Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Laboratory Quality Assurance Evaluation Program for Analysis of Cryptosporidium Under the Safe Drinking Water Act (Renewal), 4478-4479 [2018-01899]
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Information Collection Request
Submitted to OMB for Review and
Approval; Comment Request;
Laboratory Quality Assurance
Evaluation Program for Analysis of
Cryptosporidium Under the Safe
Drinking Water Act (Renewal)
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Environmental Protection
Agency has submitted an information
collection request (ICR)—Laboratory
Quality Assurance Evaluation Program
for Analysis of Cryptosporidium Under
the Safe Drinking Water Act, EPA ICR
No. 2067.06, OMB Control No. 2040–
0246—to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for review and approval
in accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act. This is a proposed
extension of the ICR, which is currently
approved through March 31, 2018.
Public comments were previously
requested via the Federal Register on
October 16, 2017, during a 60-day
comment period. This notice allows for
an additional 30 days for public
comments. A fuller description of the
ICR is given below, including its
estimated burden and cost 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.
DATES: Additional comments may be
submitted on or before March 2, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
referencing Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–
OW–2002–0011, to (1) EPA online using
www.regulations.gov (our preferred
method), by email to ow-docket@
epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA Docket
Center, Environmental Protection
Agency, Mail Code 28221T, 1200
SUMMARY:
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Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington,
DC 20460, and (2) OMB via email to
oira_submission@omb.eop.gov. Address
comments to OMB Desk Officer for EPA.
EPA’s policy is that all comments
received will be included in the public
docket without change including any
personal information provided, unless
the comment includes profanity, threats,
information claimed to be Confidential
Business Information (CBI) or other
information whose disclosure is
restricted by statute.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dan
Hautman, Technical Support Center
(TSC), Office of Ground Water and
Drinking Water, (MC–140),
Environmental Protection Agency, 26
West Martin Luther King Drive,
Cincinnati, Ohio 45268; telephone
number: 513–569–7274; fax number:
513–569–7191; email address:
Hautman.dan@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Supporting documents, which explain
in detail the information that the EPA
will be collecting, are available in the
public docket for this ICR. The docket
can be viewed online at
www.regulations.gov or in person at the
EPA Docket Center, WJC West, Room
3334, 1301 Constitution Ave. NW,
Washington, DC. The telephone number
for the Docket Center is 202–566–1744.
For additional information about EPA’s
public docket, visit https://www.epa.gov/
dockets.
Abstract: Under the Long Term 2
Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule
(LT2ESWTR), EPA requires public water
systems (PWS) to use approved
laboratories when conducting
Cryptosporidium monitoring. The Code
of Federal Regulations (CFR) at 40 CFR
141.705(a) provides for approval of
Cryptosporidium laboratories by ‘‘an
equivalent’’ state laboratory certification
program (i.e., equivalent to EPA’s
Laboratory Quality Assurance
Evaluation Program). In the preamble to
the LT2ESWTR as well as several other
notices, EPA has described the criteria
for approval of laboratories to analyze
Cryptosporidium samples under the
LT2ESWTR.
Form Numbers: None.
Respondents/affected entities:
Interested states and laboratories.
Respondent’s obligation to respond:
Voluntary.
Estimated number of respondents: 43
labs and 20 states/territories.
Frequency of response: Annual.
Total estimated burden: 3,741 hours
(per year). Burden is defined at 5 CFR
1320.03(b).
Total estimated cost: $669,490,
includes $332,891 annualized capital or
operation & maintenance (O&M) costs.
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Changes in Estimates: There is a
decrease of 1,731 hours and $134,284 in
the total estimated respondent burden
compared with the ICR currently
approved by OMB. This decrease is due
to a reduced number of laboratories (45
to 43), re-evaluation of hours for tasks,
and an improved demonstration of
capability by the laboratories.
Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
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Availability of the Integrated Risk
Information System (IRIS) Assessment
Plan for Uranium
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of public comment
period.
AGENCY:
The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) is announcing a 30-day
public comment period associated with
release of the draft IRIS Assessment
Plan for Uranium. This document
communicates information on the
scoping needs identified by EPA
program and regional offices and the
IRIS Program’s initial problem
formulation activities. Specifically, the
assessment plan outlines the objectives
for each assessment and the type of
evidence considered most pertinent to
address the scoping needs. EPA is
releasing this draft IRIS Assessment
Plan for public comment at least 60 days
in advance of a public science webinar
planned on March 22, 2018.
DATES: The 30-day public comment
period begins January 31, 2018, and
ends March 2, 2018. Comments must be
received on or before March 2, 2018.
ADDRESSES: The IRIS Assessment Plan
for Uranium, will be available via the
internet on IRIS’ website at https://
cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/iris2/chemical
Landing.cfm?substance_nmbr=259 and
in the public docket at https://
www.regulations.gov, Docket ID: EPA–
HQ–ORD–2017–0474.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
information on the public comment
period, contact the ORD Docket at the
EPA Headquarters Docket Center;
telephone: 202–566–1752; facsimile:
202–566–9744; or email: Docket_ORD@
epa.gov.
For technical information on the draft
IRIS Assessment Plan for Uranium,
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contact Dr. James Avery, NCEA;
telephone: 202–564–1494; or email:
avery.james@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background Information on IRIS
Assessment Plans
EPA’s IRIS Program is a human health
assessment program that evaluates
quantitative and qualitative risk
information on effects that may result
from exposure to chemicals found in the
environment. Through the IRIS
Program, EPA provides the highest
quality science-based human health
assessments to support the Agency’s
regulatory activities and decisions to
protect public health. As part of scoping
and initial problem formulation
activities prior to the development of a
draft assessment, the IRIS Program
carries out a broad, preliminary
literature survey to assist in identifying
health effects that have been studied in
relation to the chemical or substance of
interest, as well as science issues that
may need to be considered when
evaluating toxicity. This information, in
conjunction with scoping needs
identified by EPA program and regional
offices, is used to inform the
development of an IRIS Assessment
Plan (IAP).
The IAP communicates the plan for
developing each individual chemical
assessment to the public and includes
summary information on the IRIS
Program’s scoping and initial problem
formulation, objectives and specific
aims for the assessment, and a PECO
(Populations, Exposures, Comparators,
and Outcomes) for the systematic
review. The PECO provides the
framework for developing literature
search strategies and inclusion/
exclusion criteria, particularly with
respect to evidence stream (i.e., human,
animal, mechanistic), exposure
measures and outcome measures. The
IAP serves to inform the subsequent
development of chemical-specific
systematic review protocols, which will
be made publicly available.
II. Public Webinar
In order to allow for public input,
EPA is convening a public webinar to
discuss the draft IRIS Assessment Plan
for Uranium March 22, 2018. Specific
teleconference and webinar information
regarding this public meeting will be
provided through the IRIS website
(https://www.epa.gov/iris) and via EPA’s
Human Health Risk Assessment (HHRA)
and IRIS listservs. To register for the
HHRA or IRIS listserv, visit the IRIS
website (https://www.epa.gov/iris) or
visit https://www.epa.gov/iris/forms/
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III. How To Submit Technical
Comments to the Docket at https://
www.regulations.gov
Submit your comments, identified by
Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD–2017–
0474 for uranium, by one of the
following methods:
• www.regulations.gov: Follow the
on-line instructions for submitting
comments.
• Email: Docket_ORD@epa.gov.
• Fax: 202–566–9744.
• Mail: U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, EPA Docket Center
(ORD Docket), Mail Code: 28221T, 1200
Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington,
DC 20460. The phone number is 202–
566–1752.
• Hand Delivery: The ORD Docket is
located in the EPA Headquarters Docket
Center, EPA West Building, Room 3334,
1301 Constitution Avenue NW,
Washington, DC 20229.
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 Public Reading Room is
202–566–1744. Deliveries are only
accepted during the docket’s normal
hours of operation, and special
arrangements should be made for
deliveries of boxed information. If you
provide comments by mail or hand
delivery, please submit three copies of
the comments. For attachments, provide
an index, number pages consecutively
with the comments, and submit an
unbound original and three copies.
Instructions: Direct your comments to
docket number EPA–HQ–ORD–2017–
0474 for uranium. Please ensure that
your comments are submitted within
the specified comment period.
Comments received after the closing
date will be marked ‘‘late,’’ and may
only be considered if time permits. It is
EPA’s policy to include all comments it
receives in the public docket without
change and to make the comments
available online at www.regulations.gov,
including any personal information
provided, unless a comment includes
information claimed to be Confidential
Business Information (CBI) or other
information for which disclosure is
restricted by statute. Do not submit
information through
www.regulations.gov or email that you
consider to be CBI or otherwise
protected. The www.regulations.gov
website is an ‘‘anonymous access’’
system, which means EPA will not
know your identity or contact
information unless you provide it in the
body of your comment. If you send an
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[FR Doc No: 2018-01899]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OW-2002-0011; FRL-9973-14-OEI]
Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and
Approval; Comment Request; Laboratory Quality Assurance Evaluation
Program for Analysis of Cryptosporidium Under the Safe Drinking Water
Act (Renewal)
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency has submitted an
information collection request (ICR)--Laboratory Quality Assurance
Evaluation Program for Analysis of Cryptosporidium Under the Safe
Drinking Water Act, EPA ICR No. 2067.06, OMB Control No. 2040-0246--to
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in
accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. This is a proposed
extension of the ICR, which is currently approved through March 31,
2018. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal
Register on October 16, 2017, during a 60-day comment period. This
notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments. A fuller
description of the ICR is given below, including its estimated burden
and cost 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.
DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before March 2, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OW-
2002-0011, to (1) EPA online using www.regulations.gov (our preferred
method), by email to [email protected], or by mail to: EPA Docket
Center, Environmental Protection Agency, Mail Code 28221T, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20460, and (2) OMB via email to
[email protected]. Address comments to OMB Desk Officer for
EPA.
EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included in the
public docket without change including any personal information
provided, unless the comment includes profanity, threats, information
claimed to be Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other
information whose disclosure is restricted by statute.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dan Hautman, Technical Support Center
(TSC), Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water, (MC-140),
Environmental Protection Agency, 26 West Martin Luther King Drive,
Cincinnati, Ohio 45268; telephone number: 513-569-7274; fax number:
513-569-7191; email address: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supporting documents, which explain in
detail the information that the EPA will be collecting, are available
in the public docket for this ICR. The docket can be viewed online at
www.regulations.gov or in person at the EPA Docket Center, WJC West,
Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC. The telephone
number for the Docket Center is 202-566-1744. For additional
information about EPA's public docket, visit https://www.epa.gov/dockets.
Abstract: Under the Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment
Rule (LT2ESWTR), EPA requires public water systems (PWS) to use
approved laboratories when conducting Cryptosporidium monitoring. The
Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) at 40 CFR 141.705(a) provides for
approval of Cryptosporidium laboratories by ``an equivalent'' state
laboratory certification program (i.e., equivalent to EPA's Laboratory
Quality Assurance Evaluation Program). In the preamble to the LT2ESWTR
as well as several other notices, EPA has described the criteria for
approval of laboratories to analyze Cryptosporidium samples under the
LT2ESWTR.
Form Numbers: None.
Respondents/affected entities: Interested states and laboratories.
Respondent's obligation to respond: Voluntary.
Estimated number of respondents: 43 labs and 20 states/territories.
Frequency of response: Annual.
Total estimated burden: 3,741 hours (per year). Burden is defined
at 5 CFR 1320.03(b).
Total estimated cost: $669,490, includes $332,891 annualized
capital or operation & maintenance (O&M) costs.
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Changes in Estimates: There is a decrease of 1,731 hours and
$134,284 in the total estimated respondent burden compared with the ICR
currently approved by OMB. This decrease is due to a reduced number of
laboratories (45 to 43), re-evaluation of hours for tasks, and an
improved demonstration of capability by the laboratories.
Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
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