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Respondent’s obligation to respond: 

Mandatory per Clean Water Act (CWA) 

section 402. 

Estimated number of respondents: 

532,523 (total). 

Frequency of response: Varies by 

requirement from daily to annually or 

on occasion. 

Total estimated burden: 21,041,107 

hours (per year). Burden is defined at 5 

CFR 1320.03(b). 

Total estimated cost: $121,797,877 

(per year), includes $20,234,453 

annualized capital or operation & 

maintenance costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is a 

decrease of 283,634 hours in the total 

estimated respondent burden compared 

with the ICR currently approved by 

OMB. Adjustments to the burden 

estimates include: The addition of the 

burden associated with the airport 

deicing category; changes in the burden 

associated with agency actions related 

to changes in the VGP; addition of 

burden associated with the issuance of 

the small vessels general permit (sVGP); 

and changes in the estimated burden 

associated with revised estimates of 

number of respondents. 

Courtney Kerwin, 

Acting Director, Collection Strategies 

Division. 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OW–2002–0059; FRL 9940–52– 

OEI] 

Information Collection Request 

Submitted to OMB for Review and 

Approval; Comment Request; Safe 

Drinking Water Act State Revolving 

Fund Program 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted 

an information collection request (ICR), 

‘‘Safe Drinking Water Act State 

Revolving Fund Program’’ (EPA ICR No. 

1803.07, OMB Control No. 2040–0185) 

to the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and approval in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act (PRA, 44 U.S.C. 3501 et 

seq.). This is a proposed extension of 

the ICR, which is currently approved 

through December 31, 2015. Public 

comments were previously requested 

via the Federal Register (80 FR 57605) 

on September 24, 2015, during a 60-day 

comment period. This notice allows for 

an additional 30 days for public 

comments. A fuller description of the 

ICR is given in this renewal notice, 

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 January 27, 2016. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing Docket ID Number EPA– 

HQ–OW–2002–0059, to (1) EPA online 

using www.regulations.gov (our 

preferred method), 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 EPA. 

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. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nick 

Chamberlain, Drinking Water Protection 

Division, Office of Ground Water and 

Drinking Water, 4606M, Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460; 

telephone number: 202–564–1871; 

email address: Chamberlain.Nick@

epa.gov. 

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 www.regulations.gov 

or in person at the EPA Docket Center, 

WJC West, Room 3334, 1301 

Constitution Ave. NW., Washington, 

DC. The telephone number for the 

Docket Center is 202–566–1744. For 

additional information about EPA’s 

public docket, visit www.epa.gov/

dockets. 

Abstract: The Safe Drinking Water Act 

(SDWA) Amendments of 1996 (Pub. L. 

104–182) authorized the creation of the 

Drinking Water State Revolving Fund 

(DWSRF; the Fund) program in each 

state and Puerto Rico to assist public 

water systems to finance the costs of 

infrastructure needed to achieve or 

maintain compliance with SDWA 

requirements and to protect public 

health. Section 1452 authorizes the 

Administrator of the EPA to award 

capitalization grants to the states and 

Puerto Rico which, in turn, provide lowcost loans and other types of assistance 

to eligible drinking water systems. 

States can also reserve a portion of their 

grants to conduct various set-aside 

activities. The information collection 

activities will occur primarily at the 

program level through the (1) 

Capitalization Grant Application and 

Agreement/State Intended Use Plan; (2) 

Biennial Report; (3) Annual Audit; (4) 

Assistance Application Review; and (5) 

DWSRF National Information 

Management System and the Projects & 

Benefits Reporting System. 

Form Numbers: None. 

Respondents/affected entities: Entities 

affected by this action are states and 

local governments. 

Respondent’s obligation to respond: 

Required to obtain or retain a benefit per 

the Safe Drinking Water Act Section 

1452(g)(1). 

Estimated number of respondents: 

1,035 (total). 

Frequency of response: Varies by 

requirement (i.e., quarterly, semiannually and annually). 

Total estimated burden: 88,881 hours 

(average per year). Burden is defined at 

5 CFR 1320.03(b). 

Total estimated cost: $4,884,591 

(average per year), which is solely for 

labor cost. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is a 

net decrease of 180,916 hours in annual 

respondent burden hours from the 

previous ICR. This is partially 

attributable to the previous ICR’s 

inclusion of burden hours from the 

American Recovery and Reinvestment 

Act (ARRA) signed by the President on 

February 17, 2009. ARRA’s additional 

$2 billion in funding for assistance 

agreements resulted in approximately 

twice the normal number of 

applications for assistance in 2009. 

There is also a net decrease in local 

respondent burden hours from the 

previous ICR, which included 

application preparation and submission 

burden hours for localities. This is a 

state need/requirement, not federal, and 

thus it is excluded from this ICR. Some 

of the decrease is offset by this ICR’s 

inclusion of local burden for public 

awareness activities. 

Courtney Kerwin, 

Acting Director, Collection Strategies 

Division. 

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