Document ID: EPA-HQ-OW-2020-0017-0006
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: 2020 Drinking Water Infrastructure Needs Survey and Assessment
Posted Date: 2020-08-25T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 165 (Tuesday, August 25, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52340-52341]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-18568]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OW-2020-0017-0001; FRL--10014-14-OMS]

Information Collection Request Submittal to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; 2020 Drinking Water Infrastructure Needs 
Survey and Assessment (New)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted 
an information collection request (ICR), 2020 Drinking Water 
Infrastructure Needs Survey and Assessment (EPA ICR Number 2616.01, OMB 
Control Number 2040-NEW) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) 
for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. 
This is a request to reinstate a previously discontinued collection. 
Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register on 
February 5, 2020, 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 in this document, including the ICR's 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 September 24, 
2020.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to EPA, referencing Docket ID No. EPA-
HQ-OW-2020-0017, 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

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Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460. 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.
    Submit written comments and recommendations to OMB for the proposed 
information collection within 30 days of publication of this notice to 
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular information 
collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--Open for 
Public Comments'' or by using the search function.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert Barles, Drinking Water 
Protection Division, Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water, 
Environmental Protection Agency, telephone number: 202-564-3814; email 
address: barles.robert@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: The purpose of this information collection is to identify 
the infrastructure needs of public water systems for the 20-year period 
from January 2020 through December 2039. EPA's Office of Ground Water 
and Drinking Water will collect these data to comply with Sections 
1452(h) and 1452(i)(4) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j-
12). The Agency will use a questionnaire to collect capital investment 
need information from selected community water systems and not-for-
profit non-community water systems. Participation in the survey is 
voluntary. The data from the questionnaires will provide EPA with new 
information from the field to assist in the 2020 update to the Agency's 
assessment of the nationwide infrastructure needs of public water 
systems. Also, as mandated by section 1452(a)(1)(D)(ii) of the Safe 
Drinking Water Act, EPA uses the results of the latest survey to 
allocate Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF) monies to the 
states. Under the allotment formula, each state receives a grant of the 
annual DWSRF appropriation in proportion to the state's share of the 
total national need, with the proviso that each state receives at least 
one percent of the total funds available.
    Form numbers: 6100-03.
    Respondents/affected entities: Community water systems not-for-
profit non-community water systems, and state agencies.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Voluntary.
    Estimated number of respondents: 3,912 (total).
    Frequency of response: One time.
    Total estimated burden: 15,177 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.03(b).
    Total estimated cost: $1,705,941 (per year), includes $0 annualized 
capital or operation and maintenance costs.
    Changes in estimates: This is a new ICR. The estimated total public 
reporting burden over the entire four-year length of the 2020 DWINSA is 
over 8,000 hours higher compared with the ICR approved by OMB for the 
2015 DWINSA survey (OMB control number 2040-0274). This burden increase 
is almost entirely a result of the 2020 Survey being the first effort 
to collect information on lead service line inventories for all system 
types across all states and territories as well as tribal water 
systems.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2020-18568 Filed 8-24-20; 8:45 am]
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