[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 159 (Tuesday, August 18, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44251-44252]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-22203]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-6147-2]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB 
Review; Comment Request; 1999 Drinking Water Infrastructure 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 document announces that the following Information 
Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB) for review and approval: 1999 Drinking Water 
Infrastructure Needs Survey (EPA ICR No. 1708.02). 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 September 17, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Contact Sandy Farmer at EPA by phone at (202) 260-2740, by email at 
[email protected], or download off the Internet at http://
www.epa.gov/icr and refer to EPA ICR No. 1708.02.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Title: 1999 Drinking Water Infrastructure Needs Survey (EPA ICR No. 
1708.02). This is a new collection of information.
    Abstract: The purpose of this information collection is to identify 
the current and future infrastructure needs of community and nonprofit 
noncommunity public water systems for the 20-year period from January 
1999 through December 2018. The collection will be conducted by EPA's 
Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water (OGWDW) in order to comply 
with Sections 1452(h) and 1452(i)(4) of the Safe Drinking Water Act 
(SDWA) (Public Law 104-182).
    The collection will involve two methods. A questionnaire will be 
used to collect information from large and medium community water 
systems. For small systems and nonprofit noncommunity water systems, 
data will

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be collected through a site visit by the EPA contractor. Questionnaires 
and site visit reports will be reviewed by State Needs Survey 
Coordinators before submission to EPA.
    The data from the questionnaires and the site visits will provide 
EPA with a basis for estimating the drinking water infrastructure needs 
of community water systems for the 20-year period, January 1999 through 
December 2018. Furthermore, under section 1452(a)(1)(D) of SDWA, the 
results of the needs survey must be used as the basis for allocating 
Drinking Water State Revolving Loan Fund capitalization grant funds 
among the States. Responses to the collection of information are 
voluntary. 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 document required under 5 CFR 1320.8(d), soliciting 
comments on this collection of information was published on May 27, 
1998 (63 FR 29007); one comment was received.
    Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping 
burden for this collection of information is estimated to average per 
response: 1998=4.4 hours; 1999=13.2 hours; 2000=0 hours. 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: Owners/operators of community water 
systems, State Environmental Water Quality Agencies, and State 
Departments of Health.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 5,120.
    Frequency of Response: 1.
    Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 15,044 hours.
    Estimated Total Annualized Cost Burden: $0.
    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. 1708.02 in any correspondence.

Ms. Sandy Farmer, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, OPPE Regulatory 
Information Division (2137), 401 M Street, SW., Washington, DC 20460;

      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: August 13, 1998.
Joseph Retzer,
Director, Regulatory Information Division.
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