[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 211 (Tuesday, November 2, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63524-63526]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-24414]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[OAR-2004-0077; FRL-7833-1]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for 
Review and Approval; Comment Request; Significant New Alternatives 
Policy (SNAP) (Renewal), EPA ICR Number 1596.06, OMB Control Number 
2060-0226

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 the following 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 
October 31, 2004. Under OMB regulations, the Agency may continue to 
conduct or sponsor the collection of information while this submission 
is pending at OMB. The ICR describes the nature of the information 
collection and its expected burden and cost.

DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before December 2, 
2004.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number OAR-2004-
0077, to (1) EPA online using EDOCKET (our preferred method), by e-mail 
to [email protected], or by mail to: Environmental Protection 
Agency, EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), Air and Radiation Docket and 
Information Center, Mail Code 6102T, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC, 20460, and (2) 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.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Karen Thundiyil, Office of Atmospheric 
Programs, Mail Code 6205J, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 
Pennsylvania Ave, NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 
343-9464; fax number: (202) 343-2363; e-mail address: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has submitted the following ICR to OMB 
for review and approval according to the procedures prescribed in 5 CFR 
1320.12. On June 15, 2004 (69 FR 33383), EPA sought comments on this 
ICR pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received no comments.
    EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID 
No. OAR-2004-0077, which is available for public viewing at the Air and 
Radiation Docket and Information Center in the EPA Docket Center (EPA/
DC), EPA West, Room B102, 1301 Constitution Avenue, 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 Air and Radiation Docket and Information 
Center is (202) 566-1742. 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. 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, confidential business 
information (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.
    Title: Significant New Alternatives Policy (SNAP) (40 CFR Part 82, 
Subpart G) (Renewal).
    Abstract: Information collected under this rulemaking is necessary 
to implement the requirements of the Significant New Alternatives 
Policy (SNAP) program for evaluating and regulating substitutes for 
ozone-depleting chemicals being phased out under the stratospheric 
ozone protection provisions of the Clean Air Act (CAA). Under CAA 
section 612, EPA is authorized to identify and restrict the use of 
substitutes for class I and class II ozone-depleting substances where 
EPA determines other alternatives exist that reduce overall risk to 
human health and the environment. The SNAP program, based on 
information collected from the manufacturers, formulators, and/or 
sellers of such substitutes, identifies acceptable substitutes. 
Responses to the collection of information are mandatory under section 
612 for anyone who sells or, in certain cases, uses substitutes for an 
ozone-depleting substance after April 18, 1994, the effective date of 
the final rule. Under CAA section 114(c), emissions information may not 
be claimed 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 in 40 CFR are listed in 40 CFR part 9 and are identified on 
the form and/or instrument, if applicable.
    Burden Statement: For persons filing a SNAP Information Notice or 
petition, the reporting burden is estimated to average 150 hours per 
year. For persons filing a TSCA/SNAP Addendum, the reporting burden is 
estimated to average 46 hours per year. For persons filing a 
notification of test marketing activity, the reporting burden is 
estimated to average 2 hours per year. For persons keeping records of 
use of a substitute subject to narrowed use limits, the recordkeeping 
burden is estimated to average 27 hours per year. For persons keeping 
records of a small volume use, the recordkeeping burden is estimated to 
average 12 hours per year. 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: Manufacturers, importers, 
formulators and processors of substitutes for ozone-depleting 
substances.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 279.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion.
    Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 8972.
    Estimated Total Annual Cost: $546,834, which includes $44,142 
annualized capital/startup costs, $260 annual O&M costs, and $502,432 
annual labor costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is a decrease of 1391 hours in the 
total estimated burden currently identified in the OMB Inventory of 
Approved ICR

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Burdens. This decrease is an adjustment to estimates based upon more 
widely available alternatives reducing the total number of users 
needing to keep records for alternatives subject to narrowed use 
limits.

    Dated: October 26, 2004.
Joseph A. Sierra,
Acting Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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