Document ID: EPA-HQ-OW-2002-0011-0047
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Laboratory Quality Assurance Evaluation Program for Analysis of Cryptosporidium under the Safe Drinking Water Act (Renewal)
Posted Date: 2014-01-13T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 8 (Monday, January 13, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Page 2167]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-00379]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OW-2002-0011; FRL 9904-76-OEI]

Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; Laboratory Quality Assurance Evaluation 
Program for Analysis of Cryptosporidium Under the Safe Drinking Water 
Act (Renewal)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency has submitted an 
information collection request (ICR), ``Laboratory Quality Assurance 
Evaluation Program for Analysis of Cryptosporidium under the Safe 
Drinking Water Act'' (EPA ICR No. 2067.05, OMB Control No. 2040-0246) 
to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in 
accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). 
This is a proposed extension of the ICR, which is currently approved 
through January 31, 2014. Public comments were previously requested via 
the Federal Register (78 FR 54643) on September 5, 2013, during a 60-
day comment period. 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 February 12, 
2014.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OW-2002-0011, to (1) EPA online using www.regulations.gov (our 
preferred method), by email to ow-docket@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA 
Docket Center, Environmental Protection Agency, Mail Code 28221T, 1200 
Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460, and (2) OMB via email to 
oira_submission@omb.eop.gov. Address comments to OMB Desk Officer for 
EPA.
    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.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Carrie Miller, Technical Support 
Center (TSC), Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water, (MS-140), 
Environmental Protection Agency, 26 West Martin Luther King Drive, 
Cincinnati, Ohio 45268; telephone number: 513-569-7919; fax number: 
513-569-7191; email address: miller.carrie@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supporting documents which explain in detail 
the information that the EPA will be collecting 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 Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment 
Rule (LT2ESWTR), EPA requires public water systems to use approved 
laboratories when conducting Cryptosporidium monitoring. The Code of 
Federal Regulations at 40 CFR 141.705(a) provides for approval of 
Cryptosporidium laboratories by ``an equivalent'' State laboratory 
certification program (i.e., equivalent to EPA's Laboratory Quality 
Assurance Evaluation Program). In the preamble to the LT2ESWTR as well 
as several other notices, EPA has described the criteria for approval 
of laboratories to analyze Cryptosporidium samples under the LT2ESWTR. 
Through today's notice, EPA is inviting comment on refinements to the 
information collection approach to support EPA's Laboratory Quality 
Assurance Program.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: Interested States and Laboratories.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Required to obtain or retain a 
benefit.
    Estimated number of respondents: 45 laboratories and 20 States/
Territories.
    Frequency of response: Annual.
    Total estimated burden: 5,472 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
    Total estimated cost: $803,774 (per year), includes $295,056 
annualized capital or operation & maintenance (O&M) costs.
    Changes in Estimates: There is an increase of 629 hours in the 
total estimated respondent burden compared with the ICR currently 
approved by OMB. Changes in burden have occurred due to inflation, 
changes in the respondent universe, re-evaluation of hours for tasks, 
re-evaluation of O&M costs, and improved demonstration of capability. 
There is also new burden from states integrating Cryptosporidium into 
their existing certification programs, taking over this responsibility 
from the EPA.

John Moses,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. 2014-00379 Filed 1-10-14; 8:45 am]
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