[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 125 (Friday, June 30, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42358-42359]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-13944]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OPP-2020-0273; FRL-11117-01-OMS]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the 
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment 
Request; Consolidated Pesticide Registration Submission Portal (New)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an 
information collection request (ICR), Consolidated Pesticide 
Registration Submission Portal, (EPA ICR Number 2624.01 and OMB Control 
Number 2070-NEW) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for 
review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. 
This is a request for approval of a new collection. Public comments 
were previously requested via the Federal Register on August 13, 2020 
during a 60-day comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 
days for public comments.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before July 31, 2023.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OPP-2020-0273, to EPA online using www.regulations.gov (our preferred 
method) 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: Carolyn Siu, Office of Program Support 
(7602M), Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, 
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, 
DC 20460-0001; telephone number: (202) 566-1205; email address: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a request for approval of a new 
collection. 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.
    Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register 
on August 13, 2020, during a 60-day comment period (85 FR 49366). This 
notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments. 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 https://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: This new ICR consolidates the collection activities and 
related burdens currently contained in eight ICRs that are approved by 
OMB under the PRA. The OMB Terms of Clearance for several of the 
existing ICRs directed EPA to consolidate these ICRs to simplify the 
burden presentation and calculations for the public due to the shared 
or anticipated collection method involving submissions via the 
Pesticide Submission Portal in EPA's Central Data Exchange (CDX). This 
consolidation is expected to clarify the capabilities of the Pesticide 
Submission Portal for respondents and will streamline the activities 
related to tracking the ICR renewal activities for both the public and 
EPA.
    The new ICR covers the EPA pesticide registration collection 
activities supporting the statutorily mandated pesticide registration 
program under the Federal Insecticide Fungicide and Rodenticide Act 
(FIFRA) and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), including 
the activities associated with pesticide registration; pesticide use; 
pesticide sale and distribution; pesticide permitting

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activities; determinations regarding whether a product must be 
regulated under FIFRA; and pesticide tolerances under the FFDCA.
    Form numbers: 8570-1, 8570-4, 8570-5, 8570-17, 8570-25, 8570-27, 
8570-34, 8570-35, 8570-36 and 8570-37.
    Respondents/affected entities: Pesticide and other agricultural 
chemical manufacturing, research, and development in the physical, 
engineering, and life sciences, biological products (except diagnostic) 
manufacturing, colleges, universities, and professional schools, farm 
supplies wholesalers, flower, nursery stock, and florist's supplies 
wholesalers, state government, other chemical and allied product 
merchant wholesalers, exterminating and pest control service, 
management, scientific, and technical consulting services.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory under FIFRA and 
FFDCA.
    Estimated number of respondents: 5,435 (total).
    Frequency of response: On occasion.
    Total estimated burden: 2,175,048 hours (per year). Burden is 
defined at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
    Total estimated cost: $183,517,210 (per year), which includes $0 
annualized capital or operation & maintenance costs.
    Changes in the estimates: This information collection combines the 
burdens from eight previously approved ICRs. The total combined 
respondent burden hours from those previously approved ICRs by OMB were 
estimated at 2,175,048 hours, the same amount requested for this ICR.
    The total combined cost burden from these eight previously approved 
ICRs was $170,250,338. The total cost burden requested for this ICR is 
$183,157,210--a increase of $12,906,872. The difference between the 
current cost burden request and the previously approved requests is due 
only to adjustments in EPA's estimates of the wage rates and material 
costs that were revised to reflect 2022 dollars for this ICR.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2023-13944 Filed 6-29-23; 8:45 am]
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