[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 59 (Thursday, March 27, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14972-14973]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-7368]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[OW-2003-0010; FRL-7473-8]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission of EPA ICR 
No. 1842.04 (OMB No. 2040-0188) to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment 
Request

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: Notice of Intent for Storm 
Water Discharges Associated with Construction Activity under a NPDES 
General Permit. This ICR describes the nature of the information 
collection and its estimated burden and cost.

DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before April 28, 
2003.

ADDRESSES: Follow the detailed instructions in SUPPLEMENTARY 
INFORMATION.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jack Faulk, Water Permits Division, 
Office of Wastewater Management, Mail Code 4203M, Environmental 
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460; 
telephone number: 202-564-0768; fax number: (202) 564-6431; e-mail 
address: [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 December 6, 2002, (67 FR 72668), EPA sought comments on 
this ICR pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received no comments.
    EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID 
No. OW-2003-0010, 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, Water Docket, Mail 
Code: 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, 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

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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: Notice of Intent for Storm Water Discharges Associated with 
Construction Activity under a NPDES General Permit (OMB Control Number 
2040-0188, EPA ICR Number 1842.04). This is a request to renew an 
existing approved collection that is scheduled to expire on March 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: This ICR calculates the burden and costs associated with 
the preparation of the Notice of Intent (NOI) for Storm Water 
Discharges Associated with Construction Activity under a NPDES General 
Permit, and the Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP). EPA uses 
the data contained in the NOIs to track facilities covered by the storm 
water general permit and assess permit compliance. EPA has developed a 
format for construction NOIs. The standardized one-page form is called: 
Notice of Intent (NOI) for Storm Water Discharges Associated with 
Construction Activity Under a NPDES General Permit. The construction 
NOI only requires the respondent to note whether or not a SWPPP has 
been prepared. The following information is requested:

--Name, address, phone number of the facility
--Status of the owner/operator (whether federal, state, public, or 
private)
--Name and location of the project (City, State, ZIP, Latitude, 
Longitude, County)
--Whether the facility is located on Indian Country Lands
--Whether a Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP) has been 
prepared
--Optional: location for viewing SWPPP and telephone number for 
scheduling viewing times: Address, City, State, ZIP
--The name of the receiving water
--Estimated construction start date and completion date
--The estimated area to be disturbed (to nearest acre)
--An estimate of the likelihood of a discharge
--Whether any protected species or critical habitat in the project area
--Which section of the permit through which permit eligibility with 
regard to protection of endangered species is satisfied
Responses are required to obtain coverage under the NPDES General 
Permit for storm water discharges associated with construction 
activities.
    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 38.3 
hours per response by large construction NPDES permittees in NPDES-
authorized states and territories and 40.5 hours per response for 
construction activities in states and territories where EPA is the 
permitting authority. 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 large 
construction activities.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 201,259.
    Frequency of Response: Once initially, prior to commencement of 
construction.
    Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 7,729,696 hours.
    Estimated Total Annual Cost: $264,919,148, includes $0 annualized 
capital or O&M costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is an increase of 3,166,793 hours 
in the total estimated burden currently identified in the OMB Inventory 
of Approved ICR Burdens. This increase in the applicant respondent and 
NPDES-authorized state burden is due to a technical correction to the 
methodology used to estimate the number of construction sites covered 
by a permit. The methodology used in this ICR to estimate of the number 
of construction sites is consistent with the methodology used to 
estimate the number of small construction sites, consistent with the 
NPDES Storm Water Program Phase II ICR, OMB Control No. 2040-0211, EPA 
ICR No. 1820.03.

    Dated: March 18, 2003.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. 03-7368 Filed 3-26-03; 8:45 am]
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