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of records will be required to provide 

adequate identification (e.g., driver’s 

license, military identification card, 

employee badge or identification card). 

Additional identity verification 

procedures may be required as 

warranted. Requests must meet the 

requirements of EPA’s Privacy Act 

regulations at 40 CFR part 16. 

CONTESTING RECORD PROCEDURES: 

Requests for correction or amendment 

must identify the record to be changed 

and the corrective action sought. 

Complete EPA Privacy Act procedures 

are described in EPA’s Privacy Act 

regulations at 40 CFR part 16. 

NOTIFICATION PROCEDURE: 

Any individual who wants to know 

whether the system of records contains 

a record about him or her should submit 

a written request to the EPA, Attn: 

Agency Privacy Officer, WJC West, 

MC2831T, 1301 Constitution Avenue, 

NW, Washington, DC 20460, privacy@

epa.gov. 

EXEMPTIONS PROMULGATED FOR THE SYSTEM: 

Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552a(k)(2), this 

system is exempt from the following 

provisions of the Privacy Act of 1974, 

subject to the limitations set forth in 5 

U.S.C. 552a(c)(3), (d), and (e)(1). 

HISTORY: 

79 FR 63622 (October 24, 2014)— 

Notice of a Modified System of Records. 

The purpose of that notice was to 

inform the public that the OGC/ECRCO 

(formerly known as the Title VI External 

Compliance Program) was amending the 

External Compliance Program 

Discrimination Complaint Files system 

of records. The system was amended to 

change the (1) system name; (2) the 

addresses of system locations and 

system managers; (3) categories of 

individuals covered by the system; (4) 

routine uses; and (5) storage, 

retrievability and safeguard 

requirements. 

Vaughn Noga, 

Senior Agency Official for Privacy. 

[FR Doc. 2021–16051 Filed 7–27–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OEI–2006–0037; FRL–8803–01– 

OMS] 

Information Collection Request 

Submitted to OMB for Review and 

Approval; Comment Request; 

Exchange Network Grants Progress 

Reports (Renewal) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is submitting an 

information collection request (ICR), 

Exchange Network Grants Progress 

Reports (EPA ICR Number 2207.08, 

OMB Control Number 2025–0006) 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 September 30, 2021. 

Public comments were previously 

requested via the Federal Register on 

February 23, 2021, during a 60-day 

comment period. This notice allows for 

an additional 30 days for public 

comments. A brief 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 August 27, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OEI–2006–0037, 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: 

Edward Mixon or Dipti Singh, 

Information Exchange Services Division, 

Office of Information Management, 

Office of Mission Support (2823T), 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 

20460; telephone number: 202–566– 

2142 or 202–566–0739 respectively; 

email address: mixon.edward@epa.gov 

or singh.dipti@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Supporting documents, which explain 

in detail the information that the EPA 

collected, 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: Under the U.S. EPA 

National Environmental Information 

Exchange Network (NEIEN) Grant 

Program, EPA collects information from 

the NEIEN grantees on assistance 

agreements that EPA has awarded. 

Specifically, for each project, EPA 

proposes to have grantees submit a 

Semi-Annual report on the progress and 

current status of each goal and output, 

completion dates for outputs, and any 

problems encountered. This information 

will help EPA ensure projects are on 

schedule to meet their goals and 

produce high quality environmental 

results. New grant award recipients will 

complete one Quality Assurance 

Reporting Form for each award. This 

form provides a simple means for grant 

recipients to describe how quality will 

be addressed throughout their projects 

and is derived from guidelines provided 

in the NEIEN 2021 Grant Solicitation 

Notice. In addition, the grantees will 

submit a Final Progress report within 90 

days of the grant period of performance 

end date. 

Form Numbers: 5300–26, 5300–27. 

Respondents/affected entities: State, 

tribal, and territorial environmental 

government offices. 

Respondent’s obligation to respond: 

Required to obtain or retain benefits (2 

CFR part 200 and 2 CFR part 1500). 

Estimated number of respondents: 

220 total per year. 

Frequency of response: Twice per year 

for the Semi-Annual Progress Report 

Form; once per grant for the Quality 

Assurance Reporting Form; and once for 

the Final Progress Report after close-out 

of the grant period of performance. 


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Total estimated burden: 508 hours 

(per year). Burden is defined at 5 CFR 

1320.03(b). 

Total estimated cost: $23,287.59 (per 

year), includes $0 annualized capital or 

operation & maintenance costs. 

Changes in Estimates: There is an 

increase of 228 hours in the total 

estimated respondent burden compared 

with the ICR currently approved by 

OMB. This slight increase in burden is 

due to the fact that this ICR takes into 

consideration the 59.4 hours of burden 

associated with the submission of Final 

Progress Reports which was mistakenly 

omitted from the previous ICR. In 

addition, the respondents indicated a 

slight increase in the burden associated 

with submission of the forms. This 

slight increase in the burden hours, 

compounded by the slight inflation in 

labor rates also explains an increase of 

$7,100.60 in total annual respondent 

costs for 2021. 

Courtney Kerwin, 

Director, Regulatory Support Division. 

[FR Doc. 2021–16088 Filed 7–27–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OW–2016–0404; FRL–8801–01– 

OMS] 

Information Collection Request 

Submitted to OMB for Review and 

Approval; Comment Request; National 

Study of Nutrient Removal and 

Secondary Technologies: Publicly 

Owned Treatment Works (POTW) 

Screener Questionnaire (Renewal) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) has submitted an 

information collection request (ICR), 

National Study of Nutrient Removal and 

Secondary Technologies: Publicly 

Owned Treatment Works (POTW) 

Screener Questionnaire (EPA ICR 

Number 2553.03, OMB Control Number 

2040–0294) 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 July 31, 

2021. Public comments were previously 

requested via the Federal Register on 

February 24, 2021 during a 60-day 

comment period. No comments were 

received. 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 August 27, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OW–2016–0404, 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: Dr. 

Paul Shriner, Engineering and Analysis 

Division (4303T), Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460; 

telephone number: 202–566–1076; 

email address: nutrient-removal-study@

epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Supporting documents are available in 

the public docket for this ICR that 

explain in detail the information that 

the EPA will be collecting. 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: Nutrient pollution remains 

the single greatest challenge to our 

Nation’s water quality and presents a 

growing threat to public health and 

local economies—contributing to toxic 

harmful algal blooms, contamination of 

drinking water sources, and costly 

impacts on recreation, tourism and 

fisheries. The National Study of 

Nutrient Removal and Secondary 

Technologies, when completed, will 

provide a rich database of nutrient 

removal performance at secondary 

treatment POTWs nationwide, and will 

help POTWs understand the range of 

nutrient removal performance and 

identify opportunities to optimize 

nutrient removals based on data from 

their peers. It will also serve as a major 

new resource for stakeholders to 

evaluate the most cost-effective 

approaches to nutrient reduction at the 

watershed scale. EPA’s Office of Water 

is collecting data to evaluate the 

nutrient removals and related 

technology performance of POTWs with 

conventional secondary treatment. Due 

to multiple delays, most notably 

postponements in fielding the screener 

questionnaire due to circumstances 

associated with the coronavirus 

(COVID–19) pandemic, EPA is 

proposing to renew the ICR for the 

screener questionnaire. 

The screener questionnaire is a onetime data collection that solicits basic 

facility identification, characterization, 

and technical information necessary to 

develop the future detailed 

questionnaire. Questions include those 

necessary to identify and stratify the 

universe of POTWs and, within that 

population, the secondary treatment 

POTWs not designed specifically to 

remove nitrogen and phosphorus. EPA 

would prepare a separate ICR for 

subsequent phases of the study. 

In this renewal EPA proposes three 

revisions to the currently approved 

screener questionnaire ICR and 

supporting statement. First, EPA has 

reduced the maximum number of 

respondents from 16,500 to 15,000 

reflecting survey responses already 

received as of October 30, 2020. Second, 

EPA has made minor clarifying edits to 

the survey questions such as providing 

additional examples of certain 

technology classifications. Third, EPA is 

revising the respondent burden 

estimates. The original average burden 

estimate assumed it would take one 

hour to complete the registration 

process and three hours to complete the 

full questionnaire. EPA reviewed start 

and end times associated with 

questionnaires submitted online and 

found that the average time to complete 

the long version of the online 

questionnaire was 1.1 hours and the 

time to complete the short version was 

26 minutes. EPA revised the average 

burden to 2.25 hours for the 

questionnaire and 15 minutes for 

registration (Questionnaire Section A) 

based on this information. EPA solicits 

comment on these proposed changes. A 

copy of the screener questionnaire is 

available at Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 


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