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person listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT. 

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection, Reporting 

and recordkeeping requirements. 

Dated: September 13, 2013. 

James Jones, 

Assistant Administrator, Office of Chemical 

Safety and Pollution Prevention. 

[FR Doc. 2013–23067 Filed 9–24–13; 8:45 am] 

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AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–ORD–2013–0282; FRL—9536–8] 

Information Collection Request 

Submitted to OMB for Review and 

Approval; Comment Request; 

Willingness To Pay Survey for Santa 

Cruz River Management Options in 

Southern Arizona (New) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency has submitted an information 

collection request (ICR), ‘‘Willingness 

To Pay Survey for Santa Cruz River 

Management Options in Southern 

Arizona (New)’’ (EPA ICR No. 2484.01, 

OMB Control No. 2080–NEW) to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and approval in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). 

This is a request for approval of a new 

collection. Public comments were 

previously requested via the Federal 

Register (78 FR 26773) on May 8, 2013 

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 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 October 25, 

2013. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing Docket ID Number EPA– 

HQ–ORD–2013–0282, to (1) EPA online 

using www.regulations.gov (our 

preferred method), by email to 

ord.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 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: 

Matthew A. Weber, Environmental 

Protection Agency, 200 SW. 35th St., 

Corvallis, OR 97333; telephone number: 

(541) 754–4315; fax number: (541) 754– 

4799; email address: weber.matthew@

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 http://www.epa.gov/ 

dockets. 

Abstract: The USEPA Office of 

Research and Development is 

investigating public values for scenarios 

of change for perennial reaches of the 

effluent-dominated Santa Cruz River, 

Arizona. These values will be estimated 

via a willingness to pay mail survey 

instrument. There are two effluentdominated perennial reaches considered 

in the survey. A ‘‘South’’ reach starts at 

an outfall in Rio Rico, AZ, and flows 

northward through Tumaca ́cori National 

Historical Park. A ‘‘North’’ reach is fed 

by two outfalls in northwest Tucson, 

Arizona, flows northwest through 

Marana, AZ. For each of the South and 

North reaches, two different scenarios of 

change are considered. The first is a 

reduction in flow length, and associated 

decreases in cottonwood-willow 

riparian forest, a rare forest type in the 

region. The second is an increase in 

water quality to allow full contact 

recreation, such as submersion, at 

normal flow levels. The baseline flow 

length and forest acreages, as well as the 

acreages of forest that would be 

associated with reduced flow lengths, 

are derived from natural science 

information and modeling. For the 

survey, a choice experiment framework 

is used with statistically designed 

alternative choices. Options to maintain 

flow length and forest, or increase 

effluent water quality, are posed as 

increases in a yearly household tax. 

Each choice question allows a zero cost 

‘‘opt out’’ option. The choice 

experiment is designed to allow 

isolation of the public value of each 

marginal change for each reach. A few 

additional questions to further 

understand respondent choice 

motivations, as well as their riverrelated recreation behavior, are also 

included. Several pages of background 

introduce the issue to respondents. A 

small number of sociodemographic 

questions are included to gauge how 

well the sample respondents represent 

the target population. Samples of the 

two major metropolitan areas in 

southern Arizona, Phoenix and Tucson, 

will receive the survey. The primary 

reason for the survey is public value 

research. The Santa Cruz River is a case 

study of a waterway highly impacted by 

human modifications. However it still 

represents potentially valuable 

ecological commodities such as rare 

riparian habitat and recreational 

opportunities for the regional 

population. The survey results may also 

be informative to local decision-makers 

considering Santa Cruz River 

management options. Water scarcity in 

the region raises periodic debates on the 

best uses of effluent. All survey 

responses will be kept confidential. 

Form Numbers: None. 

Respondents/affected entities: The 

target respondents for this survey are 

representatives 18 yrs or older of 

households in the two most populated 

urban areas of Arizona, the Phoenix 

metro area, and the Tucson metro area. 

Respondent’s obligation to respond: 

Voluntary. 

Estimated number of respondents: 

500 households. 

Frequency of response: One-time 

response. 

Total estimated burden: 250 hours. 

Total estimated cost: $5,275, which 

includes no operations and maintenance 

costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: This is a 

new ICR, thus there is no currently 

approved burden. 

Richard T. Westlund, 

Acting Director, Collection Strategies 

Division. 

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