AGENCY INFORMATION COLLECTION
ACTIVITIES; PROPOSED COLLECTION;
COMMENT REQUEST
DISINFECTANTS/DISINFECTION BY-
PRODUCTS, CHEMICAL AND
RADIONUCLIDES RULES (RENEWAL)
MICROBIAL RULES (RENEWAL)
PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM SUPERVISION
PROGRAM (RENEWAL)
Office of Water (4606M) EPA 816-Z-04-001 April 2004 www.epa.gov/safewater
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[OW-2004-0009, FRL-7655-6]
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; Disinfectants/
Disinfection By-Products, Chemical
and Radionuclides Rules (Renewal),
EPA ICR Number 1896.05, OMB
Control Number 2040-0204
AGENCY: Environmental Protection
Agency.
ACTION: Notice.
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 December 31. 2004. 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 June 29, 2004.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
referencing docket ID number OW-
2004-0009, to EPA online using
EDOCKET (our preferred method), by
email to OW-Docket@epa.gov, or by
mail to: Water Docket, Environmental
Protection Agency, Mail Code 410IT,
1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW,,
Washington, DC 20460, Attention
Docket ID No. OW-2004-0009.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Richard P. Naylor, Office of Ground
Water and Drinking Water, (4606M),
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington,
DC 20460; telephone number:
202.564.3847; fax number:
202.564.3755; e-mail address:
nay lor. richard@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has
established a public docket for this ICR
under Docket ID number OW-2004-
0009, which is available for public
viewing at the Water Docket in the EPA
Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West,
RoomB102, 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
http://www.epa.gov/edocket. Use
EDOCKET fo 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
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 vvww.epa.gov/
edocket.
Affected entities: Entities potentially
affected by this action are new and
existing public water systems (PWS), .
primacy agencies, and EPA.
Title: Disinfectants/Disinfection By-
Products, Chemical and Radionuclides
Rules (Renewal).
Abstract: The Disinfectants/
Disinfection By-Products, Chemical and
Radionuclides Rules ICR examines
PWS, primacy agency and EPA burden
and costs for recordkeeping and
reporting requirements in support of the
chemical regulations. These activities
which have recordkeeping and reporting
requirements that are mandatory for
compliance with 40 CFR parts 141 and
142 include the following chemical
regulations: Stage 1 Disinfectants and
Disinfection Byproducts Rule (Stage 1
DBPR). Chemical Phase Rules (Phases
II/IIB/V), Unregulated Contaminant
Monitoring Rule (UCMR), Lists 1 and 2,
1976 Radionuclides Rule and 2000
Radionuclides Rule, Total
Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Rule,
Disinfectant Residual Monitoring and
Associated Activities under the Surface
Water Treatment Rule. Arsenic Rule,
Lead and Copper Rule (LCR). Future
chemical-related rulemakings, such as
Radon and the Stage 2 DBPR, will be
added to this ICR after the regulations
are finalized and the initial, rule-
specific, ICRs have expired. 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: The estimated
annual burden hours for the
Disinfectants/Disinfection Byproducts.
Chemical, and Radionuclides Rules ICR
are 6,428,593 hours. The estimated
average burden hours per response is
0.4 hours. The proposed frequency of
response varies by requirement (e.g.,
monthly, quarterly, annually). The
estimated average number of responses
per respondent is 109, The estimated
number of likely respondents annually
is 161,274. The total annualized capital/
startup costs are $6.9 million. The
estimated annual cost for operation and
maintenance is $187.4 million.
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: April 23. 2004.
Cynthia C. Dougherty,
Director. Office of Ground Water arid Drinking
Water.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[OW-2004-0008, FRL-7655-7]
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; Microbial Rules
(Renewal), EPA ICR Number 1895.03,
OMB Control Number 2040-0205
AGENCY: Environmental Protection
Agency.
ACTION: Notice.
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 November 30, 2004. 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.
QATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before June 29, 2004.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
referencing docket ID number OW-
2004-0008, to EPA online using
EDOCKET (our preferred method), by
email to OW-Docket@ep&.gov, or by
mail to: Water Docket, Environmental
Protection Agency. Mail Code 4101T,
1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.r
Washington, DC 20460, Attention
Docket ID No. OW-2004-0008.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Richard P. Naylor. Office of Ground
Water and Drinking Water, (4606M),
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave., NW.. Washington,
DC 20460: telephone number: (202)
564-3847; fax number: (202) 564-3755;
email address: naylor.richard@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has
established a public docket for this ICR
under Docket ID number OW-2004-
0008, 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
http://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
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 wwW-.epa.gov/
edocket. • •
Affected entities: Entities potentially
affected by this action are new and
existing public water systems (PWS),
primacy agencies, and EPA.
Title: Microbial Rules (Renewal).
Abstract: The Microbial Rules ICR
examines PWS, primacy agency and
EPA burden and costs for recordkeeping
and reporting requirements in support
of microbial contaminant-associated
rulemakings. These activities which
have recordkeeping and reporting
requirements that are mandatory for
compliance with 40 CFR parts 141 and
142 include the following rules
addressing microbial contaminants:
Surface Water Treatment Rule. Total
Coliform Rule, Interim Enhanced
Surface Water Treatment Rule, Filter
Backwash Recycling Rule and Long
Term I Enhanced Surface Water
Treatment Rule. As new regulations
addressing microbial contaminants are
published, EPA will amend the
Microbial Rules ICR to include the
burden for these new rules upon
expiration of the original stand-alone
ICRs. Proposed new regulations include
Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water
Treatment Rule (LT2ESWTR), and the
Ground Water Rule (GWR). 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: The estimated
annual burden hours for the Microbial
Rules ICR are 8.560.996 hours. The
estimated average burden hours per
response is .77 hours. The proposed
frequency of response varies by
requirement (e.g., monthly, quarterly,
annually). The estimated average
number of responses per respondent is
69.1. The estimated number of likely
respondents annually is 161,274. The
total annualized capital/startup costs are
$22.7 million. The estimated annual
cost for operation and maintenance is
$71.2 million. 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: April 23. 2004.
Cynthia C. Dougherty,
Director. Office of Ground Water and Drinking
Water.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[OW-2004-0007, FRL7655-8]
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; Public Water
System Supervision Program
(Renewal), EPA ICR Number 0270.42,
OMB Control Number 2040-0090
AGENCY: Environmental Protection
Agency.
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
3501 ef 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 November 30, 2004. 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 June 29, 2004.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
referencing docket ID number OW-
2004-0007, to EPA online using
EDOCKET (our preferred method), by
email to OW-Docket@epa.gov, or by
mail to: Water Docket, Environmental
Protection Agency, Mail Code 4101T,
1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.,
Washington. DC 20460, Attention
Docket ID No. OW-2004-0007.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Richard P. Naylor, Office of Ground
Water and Drinking Water, (4606M),
Environmental Protection Agency. 1200
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington,
DC 20460; telephone number:
202.564.3847; fax number:
202.564.3755; email address:
naylor. richard@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has
established a public docket for this ICR
under Docket ID number OW-2004-
0007, which is available for public
viewing at the Water Docket in the EPA
Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPAWest,
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
http://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
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 www.epa.gov/
edocket.
• Affected entities: Entities potentially
affected by this action are new and
existing public water systems (PWS),
primacy agencies, EPA, and tribal
operator certification providers.
Title: Public Water System
Supervision Program (Renewal).
Abstract'The Public Water System
Supervision (PWSS) Program ICR
examines PWS, primacy agency, EPA
and tribal operator certification provider
burden and costs for "cross-cutting"
recordkeeping and reporting
requirements (i.e., the burden and costs
for complying with drinking water
information requirements that are not
associated with contaminant-specific
rulemakings). These activities which
have recordkeeping and reporting
requirements that are mandatory for
compliance with 40 CFR parts 141 and
142 include the following: Consumer
Confidence Reports (CCRs), Primacy
Regulation Activities, Variance and
Exemption Rule (V/E Rule), General
State Primacy Activities, and Public
Notification (PN). The information
collection activities for both the
Operator Certification/Expense
Reimbursement Program and the
Capacity Development Program are
driven by the grant withholding and
reporting provisions under § 1419 and
§ 1420, respectively, of the Safe
Drinking Water Act. Although the Tribal
Operator Certification Program is
voluntary, the information collection is
driven by grant eligibility requirements
outlined in the Drinking Water
Infrastructure Grant Tribal Set-Aside
Program Final Guidelines and the Tribal
Drinking Water Operator Certification
Program Guidelines. 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: The estimated
annual burden hours for the Public
Water System Supervision Program ICR
are 3,172,183 hours. The estimated
average burden hours per response is
7.2 hours. The proposed frequency of
response varies by requirement (e.g.,
monthly, quarterly, annually). The
estimated average number of responses
per respondent.is 2.71. The estimated
number of likely respondents annually
is 161.682. The total annualized capital/
startup costs are $0.0 million. The
estimated annual cost for operation and
maintenance is $19.65 million. 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.
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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: April 23, 2004.
Cynthia C. Dougherty,
Director. Office of Ground Water and Drinking
Water.
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