[Federal Register: December 20, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 245)]
[Notices]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[OECA-2002-0021; FRL-7425-5]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission of EPA ICR
No. 0152.07 (OMB No. 2070-0020) to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment
Request
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501
et seq.), this document announces that the following Information
Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for review and approval: Notices of Arrival of
Pesticides and Devices (OMB Control No. 2070-0020, EPA ICR No.
0152.07). 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 January 21,
2003.
ADDRESSES: Follow the detailed instructions in the SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stephen Howie, Office of Compliance,
2225A, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.,
Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 564-4146; fax number:
(202) 564-0085; e-mail address: howie.stephen@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has submitted the following ICR to OMB
for review and approval according to the procedures prescribed in 5 CFR
1320.12. The Federal Register Notice required under 5 CFR 1320.8(d),
soliciting comments on this collection of information was published on
July 16, 2002 (67 FR 46663-4), and no comments were received.
EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID
No. OECA-2002-0021, which is available for public viewing at the
Enforcement and Compliance Docket and Information Center 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 Enforcement and Compliance Docket and
Information Center is (202) 566-1514. 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, and according to the following detailed
instructions: (1) Submit your comments to EPA online using EDOCKET (our
preferred method), by e-mail to docket.oeca@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA
Docket Center, Environmental Protection Agency, Mailcode: 2201T, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460, and (2) Mail your
comments to 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.
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
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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 www.epa.gov./edocket.
Title: Notices of Arrival of Pesticides and Devices (OMB Control
No. 2070-0020, EPA ICR No. 0152.07). This is a request to renew an
existing approved collection scheduled to expire on December 31, 2002.
Under the OMB regulations, the Agency may continue to conduct or
sponsor the collection of information while this submission is pending
at OMB.
Abstract: The U.S. Customs regulations at 19 CFR 12.112 require
that an importer desiring to import pesticides into the United States
shall, prior to the shipment's arrival, submit a Notice of Arrival of
Pesticides and Devices (EPA Form 3540-1) to EPA who will determine the
disposition of the shipment. After completing the form, EPA returns the
form to the importer, or his agent, who must present the form to
Customs upon arrival of the shipment at the port of entry. This is
necessary to insure that EPA is notified of the arrival of pesticides
and devices as required by the Federal Insecticide Fungicide and
Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) section 17(c) and has the ability to examine
such shipments to determine that they are in compliance with FIFRA. The
information is used by EPA Regional pesticide enforcement and
compliance staffs, OECA, and the Department of Treasury. 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 are
listed in 40 CFR part 9 and 48 CFR chapter 15, 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 0.3
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: Importers of Pesticide and Devices.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 18,500.
Frequency of Response: 1.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 5,550 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Cost: $396,085.
Changes in the Estimates: There is an increase of 3,450 hours in
the total estimated burden currently identified in the OMB Inventory of
Approved ICR Burdens. This increase is due to an adjustment in the
number of respondents, based on a survey of responses reported to the
EPA Regions in calendar year 2002.
Dated: December 2, 2002.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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