
[Federal Register: June 5, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 109)]
[Notices]               
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OW-2004-0013; FRL-8575-8]

 
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for 
Review and Approval; Comment Request; EPA Strategic Plan Information on 
Source Water Protection (Renewal); EPA ICR No. 1816.04; OMB Control No. 
2040-0197

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (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. The ICR, which is abstracted below, 
describes the nature of the information collection and its estimated 
burden and cost.

DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before July 7, 2008.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OW-
2004-0013 to (1) EPA online using http://www.regulations.gov (our 
preferred method), by e-mail to OW-Docket@epa.gov or by mail to: EPA 
Docket Center, Environmental Protection Agency, Water Docket, Mailcode: 
28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460, and (2) OMB 
by mail to: 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: Jill Dean, Drinking Water Protection 
Division--Prevention Branch, Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water 
(MC 4606M), Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., 
NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: 202-564-8241; fax number: 
202-564-3756; e-mail address: dean.jill@epa.gov.

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 February 29, 2008 (73 FR 11108), EPA sought comments on 
this ICR pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received no comments. Any 
additional comments on this ICR should be submitted to EPA and OMB 
within 30 days of this notice.
    EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID 
No. EPA-HQ-OW-2004-0013, which is available for online viewing at 
www.regulations.gov, or in person viewing at the Water Docket in the 
EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution 
Ave., NW., Washington, DC. The EPA/DC 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.
    Use EPA's electronic docket and comment system at 
www.regulations.gov, to submit or view public comments, access the 
index listing of the contents of the docket, and to access those 
documents in the docket that are available electronically. Once in the 
system, select ``docket search,'' then key in the docket ID number 
identified above. Please note that EPA's policy is that public 
comments, whether submitted electronically or in paper, will be made 
available for public viewing at http://www.regulations.gov 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. For 
further information about the electronic docket, go to 
www.regulations.gov.
    Title: EPA Strategic Plan Information on Source Water Protection 
(Renewal).
    ICR numbers: EPA ICR No. 1816.04, OMB Control No. 2040-0197.
    ICR Status: This ICR is scheduled to expire on June 30, 2008. Under 
OMB regulations, the Agency may continue to conduct or sponsor the 
collection of information while this submission is pending at OMB. 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 title 40 of the CFR, after appearing in the Federal Register when 
approved, are listed in 40 CFR part 9, and are displayed either by 
publication in the Federal Register or by other appropriate means, such 
as on the related collection instrument or form, if applicable. The 
display of OMB control numbers in certain EPA regulations is 
consolidated in 40 CFR part 9.
    Abstract: Section 1453(a)(3) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) 
required States to submit a Source Water Assessment Program within 18 
months after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published 
its State Source Water Assessment and Protection Programs Guidance: 
Final Guidance. Upon EPA approval of their programs, States conducted 
source water assessments of their public water systems. State 
assessments were required to be completed three and a half years after 
approval of a state's program; the assessment program is therefore 
complete relative to the SDWA requirements. The burden and cost 
associated with all of the assessment was accounted for in three 
previous information collection requests (EPA ICR Nos. 1816.01, 
1816.02, and 1816.03).
    The 2006-2011 EPA Strategic Plan incorporates a source water 
contamination prevention measure to describe the voluntary source water 
protection (SWP) actions taken at the local or regional level based on 
the results of completed source water assessments. EPA's strategic 
target for SWP sets a goal of minimized risk to public health in 50 
percent of community water systems (CWSs) and the 62 percent of the 
U.S. population served by those CWSs by 2011. Achieving minimized risk 
to public health focuses on developing and substantially implementing 
SWP strategies to address potential contamination risks within each CWS 
source water area.
    EPA is collecting, on a voluntary basis, data from the States on 
their progress toward substantial implementation of prevention 
strategies for all CWS SWAs. While Section 1453(a)(3) of the SDWA does 
not authorize source water protection, States are encouraged to use the 
data collected in the source water assessments to develop protection 
plans for source water areas. Drinking Water State Revolving Fund 
monies authorized in Section 1452(g)(2)(B) may be used for activities 
to support efforts in source water protection. The

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information is being collected under EPA's Office of Water National 
Program Guidance and the State Grant Performance Measures Template.
    Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping 
burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 33 
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 which have subsequently changed; 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: State environmental and health 
agencies.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 52.
    Frequency of Response: Annual.
    Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 1,716.
    Estimated Total Annual Cost: $820,287, includes $748,257 annualized 
capital or O&M costs, and $72,030 labor costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is a decrease of 149,215 hours per 
year in the total estimated burden currently identified in the OMB 
Inventory of Approved ICR Burdens. This decrease in burden is due to a 
decrease in the number of items being reported. The burden estimates 
were considerably greater in the current ICR because it included an 
additional 146,719 hours annually and $0.24 million annually to allow 
nine states to complete the source water assessments.

    Dated: May 28, 2008.
Sara Hisel-McCoy,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. E8-12586 Filed 6-4-08; 8:45 am]

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