[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 51 (Thursday, March 17, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13025-13026]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-5324]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[OW-2004-0038, FRL-7885-2]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; 
Comment Request; Survey of Airport Deicing Operations, EPA ICR Number 
2171.01

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 EPA is planning to submit a 
proposed Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB). This is a request for a new collection. 
Before submitting the ICR to OMB for review and approval, EPA is 
soliciting comments on specific aspects of the proposed information 
collection (Airline Questionnaire) as described below. EPA is also 
extending the comment period on a related, previously-announced 
collection (Airport Questionnaire).

DATES: For both the Airline and Airport Questionnaires, comments must 
be submitted on or before May 16, 2005. (The Airport Questionnaire was 
previously announced on January 28, 2005.)

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number OW-2004-
0038, to EPA online using EDocket (our preferred method), by e-mail to 
[email protected], or by mail to: Water Docket, 4101T, Environmental 
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Eric Strassler, EPA Office of Water, 
telephone 202-566-1026, e-mail [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has established a public docket for this 
ICR under Docket ID number OW-2004-0038, 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 202-566-2422. An electronic version of the public 
docket is available through EPA Dockets (EDocket) at http://www.epa.gov/edocket. Use EDocket to obtain a copy of the draft 
collection of information, 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 
60 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, 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.

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    Affected Entities: Entities potentially affected by this action are 
airport owners/operators.
    Title: Survey of Airport Deicing Operations (Airline 
Questionnaire).
    Abstract: EPA is developing wastewater discharge standards, called 
``effluent guidelines,'' for airports pursuant to the Agency's 2004 
Effluent Guidelines Plan (69 FR 53719, September 2, 2004). The focus of 
the rulemaking is on wastewater discharges from aircraft and runway 
deicing operations. EPA will send survey questionnaires to a sample of 
air carriers to help the Agency compile a national assessment of 
deicing operations. The survey will include questions on the deicing 
technologies employed, amount of deicing chemicals used, pollution 
prevention techniques, and economic and financial information. Each air 
carrier receiving a questionnaire package would be asked to provide 
responses for a specified sample of locations at which the airline 
operates. Completion of this one-time survey will be mandatory pursuant 
to sec. 308 of the Clean Water Act.
    EPA has prepared a separate draft questionnaire for airports. This 
questionnaire was announced at 70 FR 4117, January 28, 2005, with a 
comment deadline of March 29, 2005. EPA is hereby extending the comment 
deadline for the Airport Questionnaire to match the deadline for the 
Airline Questionnaire, namely May 16, 2005.
    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.
    EPA would like to solicit comments to:
    (i) Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is 
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the Agency, 
including whether the information will have practical utility;
    (ii) evaluate the accuracy of the Agency's estimate of the burden 
of the proposed collection of information, including the validity of 
the methodology and assumptions used;
    (iii) enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information 
to be collected; and
    (iv) minimize the burden of the collection of information on those 
who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated 
electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or 
other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic 
submission of responses.
    Burden Statement. The estimated burden for this survey is 24 hours 
per air carrier site (i.e. an air carrier's operational facility at a 
specific airport). The total number of air carrier sites is 300, 
producing an approximate total burden of 7,200 hours. 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.

    Dated: March 10, 2005.
Mary T. Smith,
Acting Director, Office of Science and Technology.
[FR Doc. 05-5324 Filed 3-16-05; 8:45 am]
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