[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 227 (Monday, November 28, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Page 72987]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-25799]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OECA-2017-0640; FRL-10457-01-OMS]


Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; Producers, Registrants, and Applicants of 
Pesticides and Pesticide Devices Under Section 8 of the Federal 
Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide 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), Producers, of Pesticides and 
Pesticide Devices under Section 8 of The Federal Insecticide, 
Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (EPA ICR Number 0143.14, OMB Control 
Number 2070-0028) 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 November 30, 2022. Public comments were previously requested 
via the Federal Register on September 7, 2022, 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 December 28, 
2022.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to EPA, referencing Docket ID No. EPA-
HQ-OECA-2017-0640, 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: Michelle Yaras, Office of Compliance, 
Monitoring, Assistance, and Media Programs Division, Pesticides, Waste 
& Toxics Branch (2227A), Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 
Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: 202-564-
4153; email address: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:  Supporting documents, which explain in 
detail the information that the EPA 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: Producers of pesticides and pesticide devices must 
maintain certain records with respect to their operations and make such 
records available for inspection and copying as specified in section 8 
of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and 
in regulations at 40 CFR part 169.
    This information collection is mandatory under 40 CFR part 169. It 
is used by the Agency to determine compliance with FIFRA. The 
information is used by EPA Regional pesticide enforcement and 
compliance staffs, the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance 
(OECA), and the Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) within the Office of 
Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention (OCSPP), as well as the U.S. 
Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Food and Drug Administration 
(FDA), and other Federal agencies, States under Cooperative Enforcement 
Agreements, and 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.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: Producers of pesticides and 
pesticide devices for sale or distribution in or exported to the United 
States.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 169).
    Estimated number of respondents: 19,027 (total).
    Frequency of response: Annual.
    Total estimated burden: 15,078 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.03(b).
    Total estimated cost: $909,655 (per year), includes $0 annualized 
capital or operation & maintenance costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is a decrease of 42,054 hours in 
the total estimated respondent burden compared with the ICR currently 
approved by OMB. This decrease of 42,054 hours is a result of our 
reassessment of the assumptions used to estimate the burden of this 
ICR. Adjustments resulted from corrections of clerical or computational 
errors in the previous ICR renewal supporting statement. Further 
adjustments to the burden estimates resulted from (1) adjustments in 
the salary computation for industry to reflect current wage rates, (2) 
adjustments for inflation, and (3) adjustment to the number of 
respondents.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2022-25799 Filed 11-25-22; 8:45 am]
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