[Federal Register: October 21, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 203)]
[Notices]
[Page 61284-61285]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[SFUND-2005-0007, FRL-7987-2]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Comment Request; EPA
ICR Number 1426.07, OMB Control Number 2050-0105
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.
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 EPA is planning to submit a
continuing Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB). This is a request to renew an existing
approved collection. This ICR is scheduled to expire on 12/31/2005.
Before submitting the ICR to OMB for review and approval, EPA is
soliciting comments on specific aspects of the proposed information
collection as described below.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before December 20, 2005.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number SFUND-
2005-0007, to EPA online using EDOCKET (our preferred method), by e-
mail to superfund.docket@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA Docket Center,
Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Solid Waste and Emergency
Response, 5202T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sella M. Burchette, U.S. EPA
Environmental Response Team, MS 101, Building 18, Edison, NJ 08837,
732-321-6726, or by e-mail at burchette.sella@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has established a public docket for this
ICR under Docket ID number SFUND-2005-0007, which is available for
public viewing at the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response
Superfund Docket 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 Office
of Solid Waste and Emergency Response Superfund Docket is (202) 566-
0276. An electronic version of the public docket is available through
EPA Dockets (EDOCKET) at http://www.epa.gov/edocket. Use EDOCKET to
obtain a copy of the draft collection of information, 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 within
60 days of this notice. 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 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 http://www.epa.gov./edocket.
Affected entities: Entities potentially affected by this action are
those State and local employees engaged in hazardous waste operations
and emergency response in the 27 States that do not have Occupational
Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) approved State plans.
Title: EPA Worker Protection Standard for Hazardous Waste Operation
and Emergency Response, OMB Control 2050-0105, EPA ICR
1426.07, Expiration 12/31/05. This is a request for renewal
of a currently approved collection.
Abstract: Section 126(f) of the Superfund Amendments and
Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA) requires EPA to set worker
protection standards for State and local employees engaged in hazardous
waste operations and emergency response in the 27 States that do not
have Occupational Safety and Health Administration approved State
plans. The EPA coverage, required to be identical to the OSHA
standards, extends to three categories of employees: those engaged in
clean-ups at uncontrolled hazardous waste sites, including corrective
actions at Treatment, Storage and Disposal (TSD) facilities regulated
under the Resource Conservation and recovery Act (RCRA); employees
working at routine hazardous waste operations at RCRA TSD facilities,
and employees involved in emergency response operations without regard
to location. This ICR renews existing mandatory record keeping
collection of ongoing activities including monitoring of any potential
employee exposure at uncontrolled hazardous waste sites, maintaining
records of employee training, refresher training, medical exams and
reviewing emergency response plans. 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. The EPA would like to solicit comments to:
(i) Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency,
including whether the information will have practical utility;
(ii) Evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden
of the proposed collection of information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
(iii) Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information
to be collected; and
(iv) Minimize the burden of the collection of information on those
who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated
electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic
submission of responses.
Burden Statement: The annual recordkeeping burden for this
collection will remain unchanged from previous estimates and is
estimated to average 10.46 hours per site or event. The estimated
number of respondents is approximated at 100 RCRA TSD facilities or
uncontrolled hazardous waste sites: 23,900 State and local police
departments, fire departments or hazardous materials teams. The
estimated total burden hours on respondents: 255,427. The frequency of
collection: continuous maintenance of records. Burden means to total
time, effort, and 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.
Remit comments regarding these matters, or any other aspect of the
information collection, including suggestions for reducing the burden,
to the address listed above.
Dated: October 17, 2005.
Charles H. Sutfin,
Deputy Director, Office of Superfund Remediation and Technology
Innovation.
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