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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OW–2002–0059; FRL–9115–4; 

EPA ICR No. 1803.06, OMB Control No. 

2040–0185] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to OMB for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; Drinking Water State 

Revolving Fund Program (Renewal) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (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. The ICR, 

which is abstracted below, describes the 

nature of the information collection and 

its estimated burden and cost. 

DATES: Additional comments may be 

submitted on or before March 25, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OW–2002–0059 to (1) EPA online using 

http://www.regulations.gov (our 

preferred method), by e-mail to OW– 

Docket@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA 

Docket Center, Environmental 

Protection Agency, Water Docket, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 

Mailcode: 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460, and 

(2) OMB by mail to: 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: 

Howard E. Rubin, Mail Code 4606M, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 

564–2051; fax number: (202) 564–3757; 

e-mail address: 

Rubin.HowardE@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 Monday, October 26, 2009 (74 FR 

54996), EPA sought comments on this 

ICR pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA 

received no comments. Any additional 

comments on this ICR should be 

submitted to EPA and OMB within 30 

days of this notice. 

EPA has established a public docket 

for this ICR under Docket ID No. EPA– 

HQ–OW–2002–0059, which is available 

for online viewing at http:// 

www.regulations.gov, or in person 

viewing at the Water Docket in the EPA 

Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West, 

Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave., 

NW., Washington, DC. The EPA/DC 

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. 

Use EPA’s electronic docket and 

comment system at http:// 

www.regulations.gov, to submit or view 

public comments, access the index 

listing of the contents of the docket, and 

to access those documents in the docket 

that are available electronically. Once in 

the system, select ‘‘docket search,’’ then 

key in the docket ID number identified 

above. Please note that EPA’s policy is 

that public comments, whether 

submitted electronically or in paper, 

will be made available for public 

viewing at http://www.regulations.gov 

as EPA receives them and without 

change, unless the comment contains 

copyrighted material, confidential 

business information (CBI), or other 

information whose public disclosure is 

restricted by statute. For further 

information about the electronic docket, 

go to http://www.regulations.gov. 

Title: Drinking Water State Revolving 

Fund Program (Renewal). 

ICR numbers: EPA ICR No. 1803.06, 

OMB Control No. 2040–0185. 

ICR Status: This ICR is currently 

scheduled to expire on February 28, 

2010. Under OMB regulations, the 

Agency may continue to conduct or 

sponsor the collection of information 

while this submission is pending at 

OMB. 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 title 40 

of the CFR, after appearing in the 

Federal Register when approved, are 

listed in 40 CFR part 9, are displayed 

either by publication in the Federal 

Register or by other appropriate means, 

such as on the related collection 

instrument or form, if applicable. The 

display of OMB control numbers in 

certain EPA regulations is consolidated 

in 40 CFR part 9. 

Abstract: The Safe Drinking Water Act 

(SDWA) Amendments of 1996 (Public 

Law 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; and 

(4) Assistance Application Review. 

Information collected is needed for 

input into the DWSRF National 

Information Management System and 

the Project & Benefits Reporting System. 

(1) Capitalization Grant Application 

and Agreement/State Intended Use 

Plan: The State must prepare a 

Capitalization Grant Application that 

includes an Intended Use Plan (IUP) 

outlining in detail how it will use all the 

funds covered by the capitalization 

grant. The State may, as an alternative, 

develop the IUP in a two part process 

with one part identifying the 

distribution and uses of the funds 

among the various set-asides in the 

DWSRF program and the other part 

dealing with project assistance from the 

Fund. 

(2) Biennial Report: The State must 

agree to complete and submit a Biennial 

Report on the uses of the capitalization 

grant. The scope of the report must 

cover assistance provided by the Fund 

and all other set-aside activities 

included under the Capital Grant 

Agreement. States which jointly 

administer DWSRF and Clean Water 

State Revolving Fund (CWSRF) 

programs, in accordance with section 

1452(g)(1), may submit reports 

(according to the schedule specified for 

each program) that cover both programs. 

(3) Annual Audit: A State must 

comply with the provisions of the 

Single Audit Act Amendments of 1996. 

Best management practices suggest and 

EPA recommends that a State conduct 

an annual independent audit of its 

DWSRF program. The scope of the 

report must cover the DWSRF Fund and 

all other set-aside activities included in 

the Capitalization Grant Agreement. 

States which jointly administer DWSRF 

and CWSRF programs, in accordance 

with section 1452(g)(1), may submit 

audits that cover both programs but 

which report financial information for 

each program separately. 

(4) Assistance Application Review: 

Local applicants seeking financial 

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1 60 FR 37440 (July 20, 1995). 

2 68 FR 69763 (November 20, 2000). 

3 60 FR 48981 (September 21, 1995). 

4 69 FR 38958 (June 29, 2004). 

assistance must prepare and submit 

DWSRF loan applications. States then 

review completed loan applications and 

verify that proposed projects will 

comply with applicable Federal and 

State requirements. 

As a result of the American Recovery 

and Reinvestment Act signed by the 

President on February 17, 2009, the 

Drinking Water State Revolving Fund 

received an additional $2 billion in 

funding for assistance agreements for 

projects to be under contract or 

construction by February 17, 2010. EPA 

expects an estimated two-fold increase 

of respondents (in some years) due to 

this additional funding. 

Burden Statement: The public 

reporting and recordkeeping burden for 

this collection of information is 

estimated to average 2,410 hours per 

State and 80 hours per local respondent 

(including Indian Tribes and Alaska 

Native Villages) annually. 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 which have subsequently 

changed; 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. 

The ICR provides a detailed 

explanation of the Agency’s estimate, 

which is only briefly summarized here: 

Estimate total number of potential 

respondents: 1,887 per year. 

Frequency of response: Annual (for 

Capitalization Grants and Audits), On 

Occasion (for Biennial reports and Loan 

Applications). 

Estimated total average number of 

responses for each respondent: One. 

Estimated total annual burden hours 

per response: 134. 

Estimated total annual burden hours: 

269,797. 

Estimated total annual costs: 

$10,639,932, which includes $0 capital/ 

operation & maintenance cost. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is an 

increase of 72,927 hours in the total 

estimated burden currently identified in 

the OMB Inventory of Approved ICR 

Burdens. This reflects EPA’s calculation 

of the burden hours resulting from a 

possible two-fold increase in local 

respondents and ongoing programmatic 

implementation needs due to additional 

funds from the American Reinvestment 

and Recovery Act of 2009. 

Dated: February 16, 2010. 

John Moses, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division. 

[FR Doc. 2010–3519 Filed 2–22–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9114–1] 

California State Nonroad Engine 

Pollution Control Standards; California 

New Nonroad Compression Ignition 

Engines; Notice of Decision 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of Decision Granting 

Authorization of California’s New 

Nonroad Compression Ignition Engine 

Emission Standards 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) today, pursuant to section 

209(e) of the Clean Air Act (Act), 42 

U.S.C. 7543(e), is granting California its 

request for an authorization of its 

emission standards and accompanying 

test procedures for new nonroad 

compression ignition (CI) engines. EPA 

is also confirming that one sub-set of 

California’s amended regulations does 

fall within-the-scope of an authorization 

that EPA previously granted. 

ADDRESSES: Materials relevant to this 

decision are contained in Docket No. 

EPA–HQ–OAR–2008–0670. The docket 

is located at The Air Docket, Room 

3334, 1301 Constitution Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20460, and may be 

viewed between 8 a.m. and 5:30 p.m., 

Monday through Friday. The telephone 

is (202) 566–1742. A reasonable fee may 

be charged by EPA for copying docket 

material. 

Additionally, an electronic version of 

the public docket is available through 

the Federal Government’s electronic 

public docket and comment system. 

You may access EPA dockets at http:// 

www.regulations.gov. After opening the 

http://www.regulations.gov Web site, 

enter EPA–HQ–OAR–2008–0670 in 

‘‘Search Documents’’ to view documents 

in the record of CARB’s nonroad 

compression ignition authorization 

request. Although a part of the official 

docket, the public docket does not 

include Confidential Business 

Information (CBI) or other information 

whose disclosure is restricted by statute. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kristien G. Knapp, Compliance and 

Innovative Strategies Division, United 

States Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue 

(6405J), NW., Washington, DC 20460. 

Telephone: (202) 343–9949. E-mail 

Address: knapp.kristien@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

By this decision, issued pursuant to 

section 209(e) of the Clean Air Act (the 

‘‘Act’’), 42 U.S.C. 7543(e), the 

Environmental Protection Agency 

(‘‘EPA’’) has determined that the 

California Air Resources Board’s 

(‘‘CARB’s’’) regulations and amendments 

regarding new nonroad compression 

ignition (‘‘CI’’) engine emission 

standards and testing procedures, that 

were adopted in 2000 and 2004–05, 

warrant EPA’s authorization. CARB’s 

regulations and amendments meet the 

criteria for such an authorization as 

outlined in section 209(e)(2) of the Act. 

CARB has requested that EPA find that 

its nonroad CI regulations and 

amendments fall within-the-scope of 

previously granted authorizations or, in 

the alternative, that EPA adopt and 

apply a new ‘‘harmonization construct’’ 

when California’s emission standards 

harmonize with federal emission 

standards. CARB’s regulations and 

amendments affect three power 

categories of nonroad CI engines as 

expressed in kilowatts (kW): those less 

than 19 kW, those greater than 19 kW 

but less than 130 kW, and those greater 

than 130 kW. EPA has previously 

granted authorizations for California’s 

Small Off-Road Engine less than 19 kW 

(‘‘SORE’’) regulations.1 Subsequently, 

EPA confirmed that CARB’s SORE 

amendments were within-the-scope of 

that prior authorization.2 EPA also 

previously granted an authorization for 

California’s new heavy-duty off-road 

diesel-cycle engines greater than 130 

kW.3 EPA subsequently confirmed that 

a later CARB amendment to those 

standards was within-the-scope of that 

prior authorization.4 To summarize, the 

smallest and largest categories of 

engines at issue here are the subjects of 

prior EPA authorizations and withinthe-scope determinations, while the 

middle category of engines presents an 

entirely new size category for EPA to 

consider. 

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