Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 248 / Thursday, December 28, 2023 / Notices 89689 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OW–2017–0300; FRL–11639–01– 

OMS] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget for Review 

and Approval; Comment Request; 

Lead and Copper Rule Revisions 

(LCRR) (Renewal) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted 

an information collection request (ICR), 

Lead and Copper Rule Revisions 

(LCRR)’’ (EPA ICR Number 2606.03, 

OMB Control Number 2040–0297) to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and approval in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act. This is a proposed 

extension of the LCRR ICR, which is 

currently approved through December 

31, 2023. Public comments were 

previously requested via the Federal 

Register on July 24, 2023, during a 60- 

day comment period. This notice allows 

for an additional 30 days for public 

comments. 

DATES: Additional comments may be 

submitted on or before January 29, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing Docket ID Number EPA– 

HQ–OW–2017–0300, to EPA online 

using www.regulations.gov (our 

preferred method) 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. 

Submit written comments and 

recommendations to OMB for the 

proposed information collection within 

30 days of publication of this notice to 

www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. 

Find this particular information 

collection by selecting ‘‘Currently under 

30-day Review—Open for Public 

Comments’’ or by using the search 

function. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Amina Grant, Office of Water, Mail 

Code 4607M, Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, 

Washington, DC 20460; telephone 

number: 202–564–7683; email address: 

Grant.Amina@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a 

proposed extension of the LCRR ICR, 

which is currently approved through 

December 31, 2023. 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. 

Public comments were previously 

requested via the Federal Register on 

July 24, 2023, during a 60-day comment 

period (88 FR 47496). This notice allows 

for an additional 30 days for public 

comments. Supporting documents, 

which explain in detail the information 

that 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: This ICR renewal 

characterizes the incremental impacts of 

the LCRR regarding burden and costs for 

the three-year period of January 1, 2024, 

through December 31, 2026. In addition 

to renewing the LCRR ICR, this request 

includes information on potential 

burden that may result if respondents 

follow recommendations included in 

EPA’s SL Inventory Guidance when 

seeking to comply with LCRR inventory 

requirements over the same three-year 

period. 

EPA intends to revise the LCRR prior 

to its compliance date. The proposed 

Lead and Copper Rule Improvements 

(LCRI) was published on December 6, 

2023 (88 FR 84878), and EPA intends to 

promulgate the final LCRI by October 

16, 2024, revising many rule areas of the 

LCRR. Additional information on the 

potential burden established in the 

proposal preamble may result from 

respondents following EPA’s 

recommendations in the ‘‘Guidance for 

Developing and Maintaining a Service 

Line Inventory’’ (August 2022, EPA 

816–B–22–001) (referred to as SL 

Inventory Guidance) when seeking to 

comply with the requirements of the 

LCRR. If the LCRI is promulgated as 

planned, there would be no need for 

water systems to implement the LCRR 

except for the initial inventory 

requirements, public education 

requirements for consumers served by a 

lead, galvanized requiring replacement, 

or unknown service line, and the 24- 

hour public notice requirement. 

Similarly, states are not expected to 

apply for or obtain primacy for the 

LCRR. Currently, most states have 

sought, or intend to seek, an extension 

until December 18, 2025, to obtain 

primacy for the LCRR. If the LCRI is 

promulgated as planned in 2024, that 

primacy deadline would no longer be 

applicable. For the purposes of this ICR, 

however, this notice includes the 

estimated burden and costs associated 

with this ICR renewal for the LCRR as 

well as describes what would happen 

without promulgation of the LCRI. It is 

provided for the reader to understand 

the information that would be collected 

if the LCRI is not promulgated. When 

EPA promulgates the LCRI, the Agency 

intends to issue a new ICR that would 

describe and assess the revised burden 

and costs to reflect the changed 

regulatory requirements of the LCRI. 

Form Numbers: None. 

Respondents/affected entities: 

Respondents include owners/operators 

of PWSs and primacy agencies (and the 

EPA Regions with primary agency 

responsibility). 

Respondent’s obligation to respond: 

Both mandatory (LCRR requirements) 

and voluntary (SL Inventory Guidance) 

components. 

Estimated number of respondents: 

The number of respondents is 67,712. 

Frequency of response: Once and 

annually, varies by activity. 

Total estimated burden: 9,660,286 

hours (per year). Burden is defined at 5 

CFR 1320.03(b). 

Total estimated cost: 

$641,162,423(per year), which includes 

$225,456,799 annualized capital or 

operation & maintenance costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is an 

increase of 8,530,946 hours in the total 

estimated respondent burden compared 

with the ICR currently approved by 

OMB. This increase is primarily due to 

the differing ICR burden estimation 

windows. The previous ICR covered the 

first three years after the promulgation 

of the LCRR when PWSs and primacy 

agencies could have been engaged in the 

regulatory startup/implementation 

activities identified in the currently 

approved ICR. This ICR renewal covers 

these same activities from the current 

ICR for only the first year of the renewal 

period (2024). In the next two years 

covered by the ICR renewal (2025 and 

2026), if the LCRI is not promulgated as 

planned in 2024, both systems and 

primacy agencies would work to 


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implement several ongoing, additional 

LCRR requirements. 

Courtney Kerwin, 

Director, Information Engagement Division. 

[FR Doc. 2023–28641 Filed 12–27–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OLEM–2023–0244, FRL–11642– 

01–OMS] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget for Review 

and Approval; Comment Request; 

Disposal of Coal Combustion 

Residuals From Electric Utilities 

(Renewal) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) has submitted an 

information collection request (ICR), 

Disposal of Coal Combustion Residuals 

from Electric Utilities, EPA ICR Number 

2609.03, OMB Control Number 2050– 

0223 to the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) for review and approval 

in accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act. This is a proposed 

extension of the ICR, which is currently 

approved through December 31, 2023. 

Public comments were previously 

requested via the Federal Register on 

May 1, 2023 during a 60-day comment 

period. 

DATES: Additional comments may be 

submitted on or before January 29, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OLEM–2023–0244 to EPA either online 

using www.regulations.gov (our 

preferred method) 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. 

Submit written comments and 

recommendations to OMB for the 

proposed information collection within 

30 days of publication of this notice to 

www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. 

Find this particular information 

collection by selecting ‘‘Currently under 

30-day Review—Open for Public 

Comments’’ or by using the search 

function. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Peggy Vyas, Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, 

Washington, DC 20460; telephone 

number: 202–566–0453; vyas.peggy@

epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a 

proposed extension of the ICR, which is 

currently approved through December 

31, 2023. 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. 

Public comments were previously 

requested via the Federal Register on 

May 1, 2023 during a 60-day comment 

period (88 FR 26537). This notice allows 

for an additional 30 days for public 

comments. 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 EPA published a final 

rule to regulate the disposal of coal 

combustion residuals (CCR) from 

electric utilities as solid waste under 

RCRA Subtitle D (see 80 FR 21302, 

April 17, 2015). EPA established 

national minimum criteria for existing 

and new CCR landfills and CCR surface 

impoundments and all lateral 

expansions to include location 

restrictions, design and operating 

criteria, groundwater monitoring and 

corrective action, closure requirements 

and post-closure care, and 

recordkeeping, notification, and internet 

posting requirements. Since the final 

rule, several court decisions have 

required accelerated closure timelines 

for many units and forced closures for 

many units previously categorized as 

lined. In 2020, EPA published the 

‘‘Hazardous and Solid Waste 

Management System: Disposal of CCR; 

A Holistic Approach to Closure Part B: 

Alternate Demonstration for Unlined 

Surface Impoundments Rule’’ which 

allows for units to receive variances for 

unlined surface impoundments (see 85 

FR 72506, November 12, 2020). This ICR 

includes the voluntary action that states 

may take to obtain permit program 

approval. With this renewal, this ICR 

also incorporates the burden currently 

covered by OMB Control No. 2050– 

0053. 

Form Numbers: None. 

Respondents/affected entities: Entities 

potentially affected by this action are 

the private sector, as well as State, 

Local, or Tribal Governments. 

Respondent’s obligation to respond: 

Mandatory under section 4010(c) and 

3001(d)(4) of the Resource Conservation 

and Recovery Act (RCRA) of 1976. 

Estimated number of respondents: 

744 (21 states and 723 new and existing 

facilities). 

Frequency of response: On occasion. 

Total estimated burden: 173,083 

hours (per year). Burden is defined at 5 

CFR 1320.03(b). 

Total estimated cost: $26,168,233 per 

year, includes $15,511,426 annualized 

capital or operation & maintenance 

costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is an 

increase of 170,904 hours in the total 

estimated respondent burden compared 

with the ICR currently approved by 

OMB. This increase is mainly a result of 

having incorporated the burden 

associated with the information 

collection requirements related to the 

disposal of CCR from existing ICR 2050– 

0053 into this ICR. 

Courtney Kerwin, 

Director, Information Engagement Division. 

[FR Doc. 2023–28639 Filed 12–27–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

[OMB 3060–1214; FR ID 192754] 

Information Collection Being Reviewed 

by the Federal Communications 

Commission 

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 


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