[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 129 (Thursday, July 5, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39699-39700]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-16442]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OPP-2011-1036; FRL-9341-3]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection;
Comment Request
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA), this
document announces that EPA is planning to submit a new Information
Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
Before submitting the ICR, titled: ``Soil Fumigant Risk Mitigation''
and identified by EPA ICR No. 2451.01 and OMB Control No. 2070-new to
OMB for review and approval, EPA is soliciting comments on specific
aspects of the proposed information collection.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before September 4, 2012.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by docket identification
(ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2011-1036, by one of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the online instructions for submitting
comments. Do not submit electronically any information you consider to
be Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other information whose
disclosure is restricted by statute.
Mail: OPP Docket, Environmental Protection
Agency Docket Center (EPA/DC), Mail Code: 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania
Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460-0001. In addition, please mail a copy of
your comments on the information collection provisions to the Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget,
Attn: Desk Officer for EPA, 725 17th St. NW., Washington, DC 20503.
Hand Delivery: To make special arrangements for
hand delivery or delivery of boxed information, please follow the
instructions at http://www.epa.gov/dockets/contacts.htm.
Additional instructions on commenting or visiting the docket, along
with more information about dockets generally, is available at http://www.epa.gov/dockets.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Amaris Johnson, Field and External
Affairs Division (7506P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460-
0001; telephone number: (703) 305-9542; fax number: (703) 308-5884;
email address: johnson.amaris@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. What information is EPA particularly interested in?
Pursuant to section 3506(c)(2)(A) of PRA, EPA specifically solicits
comments and information to enable it to:
1. Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of the
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functions of the Agency, including whether the information will have
practical utility.
2. Evaluate the accuracy of the Agency's estimates of the burden of
the proposed collection of information, including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used.
3. Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected.
4. Minimize the burden of the collection of information on those
who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated
electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic
submission of responses. In particular, EPA is requesting comments from
very small businesses (those that employ less than 25) on examples of
specific additional efforts that EPA could make to reduce the paperwork
burden for very small businesses affected by this collection.
II. What information collection activity or ICR does this action apply
to?
Affected entities: Entities potentially affected by this ICR are
certified applicators and agricultural pesticide handlers, soil
fumigant registrants, state and tribal lead agencies, and EPA.
Title: Soil Fumigant Risk Mitigation.
ICR number: EPA ICR No. 2451.01.
OMB control number: 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 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), after appearing
in the Federal Register 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 for certain EPA
regulations is consolidated in 40 CFR part 9.
Abstract: EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs, under the Office of
Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, will use the information
collected under this ICR to ensure that risk mitigation measures
necessary for reregistration eligibility for certain soil fumigant
chemicals are adequately implemented. The programs and activities
represented in this new ICR are the result of the Agency exercising the
authority of section 3(c)(2)(B) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide,
and Rodenticide Act, which authorizes EPA to require pesticide
registrants to generate and submit data to the Agency, when such data
are needed to maintain an existing registration of a pesticide.
Responses to this collection of information are required to obtain or
retain a benefit.
Burden statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping
burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 4.3
hours per response. Burden is defined in 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
The ICR provides a detailed explanation of this estimate, which is
only briefly summarized here:
Estimated total number of potential respondents: 17,853.
Frequency of response: On occasion.
Estimated total average number of responses for each respondent:
2.5.
Estimated total annual burden hours: 191,261.
Estimated total annual costs: $6,283,510.
This includes an estimated burden cost of $6,283,510 and an
estimated cost of $0 for capital investment or maintenance and
operational costs.
III. 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. 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 person listed under FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
List of Subjects
Environmental protection, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.
Dated: June 21, 2012.
James Jones
Acting Assistant Administrator, Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution
Prevention.
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