[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 89 (Tuesday, May 10, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24573-24574]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-9319]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[ORD-2004-0019; FRL-7909-7]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for 
Review and Approval; Comment Request; Health Effects of Environmental 
Exposures Among Children Living in the Detroit, MI Area, EPA ICR Number 
2167.01

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 an Information Collection 
Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB) for review and approval. This is a request for a new collection. 
The ICR describes the nature of the information collection and its 
estimated burden and cost.

DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before June 9, 2005.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number ORD-2004-
0019, to (1) EPA online using EDOCKET (our preferred method), by e-mail 
to [email protected], or by mail to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental 
Protection Agency, Mail Code: 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 
Washington, DC 20460, and (2) Mail your comments to 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: Ann H. Williams, Office of Research 
and Development, Mail Code 58-C, Environmental Protection Agency, 
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711.

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 December 7, 2004 (69 FR 70680), EPA sought comments on this 
ICR pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received no comments. EPA received 
and responded to one request for information.
    EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID 
No. ORD-2004-0019, which is available for public viewing at the Office 
of Research and Development 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 Research and Development 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 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, 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: Detroit Children's Health Study: Health Effects of 
Environmental Exposures among Children Living in the Detroit, Michigan 
Area.
    Abstract: This epidemiologic study will be conducted by EPA's 
National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory. This 
study will examine the role of long-term environmental exposures, 
particularly local sources of ambient air pollution, in children's 
respiratory health conditions such as allergies and asthma. The 
participation of parents and children in this collection of information 
is strictly voluntary.
    Children's respiratory health will be assessed by a parent-
completed questionnaire and by simple measures of the child's lung 
function and exhaled breath. The twenty-page questionnaire will be 
distributed to the parents of children enrolled in the fourth and fifth 
grades at selected public schools in Detroit and Dearborn. The 
questionnaire includes a request for permission for their child to 
participate in measurements of lung parameters. Later, at a subset of 
these schools, those children with parental consent will be asked to 
perform simple measurements of air flow rates, lung volumes, and 
exhaled nitric oxide. The schools will be selected based on school 
location with respect to major roadways and major emission point 
sources.
    Children's long-term environmental exposures will be assessed based 
on a detailed lifetime residential history from the questionnaire, 
supplemental air quality measurements collected at a selected group of 
schools distributed throughout the school district, and an air quality 
model incorporating geographic information on local sources of air 
pollutants. Central site measurements of ambient air pollutants will be 
collected at the time of the lung function examinations.
    The collected information will be used to estimate the 
epidemiologic

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associations between respiratory health conditions and long-term 
exposures to ambient air pollutants in the study community. The 
epidemiologic analysis will examine the association of air quality 
parameters with a higher prevalence of respiratory conditions, with 
lower lung function, or with higher levels of exhaled nitric oxide 
after appropriate control for other determinants of respiratory health.
    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: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping 
burden for this collection of information is 0.4 hours per parent 
questionnaire and 0.75 hours per set of child respiratory health 
measures. This survey will not be repeated. 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: Entities potentially affected by 
this action are school officials, parents and children in the Detroit 
and Dearborn Public Schools.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 18,500.
    Frequency of Response: Once.
    Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 8,250 hours.
    Estimated Total Annual Cost: $113,468, includes $0 annualized 
capital or O&M costs and $113,468 in Labor costs.

    Dated: May 3, 2005.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. 05-9319 Filed 5-9-05; 8:45 am]
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