Technical Amendment to the List of OMB Approvals Under the Paperwork Reduction Act

<RULE> ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY <CFR>40 CFR Part 9</CFR> <DEPDOC>[EPA-HQ-OPPT-2025-0224; FRL-12001-01-OCSPP]</DEPDOC> <SUBJECT>Technical Amendment to the List of OMB Approvals Under the Paperwork Reduction Act</SUBJECT> <HD SOURCE="HED">AGENCY:</HD> Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). <HD SOURCE="HED">ACTION:</HD> Final rule. <SUM> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUMMARY:</HD> In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA), this technical amendment updates the table that lists the control numbers issued by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under the PRA for information collection activities contained in certain EPA regulations that are promulgated in title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). This technical amendment adds or amends the OMB Control Numbers for existing approved collection activities and removes the OMB Control Numbers that have expired and/or have been discontinued. </SUM> <EFFDATE> <HD SOURCE="HED">DATES:</HD> This final rule is effective June 30, 2025. </EFFDATE> <HD SOURCE="HED">ADDRESSES:</HD> The docket for this action, identified by docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPPT-2025-0224, is available online at <E T="03">https://www.regulations.gov</E> . Additional information about dockets generally, along with instructions for visiting the docket in-person, is available at <E T="03">https://www.epa.gov/dockets</E> . <FURINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:</HD> 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: <E T="03">sleasman.katherine@epa.gov</E> . </FURINF> <SUPLINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">I. Executive Summary</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD2">A. Does this action apply to me?</HD> This action, which consolidates publicly available information about OMB approval of certain information collections without affecting any related activities or requirements, is directed to the public in general. Although this action may be of particular interest to those who would follow the EPA listing of OMB Control Numbers in 40 CFR part 9, the Agency has not attempted to describe all the specific entities that may be interested. <HD SOURCE="HD2">B. What action is the Agency taking?</HD> This document updates the OMB Control Numbers listed in 40 CFR part 9 for various actions published in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> that were issued under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) (15 U.S.C. 2601 <E T="03">et seq.</E> ), the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) (7 U.S.C. 136 <E T="03">et seq.</E> ), the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) (21 U.S.C. 408), and the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) (42 U.S.C. 11001 <E T="03">et seq.</E> ). With this technical amendment, EPA is updating the table in 40 CFR 9.1 to reflect changes to the OMB Control Numbers assigned to the information collection activities contained in the EPA regulations in title 40 of the CFR. The activities or their corresponding OMB Control Numbers may have changed due to the publication of a final rule without a corresponding amendment to 40 CFR part 9, or due to other implementation activities that resulted in the subsequent issuance of a new OMB Control Number under the PRA ( <E T="03">e.g.,</E> the consolidation of activities, or transfer of activities to another ICR). This final rule simply updates the table to reflect the currently valid OMB Control Numbers. <HD SOURCE="HD2">C. What is the Agency's authority for taking this action?</HD> An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to a collection of information that requires OMB approval under the PRA (44 U.S.C. 3501 <E T="03">et seq.</E> ) unless it displays a currently valid OMB Control Number. To satisfy the display requirements of the PRA and OMB's implementing regulations at 5 CFR part 1320, the Agency displays the OMB Control Numbers for certain EPA regulations in 40 CFR part 9, in related documents that publish in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> <E T="03">,</E> or by other appropriate means, such as on a related collection instrument or form, reporting system or as part of the instructions and guidance given to respondents, as applicable. <HD SOURCE="HD2">D. Why is this technical amendment issued as a final rule?</HD> Section 553(b)(B) of the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), 5 U.S.C. 553(b)(B), provides that, when an agency for good cause finds that public notice and comment procedures are impracticable, unnecessary, or contrary to the public interest, the agency may issue a rule without providing notice and an opportunity for public comment. The information collection activities referenced in this document were previously subject to public notice and comment as part of the rulemaking process and submission of the related requests for OMB review and approval of the information collection activities contained in those rulemakings. EPA is not making any substantive changes to the information collection activities listed in 40 CFR 9.1. The Agency is only amending the list of information collections to align it with OMB approved collection activities that underwent public notice and comment process under the APA for the information collection activities associated with rulemakings, as well as consolidations of ongoing collection activities announced through the public notice and comment process per the PRA, because this action only updates the CFR to reflect changes and additions that have already occurred and for which EPA previously provided an opportunity for notice and comment. As such, EPA is not exercising any discretion in this action, but is instead making a ministerial update to the CFR. EPA thus has determined that there is good cause for making this rule final without prior proposal and opportunity comment because such notice and opportunity for comment is unnecessary. In addition, as they are ministerial updates, these revisions do not alter any regulatory requirements. For the reasons discussed in this unit, the Agency also finds that good cause exists under APA section 553(d) to make this rule effective immediately upon publication in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> . EPA is not exercising discretion in this action, but is instead making an administrative change to the CFR. <HD SOURCE="HD1">II. Summary of Changes</HD> EPA is updating the table at 40 CFR 9.1 to correctly reflect OMB's approval of the information collection activities contained in the final rules listed in 40 CFR parts 150 through 190, part 372, and parts 700 through 799, and the ICRs identified in this unit. You may access the record of OMB's approval of the rule-related ICRs and any OMB Terms of Clearance online at <E T="03">https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRASearch</E> by searching for the record using the identified ICR Reference Number. • Labeling Change for Certain Minimum Risk Pesticides under FIFRA Section 25(b) (OMB Control No. 2070-0187, EPA ICR No. 2475). See the corresponding final rule issued in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> of December 18, 2015 (80 FR 80653; FRL-9934-44) and the record of OMB's approval of the rule-related ICR under ICR Reference No. 201512-2070-001. • Agricultural Worker Protection Standard Training, Notification and Recordkeeping (OMB Control No. 2070-0190, EPA ICR No. 2491). See the corresponding final rule issued in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> of November 11, 2015 (80 FR 67496; FRL-9931-81) and the record of OMB's approval of the rule-related ICR under ICR Reference No. 201510-2070-001. • Pesticides; Certification of Pesticide Applicators (OMB Control No. 2070-0196; EPA ICR No. 2499). See the corresponding final rule issued in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> of January 4, 2017 (82 FR 952; FRL-9956-70) and the record of OMB's approval of the rule-related ICR under ICR Reference No. 201508-2070-002. • Exemptions of Certain Plant-Incorporated Protectants (PIPs) Derived from Newer Technologies Rulemaking (OMB Control No. 2070-0214; EPA ICR No. 2619). See the corresponding final rule issued in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> of May 31, 2023 (88 FR 34756; FRL-7261-04-OCSPP) and the record of OMB's approval of the rule-related ICR under ICR Reference No. 202305-2070-003. • Changes to Reporting Requirements for Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances and to Supplier Notifications for Chemicals of Special Concern; Community Right-to-Know Toxic Chemical Release Reporting (OMB Control No. 2070-0226; EPA ICR No.2724). See the corresponding final rule issued in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> of October 31, 2023 (88 FR 74360; FRL-8741-04-OCSPP) and the record of the OMB's approval of the rule-related ICR under ICR Reference No. 202212-2070-001. • Parent Company Definition for Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) Reporting (OMB Control No. 2070-0216; EPA ICR No.2597). See the corresponding final rule issued in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> of October 21, 2022 (87 FR 63950; FRL-6004-02-OCSPP) and the record of the OMB's approval of the rule-related ICR under ICR Reference No. 202109-2070-001. • User Fees for the Administration of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) (OMB Control No. 2070-0208, EPA ICR No. 2567). See the corresponding final rule issued in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> of October 17, 2018 (83 FR 52694; FRL-9984-41-OCSPP) and the record of OMB's approval of the rule-related ICR under ICR Reference No. 201810-2070-001. • Procedures for Requesting a Chemical Risk Evaluation under TSCA (OMB Control No. 2070-0231, EPA ICR No. 2781). See the corresponding final rule issued in the <E T="04">Federal Register</ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Preview showing 10k of 153k characters. Full document text is stored and available for version comparison. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━