[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 233 (Monday, December 4, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 75696-75697]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-30806]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-6911-3]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB 
Review; Comment Request, Protection of Stratospheric Ozone--Phaseout 
Regulation

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: Record Keeping and Periodic 
Reporting of the Production, Import, Recycling, Destruction, 
Transshipment and Feedstock Use of Ozone-Depleting Substances, OMB 
Number 2060-0170; with an extended expiration date of January 31, 2001. 
The ICR describes the nature of the information collection and its 
expected burden and cost; where appropriate, it includes the actual 
data collection instrument.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before January 3, 2001.

ADDRESSES: Send comments, referencing EPA ICR No. 1432.18 and OMB 
Control No. 2060-0170, to the following addresses: Sandy Farmer, U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency, Collection Strategies Division (Mail 
Code 2822), 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue,

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NW., Washington, DC 20460; and to 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. 1432.18. For technical 
questions about the ICR contact Tom Land, Global Programs Division 
(6205J), telephone (202) 564-9185, facsimile (202) 565-2093, e-mail: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Title: Record Keeping and Periodic Reporting of the Production, 
Import, Recycling, Destruction, Transshipment and Feedstock Use of 
Ozone-Depleting Substances, EPA ICR Number 1432.18; OMB Number 2060-
0170; with an extended expiration date of January 31, 2001. This is a 
request for extension of a currently approved collection.
    Abstract: The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the 
Ozone Layer (Protocol) and Title VI of the Clean Air Act (CAA) 
establish limits on total U.S. production, import and export of class I 
and class II controlled ozone-depleting substances. To ensure U.S. 
compliance with the limits and restrictions established by the Protocol 
and the CAA, the regulation establishes control measures for individual 
companies. The limits and restrictions for individual U.S. companies 
are monitored by EPA through the reporting requirements established in 
the regulation under 40 CFR part 82, subpart A. The regulation outlines 
both recordkeeping and reporting requirements. These reporting 
requirements are designed: (1) To satisfy U.S. obligations under the 
international treaty, the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete 
the Ozone Layer, in particular the requirements under Article 7 of the 
Protocol; (2) to fulfill statutory obligations under section 603(b) of 
Title VI of the CAA; (3) to report to Congress on the production, use 
and consumption of class I and class II controlled substances as 
statutorily required in section 603(d) of the CAA; and (4) to address 
Federal and industry concerns regarding illegal imports of newly 
produced and previously used controlled substances that are 
undercutting the U.S. markets for alternatives.
    Pursuant to regulations 40 CFR part 2, subpart B, you are entitled 
to assert a business confidentiality claim covering any part of the 
submitted business information as defined in 40 CFR 2.201(c). 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 September 6, 2000, (65 FR 
53999) and no comments were received.
    Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping 
burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 5.35 
hours per response. EPA is concurrently working on many rules that will 
revise the recordkeeping and reporting under the regulations in 40 CFR 
part 82, subpart A in separate rulemakings with revisions to the ICR. 
In addition, EPA is in the process of reflecting these many revisions 
in a changed Guidance Document For The Stratospheric Ozone Protection 
Program on reporting (including reporting forms) and making them 
available electronically and creating a secure system for the direct 
submission of electronic reporting.
    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: Users of Ozone-Depleting Substances.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 1,081.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion, Quarterly, Annually.
    Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 6,492.
    Estimated Total Annualized Capital, O&M Cost Burden: $3,032.
    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. 1432.18 and OMB Control No. 2060-0170 in any 
correspondence.

    Dated: November 28, 2000.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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