Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 205 / Monday, October 25, 2004 / Notices 62267

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[OW–2003–0017, FRL–7830–2] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request; Underground 

Injection Control (UIC) Program; EPA 

ICR No. 0370.18; OMB Control No. 

2040–0042

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

3501 et seq.), this notice announces that 

EPA is planning to submit the following 

continuing Information Collection 

Request (ICR) to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB): 

Underground Injection Control Program, 

EPA ICR No. 0370.18, OMB No. 2040–

0042 which is scheduled to expire on 

January 31, 2005. Before submitting the 

ICR to OMB for review and approval, 

EPA is soliciting comments on specific 

aspects of the proposed information 

collection as described below.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before December 27, 2004.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing docket ID number OW–

2003–0017, to EPA online using 

EDOCKET (our preferred method), by email to OW-Docket@epa.gov, or by mail 

to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental 

Protection Agency, Water Docket, MC 

4101T, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, 

NW., Washington, DC 20460.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Robert E. Smith, Office of Ground Water 

and Drinking Water’s Drinking Water 

Protection Division/Underground 

Injection Control Program, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20460; Telephone: 

202–564–3895, fax number: 202–564–

3756, e-mail address: Smith.RobertEu@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has 

established a public docket for this ICR 

under Docket ID number OW–2003–

0017, 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) 566–2426. 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, 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.

Affected entities: Entities potentially 

affected by this action are owners and 

operators of underground injection 

wells, State Underground Injection 

Control (UIC) primacy Agencies, and, in 

some instances, U.S. EPA Regional 

Offices and Staff. 

Title: Underground Injection Control 

Program (OMB Control No. 2040–0042; 

EPA ICR No. 0370.18.) 

Abstract: The Underground Injection 

Control (UIC) Program under the Safe 

Drinking Water Act established a 

Federal and State regulatory system to 

protect underground sources of drinking 

water (USDWs) from contamination by 

injected fluids. Owners/operators of 

underground injection wells must 

obtain permits, conduct environmental 

monitoring, maintain records, and 

report results to EPA or the State UIC 

primacy agency. States must report to 

EPA on permittee compliance and 

related information. The mandatory 

information is reported using 

standardized forms, and the regulations 

are codified at 40 CFR Parts 144 through 

148. The data are used to ensure the 

protection of underground sources of 

drinking water from UIC authorities. 

EPA expects that the total burden for 

the continuing Program ICR for the 

period 2005–2007 will exceed the 

reporting burden estimated in the 

previous ICR. EPA estimates that the 

total annual burden will increase by 

100,566 hours, and the total cost will 

increase by $16.8 million. The projected 

increase over the approved ICR period 

is primarily due to the following factors: 

(1) There will be a significant increase 

in activities related to the 1999 Class V 

Rule as the regulatory deadlines related 

to closure of large-capacity cesspools or 

closure/permitting of motor vehicle 

waste disposal wells will occur; (2) 

There will be increased cost to operators 

associated with quarterly wastewater 

testing and annual sludge sampling 

required under the Class V Rule; and (3) 

The labor rates for all well classes 

reflect Bureau of Labor Statistics 

Occupational Employment Statistics for 

2003, which are higher than labor 

estimates for 2001. The Agency has 

continued to explore burden and cost 

reduction as required by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. Specifically, 

EPA is examining how the UIC program 

could reduce the reporting burden on 

the States via electronic reporting forms. 

The Agency will continue work with 

States on this effort as we finalize the 

2005–2007 ICR renewal. Any 

recommendations from the underground 

injection control regulated community 

and the general public on this issue will 

also be given consideration by the 

Agency. 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. 

EPA would like to solicit comments 

to: 

(i) Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for 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 automatic electronic, 

mechanical, or other technological 

collection techniques or other forms of 

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information technology, e.g., permitting 

electronic submission of responses. 

Burden Statement: The public 

reporting and record-keeping burden for 

this collection of information is 

estimated to average 2.90 hours, or 

$203.50 per response annually. 

Estimated Number of Likely 

Respondents: 41,141. 

Frequency of Response: Varies. 

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:

1,192,512 hours. 

Estimated Total Annualized Cost 

Burden: $83,678,101. 

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: October 18, 2004. 

Cynthia C. Dougherty, 

Director, Office of Ground Water and Drinking 

Water.

[FR Doc. 04–23838 Filed 10–22–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–7829–8] 

Guide To Analyzing Environmental 

Innovations

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice on guide to analyze 

environmental innovations. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency’s National Center for 

Environmental Innovation (NCEI) 

promotes the use of innovative 

approaches to environmental problemsolving efforts that deliver improved 

environmental results. As part of this 

process, the Evaluation Support 

Division (ESD) within NCEI promotes 

and conducts rigorous evaluations to 

determine whether innovations deliver 

environmental results that surpass the 

traditional way of doing business and to 

identify lessons that can be applied 

more broadly. To guide its efforts and 

ensure consistency, NCEI developed a 

set of evaluation modules that outline 

core questions to be answered as part of 

any evaluation, either within EPA or 

outside the Agency. Because the field of 

environmental evaluation is fairly 

young, and EPA did not have one 

comprehensive method for evaluating 

innovation projects, ESD produced a 

‘‘Companion User’s Guide’’ and 

corresponding questions in a modular 

format called, ‘‘Modular Approach to 

Analyzing Environmental Innovation,’’

to help innovation practitioners analyze 

environmental innovations. The 

analysis modules include a series of 

questions that encourage critical 

thinking and assessment of successes, 

obstacles and lessons learned . The 

modules can be applied in a variety of 

scenarios, including developing an 

innovative project, informing future 

evaluation efforts, assessing 

environmental outcomes, and 

evaluating the potential transferability 

of an innovation. The following six 

modules are currently being tested on 

innovative projects: Background 

Information on the Innovation gathers 

information on project goals, purpose, 

focus, stakeholders, tools used, and 

legal/regulatory/programmatic issues; 

Environmental Outcomes evaluates 

measurement approach and project 

results and both qualitative and 

quantitative data; Costs and CostEffectiveness examines costs to the 

regulators, costs to other stakeholders, 

unintended costs, benefits of the project, 

resulting economic activity, cost 

analysis for future projects, and relative 

cost advantage; Compliance Assistance 

looks at reporting requirements, 

accountability, enforceability, and 

effectiveness compared to the 

traditional regulatory approaches; 

Transferability looks at the issue of 

whether the innovation could easily be 

transferred to other contexts and 

projects; and Public Involvement 

analyzes the degree to which the public 

was involved in the innovation, and the 

associated successes and lessons 

learned. The module questions were 

developed to be flexible enough to fit a 

variety of innovative experiments that 

are conducted both inside and outside 

EPA. The modules and user’s guide are 

available for review at http://

www.epa.gov/evaluate. If you do not 

have Internet access, please contact 

Suganthi Simon at 202–566–2199 or by 

mail, to receive hardcopies of the 

documents.

DATES: We must receive your comments 

on or before November 30, 2004.

ADDRESSES: Address all comments about 

the innovation analysis modules to 

Suganthi Simon, U.S. EPA, 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue, MC 1807T, 

Washington, DC 20460. If you prefer to 

send your comments by email, use the 

following address: 

simon.suganthi@epa.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Suganthi Simon at (202) 566–2199.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Invitation To Comment 

We invite you to submit comments 

regarding the draft guide to analyzing 

environmental innovations and module 

questions. Comments on whether or not 

you think this tool could be widely 

applied and is flexible enough to meet 

performance measurement and 

analytical needs of a variety of 

environmental innovations are 

welcome. Please note that this notice 

does not solicit applications nor 

mandates the use of the guide or module 

questions in innovative projects and 

programs.

Dated: October 18, 2004. 

Elizabeth A. Shaw, 

Director, Office of Environmental Policy 

Innovation.

[FR Doc. 04–23839 Filed 10–22–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION

Notice of Agreements Filed 

The Commission hereby gives notice 

of the filing of the following agreements 

under the Shipping Act of 1984. 

Interested parties may obtain copies of 

agreements by contacting the 

Commission’s Office of Agreements at 

202–523–5793 or via e-mail at 

tradeanalysis@fmc.gov. Interested 

parties may submit comments on an 

agreement to the Secretary, Federal 

Maritime Commission, Washington, DC 

20573, within 10 days of the date this 

notice appears in the Federal Register.

Agreement No.: 011539–011. 

Title: Montemar/Lykes/TMM Space 

Charter and Sailing Agreement. 

Parties: Lykes Lines Limited, LLC; 

Montemar Maritima S.A., d/b/a Pan 

American Independent Line; and TMM 

Lines Limited, LLC. 

Filing Party: Walter H. Lion, Esq.; 

McLaughlin & Stern LLP; 260 Madison 

Avenue; New York, NY 10016. 

Synopsis: The modification 

substitutes Montemar for Companhia 

Libra de Navegacao as a participating 

party under the agreement. The parties 

request expedited review.

Agreement No.: 011852–013.