[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 31 (Thursday, February 14, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8664-8665]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-2784]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OPP-2007-0320; FRL-8529-4]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for 
Review and Approval; Comment Request; Application and Summary Report 
for an Emergency Exemption for Pesticides; EPA ICR No. 0596.09, OMB 
Control No. 2070-0032

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. The ICR, which is abstracted below, 
describes the nature of the information collection and its estimated 
burden and cost.

DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before March 17, 
2008.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OPP 
2007-0032, to (1) EPA online using www.regulations.gov (our preferred 
method), by mail Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) Regulatory Public 
Docket (7502P), Environmental Protection Agency 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., 
NW., Washington, DC 20460, and (2) OMB by mail to: 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: Cameo Gianne Smoot, Field and External 
Affairs Division, 7506P, Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental 
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460; 
telephone number: 703-305-5454; fax number: 703-308-5884; 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 4, 2007 (72 FR 30794), EPA sought comments on this ICR 
pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received no comments. Any additional 
comments on this ICR should be submitted to EPA and OMB within 30 days 
of this notice.
    EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID 
No. EPA-HQ-OPP-2007-0320, which is available

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for online viewing at www.regulations.gov, or in person viewing at the 
OPP Regulatory Public Docket in Rm. S-4400, One Potomac Yard (South 
Building), 2777 S. Crystal Drive, Arlington, VA. The hours of operation 
of this Docket Facility are from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through 
Friday, excluding legal holidays. The Docket telephone number is (703) 
305-5805.
    Use EPA's electronic docket and comment system at 
www.regulations.gov, to submit or view public comments, access the 
index listing of the contents of the docket, and to access those 
documents in the docket that are available electronically. Once in the 
system, select ``docket search,'' then key in the docket ID number 
identified above. Please note that EPA's policy is that public 
comments, whether submitted electronically or in paper, will be made 
available for public viewing at www.regulations.gov 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. For further 
information about the electronic docket, go to www.regulations.gov.
    Title: Application and Summary Report for an Emergency Exemption 
for Pesticides.
    ICR numbers: EPA ICR No. 0596.09, OMB Control No. 2070-0032.
    ICR Status: This ICR is scheduled to expire on February 29, 2008. 
Under OMB regulations, the Agency may continue to conduct or sponsor 
the collection of information while this submission is pending at OMB. 
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 title 40 of the CFR, after appearing in the Federal Register when 
approved, are listed in 40 CFR part 9, are displayed either by 
publication in the Federal Register or by other appropriate means, such 
as on the related collection instrument or form, if applicable. The 
display of OMB control numbers in certain EPA regulations is 
consolidated in 40 CFR part 9.
    Abstract: Section 18 of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and 
Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) authorizes the Environmental Protection Agency 
(EPA) to grant emergency exemptions to states and Federal agencies to 
allow an unregistered use of a pesticide for a limited time if EPA 
determines that emergency conditions exist. A Section 18 action arises 
when growers and others encounter a pest problem on a site for which 
there is either no registered pesticide available, or for which there 
is a registered pesticide that would be effective but is not yet 
approved for use on that particular site. Section 18 also allows states 
to submit requests to EPA to grant unregistered pesticide use 
exemptions for public health and quarantine reasons. Responses to this 
collection of information are mandatory.
    Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping 
burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 83 
hours per application and 16 hours per summary report. 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 which have 
subsequently changed; 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: State Agency, U.S. Territory, or 
Federal Agency.
    Estimated No. of Respondents: 60.
    Frequency of Collection: On occasion.
    Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 49,500 hours.
    Estimated Total Annual Labor Costs: $2,472,770.
    Changes in Burden Estimates: There is no change in the 49,500 hours 
in the total estimated respondent burden compared with that identified 
in the ICR currently approved by OMB.

    Dated: February 7, 2008.
Sara Hisel-McCoy,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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