[Federal Register: September 5, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 172)]
[Notices]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[OW-2003-0009; FRL-7553-4]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Comment Request; National Pretreatment Program,
EPA ICR Number 0002.11, OMB Control Number 2040-0009
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (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. This ICR is scheduled to expire on September 30,
2003. Under OMB regulations, the Agency may continue to conduct or
sponsor the collection of information while this submission is pending
at OMB. This ICR describes the nature of the information collection and
its estimated burden and cost.
DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before October 6,
2003.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number OW-2003-
0009, to (1) EPA online using EDOCKET (our preferred method), by e-mail
to OW-Docket@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental
Protection Agency, Office of Water, Mail code: 4101T, 1200 Pennsylvania
Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460, and (2) OMB at: 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: Tracy Hudak, Office of Water, Mail
code: 4203M, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave.,
NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 564-0651; fax
number: (202) 564-6431; e-mail address: Hudak.Tracy@epamail.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 April 3, 2003 (68 FR 16282), EPA sought comments on this
ICR pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA has addressed the comments
received.
EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID
No. OW-2003-0009, which is available for public viewing at the Water
Docket in the EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West, Room B102, 1301
Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC. The EPA Docket Center Public
Reading Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through
Friday, excluding legal holidays. The telephone number for the Reading
Room is (202) 566-1744, and the telephone number for the Water Docket
is (202) 566-2426. An electronic version of the public docket is
available through EPA Dockets (EDOCKET) at http://www.epa.gov/edocket.
Use EDOCKET to submit or view public comments, access the index listing
of the contents of the public docket, and to access those documents in
the public docket that are available electronically. Once in the
system, select ``search,'' then key in the docket ID number identified
above.
Any comments related to this ICR should be submitted to EPA and OMB
within 30 days of this notice. EPA's policy is that public comments,
whether submitted electronically or in paper, will be made available
for public viewing in EDOCKET as EPA receives them and without change,
unless the comment contains copyrighted material, CBI, or other
information whose public disclosure is restricted by statute. When EPA
identifies a comment containing copyrighted material, EPA will provide
a reference to that material in the version of the comment that is
placed in EDOCKET. The entire printed comment, including the
copyrighted material, will be available in the public docket. Although
identified as an item in the official docket, information claimed as
CBI, or whose disclosure is otherwise restricted by statute, is not
included in the official public docket, and will not be available for
public viewing in EDOCKET. For further information about the electronic
docket, see EPA's Federal Register notice describing the electronic
docket at 67 FR 38102 (May 31, 2002), or go to www.epa.gov/edocket.
Title: National Pretreatment Program.
Abstract: This Information Collection Request (ICR) calculates the
burden and costs associated with managing the National Pretreatment
Program, mandated by sections 402(a) and (b) and 307(b) of the Clean
Water Act.
EPA's Office of Wastewater Management (OWM) in the Office of Water
(OW) is responsible for the management of the pretreatment program. The
Clean Water Act requires EPA to develop national pretreatment standards
to control discharges from Industrial Users (IUs) into Publicly Owned
Treatment Works (POTWs). These standards limit the level of certain
pollutants allowed in non-domestic wastewater that is discharged to a
POTW. EPA administers the pretreatment program through the National
Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit program. Under
the NPDES permit program, EPA may approve State or individual POTW
implementation of the pretreatment standards at their respective
levels. Data collected from IUs during implementation of the
pretreatment program include the mass, frequency, and content of IU
discharges and IU schedules for installing pretreatment equipment. Data
also include actual or anticipated IU discharges of wastes that violate
pretreatment standards, have the potential to cause problems at the
POTW, or are considered hazardous under the Resource Conservation and
Recovery Act (RCRA). OWM uses the data collected under the pretreatment
program to monitor and enforce compliance with the pretreatment
regulations, as well as to authorize program administration at the
State or local (POTW) level. States and POTWs applying for approval of
their pretreatment programs submit data concerning their legal,
procedural, and administrative bases for establishing such programs.
This information may include surveys of IUs, local limits for pollutant
concentrations, and schedules for completion of major project
requirements. IUs and POTWs submit written reports to the approved
state or EPA. These data may then be entered into the NPDES databases
by the approved state or by EPA.
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 40 CFR are listed in 40 CFR part 9 and are identified on
the form and/or instrument, if applicable.
Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping
burden for this collection of information is estimated to average
approximately 10
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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; 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: Various industrial categories,
local, State and Federal governments.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 28,285.
Frequency of Response: On occasion, semi-annually, annually, and as
needed.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 2,161,679.
Estimated Total Annual Cost: $85,949,203, includes $0 annualized
capital or O&M costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is a decrease of 685,488 hours in
the total estimated burden currently identified in the OMB Inventory of
approved ICR burdens. This decrease is due mainly to an adjustment in
the estimate of the number of Industrial Users and a change in the
number of effluent guidelines for which the pretreatment program
assumes reporting and recordkeeping burden.
Dated: August 25, 2003.
Doreen Sterling,
Acting Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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