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Federal Register
/Vol. 69, No. 29/Thursday, February 12, 2004/Notices
EPA more easily to identify, log, track,distribute, review and indexsubmissions, and to make informationpublicly available more rapidly and atreduced cost, to the mutual benefit of  both the respondents and EPA.Responses to the collection of information are voluntary. Respondentsmay claim all or part of a notice as CBI.EPA will disclose information that iscovered by a CBI claim only to theextent permitted by, and in accordancewith, the procedures in 40 CFR part 2.An agency may not conduct orsponsor, and a person is not required torespond to, a collection of informationunless it displays a currently valid OMBcontrol number. The OMB controlnumbers for EPA
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s regulations in 40CFR are listed in 40 CFR part 9 and areidentified on the form and/orinstrument, if applicable.
Burden Statement:
The annual publicreporting and recordkeeping burden forthis collection of information isestimated to average 0.5 hour perresponse. Burden means the total time,effort or financial resources expended by persons to generate, maintain, retainor disclose or provide information to orfor a Federal agency. This includes thetime needed to review instructions;develop, acquire, install and utilizetechnology and systems for the purposesof collecting, validating and verifyinginformation, processing andmaintaining information, and disclosingand providing information; adjust theexisting ways to comply with anypreviously applicable instructions andrequirements; train personnel to be ableto respond to a collection of information; search data sources;complete and review the collection of information; and transmit or otherwisedisclose the information.
Respondents/Affected Entities:
 Companies that manufacture, process,use, import or distribute in commercechemical substances that are subject toreporting requirements under sections 4,8(d) or 8(e) of TSCA.
Frequency of Collection:
On occasion.
Estimated No. of Respondents:
964.
Estimated Total Annual Burden onRespondents:
9,136 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Costs:
 $703,435.
Changes in Burden Estimates:
Thereis an increase of 8,221 hours (from 915hours to 9,136 hours) in the totalestimated respondent burden comparedwith that identified in the informationcollection request most recentlyapproved by OMB. This change reflectsa net increase in the estimated numberof submissions under TSCA sections 4,8(d) and 8(e) for which the VoluntaryTSCA Cover Sheet could be used, inparticular a substantial increase in theestimated number of TSCA section 4submissions. Since the use of theVoluntary TSCA Cover Sheet is a directreflection of the number of submissionsreceived under TSCA sections 4, 8(d)and 8(e), any change in the estimatednumbers of submissions under thoserequirements will result in a parallelchange in the burden hours associatedwith this information collection. Thisincrease represents an adjustment.
Dated: January 22, 2004.
Doreen Sterling,
Acting Director, Collection StrategiesDivision.
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Proposed Settlement Agreement,Clean Air Act Citizen Suit
AGENCY
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Environmental ProtectionAgency (EPA).
ACTION
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Notice of proposed settlementagreement; request for public comment.
SUMMARY
:
In accordance with section113(g) of the Clean Air Act, as amended(
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Act
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), 42 U.S.C. 7413(g), notice ishereby given of a proposed settlementagreement, to address a lawsuit filed bythe Utility Air Regulatory Group in theU.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia:
Utility Air Regulatory Group
 v.
EPA
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1168 (D.C. Cir.).Petitioners challenge EPA
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s final ruleentitled
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Revision of the Guidance onAir Quality Models: Adoption of aPreferred Long Range TransportationModel and Other Revisions,
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publishedat 68 FR 18444 (April 5, 2003), adoptingthe CALPUFF modeling system as anadditional air quality model under theGuideline on Air Quality Models, 40CFR part 51. Under the terms of theproposed settlement agreement, EPAwould issue three documents if, afterreview of public comments received inresponse to this Notice, it elects toproceed with the settlement agreement.
DATES
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Written comments on theproposed settlement agreement must bereceived by March 15, 2004.
ADDRESSES
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Submit your comments,identified by docket ID number OGC
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2004
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0001, online at
http:// www.epa.gov/edocket 
(EPA
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s preferredmethod); by e-mail to
oei.docket@epa.gov 
; mailed to EPADocket Center, EnvironmentalProtection Agency, Mailcode: 2822T,1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.,Washington, DC 20460
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0001; or byhand delivery or courier to EPA DocketCenter, EPA West, Room B102, 1301Constitution Ave., NW., Washington,DC, between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.Monday through Friday, excluding legalholidays. Comments on a disk or CD-ROM should be formatted inWordPerfect or ASCII file, avoiding theuse of special characters and any formof encryption, and may be mailed to themailing address above.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
:
 Roland Dubois, Office of GeneralCounsel (2333A), U.S. EnvironmentalProtection Agency, 1200 PennsylvaniaAve., NW., Washington, DC 20460.telephone: (202) 564
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5626.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
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I. Additional Information About theProposed Settlement Agreement
Petitioners raise issues concerning: (1)The adequacy of CALPUFF airdispersion model to address certaininstances of long range transport, (2) theavailability of EPA-approved version of CALPUFF model on model developer
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swebsite potentially allowing modeldeveloper to make unauthorizedchanges to the model, and (3) thepotential for misinterpretation of statements in preamble to April 5, 2003,final rule (68 FR 18444) discussing therole of federal land managers inevaluating air quality related valuesimpacts.Under the Settlement Agreement, EPAwould issue three documents: (1) Aguidance document for using CALPUFFto model long range pollutant transport,(2) a letter to the CALPUFF modeldeveloper describing procedures forEPA approval of changes to the EPA-approved version of the CALPUFFmodel, and (3) a letter to Petitioner
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scounsel clarifying EPA
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s statement inthe preamble to the rule regarding therole of federal land managers inevaluating air quality related valuesimpacts.For a period of thirty (30) daysfollowing the date of publication of thisnotice, the Agency will receive writtencomments relating to the proposedsettlement agreement from persons whowere not named as parties to thelitigation in question. The Agency willreview and consider commentsreceived, and will then: (1) Consent tothe proposed settlement, (2) make anymodifications deemed necessary orappropriate prior to consenting to theproposed settlement, or (3) withholdconsent to the proposed settlement.
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