[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 169 (Tuesday, September 2, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 46264]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-23226]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-5885-8]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; 
Comment Request; Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements Under the 
Perfluorocompound (PFC) Emission Reduction Partnership for the 
Semiconductor Industry EPA ICR No. 1823.01

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 notice announces that EPA is planning to submit the 
following proposed Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office 
of Management and Budget (OMB): Reporting and Recordkeeping 
Requirements Under the Perfluorocompound (PFC) Emission Reduction 
Partnership for the Semiconductor Industry EPA ICR No. 1823.01. Before 
submitting the ICR to OMB for review and approval, EPA is soliciting 
comments on specific aspects of the proposed information collection as 
described below.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before November 3, 1997.

ADDRESSES: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Atmospheric Pollution 
Prevention Division, 401 M Street, SW (6202J), Washington, D.C. 20460.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Elizabeth Dutrow, Tel.: (202) 233-
9061, Fax: (202) 233-9583, E-mail: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

    Affected entities: Entities potentially affected by this action are 
those which manufacture semiconductor devices.
    Title: Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements Under the PFC 
Emission Reduction Partnership for the Semiconductor Industry EPA ICR 
No. 1823.01.
    Abstract: In April 1993, President Clinton issued the Climate 
Change Action Plan, which establishes the nation's commitment to 
returning U.S. greenhouse gas emissions to their 1990 levels by the 
year 2000. EPA's PFC Emission Reduction Partnership for the 
Semiconductor Industry is an important voluntary program contributing 
to the overall reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. The PFC Emission 
Reduction Partnership for the Semiconductor Industry, along with ENERGY 
STAR Buildings, Green Lights, ENERGY STAR Computers, and other EPA 
Programs is a voluntary program aimed at preventing pollution rather 
than controlling it after its creation. These programs focus on 
reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
    EPA has developed this ICR to obtain authorization to collect 
information from Companies participating in the PFC Emission Reduction 
Partnership. By participating in the program, a Company agrees to 
endeavor to reduce PFC emissions. In the Partnership, a company will 
prepare an annual report to be submitted to a designated law firm that 
provides an overall estimate of PFC emissions, and a normalized PFC 
emission rate for it's U.S. facilities. Information on Company-specific 
PFC emissions is aggregated into an industry-wide annual report, and 
used in combination with information on Companies' normalized rates of 
PFC emissions (submitted on a blind basis) to evaluate the overall PFC 
emission reductions achieved by the program.
    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 are listed in 40 CFR part 9 and 48 CFR Chapter 15.
    The EPA would like to solicit comments to:
    (i) Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is 
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, 
including whether the information will have practical utility;
    (ii) Evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden 
of the proposed collection of information, including the validity of 
the methodology and assumptions used;
    (iii) Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information 
to be collected; and
    (iv) 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.
    Burden Statement: The projected hour burden for this collection of 
information is as follows:
    Average Annual Reporting Burden Hours=8,206.
    Average burden hours/response=328.
    Frequency of response=1/year.
    Estimated number of respondents=25.
    Cost burden to respondents:
    Estimated Total Annualized Cost Burden=$455,879.
    Total capital and start-up costs=$1,500.
    Estimated Total Operation and Maintenance Cost=$225.
    Purchase of Services Cost=$1,160.
    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.

    Dated: August 18, 1997.
Jean Lupinacci,
Branch Chief, APPD, ESC/IBCS.
[FR Doc. 97-23226 Filed 8-29-97; 8:45 am]
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