Agency Information Collection Activities:
Submission to OMB for Review and
Approval; Comment Request
Disinfectants/Disinfection
Byproducts, Chemical and
Radionuclides Rules Information
Collection Request(Renewal)
Office of Water (4606-M) EPA 816-Z-04-0005 December 2004 vvww.epa.gov/safewater
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
IOW-2004-0009; FRL-7851-4J
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Disinfectants/Disinfection
Byproducts, Chemical and
Radionuclldes 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 an Information Collection Request
(ICR) has been forwarded to the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval. This is a request
to renew an existing approved
collection. This ICR is scheduled to
expire on December 31, 2004. Under
OMB regulations, the Agency may
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continue to conduct or sponsor the
collection of information while this
submission is pending at OMB. This ICR
describes the nature of the information
collection and its estimated burden and
cost.
DATES: Additional comments may be
submitted on or before January 20, 2005.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
referencing docket ID number OW-
2004-0009, to (1) 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, 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:
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:
naylor.richard@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has
submitted the following ICR to OMB for
review and approval accordin'g to' the
procedures prescribed in 5 CFR 1320.12.
On April 30, 2004 (69 FR 23740), EPA
sought comments on this ICR pursuant
to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA has addressed
the comment received.
EPA has established a public docket
for this ICR under Docket ID No. OW-
2004-0009, 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://wv\v.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 http://wwY.epa.gov/
edocket.
Title: Disinfectants /Disinfection
Byproducts, Chemical and
Radionuclides Rules (Renewal).
Abstract: This ICR examines public
water system (PWS), primacy agency,
and EPA burden and costs for
recordkeeping and reporting required in
support of the chemical regulations.
These rules, which have recordkeeping
and reporting requirements that are
mandatory for compliance with 40 CFR
Parts 141 and 142, include the
following: the Stage 1 Disinfectants and
Disinfection Byproducts Rule (Stage 1
DBPR); the Chemical Phase Rules
(Phases II/IIB/V); the Unregulated
Contaminant Monitoring Rule (UCMR),
Lists 1 and 2; the 1976 Radionuclides
Rule and 2000 Radionuclides Rule; the
Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Rule;
the Disinfectant Residual Monitoring
and Associated Activities under the
Surface Water Treatment Rule (SWTR);
Arsenic Rule; and the 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 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 0.37 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: (1)
Owners/operators of PWSs who must
report to the primacy agency; (2)
Primacy agencies that must report to
EPA; and (3) Regional EPA
administrators, who must send reports
and notices to PWS owners and states.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
161,274.
Frequency of Response: as necessary,
monthly, quarterly, annually,
semiannually, biennially, triennially,
six years, nine years.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:
6,427,048.
Estimated Total Annual Cost:
$379,817,000, includes $194,768,000
annualized capital or O&M costs and
$185,049,000 annual labor costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is an
increase of 309,113 hours in the total
estimated burden currently identified in
the OMB Inventory of Approved ICR
Burdens. This increase is primarily due
to the restructuring adjustment for the
previously approved stand-alone
Arsenic ICR and is offset by reductions
to individual rule burdens (e.g., updated
system inventories and different
monitoring requirements during the ICR
period).
Dated: December 14, 2004.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. 04-27887 Filed 12-20-04; 8:45 am]
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