Information collection request

Although the petrochemical and metals industries were the primai y focus of the toxic air pollutants legislation, approximately forty of these substances have been detected in fossil power plant flue gas. Mercury, which is found in trace amounts in fossil fuels such as coal and oil, is liberated during the combustion process and these emissions may be regulated in the future. EPA issued an Information Collection Request (ICR) that required all coal-fired plants to analyze their feed coal for mercury and chlorine. Since these data will be used in making a regulatory decision on mercury near the end ot the year 2000, it is critical that the power industry provide the most accurate data possible. 

As well as such agreements that were executed prior to January 1, 1995 but remain in force as of the date of the information collection request. 

Environmental Protection Agency, 2007c. Supporting Statement for an Information Collection Request. Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics, Environmental Protection Agency. 

The information collection requirements contained in this rule have been submitted for approval to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under the Paperwork Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq. An Information Collection Request (ICR) document prepared by EPA, an amendment to an existing ICR and referred to as the ICR Final Rule Addendum (EPA ICR No. 1715.10, OMB Control Number 2070-0155), has been placed in the public docket for this rule. The information collection requirements are not enforceable until OMB approves them. 

Agency Information Collection Activities Submission for Office of Management and Budget Review Comment Request Orphan-Drugs Agency Food and Drug Administration, HHS. 

In the Federal Register of October 30,2006 (71 FR 63325), the FDA published a 60-day notice requesting public comment on the information collection provisions. The FDA received one comment related to the information collection. 

On June 19, 2008, the MSHA published in the Federal Register, a Request for Information (http //www.msha.gov/REGS/FEDREG/RFI/E8-13633.pdf), with comments dueby early September, as to whether tests exist that can be used for assessing conveyor-belt combustion toxicity and smoke density. Comments had to be identified with RIN 1219-AB60 and sent to MSHA. The information collected will potentially result in developing additional requirements for conveyor mine belts. 

FDA (2002), Agency Information Collection Activities Submission for OMB Review Comment Request CGMP Regulations for Finished Pharmaceuticals, Federal Register Notices, 67 (95), May. 

The OSI request shall be based on information collected by the IMS, on any relevant technical information obtained by national technical means (NTM) of verification in a manner consistent with generally recognised principles of international law, or on a combination thereof. (Treaty, article IV Verification, paragraphs 34-37). 

The EMEA will validate the dossier within 10 working days. The project manager will consult with the Rapporteur or Co-rapporteur for the need for GMP and GCP inspections, necessity for an ad hoc expert group and so on. The applicant provides any additional information, on request, within a specified time limit. If the application is found valid, the applicant is notified in writing and a timetable for the evaluation is set. However, if the dossier is found severely deficient, the applicant will be requested to either collect it or indicate whether it should be destroyed by the EMEA. In the latter case, the EMEA will retain part of the fee (less for an abridged application) as an administrative charge, but otherwise return the application fee. 

Example 1 Information was requested from a breeding organization, the Aberdeen Angus Society, as to which sires were used most often for artificial insemination and namral insemination. Sperm samples were collected from these sires and also from... 

A Freedom of Information Act request by the authors dated July 17,2009 resulted in a list from EPA of approximately fifty petitions from the enactment of TSCA through January 28, 2001. There was no indication in the response why the list ended at the beginning of 2001. A search in the EPA s Federal Register documents collection returned notices of approximately ten more petitions filed from 2001 to 2008. Two more were filed through August 2009. Until the EPA granted two petitions relating to lead in... 

Knowing which information to request is however only one aspect leading to mastery of the task. Another crucial aspect is the processing of information received by the system (either as a response to questions or as error messages). Is is now well demonstrated that poor problem solvers are also poor information processors (e.g. Chi et al., 1989). Here again data collected in the first study seemed to indicate that pairs were more efficient than individuals at processing information contained in error messages. 

Sensor information collected by the T1 nodes can be transmitted automatically or on request to T2 nodes. For current motion capture applications, sensor data is transmitted as frequendy as possible. A typical packet is 17 bytes containing a node ID, accelerometer, gyroscope, and compass data. While the l C network can provide bus speeds up to 400 KHz, packet sizes and communication overhead limit effective transmission rates. Lewis estimated the impact of increasing the number of T1 nodes on effective transmission rates, and his results are shown in Fig. 27.15 [10]. 

In the discharge of their functions inspectors shall only request the information and data which are necessary to fulfil their mandate. They shall not make any records of information collected incidentally and not related to verification of compliance with this Convention. 

An elaborate questionnaire was prepared by the authors and sent to over 100 institutes, public and private sector chemcial manufacturers, project engineering companies and chemical plant manufacturers in India. The response received from all the individuals and companies to our request was simply overwhelming. The present paper has used the information collected from these sources rather extensively. It is impossible to catalogue the names of all those who responded. We could, however, like to place so willingly on record our grateful thanks to all those, who responded. 

Table 15.1 presents a proposed smallest efficient data set on accidents and near accidents. It is based on the framework for accident analysis presented in Chapter 6 and takes the author s experiences from evaluations of SHE information systems into consideration. In this proposal, no additional information is requested from the supervisor other than that collected on a traditional accident-investigation form. The reason why a SHE expert is needed to feed additional data is to secure the reliability of the data. In addition, the SHE expert will be responsible for checking the quality of the data from the supervisors. 

Provides access to EPA information for United States and international requests, and has a range of information sen>-ices consisting of environmental and related subjects of interest to EPA staff, including online searching of commercial databases. The focus of the IRC collection is on environmental regulations, policy, planning, and administration. Hours 8 a.m. - 5p.m., Monday - Friday ESP... 

If no method exists for the analysis required, then either an existing method has to be adapted or a new method developed. The adapted or developed method will need to be optimized and the controls required identified, hence ensuring that the method can be used routinely in the laboratory. Evidence is then collected so as to demonstrate that the method is fit for purpose . The extent of validation, i.e. the amount of effort that needs to be applied, depends on the details of the problem and the information already available. Figure 4.3 indicates an approach that can be used to decide on the extent of validation required. The answer to DQ 4.2 has already mentioned that the customer may request a particular method. If... 

The level of the information flow boils down to a purely technical level where the partners agree on common protocols for transferring data. For the chemical industry, an initiative to set uniform standards is CIDX. CIDX (http //www.cidx.org) is a trade association and standards body whose mission is to improve the ease, speed and cost of conducting business electronically between chemical companies and their trading partners. It provides the Chem eStandards, a collection of defined messages and related business process guidance that companies use to understand the requests and fulfill electronic business orders and related transactions. 

Type of Container to Be Used. The specific type of contained used to collect blood or urine samples is sometimes indicated in a protocol, especially if a special anticoagulant or additive is required or if other specific conditions of sample collection and handling are required. It is generally not necessary to provide this information for commonly requested laboratory tests. 

F. X-ray Powder Difi action Search System. Compounds that fail to crystallize may still be examined by X-ray diffraction, because non-crystalline materials, as powders, give characteristic diffraction patterns. A collection of powder diffraction patterns proves to be a very effective means by which to identify materials and indeed, one of the very earliest search systems in chemical analysis was based upon such data by Hanawalt (21) over forty years ago. The importance of these data in TSCA can be seen by examining the TSCA Inventory regulations for treatment of confidential chemicals (22). Section 710.7 of these regulations indicates that EPA intends to rely on powder diffraction data to assure the validity and seriousness of a manufacturers request for treating information on a chemical as confidential. 

Recommended specimen information, in addition to mandatory patient identifiers, include age, date and time of collection, reason for the request (i.e., confirmatory testing following an abnormal newborn screening result), and clinical status. Knowledge of clinical status at the time of specimen collection is essential when a STAT analysis is requested (i.e., when results are required within 2-3 h), because specimens for metabolic investigations may not have been secured ahead of aggressive therapeutic intervention. Specimens collected even after a partial recovery may not reveal diagnostic abnormalities that are more readily detectable, under acute conditions. 

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