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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 https://www.epa.gov/dockets. 

Abstract: This Information Collection 

Request (ICR) seeks authorization for 

tribes to demonstrate their eligibility to 

be treated in the same manner as states 

under the Clean Air Act (CAA) and to 

submit applications to implement a 

CAA program. This ICR extends the 

collection period of information for 

determining eligibility, which expires 

December 31, 2018. The ICR maintains 

the estimates of burden costs for tribes 

in completing a CAA application. 

The program regulation provides for 

Indian tribes, if they choose, to assume 

responsibility for the development and 

implementation of CAA programs. The 

regulation, Indian Tribes: Air Quality 

Planning and Management (Tribal 

Authority Rule [TAR] 40 CFR parts 9, 

35, 49, 50, and 81) sets forth how tribes 

may seek authority to implement their 

own air quality planning and 

management programs. This rule 

establishes: (1) Which CAA provisions 

Indian tribes may seek authority to 

implement; (2) What requirements the 

tribes must meet when seeking such 

authorization; and (3) What federal 

financial assistance may be available to 

help tribes establish and manage their 

air quality programs. The TAR provides 

tribes the authority to administer air 

quality programs over all air resources, 

including non-Indian owned fee lands, 

whining the exterior boundaries of a 

reservation and other areas over which 

the tribe can demonstrate jurisdiction. 

An Indian tribe that takes responsibility 

for a CAA program would essentially be 

treated in the same way as a state would 

be treated for that program. 

Form Numbers: None. 

Respondents/Affected Entities: States, 

locals, Indian tribes. 

Respondent’s Obligation to Respond: 

Voluntary, required to obtain or retain a 

benefit Tribal Authority Rule [TAR] 40 

CFR parts 9, 35, 49, 50 and 81). 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 8 

(total). 

Frequency of Response: One-time 

applications. 

Total Estimated Burden: 320 hours 

(per year). Burden is defined at 5 CFR 

1320.03(b). 

Total Estimated Cost: $18,896.00 (per 

year), includes $0 annualized capital or 

operation & maintenance costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is no 

change of hours in the total estimated 

respondent burden compared with the 

ICR currently approved by OMB. 

Dated: August 15, 2018. 

Pat Childers, 

OAR Tribal Program Coordinator. 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OW–2003–0026; FRL–9983–03– 

OW] 

Proposed Information Collection 

Request; Comment Request; National 

Water Quality Inventory Reports 

(Renewal) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency is planning to submit an 

information collection request (ICR), 

‘‘National Water Quality Inventory 

Reports (Renewal)’’ (EPA ICR No. 

1560.11, OMB Control No. 2040–0071) 

to the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and approval in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act (PRA). Before submitting 

the ICR to OMB, EPA is soliciting public 

comments on specific aspects of the 

proposed information collection as 

described below. This is a proposed 

extension of the ICR, which is currently 

approved through March 31, 2019. 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: Comments must be submitted on 

or before October 29, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OW–2003–0026, online using 

www.regulations.gov (our preferred 

method), by email to OW-Docket@

epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA Docket 

Center, Environmental Protection 

Agency, Mail Code 28221T, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 

20460. 

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: 

Cynthia N. Johnson, Watershed 

Restoration, Assessment and Protection 

Division (WRAPD), Office of Water, 

Mail Code: 4503T, Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460; 

telephone number: 202–566–1679; fax 

number: 202–566–1336; email address: 

Johnson.CynthiaN@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Supporting documents that 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. 

Pursuant to Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of 

the PRA, EPA is soliciting comments 

and information to enable it 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. EPA will consider the 

comments received and amend the ICR 

as appropriate. The final ICR package 

will then be submitted to OMB for 

review and approval. At that time, EPA 

will issue another Federal Register 

notice to announce the submission of 

the ICR to OMB and the opportunity to 

submit additional comments to OMB. 

Abstract: The Clean Water Act 

Section 305(b) reports contain 

information on whether waters assessed 

by a state meet the state’s water quality 

standards, and, when waters are 

impaired, the pollutants and potential 

sources affecting water quality. This 

information helps State’s and the public 

track progress in addressing water 

pollution. Section 303(d) of the Clean 

Water Act requires States to identify and 


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rank waters that cannot meet water 

quality standards (WQS) following the 

implementation of technology-based 

controls. Under Section 303(d), States 

are also required to establish total 

maximum daily loads (TMDLs) for 

listed waters not meeting standards 

because of pollutant discharges. In 

developing the Section 303(d) lists, 

States are required to consider various 

sources of water quality related data and 

information, including the Section 

305(b) State water quality reports. 

Section 106(e) requires that states 

annually update monitoring data and 

use it in their Section 305(b) report. 

Section 314(a) requires states to report 

on the condition of their publicly 

owned lakes within the Section 305(b) 

report. 

Pursuant to the Clean Water Act and 

its implementing regulations, EPA’s 

WRAPD works with its Regional 

counterparts to review and approve or 

disapprove State Section 303(d) lists 

and TMDLs from 56 respondents (the 50 

States, the District of Columbia, and the 

five Territories). Section 303(d) 

specifically requires States to develop 

lists and TMDLs, and EPA is to review 

and approve or disapprove the lists and 

the TMDLs. EPA also collects State 

305(b) reports from 59 respondents (the 

50 States, the District of Columbia, five 

Territories, and 3 River Basin 

Commissions). 

Tribes are not required to submit 

Section 305(b) reports. However, to 

meet the needs of Tribes at all levels of 

development, EPA has prepared 

guidance that presents the basic steps a 

Tribe should take to collect the water 

quality information it needs to make 

effective decisions about its program, its 

goals and its future directions. Tribal 

water quality monitoring and reporting 

activities are covered under the Section 

106 Tribal Grants Program and are not 

included in the burden estimates for 

this ICR. In addition, ICR number 

2553.02 ‘‘Treatment of Indian Tribes in 

a Similar Manner as States for Purposes 

of Section 303(d) of the Clean Water Act 

(Final Rule)’’ addresses the Tribes’ CWA 

Section 303(d) Impaired Water Listing 

and TMDL TAS application and 303(d) 

Program implementation burden, as 

well as EPA’s burden for reviewing the 

Tribes’ applications and 303(d) Program 

submittals. 

During the period covered by this ICR 

renewal, respondents will: Complete 

their 2020 Section 305(b) reports and 

2020 Section 303(d) lists; complete their 

2022 Section 305(b) reports and 2022 

Section 303(d) lists; transmit annual 

electronic updates of ambient 

monitoring data via the Water Quality 

Exchange; and continue to develop 

TMDLs according to their established 

schedules. EPA will prepare biennial 

updates on assessed and impaired 

waters for Congress and the public for 

the 2020 reporting cycle and for the 

2022 cycle, and EPA will review 303(d) 

list and TMDL submissions from 

respondents. 

The burdens of specific activities that 

States undertake as part of their Section 

305(b) and 303(d) programs are derived 

from a project among EPA, States and 

other interested stakeholders to develop 

a tool for estimating the States’ resource 

needs for State water quality 

management programs. This project has 

developed the State Water Quality 

Management Workload Model 

(SWQMWM), which estimates and sums 

the workload involved in more than one 

hundred activities or tasks comprising a 

State water quality management 

program. Over twenty States contributed 

information about their activities that 

became the basis for the model. 

According to the SWQMWM, to meet 

Section 305(b) and 303(d) reporting 

requirements the States will conduct: 

Watershed monitoring and 

characterization; modeling and analysis; 

development of Section 303(d) lists and 

TMDLs for public review; public 

outreach; formal public participation; 

tracking; planning; legal support; etc. In 

general, respondents have conducted 

each of these reporting and record 

keeping activities for past Section 305(b) 

and 303(d) reporting cycles and thus 

have staff and procedures in place to 

continue their Section 305(b) and 303(d) 

reporting programs. The burden 

associated with these tasks is estimated 

in this ICR to include the total number 

of TMDLs that may be submitted during 

the period covered by this ICR. 

Form numbers: None. 

Respondents/affected entities: Entities 

potentially affected by this action are 

States, Territories and Tribes with Clean 

Water Act (CWA) responsibilities. 

Respondent ’s obligation to respond: 

Mandatory: Integrated Water Quality 

Inventory Reports (Clean Water Act 

Sections 305(b), 303(d), 314(a), and 

106(e)). 

Estimated number of respondents: 59 

(total). 

Frequency of response: Biennial. 

Total estimated burden: 3,740,017 

(per year) hours. Burden is defined at 5 

CFR 1320.03(b). 

Total estimated cost: $214,524,738 

(per year), includes $0 annualized 

capital or operation & maintenance 

costs. 

Changes in estimates: There is no 

change of hours in the total estimated 

respondent burden compared with the 

ICR currently approved by OMB, 

published on March 1, 2016. EPA has 

completed phase 1 of the Water Quality’ 

Framework, which is a new way of 

integrating EPA’s data and information 

systems to more effectively support 

reporting and tracking water quality 

protection and restoration actions. 

Phase 1 streamlined water quality 

assessment and reporting by reducing 

transactions associated with paper copy 

reviews and increasing electronic data 

exchange. The system to support this 

new electronic reporting was released to 

support the 2018 reporting cycle in 

April of 2018. Because this is the first 

year that the new reporting method is 

being used, EPA will use this reporting 

cycle to gather information on reporting 

burden using this new approach. EPA 

expects the new approach will result in 

a reduction in reporting burden, but 

does not have enough information at 

this time to quantify the reduction. EPA 

will use the information collected on 

reporting burden from the 2018 cycle to 

revise the ICR burden estimates in the 

next iteration of this ICR. 

Dated: August 22, 2018. 

John Goodin, 

Acting Director, Office of Wetlands, Oceans, 

and Watersheds. 

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COMMISSION 

[OMB 3060–0349] 

Information Collection Being 

Submitted for Review and Approval to 

the Office of Management and Budget 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: As part of its continuing effort 

to reduce paperwork burdens, and as 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act (PRA) of 1995, the Federal 

Communications Commission (FCC or 

the Commission) invites the general 

public and other Federal agencies to 

take this opportunity to comment on the 

following information collection. 

Comments are requested concerning: 

Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

Commission, including whether the 

information shall have practical utility; 

the accuracy of the Commission’s 

burden estimate; ways to enhance the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information collected; ways to minimize 

the burden of the collection of 


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