61812 Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 206 / Wednesday, October 26, 2005 / Notices 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[ORD–2005–0003; FRL–7988–9] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to OMB for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; Market-Based Stormwater 

Management in the Shepherd Creek 

Watershed in Cincinnati, OH, EPA ICR 

Number 2178.01 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

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 

for a new collection. This ICR describes 

the nature of the information collection 

and its estimated burden and cost. 

DATES: Additional comments may be 

submitted on or before November 25, 

2005. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing docket ID number ORD–

2005–0003, to (1) EPA online using 

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

to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental 

Protection Agency, ORD Docket, Mail 

Code 28221T, 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: Hale 

W. Thurston, ORD, NRMRL, Mail Code 

499, 26 W. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, 

Cincinnati, OH, 45268; telephone 

number: 513.569.7627; fax number: 

513.487.2511; e-mail address: 

thurston.hale@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 Wednesday, July 13, 2005 (70 FR 

40329), 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. ORD–

2005–0003, which is available for public 

viewing at the ORD 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 ORD 

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. 

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: Market-based Stormwater 

Management in the Shepherd Creek 

Watershed in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

Abstract: The Sustainable Technology 

Division (STD) of the National Risk 

Management Research Laboratory 

(NRMRL) in the Office of Research and 

Development (ORD) of the U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 

is proposing to conduct a survey of 

individual property owners in the 

Shepherd Creek watershed in 

Cincinnati, OH. The survey will elicit 

how residents value the voluntary 

adoption of on-site best management 

practices as part of a comprehensive 

stormwater runoff control policy. The 

focus will be on estimating the 

minimum payment required to induce 

individual landowners to devote a 

portion of their property to runoff 

reducing best management practices. 

This data collection is motivated by 

the current stormwater related problems 

within the United States in general, and 

in the greater Cincinnati metropolitan 

area in particular. Urban and suburban 

development changes the natural 

landscape making it more impervious to 

rain and snow. The resulting stormwater 

runoff is one of the most significant 

contributors to water quality 

degradation in the United States 

through larger and more frequent floods, 

increased erosion of stream beds and 

banks, disruption of natural habitat in 

receiving waters, and increased 

pollution loadings of metals, toxics, and 

nutrients. Precipitation falls over large 

geographic areas, and the resulting 

runoff will flow across a myriad of 

parcels with varying land uses, which 

are, in turn, under the control of 

numerous property owners. Perhaps in 

reaction to these conditions, stormwater 

control policies have concentrated on 

solutions that build centralized capacity 

to direct and hold excess runoff within 

the storm sewer system. An alternative 

approach to stormwater control would 

be to develop a decentralized approach 

that disperses runoff detention 

throughout the watershed, thus 

reducing runoff before it reaches the 

sewer system. This approach promises 

both hydrological benefits of reducing 

the in-stream damages that will 

continue to occur in a centralized 

system, as well as potential cost-savings 

in terms of meeting environmental 

quality standards. 

Although the installation, operation, 

and maintenance costs for best 

management practices are relatively 

well known, these are only a portion of 

the total costs of adoption. The 

opportunity costs (e.g.: the costs of 

partial loss of use of property) 

associated with BMP adoption are 

privately held by individual 

landowners, and can potentially 

comprise the largest share of total 

abatement adoption costs. To better 

understand the economic potential of a 

voluntary and decentralized runoff 

control program, it is necessary to assess 

the opportunity costs associated with 

best management practice adoption. The 

proposed survey provides a means of 

gathering this information. It also asks 

10–12 non-invasive demographic 

questions. 

The survey will be conducted using 

six (6) groups of ten (10) residential 

landowners from the Shepherd Creek 

watershed. Participation will be 

completely voluntary. Residents who 

wish to participate in the study will be 

identified and recruited through a 

liaison from the Hamilton County Soil 

and Water Conservation District, who is 

Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 206 / Wednesday, October 26, 2005 / Notices 61813 

familiar with the community. The 

survey will be conducted using a 

computer simulated nonuniform-price, 

sequential auction for the procurement 

of best management practices. 

Participants will be presented with a 

selection of best management practices 

that are feasible for use on their actual 

parcel. Information regarding how each 

BMP will perform on their specific 

parcel, as well as the installation, 

operation, and maintenance costs will 

be provided. The auction is designed to 

compensate residents for their costs of 

adopting best management practices on 

their property. Participants who wish to 

adopt BMPs will submit bids that 

consist of the size and type of the BMPs 

and the minimum compensation that 

they require. The goal is to pay those 

landowners who adopt the most 

effective best management practices at 

the lowest price. Survey results will 

then be used to estimate the minimum 

payments required to achieve control 

stormwater runoff through on-site best 

management practices. Data will be 

stored on U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency computer files that protect 

respondent confidentiality. Summary 

results will be made available 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. 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 2 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: 

Homeowners in the Shepherd Creek 

Area of Cincinnati, OH. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

60. 

Frequency of Response: On Occasion. 

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 

120. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost: $3,000, 

includes $0 annualized capital or O&M 

costs. 

Dated: October 19, 2005. 

Sara Hisel McCoy, 

Acting Director, Collection Strategies 

Division. 

[FR Doc. 05–21373 Filed 10–25–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[OW–2004–0038; FRL–7989–1] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to OMB for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; Survey of Airport Deicing 

Operations, EPA ICR Number 2171.01 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

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 

for a new collection. This ICR describes 

the nature of the information collection 

and its estimated burden and cost. 

DATES: Additional comments may be 

submitted on or before November 25, 

2005. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing docket ID number OW–

2004–0038, 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, EPA 

West, 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: Eric 

Strassler, Engineering & Analysis 

Division, Office of Water, Mail Code 

4303T, Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20460; telephone 

number: (202) 566–1026; fax number: 

(202) 566–1053; e-mail address: 

strassler.eric@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 March 17, 2005 (70 FR 13025), EPA 

sought comments on this ICR pursuant 

to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA has addressed 

the comments received in the 

supporting statement of this ICR. 

EPA has established a public docket 

for this ICR under Docket ID No. OW–

2004–0038, 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: Survey of Airport Deicing 

Operations. 

Abstract: EPA is developing 

wastewater discharge standards, called 

‘‘effluent guidelines,’’ for airports