This information collection request is designed to enable EPA to require that agricultural employers provide certain notifications to agricultural workers and pesticide handlers in order to protect them from the hazards of pesticides used on farms, on forests, in nurseries and in greenhouses.
US Code:
7 USC 136w
Name of Law: Authority of Administrator
The total estimated annual respondent burden for this ICR renewal is 1,827,493 hours, which is an increase of 51,362 hours from the currently-approved ICR because of adjustments in some of the assumptions to be consistent with the stakeholder feedback discussed in section 3(c) of this supporting statement, and a minor correction in the calculations from 309,100 in the previous ICR to 309,085 match the actual derived number from EPA's 1992 regulatory impact analysis for WPS. As discussed in more detail in Section 3 (c), the burden changes made based on stakeholder feedback were:
⢠Increased average number of notifications per treatment-specific worker and handler notification event from 1 to 1.5 (resulting in the increase in the burden);
⢠Adjusted the number of new entrants from 15% to 10% (decreasing the burden);
⢠Deducted the number of greenhouse establishments from the total number of establishments to derive the number for non-greenhouse establishments for oral and posted notifications because the notification requirements are different (resulting in a decrease in the burden).
Minor corrections involved restoring a rounded-off number for the number of establishments that both use pesticides and hire labor from 309,100 in the previous ICR to 309,085 to match EPA's 1992 Regulatory Impact Analysis for WPS.
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No
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No
No
Uncollected
Angela Hofmann
No
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding the proposed collection of information, that the certification covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.
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