SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

This is a proposed extension of the ICR, which is currently approved through July 31, 2026. 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 December 2, 2025, during a 60-day comment period (90 FR 55315). 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 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 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) as amended by the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA). Such activities include pesticide registration, pesticide use, pesticide sale and distribution, pesticide permitting activities, determinations regarding whether a product must be regulated under FIFRA or Pesticide Tolerances all which are submitted electronically through the Agency's Central Data Exchange (CDX) system.

The ICR, which is available in the docket along with other related materials, provides a detailed explanation of the collection activities and the burden estimate that is only briefly summarized here:

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: Entities potentially affected by this ICR include 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. The North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) codes are identified in question 12 of the supporting statement.

Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory. FIFRA and FFDCA.

Estimated number of respondents: 15,023 (total).

Frequency of response: On occasion.

Total estimated burden: 2,234,433 hours (per year). Burden is defined at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).

Total estimated costs: $172,873,497 (per year), includes $0 annualized capital or operation & maintenance costs.

Changes in the estimates: There is an increase of 59,385 hours in the total estimated respondent burden compared with the ICR currently approved by OMB. This increase reflects EPA's updating of burden estimates for this collection based upon historical information on the number of responses anticipated for some ICs (recorded as adjustments); and the inclusion of an additional prior ICR titled, Exemptions of Certain Plant Incorporated Protectants (PIPs) Derived from Newer Technologies (OMB Control Number 2070-0214; Rulemaking RIN-2070-AK54), which is considered program change. Based upon revised estimates and the inclusion of an additional IC, the total number of responses anticipated across categories has increased by 32,627 with a corresponding increase in the associated burden hours. While burden hours have increased, the annual total costs to respondents have decreased due to updated guidance on the calculation of overhead in fully loaded wages.

91 FR 29955