[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 24 (Friday, February 5, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6023-6024]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-2539]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OW-2005-0019; FRL-9110-8]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Comment Request; Contaminant Occurrence Data in
Support of EPA's Third Six-Year Review of National Primary Drinking
Water Regulations (Renewal); EPA ICR No. 2231.02, OMB Control No. 2040-
0275
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (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. The ICR, which is abstracted below,
describes the nature of the information collection and its estimated
burden and cost.
DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before March 8, 2010.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OW-
2005-0019, to (1) EPA online using http://www.regulations.gov (our
preferred method), or by mail to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental
Protection Agency, Water Docket (MC 28221T), 1200 Pennsylvania Ave.,
NW., Washington, DC 20460, and (2) OMB by mail to: 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: Shari Bauman, Office of Ground Water
and Drinking Water, Standards and Risk Management Division (MC 4607M),
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.,
Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 564-0293.
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 September 11, 2009 (74 FR 46765), EPA sought comments on
this ICR pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received no comments. Any
additional comments on this ICR should be submitted to EPA and OMB
within 30 days of this notice.
EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID
No. EPA-HQ-OW-2005-0019, which is available for online viewing at
http://www.regulations.gov, or in person viewing at the Water Docket in
the EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution
Ave., NW., Washington, DC. The EPA/DC 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.
Use EPA's electronic docket and comment system at http://www.regulations.gov, to submit or view public comments, access the
index listing of the contents of the docket, and to access those
documents in the docket that are available electronically. Once in the
system, select ``docket search,'' then key in the docket ID number
identified above. Please note that EPA's policy is that public
comments, whether submitted electronically or in paper, will be made
available for public viewing at http://www.regulations.gov 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. For
further information about the electronic docket, go to http://www.regulations.gov.
Title: Contaminant Occurrence Data in Support of EPA's Third Six-
Year Review of National Primary Drinking Water Regulations (Renewal).
ICR numbers: EPA ICR No. 2231.02, OMB Control No. 2040-0275.
ICR Status: This ICR is scheduled to expire on February 28, 2010.
Under OMB regulations, the Agency may continue to conduct or sponsor
the collection of information while this submission is pending at OMB.
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 title 40 of the CFR, after appearing in the Federal Register when
approved, are listed in 40 CFR part 9, are displayed either by
publication in the Federal Register or by other appropriate means, such
as on the related collection instrument or form, if applicable. The
display of OMB control numbers in certain EPA regulations is
consolidated in 40 CFR part 9.
Abstract: The Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), as amended in 1996,
requires that EPA review existing National Primary Drinking Water
Regulations (NPDWRs) no less often than every six years. This cyclical
evaluation is referred to as the ``Six-Year Review.'' Through the Six-
Year Review process, the EPA reviews existing NPDWRs and evaluates
whether potential revisions are appropriate to maintain or improve the
health of those persons served by public water systems.
EPA completed and published review results for the first Six-Year
Review cycle (1996-2002) on July 18, 2003 (68 FR 42908). The occurrence
assessments conducted for the first Six-Year Review were based on
compliance monitoring data from 1993 to 1997, which were voluntarily
provided by States.
EPA expects to complete and publish the review results for the
second Six-Year Review cycle (2003-2009) in the near future. The
occurrence assessments conducted for the second Six-Year Review are
based on data collected between 1998 and 2005 and voluntarily submitted
by States and other primacy agencies under the current Information
Collection Request (ICR No. 2231.01, 71 FR 32340, June 5, 2006).
To support future Six-Year Reviews, EPA's Office of Water is
renewing the current ICR and requesting that States
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and other primacy agencies voluntarily provide historical compliance
monitoring data for community water systems (CWSs) and non-transient
non-community water systems (NTNCWSs) to the Agency. The Agency is
requesting contaminant occurrence data and treatment technique data
collected from 2006 to 2012 for all regulated chemical, radiological
and microbiological contaminants as well as data from the Ground Water
Rule (GWR), Surface Water Treatment Rules (SWTRs), Long Term 1 and 2
Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rules (LT1 and LT2) and Interim
Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule (IESWTR), Stage 1 and 2
Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rules (DBPRs) and Filter
Backwash Recycling Rule (FBRR). This collection request is a renewal of
the current ICR (ICR No. 2231.01) with the addition of requesting
treatment technique information.
The compliance monitoring records in this information collection
(including all results for analytical detections and non-detections)
and the treatment technique information (e.g., sanitary survey and
corrective action information) will provide the data needed to conduct
statistical estimates of national occurrence for regulated contaminants
and will assist in the evaluation of regulation effectiveness. These
national occurrence estimates and treatment technique information will
support the SDWA section 1412(b)(9) mandate, which requires the Agency
to review the existing NPDWRs and determine whether revisions are
appropriate. In addition, SDWA section 1445(g) requires the Agency to
maintain a national drinking water contaminant occurrence database
(i.e., the National Contaminant Occurrence Data (NCOD)) using
occurrence data for both regulated and unregulated contaminants in
public water systems (PWSs). This data collection will provide new
occurrence data on regulated contaminants to maintain the NCOD.
Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping
burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 13.5
hours per State. 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 which have subsequently changed; 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: State drinking water primacy
agencies.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 56.
Frequency of Response: Once.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 756.
Estimated Total Annual Cost: $37,922, this includes $0 annualized
capital or O&M costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is an increase of 75 hours in the
total estimated burden currently identified in the OMB Inventory of
Approved ICR Burdens. This increase reflects the slight modification in
the scope (i.e., to request additional data for several rules such as
the GWR, SWTRs, DBPRs and FBRR).
Dated: January 29, 2010.
John Moses,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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