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currently identified in the OMB 

Inventory of Approved ICR Burdens. 

Apparent differences of less than 500 

hours are attributable to rounding; in 

previous years, hours were rounded to 

the nearest thousand; this ICR presents 

more exact figures. 

Dated: June 26, 2009. 

John Moses, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division. 

[FR Doc. E9–15691 Filed 7–1–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OECA–2009–0124; FRL–8925–5] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to OMB for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; Auto Body Compliance 

Assessment Pilot Project (New); EPA 

ICR No. 2344.01, OMB Control No. 

2020–NEW 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (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. The ICR, which is abstracted 

below, describes the nature of the 

information collection and its estimated 

burden and cost. 

DATES: Additional comments may be 

submitted on or before August 3, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing Docket ID No. EPA HQ– 

OECA–2009–0124, to (1) EPA online 

using www.regulations.gov (our 

preferred method), by e-mail to 

docket.oeca@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA 

Docket Center (EPA/DC), Environmental 

Protection Agency, Enforcement and 

Compliance Docket and Information 

Center, mail code 28221T, 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20460, and (2) OMB by 

mail to: 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: 

Kenneth Harmon, Office of Compliance, 

(2224A), Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20460; telephone 

number: (202) 564–7049; fax number: 

(202) 564–7083; e-mail address: 

harmon.kenneth@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 February 25, 2009 (74 FR 8534), EPA 

sought comments on this ICR pursuant 

to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received no 

comments. Any additional comments on 

this ICR should be submitted to EPA 

and OMB within 30 days of this notice. 

EPA has established a public docket 

for this ICR under Docket ID No. EPA– 

HQ–OECA–2009–0124, which is 

available for online viewing at 

www.regulations.gov, or in person 

viewing at the OECA Docket in the EPA 

Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West, 

Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave., 

NW., Washington, DC. The EPA/DC 

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 OECA Docket is 202–566– 

1752. 

Use EPA’s electronic docket and 

comment system at 

www.regulations.gov, to submit or view 

public comments, access the index 

listing of the contents of the docket, and 

to access those documents in the docket 

that are available electronically. Once in 

the system, select ‘‘docket search,’’ then 

key in the docket ID number identified 

above. Please note that EPA’s policy is 

that public comments, whether 

submitted electronically or in paper, 

will be made available for public 

viewing at www.regulations.gov 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. For further 

information about the electronic docket, 

go to www.regulations.gov. 

Title: Auto Body Compliance 

Assessment Pilot Project (New). 

ICR Numbers: EPA ICR No. 2344.01, 

OMB Control No. 2020–NEW. 

ICR Status: This ICR is for a new 

information collection activity. 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 title 40 of the CFR, 

after appearing in the Federal Register 

when approved, are listed in 40 CFR 

part 9, are displayed either by 

publication in the Federal Register or 

by other appropriate means, such as on 

the related collection instrument or 

form, if applicable. The display of OMB 

control numbers in certain EPA 

regulations is consolidated in 40 CFR 

part 9. 

Abstract: The purpose of the ICR is 

two-fold. First, it is to authorize the 

collection of information as part of a 

pilot study undertaken by EPA to 

evaluate whether and how EPA’s 

specific compliance assistance activities 

in Region 1 helped owners or operators 

of auto body shops improve their 

operations. The ICR would authorize the 

administration of surveys, by telephone 

and on-site, to a random sample of auto 

body shops subject to National Emission 

Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: 

Paint Stripping and Miscellaneous 

Surface Coating Operations at Area 

Sources (NESHAP Subpart HHHHHH, 

hereinafter referred to as the Surface 

Coating Rule.). Specifically, the study 

has been designed to assess whether or 

not the assistance provided helped 

owners or operators understand these 

and other applicable environmental 

regulations, and whether or not the 

assistance helped owners or operators 

implement operational changes that 

improved environmental practices; 

including changes in behavior that 

resulted in the auto body shop either 

returning to compliance with 

regulations or taking steps toward 

achieving compliance. EPA has two 

objectives in collecting this information 

for the pilot study: (1) EPA’s primary 

objective is to assess the degree to 

which its compliance assistance 

activities can be correlated to improved 

environmental performance at auto 

body shops; (2) EPA’s secondary 

objective is to assess the validity of 

environmental performance information 

collected by telephone surveys. The 

Agency frequently relies on telephone 

surveys to gather information about 

environmental performance, but such 

self-reported data may not be accurate, 

and may suffer from non-response bias. 

The design for this study addresses both 

concerns. 

The second use for this ICR is to 

authorize the use of these surveys to 

collect anecdotal information as part of 

the Agency’s efforts to assess outcomes 

associated with the Office of Air Quality 

Planning and Standard’s Collision 

Repair Campaign (CRC). The CRC is a 

two-year campaign during which the 

EPA Headquarters Office of Air Quality 

Planning and Standards (OAQPS) and 

the ten EPA Regions will address health 

threats by reducing toxic auto body 

coating emissions at the national level. 

Each EPA regional office involved in the 

campaign will work with its respective 

partners (e.g., community, industry, 

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small businesses, etc.) to help shop 

owners reduce paint, solvent and 

related hazardous waste disposal costs. 

The CRC also aims to achieve enhanced 

compliance with the Surface Coating 

Rule by encouraging shops to reduce 

pollutant emissions early and to levels 

beyond those required by the rule. The 

CRC team will use the surveys to collect 

anecdotal information about the use of 

emission reduction best practices at 

auto body shops and measure the 

effectiveness of particular outreach, 

education, and training activities 

undertaken as part of the CRC. The team 

will use that information to judge the 

success and efficacy of the specific 

outreach activity surveyed, and 

information collected can be used to 

help improve program implementation. 

The information obtained under this 

ICR will not be used to make major 

policy decisions. No confidential or 

sensitive data will be collected under 

this ICR. This is a pilot project designed 

to help EPA improve its data collection 

methods and improve its analyses of the 

Agency’s compliance assistance 

program. 

A respondent’s participation in this 

information collection process will be 

voluntary. The survey questions are 

designed to assess whether the 

assistance provided during the pilot 

helped the owner/operator understand 

the applicable environmental 

regulations, and whether the assistance 

helped the owner/operator implement 

operational changes that resulted in 

improved environmental practices. 

Improved environmental practices 

include a change in behavior that 

resulted in a shop either returning to 

compliance with regulations or taking 

steps toward achieving compliance. 

Burden Statement: The annual public 

reporting and recordkeeping burden for 

this collection of information is 

estimated to be average a response time 

of 10 minutes for each phone survey, 

and 75 minutes for each on-site visit. 

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. 

Respondents/Affected Entities: 

Automotive body, paint, and interior 

repair and maintenance shops located in 

risk-based clusters in Massachusetts, 

Oklahoma and Virginia. Surveys 

conducted for the Collision Repair 

Campaign may be administered to 

owners or operators of collision repair 

or auto body shops who have completed 

training provided by the CRC team and 

their partners or who have requested 

and received materials developed by the 

team such as DVDs, brochures, Web 

sites, etc., anywhere in the U.S. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

1,840 for the auto body shop study, and 

7,500 for the Collision Repair Campaign. 

Frequency of Response: 3,113 

responses annually. 

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 

1,617 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost: 

$152,510 includes $0 annualized capital 

or O&M costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: This is a 

new collection. 

Dated: June 24, 2009. 

John Moses, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division. 

[FR Doc. E9–15690 Filed 7–1–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[Docket ID Numbers EPA–HQ–OECA–2009– 

0280; FRL–8925–3] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Request for Comments on 

Proposed Information Collection 

Request (ICR) for Annual Public Water 

Systems Compliance Report 

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 EPA is planning to submit the 

following existing, approved, 

continuing Information Collection 

Request (ICR) to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for the 

purpose of renewing the ICRs. Before 

submitting the ICRs to OMB for review 

and approval, EPA is soliciting 

comments on specific aspects of the 

information collections as described 

below in SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before August 31, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be 

submitted electronically, by mail, or 

through hand delivery/courier service. 

Follow the detailed instructions as 

provided under SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION, section A. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The 

contact individual for the ICR is listed 

under SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION, 

section II.C. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

A. How Can I Access the Docket and/ 

or Submit Comments? 

1. Docket Access Instructions 

EPA has established a public docket 

for the ICRs listed in the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION, section II.B. The docket is 

available for online viewing at http:// 

www.regulations.gov, or in person 

viewing at the Enforcement and 

Compliance Docket and Information 

Center (ECDIC), in the EPA Docket 

Center (EPA/DC), EPA West, Room 

3334, 1301 Constitution Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC. The EPA/DC Public 

Reading Room is open from 8 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 (ECDIC) 

docket is (202) 566–1752. 

Use http://www.regulations.gov to 

obtain a copy of the draft collection of 

information, submit or view public 

comments, access the index listing of 

the contents of the 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 in 

this document. 

2. Instructions for submitting comments. 

Submit your comments by one of the 

following methods: 

1. Electronic Submission: Access 

http://www.regulations.gov and follow 

the online instructions for submitting 

comments. 

2. E-mail: docket.oeca@epa.gov. 

3. Fax: (202) 566–1511. 

4. Mail: Enforcement and Compliance 

Docket and Information Center (ECDIC), 

Environmental Protection Agency, EPA 

Docket Center (EPA/DC), Mailcode: 

2201T, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, 

NW., Washington, DC 20460. 

5. Hand Delivery: Enforcement and 

Compliance Docket and Information 

Center (ECDIC), Environmental 

Protection Agency, EPA Docket Center 

(EPA/DC), EPA West, Room 3334, 1301 

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, 

DC. The EPA Docket Center is open 

from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, excluding legal 

holidays. Deliveries are only accepted