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pesticides for distribution and use
within the State to meet a SLN. A Stateissued registration under FIFRA section
24(c) is deemed a Federal registration
for the purposes of the pesticide’s use
within the State’s boundaries. A State
must notify EPA, in writing, of any
action it takes, i.e., when it issues,
amends, or revokes a State registration.
The Agency has 90 days to disapprove
the registration. In such cases, the State
is responsible for notifying the affected
registrant. Pursuant to subpart D of 40
CFR part 162, responses to this
collection of information are mandatory.
Burden Statement: The annual public
reporting and recordkeeping burden for
this collection of information is
estimated to average 52 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.
Respondents/Affected Entities: State
and territorial governments.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
60.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:
36,036.
Estimated Total Annual Cost:
$2,401,245.
Changes in the Estimates: There is an
increase of 12,636 hours in the total
estimated burden currently identified in
the OMB Inventory of Approved ICR
Burdens. This increase reflects the
increase in average annual number of
applications from 2005–2007. This
change is an adjustment.
Dated: July 30, 2009.
John Moses,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[EPA–HQ–OPPT–2008–0219; FRL–8940–6]
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; EPA’s Design for the
Environment Formulator Product
Recognition Program; EPA ICR No.
2302.01, OMB Control No. 2070–NEW
AGENCY: Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
3501 et seq.), this document announces
that the following Information
Collection Request (ICR) has been
forwarded to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for review and
approval: EPA’s Design for the
Environment Formulator Product
Recognition Program; EPA ICR No.
2302.01, OMB No. 2070–NEW. The ICR,
which is abstracted below, describes the
nature of the information collection
activity and its expected burden and
costs.
DATES: Additional comments may be
submitted on or before September 4,
2009.
Submit your comments,
referencing docket ID Number EPA–
HQ–OPPT–2008–0219 to (1) EPA online
using www.regulations.gov (our
preferred method), by e-mail to
oppt.ncic@epa.gov or by mail to:
Document Control Office (DCO), Office
of Pollution Prevention and Toxics
(OPPT), Environmental Protection
Agency, Mail Code: 7407T, 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:
Barbara Cunningham, Director,
Environmental Assistance Division,
Office of Pollution Prevention and
Toxics, Environmental Protection
Agency, Mailcode: 7408–M, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington,
DC 20460; telephone number: 202–554–
1404; e-mail address: TSCA–
Hotline@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 June 18, 2008 (73 FR 34726), EPA
sought comments on this ICR. EPA
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sought comments on this ICR pursuant
to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received no
comments during the comment period.
Any comments related to this ICR
should be submitted to EPA and OMB
within 30 days of this notice.
EPA has established a public docket
for this ICR under Docket ID No. EPA–
HQ–OPPT–2008–0219, which is
available for online viewing at https://
www.regulations.gov, or in person
viewing at the OPPT 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
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 Pollution Prevention and
Toxics Docket is 202–566–0280.
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 public 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 in 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. 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
www.regulations.gov. 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. For
further information about the electronic
docket, go to www.regulations.gov.
Title: EPA’s Design for the
Environment Formulator Product
Recognition Program.
ICR Numbers: EPA ICR No. 2302.01,
OMB Control No. 2070–NEW.
ICR Status: This ICR is for a new
information collection activity. 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 title 40 of the CFR,
after appearing in the Federal Register
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when approved, are listed in 40 CFR
part 9, are displayed either by
publication in the Federal Register or
by other appropriate means, such as on
the related collection instrument or
form, if applicable. The display of OMB
control numbers in certain EPA
regulations is consolidated in 40 CFR
part 9.
Abstract: EPA’s Design for the
Environment (DfE) Formulator Product
Recognition Program formally
recognizes safer products where all
ingredients have an environmental and
human health profile showing that they
are the safest in their functional use
class. Under the encouragement of this
program, leading companies have made
great progress in developing safer,
highly effective chemical products.
Since the program’s inception in 1997,
formulators have used the program as a
portal to OPPT’s unique chemical
expertise, information resources, and
guidance on greener chemistry. DfE
Formulator partners enjoy Agency
recognition, including the use of the DfE
logo on products with the safest
possible formulations. In the future,
EPA expects much greater program
participation due to rising demand for
safer products. This information
collection enables EPA to accommodate
participation by more than nine
formulators each year and to enhance
program transparency.
Information collection activities
associated with this program will assist
the Agency in meeting the goals of the
Pollution Prevention Act (PPA) by
providing resources and recognition for
businesses committed to promoting and
using safer chemical products. In turn,
the program will help businesses meet
corporate sustainability goals by
providing the means to, and an objective
measure of, environmental stewardship.
Investment analysts and advisers seek
these types of measures in evaluating a
corporation’s sustainability profile and
investment worthiness. Formulator
Program partnership is an important
impetus for prioritizing and completing
the transition to safer chemical
products. The Formulator Program is
also needed to promote greater use of
safer chemical products by companies
unaware of the benefits of such a
change.
EPA has tailored its request for
information, and especially the
Formulator Product Recognition
Program application forms, to ensure
that the Agency requests only that
information essential to verify
applicants’ eligibility for recognition.
Responses to the collection of
information are voluntary. Respondents
may claim all or part of a notice
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confidential. EPA will disclose
information that is covered by a claim
of confidentiality only to the extent
permitted by, and in accordance with,
the procedures in TSCA section 14 and
40 CFR part 2.
Burden Statement: The annual public
reporting and recordkeeping burden for
this collection of information is
estimated to 22 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:
Entities potentially affected by this
action are companies that formulate
end-use, for-sale chemical products.
Frequency of Collection: On
occassion.
Estimated Average Number of
Responses for Each Respondent: 1.
Estimated No. of Respondents: 32.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on
Respondents: 691 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Costs:
$815,473 (including $382,800 in M&O
costs).
Changes in Burden Estimates: This is
a new ICR. This estimated burden for
this new ICR is estimated to be 691
hours and is a program change.
Dated: July 30, 2009.
John Moses,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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EPA Science Advisory Board Staff
Office; Notification of Two Public
Teleconferences of the Chartered
Science Advisory Board: Additional
Information
AGENCY: Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In a Federal Register notice
dated July 15, 2009, the EPA Science
Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office
announced a public teleconference on
August 28, 2009 for a chartered SAB
quality review of its draft report on the
Agency’s Expert Elicitation White
Paper. That teleconference will occur as
announced, but will include the
addition of a briefing on the SAB
Integrated Nitrogen Committee draft
report. The briefing will provide
information in preparation for a future
quality review of the Integrated Nitrogen
Committee report to be announced in a
future Federal Register notice. This
corrected notice announces the addition
of the Integrated Nitrogen Committee.
DATES: The public teleconference date
will be Friday, August 28, 2009 from 2
p.m. to 3:30 p.m. (all times are Eastern
Time).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Thomas Miller, Designated Federal
Officer (DFO), EPA Science Advisory
Board (1400F), (202) 343–9982.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The EPA
published a document in the Federal
Register notice dated July 15, 2009, FR
Doc. E9–16842, on pages 34348–34349,
the EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB)
Staff Office announced a public
teleconference on August 28, 2009 for a
chartered SAB quality review of its draft
report on the Agency’s Expert
Elicitation White Paper. Background (c)
as follows is being added for discussion
at the meeting.
(c) Briefing To Prepare for the Quality
Review of the SAB’s Draft Integrated
Nitrogen Research Report: During this
teleconference, the SAB will also
receive a briefing to help Board
members prepare for a future quality
review of a draft SAB Integrated
Nitrogen Committee draft report. The
SAB quality review will occur at a
future public meeting or teleconference
yet to be announced. The briefing will
summarize the Committee’s original
study on reactive nitrogen. Reactive
nitrogen, a form of nitrogen consisting
mainly of ammonium and nitrate, is
‘‘fixed’’ by natural or human-driven
processes or recycled from decaying
organic matter. Increasing quantities of
reactive nitrogen released by human
activities, such as the production and
use of synthetic fertilizers, burning of
fossil fuel, and planting of nitrogenfixing crops currently surpasses the
amount of nitrogen fixed by natural
processes (e.g., microbial activities,
wildfire). Adverse environmental effects
may occur when reactive nitrogen
occurs in amounts that exceed what the
ecosystem can normally use or recycle.
Adverse effects may include
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OPPT-2008-0219; FRL-8940-6]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Comment Request; EPA's Design for the Environment
Formulator Product Recognition Program; EPA ICR No. 2302.01, OMB
Control No. 2070-NEW
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 the following Information
Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for review and approval: EPA's Design for the
Environment Formulator Product Recognition Program; EPA ICR No.
2302.01, OMB No. 2070-NEW. The ICR, which is abstracted below,
describes the nature of the information collection activity and its
expected burden and costs.
DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before September 4,
2009.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OPPT-2008-0219 to (1) EPA online using www.regulations.gov (our
preferred method), by e-mail to oppt.ncic@epa.gov or by mail to:
Document Control Office (DCO), Office of Pollution Prevention and
Toxics (OPPT), Environmental Protection Agency, Mail Code: 7407T, 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: Barbara Cunningham, Director,
Environmental Assistance Division, Office of Pollution Prevention and
Toxics, Environmental Protection Agency, Mailcode: 7408-M, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: 202-
554-1404; e-mail address: TSCA-Hotline@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 June 18, 2008 (73 FR 34726), EPA sought comments on this
ICR. EPA sought comments on this ICR pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA
received no comments during the comment period. Any comments related to
this ICR should be submitted to EPA and OMB within 30 days of this
notice.
EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID
No. EPA-HQ-OPPT-2008-0219, which is available for online viewing at
https://www.regulations.gov, or in person viewing at the OPPT 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 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 Pollution Prevention and Toxics Docket is 202-
566-0280.
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 public 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 in 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. 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
www.regulations.gov. 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. For
further information about the electronic docket, go to
www.regulations.gov.
Title: EPA's Design for the Environment Formulator Product
Recognition Program.
ICR Numbers: EPA ICR No. 2302.01, OMB Control No. 2070-NEW.
ICR Status: This ICR is for a new information collection activity.
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 title 40 of the CFR, after appearing in the Federal Register
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when approved, are listed in 40 CFR part 9, are displayed either by
publication in the Federal Register or by other appropriate means, such
as on the related collection instrument or form, if applicable. The
display of OMB control numbers in certain EPA regulations is
consolidated in 40 CFR part 9.
Abstract: EPA's Design for the Environment (DfE) Formulator Product
Recognition Program formally recognizes safer products where all
ingredients have an environmental and human health profile showing that
they are the safest in their functional use class. Under the
encouragement of this program, leading companies have made great
progress in developing safer, highly effective chemical products. Since
the program's inception in 1997, formulators have used the program as a
portal to OPPT's unique chemical expertise, information resources, and
guidance on greener chemistry. DfE Formulator partners enjoy Agency
recognition, including the use of the DfE logo on products with the
safest possible formulations. In the future, EPA expects much greater
program participation due to rising demand for safer products. This
information collection enables EPA to accommodate participation by more
than nine formulators each year and to enhance program transparency.
Information collection activities associated with this program will
assist the Agency in meeting the goals of the Pollution Prevention Act
(PPA) by providing resources and recognition for businesses committed
to promoting and using safer chemical products. In turn, the program
will help businesses meet corporate sustainability goals by providing
the means to, and an objective measure of, environmental stewardship.
Investment analysts and advisers seek these types of measures in
evaluating a corporation's sustainability profile and investment
worthiness. Formulator Program partnership is an important impetus for
prioritizing and completing the transition to safer chemical products.
The Formulator Program is also needed to promote greater use of safer
chemical products by companies unaware of the benefits of such a
change.
EPA has tailored its request for information, and especially the
Formulator Product Recognition Program application forms, to ensure
that the Agency requests only that information essential to verify
applicants' eligibility for recognition. Responses to the collection of
information are voluntary. Respondents may claim all or part of a
notice confidential. EPA will disclose information that is covered by a
claim of confidentiality only to the extent permitted by, and in
accordance with, the procedures in TSCA section 14 and 40 CFR part 2.
Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping
burden for this collection of information is estimated to 22 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: Entities potentially affected by
this action are companies that formulate end-use, for-sale chemical
products.
Frequency of Collection: On occassion.
Estimated Average Number of Responses for Each Respondent: 1.
Estimated No. of Respondents: 32.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: 691 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Costs: $815,473 (including $382,800 in M&O
costs).
Changes in Burden Estimates: This is a new ICR. This estimated
burden for this new ICR is estimated to be 691 hours and is a program
change.
Dated: July 30, 2009.
John Moses,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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