83 FR 3344 - Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Pesticide Data Call-in Program

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 16 (January 24, 2018)

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FR Document		2018-01269

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), ``Pesticide Data Call-in Program'' (EPA ICR No. 2288.03, OMB Control No. 2070-0174) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. This is a reinstatement of a previously approved ICR. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register on August 23, 2017 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.

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OPP-2016-0109; FRL-9971-51-OEI]


Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; Pesticide Data Call-in Program

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an 
information collection request (ICR), ``Pesticide Data Call-in 
Program'' (EPA ICR No. 2288.03, OMB Control No. 2070-0174) to the 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in 
accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. This is a reinstatement of 
a previously approved ICR. Public comments were previously requested 
via the Federal Register on August 23, 2017 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 February 23, 
2018.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OPP-2016-0109, to (1) 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, and (2) OMB via email to 
oira_submission@omb.eop.gov. Address comments to OMB Desk Officer for 
EPA.
    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.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Cameo Smoot, Field and External 
Affairs Division, (7596P), EPA, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, 
DC 20460; telephone number: (703) 305-5454; email address: 
smoot.cameo@epa.gov.

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: This ICR covers the information collection activities 
associated with the issuance of data-call-ins (DCIs) under section 
3(c)(2)(B) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act 
(FIFRA). In general, before manufacturers can sell pesticides in the 
United States, EPA must evaluate the pesticides thoroughly to ensure 
that they meet federal safety

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standards to protect human health and the environment. EPA grants a 
``registration'' or license that permits a pesticide's distribution, 
sale, and use only after the company meets the scientific and 
regulatory requirements. In evaluating a pesticide registration 
application, EPA assesses a wide variety of potential human health and 
environmental effects associated with the use of the product. 
Applicants, or potential registrants, must generate or provide the 
scientific data necessary to address concerns pertaining to the 
identity, composition, potential adverse effects, and environmental 
fate of each pesticide. The data allow EPA to evaluate whether a 
pesticide has the potential to cause harmful effects on certain non-
target organisms and endangered species that include: Humans; wildlife; 
plants; and surface water or ground water.
    Through a rigorous scientific and public process, EPA specifies the 
kinds of data and information necessary to make regulatory judgments 
about the risks and benefits of pesticide products under FIFRA sections 
3, 4 and 5, as well as the data and information needed to determine the 
safety of pesticide chemical residues under FFDCA section 408. The 
regulations in 40 CFR part 158 describe the minimum data and 
information EPA typically requires to support an application for 
pesticide registration or amendment; support the reregistration of a 
pesticide product; support the maintenance of a pesticide registration 
by means of the data call-in process; or establish or maintain a 
tolerance or exemption from the requirements of a tolerance for a 
pesticide chemical residue. As described in 40 CFR 158.30, however, 
FIFRA provides EPA with flexibility to require, or not require, data 
and information for the purposes of making regulatory judgments for 
individual pesticide products, thereby allowing for the data required 
to be modified on an individual basis to fully characterize the use and 
properties, characteristics, or effects of specific pesticide products 
under review. The Agency encourages each applicant to consult with EPA 
to discuss the data requirements prior to and during the registration 
process. In addition, the Agency cautions applicants that the data 
routinely required by the regulations may not be sufficient to permit 
EPA to evaluate the potential of the product to cause unreasonable 
adverse effects on man or the environment. EPA may, therefore, require 
the submission of additional data or information beyond that specified 
in the regulations if such data or information are needed to evaluate a 
pesticide product as required by FIFRA and FFDCA.
    EPA uses the DCIs issued to acquire the data that has been deemed 
necessary for the Agency's statutorily mandated review of a pesticide's 
registration, which require it to assess whether the continued 
registration of an existing pesticide causes an unreasonable adverse 
effect on human health or the environment and whether the Agency will 
pursue regulatory measures.
    Respondents/affected entities: Pesticide registrants--North 
American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code 325320 
(Pesticide and Other Agricultural Chemical Manufacturing).
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory under FIFRA section 
3(c)(2)(B).
    Estimated number of respondents: 122 (total).
    Frequency of response: On occasion.
    Total estimated burden: 615,447 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.03(b).
    Total estimated cost: $43,792,523 (per year). There are no capital 
investment or maintenance and operational costs associated with this 
collection.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is an increase of 353,146 hours in 
the total estimated respondent burden compared with that identified in 
the last ICR approved by OMB. The burden increase is a cumulative 
result of the program implementing new methodologies to calculate 
respondent burden, the inclusion of a new information collection 
group--consortium participants--to more accurately reflect the 
respondent burden, renaming and recalculating an existing information 
collection group from Enforcement and Unanticipated Incident activities 
to Maintenance DCIs, and the acceleration of the Registration Review 
Program. All of these activities have contributed to the significant 
increase in number of DCIs to be issued (221 versus 45) annually.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
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Description: Tariff Amendment: SCE’s Docket Numbers: QF18–490–000. requested via the Federal Register on
Response to Deficiency re Amended Applicants: UE–00601MD. August 23, 2017 during a 60-day
LGIA Altagas Sonoran Energy SA No. Description: Form 556 of UD– comment period. This notice allows for
158 to be effective 10/26/2017. 00601MD. an additional 30 days for public
Filed Date: 1/17/18. Filed Date: 1/10/18. comments. A fuller description of the
Accession Number: 20180117–5099. Accession Number: 20180110–5214. ICR is given below, including its
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 2/7/18. Comments Due: None Applicable. estimated burden and cost to the public.
Docket Numbers: ER18–671–000. Docket Numbers: QF18–501–000. An agency may not conduct or sponsor
Applicants: Alabama Power Applicants: Computer Avenue, LLC. and a person is not required to respond
Company. Description: Form 556 of Computer to a collection of information unless it
Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing: Avenue, LLC. displays a currently valid OMB control
Pulaski County Solar 2 (Hawkinsville 1 Filed Date: 1/18/18. number.
Solar) LGIA Filing to be effective Accession Number: 20180118–5099. DATES: Additional comments may be
1/3/2018. Comments Due: None Applicable. submitted on or before February 23,
Filed Date: 1/18/18. The filings are accessible in the 2018.
Accession Number: 20180118–5060. Commission’s eLibrary system by
clicking on the links or querying the ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 2/8/18.
docket number. referencing Docket ID Number EPA–
Docket Numbers: ER18–672–000. HQ–OPP–2016–0109, to (1) EPA online
Applicants: Unitil Energy Systems, Any person desiring to intervene or
protest in any of the above proceedings using www.regulations.gov (our
Inc. preferred method), or by mail to: EPA
Description: Notice of Termination of must file in accordance with Rules 211
and 214 of the Commission’s Docket Center, Environmental
Wheeling Agreement of Unitil Energy Protection Agency, Mail Code 28221T,
Systems, Inc. Regulations (18 CFR 385.211 and
385.214) on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW,
Filed Date: 1/17/18. Washington, DC 20460, and (2) OMB via
Accession Number: 20180117–5139. time on the specified comment date.
Protests may be considered, but email to oira_submission@omb.eop.gov.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 2/7/18. Address comments to OMB Desk Officer
intervention is necessary to become a
Docket Numbers: ER18–673–000. party to the proceeding. for EPA.
Applicants: Unitil Energy Systems, eFiling is encouraged. More detailed EPA’s policy is that all comments
Inc. information relating to filing received will be included in the public
Description: Notice of Termination of requirements, interventions, protests, docket without change including any
Wheeling Agreement of Unitil Energy service, and qualifying facilities filings personal information provided, unless
Systems, Inc. can be found at: http://www.ferc.gov/ the comment includes profanity, threats,
Filed Date: 1/17/18. docs-filing/efiling/filing-req.pdf. For information claimed to be Confidential
Accession Number: 20180117–5141. other information, call (866) 208–3676 Business Information (CBI) or other
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 2/7/18. (toll free). For TTY, call (202) 502–8659. information whose disclosure is
Docket Numbers: ER18–674–000. restricted by statute.
Dated: January 18, 2018.
Applicants: PacifiCorp. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing: Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Cameo Smoot, Field and External
Exelon NITSA (OR D.A.) Rev 1 to be Deputy Secretary.
Affairs Division, (7596P), EPA, 1200
effective 1/1/2018. [FR Doc. 2018–01248 Filed 1–23–18; 8:45 am]
Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC
Filed Date: 1/18/18. BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 20460; telephone number: (703) 305–
Accession Number: 20180118–5082. 5454; email address: smoot.cameo@
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 2/8/18. epa.gov.
Docket Numbers: ER18–675–000. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Applicants: AES Ohio Generation, AGENCY
Supporting documents, which explain
LLC. [EPA–HQ–OPP–2016–0109; FRL–9971–51– in detail the information that the EPA
Description: Tariff Cancellation: AES OEI] will be collecting, are available in the
Ohio Generation Notice of Termination
public docket for this ICR. The docket
Rate Schedule 3 to be effective Information Collection Request can be viewed online at
2/20/2018. Submitted to OMB for Review and www.regulations.gov or in person at the
Filed Date: 1/18/18. Approval; Comment Request; EPA Docket Center, WJC West, Room
Accession Number: 20180118–5103. Pesticide Data Call-in Program 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave. NW,
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 2/8/18.
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Washington, DC. The telephone number
Take notice that the Commission for the Docket Center is 202–566–1744.
Agency (EPA).
received the following electric securities For additional information about EPA’s
filings: ACTION: Notice.
public docket, visit http://www.epa.gov/
Docket Numbers: ES18–21–000. SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection dockets.
Applicants: Union Electric Company. Agency (EPA) has submitted an Abstract: This ICR covers the
Description: Application under information collection request (ICR), information collection activities
Federal Power Act Section 204 of Union ‘‘Pesticide Data Call-in Program’’ (EPA associated with the issuance of data-
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Electric Company. ICR No. 2288.03, OMB Control No. call-ins (DCIs) under section 3(c)(2)(B)
Filed Date: 1/18/18. 2070–0174) to the Office of Management of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide,
Accession Number: 20180118–5084. and Budget (OMB) for review and and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). In
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 2/8/18. approval in accordance with the general, before manufacturers can sell
Take notice that the Commission Paperwork Reduction Act. This is a pesticides in the United States, EPA
received the following qualifying reinstatement of a previously approved must evaluate the pesticides thoroughly
facility filings: ICR. Public comments were previously to ensure that they meet federal safety

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standards to protect human health and or information are needed to evaluate a FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS
the environment. EPA grants a pesticide product as required by FIFRA COMMISSION
‘‘registration’’ or license that permits a and FFDCA.
[CG Docket No. 03–123; DA 17–1214]
pesticide’s distribution, sale, and use EPA uses the DCIs issued to acquire
only after the company meets the the data that has been deemed necessary Pleading Cycle Extended for Comment
scientific and regulatory requirements. on Applications for State Certification
for the Agency’s statutorily mandated
In evaluating a pesticide registration for the Provision of
review of a pesticide’s registration,
application, EPA assesses a wide variety Telecommunications Relay Service
of potential human health and which require it to assess whether the
environmental effects associated with continued registration of an existing AGENCY: Federal Communications
the use of the product. Applicants, or pesticide causes an unreasonable Commission.
potential registrants, must generate or adverse effect on human health or the ACTION: Notice.
provide the scientific data necessary to environment and whether the Agency
will pursue regulatory measures. SUMMARY: In this document, the
address concerns pertaining to the
Commission extends the deadlines for
identity, composition, potential adverse Respondents/affected entities: comment on applications for state
effects, and environmental fate of each Pesticide registrants—North American certification for the provision of state
pesticide. The data allow EPA to Industrial Classification System telecommunications relay service (TRS)
evaluate whether a pesticide has the (NAICS) code 325320 (Pesticide and that were included in a Public Notice
potential to cause harmful effects on Other Agricultural Chemical DA 17–1074.
certain non-target organisms and Manufacturing). DATES: Interested parties may file
endangered species that include:
Humans; wildlife; plants; and surface Respondent’s obligation to respond: comments no later than February 23,
water or ground water. Mandatory under FIFRA section 2018. Reply comments may be filed no
3(c)(2)(B). later than March 12, 2018.
Through a rigorous scientific and
Estimated number of respondents: ADDRESSES: Comments may be filed
public process, EPA specifies the kinds
122 (total). using the Commission’s Electronic
of data and information necessary to
Comment Filing System (ECFS). See
make regulatory judgments about the Frequency of response: On occasion. Electronic Filing of Documents in
risks and benefits of pesticide products
Total estimated burden: 615,447 Rulemaking Proceedings, 63 FR 24121
under FIFRA sections 3, 4 and 5, as well (1998).
hours (per year). Burden is defined at 5
as the data and information needed to • Electronic Filers: Documents may
determine the safety of pesticide CFR 1320.03(b).
be filed electronically using the internet
chemical residues under FFDCA section Total estimated cost: $43,792,523 (per
by accessing ECFS: https://www.fcc.gov/
408. The regulations in 40 CFR part 158 year). There are no capital investment or ecfs/.
describe the minimum data and maintenance and operational costs • Paper Filers: Parties who choose to
information EPA typically requires to associated with this collection. file by paper must file an original and
support an application for pesticide Changes in the Estimates: There is an one copy of each filing.
registration or amendment; support the increase of 353,146 hours in the total • Filings can be sent by hand or
reregistration of a pesticide product; estimated respondent burden compared messenger delivery, by commercial
support the maintenance of a pesticide with that identified in the last ICR overnight courier, or by first-class or
registration by means of the data call-in overnight U.S. Postal Service mail. All
approved by OMB. The burden increase
process; or establish or maintain a filings must be addressed to the
is a cumulative result of the program
tolerance or exemption from the Commission’s Secretary, Office of the
requirements of a tolerance for a implementing new methodologies to
Secretary, Federal Communications
pesticide chemical residue. As calculate respondent burden, the
Commission.
described in 40 CFR 158.30, however, inclusion of a new information • All hand-delivered or messenger-
FIFRA provides EPA with flexibility to collection group—consortium delivered paper filings for the
require, or not require, data and participants—to more accurately reflect Commission’s Secretary must be
information for the purposes of making the respondent burden, renaming and delivered to FCC Headquarters at 445
regulatory judgments for individual recalculating an existing information 12th Street SW, Room TW–A325,
pesticide products, thereby allowing for collection group from Enforcement and Washington, DC 20554. The filing hours
the data required to be modified on an Unanticipated Incident activities to are 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. All hand
individual basis to fully characterize the Maintenance DCIs, and the acceleration deliveries must be held together with
use and properties, characteristics, or of the Registration Review Program. All rubber bands or fasteners. Any
effects of specific pesticide products of these activities have contributed to envelopes and boxes must be disposed
under review. The Agency encourages the significant increase in number of of before entering the building.
each applicant to consult with EPA to DCIs to be issued (221 versus 45) • Commercial overnight mail (other
discuss the data requirements prior to annually. than U.S. Postal Service Express Mail
and during the registration process. In and Priority Mail) must be sent to 9050
addition, the Agency cautions Courtney Kerwin, Junction Drive, Annapolis Junction, MD
applicants that the data routinely Director, Regulatory Support Division. 20701.
required by the regulations may not be [FR Doc. 2018–01269 Filed 1–23–18; 8:45 am] • U.S. Postal Service first-class,
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sufficient to permit EPA to evaluate the BILLING CODE 6560–50–P Express, and Priority mail must be
potential of the product to cause addressed to 445 12th Street SW,
unreasonable adverse effects on man or Washington, DC 20554.
the environment. EPA may, therefore, FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
require the submission of additional Dana Wilson, Consumer and
data or information beyond that Governmental Affairs Bureau at: (202)
specified in the regulations if such data 418–2247; email: Dana.Wilson@fcc.gov.

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Collection		Federal Register
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Publisher		Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
Section		Notices
Action		Notice.
Dates		Additional comments may be submitted on or before February 23, 2018.
Contact		Cameo Smoot, Field and External Affairs Division, (7596P), EPA, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington,
FR Citation		83 FR 3344