[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 214 (Wednesday, November 5, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59863-59864]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-29290]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-5917-2]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB 
Review; Comment Request; Clean Water Needs Survey

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 notice announces that the following Information 
Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB) for review and approval: Clean Water Needs Survey, OMB 
Control Number 2040-0050, expiration date November 30, 1997. The ICR 
describes the nature of the information collection and its expected 
burden and cost; where appropriate, it includes the actual data 
collection instrument.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before December 5, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sandy Farmer at EPA by phone at (202) 
260-2740, by email: [email protected], or download off the 
Internet at http://www.epa.gov/icr/icr.htm and refer to EPA ICR No. 
318.07.

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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

    Title: Clean Water Needs Survey (OMB Control No. 2040-0050; EPA ICR 
No. 318.07.) expiring 11/30/97. This is a request for extension of a 
currently approved collection for an inventory and cost estimate of 
those capital improvements needed to be made to new and existing 
wastewater treatment plants and collector systems eligible for funding 
under the Clean Water Act, to meet the requirements under the Clean 
Water Act. In addition, data collection on abandoned mine runoff is 
planned as a pilot partial survey for 7 States.
    Abstract: The data base for the Clean Water Needs Survey (CWNS) 
data on Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTWs, wastewater treatment 
plants) which is collected by the 50 States and Puerto Rico is being 
modernized. It has been designed and tested and will be made available 
to the States to start entering their data and training their staff on 
the use of the new data base so that the States will be ready in time 
for the 2000 Clean Water Needs Survey. In addition, data will be 
collected on the runoff from abandoned mines as a pilot partial survey 
of 7 States, by those 7 States, to improve the quality of the 2000 
CWNS. The States are required to supply this information in order to be 
eligible for funding for the POTW facilities surveyed under the Clean 
Water Act and State Revolving Fund. The data is compiled and published 
every 4 years in a Clean Water Needs Survey, and FOIA requests are 
answered and extracts of data will be placed on the Internet. 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 are 
listed in 40 CFR part 9 and 48 CFR Chapter 15. The Federal Register 
Notice required under 5 CFR 1320.8(d), soliciting comments on this 
collection of information was published on 5/13/97 (62 FR 26303); no 
comments were received.
    Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping 
burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 59 
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: The 50 States and Puerto Rico..
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 51.
    Frequency of Response: Once in two years.
    Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 3,025 hours.
    Estimated Total Annualized Cost Burden: $90,750.00.
    Send comments on the Agency's need for this information, the 
accuracy of the provided burden estimates, and any suggested methods 
for minimizing respondent burden, including through the use of 
automated collection techniques to the following addresses. Please 
refer to EPA ICR No 318.07 and OMB Control No. 2040-0050 in any 
correspondence.
Ms. Sandy Farmer, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, OPPE Regulatory 
Information Division (2137), 401 M Street, SW, Washington, DC 20460. 
(or E-Mail Farmer.S[email protected])
    and
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and 
Budget, Attention: Desk Officer for EPA, 725 17th Street, NW, 
Washington, DC 20503.

    Dated: October 30, 1997.
Richard Westlund,
Acting Director, Regulatory Information Division.
[FR Doc. 97-29290 Filed 11-4-97; 8:45 am]
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