Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; State Small Business Stationary Source Technical and Environmental Compliance Assistance Program Annual Reporting Form

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB

Review; Comment Request; State Small Business Stationary Source

Technical and Environmental Compliance Assistance Program Annual

Reporting Form

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: State Small Business

Stationary Source Technical and Environmental Compliance Assistance

Program Annual Reporting Form, OMB Control Number 2060-0337, expiration

date 7/31/98. 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 July 13, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For a copy of the ICR, call Sandy

Farmer at EPA, by phone at (202) 260-2740, by E-Mail at

Farmer.S[email protected] or download off the Internet at http://

www.epa.gov/icr/icr.htm, and refer to EPA ICR No. 1748.02.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: State Small Business Stationary Source Technical and

Environmental Compliance Assistance Program Annual Reporting Form, OMB

Control Number 2060-0337, EPA ICR Number 1748.02, expiration date 7/31/

98. This is a request for extension of a currently approved collection.

Abstract: As part of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, The U.S.

Congress included, as part of Section 507, the requirement that each

state establish a Small Business Stationary Source Technical and

Environmental Compliance Assistance Program (SBTCP) to assist small

businesses comply with the Act. EPA must provide the Congress with

periodic reports from the EPA Small Business Ombudsman (SBO) on these

programs, including their effectiveness, difficulties encountered, and

other relevant information. Each state assistance program will submit

requested information to EPA for compilation and summarization.

This collection of information is mandatory pursuant to section 507

(a), (d), and (e) of the Clean Air Act as amended in 1990, Public Law

101-549, November 15, 1990. This Act directs EPA to monitor the SBTCPs

and to provide a report to Congress. This responsibility has been

delegated to the EPA SBO.

Response to the collection is not required to obtain or retain a

benefit.

Information in the Annual Report to Congress is aggregated and is

not of a confidential nature. None of the information collected by this

action results in or requests sensitive information of any nature from

the states.

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 2/26/98 (63

FR 9791); 15 comments were received.

Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping

burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 80

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 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: Respondents will be one of the

following state offices: environmental agency (SIC 9511), commerce or

economic development department (SIC 9611), governor's office (SIC

9111), or ombudsman's office (SIC 9511). These departments/agencies

typically are responsible for the conduct of the SBTCPs.

Estimated Number of Respondents: 53.

Frequency of Response: Annual.

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 4,240 hours.

Estimated Total Annualized Cost Burden: 0.

Send comments on the Agency's need for this information, the

accuracy of the

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provided burden estimates, and any suggested methods for minimizing

respondent burden, including through the use of automated collection

techniques to the following addresses. Please refer to EPA ICR No.

1748.02 and OMB Control No. 2060-0337 in any correspondence.

Ms. Sandy Farmer, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of

Policy, Planning, & Evaluation, Regulatory Information Division (2137),

401 M Street, SW, Washington, DC 20460;

and

Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and

Budget, Attention: Desk Officer for EPA, 725 17th Street, NW,

Washington, DC 20503.

Dated: June 8, 1998.

Joseph Retzer,

Director, Regulatory Information Division.

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