Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Collection of Information on Anaerobic Digestion Facilities Processing Wasted Food To Support EPA's Sustainable Food Management Program (Revision), 23564-23565 [2019-10705]

Download as PDF 23564 Federal Register / Vol. 84, No. 99 / Wednesday, May 22, 2019 / Notices Docket Center, Environmental Protection Agency, Mail Code 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20460, and (2) OMB via email to oira_submission@omb.eop.gov. Address comments to OMB Desk Officer for EPA. EPA’s policy is that all comments received will be included in the public docket without change including any personal information provided, unless the comment includes profanity, threats, Courtney Kerwin, information claimed to be Confidential Director, Regulatory Support Division. Business Information (CBI) or other [FR Doc. 2019–10706 Filed 5–21–19; 8:45 am] information whose disclosure is BILLING CODE 6560–50–P restricted by statute. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Melissa Pennington, U.S. Environmental ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION Protection Agency, Region 3, Mail Code AGENCY 3LC33, Environmental Protection [EPA–HQ–RCRA–2015–0836; FRL–9992–66– Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, OMS] Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (215) 814–3372; fax number: Information Collection Request 215–814–3114; email address: Submitted to OMB for Review and pennington.melissa@epa.gov. Approval; Comment Request; Collection of Information on Anaerobic SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Digestion Facilities Processing Wasted Supporting documents, which explain in detail the information that the EPA Food To Support EPA’s Sustainable Food Management Program (Revision) will be collecting, are available in the public docket for this ICR. The docket AGENCY: Environmental Protection can be viewed online at Agency (EPA). www.regulations.gov or in person at the EPA Docket Center, WJC West, Room ACTION: Notice. 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave. NW, SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Washington, DC. The telephone number Agency (EPA) has submitted an for the Docket Center is 202–566–1744. information collection request (ICR), For additional information about EPA’s Collection of Information on Anaerobic public docket, visit https://www.epa.gov/ Digestion Facilities Processing Wasted dockets. Food to support EPA’s Sustainable Food Abstract: EPA’s Sustainable Food Management Program (EPA ICR Number Management (SFM) Program promotes 2533.02, OMB Control Number 2050– the sustainable management of food 0217) to the Office of Management and which is a systematic approach that Budget (OMB) for review and approval seeks to reduce wasted food and its in accordance with the Paperwork associated impacts over its’ entire Reduction Act. This is a proposed lifecycle. The lifecycle of food includes revision of the ICR, which is currently use of natural resources, manufacturing, approved through December 31, 2019. sales, and consumption and ends with Public comments were previously decisions on recovery or final disposal. requested via the Federal Register on Diversion of food waste from landfills is October 3, 2018 during a 60-day a critical component of this effort. In comment period. This notice allows for order to effectively divert food waste an additional 30 days for public from landfills, sufficient capacity to comments. A fuller description of the process the diverted materials is ICR is given below, including its required. Knowledge of organics estimated burden and cost to the public. recycling capacity is needed to facilitate An agency may not conduct, or sponsor food waste diversion and anaerobic and a person is not required to respond digestion facilities provide a significant to a collection of information unless it amount of the needed capacity. displays a currently valid OMB control EPA’s food recovery hierarchy number. prioritizes potential actions to prevent DATES: Additional comments may be and divert wasted food. According to submitted on or before June 21, 2019. the hierarchy, processing wasted food via anaerobic digestion is a more ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, desirable option than landfilling or referencing Docket ID Number EPA– incineration because it creates more HQ–RCRA–2015–0836, to (1) EPA benefits for the environment, society online using www.regulations.gov (our and the economy. Anaerobic digestion preferred method), or by mail to: EPA jbell on DSK3GLQ082PROD with NOTICES Total estimated cost: $2,460,454 (per year), includes $0 annualized capital or operation & maintenance costs. Changes in Estimates: There is an increase of 17,198 hours in the total estimated respondent burden compared with the ICR currently approved by OMB. This increase is due to an incorrect estimate of 52 laboratories for the current approval while the actual number should have been near 1,000. VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:29 May 21, 2019 Jkt 247001 PO 00000 Frm 00043 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 of food waste and other organic materials generates renewable energy, reduces methane emissions to the atmosphere, and provides opportunities to improve soil health through the production of soil amendments. The SFM program supports these efforts by educating state and local governments and communities about the benefits of wasted food diversion. The SFM program also builds partnerships with state agencies and other strategic partners interested in developing organics recycling capacity and provides tools to assist organizations in developing anaerobic digestion (AD) projects. The nationwide collection of data about AD facilities processing food waste began in 2017 with a survey of all known AD facilities under the currently approved Information Collection Request (ICR). EPA published the first annual report of findings based on this data in July 2018. EPA is renewing this ICR in order to continue to monitor growth and evaluate trends in the capacity for processing of food waste and the amount of food waste being processed via AD in the United States. Data will be collected using electronic surveys that will be distributed to respondents by email and will be available on EPA’s AD website. Participation in this data collection effort is voluntary. Respondents are not required to reveal confidential business information. Form Numbers: EPA Form 6700–03, EPA Form 6700–04, EPA Form 6700–05 Respondents/affected entities: Project Developers, Project Owners or Plant Operators, and Livestock Farmers. Respondent’s obligation to respond: Voluntary. Estimated number of respondents: 254 (total). Frequency of response: Annually. Total estimated burden: 127 hours (per year). Burden is defined at 5 CFR 1320.03(b). Total estimated cost: $7,594 (per year), includes $0 annualized capital or operation & maintenance costs. Changes in the Estimates: The overall burden has slightly decreased from the original ICR. For this renewal, some questions have been revised for clarity, numerous questions have been eliminated and a series of questions have been streamlined. The time to complete the survey will decrease for operating years 2017, 2018, 2019 and E:\FR\FM\22MYN1.SGM 22MYN1 Federal Register / Vol. 84, No. 99 / Wednesday, May 22, 2019 / Notices 2020 for Respondents that previously provided data. Courtney Kerwin, Director, Regulatory Support Division. [FR Doc. 2019–10705 Filed 5–21–19; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6560–50–P ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY [EPA–HQ–OPP–2019–0188; FRL–9992–25] Jefferson Clinton Bldg., Rm. 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460–0001. The 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 Public Reading Room is (202) 566–1744, and the telephone number for the OPP Docket is (703) 305–5805. Please review the visitor instructions and additional information about the docket available at https://www.epa.gov/dockets. II. Contractor Requirements Under this contract number, the AGENCY: Environmental Protection contractor will perform the following: Agency (EPA). Under Contract No. 68HERH19C0001, The Contractor shall designate a single ACTION: Notice. primary point of contact for all Office of SUMMARY: This notice announces that Chemical Safety Pollution Prevention pesticide related information submitted (OCSPP) activities and issues. The to EPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs Contractor shall ensure that the point of (OPP) pursuant to the Federal contact (POC) provides sufficient Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide management accordingly, to ensure that Act (FIFRA) and the Federal Food, Drug, the work is performed efficiently, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), including accurately, and that the deliverables are information that may have been claimed delivered in a timely manner and in as Confidential Business Information compliance with the requirements as (CBI) by the submitter, will be stated in this Performance Work transferred to Innovate, Inc. in Statement (PWS). The Contractor shall accordance with the CBI regulations. ensure that it provides the required Innovate, Inc. has been awarded a labor and expertise to perform under contract to perform work for OPP, and this PWS. The Contractor shall notify access to this information will enable the Contracting Officer Representative Innovate, Inc. to fulfill the obligations of (COR) within 30 days of the estimated the contract. date when the accrued costs associated with the PWS is estimated to be over DATES: Innovate, Inc. will be given 75% of the funded amount. The access to this information on or before contractor shall provide EPA with the May 28, 2019. source codes to all programs created FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: under this contract and the EPA will William Northern, Information Technology and Resources Management have sole ownership rights to all programs and software bought, Division (7502P), Office of Pesticide designed, programed, including Systems Programs, Environmental Protection Technical Documentation, and all Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460–0001; telephone Technical Materials, etc. under this contract. The contractor shall provide number: 703 305–6478 email address: the COR with monthly reports for work Northern.William@epa.gov. conducted under this PWS. One kick-off SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: meeting and one or more project requirements meetings, as appropriate, I. General Information shall be required. Supporting services to A. Does this action apply to me? the Contractor’s business including, but not limited to, accounting, clerical, This action applies to the public in executive management, and business general. As such, the Agency has not development are not chargeable to the attempted to describe all the specific Government as they are included in the entities that may be affected by this Contractor’s fully burdened rates. action. Because of the constantly changing B. How can I get copies of this document nature of information technology, and other related information? federal government initiatives and emphasis, and federal budgetary The docket for this action, identified uncertainty, the number and nature of by docket identification (ID) number projects over the base period and option EPA- EPA–HQ–OPP–2019–0188, is year of this contract will vary. The available at https://www.regulations.gov deliverable quantities provided in this or at the Office of Pesticide Programs PWS are provided as estimates only. Regulatory Public Docket (OPP Docket) in the Environmental Protection Agency The Contractor shall comply with all applicable Federal and EPA security Docket Center (EPA/DC), West William jbell on DSK3GLQ082PROD with NOTICES Innovate, Inc.; Transfer of Data VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:29 May 21, 2019 Jkt 247001 PO 00000 Frm 00044 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 9990 23565 policies, guidance and practices. EPA will provide systems access as necessary where it is required for work under the Task. The Contractor shall provide any information necessary for issuance and continued authority to access government systems. The Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan (QASP) is stated at Attachment 1. The contractor shall provide EPA with the source codes to all programs created under this contract and the EPA will have sole ownership rights to all programs and software bought, designed, programed, etc. under this contract. This contract involves no subcontractors. OPP has determined that the contract described in this document involve work that is being conducted in connection with FIFRA, in that pesticide chemicals will be the subject of certain evaluations to be made under this contract. These evaluations may be used in subsequent regulatory decisions under FIFRA. Some of this information may be entitled to confidential treatment. The information has been submitted to EPA under FIFRA sections 3, 4, 6, and 7 and under FFDCA sections 408 and 409. In accordance with the requirements of 40 CFR 2.307(h)(3), the contract with Innovate, Inc., prohibits use of the information for any purpose not specified in these contract; prohibits disclosure of the information to a third party without prior written approval from the Agency; and requires that each official and employee of the contractor sign an agreement to protect the information from unauthorized release and to handle it in accordance with the FIFRA Information Security Manual. In addition, Innovate, Inc. is required to submit for EPA approval a security plan under which any CBI will be secured and protected against unauthorized release or compromise. No information will be provided to Innovate, Inc. until the requirements in this document have been fully satisfied. Records of information provided to Innovate, Inc. will be maintained by EPA Project Officers for this contract. All information supplied to Innovate, Inc. by EPA for use in connection with this contract will be returned to EPA when Innovate, Inc. has completed its work. Authority: 7 U.S.C. 136 et seq.; 21 U.S.C. 301 et seq. Dated: April 11, 2019. Delores Barber, Director, Information Technology and Resources Management Division, Office of Pesticide Programs. [FR Doc. 2019–10678 Filed 5–21–19; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6560–50–P E:\FR\FM\22MYN1.SGM 22MYN1

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[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 99 (Wednesday, May 22, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23564-23565]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-10705]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-RCRA-2015-0836; FRL-9992-66-OMS]


Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; Collection of Information on Anaerobic 
Digestion Facilities Processing Wasted Food To Support EPA's 
Sustainable Food Management Program (Revision)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an 
information collection request (ICR), Collection of Information on 
Anaerobic Digestion Facilities Processing Wasted Food to support EPA's 
Sustainable Food Management Program (EPA ICR Number 2533.02, OMB 
Control Number 2050-0217) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) 
for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. 
This is a proposed revision of the ICR, which is currently approved 
through December 31, 2019. Public comments were previously requested 
via the Federal Register on October 3, 2018 during a 60-day comment 
period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public 
comments. A fuller description of the ICR is given below, including its 
estimated burden and cost to the public. 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.

DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before June 21, 2019.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
RCRA-2015-0836, to (1) EPA online using www.regulations.gov (our 
preferred method), or by mail to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental 
Protection Agency, Mail Code 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, 
Washington, DC 20460, and (2) OMB via email to 
[email protected]. Address comments to OMB Desk Officer for 
EPA.
    EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included in the 
public docket without change including any personal information 
provided, unless the comment includes profanity, threats, information 
claimed to be Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other 
information whose disclosure is restricted by statute.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Melissa Pennington, U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency, Region 3, Mail Code 3LC33, Environmental Protection 
Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460; telephone 
number: (215) 814-3372; fax number: 215-814-3114; email address: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supporting documents, which explain in 
detail the information that the EPA will be collecting, are available 
in the public docket for this ICR. The docket can be viewed online at 
www.regulations.gov or in person at the EPA Docket Center, WJC West, 
Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC. The telephone 
number for the Docket Center is 202-566-1744. For additional 
information about EPA's public docket, visit https://www.epa.gov/dockets.
    Abstract: EPA's Sustainable Food Management (SFM) Program promotes 
the sustainable management of food which is a systematic approach that 
seeks to reduce wasted food and its associated impacts over its' entire 
lifecycle. The lifecycle of food includes use of natural resources, 
manufacturing, sales, and consumption and ends with decisions on 
recovery or final disposal. Diversion of food waste from landfills is a 
critical component of this effort. In order to effectively divert food 
waste from landfills, sufficient capacity to process the diverted 
materials is required. Knowledge of organics recycling capacity is 
needed to facilitate food waste diversion and anaerobic digestion 
facilities provide a significant amount of the needed capacity.
    EPA's food recovery hierarchy prioritizes potential actions to 
prevent and divert wasted food. According to the hierarchy, processing 
wasted food via anaerobic digestion is a more desirable option than 
landfilling or incineration because it creates more benefits for the 
environment, society and the economy. Anaerobic digestion of food waste 
and other organic materials generates renewable energy, reduces methane 
emissions to the atmosphere, and provides opportunities to improve soil 
health through the production of soil amendments. The SFM program 
supports these efforts by educating state and local governments and 
communities about the benefits of wasted food diversion. The SFM 
program also builds partnerships with state agencies and other 
strategic partners interested in developing organics recycling capacity 
and provides tools to assist organizations in developing anaerobic 
digestion (AD) projects.
    The nationwide collection of data about AD facilities processing 
food waste began in 2017 with a survey of all known AD facilities under 
the currently approved Information Collection Request (ICR). EPA 
published the first annual report of findings based on this data in 
July 2018. EPA is renewing this ICR in order to continue to monitor 
growth and evaluate trends in the capacity for processing of food waste 
and the amount of food waste being processed via AD in the United 
States.
    Data will be collected using electronic surveys that will be 
distributed to respondents by email and will be available on EPA's AD 
website. Participation in this data collection effort is voluntary. 
Respondents are not required to reveal confidential business 
information.
    Form Numbers: EPA Form 6700-03, EPA Form 6700-04, EPA Form 6700-05
    Respondents/affected entities: Project Developers, Project Owners 
or Plant Operators, and Livestock Farmers.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Voluntary.
    Estimated number of respondents: 254 (total).
    Frequency of response: Annually.
    Total estimated burden: 127 hours (per year). Burden is defined at 
5 CFR 1320.03(b).
    Total estimated cost: $7,594 (per year), includes $0 annualized 
capital or operation & maintenance costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: The overall burden has slightly decreased 
from the original ICR. For this renewal, some questions have been 
revised for clarity, numerous questions have been eliminated and a 
series of questions have been streamlined. The time to complete the 
survey will decrease for operating years 2017, 2018, 2019 and

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2020 for Respondents that previously provided data.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2019-10705 Filed 5-21-19; 8:45 am]
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