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information technology, e.g., permitting
electronic submission of responses.
An estimated burden is provided for
each ICR. 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.
Information for Individual ICRS
(1) Title: Nonconformance Penalties
for Heavy-Duty Engines and Heavy-Duty
Vehicles, including Light-Duty Trucks;
EPA ICR Number 1285.06, OMB Control
Number 2060–0132, expiring on 7/31/
2005.
Docket Number: OAR–2005–0120.
Affected entities: Entities potentially
affected by this action are manufacturers
of heavy-duty engines, heavy-duty
vehicles and light-duty trucks.
Abstract: Section 206(g) of the Clean
Air Act, as amended, contains
nonconformance penalty provisions
(NCP) that allow manufacturers to
introduce into commerce heavy-duty
engines or vehicles (including light-duty
trucks) which fail to conform with
certain emission standards upon
payment of a monetary penalty.
Manufacturers who elect to use NCPs
are require to test production engines
and vehicles to determine the extent of
their nonconformity and conduct a
Production Compliance Audit (PCA).
The collection activities of the
nonconformance penalty program
include periodic reports and other
information (including the results of
emission testing conducted during the
PCA). CCD will use this information to
ensure that manufacturers are
complying with the regulations and that
appropriate nonconformance penalties
are being paid. Responses to this
collection are voluntary.
Burden Statement: The annual public
reporting and recordkeeping burden is
estimated to average 196 hours per
response.
(2) Title: Exclusion Determinations for
New Non-road Spark-ignited Engines,
New Compression-ignited Engines, New
On-road Heavy Duty Engines, New
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Marine Engines and New Locomotive
Engines; EPA ICR Number 1852.03;
OMB Control Number 2060–0395,
expiring on 8/31/2005.
Docket Number: OAR–2005–0121.
Affected entities: Entities potentially
affected by these actions are engine
manufacturers, equipment
manufacturers and importers.
Abstract: Some types of engines are
excluded from compliance with current
regulations. A manufacturer may make
an exclusion determination by itself;
however, manufacturers and importers
may routinely request EPA to make such
determination to ensure that their
determination does not differ from
EPA’s. Only needed information such as
engine type, horsepower rating,
intended usage, etc., is requested to
make an exclusion determination.
Responses to this collection are
voluntary.
Burden Statement: The annual public
reporting and recordkeeping burden for
this collection of information is
estimated to average seven hours per
response.
Dated: May 25, 2005.
Jeffrey R. Holmstead,
Assistant Administrator, Office of Air and
Radiation.
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AGENCY
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Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; Information
Collection Request for Great Lakes
Water Quality Guidance Reporting
Requirements, EPA ICR Number
1639.04, OMB Control Number 2040–
0180
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
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
continuing Information Collection
Request (ICR) to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB). This is
a request to renew an existing approved
collection. This ICR is scheduled to
expire on May 31, 2005. However, EPA
is requesting a three-month extension to
complete this renewal process. Before
submitting the ICR to OMB for review
and approval, EPA is soliciting
comments on specific aspects of the
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proposed information collection as
described below.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before August 1, 2005.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
referencing docket ID number OW–
2003–0030, to 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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Lynn Stabenfeldt, Office of Wastewater
Management, 4201M, Environmental
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania
Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460;
telephone number: (202) 564–0602; fax
number: (202) 501–2399; e-mail address:
stabenfeldt.lynn@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has
established a public docket for this ICR
under Docket ID number OW–2003–
0030, 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 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, 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
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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.
Affected entities: Entities potentially
affected by this action are (1) industries
discharging toxic pollutants to waters in
the Great Lakes System as defined in 40
CFR 132.2 and (2) publicly-owned
treatment works discharging toxic
pollutants to waters of the Great Lakes
System as defined in 40 CFR 132.2.
Title: Information Collection Request
for Great Lakes Water Quality Guidance
Reporting Requirements (OMB Control
No. 2040–0180; EPA ICR No.1639.04,
expiring May 31, 2005).
Abstract: The primary objective of the
Clean Water Act (CWA) is ‘‘to restore
and maintain the chemical, physical
and biological integrity of the nation’s
waters’’ (Section 101(a)). CWA Section
402 establishes the National Pollutant
Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)
permit program to regulate the discharge
of any pollutant or combination of
pollutants from point sources into the
waters of the United States. CWA
Section 402(a), as amended, authorizes
the EPA Administrator to issue permits
for the discharge of pollutants if those
discharges meet the following
requirements:
• All applicable requirements of
CWA Sections 301, 302, 306, 307, 308,
and 403; and
• Any conditions the Administrator
determines are necessary to carry out
the provisions and objectives of the
CWA.
Section 101 of the Great Lakes Critical
Programs Act (CPA) amends Section 118
of the CWA and directed EPA to publish
water quality guidance for the Great
Lakes System. Provisions of the
Guidance are codified in 40 CFR part
132. The Guidance establishes
minimum water quality criteria,
implementation procedures, and
antidegradation provisions for the Great
Lakes System.
Permitting authorities currently
require dischargers to provide
information such as the name, location,
and description of facilities to identify
the facilities that require permits. EPA
and authorized NPDES States store
much of this basic information in the
Permit Compliance System (PCS)
database. PCS provides EPA with a
nationwide inventory of NPDES permit
holders. EPA Headquarters uses the
information contained in the PCS to
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develop reports on permit issuance,
backlogs, and compliance rates. The
Agency also uses the information to
respond to public and Congressional
inquiries, develop and guide its
policies, formulate its budgets, assist
States in acquiring authority for
permitting programs, and manage its
programs to ensure national consistency
in permitting.
NPDES permit applications and
requests for supplemental information
currently require information about
wastewater treatment systems,
pollutants, discharge rates and volumes,
whole effluent toxicity testing and other
data. Additional information collection
requirements that may be necessary to
implement State, Tribal, or EPA
promulgated provisions consistent with
the Great Lakes Guidance include: (1)
Monitoring (pollutant-specific and
whole effluent toxicity or WET); (2)
pollutant minimization programs; (3)
bioassays to support the development of
water quality criteria; (4)
antidegradation policy/demonstrations;
and, (5) regulatory relief options (e.g.,
variances from water quality criteria).
This information may be used to
ensure compliance with provisions
consistent with the Guidance and reevaluate existing permit conditions and
monitoring requirements. Data on
discharges is entered into STORET and
PCS, EPA’s databases for ambient water
quality data and NPDES permits,
respectively. Results of water quality
criteria testing will be entered into an
EPA Information Clearinghouse
database. Some of the burden hours
associated with applications in the
existing ICR that EPA is renewing have
been placed in the Water Quality
Standards ICR (OMB Control #2040–
0049, EPA #0988.08, to expire August
31, 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.
The 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;
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(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: This ICR provides
an estimate of the burden and costs
associated with implementation of the
final Great Lakes Water Quality
Guidance. The total annual burden to all
respondents is estimated to be 29,523
with associated costs of $3,121,930. The
total annual burden includes an
estimated average annual reporting
burden of 7 hours per discharger with
a corresponding response frequency that
varies depending on the discharger’s
effluent characteristics. The estimated
average annual labor cost per discharger
is $392 with average annual operations
and maintenance costs per discharger
estimated at $408. The estimated annual
average burden hours for states is 274
hours with a corresponding labor cost of
$10,776. The estimated number of
respondents for this renewal ICR is
3,795. 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: May 20, 2005.
James A. Hanlon,
Director, Office of Wastewater Management.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[OW-2003-0030; FRL-7918-8]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; Information Collection Request for Great Lakes Water
Quality Guidance Reporting Requirements, EPA ICR Number 1639.04, OMB
Control Number 2040-0180
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
continuing Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB). This is a request to renew an existing
approved collection. This ICR is scheduled to expire on May 31, 2005.
However, EPA is requesting a three-month extension to complete this
renewal process. Before submitting the ICR to OMB for review and
approval, EPA is soliciting comments on specific aspects of the
proposed information collection as described below.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before August 1, 2005.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number OW-2003-
0030, to 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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lynn Stabenfeldt, Office of Wastewater
Management, 4201M, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania
Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 564-0602; fax
number: (202) 501-2399; e-mail address: stabenfeldt.lynn@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has established a public docket for this
ICR under Docket ID number OW-2003-0030, 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 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, 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
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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.
Affected entities: Entities potentially affected by this action are
(1) industries discharging toxic pollutants to waters in the Great
Lakes System as defined in 40 CFR 132.2 and (2) publicly-owned
treatment works discharging toxic pollutants to waters of the Great
Lakes System as defined in 40 CFR 132.2.
Title: Information Collection Request for Great Lakes Water Quality
Guidance Reporting Requirements (OMB Control No. 2040-0180; EPA ICR
No.1639.04, expiring May 31, 2005).
Abstract: The primary objective of the Clean Water Act (CWA) is
``to restore and maintain the chemical, physical and biological
integrity of the nation's waters'' (Section 101(a)). CWA Section 402
establishes the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)
permit program to regulate the discharge of any pollutant or
combination of pollutants from point sources into the waters of the
United States. CWA Section 402(a), as amended, authorizes the EPA
Administrator to issue permits for the discharge of pollutants if those
discharges meet the following requirements:
All applicable requirements of CWA Sections 301, 302, 306,
307, 308, and 403; and
Any conditions the Administrator determines are necessary
to carry out the provisions and objectives of the CWA.
Section 101 of the Great Lakes Critical Programs Act (CPA) amends
Section 118 of the CWA and directed EPA to publish water quality
guidance for the Great Lakes System. Provisions of the Guidance are
codified in 40 CFR part 132. The Guidance establishes minimum water
quality criteria, implementation procedures, and antidegradation
provisions for the Great Lakes System.
Permitting authorities currently require dischargers to provide
information such as the name, location, and description of facilities
to identify the facilities that require permits. EPA and authorized
NPDES States store much of this basic information in the Permit
Compliance System (PCS) database. PCS provides EPA with a nationwide
inventory of NPDES permit holders. EPA Headquarters uses the
information contained in the PCS to develop reports on permit issuance,
backlogs, and compliance rates. The Agency also uses the information to
respond to public and Congressional inquiries, develop and guide its
policies, formulate its budgets, assist States in acquiring authority
for permitting programs, and manage its programs to ensure national
consistency in permitting.
NPDES permit applications and requests for supplemental information
currently require information about wastewater treatment systems,
pollutants, discharge rates and volumes, whole effluent toxicity
testing and other data. Additional information collection requirements
that may be necessary to implement State, Tribal, or EPA promulgated
provisions consistent with the Great Lakes Guidance include: (1)
Monitoring (pollutant-specific and whole effluent toxicity or WET); (2)
pollutant minimization programs; (3) bioassays to support the
development of water quality criteria; (4) antidegradation policy/
demonstrations; and, (5) regulatory relief options (e.g., variances
from water quality criteria).
This information may be used to ensure compliance with provisions
consistent with the Guidance and re-evaluate existing permit conditions
and monitoring requirements. Data on discharges is entered into STORET
and PCS, EPA's databases for ambient water quality data and NPDES
permits, respectively. Results of water quality criteria testing will
be entered into an EPA Information Clearinghouse database. Some of the
burden hours associated with applications in the existing ICR that EPA
is renewing have been placed in the Water Quality Standards ICR (OMB
Control 2040-0049, EPA 0988.08, to expire August 31,
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.
The 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: This ICR provides an estimate of the burden and
costs associated with implementation of the final Great Lakes Water
Quality Guidance. The total annual burden to all respondents is
estimated to be 29,523 with associated costs of $3,121,930. The total
annual burden includes an estimated average annual reporting burden of
7 hours per discharger with a corresponding response frequency that
varies depending on the discharger's effluent characteristics. The
estimated average annual labor cost per discharger is $392 with average
annual operations and maintenance costs per discharger estimated at
$408. The estimated annual average burden hours for states is 274 hours
with a corresponding labor cost of $10,776. The estimated number of
respondents for this renewal ICR is 3,795. 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: May 20, 2005.
James A. Hanlon,
Director, Office of Wastewater Management.
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