SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

This is a proposed extension of the ICR, which is currently approved through August 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 15, 2025 during a 60-day comment period (90 FR 57999). 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 www.epa.gov/​dockets.

Abstract: This ICR addresses the information collection activities associated with the requirement that the EPA receive notice when unregistered pesticides are exported from the United States to foreign purchasers. This statement is to ascertain the purchasers' understanding that the pesticide product cannot be sold in the United States. Section 17(a)(2) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) requires an exporter of any pesticide not registered under FIFRA Section 3 or sold under FIFRA Section 6(a)(1) to obtain a signed statement from the foreign purchaser acknowledging that the purchaser is aware that the pesticide is not registered for use in, and cannot be sold in, the United States. A copy of this statement, which is known as the Foreign Purchaser Acknowledgement Statement (FPAS) must be transmitted by EPA to the designated national authority or appropriate official of the government in the importing country. This information is submitted via mail or electronically in annual or per-shipment statements to EPA, which maintains original records and transmits copies, along with an explanatory letter, via email to appropriate government officials of the countries that are importing the pesticide. This ICR also includes burden estimates for the FPAS requirement for unregistered pesticides, as well as the labeling requirement for all exported pesticides, both registered and unregistered as per 40 CFR 158. These burdens were consolidated into this ICR since the implementation of the 1993 pesticide export policy governing the export of pesticides, devices, and active ingredients used in producing pesticides.

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 Number: 9600-026.

Respondents/affected entities: Entities potentially affected by this ICR include individuals or entities engaged that either manufacture and export pesticides or that reformulate or repackage. and export pesticides.

Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory. FIFRA section 17(a)(2).

Estimated number of respondents: 100 (total).

Frequency of response: On occasion.

Total estimated burden: 14,065 hours (per year). Burden is defined at 5 CFR 1320.03(b).

Total estimated cost: $1,028,658 (per year), which includes $0 annualized capital or operation & maintenance costs.

Changes in the estimates: There is a decrease of 2,595 hours in the total estimated respondent burden compared with the ICR currently approved by OMB. This decrease reflects EPA's adjustment of the estimated total annual number of responses to reflect the actual number of FPAS received by the Agency in recent years (2022 to 2024). This change is an adjustment.

91 FR 55341