[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 211 (Thursday, October 31, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58381-58382]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-23720]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OW-2018-0241; FRL-10001-73-OMS]


Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; Contaminant Occurrence Data in Support of 
the EPA's Fourth Six-Year Review of National Primary Drinking Water 
Regulations

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an 
information collection request (ICR) for Contaminant Occurrence Data in 
Support of the EPA's Fourth Six-Year Review of National Primary 
Drinking Water Regulations (EPA ICR Number 2574.01, OMB Control Number 
2040-NEW) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and 
approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. This is a 
request for approval of a new collection. Public comments were 
previously requested via the Federal Register on October 5, 2018, 
during a 60-day comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 
days for public comments. A fuller description of the ICR is below 
including its estimated burden and cost to the public. 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.

DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before December 2, 
2019.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OW-2018-0241, to: (1) The EPA online, using https://www.regulations.gov/ (our preferred method), by email to ow-docket@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental 
Protection Agency, Mail Code 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, 
Washington, DC 20460; and (2) OMB via email to 
oira_submission@omb.eop.gov. Address comments to OMB Desk Officer for 
the EPA.
    The EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included in 
the public docket without change, including any personal information 
provided, unless the comment includes profanity, threats, information 
claimed to be Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other 
information whose disclosure is restricted by statute.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jini Mohanty at (202) 564-5269 or 
Nicole Tucker at (202) 564-1946, Office of Ground Water and Drinking 
Water, Standards and Risk Management Division, 4607M, Environmental 
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supporting documents, which explain in 
detail the information that the EPA will be collecting, are available 
in the public docket for this ICR. The docket can be viewed online at 
https://www.regulations.gov/ or in person at the EPA Docket Center, WJC 
West, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20004. The 
telephone number for the Docket Center is 202-566-1744. For additional 
information about the EPA's public docket, visit https://www.epa.gov/dockets.
    Abstract: The EPA is required by the Safe Drinking Water Act 
(SDWA), as amended in 1996, to review existing National Primary 
Drinking Water Regulations (NPDWRs) no less often than every six years. 
This routine evaluation is referred to as the ``Six-Year Review of 
National Primary Drinking Water Regulations'' or simply, the ``Six-Year 
Review.'' Throughout the Six-Year Review process, the EPA assesses new 
data to determine risks to human health posed by regulated drinking 
water contaminants and identifies NPDWRs that may be appropriate for 
revision.
    The EPA completed and published review results for the first Six-
Year Review cycle (1996-2002) on July 18, 2003 (68 FR 42908). The 
occurrence assessments for the first Six-Year Review were based on 
compliance monitoring from a cross-section of 16 States, collected from 
1993 to 1997, which were voluntarily provided by the States.
    The EPA completed and published review results for the second Six-
Year Review cycle (2003-2009) on March 29, 2010 (75 FR 15500). The 
occurrence assessments conducted for the second Six-Year Review are 
based on data collected between 1998 and 2005, voluntarily submitted by 
States and other drinking water primary enforcement (primacy) agencies 
(i.e., the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the 
Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern 
Mariana Islands, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, or an 
eligible Indian tribe).
    The EPA completed and published review results for the third Six-
Year Review cycle (2010-2016) on January 11, 2017 (82 FR 3518). The 
occurrence assessments conducted for the third Six-Year Review are 
based on contaminant occurrence and treatment techniques data collected 
between 2006 and 2011, voluntarily submitted by States and other 
drinking water primacy agencies.
    The EPA created this new ICR to continue to engage States and other 
drinking water primacy agencies in data collection efforts. For this 
ICR, the EPA is soliciting States and other primacy agencies to 
(voluntarily) provide historical, compliance monitoring (contaminant 
occurrence) data for community water systems (CWSs) and non-transient 
non-community water systems (NTNCWSs) to the Agency in support of the 
fourth Six-Year Review. The EPA is requesting contaminant occurrence 
and treatment technique data collected from 2012 to 2019 for all 
regulated chemical, radiological, and microbial contaminants, including 
data collected for the Revised Total Coliform Rule, newly promulgated 
since the third Six-Year Review information collection.
    The compliance monitoring records for this information collection 
(including all results for analytical detections and non-detections) 
provide the data needed to conduct statistical estimates of national 
occurrence for regulated contaminants and evaluate treatment technique 
information associated with the control of pathogens, disinfectants, 
and disinfection byproducts. The national occurrence estimates and 
information on treatment techniques will support the EPA's review of 
existing NPDWRs as required by the SDWA, section 1412(b)(9). In 
addition, the SDWA, section 1445(g), requires the EPA to maintain a 
national drinking water contaminant occurrence database (i.e., the 
National Contaminant Occurrence Database (NCOD)), using occurrence data 
for both regulated and unregulated contaminants in public water systems 
(PWSs). This data collection will provide new occurrence data on 
regulated contaminants to maintain the NCOD.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: States and other drinking water 
primacy agencies.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Voluntarily.
    Estimated number of respondents: 56 (total).
    Frequency of response: One-time only.
    Total estimated burden: 765 hours (per year). Burden is defined at 
5 CFR 1320.03(b).
    Total estimated cost: $43,021 (per year), includes $0 annualized 
capital or operations and maintenance costs.
    Changes in the estimates: The new burden under this ICR is for a 
one-time data collection effort in support of the fourth six-year 
review of national primary drinking water regulations.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2019-23720 Filed 10-30-19; 8:45 am]
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