Notice2023-13944
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Consolidated Pesticide Registration Submission Portal (New)
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Published
June 30, 2023
Issuing agencies
Environmental Protection Agency
Abstract
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), Consolidated Pesticide Registration Submission Portal, (EPA ICR Number 2624.01 and OMB Control Number 2070-NEW) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. This is a request for approval of a new collection. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register on August 13, 2020 during a 60-day comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 125 (Friday, June 30, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42358-42359]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-13944]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OPP-2020-0273; FRL-11117-01-OMS]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Consolidated Pesticide Registration Submission Portal (New)
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an
information collection request (ICR), Consolidated Pesticide
Registration Submission Portal, (EPA ICR Number 2624.01 and OMB Control
Number 2070-NEW) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act.
This is a request for approval of a new collection. Public comments
were previously requested via the Federal Register on August 13, 2020
during a 60-day comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30
days for public comments.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before July 31, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OPP-2020-0273, to EPA online using <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a> (our preferred
method) or by mail to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental Protection
Agency, Mail Code 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC
20460. 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.
Submit written comments and recommendations to OMB for the proposed
information collection within 30 days of publication of this notice to
<a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>. Find this particular information
collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--Open for
Public Comments'' or by using the search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Carolyn Siu, Office of Program Support
(7602M), Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention,
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington,
DC 20460-0001; telephone number: (202) 566-1205; email address:
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#c1b2a8b4efa2a0b3aeadb8af81a4b1a0efa6aeb7"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="4d3e2438632e2c3f222134230d283d2c632a223b">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a request for approval of a new
collection. 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 August 13, 2020, during a 60-day comment period (85 FR 49366). 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 <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a> 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
<a href="http://www.epa.gov/dockets">http://www.epa.gov/dockets</a>.
Abstract: This new ICR consolidates the collection activities and
related burdens currently contained in eight ICRs that are approved by
OMB under the PRA. The OMB Terms of Clearance for several of the
existing ICRs directed EPA to consolidate these ICRs to simplify the
burden presentation and calculations for the public due to the shared
or anticipated collection method involving submissions via the
Pesticide Submission Portal in EPA's Central Data Exchange (CDX). This
consolidation is expected to clarify the capabilities of the Pesticide
Submission Portal for respondents and will streamline the activities
related to tracking the ICR renewal activities for both the public and
EPA.
The new ICR covers the EPA 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), including
the activities associated with pesticide registration; pesticide use;
pesticide sale and distribution; pesticide permitting
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activities; determinations regarding whether a product must be
regulated under FIFRA; and pesticide tolerances under the FFDCA.
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: 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.
Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory under FIFRA and
FFDCA.
Estimated number of respondents: 5,435 (total).
Frequency of response: On occasion.
Total estimated burden: 2,175,048 hours (per year). Burden is
defined at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
Total estimated cost: $183,517,210 (per year), which includes $0
annualized capital or operation & maintenance costs.
Changes in the estimates: This information collection combines the
burdens from eight previously approved ICRs. The total combined
respondent burden hours from those previously approved ICRs by OMB were
estimated at 2,175,048 hours, the same amount requested for this ICR.
The total combined cost burden from these eight previously approved
ICRs was $170,250,338. The total cost burden requested for this ICR is
$183,157,210--a increase of $12,906,872. The difference between the
current cost burden request and the previously approved requests is due
only to adjustments in EPA's estimates of the wage rates and material
costs that were revised to reflect 2022 dollars for this ICR.
Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2023-13944 Filed 6-29-23; 8:45 am]
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