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Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Information Collection Request for the National Listing of Advisories

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  [Federal Register: September 21, 2000 (Volume 65, Number 184)]
[Notices]
[Page 57186-57187]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request; Information Collection Request for the
National Listing of Advisories

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501
et seq.), this document announces that the following Information
Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for review and approval: Information Collection
Request for the National Listing of Advisories (EPA ICR 1959.01. The
ICR describes the nature of the information collection and its expected
burden and cost; where appropriate, it includes the actual data
collection instrument.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before October 23, 2000.

ADDRESSES: Send comments referencing EPA ICR No. 1959.01 to the
following addresses: Sandy Farmer, U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, Office of Environmental Information, Collection Strategies
Division (2822), 1200 Pennsylvania Ave, NW., Washington, DC 20460;
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget, Attention: Desk Officer for EPA, 725 17th Street, NW.,
Washington, DC 20503.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For a copy of the ICR contact Sandy
Farmer at EPA by phone at (202) 260-2740, by email at
farmer.sandy@epamail.epa.gov, or download off the Internet at http://
www.epa.gov/icr and refer to EPA ICR No. 1959.01. For technical
questions about the ICR, contact Jeffrey Bigler at EPA, by phone at
(202) 260-1305, and by e-mail at bigler.jeff@epa.gov

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Title: Information Collection Request for the National
    Listing of Advisories, EPA ICR Number 1959.01. This is a request
for a new collection.
    Abstract: Based on results from the 1998 National Listing of Fish
and Wildlife Advisories (NLFWA) database, fish consumption advisories
have been issued by 47 states and from 100 to 200 new advisories are
issued every year nationwide.
    EPA's Office of Water will conduct an annual fish advisory survey
which will be sent to environmental and health officials from state,
territorial, and tribal agencies specifically responsible for the
issuance of fish advisories. This survey will collect information
(electronically via the Internet or on paper) on advisory locations and
agencies and persons responsible for maintaining and issuing advisories
for lakes, rivers, and coastal marine waterbodies. Responses to the
questionnaire are needed to assess public health risks of consuming
chemically-contaminated fish. EPA will make this information available
to states, territories, tribes, other federal agencies and the general
public through distribution of the annual Fish Advisory Fact Sheet and
a summary report (on the Internet and in hard copy) on the EPA's NLFWA
web site (http://www.epa.gov/OST/fish/). This information will be used
to identify and clarify issues that will lead to the continued
development of national guidance to assist state fish advisory programs
and will further protect human health.
    Completion of this survey is voluntary as the information requested
is part of the state public record associated with issuing advisories.
In the past, states have requested EPA guidance in their fish advisory
programs and a more comprehensive questionnaire will provide the states
an opportunity to identify advisory areas in which they need
assistance.
    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. The OMB control numbers for EPA's
regulations are listed in 40 CFR part 9 and 48 CFR Chapter 15. The
Federal Register document required under 5 CFR 1320.8(d), soliciting
comments on this collection of information was published on April 21,
2000 (65 FR 21415-21416). No comments were received.
    Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping
burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 39
hours per response. Burden means the total time, effort, or financial
resources expended by persons to generate, maintain, retain, or
disclose or provide information to or

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for a Federal agency. This includes the time needed to review
instructions; develop, acquire, install, and utilize technology and
systems for the purposes of collecting, validating, and verifying
information, processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and
providing information; adjust the existing ways to comply with any
previously applicable instructions and requirements; train personnel to
be able to respond to a collection of information; search data sources;
complete and review the collection of information; and transmit or
otherwise disclose the information.
    Respondents/Affected Entities: State, territory, and tribal
environmental and health agencies.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 92.
    Frequency of Response: Annually.
    Estimated Total Annual Hours Burden: 3,565 hours.
    Estimated Total Annualized Cost Burden (non-labor costs): $528.

    Dated: September 12, 2000.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. 00-24317 Filed 9-20-00; 8:45 am]
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