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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[ORD–2005–0003; FRL–7988–9]
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Market-Based Stormwater
Management in the Shepherd Creek
Watershed in Cincinnati, OH, EPA ICR
Number 2178.01
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 an Information Collection Request
(ICR) has been forwarded to the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval. This is a request
for a new collection. This ICR describes
the nature of the information collection
and its estimated burden and cost.
DATES: Additional comments may be
submitted on or before November 25,
2005.
Submit your comments,
referencing docket ID number ORD–
2005–0003, to (1) EPA online using
EDOCKET (our preferred method), by email to ord.docket@epa.gov, or by mail
to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental
Protection Agency, ORD Docket, Mail
Code 28221T, 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.
ADDRESSES:
Hale
W. Thurston, ORD, NRMRL, Mail Code
499, 26 W. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive,
Cincinnati, OH, 45268; telephone
number: 513.569.7627; fax number:
513.487.2511; e-mail address:
thurston.hale@epa.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
EPA has
submitted the following ICR to OMB for
review and approval according to the
procedures prescribed in 5 CFR 1320.12.
On Wednesday, July 13, 2005 (70 FR
40329), 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. ORD–
2005–0003, which is available for public
viewing at the ORD 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
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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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 ORD
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.
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: Market-based Stormwater
Management in the Shepherd Creek
Watershed in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Abstract: The Sustainable Technology
Division (STD) of the National Risk
Management Research Laboratory
(NRMRL) in the Office of Research and
Development (ORD) of the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
is proposing to conduct a survey of
individual property owners in the
Shepherd Creek watershed in
Cincinnati, OH. The survey will elicit
how residents value the voluntary
adoption of on-site best management
practices as part of a comprehensive
stormwater runoff control policy. The
focus will be on estimating the
minimum payment required to induce
individual landowners to devote a
portion of their property to runoff
reducing best management practices.
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This data collection is motivated by
the current stormwater related problems
within the United States in general, and
in the greater Cincinnati metropolitan
area in particular. Urban and suburban
development changes the natural
landscape making it more impervious to
rain and snow. The resulting stormwater
runoff is one of the most significant
contributors to water quality
degradation in the United States
through larger and more frequent floods,
increased erosion of stream beds and
banks, disruption of natural habitat in
receiving waters, and increased
pollution loadings of metals, toxics, and
nutrients. Precipitation falls over large
geographic areas, and the resulting
runoff will flow across a myriad of
parcels with varying land uses, which
are, in turn, under the control of
numerous property owners. Perhaps in
reaction to these conditions, stormwater
control policies have concentrated on
solutions that build centralized capacity
to direct and hold excess runoff within
the storm sewer system. An alternative
approach to stormwater control would
be to develop a decentralized approach
that disperses runoff detention
throughout the watershed, thus
reducing runoff before it reaches the
sewer system. This approach promises
both hydrological benefits of reducing
the in-stream damages that will
continue to occur in a centralized
system, as well as potential cost-savings
in terms of meeting environmental
quality standards.
Although the installation, operation,
and maintenance costs for best
management practices are relatively
well known, these are only a portion of
the total costs of adoption. The
opportunity costs (e.g.: the costs of
partial loss of use of property)
associated with BMP adoption are
privately held by individual
landowners, and can potentially
comprise the largest share of total
abatement adoption costs. To better
understand the economic potential of a
voluntary and decentralized runoff
control program, it is necessary to assess
the opportunity costs associated with
best management practice adoption. The
proposed survey provides a means of
gathering this information. It also asks
10–12 non-invasive demographic
questions.
The survey will be conducted using
six (6) groups of ten (10) residential
landowners from the Shepherd Creek
watershed. Participation will be
completely voluntary. Residents who
wish to participate in the study will be
identified and recruited through a
liaison from the Hamilton County Soil
and Water Conservation District, who is
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familiar with the community. The
survey will be conducted using a
computer simulated nonuniform-price,
sequential auction for the procurement
of best management practices.
Participants will be presented with a
selection of best management practices
that are feasible for use on their actual
parcel. Information regarding how each
BMP will perform on their specific
parcel, as well as the installation,
operation, and maintenance costs will
be provided. The auction is designed to
compensate residents for their costs of
adopting best management practices on
their property. Participants who wish to
adopt BMPs will submit bids that
consist of the size and type of the BMPs
and the minimum compensation that
they require. The goal is to pay those
landowners who adopt the most
effective best management practices at
the lowest price. Survey results will
then be used to estimate the minimum
payments required to achieve control
stormwater runoff through on-site best
management practices. Data will be
stored on U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency computer files that protect
respondent confidentiality. Summary
results will be made available to the
public.
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 2 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:
Homeowners in the Shepherd Creek
Area of Cincinnati, OH.
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Estimated Number of Respondents:
60.
Frequency of Response: On Occasion.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:
120.
Estimated Total Annual Cost: $3,000,
includes $0 annualized capital or O&M
costs.
Dated: October 19, 2005.
Sara Hisel McCoy,
Acting Director, Collection Strategies
Division.
[FR Doc. 05–21373 Filed 10–25–05; 8:45 am]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[OW–2004–0038; FRL–7989–1]
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Survey of Airport Deicing
Operations, EPA ICR Number 2171.01
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 an Information Collection Request
(ICR) has been forwarded to the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval. This is a request
for a new collection. This ICR describes
the nature of the information collection
and its estimated burden and cost.
DATES: Additional comments may be
submitted on or before November 25,
2005.
Submit your comments,
referencing docket ID number OW–
2004–0038, 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, EPA
West, 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.
ADDRESSES:
Eric
Strassler, Engineering & Analysis
Division, Office of Water, Mail Code
4303T, Environmental Protection
Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.,
Washington, DC 20460; telephone
number: (202) 566–1026; fax number:
(202) 566–1053; e-mail address:
strassler.eric@epa.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
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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 March 17, 2005 (70 FR 13025), EPA
sought comments on this ICR pursuant
to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA has addressed
the comments received in the
supporting statement of this ICR.
EPA has established a public docket
for this ICR under Docket ID No. 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) 566–2426. 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: Survey of Airport Deicing
Operations.
Abstract: EPA is developing
wastewater discharge standards, called
‘‘effluent guidelines,’’ for airports
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[ORD-2005-0003; FRL-7988-9]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Comment Request; Market-Based Stormwater
Management in the Shepherd Creek Watershed in Cincinnati, OH, EPA ICR
Number 2178.01
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 an Information Collection
Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and approval. This is a request for a new collection.
This ICR describes the nature of the information collection and its
estimated burden and cost.
DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before November 25,
2005.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number ORD-2005-
0003, to (1) EPA online using EDOCKET (our preferred method), by e-mail
to ord.docket@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental
Protection Agency, ORD Docket, Mail Code 28221T, 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: Hale W. Thurston, ORD, NRMRL, Mail
Code 499, 26 W. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Cincinnati, OH, 45268;
telephone number: 513.569.7627; fax number: 513.487.2511; e-mail
address: thurston.hale@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 Wednesday, July 13, 2005 (70 FR 40329), 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. ORD-2005-0003, which is available for public viewing at the ORD
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 ORD 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. 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: Market-based Stormwater Management in the Shepherd Creek
Watershed in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Abstract: The Sustainable Technology Division (STD) of the National
Risk Management Research Laboratory (NRMRL) in the Office of Research
and Development (ORD) of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
is proposing to conduct a survey of individual property owners in the
Shepherd Creek watershed in Cincinnati, OH. The survey will elicit how
residents value the voluntary adoption of on-site best management
practices as part of a comprehensive stormwater runoff control policy.
The focus will be on estimating the minimum payment required to induce
individual landowners to devote a portion of their property to runoff
reducing best management practices.
This data collection is motivated by the current stormwater related
problems within the United States in general, and in the greater
Cincinnati metropolitan area in particular. Urban and suburban
development changes the natural landscape making it more impervious to
rain and snow. The resulting stormwater runoff is one of the most
significant contributors to water quality degradation in the United
States through larger and more frequent floods, increased erosion of
stream beds and banks, disruption of natural habitat in receiving
waters, and increased pollution loadings of metals, toxics, and
nutrients. Precipitation falls over large geographic areas, and the
resulting runoff will flow across a myriad of parcels with varying land
uses, which are, in turn, under the control of numerous property
owners. Perhaps in reaction to these conditions, stormwater control
policies have concentrated on solutions that build centralized capacity
to direct and hold excess runoff within the storm sewer system. An
alternative approach to stormwater control would be to develop a
decentralized approach that disperses runoff detention throughout the
watershed, thus reducing runoff before it reaches the sewer system.
This approach promises both hydrological benefits of reducing the in-
stream damages that will continue to occur in a centralized system, as
well as potential cost-savings in terms of meeting environmental
quality standards.
Although the installation, operation, and maintenance costs for
best management practices are relatively well known, these are only a
portion of the total costs of adoption. The opportunity costs (e.g.:
the costs of partial loss of use of property) associated with BMP
adoption are privately held by individual landowners, and can
potentially comprise the largest share of total abatement adoption
costs. To better understand the economic potential of a voluntary and
decentralized runoff control program, it is necessary to assess the
opportunity costs associated with best management practice adoption.
The proposed survey provides a means of gathering this information. It
also asks 10-12 non-invasive demographic questions.
The survey will be conducted using six (6) groups of ten (10)
residential landowners from the Shepherd Creek watershed. Participation
will be completely voluntary. Residents who wish to participate in the
study will be identified and recruited through a liaison from the
Hamilton County Soil and Water Conservation District, who is
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familiar with the community. The survey will be conducted using a
computer simulated nonuniform-price, sequential auction for the
procurement of best management practices. Participants will be
presented with a selection of best management practices that are
feasible for use on their actual parcel. Information regarding how each
BMP will perform on their specific parcel, as well as the installation,
operation, and maintenance costs will be provided. The auction is
designed to compensate residents for their costs of adopting best
management practices on their property. Participants who wish to adopt
BMPs will submit bids that consist of the size and type of the BMPs and
the minimum compensation that they require. The goal is to pay those
landowners who adopt the most effective best management practices at
the lowest price. Survey results will then be used to estimate the
minimum payments required to achieve control stormwater runoff through
on-site best management practices. Data will be stored on U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency computer files that protect respondent
confidentiality. Summary results will be made available to the public.
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 2
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: Homeowners in the Shepherd Creek
Area of Cincinnati, OH.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 60.
Frequency of Response: On Occasion.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 120.
Estimated Total Annual Cost: $3,000, includes $0 annualized capital
or O&M costs.
Dated: October 19, 2005.
Sara Hisel McCoy,
Acting Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. 05-21373 Filed 10-25-05; 8:45 am]
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