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first time. FIFRA section 4 directs EPA
to use FIFRA section 3(c)(2)(B) authority
to obtain the required data. While most
Reregistration Eligibility Decisions are
expected to be completed by 2008, the
Agency may still need to issue DCIs
after FY 2008 to close out the program.
(2) Registration review program.
Section 3(g) of FIFRA contains
provisions to help achieve the goal of
reviewing each pesticide every 15 years
to assure that the pesticide continues to
pose no risk of unreasonable adverse
effects on human health or the
environment. FIFRA section 3(g)
instructs EPA to use the FIFRA section
3(c)(2)(B) authority to obtain the
required data.
(3) Special review program. Though
rare, EPA may conduct a Special Review
if EPA believes that a pesticide poses
risks of unreasonable adverse effects on
human health or the environment.
Section 3(c)(2)(B) of FIFRA provides a
means of obtaining any needed data.
(4) Anticipated residue/percent crop
treated information. Under section 408
of FFDCA, before a pesticide may be
used on food or feed crops, the Agency
must establish a tolerance for the
pesticide residues on that crop or
established an exemption from the
requirement to have a tolerance. Section
408(b)(2)(E) and (F) of FFDCA authorize
the use of anticipated or actual residue
(ARs) data and percent crop treated
(PCT) data to establish, modify,
maintain, or revoke a tolerance for a
pesticide. The FFDCA requires that if
AR data are used, data must be reviewed
five years after a tolerance is initially
established. If PCT data are used, the
FFDCA affords EPA the discretion to
obtain additional data if any or all of
several conditions are met.
The Agency issues DCIs when it has
determined that more information is
necessary to make decision about
pesticides pursuant to the mandates in
FIFRA and FFDCA. Agency decisions
requiring additional data are based on
the data requirements set forth in 40
CFR parts 150 through 180, with the
majority of the data requirements
captured in 40 CFR part 158.
Burden Statement: The annual public
reporting and recordkeeping burden for
this collection of information is
estimated to range form 59 to 13,636
hours per response, depending on the
review program and type of DCI issued.
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
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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:
Entities potentially affected by this ICR
include pesticide registrants, which may
be identified by the North American
Industrial Classification System
(NAICS) code 32532, pesticide and
other agricultural chemical
manufacturing.
Frequency of Collection: On Occasion.
Estimated No. of Potential
Respondents: 1,643.
Estimated No. of Total Annual
Responses: 184.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on
Respondents: 262,301 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Costs:
$12,506,726.
Changes in the Estimates: The total
estimated burden for this consolidated
renewal ICR is 262,301 hours, which
reflects a net decrease of 106,030 hours
per year for this consolidated renewal
ICR over the combined burden estimates
for the currently approved ICRs. The
primary cause of this reduction is the
fact that EPA’s Reregistration program is
ending and that the Agency thus expects
to issue fewer reregistration DCIs. The
decreased burden associated with the
reduction in the number of
reregistration DCIs that will be issued is
somewhat offset by an expected burden
increase related to increase in the
number of registration review DCIs that
will be issued. These changes are
adjustments. The Agency is also
including a new category of DCIs for
enforcement and unanticipated
incidents. Although EPA expects that
the issuance of this type of DCI will be
rare, the related burdens represent a
program change. The Supporting
Statement includes detailed analyses of
these revised estimates.
Dated: September 15, 2008.
Sara Hisel-McCoy,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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Clean Water Act; Contractor Access to
Information Claimed as Confidential
Business Information
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of intended transfer of
information claimed as confidential
business information to contractors and
subcontractors.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) intends to transfer
information claimed as confidential
business information (CBI) collected
from several industries, including
health services, drinking water
treatment, and airport deicing to Abt
Associates and its subcontractors, to PG
Environmental, LLC, and its
subcontractors, and to Westat. Transfer
of the information will allow the
contractors and subcontractors to
support EPA in the planning,
development, review, and
implementation of effluent limitation
guidelines and standards under the
Clean Water Act (CWA). The
information being transferred was or
will be collected, in part, under the
authority of section 308 of the CWA.
Interested persons may submit
comments on this intended transfer of
information to the address noted below.
DATES: Comments on the transfer of data
are due October 1, 2008.
ADDRESSES: Comments may be sent to
Mr. M. Ahmar Siddiqui, Document
Control Officer, Engineering and
Analysis Division (4303T), Room 6231S
EPA West, U.S. EPA, 1200 Pennsylvania
Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
M. Ahmar Siddiqui, Document Control
Officer, at (202) 566–1044, or via e-mail
at siddiqui.ahmar@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has
transferred CBI to various contractors
and subcontractors over the history of
the effluent guidelines program. EPA
determined that this transfer was
necessary to enable the contractors and
subcontractors to perform their work in
supporting EPA in planning,
developing, reviewing, and
implementing effluent guidelines and
standards for certain industries.
Today, pursuant to 40 CFR
2.302(h)(2)(iii), incorporating by
reference 40 CFR 2.301(h)(2)(iii), EPA is
giving notice that it has entered into
contracts with Abt Associates (Abt),
contract number EP–C–07–023, located
in Cambridge, MA, with PG
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Environmental, LLC (PG), contract
number EP–C–07–029, located in
Herndon, VA, and with Westat, contract
numbers EP–D–07–109 and GS–23F–
8144H, located in Rockville, MD. The
purpose of these contracts is to secure
economic, technical, and statistical
analysis support for EPA in its
development, review, implementation,
and defense of effluent limitation
guidelines and standards for, and
studies of the environmental impacts
and potential mitigation of effluent
discharges for, a variety of industries,
such as the drinking water treatment
industry and the airport deicing
industry. To obtain assistance in
performing these contracts, Abt and PG
have entered into contracts with their
subcontractors. In particular, Abt has
obtained the services of the following
subcontractors: RTI International
(located in Research Triangle Park, NC,
subcontract number 21043); ICF
Consulting (located in Fairfax, VA,
subcontract number 21052); Great Lakes
Environmental Center (located in
Traverse City, MI, subcontract number
21040); Horizon Systems Corporation
(located in Herndon, VA, subcontract
number 21050); Aqua Terra (located in
Mountain View, CA, subcontract
number 21049); ETI (located in
Westford, MA, subcontract number
21171); Stratus Consulting, Inc. (located
in Washington, DC, subcontract number
20657); Indtai Inc. (located in Falls
Church, VA, subcontract number
21046); and independent consultants
Frank Arnold, Brynhildur Davidsdottir,
Lori Snyder Bennear, Robert Johnston,
Tim Bondelid, and Kurt Stephenson. PG
has obtained the services of the
following subcontractors: Amendola
Engineering, Inc. (located in Westlake,
OH, subcontract number EAD/029–003);
Tetra Tech, Inc. (located in Fairfax, VA,
subcontract number EAD/029–002); and
Eastern Research Group (located in
Chantilly, VA, subcontract number
EAD/029–001).
All EPA contractor, subcontractor,
and consultant personnel are bound by
the requirements and sanctions
contained in their contracts with EPA
and in EPA’s confidentiality regulations
found at 40 CFR Part 2, Subpart B. Abt,
PG, and Westat will adhere to EPAapproved security plans which describe
procedures to protect CBI. Abt, PG, and
Westat will apply the procedures in
these plans to CBI previously gathered
by EPA and to CBI that may be gathered
in the future for the airport deicing
industry, the drinking water treatment
industry, and other industries. The
security plans specify that contractor
personnel are required to sign non-
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disclosure agreements and are briefed
on appropriate security procedures
before they are permitted access to CBI.
No person is automatically granted
access to CBI: a need to know must
exist.
The information that will be
transferred to Abt, PG, and Westat and
their subcontractors consists, in part, of
information previously collected by
EPA to support the development,
review, implementation, and defense of
effluent limitations guidelines and
standards under the CWA and for
studies of the environmental impacts of
and potential mitigation of effluent
discharges from the airport deicing
point source category, the drinking
water treatment industry, the health
services industry, and other industries.
The information that will be transferred
consists of material claimed as trade
secrets, intellectual property,
commercial, financial, and other
information. It includes information
about operations, processes, products,
and company finances but does not
include information which is inherently
public, such as effluent discharge data.
EPA also intends to transfer to Abt,
PG, and Westat all information
described in this notice, of the type
described above (including CBI) that
may be collected in the future under the
authority of section 308 of the CWA or
voluntarily submitted (e.g., in comments
in response to a Federal Register
notice), as is necessary to enable Abt,
PG, and Westat to carry out the work
required by their contracts to support
EPA.
Dated: September 16, 2008.
Ephraim S. King,
Director, Office of Science and Technology.
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Science Advisory Board Staff Office
Clean Air Scientific Advisory
Committee (CASAC); Notification of a
Public Advisory Committee
Teleconference of the CASAC Oxides
of Nitrogen Primary NAAQS Review
Panel
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) Science Advisory Board
(SAB) Staff Office announces a public
teleconference of the Clean Air
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Scientific Advisory Committee’s
(CASAC) Oxides of Nitrogen Primary
NAAQS Review Panel (Panel) to
conduct a peer review of the draft
Exposure and Health Risk
Characterization chapter for EPA’s Risk
and Exposure Assessment to Support
the Review of the NO2 Primary National
Ambient Air Quality Standard: Second
Draft.
DATES: The teleconference will be held
on October 22, 2008 from 11 a.m. to 1
p.m. (Eastern Daylight Time).
ADDRESSES: The public teleconference
will be conducted by telephone only.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Members of the public who wish to
obtain the call-in number and access
code to participate in the teleconference
may contact Dr. Angela Nugent,
Designated Federal Officer (DFO), EPA
Science Advisory Board (1400F), U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20460; via telephone/
voice mail (202) 343–9981; fax (202)
233–0643; or e-mail at
nugent.angela@epa.gov. General
information concerning the CASAC and
the CASAC documents cited below can
be found on the EPA Web site at
https://www.epa.gov/casac.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: The Clean Air Scientific
Advisory Committee (CASAC) was
established under section 109(d)(2) of
the Clean Air Act (CAA or Act) (42
U.S.C. 7409) as an independent
scientific advisory committee. CASAC
provides advice, information and
recommendations on the scientific and
technical aspects of air quality criteria
and national ambient air quality
standards (NAAQS) under sections 108
and 109 of the Act. The CASAC is a
Federal advisory committee chartered
under the Federal Advisory Committee
Act (FACA), as amended, 5 U.S.C., App.
The Panel will comply with the
provisions of FACA and all appropriate
SAB Staff Office procedural policies.
Section 109(d)(1) of the CAA requires
that the Agency periodically review and
revise, as appropriate, the air quality
criteria and the NAAQS for the six
‘‘criteria’’ air pollutants, including
oxides of nitrogen (NOX). EPA is in the
process of reviewing the primary
NAAQS for nitrogen dioxide (NO2), an
indicator for NOX. Primary standards set
limits to protect public health,
including the health of ‘‘sensitive’’
populations such as asthmatics,
children, and the elderly.
As part of its scientific advice to
support EPA’s review of the primary
NAAQS for nitrogen dioxide (NO2),
CASAC met on September 9–10, 2008 to
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Confidential Business Information
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of intended transfer of information claimed as
confidential business information to contractors and subcontractors.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) intends to transfer
information claimed as confidential business information (CBI)
collected from several industries, including health services, drinking
water treatment, and airport deicing to Abt Associates and its
subcontractors, to PG Environmental, LLC, and its subcontractors, and
to Westat. Transfer of the information will allow the contractors and
subcontractors to support EPA in the planning, development, review, and
implementation of effluent limitation guidelines and standards under
the Clean Water Act (CWA). The information being transferred was or
will be collected, in part, under the authority of section 308 of the
CWA. Interested persons may submit comments on this intended transfer
of information to the address noted below.
DATES: Comments on the transfer of data are due October 1, 2008.
ADDRESSES: Comments may be sent to Mr. M. Ahmar Siddiqui, Document
Control Officer, Engineering and Analysis Division (4303T), Room 6231S
EPA West, U.S. EPA, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. M. Ahmar Siddiqui, Document
Control Officer, at (202) 566-1044, or via e-mail at
siddiqui.ahmar@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has transferred CBI to various
contractors and subcontractors over the history of the effluent
guidelines program. EPA determined that this transfer was necessary to
enable the contractors and subcontractors to perform their work in
supporting EPA in planning, developing, reviewing, and implementing
effluent guidelines and standards for certain industries.
Today, pursuant to 40 CFR 2.302(h)(2)(iii), incorporating by
reference 40 CFR 2.301(h)(2)(iii), EPA is giving notice that it has
entered into contracts with Abt Associates (Abt), contract number EP-C-
07-023, located in Cambridge, MA, with PG
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Environmental, LLC (PG), contract number EP-C-07-029, located in
Herndon, VA, and with Westat, contract numbers EP-D-07-109 and GS-23F-
8144H, located in Rockville, MD. The purpose of these contracts is to
secure economic, technical, and statistical analysis support for EPA in
its development, review, implementation, and defense of effluent
limitation guidelines and standards for, and studies of the
environmental impacts and potential mitigation of effluent discharges
for, a variety of industries, such as the drinking water treatment
industry and the airport deicing industry. To obtain assistance in
performing these contracts, Abt and PG have entered into contracts with
their subcontractors. In particular, Abt has obtained the services of
the following subcontractors: RTI International (located in Research
Triangle Park, NC, subcontract number 21043); ICF Consulting (located
in Fairfax, VA, subcontract number 21052); Great Lakes Environmental
Center (located in Traverse City, MI, subcontract number 21040);
Horizon Systems Corporation (located in Herndon, VA, subcontract number
21050); Aqua Terra (located in Mountain View, CA, subcontract number
21049); ETI (located in Westford, MA, subcontract number 21171);
Stratus Consulting, Inc. (located in Washington, DC, subcontract number
20657); Indtai Inc. (located in Falls Church, VA, subcontract number
21046); and independent consultants Frank Arnold, Brynhildur
Davidsdottir, Lori Snyder Bennear, Robert Johnston, Tim Bondelid, and
Kurt Stephenson. PG has obtained the services of the following
subcontractors: Amendola Engineering, Inc. (located in Westlake, OH,
subcontract number EAD/029-003); Tetra Tech, Inc. (located in Fairfax,
VA, subcontract number EAD/029-002); and Eastern Research Group
(located in Chantilly, VA, subcontract number EAD/029-001).
All EPA contractor, subcontractor, and consultant personnel are
bound by the requirements and sanctions contained in their contracts
with EPA and in EPA's confidentiality regulations found at 40 CFR Part
2, Subpart B. Abt, PG, and Westat will adhere to EPA-approved security
plans which describe procedures to protect CBI. Abt, PG, and Westat
will apply the procedures in these plans to CBI previously gathered by
EPA and to CBI that may be gathered in the future for the airport
deicing industry, the drinking water treatment industry, and other
industries. The security plans specify that contractor personnel are
required to sign non-disclosure agreements and are briefed on
appropriate security procedures before they are permitted access to
CBI. No person is automatically granted access to CBI: a need to know
must exist.
The information that will be transferred to Abt, PG, and Westat and
their subcontractors consists, in part, of information previously
collected by EPA to support the development, review, implementation,
and defense of effluent limitations guidelines and standards under the
CWA and for studies of the environmental impacts of and potential
mitigation of effluent discharges from the airport deicing point source
category, the drinking water treatment industry, the health services
industry, and other industries. The information that will be
transferred consists of material claimed as trade secrets, intellectual
property, commercial, financial, and other information. It includes
information about operations, processes, products, and company finances
but does not include information which is inherently public, such as
effluent discharge data.
EPA also intends to transfer to Abt, PG, and Westat all information
described in this notice, of the type described above (including CBI)
that may be collected in the future under the authority of section 308
of the CWA or voluntarily submitted (e.g., in comments in response to a
Federal Register notice), as is necessary to enable Abt, PG, and Westat
to carry out the work required by their contracts to support EPA.
Dated: September 16, 2008.
Ephraim S. King,
Director, Office of Science and Technology.
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