[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 72 (Wednesday, April 14, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19839-19840]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-8450]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[OPP-2003-0083; FRL-7647-2]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB; 
Comment Request; EPA ICR No. 0616.08/OMB Control No. 2070-0052; 
Compliance Requirement for Child-Resistant Packaging

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44 
U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that an Information 
Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. This is a request to renew an 
existing approved collection. This ICR is scheduled to expire on April 
30, 2004. Under OMB regulations, the Agency may continue to conduct or 
sponsor the collection of information while this submission is pending 
at OMB. This ICR describes the nature of the information collection and 
its estimated burden and cost.

DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before May 14, 2004.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nancy Vogel, Field and External 
Affairs Division (7506C), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental 
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460; 
telephone number: (703) 305-6475; fax number: (703) 305-5884; e-mail 
address: [email protected].

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number OPP-2003-
0083, to (1) EPA online using EDOCKET (our preferred method), by e-mail 
to [email protected], or by mail to: Public Information and Records 
Integrity Branch (PIRIB), Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP), 
Environmental Protection Agency, Mail Code: 7502C, 1200 Pennsylvania 
Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460, and (2)

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OMB at: Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB), Attention: Desk Officer for EPA, 725 17th 
Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    EPA has submitted the following ICR to OMB for review and approval 
according to the procedures prescribed in 5 CFR 1320.12. The Federal 
Register document, required under 5 CFR 1320.8(d), soliciting comments 
on this collection of information was published on April 18, 2003 (68 
FR 19201). EPA received no comments on this ICR during the 60-day 
comment period.
    EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID 
No. OPP-2003-0083, which is available for public viewing at the Public 
Information and Records Integrity Branch (PIRIB), Rm. 119, Crystal Mall 
2, 1921 Jefferson Davis Hwy., Arlington, VA. This docket 
facility is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, 
excluding legal holidays. The docket telephone number is (703) 305-
5805. An electronic version of the public docket is available through 
EPA Dockets (EDOCKET) at http://www.epa.gov/edocket. Use EDOCKET to 
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 and OMB 
within 30 days of this notice. Please note, 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 www.epa.gov/edocket.
    ICR Title: Compliance Requirement for Child-Resistant Packaging.
    ICR Status: This is a request for extension of an existing approved 
collection that is currently scheduled to expire on April 30, 2004. EPA 
is asking OMB to approve this ICR for three years. Under 5 CFR 
1320.12(b)(2), the Agency may continue to conduct or sponsor the 
collection of information while the submission is pending at OMB.
    Abstract: This information collection program is designed to 
provide the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with assurances that 
the packaging of pesticide products sold and distributed to the general 
public in the United States meets standards set forth by the Agency 
pursuant to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act 
(FIFRA). Registrants must certify to the Agency that the packaging or 
device meets these standards. Responses to this collection are required 
in order to obtain pesticide registration. The authority for this 
information collection is pursuant to section 25 (c)(3) of FIFRA. 
Compliance regulations are contained in Title 40 of the Code of Federal 
Regulations (CFR) part 157. CBI submitted to EPA in response to this 
information collection is protected from disclosure under FIFRA section 
10.
    Burden Statement: The annual ``respondent'' burden for this ICR is 
estimated to be 2,109 hours, or 3 hours per response. According to the 
Paperwork Reduction Act, ``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. For this 
collection, it is the time spent reading instructions, planning 
activities, creating information, reviewing data for reliability and 
accuracy, preparing and submitting the necessary certification 
statement, and storing, filing, and maintaining the data. The 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 number for this information collection 
appears at the beginning and the end of this document. In addition OMB 
control numbers for EPA's regulations, after initial display in the 
final rule, are listed in 40 CFR part 9.
    The following is a summary of the burden estimates taken from the 
ICR:
    Respondents/affected entities: Pesticide registrants.
    Estimated total number of potential respondents: 1,900.
    Frequency of response: On occasion.
    Estimated total/average number of responses for each respondent: 2.
    Estimated total annual burden hours: 2,109.
    Estimated total annual burden costs: $155,222.
    Changes in the ICR Since the Last Approval: The total estimated 
annual respondent cost for this ICR has increased 1,256 hours (from 853 
to 2,109), due mainly to an increase in the number of responses 
expected. Estimated costs have increased $100,203 (from $55,019 to 
$155,222) due to an increase in labor rates. These increases are 
explained more fully in the ICR.
    According to the procedures prescribed in 5 CFR 1320.12, EPA has 
submitted this ICR to OMB for review and approval. Any comments related 
to the renewal of this ICR should be submitted within 30 days of this 
notice, as described above.

    Dated: April 2, 2004.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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