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‘‘cross-cutting’’ recordkeeping and 

reporting requirements (i.e., the burden 

and costs for complying with drinking 

water information requirements that are 

not associated with contaminantspecific rulemakings). These activities 

which have recordkeeping and reporting 

requirements that are mandatory for 

compliance with 40 CFR parts 141 and 

142 include the following: Consumer 

Confidence Reports, Primacy Regulation 

Activities, Variance and Exemption 

Rule, General State Primacy Activities, 

Constructed Conveyances, and Public 

Notification. The information collection 

activities for both the Operator 

Certification/Expense Reimbursement 

Program and the Capacity Development 

Program are driven by the grant 

withholding and reporting provisions 

under sections 1419 and 1420, 

respectively, of the Safe Drinking Water 

Act. Although the Tribal Operator 

Certification Program is voluntary, the 

information collection is driven by grant 

eligibility requirements outlined in the 

Drinking Water Infrastructure Grant 

Tribal Set-Aside Program Final 

Guidelines and the Tribal Drinking 

Water Operator Certification Program 

Guidelines. 

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 6.5 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: (1) 

Owners/operators of PWSs, who must 

report to the primacy agency; (2) 

primacy agencies that must report to 

EPA Headquarters; and (3) regional EPA 

administrators, who must send reports 

and notices to PWS owners and states. 

Estimated Number of Respondents:

161,682. 

Frequency of Response: 24 hours, 

quarterly, annually, every 3 years. 

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:

3,223,430. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost:

$116,457,000, includes $19,716,000 

annualized capital or O&M costs and 

$96,741,000 annual labor costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is an 

increase of 601,582 hours in the total 

estimated burden currently identified in 

the OMB Inventory of Approved ICR 

Burdens. This increase is primarily due 

to (1) restructuring adjustments—

incorporation of previously stand-alone 

ICRs (Operator Certification Program/

Expense Reimbursement Grants and 

Tribal Operator Certification Program), 

(2) inclusion of three full years of the 

Public Notification Rule burden along 

with an increase in Tier 3 violations and 

(3) a change in requirements associated 

with the new PWS definition.

Dated: November 17, 2004. 

Oscar Morales, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division.

[FR Doc. 04–26075 Filed 11–23–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[OW–2004–0008; FRL–7841–4] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to OMB for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; Microbial Rules (Renewal), 

EPA ICR Number 1895.03, OMB 

Control Number 2040–0205

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 November 30, 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 27, 

2004.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing docket ID number OW–

2004–0008, 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.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Richard P. Naylor, Office of Ground 

Water and Drinking Water, (4606M), 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460; telephone number: 

202.564.3847; fax number: 

202.564.3755; e-mail address: 

naylor.richard@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 April 30, 2004 (69 FR 23741), 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–

2004–0008, 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

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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: Microbial Rules (Renewal). 

Abstract: This ICR examines public 

water system (PWS), primacy agency, 

and EPA burden and costs for 

recordkeeping and reporting required in 

support of microbial contaminantassociated rulemakings. These rules that 

have recordkeeping and reporting 

requirements that are mandatory for 

compliance with 40 CFR parts 141 and 

142 include the following: (1) Surface 

Water Treatment Rule (SWTR); (2) Total 

Coliform Rule (TCR); (3) Interim 

Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule 

(IESWTR); (4) Filter Backwash 

Recycling Rule (FBRR); and (5) Long 

Term 1 Enhanced Surface Water 

Treatment Rule (LT1ESWTR). This 

Microbial Rules ICR includes all SWTR 

components except disinfectant residual 

monitoring and associated activities, 

which are included in the Disinfectants 

and Disinfection Byproducts, Chemical, 

and Radionuclides Rules ICR. Burden 

for future rules that address microbial 

contaminants (Long Term 2 Enhanced 

Surface Water Treatment Rule 

(LT2ESWTR), and the Ground Water 

Rule (GWR) will be added to this ICR 

when the regulations are finalized and 

the original stand-alone ICRs for each 

rule expires. 

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 .77 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: (1) 

Owners/operators of PWSs, who must 

report to the primacy agency; (2) 

primacy agencies that must report to 

EPA Headquarters; and (3) regional EPA 

administrators, who must send reports 

and notices to PWS owners and States. 

Estimated Number of Respondents:

161,274. 

Frequency of Response: As necessary, 

monthly, quarterly, annually. 

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:

8,624,865. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost:

$340,480,000, includes $96,939,000 

annualized capital or O&M costs and 

$243,541,000 annual labor costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is an 

increase of 431,665 hours in the total 

estimated burden currently identified in 

the OMB Inventory of Approved ICR 

Burdens. This increase is primarily due 

to restructuring adjustments (i.e., 

incorporation of previously stand-alone 

ICRs for the LT1ESWTR and the FBRR).

Dated: November 17, 2004. 

Oscar Morales, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division.

[FR Doc. 04–26076 Filed 11–23–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[OW–2004–0015; FRL–7841–5] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to OMB for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; Clean Water Act State 

Revolving Fund Program (Renewal), 

EPA ICR Number 1391.07, OMB 

Control Number 2040–0118

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 11/30/2004. 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 27, 

2004.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing docket ID number OW–

2004–0015, 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.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Clifford Yee, Office of Wastewater 

Management, Mail Code 4204M, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460; telephone number: 202–564–

0598; fax number: 202–501–2403; e-mail 

address: yee.clifford@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 5, 2004 (69 FR 47432), 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–

2004–0015, 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.