[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 22 (Thursday, February 3, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5643-5645]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-2065]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[OW-2004-0017; FRL-7868-1]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for 
Review and Approval; Comment Request; Combined Sewer Overflow Control 
Policy (Renewal), EPA ICR Number 1680.04, OMB Control Number 2040-0170

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.

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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 January 31, 
2005.

DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before March 7, 2005.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number OW-2004-
0017, 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: Joel C. Wolf, Environmental Protection 
Agency, Water Permits Division, Mail Code 4203M, 1200 Pennsylvania 
Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: 202-564-2228; fax 
number: 202-564-6392; 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 August 12, 2004 (69 FR 49895), EPA sought comments on this 
ICR pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received one comment that did not 
address the renewal ICR in any way. No response was necessary.
    EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID 
No. OW-2004-0017, 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: Combined Sewer Overflow Control Policy (Renewal).
    Abstract: The information to be collected under this request is the 
information recommended in the CSO Control Policy that will be 
developed by municipalities with combined sewer systems that have 
combined sewer overflows (CSOs). Specifically, the information is the 
documentation that the municipalities have implemented the nine minimum 
controls specified in the CSO policy, the long-term control plan that 
the municipalities must develop and implement to achieve compliance 
with the requirements of the Clean Water Act and applicable state water 
quality standards (WQS), and compliance monitoring data for 
demonstrating compliance with applicable WQS and National Pollutant 
Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit conditions. The first two 
information submittals are one-time submittals; the last element will 
be submitted semi-annually as part of the municipalities' Discharge 
Monitoring Reports (DMRs). EPA will use this information to determine 
how well the CSO Control Policy is being implemented at the state and 
local level and to prepare the performance reports required under the 
Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). The information to be 
collected under this information collection is necessary to determine 
the program's achievement of GPRA performance measures.
    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 515 
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: municipalities with combined sewer 
systems.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 776.
    Frequency of Response: One-time for selected items; semi-annually 
for others.
    Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 400,542.
    Estimated Total Annual Cost: $14,715,366, which includes $155,664 
in Capital Expense, $0 in O&M costs, and $14,559,702 in Respondent 
Labor Costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is a decrease of 179,502 hours in 
the total estimated burden currently identified in the OMB Inventory of 
Approved ICR Burdens. This decrease reflects a decrease in the number 
of communities needing to come into compliance with the CSO Policy. 
Some CSO communities have already completed some of the requirements. 
Additionally, this change in the burden is the result of data and 
information collected from EPA Regions and conversations with EPA 
Regional and state CSO program staff during preparation of EPA's Report 
to Congress on Impacts and Control of CSOs and SSOs.


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    Dated: January 25, 2005.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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