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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 3 / Wednesday, January 6, 2021 / Rules and Regulations
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addition, in accordance with TSCA
section 26i, and taking into account the requirements of TSCA section 6h, EPA has made scientific decisions based on the weight of the scientific evidence.
IV. References The following is a list of the documents that are specifically referenced in this document. The docket includes these documents and other information considered by EPA, including documents that are referenced within the documents that are included in the docket, even if the referenced document is not physically located in the docket. For assistance in locating these other documents, please consult the technical person listed under FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
1. EPA. TSCA Work Plan for Chemical Assessments: 2014 Update. October 2014. https www.epa.gov/
assessingand-managing-chemicalsunder-tsca/tsca-work-planchemical-ssessments-2014-update.
Accessed March 1, 2019.
2. EPA. TSCA Work Plan Chemicals:
Methods Document. February 2012.
https www.epa.gov/sites/
production/files/2014-03/
documents/work_plan_methods_
document_web_final.pdf. Accessed March 1, 2019.
3. EPA. Economic Analysis for Final Regulation of Decabromodiphenyl ether DecaBDE Final Rule Under TSCA Section 6h. July 2020.
4. EPA. Exposure and Use Assessment of Five Persistent, Bioaccumulative, and Toxic Chemicals. December 2020.
5. EPA Regulation of Persistent, Bioaccumulative, and Toxic Chemicals under TSCA 6H
Response to Comments. December 2020. Docket EPAHQOPPT
20190080.
6. EPA. Preliminary Information on Manufacturing, Processing, Distribution, Use, and Disposal:
Decabromodiphenyl ether. August 2017. EPAHQOPPT20160724
0002.
7. Stakeholder Comment from Auto Alliance. February 2018.
8. Stakeholder Comment from iGPS.
January 2018.
9. EPA. Environmental and Human Health Hazards of Five Persistent, Bioaccumulative and Toxic Chemicals. December 2020.
10. EPA. Public Database 2012 Chemical Data Reporting. Washington, DC:
US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics.
11. EPA. Public Database 2016 Chemical Data Reporting. Washington, DC:

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US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics.
12. EPA. Toxics Release Inventory TRI
Basic Plus Data Files. 2017.
13. United Nations Environmental Program Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants 2015. Risk profile on decabromodiphenyl ether. Report of the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee on the work of its eleventh meeting.
14. Norwegian Environmental Agency.
2015 Final Report. Literature StudyDecaBDE in Waste Streams.
15. EPA. An Alternatives Assessment for the Flame Retardant Decabromodiphenyl Ether DecaBDE. January 2014. https
www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/
2014-05/documents/decabde_
final.pdf. Accessed March 1, 2019.
16. Keweenaw Bay Indian Community.
Re: Notification of Consultation and Coordination on a Rulemaking Under the Toxic Substances Control Act: Regulation of Persistent, Bioaccumulative, and Toxic Chemicals Under TSCA Section 6h. September 25, 2018.
17. Harper, Barbara and Ranco, Darren, in collaboration with the Maine Tribes. Wabanaki Traditional Cultural Lifeways Exposure Scenario. July 9, 2009.
V. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews Additional information about these statutes and Executive orders can be found at https www.epa.gov/lawsregulations-and-executive-orders.
A. Executive Order 12866: Regulatory Planning and Review and Executive Order 13563: Improving Regulations and Regulatory Review This action is a significant regulatory action that was submitted to the Office of Management and Budget OMB for review under Executive Order 12866 58
FR 51,735 Oct. 4, 1993 and Executive Order 13563 76 FR 3821 Jan. 21, 2011. Any changes made in response to OMB recommendations have been documented in the docket for this action as required by section 6a3E of Executive Order 12866.
EPA prepared an economic analysis of the potential costs and benefits associated with this action. A copy of this economic analysis, Economic Analysis for Final Regulation of Decabromodiphenyl ether DecaBDE
under TSCA Section 6h, Ref. 3 is in the docket and is briefly summarized in Unit III.B.3.

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B. Executive Order 13771: Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs This action is considered a regulatory action under Executive Order 13771 82
FR 9339 Feb. 3, 2017. Details on the estimated costs of this final rule can be found in the Economic Analysis Ref. 3, which is briefly summarized in Unit III.B.3.
C. Paperwork Reduction Act PRA
The information collection activities in this rule have been submitted for approval to OMB under the PRA. The Information Collection Request ICR
document that the EPA prepared has been assigned EPA ICR number 2599.02
and OMB Control No. 20700213. A
copy of the ICR is available in the docket for this rule, and it is briefly summarized here. The information collection requirements are not enforceable until OMB approves them.
Affected persons manufacturing, processing, and distributing in commerce decaBDE or decaBDEcontaining products and articles are expected to familiarize themselves with the rule and are required to maintain, for three years from the date the record is generated, ordinary business records related to compliance with the restrictions, prohibitions, and other requirements, with an exclusion for persons processing and distributing in commerce for; recycling of plastic that contains decaBDE, those products and articles containing decaBDE from recycled plastic as long as no new decaBDE was added during the recycling process, and plastic shipping pallets manufactured prior to the effective date of the rule.
Respondents/affected entities: Entities potentially affected by paperwork requirements of this final rule include 17 importers, 26 processors, and five distributors. The total number of respondents is 46, given that two entities are both importers and processors.
Respondents obligation to respond:
Mandatory. 40 CFR 751.407.
Estimated number of respondents: 46.
Frequency of response: On occasion.
Total estimated burden: 39 hours per year. Burden is defined at 5 CFR
1320.3b.
Total estimated cost: $3,014 per year, includes $0 annualized capital or operation & maintenance costs.
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 EPAs regulations in 40

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