[Federal Register: March 17, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 51)]
[Notices]
[Page 13025-13026]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[OW-2004-0038, FRL-7885-2]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; Survey of Airport Deicing Operations, EPA ICR Number
2171.01
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 EPA is planning to submit a
proposed Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB). This is a request for a new collection.
Before submitting the ICR to OMB for review and approval, EPA is
soliciting comments on specific aspects of the proposed information
collection (Airline Questionnaire) as described below. EPA is also
extending the comment period on a related, previously-announced
collection (Airport Questionnaire).
DATES: For both the Airline and Airport Questionnaires, comments must
be submitted on or before May 16, 2005. (The Airport Questionnaire was
previously announced on January 28, 2005.)
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number OW-2004-
0038, to EPA online using EDocket (our preferred method), by e-mail to
ow-docket@epa.gov, or by mail to: Water Docket, 4101T, Environmental
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Eric Strassler, EPA Office of Water,
telephone 202-566-1026, e-mail strassler.eric@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has established a public docket for this
ICR under Docket ID number OW-2004-0038, 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 202-566-2422. An electronic version of the public
docket is available through EPA Dockets (EDocket) at http://www.epa.gov/edocket.
Use EDocket to obtain a copy of the draft
collection of information, 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 within
60 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, confidential business
information (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.
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Affected Entities: Entities potentially affected by this action are
airport owners/operators.
Title: Survey of Airport Deicing Operations (Airline
Questionnaire).
Abstract: EPA is developing wastewater discharge standards, called
``effluent guidelines,'' for airports pursuant to the Agency's 2004
Effluent Guidelines Plan (69 FR 53719, September 2, 2004). The focus of
the rulemaking is on wastewater discharges from aircraft and runway
deicing operations. EPA will send survey questionnaires to a sample of
air carriers to help the Agency compile a national assessment of
deicing operations. The survey will include questions on the deicing
technologies employed, amount of deicing chemicals used, pollution
prevention techniques, and economic and financial information. Each air
carrier receiving a questionnaire package would be asked to provide
responses for a specified sample of locations at which the airline
operates. Completion of this one-time survey will be mandatory pursuant
to sec. 308 of the Clean Water Act.
EPA has prepared a separate draft questionnaire for airports. This
questionnaire was announced at 70 FR 4117, January 28, 2005, with a
comment deadline of March 29, 2005. EPA is hereby extending the comment
deadline for the Airport Questionnaire to match the deadline for the
Airline Questionnaire, namely May 16, 2005.
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.
EPA would like to solicit comments to:
(i) Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the Agency,
including whether the information will have practical utility;
(ii) evaluate the accuracy of the Agency's estimate of the burden
of the proposed collection of information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
(iii) enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information
to be collected; and
(iv) minimize the burden of the collection of information on those
who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated
electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic
submission of responses.
Burden Statement. The estimated burden for this survey is 24 hours
per air carrier site (i.e. an air carrier's operational facility at a
specific airport). The total number of air carrier sites is 300,
producing an approximate total burden of 7,200 hours. 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.
Dated: March 10, 2005.
Mary T. Smith,
Acting Director, Office of Science and Technology.
[FR Doc. 05-5324 Filed 3-16-05; 8:45 am]
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