[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 244 (Tuesday, December 21, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 76465-76466]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-27887]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[OW-2004-0009; FRL-7851-4]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for 
Review and Approval; Comment Request; Disinfectants/Disinfection 
Byproducts, Chemical and Radionuclides Rules (Renewal), EPA ICR Number 
1896.05, OMB Control Number 2040-0204

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

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 an 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 December 31, 
2004. Under OMB regulations, the Agency may

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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 January 20, 
2005.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number OW-2004-
0009, 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, Mail Code 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 CONTACT: Richard P. Naylor, Office of Ground 
Water and Drinking Water, (4606M), Environmental Protection Agency, 
1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: 
202.564.3847; fax number: 202.564.3755; 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 April 30, 2004 (69 FR 23740), EPA sought comments on this 
ICR pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA has addressed the comment 
received.
    EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID 
No. OW-2004-0009, 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. 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: Disinfectants/Disinfection Byproducts, Chemical and 
Radionuclides Rules (Renewal).
    Abstract: This ICR examines public water system (PWS), primacy 
agency, and EPA burden and costs for recordkeeping and reporting 
required in support of the chemical regulations. These rules, which 
have recordkeeping and reporting requirements that are mandatory for 
compliance with 40 CFR Parts 141 and 142, include the following: the 
Stage 1 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule (Stage 1 DBPR); 
the Chemical Phase Rules (Phases II/IIB/V); the Unregulated Contaminant 
Monitoring Rule (UCMR), Lists 1 and 2; the 1976 Radionuclides Rule and 
2000 Radionuclides Rule; the Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Rule; the 
Disinfectant Residual Monitoring and Associated Activities under the 
Surface Water Treatment Rule (SWTR); Arsenic Rule; and the Lead and 
Copper Rule (LCR). Future chemical-related rulemakings, such as Radon 
and the Stage 2 DBPR, will be added to this ICR after the regulations 
are finalized and the initial, rule-specific, ICRs have expired.
    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 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 recordkeeping 
burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 0.37 
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: (1) Owners/operators of PWSs who 
must report to the primacy agency; (2) Primacy agencies that must 
report to EPA; and (3) Regional EPA administrators, who must send 
reports and notices to PWS owners and states.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 161,274.
    Frequency of Response: as necessary, monthly, quarterly, annually, 
semiannually, biennially, triennially, six years, nine years.
    Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 6,427,048.
    Estimated Total Annual Cost: $379,817,000, includes $194,768,000 
annualized capital or O&M costs and $185,049,000 annual labor costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is an increase of 309,113 hours in 
the total estimated burden currently identified in the OMB Inventory of 
Approved ICR Burdens. This increase is primarily due to the 
restructuring adjustment for the previously approved stand-alone 
Arsenic ICR and is offset by reductions to individual rule burdens 
(e.g., updated system inventories and different monitoring requirements 
during the ICR period).

    Dated: December 14, 2004.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. 04-27887 Filed 12-20-04; 8:45 am]
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