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[Notices]               
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0861; FRL-8457-8]

 
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for 
Review and Approval; Comment Request; Compliance Requirement for Child-
Resistant Packaging; EPA ICR No. 0616.09, OMB Control No. 2070-0052

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44 
U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that an Information 
Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. This is a request to renew an 
existing approved collection. The ICR, which is abstracted below, 
describes the nature of the information collection and its estimated 
burden and cost.

DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before September 20, 
2007.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OPP-
2006-0861, to (1) EPA online using http://www.regulations.gov (our preferred method), by e-mail to opp.ncic@epa.gov, or by mail to: OPP Regulatory 

Public Docket (7502P), Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP), 
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 
Washington, DC 20460-0001, and (2) OMB by mail to: Office of 
Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB), Attention: Desk Officer for EPA, 725 17th Street, NW., 
Washington, DC 20503.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Joseph Hogue, Field and External 
Affairs Division (7506-P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental 
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460-
0001; telephone number: (703) 308-9072; fax number: (703) 305-5884; e-
mail address: hogue.joe@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has submitted the following ICR to OMB 
for review and approval according to the procedures prescribed in 5 CFR 
1320.12. On March 21, 2007 (72 FR 13274), EPA sought comments on this 
ICR pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received one comment during the 
comment period, which is addressed in the ICR. Any additional comments 
on this ICR should be submitted to EPA and OMB within 30 days of this 
notice.
    EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID 
No. EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0861, which is available for online viewing at 
http://www.regulations.gov, or in person viewing at the OPP Regulatory Public 

Docket in Rm. S-4400, One Potomac Yard (South Building), 2777 S. 
Crystal Drive, Arlington, VA. This docket facility is open from 8:30 
a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays. The 
docket telephone number is (703) 305-5805.
    Use EPA's electronic docket and comment system at 
http://www.regulations.gov, to submit or view public comments, access the 

index listing of the contents of the docket, and to access those 
documents in the docket that are available electronically. Once in the 
system, select ``docket search,'' then key in the docket ID number 
identified above. Please note that EPA's policy is that public 
comments, whether submitted electronically or in paper, will be made 
available for public viewing at http://www.regulations.gov as EPA receives 

them and without change, unless the comment contains copyrighted 
material, CBI, or other information whose public disclosure is 
restricted by statute. For further information about the electronic 
docket, go to http://www.regulations.gov.

    Title: Compliance Requirement for Child-Resistant Packaging.
    ICR numbers: EPA ICR No. 0616.09, OMB Control No. 2070-0052.
    ICR Status: This ICR is scheduled to expire on August 31, 2007. 
Under OMB regulations, the Agency may continue to conduct or sponsor 
the collection of information while this submission is pending at OMB. 
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 
in title 40 of the CFR, after appearing in the Federal Register when 
approved, are listed in 40 CFR part 9, are displayed either by 
publication in the Federal Register or by other appropriate means, such 
as on the related collection instrument or form, if applicable. The 
display of OMB control numbers in certain EPA regulations is 
consolidated in 40 CFR part 9.
    Abstract: This ICR is designed to provide the EPA with assurances 
that the packaging of pesticide products sold and distributed to the 
general public in the United States meets standards set forth by the 
Agency pursuant to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide 
Act (FIFRA). Unless a pesticide product qualifies for an exemption, if 
the product meets certain

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criteria regarding toxicity and use, it must be sold and distributed in 
child-resistant packaging. Section 25(c)(3) of FIFRA authorizes EPA to 
establish standards for packaging of pesticide products and pesticidal 
devices to protect children and adults from serious illness or injury 
resulting from accidental ingestion or contact. The law requires that 
these standards are designed to be consistent with those under the 
Poison Prevention Packaging Act, administered by the Consumer Product 
Safety Commission (CPSC). Pesticide registrants must certify to the 
Agency that the packaging or device meets these standards. EPA reviews 
a registrant's child-resistant packaging (CRP) certification to 
determine if there are human safety/health risk concerns. Exemption 
requests are reviewed to ascertain if there is a health risk, and if 
CRP is technically feasible, practicable, and appropriate.
    Responses to this collection of information are mandatory under 
authority of 40 CFR 157.34. Although submission of confidential 
information is not required as a part of this information collection, 
there has been at least one instance where confidential data have been 
submitted voluntarily as supporting material for an exemption request 
from CRP compliance requirements. When any trade secret or Confidential 
Business Information (CBI) is provided to EPA, such information is 
protected from disclosure under section 10 of FIFRA. Data submitted to 
EPA is handled strictly in accordance with the provisions of the FIFRA 
Confidential Business Information Manual.
    Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping 
burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 4.9 
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 which have subsequently changed; 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: All registrants of pesticide 
products meeting the use criteria which trigger Child-Resistant 
Packaging (CRP) requirements.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 2,109.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion.
    Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 3,473.
    Estimated Total Annual Cost: $193,567.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is an increase of 1,364 hours in 
the total estimated burden currently identified in the OMB Inventory of 
Approved ICR Burdens. This increase is an adjustment to the burden 
estimate. Neither the number of responses nor the average burden 
estimate for each response type has changed. However, the distribution 
of those responses among the four response types has changed, with a 
net shift from less-burdensome to more-burdensome type responses.

    Dated: August 14, 2007
Sara Hisel-McCoy,
Acting Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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