[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 159 (Tuesday, August 18, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44251-44252]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-22203]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-6147-2]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request; 1999 Drinking Water Infrastructure Needs
Survey
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 the following Information
Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for review and approval: 1999 Drinking Water
Infrastructure Needs Survey (EPA ICR No. 1708.02). The ICR describes
the nature of the information collection and its expected burden and
cost; where appropriate, it includes the actual data collection
instrument.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before September 17, 1998.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Contact Sandy Farmer at EPA by phone at (202) 260-2740, by email at
farmer.sandy@epamail.epa.gov, or download off the Internet at http://
www.epa.gov/icr and refer to EPA ICR No. 1708.02.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: 1999 Drinking Water Infrastructure Needs Survey (EPA ICR No.
1708.02). This is a new collection of information.
Abstract: The purpose of this information collection is to identify
the current and future infrastructure needs of community and nonprofit
noncommunity public water systems for the 20-year period from January
1999 through December 2018. The collection will be conducted by EPA's
Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water (OGWDW) in order to comply
with Sections 1452(h) and 1452(i)(4) of the Safe Drinking Water Act
(SDWA) (Public Law 104-182).
The collection will involve two methods. A questionnaire will be
used to collect information from large and medium community water
systems. For small systems and nonprofit noncommunity water systems,
data will
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be collected through a site visit by the EPA contractor. Questionnaires
and site visit reports will be reviewed by State Needs Survey
Coordinators before submission to EPA.
The data from the questionnaires and the site visits will provide
EPA with a basis for estimating the drinking water infrastructure needs
of community water systems for the 20-year period, January 1999 through
December 2018. Furthermore, under section 1452(a)(1)(D) of SDWA, the
results of the needs survey must be used as the basis for allocating
Drinking Water State Revolving Loan Fund capitalization grant funds
among the States. Responses to the collection of information are
voluntary. 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 are listed in 40 CFR part 9 and 48 CFR Chapter 15. The
Federal Register document required under 5 CFR 1320.8(d), soliciting
comments on this collection of information was published on May 27,
1998 (63 FR 29007); one comment was received.
Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping
burden for this collection of information is estimated to average per
response: 1998=4.4 hours; 1999=13.2 hours; 2000=0 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.
Respondents/Affected Entities: Owners/operators of community water
systems, State Environmental Water Quality Agencies, and State
Departments of Health.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 5,120.
Frequency of Response: 1.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 15,044 hours.
Estimated Total Annualized Cost Burden: $0.
Send comments on the Agency's need for this information, the
accuracy of the provided burden estimates, and any suggested methods
for minimizing respondent burden, including through the use of
automated collection techniques to the following addresses. Please
refer to EPA ICR No. 1708.02 in any correspondence.
Ms. Sandy Farmer, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, OPPE Regulatory
Information Division (2137), 401 M Street, SW., Washington, DC 20460;
and
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget, Attention: Desk Officer for EPA, 725 17th Street, NW.,
Washington, DC 20503.
Dated: August 13, 1998.
Joseph Retzer,
Director, Regulatory Information Division.
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