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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 March 7, 2005.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
referencing docket ID number OW–
2003–0017, to (1) EPA online using
EDOCKET (our preferred method), by email to OW-Docket@epa.gov, or by mail
to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental
Protection Agency, Water Docket, MC
4104T, 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:
Robert E. Smith, Office of Ground Water
and Drinking Water, Environmental
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania
Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460;
telephone number: (202) 564–3895; fax
number: (202) 564–3756; e-mail address:
smith.robert-eu@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, 2004 (69 FR 62267), 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–
2003–0017, 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
https://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
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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 https://www.epa.gov/
edocket.
Title: Underground Injection Control
Program (Renewal).
Abstract: The Underground Injection
Control (UIC) Program under the Safe
Drinking Water Act established a
Federal and State regulatory system to
protect underground sources of drinking
water (USDWs) from contamination by
injected fluids. Owners/operators of
underground injection wells must
obtain permits, conduct environmental
monitoring, maintain records, and
report results to EPA or the State UIC
primacy agency. States must report to
EPA on permittee compliance and
related information. The mandatory
information is reported using
standardized forms, and the regulations
are codified at 40 CFR parts 144 through
148. The data are used to ensure the
protection of USDWs from UIC
authorities.
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 3 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
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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:
Entities potentially affected by this
action are owners and operators of
underground injection wells, state UIC
primacy agencies, Puerto Rico, the U.S.
Trust Territories, Indian Tribes, Alaska’s
Native Villages and, in some instances,
U.S. EPA Regional offices.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
41,141.
Frequency of Response: Varies.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:
1,334,054.
Estimated Total Annual Cost:
$135,355,000, includes $89,415,000
annualized capital or O&M costs and
$45,941,000 annual labor costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is an
increase of 242,109 hours in the total
estimated annual burden currently
identified in the OMB Inventory of
Approved ICR Burdens. This increase is
related to an expected increase in
activities under the 1999 Class V Rule
associated with regulatory deadlines for
closure of large-capacity cesspools and
closure/permitting of motor vehicle
waste disposal wells that will occur
during the clearance period. Also, this
ICR burden reflects several adjustments
in assumptions, including inventories of
all well classes and changes to the
number of responses or unit burdens for
certain activities, based on recent
consultations.
Dated: January 25, 2005.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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AGENCY
[OW–2004–0017; FRL–7868–1]
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Combined Sewer Overflow
Control Policy (Renewal), EPA ICR
Number 1680.04, OMB Control Number
2040–0170
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
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Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 22 / Thursday, February 3, 2005 / Notices
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 January 31, 2005.
DATES: Additional comments may be
submitted on or before March 7, 2005.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
referencing docket ID number OW–
2004–0017, to (1) EPA online using
EDOCKET (our preferred method), by email to OW-DOCKET@epa.gov, or by
mail to: EPA Docket Center,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water Docket, 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: Joel
C. Wolf, Environmental Protection
Agency, Water Permits Division, Mail
Code 4203M, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave.,
NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone
number: 202–564–2228; fax number:
202–564–6392; e-mail address:
wolf.joel@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 August 12, 2004 (69 FR 49895), EPA
sought comments on this ICR pursuant
to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received one
comment that did not address the
renewal ICR in any way. No response
was necessary.
EPA has established a public docket
for this ICR under Docket ID No. OW–
2004–0017, 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
https://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.
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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 https://www.epa.gov/
edocket.
Title: Combined Sewer Overflow
Control Policy (Renewal).
Abstract: The information to be
collected under this request is the
information recommended in the CSO
Control Policy that will be developed by
municipalities with combined sewer
systems that have combined sewer
overflows (CSOs). Specifically, the
information is the documentation that
the municipalities have implemented
the nine minimum controls specified in
the CSO policy, the long-term control
plan that the municipalities must
develop and implement to achieve
compliance with the requirements of the
Clean Water Act and applicable state
water quality standards (WQS), and
compliance monitoring data for
demonstrating compliance with
applicable WQS and National Pollutant
Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)
permit conditions. The first two
information submittals are one-time
submittals; the last element will be
submitted semi-annually as part of the
municipalities’ Discharge Monitoring
Reports (DMRs). EPA will use this
information to determine how well the
CSO Control Policy is being
implemented at the state and local level
and to prepare the performance reports
required under the Government
Performance and Results Act (GPRA).
The information to be collected under
this information collection is necessary
to determine the program’s achievement
of GPRA performance measures.
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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 515 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:
municipalities with combined sewer
systems.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
776.
Frequency of Response: One-time for
selected items; semi-annually for others.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:
400,542.
Estimated Total Annual Cost:
$14,715,366, which includes $155,664
in Capital Expense, $0 in O&M costs,
and $14,559,702 in Respondent Labor
Costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is a
decrease of 179,502 hours in the total
estimated burden currently identified in
the OMB Inventory of Approved ICR
Burdens. This decrease reflects a
decrease in the number of communities
needing to come into compliance with
the CSO Policy. Some CSO communities
have already completed some of the
requirements. Additionally, this change
in the burden is the result of data and
information collected from EPA Regions
and conversations with EPA Regional
and state CSO program staff during
preparation of EPA’s Report to Congress
on Impacts and Control of CSOs and
SSOs.
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Dated: January 25, 2005.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. 05–2065 Filed 2–2–05; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6560–50–P
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[OECA–2004–0040; FRL–7868–2]
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission for OMB Review
and Approval; Comment Request;
NSPS for Municipal Waste Combustors
(Renewal), ICR Number 1506.10, OMB
Number 2060–0210
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act, 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 April 30, 2005. 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 March 7, 2005.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
referencing docket ID number OECA–
2004–0040, to (1) EPA online using
EDOCKET (our preferred method), by email to docket.oeca@epa.gov, or by mail
to: Environmental Protection Agency,
EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC),
Enforcement and Compliance Docket
and Information Center, Mail Code
2201T, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue,
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:
Learia Williams, Compliance
Assessment and Media Programs
Division, Office of Compliance, (Mail
Code 2223A), Environmental Protection
Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue,
NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone
number: (202) 564–4113; fax number:
(202) 564–0050; e-mail address:
williams.learia@epa.gov.
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EPA has
submitted the following ICR to OMB for
review and approval according to the
procedures prescribed in 5 CFR 1320.12.
On September 14, 2004 (69 FR 55430)
EPA sought comments on this ICR
pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA
received no comments.
EPA has established a public docket
for this ICR under Docket ID No. OECA–
2004–0040, which is available for public
viewing at the Enforcement and
Compliance Docket and Information
Center in the EPA Docket Center (EPA/
DC), EPA West, Room B102, 1301
Constitution Avenue, 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 Enforcement and Compliance
Docket and Information Center Docket
is: (202) 566–1752. An electronic
version of the public docket is available
through EPA Dockets (EDOCKET) at
https://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.
When 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,
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 https://www.epa.gov/
edocket.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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Title: NSPS for Municipal Waste
Combustors (40 CFR part 60, subparts
Ea and Eb) (Renewal)
Abstract: The New Source
Performance Standards (NSPS) for
subparts Ea and Eb were proposed on
December 20, 1980, and September 20,
1994 respectively, and promulgated on
February 11, 1991 and December 19,
1995, respectively. Both of these
standards apply to municipal waste
combustors with unit capacities greater
than 225 megagrams per day. Owners or
operators of the affected facilities must
make one-time-only notifications and
reports and must keep records of all
facilities subject to NSPS requirements.
Owners or operators are also required to
maintain records of the occurrence and
duration of any startup, shutdown, or
malfunction in the operation of an
affected facility, or any period during
which the monitoring system is
inoperative. The pollutants of concern
for subpart Ea are metals, municipal
waste combustor (MWC) organics, MWC
acid gases, and nitrogen oxides. In
subpart Eb the additional pollutants of
concern are cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb),
and mercury (Hg). Subparts Ea and Eb
require owners and operators with unit
capacity above 225 megagrams per day
to notify the agency of intent to
construct and initiate operation of a
new, modified or reconstructed MWC.
The notification must contain
supporting information regarding unit
design capacity, the calculations used to
determine capacity, and estimated
startup dates.
Owners and operators must submit
semiannual and annual compliance
reports. In addition, facilities subject to
subpart Eb are required to keep records
of the weekly amount of carbon used for
activated carbon injection and to
calculate the estimated hourly carbon
injection rate for hours of operation as
a means of determining continuous
compliance for Hg. Annual reports of
excess emissions are required under
subpart Ea, while semiannual reports of
excess emissions are required under
subpart Eb. These notifications, reports,
and records are essential in determining
compliance and are required, in general,
of all sources subject to the standard.
Any owner or operator subject to
subpart Ea will maintain a file of these
measurements, and retain the file for at
least two years. For those facilities
subject to subpart Eb all records are
required to be maintained at the source
for a period of five years.
Notifications are used to inform the
Agency or delegated authority when a
source becomes subject to the standard.
The reviewing authority may then
inspect the source to check if the
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Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Comment Request; Combined Sewer Overflow Control
Policy (Renewal), EPA ICR Number 1680.04, OMB Control Number 2040-0170
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
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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 January 31,
2005.
DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before March 7, 2005.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number OW-2004-
0017, 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, Water Docket, 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: Joel C. Wolf, Environmental Protection
Agency, Water Permits Division, Mail Code 4203M, 1200 Pennsylvania
Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: 202-564-2228; fax
number: 202-564-6392; e-mail address: wolf.joel@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 August 12, 2004 (69 FR 49895), EPA sought comments on this
ICR pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received one comment that did not
address the renewal ICR in any way. No response was necessary.
EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID
No. OW-2004-0017, 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 https://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 https://www.epa.gov/
edocket.
Title: Combined Sewer Overflow Control Policy (Renewal).
Abstract: The information to be collected under this request is the
information recommended in the CSO Control Policy that will be
developed by municipalities with combined sewer systems that have
combined sewer overflows (CSOs). Specifically, the information is the
documentation that the municipalities have implemented the nine minimum
controls specified in the CSO policy, the long-term control plan that
the municipalities must develop and implement to achieve compliance
with the requirements of the Clean Water Act and applicable state water
quality standards (WQS), and compliance monitoring data for
demonstrating compliance with applicable WQS and National Pollutant
Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit conditions. The first two
information submittals are one-time submittals; the last element will
be submitted semi-annually as part of the municipalities' Discharge
Monitoring Reports (DMRs). EPA will use this information to determine
how well the CSO Control Policy is being implemented at the state and
local level and to prepare the performance reports required under the
Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). The information to be
collected under this information collection is necessary to determine
the program's achievement of GPRA performance measures.
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 515
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: municipalities with combined sewer
systems.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 776.
Frequency of Response: One-time for selected items; semi-annually
for others.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 400,542.
Estimated Total Annual Cost: $14,715,366, which includes $155,664
in Capital Expense, $0 in O&M costs, and $14,559,702 in Respondent
Labor Costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is a decrease of 179,502 hours in
the total estimated burden currently identified in the OMB Inventory of
Approved ICR Burdens. This decrease reflects a decrease in the number
of communities needing to come into compliance with the CSO Policy.
Some CSO communities have already completed some of the requirements.
Additionally, this change in the burden is the result of data and
information collected from EPA Regions and conversations with EPA
Regional and state CSO program staff during preparation of EPA's Report
to Congress on Impacts and Control of CSOs and SSOs.
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Dated: January 25, 2005.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. 05-2065 Filed 2-2-05; 8:45 am]
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