[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 122 (Monday, June 27, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36937-36938]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-12656]


-----------------------------------------------------------------------

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[OW-2004-0024; FRL-7927-8]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for 
Review and Approval; Comment Request; Milestones Plans for the Bleached 
Papergrade Kraft and Soda Subcategory of the Pulp, Paper and Paperboard 
Manufacturing Category (Renewal), EPA ICR Number 1877.03, OMB Control 
Number 2040-0202

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Notice.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

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 to renew an existing 
approved collection. This ICR is scheduled to expire on June 30, 2005. 
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 July 27, 2005.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number OW-2004-
0024, 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, Water Docket, Mail Code 4101T, 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.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lynn Stabenfeldt, Environmental 
Protection Agency, Mail Code 4201 M, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 
Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 564-0602; fax number: 
(202) 501-2396; 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 August 30, 2004 (69 FR 52883), 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. OW-2004-0024, which is available for public viewing at the Water 
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 Water Docket 
is (202) 566-2426. 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: Milestones Plans for the Bleached Papergrade Kraft and Soda 
Subcategory of the Pulp, Paper and Paperboard Manufacturing Category 
(Renewal).
    Abstract: The information to be collected is a Milestones Plan, 
which is required as part of a new Voluntary Advanced Technology 
Incentives Program (VATIP) established under the Pulp, Paper, and 
Paperboard Effluent Limitations Guidelines and Standards (40 CFR part 
430) portion of the Cluster Rule promulgated on April 15, 1998. Only 
direct discharging bleached papergrade kraft and soda mills are 
eligible to participate in the VATIP. Furthermore, the Milestones Plan 
is required only of those mills that voluntarily choose to enroll in 
the incentives program. The VATIP (40 CFR 430.24(b)) is intended to 
encourage existing and new direct discharging mills to move beyond 
today's baseline BAT and NSPS technologies.
    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 estimated to average 120 
hours per response. 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 those existing, direct discharging mills with 
operations that chemically pulp wood fiber using kraft or soda methods 
to produce bleached papergrade pulp, paperboard, coarse paper, tissue 
paper, fine paper, and/or paperboard and that choose to participate in 
the Voluntary Advanced Technology Incentives Program established under 
40 CFR 430.24(b).
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 29.
    Frequency of Response: Annually.
    Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 1,418.

[[Page 36938]]

    Estimated Total Annual Cost: $150,000, includes $0 annualized 
capital or O&M costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is no change in the total estimated 
burden hours currently identified in the OMB Inventory of Approved ICR 
Burdens.

    Dated: June 20, 2005.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. 05-12656 Filed 6-24-05; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6560-50-P