[Federal Register: February 25, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 37)]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[OW-2003-0004; FRL-7454-1]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission of EPA ICR
No. 1569.05 (OMB No. 2040-0153) to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment
Request
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.
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 the following Information
Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for review and approval: Approval of State Coastal
Nonpoint Pollution Control Programs (CZARA Section 6217). The ICR
describes the nature of the information collection and its estimated
burden and cost.
DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before March 27,
2003.
ADDRESSES: Follow the detailed instructions in SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stacie Craddock, Assessment and
Watershed Protection Division, Office of Wetlands, Oceans, and
Watersheds (4503-T), Environmental Protection
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Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone
number: 202-566-1204; fax number: 202-566-1545; e-mail address:
craddock.stacie@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 October 25, 2002 (67 FR 65563), EPA sought comments on this
ICR pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). On November 20, 2002 (67 FR 70070),
EPA extended the comment period 30 days. EPA received one comment and
has addressed the comment received.
EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID
No. OW-2003-0004, 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.
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, and according to the following detailed
instructions: (1) Submit your comments to EPA online using EDOCKET (our
preferred method), by e-mail to ow-docket@epa.gov, or by mail to: Water
Docket, Environmental Protection Agency, Mail Code 4101T, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC, 20460, and (2) Mail your
comments to 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.
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 http://www.epa.gov/edocket.
Title: Approval of State Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control
Programs (OMB Control No. 2040-0153, EPA ICR No. 1569.05). This is a
request to renew an existing approved collection that is scheduled to
expire on April 30, 2003. Under the OMB regulations, the Agency may
continue to conduct or sponsor the collection of information while this
submission is pending at OMB.
Abstract: Under the provisions of national Program Development and
Approval Guidance implementing section 6217 of the Coastal Zone Act
Reauthorization Amendments of 1990 (CZARA) which was jointly developed
and published by EPA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA), 29 coastal States and 5 coastal Territories with
Federally approved Coastal Zone Management Programs have developed and
submitted to EPA and NOAA Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Programs. EPA and
NOAA have approved 9 States and 3 Territories, conditionally approved
19 States and 2 Territories, and one State's initial program submission
(Indiana) is currently under review. The conditional approvals will
require States and Territories to submit additional information in
order to obtain final program approval. Indiana will also need to
submit information in order to obtain approval of its coastal nonpoint
program. Administrative changes issued on October 16, 1998, and
mutually agreed to by States, Territories, EPA and NOAA are expected to
expedite the final approval process. CZARA section 6217 requires States
and Territories to obtain final approval of their Coastal Nonpoint
Pollution Programs in order to retain their full share of funding
available to them under section 319 of the Clean Water Act and section
306 of the Coastal Zone Management Act. The information collected under
section 6217 and this ICR will not require States and Territories to
collect any confidential information.
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 are listed in 40 CFR part 9 and 48 CFR chapter 15, 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 148
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: 20 States and 2 Territories with
approved coastal zone management programs.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 22.
Frequency of Response: Once.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 3,250 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Cost: $113,738, includes $0 annualized
capital or O&M costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is a decrease of 375 hours in the
total estimated burden currently identified in the OMB Inventory of
Approved ICR Burdens. This decrease is the result of EPA and NOAA
having fully approved 12 of the 34 programs.
Dated: February 10, 2003.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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