[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 202 (Friday, October 22, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58653-58654]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-23025]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OPPT-2020-0616; FRL-9173-01-OMS]


Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; User Fees for the Administration of the 
Toxic Substances Control Act (Renewal)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an 
information collection request (ICR), User Fees for the Administration 
of the Toxic Substances Control Act (EPA ICR Number 2569.04, OMB 
Control Number 2070-0208) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) 
for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. 
This is a proposed extension of the ICR, which is currently approved 
through October 31, 2021. Public comments were previously requested via 
the Federal Register on March 19, 2021 during a 60-day comment period. 
This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments. A 
fuller description of the ICR is given below, including its estimated 
burden and cost to the public. 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.

DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before November 22, 
2021.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to EPA, referencing Docket ID No. EPA-
HQ-OPPT-2020-0616, online using www.regulations.gov (our preferred 
method), by email to [email protected], or by mail to: EPA 
Docket Center, Environmental Protection Agency, Mail Code 28221T, 1200 
Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460. EPA's policy is that all 
comments received will be included in the public docket without change 
including any personal information provided, unless the comment 
includes profanity, threats, information claimed to be Confidential 
Business Information (CBI), or other information whose disclosure is 
restricted by statute.
    Submit written comments and recommendations to OMB for the proposed 
information collection within 30 days of publication of this notice to 
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular information 
collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--Open for 
Public Comments'' or by using the search function.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Marc Edmonds, Existing Chemicals Risk 
Management Division (7407M), Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics, 
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, 
DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 566-0758; email address: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supporting documents, which explain in 
detail the information that the EPA

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will be collecting, are available in the public docket for this ICR. 
The docket can be viewed online at www.regulations.gov or in person at 
the EPA Docket Center, WJC West, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave. NW, 
Washington, DC. The telephone number for the Docket Center is 202-566-
1744. For additional information about EPA's public docket, visit 
http://www.epa.gov/dockets.
    Abstract: The Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st 
Century Act of 2016 made transformative changes to the Toxic Substances 
Control Act (TSCA), 15 U.S.C. 2601 et seq., including an amendment that 
provides EPA with the authority to collect fees to defray 25% of the 
costs associated with administering TSCA sections 4, 5 and 6, as well 
as the costs of collecting, processing, reviewing and providing access 
to and protecting CBI from disclosure as appropriate under TSCA section 
14. Payments are required from manufacturers (defined by statute to 
include importers) of a chemical substance who are required to submit 
information to EPA under TSCA section 4: Who submit certain notices and 
exemption requests to EPA under TSCA section 5: Who manufacture a 
chemical substance that is subject to a risk evaluation under TSCA 
section 6(b)(4): And who process a chemical substance that is the 
subject of a Significant New Use Notice (SNUN) or Test Market Exemption 
(TME) under TSCA section 5 and are required to submit information to 
EPA under TSCA section 4 related to a SNUN submission. EPA is not 
collecting a fee for submissions of Confidential Business Information 
(CBI) submitted under TSCA section 14.
    These fees are intended to achieve the goals articulated by 
Congress to provide a sustainable source of funds for EPA to fulfill 
its legal obligations to conduct the activities required under TSCA 
sections 4, 5 and 6 (such as risk-based screenings, designation of 
applicable substances as High- and Low-Priority, conducting risk 
evaluations to determine whether a chemical substance presents an 
unreasonable risk of injury to health or the environment, requiring 
testing of chemical substances and mixtures, and evaluating and 
reviewing manufacturing and processing notices), as well as the 
activities under TSCA section 14 (i.e., collecting, processing, 
reviewing, and providing access to and protecting information about 
chemical substances from disclosure as appropriate).
    Form Numbers: 9600-008.
    Respondents/Affected Entities: Entities identified by the following 
North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) codes:
     Petroleum and Coal Products (NAICS code 324);
     Chemical Manufacturing (NAICS code 325); and
     Chemical, Petroleum and Merchant Wholesalers (NAICS code 
424).
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory, TSCA Section 26(b).
    Estimated number of respondents: 1,348 (total).
    Frequency of response: On occasion.
    Total estimated burden: 598 hours (per year). Burden is defined at 
5 CFR 1320.3(b).
    Total estimated cost: $46,906 (per year), includes $0 annualized 
capital or operation & maintenance costs.
    Changes in the estimates: There is an increase in the total 
estimated respondent burden compared with the ICR currently approved by 
OMB due to the increase in the number of entities potentially affected 
and an increase in the number of information collection activities. The 
change reflects the number of submissions received under TSCA sections 
5 and 6. EPA's burden estimates for this collection are based upon 
historical information on the number of chemicals per premanufacture 
notices (PMNs), significant new use notifications (SNUNs), microbial 
commercial activity notices (MCANs), and exemption notices and 
applications including low-volume exemptions (LVEs), test-marketing 
exemptions (TMEs), low exposure/low release exemptions (LoREXs), TSCA 
experimental release applications (TERAs), certain new microorganism 
(Tier II) exemptions, and film article exemptions., and actions under 
TSCA section 6. This change is an adjustment.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2021-23025 Filed 10-21-21; 8:45 am]
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