[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 192 (Friday, October 3, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 57441-57442]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-25131]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[ORD-2003-0010, FRL-7567-9]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; 
Comment Request; Detroit Exposure and Aerosol Research Study (DEARS), 
EPA ICR Number 1887.01, OMB Control Number 20XX-XXXX

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 EPA is planning to submit a 
proposed Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB). This is a request for a new collection. 
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 December 2, 2003.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number ORD-2003-
0010, to EPA online using EDOCKET (our preferred method), by email to 
[email protected], or by mail to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental 
Protection Agency, Office of Environmental Information Docket, Mail 
Code 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Barbara Blackwell, Environmental 
Protection Agency, MD E205-01, RTP, NC 27711; telephone number: (919) 
541-2886; fax number: (919) 541-0905; email address: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has established a public docket for this 
ICR under Docket ID number ORD-2003-0010, which is available for public 
viewing at the Office of Environmental Information Docket in the EPA 
Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West, Room B102, 1301 Constitution Ave., 
NW., Washington, DC. The EPA Docket Center 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 Reading Room is (202) 566-1744, 
and the telephone number for the Office of Environmental Information 
Docket is (202) 566-1752. An electronic version of the public docket is 
available through EPA Dockets (EDOCKET) at http://www.epa.gov/edocket. 
Use EDOCKET to obtain a copy of the draft collection of information, 
submit or view public comments, access the index listing of the 
contents of the public docket, and to access those documents in the 
public docket that are available electronically. Once in the system, 
select ``search,'' then key in the docket ID number identified above.
    Any comments related to this ICR should be submitted to EPA within 
60 days of this notice. EPA's policy is that public comments, whether 
submitted electronically or in paper, will be made available for public 
viewing in EDOCKET as EPA receives them and without change, unless the 
comment contains copyrighted material, CBI, or other information whose 
public disclosure is restricted by statute. When EPA identifies a 
comment containing copyrighted material, EPA will provide a reference 
to that material in the version of the comment that is placed in 
EDOCKET. The entire printed comment, including the copyrighted 
material, will be available in the public docket. Although identified 
as an item in the official docket, information claimed as CBI, or whose 
disclosure is otherwise restricted by statute, is not included in the 
official public docket, and will not be available for public viewing in 
EDOCKET. For further information about the electronic docket, see EPA's 
Federal Register notice describing the electronic docket at 67 FR 38102 
(May 31, 2002), or go to http://www.epa.gov./edocket.
    Affected entities: Entities potentially affected by this action are 
persons living in Wayne County, MI.
    Title: Detroit Exposure and Aerosol Research Study (DEARS)
    Abstract: EPA's Office of Research and Development proposes to 
conduct a residential and personal exposure field monitoring study in 
the city of Detroit, MI over a three-year period from 2004 to 2006. The 
primary goal of the study is to evaluate and describe the relationship 
between air toxics and PM constituents measured at a central site 
monitor and measurements of residential and personal concentrations. An 
emphasis is placed on understanding the impact of local sources (point 
and mobile) on outdoor residential concentrations and the impact of 
housing type and house operation on indoor concentrations.

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Personal monitoring will be conducted to determine the impact of time 
spent in nonresidential locations and personal activities on exposure. 
Approximately 120 persons will voluntarily agree to wear certain 
personal air monitors and to allow their homes to be equipped with 
other monitors to measure indoor air quality. Each home will be 
monitored for five consecutive days in the summer and five consecutive 
days in the winter. The study is a continuation and expansion of 
previous OMB-approved studies of human exposure to particles, 
undertaken in response to recommendations of the National Academy of 
Sciences (EPA ICR 1887.01 and 1887.02; OMB Approval  2080; 
1997-2003). The study also extends the approach developed in the 
Atlanta ARIES study as recommended by Dr. John Graham of OMB.
    Further details on the study design and the complete set of 
questionnaires are available for public viewing in the on-line EDOCKET 
at http://www.epa.gov/edocket. 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 40 CFR are listed in 40 CFR 
part 9.
    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: Respondents will be asked to fill out a Time-
Activity Diary which aids them in maintaining a log of activities over 
the course of each day. The following morning, a technician will go 
over their previous day's activity log with them and correct any 
omissions or mistakes. The time-activity diaries will take 
approximately 30 minutes to complete each day. In addition, a 
technician will administer a Follow-up questionnaire each day and will 
ask the participant questions about cooking and cleaning activities in 
the home over the previous 24 hours. This will take approximately 10 
minutes a day. Over the course of five days in each of two seasons, the 
total time burden is estimated to be 450 minutes per respondent. There 
are projected to be 120 respondents.
    The cost to each respondent will be the electrical power consumed 
in operating the indoor monitors. This has been estimated to amount to 
$5/day. Respondents will be reimbursed for this cost. 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: September 24, 2003.
Jewel F. Morris,
Acting Director, National Exposure Research Laboratory.
[FR Doc. 03-25131 Filed 10-2-03; 8:45 am]
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