Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 93 / Friday, May 13, 2016 / Notices 29857 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–SFUND–2012–0104; FRL–9945– 

81–OEI] 

Information Collection Request 

Submitted to OMB for Review and 

Approval; Comment Request; 

Brownfields Program— 

Accomplishment Reporting (Renewal) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency has submitted an information 

collection request (ICR), ‘‘Brownfields 

Program—Accomplishment Reporting 

(Renewal)’’ (EPA ICR No. 2104.06, OMB 

Control No. 2050–0192) 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 proposed 

extension of the ICR, which is currently 

approved through May 31, 2016. Public 

comments were previously requested 

via the Federal Register (81 FR 10859) 

on March 2, 2016 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 June 13, 2016. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing Docket ID Number EPA– 

HQ–SFUND–2012–0104, to (1) EPA 

online using www.regulations.gov (our 

preferred method), by email to 

docket.superfund@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: 

Kelly Gorini, Office of Brownfields and 

Land Revitalization, (5105T), 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, 

DC 20460; telephone number: (202)– 

566–1702; fax number: (202)–566–1476; 

email address: gorini.kelly@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 Small Business Liability 

Relief and Brownfields Revitalization 

Act (Pub. L. 107–118) (‘‘the Brownfields 

Amendments’’) was signed into law on 

January 11, 2002. The Act amends the 

Comprehensive Environmental 

Response, Compensation, and Liability 

Act (CERCLA), as amended, and 

authorizes EPA to award cooperative 

agreements to states, tribes, local 

governments, and other eligible entities 

to assess and clean up brownfield sites. 

Under CERCLA 101(39), a brownfields 

site means real property, the expansion, 

redevelopment, or reuse of which may 

be complicated by the presence or 

potential presence of a hazardous 

substance, pollutant, or contaminant. 

For funding purposes, EPA uses the 

term ‘‘brownfields property(ies)’’ 

synonymously with the term 

‘‘brownfields sites.’’ CERCLA 104(k) 

authorizes EPA to award several types 

of cooperative agreements to eligible 

entities on a competitive basis. 

Under CERCLA 104(k), states, tribes, 

local governments, and other eligible 

entities may receive assessment 

cooperative agreements to inventory, 

characterize, assess, and conduct 

planning and community involvement 

related to brownfields properties; 

cleanup cooperative agreements to carry 

out cleanup activities at brownfields 

properties; cooperative agreements to 

capitalize revolving loan funds and 

provide subawards for cleanup 

activities; area-wide planning 

cooperative agreements to develop 

revitalization plans for brownfields; and 

environmental workforce and 

development job training and placement 

programs. Under CERCLA 128(a), states 

and tribes may receive cooperative 

agreements to establish and enhance 

their response programs. 

Cooperative agreement recipients 

(‘‘recipients’’) have general reporting 

and record keeping requirements as a 

condition of their cooperative agreement 

that result in burden. A portion of this 

reporting and record keeping burden is 

authorized under 2 CFR 200.328, 

200.333 and 200.335 and identified in 

the EPA’s general grants ICR (OMB 

Control Number 2030–0020). However, 

EPA also requires Brownfields program 

recipients to maintain and report 

additional information to EPA on the 

uses and accomplishments associated 

with funded brownfields activities. EPA 

uses several forms to assist recipients in 

reporting the information and to ensure 

consistency of the information 

collected. EPA uses this information to 

meet Federal stewardship 

responsibilities to manage and track 

how program funds are being spent, to 

evaluate the performance of the 

Brownfields Cleanup and Land 

Revitalization Program, to meet the 

Agency’s reporting requirements under 

the Government Performance Results 

Act, and to report to Congress and other 

program stakeholders on the status and 

accomplishments of the program. 

Form Numbers: 6200–14, 6200–13, 

6200–04, 6200–03. 

Respondents/affected entities: State/

local/tribal governments; Non-Profits. 

Respondent’s obligation to respond: 

Required to obtain or Retain Benefits (2 

CFR part 1500). 

Estimated number of respondents: 

2,890 (total). 

Frequency of response: Bi-annual; 

quarterly, on occasion. 

Total estimated burden: 3,877 hours 

(per year). Burden is defined at 5 CFR 

1320.03(b). 

Total estimated cost: $414,197 (per 

year), includes $0 annualized capital or 

operation & maintenance costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is an 

increase of 710 hours in the total 

estimated respondent burden compared 

with the ICR currently approved by 

OMB. This increase is due to the overall 

increase in wages and the overall 

increase in the number of respondents 

submitting the Property Profile Forms. 

Even with this slight increase, 

respondents indicated that 

improvements in the ACRES reporting 

system and increased familiarity with 

the program led to a lower burden per 

individual entry. 

Courtney Kerwin, 

Acting Director, Collection Strategies 

Division. 

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