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application of uniform guidelines and 

validation techniques. 

For CWNS 2012, EPA is offering 

States two options for participating: (1) 

The Traditional Method and (2) the Gap 

Approach Option. The Gap Approach 

Option enables a State to 

comprehensively assess at the State 

level, for various facility size groupings, 

wastewater facility revenues and capital 

and operation maintenance (O&M) 

expenses over 20 years. This 

comprehensive facility economic 

analysis supports State and EPA 

sustainable infrastructure programs. The 

Traditional Method enables States to 

assess the capital needs for each facility 

within the state. This spatially 

comprehensive assessment of capital 

needs, along with current and projected 

populations receiving various levels of 

wastewater treatment, supports holistic 

watershed management approaches. 

Under the ‘‘Traditional Method’’ of 

documenting water pollution control 

needs, states submit capital needs for all 

facilities in the state: 

• Wastewater Treatment Plants. 

• Separate Sewer Systems. 

• Combined Sewer Systems. 

• Stormwater Management. 

• Decentralized Wastewater 

Treatment. 

• Nonpoint Source (NPS) Control. 

For each need, states submit one or 

more supporting documents (Facility 

Plan, Engineer’s Estimate, etc.). Revenue 

and operation and maintenance (O&M) 

needs data are not collected in the 

Traditional Method. 

Under the ‘‘Gap Approach’’ to 

documenting water pollution control 

needs, states submit capital & O&M 

needs and revenues for a sample of 

these facilities: 

• Wastewater Treatment Plants. 

• Separate Sewer Systems. 

• Combined Sewer Systems. 

For these sampled facilities, revenues 

are submitted and asset condition 

analysis data is used to estimate capital 

and O&M needs. Results from the 

sample set of facilities are extrapolated 

to provide State level estimates at ±25% 

accuracy. Average sample rates are: 

• 10–25% for facilities serving less 

than 10,000 people. 

• 30–60% for facilities serving 

between 10,000 and 100,000 people. 

• 100% (census survey) for the largest 

3% of facilities in each state. 

EPA is interested in comments and 

information on an alternate sample 

design that would provide state level 

estimates at ±10% accuracy. Under this 

alternative, average sample rates would 

be: 

• 15–45% for facilities serving less 

than 10,000 people. 

• 35–80% for facilities serving 

between 10,000 and 100,000 people. 

• 100% (census survey) for the largest 

3% of facilities in each state. 

Since in CWNS the Gap Approach is 

only applicable to Wastewater 

Treatment Plants, Separate Sewer 

Systems, and Combined Sewer Systems, 

States selecting the Gap Approach will 

use the Traditional Method for all other 

facilities (Stormwater Management, 

Decentralized Wastewater Treatment, 

NPS Control). 

Burden Statement: The annual public 

reporting and recordkeeping burden for 

this collection of information is 

estimated to average 1.55 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 which have subsequently 

changed; 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. 

The ICR provides a detailed 

explanation of the Agency’s estimate, 

which is only briefly summarized here: 

Frequency of response: Every 4 years. 

Estimated total number of potential 

respondents: 56 States (States, District 

of Columbia, U.S. Territories) and 5,122 

Local Facilities. 

Estimated total average number of 

responses for each State respondent: 

271. 

Estimated total annual State burden 

hours: 7,053. 

Estimated total average number of 

responses for each Local Facility 

respondent: 5,122. 

Estimated total annual Local Facility 

burden hours: 2,031. 

Estimated total annual costs: 

$284,372 for States and $85,666 for 

Local Facilities. These costs are all 

capital costs, there are no maintenance 

and operational costs. 

Are there changes in the estimates from 

the last approval? 

There is an increase of 277 hours in 

the total estimated respondent burden 

compared with that identified in the ICR 

currently approved by OMB. The 277 

hour increase is the net result of a 

decrease of 182 State burden hours 

combined with an increase of 459 hours 

in Local Facility burden hours. These 

changes are estimated impacts of 10 

States selecting the Gap Approach 

Option. In this option, total state effort 

is projected to decrease slightly due to 

the sampling design (the greater State 

effort per facility is slightly more than 

offset by entering data for a sampled 

portion of facilities rather than for all 

facilities). For Local Facilities, the 

projected increased burden results from 

the extra per facility effort being slightly 

more than the burden saved by 

switching from a census to a sampling 

approach. 

What is the next step in the process for 

this ICR? 

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 pursuant to 5 CFR 

1320.12. At that time, EPA will issue 

another Federal Register notice 

pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.5(a)(1)(iv) to 

announce the submission of the ICR to 

OMB and the opportunity to submit 

additional comments to OMB. If you 

have any questions about this ICR or the 

approval process, please contact the 

technical person listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. 

Dated: May 20, 2010. 

Sheila E. Frace, 

Acting Director, Office of Wastewater 

Management. 

[FR Doc. 2010–12651 Filed 5–25–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9154–9] 

National Advisory Council for 

Environmental Policy and Technology 

Notice of Charter Renewal 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of Charter Renewal. 

Notice is hereby given that the 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 

has determined that, in accordance with 

the provisions of the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (FACA), 5 U.S.C. App.2, 

the National Advisory Council for 

Environmental Policy and Technology 

(NACEPT) is a necessary committee 

which is in the public interest. 

Accordingly, NACEPT will be renewed 

for an additional two-year period. The 

purpose of NACEPT is to provide advice 

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Administrator of EPA on a broad range 

of environmental policy, technology and 

management issues. Inquiries may be 

directed to Sonia Altieri, U.S. EPA, 

(Mail Code 1601M), 1200 Pennsylvania 

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460, 

telephone (202) 564–0243, or 

altieri.sonia@epa.gov. 

Dated: May 20, 2010. 

Rafael DeLeon, 

Director, Office of Cooperative Environmental 

Management. 

[FR Doc. 2010–12650 Filed 5–25–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2010–0434; FRL–8826–6] 

Inorganic Nitrates–Nitrite, Carbon and 

Carbon Dioxide, and Sulfur 

Registration Review; Draft Ecological 

Risk Assessment and Endangered 

Species Effects Determination; Notice 

of Availability 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

availability of EPA’s draft ecological risk 

assessment for the registration review of 

inorganic nitrates – nitrites, carbon and 

carbon dioxide, and gas cartridge uses of 

sulfur, and opens a public comment 

period on this document. Comments 

and input may address, among other 

things, the Agency’s risk assessment 

methodologies and assumptions, as 

applied to this draft risk assessment. 

Interested parties may also provide 

suggestions for mitigation of the risk 

identified in the draft ecological risk 

assessment. As part of the registration 

review process, the Agency has 

completed a comprehensive draft 

ecological risk assessment, including an 

endangered species assessment that 

identifies those species for which 

exposure and effects may occur for all 

inorganic nitrates–nitrites, carbon and 

carbon dioxide uses, as well as gas 

cartridge uses of sulfur. The risk 

assessment includes a species specific 

analysis and effects determination on 3 

of 11 species found in the San Francisco 

Bay area that are listed as endangered or 

threatened under the Endangered 

Species Act (ESA). Concurrent with this 

public comment opportunity, EPA is 

initiating informal consultation with the 

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. After 

reviewing comments received during 

this public comment period, EPA will 

issue a revised risk assessment, explain 

any changes to the draft risk assessment, 

and respond to comments. The Agency 

may request further public input on risk 

mitigation before developing a proposed 

registration review decision for 

inorganic nitrates – nitrites, carbon and 

carbon dioxide, and sulfur. After a 

revised risk assessment is completed, 

EPA will also initiate further 

consultation, as needed, when 

appropriate, with the U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service regarding potential 

risks to federally listed threatened or 

endangered species and their designated 

critical habitat. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before July 26, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: The mailing address for 

each Chemical Review Manager listed in 

the table in Unit II. is: Pesticide Reevaluation Division (7508P), Office of 

Pesticide Programs, Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460– 

0001. Submit your comments identified 

by the docket identification (ID) number 

for the specific pesticide of interest 

provided in the table in Unit II. by one 

of the methods listed below: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the on-line 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Mail: Office of Pesticide Programs 

(OPP) Regulatory Public Docket (7502P), 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460–0001. 

• Delivery: OPP Regulatory Public 

Docket (7502P), Environmental 

Protection Agency, Rm. S–4400, One 

Potomac Yard (South Bldg.), 2777 S. 

Crystal Dr., Arlington, VA. Deliveries 

are only accepted during the Docket 

Facility’s normal hours of operation 

(8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through 

Friday, excluding legal holidays). 

Special arrangements should be made 

for deliveries of boxed information. The 

Docket Facility telephone number is 

(703) 305–5805. 

Instructions: Direct your comments to 

the docket ID numbers listed in the table 

in Unit II. for the pesticides you are 

commenting on. EPA’s policy is that all 

comments received will be included in 

the docket without change and may be 

made available on-line at http:// 

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided, unless 

the comment includes information 

claimed to be Confidential Business 

Information (CBI) or other information 

whose disclosure is restricted by statute. 

Do not submit information that you 

consider to be CBI or otherwise 

protected through regulations.gov or email. The regulations.gov website is an 

‘‘anonymous access’’ system, which 

means EPA will not know your identity 

or contact information unless you 

provide it in the body of your comment. 

If you send an e-mail comment directly 

to EPA without going through 

regulations.gov, your e-mail address 

will be automatically captured and 

included as part of the comment that is 

placed in the docket and made available 

on the Internet. If you submit an 

electronic comment, EPA recommends 

that you include your name and other 

contact information in the body of your 

comment and with any disk or CD-ROM 

you submit. If EPA cannot read your 

comment due to technical difficulties 

and cannot contact you for clarification, 

EPA may not be able to consider your 

comment. Electronic files should avoid 

the use of special characters, any form 

of encryption, and be free of any defects 

or viruses. 

Docket: All documents in the docket 

are listed in the docket index available 

at http://www.regulations.gov. Although 

listed in the index, some information is 

not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other 

information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. Certain other 

material, such as copyrighted material, 

is not placed on the Internet and will be 

publicly available only in hard copy 

form. Publicly available docket 

materials are available either in the 

electronic docket at http:// 

www.regulations.gov, or, if only 

available in hard copy, at the OPP 

Regulatory Public Docket in Rm. S– 

4400, One Potomac Yard (South Bldg.), 

2777 S. Crystal Dr., Arlington, VA. The 

hours of operation of this Docket 

Facility are from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., 

Monday through Friday, excluding legal 

holidays. The Docket Facility telephone 

number is (703) 305–5805. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

pesticide specific information contact: 

The Chemical Review Manager 

identified in the table in Unit II. for the 

pesticide of interest. 

For general questions on the 

registration review program, contact: 

Kevin Costello, Pesticide Re-evaluation 

Division (7508P), Office of Pesticide 

Programs, Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20460–0001; telephone 

number: (703) 305–5026; fax number: 

(703) 308–8090; e-mail address: 

costello.kevin@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information 

A. Does this Action Apply to Me? 

This action is directed to the public 

in general, and may be of interest to a 

wide range of stakeholders including 

environmental, human health, farm 

worker, and agricultural advocates; the 


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