[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 42 (Wednesday, March 3, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10030-10031]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-4701]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[OW-2003-0064, FRL-7630-1]


Agency Information Collection Activity: Submission to OMB for 
Review and Approval; Comment Request; Questionnaire for Nominees for 
the Annual National Clean Water Act Recognition Awards Program, EPA ICR 
1287.07, OMB Control Number 2040-0101

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 continuing 
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 February 29, 2004. Under OMB regulations, the Agency may 
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 April 2, 2004.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number OW-2003-
0064, to (1) 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, MC 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 OR CONTACT: Maria E. Campbell, Office of 
Wastewater Management, Mail Code 4204-M, Environmental Protection 
Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone 
number: 202-564-0628; fax number 202-501-2396; e-mail address 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has submitted the following ICR to OMB 
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review and approval according to the procedures prescribed in 5 CFR 
1320.12. On August 14, 2003 (68 FR 48606), EPA sought comments on this 
ICR pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). No comments were received.
    EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID 
No. OW-2003-0064, 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 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://www.epa.gov/edocket.
    Title: Questionnaire for Nominees for the Annual National Clean 
Water Act Recognition Awards Program
    Abstract: This ICR requests re-approval of an existing approval to 
collect data from EPA's National Clean Water Act Recognition Awards 
nominees. The awards are for the following program categories: 
Operations and Maintenance (O&M) Excellence, Biosolids (Biosolids) 
Management Excellence, Combined Sewer Overflow Control (CSO) Program 
Excellence and Storm Water (SW) Management Excellence.

    Note: Information collection approval for the Pretreatment 
awards Program is included in the National Pretreatment Program ICR 
(OMB No. 2040-0009, EPA ICR No. 0002.09), approved through November 
30, 2006. The National Clean Water Act Recognition Awards Program is 
managed by EPA's Office of Wastewater Management (OWM). The Awards 
Program is authorized under Section 501(e) of the Clean Water Act, 
as amended. The Awards Program is intended to provide recognition to 
municipalities and industries which have demonstrated outstanding 
technological achievements, innovative processes, devices or other 
outstanding methods in their waste treatment and pollution abatement 
programs. Over 40 awards are presented annually. The achievements of 
these award winners are summarized in reports, news articles, 
national publications, and Federal Register notice.

    Submission of information on behalf of the respondents is 
voluntary. No confidential information is requested. The Agency only 
collects information from award nominees under 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.
    An agency may 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 record keeping 
burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 8 
hours (per respondents) and 6 hours (per State) per response. Burden 
means the total time, effort or financial resources expended by persons 
to generate, maintain, retain, 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 information.
    Respondents/Affected Entities: Officials at public wastewater 
treatment plants, municipalities, States and manufacturing sites.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 195.
    Frequency of Response: Annually.
    Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 2030.
    Estimated Total Annual Cost: $94,975, includes $0 annualized 
capital or O&M costs.
    Changes in Estimates: The burden estimated in this supporting 
statement changes OMB's inventory as a result of a decrease in the 
estimated number of respondents (from 200 respondents to 195 
respondents), changes to review time and reporting estimates (from 2800 
burden hours to 2030 hours) and adjustments made to estimated personnel 
costs. The change reflects a decrease of 5 respondents and 770 burden 
hours in the total estimated burden currently identified in the OMB 
inventory of approved ICR burdens.

    Dated: February 20, 2004.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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