Local Government's Advisory Committee; Notice of Charter Renewal, 1485-1486 [2012-213]
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number: (202) 564–0601; fax number:
(202) 501–2346; email address:
farber.kit@epa.gov.
EPA has
submitted the following ICR to OMB for
review and approval according to the
procedures prescribed in 5 CFR 1320.12.
On July 27, 2011 (76 FR 44904), 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–2011–0424, which is available
for online viewing at
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
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 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 www.regulations.gov.
Title: State Water Quality Program
Management Resource Analysis (New).
ICR Numbers: EPA ICR No. 2433.01,
OMB Control No. 2040—NEW.
ICR Status: This ICR is for a new
information collection activity. 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
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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: EPA, in partnership with
states, is conducting the State Water
Quality Program Management Resource
Analysis to enumerate current and
future expenditures and resources for
the administration and management of
state water quality programs, and to
quantify the resource needs for the
administration and management of state
water quality programs to implement
the Clean Water Act (CWA). This effort
builds on an expenditure and resource
needs data collection effort conducted
by EPA in collaboration with the states
in 1998 and 2000.
EPA requires this information to
comprehend resource expenditures and
needs for the administration and
management of the water quality
programs under 33 U.S.C. 125 et seq.
This effort, supported by EPA and the
states, is necessary to develop strategies
for better managing state water quality
programs that implement the CWA, thus
ensuring the long-term sustainability,
efficiency, and effectiveness of these
programs. This effort also helps states
and EPA to effectively target resources
to meet EPA’s FY 2011–2015 strategic
goals of protecting the nation’s waters
and enforcing environmental laws.
The data collection will facilitate
creation of a detailed activity-based
workload model to serve as a long-term
budgeting, program management, and
progress tracking tool for the states and
EPA to use in the future. This is a onetime collection effort by the Office of
Wastewater Management and responses
to this ICR are voluntary.
This information will be collected by
EPA and made available to the states
and to the public in accordance with the
requirements of the Freedom of
Information Act.
Burden Statement: The annual public
reporting and recordkeeping burden for
this collection of information is
estimated to average 63 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 which have subsequently
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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
water quality agencies.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
20.
Frequency of Response: Once,
Annually.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:
1,252.
Estimated Total Annual Cost:
$49,740, which includes annual labor
costs only, since no capital or operation
and maintenance costs are associated
with this ICR.
Changes in the Estimates: This is a
new collection, thus there is no
currently approved ICR.
Dated: January 4, 2012.
John Moses,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
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Local Government’s Advisory
Committee; Notice of Charter Renewal
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
AGENCY:
ACTION:
Notice.
The Charter for the Environmental
Protection Agency’s Local Government’s
Advisory Committee (LGAC) will be
renewed for an additional two-year
period, as a necessary committee which
is in the public interest, in accordance
with the provisions of the Federal
Advisory Committee Act (FACA), 5
U.S.C. app. 2. The purpose of LGAC is
to provide advice and recommendations
to EPA’s Administrator on ways to
improve its partnership with local
governments and provide more efficient
and effective environmental protection.
It is determined that LGAC is in the
public interest in connection with the
performance of duties imposed on the
Agency by law. Inquiries may be
directed to Frances Eargle, Designated
Federal Officer, LGAC, U.S. EPA (mail
code 1301A), 1200 Pennsylvania
Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20460, or
eargle.frances@epa.gov.
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Dated: October 26, 2011.
Arvin Ganesan,
Associate Administrator, Office of
Congressional and Intergovernmental
Relations.
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS
COMMISSION
Information Collections Being
Reviewed by the Federal
Communications Commission
Federal Communications
Commission.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
The Federal Communications
Commission (FCC), as part of its
continuing effort to reduce paperwork
burdens, invites the general public and
other Federal agencies to take this
opportunity to comment on the
following information collection, as
required by the Paperwork Reduction
Act (PRA) of 1995. Comments are
requested concerning (a) Whether the
proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of
the functions of the Commission,
including whether the information shall
have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of
the Commission’s burden estimate; (c)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information collected; (d)
ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on the
respondents, including the use of
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology;
and (e) ways to further reduce the
information collection burden on small
business concerns with fewer than 25
employees.
The FCC may not conduct or sponsor
a collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid control
number. No person shall be subject to
any penalty for failing to comply with
a collection of information subject to the
PRA that does not display a valid Office
of Management and Budget (OMB)
control number.
DATES: Written PRA comments should
be submitted on or before March 12,
2012. If you anticipate that you will be
submitting comments, but find it
difficult to do so within the period of
time allowed by this notice, you should
advise the contact listed below as soon
as possible.
ADDRESSES: Direct all PRA comments to
the Federal Communications
Commission via email to PRA@fcc.gov
and Cathy.Williams@fcc.gov.
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For
additional information about the
information collection, contact Cathy
Williams at (202) 418–2918.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 3060–0027.
Title: Application for Construction
Permit for Commercial Broadcast
Station, FCC Form 301.
Form Number: FCC Form 301.
Type of Review: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business and other forprofit entities; Not for profit entities;
State, local or Tribal governments.
Number of Respondents and
Responses: 4,604 respondents and 8,040
responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 1–6.25
hours.
Frequency of Response: On occasion
reporting requirement; Third party
disclosure requirement.
Total Annual Burden: 20,497 hours.
Total Annual Costs: $90,659,382.
Obligation to Respond: Required to
obtain or retain benefits. The statutory
authority for this collection of
information is contained in Sections
154(i), 303 and 308 of the
Communications Act of 1934, as
amended.
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality:
There is no need for confidentiality with
this collection of information.
Privacy Impact Assessment(s): No
impact(s).
Needs and Uses: On January 28, 2010,
the Commission adopted a First Report
and Order and Further Notice of
Proposed Rulemaking (‘‘First R&O’’) in
MB Docket No. 09–52, FCC 10–24. To
enhance the ability of federally
recognized Native American Tribes to
provide vital radio services to their
citizens on Tribal lands, in the First
R&O the Commission established a
Tribal Priority for use in its radio
licensing procedures. On March 3, 2011,
the Commission adopted a Second
Report and Order (‘‘Second R&O’’), First
Order on Reconsideration, and Second
Further Notice of Proposed Rule Making
in MB Docket No. 09–52, FCC 11–28.
On December 28, 2011, the Commission
adopted a Third Report and Order in
MB Docket No. 09–52, FCC 11–190
(‘‘Third R&O’’). In the Third R&O the
Commission further refined the use of
the Tribal Priority in the commercial
FM context, specifically adopting a
‘‘threshold qualifications’’ approach to
commercial FM application processing.
In the commercial FM context, the
Tribal Priority is applied at the
allotment stage of the licensing process.
A Tribe or Tribal entity initiates the
process by petitioning that a new Tribal
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Allotment be added to the FM Table of
Allotments using the Tribal Priority. A
petitioner seeking to add a Tribal
Allotment to the FM Table of
Allotments, like all other FM allotment
proponents, must file FCC Form 301
when submitting its Petition for Rule
Making. Under the new ‘‘threshold
qualification’’ procedures adopted in
the Third R&O, once a Tribal Allotment
has been successfully added to the FM
Table of Allotments using the Tribal
Priority through an FM allocations
rulemaking, the Commission will
announce by Public Notice a Threshold
Qualifications Window (‘‘TQ
Window’’). During the TQ Window, any
Tribe or Tribal entity that could qualify
to add that particular Tribal Allotment
may file an FCC Form 301 application
for that Tribal Allotment. Such an
applicant must demonstrate that it
meets all of the eligibility criteria for the
Tribal Priority, just as the original Tribal
Allotment proponent did at the
allotment stage. If it wishes its
previously filed Form 301 application to
be considered at this stage, then during
the TQ Window the original Tribal
Allotment proponent must submit
notice to process its pending Form 301
application immediately.
If only one acceptable application is
filed during the TQ Window, whether
by the original Tribal allotment
proponent submitting notification to
process its previously filed Form 301, or
by another qualified applicant, that
application will be promptly processed
and the Tribal Allotment will not be
auctioned. In the event that two or more
acceptable applications are filed during
the TQ Window, the Commission will
announce a limited period in which the
parties may negotiate a settlement or
bona fide merger, as a way of resolving
the mutual exclusivity between their
applications. If a settlement or merger is
reached, the parties must notify the
Commission and the staff will process
the surviving application pursuant to
the settlement or merger. If a settlement
cannot be reached among the mutually
exclusive applicants, the Tribal
Allotment will be auctioned during the
next scheduled FM auction. At that
time, only the applicants whose
applications were accepted for filing
during the TQ Window, as well as the
original Tribal Allotment proponent,
will be permitted to bid on that
particular Tribal Allotment. This closed
group of mutually exclusive TQ
Window applicants must comply with
applicable established auction
procedures.
In the event that no qualifying party
applies during the TQ Window, and the
original Tribal allotment proponent
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[Notices]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
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Local Government's Advisory Committee; Notice of Charter Renewal
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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The Charter for the Environmental Protection Agency's Local
Government's Advisory Committee (LGAC) will be renewed for an
additional two-year period, as a necessary committee which is in the
public interest, in accordance with the provisions of the Federal
Advisory Committee Act (FACA), 5 U.S.C. app. 2. The purpose of LGAC is
to provide advice and recommendations to EPA's Administrator on ways to
improve its partnership with local governments and provide more
efficient and effective environmental protection.
It is determined that LGAC is in the public interest in connection
with the performance of duties imposed on the Agency by law. Inquiries
may be directed to Frances Eargle, Designated Federal Officer, LGAC,
U.S. EPA (mail code 1301A), 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington,
DC 20460, or eargle.frances@epa.gov.
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Dated: October 26, 2011.
Arvin Ganesan,
Associate Administrator, Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental
Relations.
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