Support of the Summary Information in
the Integrated Risk Information System
(IRIS)
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of Peer-Review
Workshop and Public Comment Period.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: EPA is announcing that
Versar, Inc., under a contract with EPA,
will convene an independent panel of
experts and organize and conduct an
external peer-review workshop to
review the external review draft
document entitled, ‘‘Toxicological
Review of Cerium Oxide and Cerium
Compounds: In Support of Summary
Information on the Integrated Risk
Information System (IRIS)’’ (EPA/635/
R–08/002). The EPA is also announcing
a public comment period for the draft
document. EPA intends to consider
comments and recommendations from
the public and the expert panel meeting
when EPA finalizes the draft document.
The public comment period and the
external peer-review workshop are
separate processes that provide
opportunities for all interested parties to
comment on the document. EPA intends
to forward public comments, submitted
in accordance with this notice, to the
external peer-review panel prior to the
workshop for their consideration.
EPA is releasing this draft document
solely for the purpose of predissemination peer review under
applicable information quality
guidelines. This document has not been
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The peer-review workshop
will be held at the Courtyard by Marriott
Crystal City, 2899 Jefferson Davis
Highway, Arlington, VA 22202. Versar,
Inc., is organizing, convening, and
conducting the peer-review workshop.
To attend the workshop, register by July
1, 2008, via the Internet at https://
epa.versar.com/cerium/. You may also
register by calling Karie Riley at 757–
227–9552, or sending an e-mail to
kriley@versar.com. You must register by
July 1, 2008, and indicate whether you
wish to provide brief oral comments at
the workshop.
The draft ‘‘Toxicological Review of
Cerium Oxide and Cerium Compounds:
In Support of Summary Information on
the Integrated Risk Information System
(IRIS)’’ is available via the Internet on
NCEA’s home page or Recent Additions
at https://www.epa.gov/ncea and is also
accessible from the IRIS home page or
Recent Additions at https://
www.epa.gov/iris. A limited number of
paper copies are available from NCEA’s
Information Management Team;
telephone: 703–347–8561; facsimile:
703–347–8691. If you are requesting a
paper copy, please provide your name,
mailing address, and the document title.
Comments may be submitted
electronically via https://
www.regulations.gov, by mail, by
facsimile, or by hand delivery/courier.
Please follow the detailed instructions
ADDRESSES:
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-ORD-2008-0067, FRL-8562-2]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; Technology Performance and Product Information to
Support Vendor Information Summaries (Renewal), EPA ICR Number 2154.03,
OMB Control Number 2050-0194
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (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 May 31, 2008.
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: Comments must be submitted on or before June 5, 2008.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number EPA-HQ-
ORD-2008-0067, to (1) EPA online using https://www.regulations.gov (our
preferred method), by e-mail to ord.docket@epa.gov or by mail to: EPA
Docket Center, Environmental Protection Agency, ORD 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: Shannon D. Serre, Environmental
Protection Agency, 109 T.W. Alexander Drive, E343-06, Research Triangle
Park, NC, 27711; telephone number: 919-541-3817; fax number: 919-541-
0496; email address: serre.shannon@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 February 12, 2008 (73 FR 8040) 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. EPA-HQ-ORD-2008-0067, which is available for online viewing at
www.regulations.gov, or in person viewing at the Office of Research and
Development (ORD) Docket in the EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West,
Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC. The EPA/DC
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 ORD Docket is
202-566-1752.
Use EPA's electronic docket and comment system at
www.regulations.gov, to submit or view public comments, access the
index listing of the contents of the docket, and to access those
documents in the docket that are available electronically. Once in the
system, select ``docket search,'' then key in the docket ID number
identified above. Please note that EPA's policy is that public
comments, whether submitted electronically or in paper, will be made
available for public viewing at www.regulations.gov 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. For further
information about the electronic docket, go to https://
www.regulations.gov.
Title: Technology Performance and Product Information to Support
Vendor Information Summaries (Renewal).
Abstract: The U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development's
National Homeland Security Research Center (NHSRC) is helping to
protect human health and the environment from adverse impacts resulting
from intentional acts of terror. With an emphasis on decontamination
and consequence management, water infrastructure protection, and threat
and consequence assessment, NHSRC scientists and engineers are working
to develop tools and information that will help detect the intentional
introduction of chemical, biological, and radiological contaminants in
buildings or water systems, the containment of these contaminants, the
decontamination of buildings and/or water systems, and the disposal of
material resulting from cleanups.
An important facet of the NHSRC mission is identifying, testing,
and evaluating technologies to support emergency response personnel,
consequence managers, decision-makers, and government officials. EPA
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has initiated this effort to develop brief vendor information summaries
of available technologies relevant to the detection and decontamination
of drinking water systems, building materials, building structures, and
indoor air that may become contaminated with chemical, biological, or
radiological contaminants. These summaries will be based upon vendor-
generated or provided information including any independent, validated
test data generated by governmental or other organizations and provided
to EPA through this ICR. Information provided will be used to produce
4-10 page summaries on each of the technologies for which vendors
voluntarily agreed to submit the requested information. These summaries
will be shared with EPA and other emergency response personnel,
building and facility managers, and water utility operators. The
information provided by technology developers and vendors will also be
used by the NHSRC's Technology Testing and Evaluation Program (TTEP) to
identify technologies that may be suitable candidates for testing and
evaluation and to track those technologies under development that may
eventually be ready for rigorous testing and evaluation.
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 15
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 which have subsequently changed; 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.
Estimated total number of potential respondents: 70.
Frequency of response: On occasion.
Estimated total average number of responses for each respondent: 1.
Estimated total annual burden hours: 1050 hours.
Estimated total annual costs: $81,620. This includes an estimated
burden cost of $81,200 and an estimated cost of $420 for capital
investment or maintenance and operational costs.
Changes in the estimates: There is no change estimated to occur.
Dated: April 29, 2008.
Sara Hisel-McCoy,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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