Notice2025-01039
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Existing Chemical Risk Evaluation and Management: Generic Information Collection Request for Surveys (Renewal)
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Published
January 16, 2025
Issuing agencies
Environmental Protection Agency
Abstract
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), TSCA Existing Chemical Risk Evaluation and Management; Generic ICR for Surveys, (EPA ICR Number 2585.02 and OMB Control Number 2070-0218) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. This is a proposed extension of the ICR, which is currently approved through February 28, 2025. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register on May 15, 2024. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 10 (Thursday, January 16, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4741-4742]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-01039]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OPPT-2018-0611; FRL-12562-01-OMS]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Existing Chemical Risk
Evaluation and Management: Generic Information Collection Request for
Surveys (Renewal)
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an
information collection request (ICR), TSCA Existing Chemical Risk
Evaluation and Management; Generic ICR for Surveys, (EPA ICR Number
2585.02 and OMB Control Number 2070-0218) to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act. This is a proposed extension of the ICR, which
is currently approved through February 28, 2025. Public comments were
previously requested via the Federal Register on May 15, 2024. This
notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before February 18, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to EPA, identified by docket
identification (ID) number Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OPPT-2018-0612, 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: Katherine Sleasman, 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) 566-1204; email address:
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#f3809f9692809e929ddd9892879b96819a9d96b3968392dd949c85"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="285b444d495b4549460643495c404d5a41464d684d5849064f475e">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a proposed extension of the ICR,
which is approved through February 28, 2025. 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
May 15, 2024, establishing a 60-day comment period (89 FR 42467). This
notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments. Supporting
documents, which explain in detail the information collection
activities and related estimated burden and costs that are summarized
in this document, are available in the docket. 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. Additional
instructions on commenting and visiting the docket is available at
<a href="https://www.epa.gov/dockets">https://www.epa.gov/dockets</a>.
Abstract: EPA will use this generic ICR to survey chemical users,
processors, distributors, manufacturers
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(including importers), and recyclers, chemical waste handlers,
consumers of chemical-containing products, employees exposed to the
chemical evaluated (including unions), state and local regulators, non-
governmental organizations, industry experts, and knowledgeable members
of the public (including potentially exposed or susceptible
subpopulations) who may have relevant information and are not covered
by current information collection requests. The Agency will use the
information collected to inform the development of any future
regulatory efforts and to integrate consistent, meaningful, and
transparent information into risk evaluation and risk management
actions. This information is critical for adequately identifying
conditions of use, conducting hazard and exposure assessments,
characterizing risks, ascertaining benefits of and substitutes for each
substance, estimating the economic consequences of regulation, and
developing appropriate regulatory actions. Surveys are important
information-gathering tools that will allow EPA to collect information
that is necessary to inform the risk evaluation and management efforts
and support unreasonable risk determinations from existing chemicals
under TSCA.
Form number(s): None.
Respondents/affected entities: Entities potentially affected by
this include chemical manufacturers (including importers), chemical
users (including government agencies), processors, distributors,
product manufacturers, recyclers, chemical waste handlers, consumers,
employees, and others with important information about the chemical
being evaluated or considered for risk evaluation and management under
TSCA. North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) codes
identified in question 12 of the ICR.
Respondent's obligation to respond: Voluntary.
Estimated number of potential respondents: 2,400.
Frequency of response: On occasion.
Total estimated burden: 22,080 hours. Burden is defined at 5 CFR
1320.3(b).
Total estimated costs: $1,960,086, includes $0 annualized capital
investment or maintenance and operational costs.
Changes in the estimates: There are adjustments to the burden hours
and responses currently approved by OMB. There is an increase in 20,880
burden hours and an increase in 1,800 responses. There changes are
corrections to reflect three-year totals.
Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Information Engagement Division.
[FR Doc. 2025-01039 Filed 1-15-25; 8:45 am]
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