[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 175 (Friday, September 8, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54517-54518]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-23147]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-6866-5]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB 
Review; Comment Request; 2000 Meat Products Industry Surveys (EPA ICR 
1961.01)

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 document announces that the following Information 
Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB) for review and approval: ``2000 Meat Products Industry 
Surveys'' (EPA ICR No. 1961.01). The ICR describes the nature of the 
information collection and its expected burden and cost; where 
appropriate, it includes the actual data collection instruments.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before October 10, 2000.

ADDRESSES: Send comments, referencing EPA ICR No. 1961.01, to the 
following addresses: Sandy Farmer, U.S. Environmental Protection 
Agency, Collection Strategies Division (Mail Code 2822), 1200 
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460; and to the 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: For a copy of the ICR contact Sandy 
Farmer at EPA by phone at (202) 260-2740, by E-mail at 
[email protected], or download off the Internet at http://www.epa.gov/icr and refer to EPA ICR No. 1961.01. For technical 
questions about the ICR contact Samantha Lewis at (202) 260-7149.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title: 2000 Meat Products Industry Surveys 
(EPA ICR No.1961.01). This is a new collection.
    Abstract: The 2000 Meat Products Industry Surveys will collect, 
from industry, the technical and economic information required by EPA 
to develop effluent limitations guidelines and pretreatment standards. 
The Surveys cover slaughtering, further processing, and rendering of 
animals classified as red meat and poultry.
    EPA will issue these surveys under authority of section 308 of the 
Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 1318, which authorizes EPA to require the 
owner or operator of a point source to submit certain information that 
EPA needs to develop effluent regulations. The Surveys will provide the 
technical and economic information required to effectively evaluate 
pollution control technologies and the economic achievability of those 
technologies. Respondents will have the right to claim information as 
confidential. 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 
Federal Register document required under 5 CFR 1320.8(d), soliciting 
comments on this collection of information, was published on May 1, 
2000 (65 FR 25325). Four sets of comments were received.
    Burden Statement: The data collection consists of 3 elements: The 
Detailed Survey, the Screener Survey, and the 5-day analytical data 
requests for 20 facilities. The total nationwide public reporting and 
record keeping burden for this one-time, information collection is 
estimated to be 14,900 hours (30 hours per response for the Detailed 
Survey, 1 hour for the Screener Survey, and 138 hours for the 
analytical data). A facility receiving a request for analytical data is 
likely to also receive a survey. 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; to 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; to 
adjust the existing ways to comply with any

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previously applicable instructions and requirements; to train personnel 
to be able to respond to a collection of information; to search data 
sources; to complete and review the collection of information; and to 
transmit or otherwise disclose the information.
    EPA has identified approximately 8,000 facilities as potentially in 
the Meat Products Industry. EPA will send the Detailed Survey to 
approximately 350 sites and will send the Screener Survey to 
approximately 1,650 sites. The survey recipients will be selected using 
engineering judgement and statistical sampling methods. The estimated 
cost to complete the Detailed Survey is approximately $2,000 per site. 
The estimated cost for the screener survey is approximately $70 per 
site. For approximately 20 facilities, EPA will request five days of 
influent and effluent analytical data to be collected and sent to EPA 
labs for analysis. The estimated cost for each of these 20 sites is 
$9,500. The estimated total cost for the information collection burden 
is $1.03 million.
    Send comments on the Agency's need for this information, the 
accuracy of the provided burden estimates, and any suggested methods 
for minimizing respondent burden, including through the use of 
automated collection techniques to the addresses listed above. Please 
refer to EPA ICR No. 1961.01 in any inquiry.

    Dated: August 30, 2000.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. 00-23147 Filed 9-7-00; 8:45 am]
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