[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 224 (Monday, November 22, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67909-67910]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-25821]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[OPP-2004-0252, FRL-7839-6]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB; 
Comment Request; EPA ICR No. 0596.08; OMB Control No. 2070-0032; 
Application and Summary Report for an Emergency Exemption for 
Pesticides

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 the following 
Information Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office 
of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval: Application and 
Summary Report for an Emergency Exemption for Pesticides; EPA ICR No. 
0596.08; OMB Control No. 2070-0032. The ICR, which is abstracted below, 
describes the nature of the information collection activity and its 
expected burden and costs.

DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before December 22, 
2004.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Cameo Smoot, Field and External 
Affairs Division (7506C), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental 
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460; 
telephone number: (703) 305-5454; fax number: (703) 305-5884; e-mail 
address: [email protected].

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number OPP-2004-
0252 , 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, Mailcode: 7502C, 1200 Pennsylvania 
Ave., 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.

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 
August 27, 2004 (69 FR 52664). EPA received one comment in response to 
that notice during the 60-day comment period and has addressed it in 
the ICR.
    EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID 
No. OPP-2004-0252, which is available for public viewing at the Public 
Information and Records Integrity Branch (PIRIB), Rm. 119, Crystal Mall 
2, 1801 Bell St., 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

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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 on 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.
    ICR Title: Application and Summary Report for an Emergency 
Exemption for Pesticides.
    ICR Status: This is a request for extension of an existing approved 
collection that is currently scheduled to expire on November 30, 2004. 
EPA is asking OMB to approve this ICR for three years. Under OMB 
regulations at 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: Section 18 of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and 
Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) authorizes EPA to grant emergency exemptions to 
State, U.S. Territorial and Federal agencies to allow an unregistered 
use of a pesticide for a limited time if EPA determines that emergency 
conditions exist, whether use of the pesticide under the exemption will 
be protective of human health and the environment, and to evaluate the 
effectiveness of the requested product in allaying the emergency. This 
data collection program is designed to provide EPA with necessary data 
to evaluate an application for a permit for the temporary shipment and 
use of a pesticide product for an unregistered use to mitigate an 
emergency situation and to evaluate the effectiveness of that product 
in allaying the emergency. State, U.S. Territorial, and Federal 
agencies submit applications for section 18 emergency exemptions at 
their discretion in accordance with 40 CFR part 166. After EPA has 
granted a section 18 emergency exemption to a given government agency, 
the requesting agency must submit to EPA information related to any 
unexpected adverse effects resulting from the use of the pesticide and 
a report summarizing the results of the pesticide use. These government 
agencies must also maintain records for all treatments involving the 
first food use of a pesticide and make them available to EPA upon 
request.
    Burden Statement: The annual ``respondent'' burden for this ICR is 
estimated to be 99 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 reading the regulations, planning the 
necessary data collection activities, conducting tests, analyzing data, 
generating reports and completing other required paperwork, 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 appear 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: State Agency, U.S. Territory, or 
Federal Agency.
    Estimated total number of potential respondents: 50.
    Frequency of response: On occasion.
    Estimated total/average number of responses for each respondent: 
10.
    Estimated total annual burden hours: 49,500.
    Estimated total annual labor costs: $2,683,000.
    Changes in the ICR Since the Last Approval: The annual burden has 
decreased from 59,400 to 49,500 hours due to the drop in the overall 
number of section 18 emergency exemption applications filed annually, 
from 600 for the period 1998-2000 to approximately 500 for the period 
2001-2003. The 9,900 hour decrease in annual burden reflects an 
adjustment to the estimated annual burden for this ICR.

    Dated: November 9, 2004.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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