Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 22 / Thursday, February 3, 2005 / Notices 5643

pending at OMB. This ICR describes the 

nature of the information collection and 

its estimated burden and cost.

DATES: Additional comments may be 

submitted on or before March 7, 2005.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing docket ID number OW–

2003–0017, to (1) EPA online using 

EDOCKET (our preferred method), by email to OW-Docket@epa.gov, or by mail 

to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental 

Protection Agency, Water Docket, MC 

4104T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20460, and (2) OMB at: 

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:

Robert E. Smith, Office of Ground Water 

and Drinking Water, Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460; 

telephone number: (202) 564–3895; fax 

number: (202) 564–3756; e-mail address: 

smith.robert-eu@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 October 25, 2004 (69 FR 62267), EPA 

sought comments on this ICR pursuant 

to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA has addressed 

the comments received. 

EPA has established a public docket 

for this ICR under Docket ID No. OW–

2003–0017, which is available for public 

viewing at the Water Docket in the EPA 

Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West, 

Room B102, 1301 Constitution Ave., 

NW., Washington, DC. The EPA Docket 

Center 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. An electronic 

version of the public docket is available 

through EPA Dockets (EDOCKET) at 

http://www.epa.gov/edocket. Use 

EDOCKET to submit or view public 

comments, access the index listing of 

the contents of the public docket, and to 

access those documents in the public 

docket that are available electronically. 

Once in the system, select ‘‘search,’’

then key in the docket ID number 

identified above. 

Any comments related to this ICR 

should be submitted to EPA and OMB 

within 30 days of this notice. EPA’s 

policy is that public comments, whether 

submitted electronically or in paper, 

will be made available for public 

viewing in EDOCKET as EPA receives 

them and without change, unless the 

comment contains copyrighted material, 

CBI, or other information whose public 

disclosure is restricted by statute. When 

EPA identifies a comment containing 

copyrighted material, EPA will provide 

a reference to that material in the 

version of the comment that is placed in 

EDOCKET. The entire printed comment, 

including the copyrighted material, will 

be available in the public docket. 

Although identified as an item in the 

official docket, information claimed as 

CBI, or whose disclosure is otherwise 

restricted by statute, is not included in 

the official public docket, and will not 

be available for public viewing in 

EDOCKET. For further information 

about the electronic docket, see EPA’s 

Federal Register notice describing the 

electronic docket at 67 FR 38102 (May 

31, 2002), or go to http://www.epa.gov/

edocket. 

Title: Underground Injection Control 

Program (Renewal). 

Abstract: The Underground Injection 

Control (UIC) Program under the Safe 

Drinking Water Act established a 

Federal and State regulatory system to 

protect underground sources of drinking 

water (USDWs) from contamination by 

injected fluids. Owners/operators of 

underground injection wells must 

obtain permits, conduct environmental 

monitoring, maintain records, and 

report results to EPA or the State UIC 

primacy agency. States must report to 

EPA on permittee compliance and 

related information. The mandatory 

information is reported using 

standardized forms, and the regulations 

are codified at 40 CFR parts 144 through 

148. The data are used to ensure the 

protection of USDWs from UIC 

authorities. 

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 40 

CFR are listed in 40 CFR part 9 and are 

identified on the form and/or 

instrument, if applicable. 

Burden Statement: The annual public 

reporting and recordkeeping burden for 

this collection of information is 

estimated to average 3 hours per 

response. 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; 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. 

Respondents/Affected Entities:

Entities potentially affected by this 

action are owners and operators of 

underground injection wells, state UIC 

primacy agencies, Puerto Rico, the U.S. 

Trust Territories, Indian Tribes, Alaska’s 

Native Villages and, in some instances, 

U.S. EPA Regional offices. 

Estimated Number of Respondents:

41,141. 

Frequency of Response: Varies. 

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:

1,334,054. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost:

$135,355,000, includes $89,415,000 

annualized capital or O&M costs and 

$45,941,000 annual labor costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is an 

increase of 242,109 hours in the total 

estimated annual burden currently 

identified in the OMB Inventory of 

Approved ICR Burdens. This increase is 

related to an expected increase in 

activities under the 1999 Class V Rule 

associated with regulatory deadlines for 

closure of large-capacity cesspools and 

closure/permitting of motor vehicle 

waste disposal wells that will occur 

during the clearance period. Also, this 

ICR burden reflects several adjustments 

in assumptions, including inventories of 

all well classes and changes to the 

number of responses or unit burdens for 

certain activities, based on recent 

consultations.

Dated: January 25, 2005. 

Oscar Morales, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division.

[FR Doc. 05–2064 Filed 2–2–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[OW–2004–0017; FRL–7868–1] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to OMB for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; Combined Sewer Overflow 

Control Policy (Renewal), EPA ICR 

Number 1680.04, OMB Control Number 

2040–0170

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

5644 Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 22 / Thursday, February 3, 2005 / Notices 

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. This ICR is scheduled to 

expire on January 31, 2005.

DATES: Additional comments may be 

submitted on or before March 7, 2005.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing docket ID number OW–

2004–0017, to (1) EPA online using 

EDOCKET (our preferred method), by email to OW-DOCKET@epa.gov, or by 

mail to: EPA Docket Center, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 

Water Docket, Mail Code 4101T, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460, and (2) OMB at: 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: Joel 

C. Wolf, Environmental Protection 

Agency, Water Permits Division, Mail 

Code 4203M, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., 

NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone 

number: 202–564–2228; fax number: 

202–564–6392; e-mail address: 

wolf.joel@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 August 12, 2004 (69 FR 49895), EPA 

sought comments on this ICR pursuant 

to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received one 

comment that did not address the 

renewal ICR in any way. No response 

was necessary. 

EPA has established a public docket 

for this ICR under Docket ID No. OW–

2004–0017, which is available for public 

viewing at the Water Docket in the EPA 

Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West, 

Room B102, 1301 Constitution Ave., 

NW., Washington, DC. The EPA Docket 

Center 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. An electronic 

version of the public docket is available 

through EPA Dockets (EDOCKET) at 

http://www.epa.gov/edocket. Use 

EDOCKET to submit or view public 

comments, access the index listing of 

the contents of the public docket, and to 

access those documents in the public 

docket that are available electronically. 

Once in the system, select ‘‘search,’’

then key in the docket ID number 

identified above. 

Any comments related to this ICR 

should be submitted to EPA and OMB 

within 30 days of this notice. EPA’s 

policy is that public comments, whether 

submitted electronically or in paper, 

will be made available for public 

viewing in EDOCKET as EPA receives 

them and without change, unless the 

comment contains copyrighted material, 

CBI, or other information whose public 

disclosure is restricted by statute. When 

EPA identifies a comment containing 

copyrighted material, EPA will provide 

a reference to that material in the 

version of the comment that is placed in 

EDOCKET. The entire printed comment, 

including the copyrighted material, will 

be available in the public docket. 

Although identified as an item in the 

official docket, information claimed as 

CBI, or whose disclosure is otherwise 

restricted by statute, is not included in 

the official public docket, and will not 

be available for public viewing in 

EDOCKET. For further information 

about the electronic docket, see EPA’s 

Federal Register notice describing the 

electronic docket at 67 FR 38102 (May 

31, 2002), or go to http://www.epa.gov/

edocket. 

Title: Combined Sewer Overflow 

Control Policy (Renewal). 

Abstract: The information to be 

collected under this request is the 

information recommended in the CSO 

Control Policy that will be developed by 

municipalities with combined sewer 

systems that have combined sewer 

overflows (CSOs). Specifically, the 

information is the documentation that 

the municipalities have implemented 

the nine minimum controls specified in 

the CSO policy, the long-term control 

plan that the municipalities must 

develop and implement to achieve 

compliance with the requirements of the 

Clean Water Act and applicable state 

water quality standards (WQS), and 

compliance monitoring data for 

demonstrating compliance with 

applicable WQS and National Pollutant 

Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) 

permit conditions. The first two 

information submittals are one-time 

submittals; the last element will be 

submitted semi-annually as part of the 

municipalities’ Discharge Monitoring 

Reports (DMRs). EPA will use this 

information to determine how well the 

CSO Control Policy is being 

implemented at the state and local level 

and to prepare the performance reports 

required under the Government 

Performance and Results Act (GPRA). 

The information to be collected under 

this information collection is necessary 

to determine the program’s achievement 

of GPRA performance measures. 

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 40 

CFR are listed in 40 CFR part 9 and are 

identified on the form and/or 

instrument, if applicable. 

Burden Statement: The annual public 

reporting and recordkeeping burden for 

this collection of information is 

estimated to average 515 hours per 

response. 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; 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. 

Respondents/Affected Entities:

municipalities with combined sewer 

systems. 

Estimated Number of Respondents:

776. 

Frequency of Response: One-time for 

selected items; semi-annually for others. 

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:

400,542. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost:

$14,715,366, which includes $155,664 

in Capital Expense, $0 in O&M costs, 

and $14,559,702 in Respondent Labor 

Costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is a 

decrease of 179,502 hours in the total 

estimated burden currently identified in 

the OMB Inventory of Approved ICR 

Burdens. This decrease reflects a 

decrease in the number of communities 

needing to come into compliance with 

the CSO Policy. Some CSO communities 

have already completed some of the 

requirements. Additionally, this change 

in the burden is the result of data and 

information collected from EPA Regions 

and conversations with EPA Regional 

and state CSO program staff during 

preparation of EPA’s Report to Congress 

on Impacts and Control of CSOs and 

SSOs.

Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 22 / Thursday, February 3, 2005 / Notices 5645

Dated: January 25, 2005. 

Oscar Morales, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division.

[FR Doc. 05–2065 Filed 2–2–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[OECA–2004–0040; FRL–7868–2] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission for OMB Review 

and Approval; Comment Request; 

NSPS for Municipal Waste Combustors 

(Renewal), ICR Number 1506.10, OMB 

Number 2060–0210

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act, 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. This ICR is scheduled to 

expire on April 30, 2005. Under OMB 

regulations, the Agency may continue to 

conduct or sponsor the collection of 

information while this submission is 

pending at OMB. This ICR describes the 

nature of the information collection and 

its estimated burden and cost.

DATES: Additional comments may be 

submitted on or before March 7, 2005.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing docket ID number OECA–

2004–0040, to (1) EPA online using 

EDOCKET (our preferred method), by email to docket.oeca@epa.gov, or by mail 

to: Environmental Protection Agency, 

EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), 

Enforcement and Compliance Docket 

and Information Center, Mail Code 

2201T, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, 

NW., Washington, DC 20460, and (2) 

OMB at: 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:

Learia Williams, Compliance 

Assessment and Media Programs 

Division, Office of Compliance, (Mail 

Code 2223A), Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, 

NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone 

number: (202) 564–4113; fax number: 

(202) 564–0050; e-mail address: 

williams.learia@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 September 14, 2004 (69 FR 55430) 

EPA sought comments on this ICR 

pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA 

received no comments. 

EPA has established a public docket 

for this ICR under Docket ID No. OECA–

2004–0040, which is available for public 

viewing at the Enforcement and 

Compliance Docket and Information 

Center in the EPA Docket Center (EPA/

DC), EPA West, Room B102, 1301 

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, 

DC. The EPA Docket Center 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 Enforcement and Compliance 

Docket and Information Center Docket 

is: (202) 566–1752. An electronic 

version of the public docket is available 

through EPA Dockets (EDOCKET) at 

http://www.epa.gov/edocket. Use 

EDOCKET to submit or view public 

comments, access the index listing of 

the contents of the public docket, and to 

access those documents in the public 

docket that are available electronically. 

When in the system, select ‘‘search,’’

then key in the docket ID number 

identified above. 

Any comments related to this ICR 

should be submitted to EPA and OMB 

within 30 days of this notice. EPA’s 

policy is that public comments, whether 

submitted electronically or in paper, 

will be made available for public 

viewing in EDOCKET 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. When 

EPA identifies a comment containing 

copyrighted material, EPA will provide 

a reference to that material in the 

version of the comment that is placed in 

EDOCKET. The entire printed comment, 

including the copyrighted material, will 

be available in the public docket. 

Although identified as an item in the 

official docket, information claimed as 

CBI, or whose disclosure is otherwise 

restricted by statute, is not included in 

the official public docket, and will not 

be available for public viewing in 

EDOCKET. For further information 

about the electronic docket, see EPA’s 

Federal Register notice describing the 

electronic docket at 67 FR 38102 (May 

31, 2002), or go to http://www.epa.gov/

edocket. 

Title: NSPS for Municipal Waste 

Combustors (40 CFR part 60, subparts 

Ea and Eb) (Renewal) 

Abstract: The New Source 

Performance Standards (NSPS) for 

subparts Ea and Eb were proposed on 

December 20, 1980, and September 20, 

1994 respectively, and promulgated on 

February 11, 1991 and December 19, 

1995, respectively. Both of these 

standards apply to municipal waste 

combustors with unit capacities greater 

than 225 megagrams per day. Owners or 

operators of the affected facilities must 

make one-time-only notifications and 

reports and must keep records of all 

facilities subject to NSPS requirements. 

Owners or operators are also required to 

maintain records of the occurrence and 

duration of any startup, shutdown, or 

malfunction in the operation of an 

affected facility, or any period during 

which the monitoring system is 

inoperative. The pollutants of concern 

for subpart Ea are metals, municipal 

waste combustor (MWC) organics, MWC 

acid gases, and nitrogen oxides. In 

subpart Eb the additional pollutants of 

concern are cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb), 

and mercury (Hg). Subparts Ea and Eb 

require owners and operators with unit 

capacity above 225 megagrams per day 

to notify the agency of intent to 

construct and initiate operation of a 

new, modified or reconstructed MWC. 

The notification must contain 

supporting information regarding unit 

design capacity, the calculations used to 

determine capacity, and estimated 

startup dates. 

Owners and operators must submit 

semiannual and annual compliance 

reports. In addition, facilities subject to 

subpart Eb are required to keep records 

of the weekly amount of carbon used for 

activated carbon injection and to 

calculate the estimated hourly carbon 

injection rate for hours of operation as 

a means of determining continuous 

compliance for Hg. Annual reports of 

excess emissions are required under 

subpart Ea, while semiannual reports of 

excess emissions are required under 

subpart Eb. These notifications, reports, 

and records are essential in determining 

compliance and are required, in general, 

of all sources subject to the standard. 

Any owner or operator subject to 

subpart Ea will maintain a file of these 

measurements, and retain the file for at 

least two years. For those facilities 

subject to subpart Eb all records are 

required to be maintained at the source 

for a period of five years. 

Notifications are used to inform the 

Agency or delegated authority when a 

source becomes subject to the standard. 

The reviewing authority may then 

inspect the source to check if the