[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 40 (Friday, February 28, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9649-9650]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-4773]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[OW-2002-0042; FRL-7454-8]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; 
Comment Request (OMB Control No. 2040-0027, EPA ICR No. 0827.06)

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:
    Construction Grants Program. The ICR describes the nature of the 
information collection and its estimated burden and cost.

DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before March 31, 
2003.

ADDRESSES: Follow the detailed instructions in SUPPLEMENTARY 
INFORMATION.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gajindar Singh, Office of Wastewater 
Management, Mail Code 4204M, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 
564-0634, fax number: (202) 501-2396, e-mail: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has submitted the following ICR to OMB 
for review and approval according to the procedures prescribed in 5 CFR 
1320.12. On August 12, 2002, EPA sought comments on this renewal ICR 
(67 FR 52480) pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received no comments.

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    EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID 
No. OW-2002-0042, 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 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, and according to the following detailed 
instructions: (1) Submit your comments to EPA online using EDOCKET (our 
preferred method), by e-mail to [email protected], or by mail to: EPA 
Docket Center, Environmental Protection Agency, Mailcode: 4101T, 1200 
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460, and (2) mail your 
comments to 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.
    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, Confidential Business Information (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://www.epa.gov/edocket.
    Title: Construction Grants Program (OMB Control No. 2040-0027, EPA 
ICR Number 0827.06). This is a request to renew an existing approved 
collection that is scheduled to expire on 3/31/2003. Under OMB 
regulations, the Agency may continue to conduct or sponsor the 
collection of information while this submission is pending at OMB.
    Abstract: The purpose of this ICR is to revise and extend the 
current clearance for the collection of information under the EPA 
Construction Grants Program, 40 CFR part 35, subpart I, and Title II of 
the Clean Water Act (CWA). The program includes reporting requirements 
for municipalities, Indian Tribes, and States. In this ICR, the 
reporting requirements for the Construction Grants Program are divided 
into three categories:
    1. Requirements associated with new grant awards;
    2. Requirements associated with project completions; and
    3. Requirements imposed on States.
    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, 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 about 
2 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: States and municipalities.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 30.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion and annually, average about 5 
per year/respondent.
    Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 26,588 hours.
    Estimated Total Annual Cost: $887,819, includes $0 annual capital 
and O&M costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is a decrease of 50,164 hours in 
the total estimated burden currently identified in the OMB Inventory of 
Approved ICR Burdens. This decrease is because EPA is phasing out the 
Title II Construction Grants Program due to establishment of State 
Revolving Loan Fund program.

    Dated: February 10, 2003.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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