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Title: Application of Measures of 

Spontaneous Motor Activity for 

Behavioral Assessment in Human 

Infants. 

Abstract: The goal of the proposed 

information collection is to test a 

method to collect data that would be 

used to quantitatively characterize 

spontaneous motor activity in young 

children between the ages of 4 and 24 

months. Data from the study will be 

used to (1) identify sources of variance 

in infants’ and toddlers’ daily activity 

levels, (2) estimate the number of days 

of activity measurement that would be 

necessary to reliably measure these 

activities, and (3) investigate the 

potential association between activity 

measures averaged over long periods of 

time (e.g., days) and activity measures 

averaged over the duration of a specific 

event. Data will be analyzed and used 

to help EPA determine the best way to 

gather reliable data to further examine 

the effects of exposure to neurotoxicants 

on development in young children. The 

information will appear in the form of 

final EPA reports and journal articles 

and will be made publically available. 

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 40 CFR are listed 

in 40 CFR part 9. 

The EPA would like to solicit 

comments to: 

(i) Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the 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 automated electronic, 

mechanical, or other technological 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology, e.g., permitting 

electronic submission of responses. 

Burden Statement: Two hundred and 

twenty parent-child dyads will be 

invited to a laboratory for an initial 

visit, where the study examiner will 

obtain consent and place small, 

lightweight device called an 

accelerometer on the child’s ankle or 

wrist. This will take approximately 30 

minutes per dyad and result in a burden 

of 110 hours. Children will wear the 

accelerometer, which produces activity 

measures, for a 7-day monitoring period 

(day and night). After the accelerometer 

has been placed, the parent will 

complete either the Infant Behavioral 

Questionnaire Revised (IBQ-R) (for 

children under the age of 12 months) of 

the Infant Toddler Social and Emotional 

Assessment (ITSEA) (for children over 

the age of 12 months), and results will 

be used to assess the child’s 

temperament. Administration of either 

the IBQ-R or the ITSEA takes on average 

30 minutes, resulting in a burden of 110 

hours. During the lab visit, the study 

examiner will administer the Peabody 

Developmental Motor Scale, 2nd 

Edition (PMDS–2) to the child; any 

child not falling into the normal range 

of motor activity will not be asked to 

continue in the study. Administration of 

the PMDS–2 takes, on average, 45 

minutes. This corresponds to a burden 

of 165 hours for the study population. 

Children continuing in the study will 

participate in a brief unstructured play 

activity before leaving the lab. 

If a child is in the normal range of 

motor development, the parent will be 

provided with a 7-day Time Activity 

Diary on which the parent will record 

the beginning and ending time of each 

activity, using a list of coded responses. 

Each parent will spend approximately 

45 minutes per day for each of the 7 

study days completing the Time 

Activity Diary. This corresponds to 5.25 

hours per individual or 1,155 hours for 

the study population (5.25 × 220). At 48 

hour intervals the study examiner will 

visit the child’s home to retrieve 

accelerometer data. At the end of the 7-

day data collection period, the study 

examiner will visit the home of each 

dyad to collect the accelerometer and 

Time Activity Diary. Each of these visits 

will take approximately 30 minutes, 

resulting in 198 hours of response 

burden. Thus, the total burden for 220 

parent-child dyads is estimated to be 

1,738 hours. The data collection will be 

scheduled over 12 months. There are no 

direct respondent costs for this data 

collection. 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 19, 2004. 

Rebecca Calderon, 

Director, Human Studies Division, National 

Health and Environmental Effects Research 

Laboratory, Office of Research and 

Development.

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[OW–2004–0013; FRL–7832–3] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to OMB for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; EPA Strategic Plan 

Information on Source Water 

Assessment and Protection (Renewal), 

EPA ICR Number 1816.03, OMB 

Control No. 2040–0197

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (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. This ICR is scheduled to 

expire on October 31, 2004. Under 

OMB, regulations, the Agency may 

continue to conduct or sponsor the 

collection of information while this 

submission is pending at OMB. This ICR 

describes the nature of the information 

collection and its estimated burden and 

cost.

DATES: Additional comments may be 

submitted on or before December 2, 

2004.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing docket ID number OW–

2004–0013, to (1) 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, Mail 

Code 4101T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., 

NW., Washington, DC 20460, and (2) 

OMB at: Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs, Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB), 

Attention: Desk Officer for EPA, 725 

17th Street, NW., Washington, DC 

20503.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Roy 

Simon, Office of Ground Water and 

Drinking Water, Mail Code 4606M, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 

564–3868; fax number: (202) 564–3756; 

e-mail address: simon.roy@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 August 18, 2004 (69 FR 51283), EPA 

sought comments on this ICR pursuant 

to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received no 

comments. 

EPA has established a public docket 

for this ICR under Docket ID No. OW–

2004–0013, 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 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 and OMB 

within 30 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.

Title: EPA Strategic Plan Information 

on Source Water Assessment and 

Protection (Renewal). 

Abstract: Section 1453(a)(3) of the 

Safe Drinking Water Act requires States 

to submit to EPA a Source Water 

Assessment Program within 18 months 

after issuance of the national guidance 

on State Source Water Assessment and 

Protection Programs, which was issued 

by EPA on August 5, 1997. Upon EPA 

approval of the programs, States 

conducted source water assessments of 

their public water systems. The 

assessment program is completed 

relative to the SDWA, because state 

assessments were required to be 

completed three and a half years after 

approval of a State’s program. The 

burden and cost associated with any 

remaining assessment work has already 

been calculated under previous ICRs. 

The EPA Strategic Plan (2003–2008) 

includes source water assessment and 

protection program measures to describe 

the voluntary source water protection 

actions taken at the local or regional 

level, based on the results of completed 

source water assessments. This 

information is collected from States to 

understand, in aggregate, the results of 

State assessments and the protection 

actions based on those assessments, and 

to measure progress toward the 

Agency’s strategic goal that, by 2008, 

50% of source water areas for 

community water systems will achieve 

minimized risk to public health. 

(‘‘Minimized risk’’ is achieved by 

substantial implementation, as 

determined by the State, of source water 

protection actions in a source water 

protection strategy.) The information is 

generated under the authority of section 

1453 (a)(3) of the Safe Drinking Water 

Act and being collected under EPA’s 

Office of Water National Program 

Guidance. 

EPA is collecting, on a voluntary 

basis, data from the States related to the 

status of assessment completion, the 

most prevalent and most threatening 

sources of contamination, overall risk to 

source waters, and progress toward 

substantial implementation of 

prevention strategies for all community 

water system source water areas. This 

data is generated under the authority of 

section 1453(a)(3) of the Safe Drinking 

Water Act. While implementing source 

water protection programs is not 

required under the Act, Drinking Water 

State Revolving Fund monies under 

section 1452 of the Safe Drinking Water 

Act may be used, and are being used, for 

activities to support these efforts. 

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 40 

CFR are listed in 40 CFR part 9 and are 

identified on the form and/or 

instrument, if applicable. 

Burden Statement: The annual public 

reporting and recordkeeping burden for 

this collection of information is 

estimated to average 81 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; 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: States, 

Puerto Rico, and the District of 

Columbia. 

Estimated Number of Respondents:

52. 

Frequency of Response: Annually. 

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:

4,212 hours. 

Estimated Total Annualized Cost 

Burden: $1,278,000, includes 

$1,122,000 annual capital startup costs, 

$0 annual O&M costs and $156,000 

annual labor costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is a 

decrease of 2,604,575 hours in the total 

estimated burden currently identified in 

the OMB Inventory of Approved ICR 

Burdens. This decrease is due to the 

shifting of efforts toward reporting only 

on assessment results and voluntary 

prevention activities, rather than on all 

the statutory required assessment 

actions under the previous ICR.

Dated: October 26, 2004. 

Joseph A. Sierra, 

Acting Director, Collection Strategies 

Division.

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