Document ID: EPA-HQ-OW-2003-0001-0003
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission of EPA ICR No. 1500.05 (OMB No. 2040-0138) to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Notice.
Posted Date: 2003-03-27T05:00Z

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Notices
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:
Notice
of
Intent
for
Storm
Water
Discharges
Associated
with
Construction
Activity
under
a
NPDES
General
Permit
(
OMB
Control
Number
2040
 
0188,
EPA
ICR
Number
1842.04).
This
is
a
request
to
renew
an
existing
approved
collection
that
is
scheduled
to
expire
on
March
31,
2003.
Under
OMB
regulations,
the
Agency
may
continue
to
conduct
or
sponsor
the
collection
of
information
while
this
submission
is
pending
at
OMB.
Abstract:
This
ICR
calculates
the
burden
and
costs
associated
with
the
preparation
of
the
Notice
of
Intent
(
NOI)
for
Storm
Water
Discharges
Associated
with
Construction
Activity
under
a
NPDES
General
Permit,
and
the
Storm
Water
Pollution
Prevention
Plan
(
SWPPP).
EPA
uses
the
data
contained
in
the
NOIs
to
track
facilities
covered
by
the
storm
water
general
permit
and
assess
permit
compliance.
EPA
has
developed
a
format
for
construction
NOIs.
The
standardized
one­
page
form
is
called:
Notice
of
Intent
(
NOI)
for
Storm
Water
Discharges
Associated
with
Construction
Activity
Under
a
NPDES
General
Permit.
The
construction
NOI
only
requires
the
respondent
to
note
whether
or
not
a
SWPPP
has
been
prepared.
The
following
information
is
requested:
 
Name,
address,
phone
number
of
the
facility
 
Status
of
the
owner/
operator
(
whether
federal,
state,
public,
or
private)
 
Name
and
location
of
the
project
(
City,
State,
ZIP,
Latitude,
Longitude,
County)
 
Whether
the
facility
is
located
on
Indian
Country
Lands
 
Whether
a
Storm
Water
Pollution
Prevention
Plan
(
SWPPP)
has
been
prepared
 
Optional:
location
for
viewing
SWPPP
and
telephone
number
for
scheduling
viewing
times:
Address,
City,
State,
ZIP
 
The
name
of
the
receiving
water
 
Estimated
construction
start
date
and
completion
date
 
The
estimated
area
to
be
disturbed
(
to
nearest
acre)
 
An
estimate
of
the
likelihood
of
a
discharge
 
Whether
any
protected
species
or
critical
habitat
in
the
project
area
 
Which
section
of
the
permit
through
which
permit
eligibility
with
regard
to
protection
of
endangered
species
is
satisfied
Responses
are
required
to
obtain
coverage
under
the
NPDES
General
Permit
for
storm
water
discharges
associated
with
construction
activities.
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
are
listed
in
40
CFR
part
9
and
48
CFR
chapter
15,
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
38.3
hours
per
response
by
large
construction
NPDES
permittees
in
NPDES­
authorized
states
and
territories
and
40.5
hours
per
response
for
construction
activities
in
states
and
territories
where
EPA
is
the
permitting
authority.
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:
Owners/
operators
of
large
construction
activities.
Estimated
Number
of
Respondents:
201,259.
Frequency
of
Response:
Once
initially,
prior
to
commencement
of
construction.
Estimated
Total
Annual
Hour
Burden:
7,729,696
hours.
Estimated
Total
Annual
Cost:
$
264,919,148,
includes
$
0
annualized
capital
or
O&
M
costs.
Changes
in
the
Estimates:
There
is
an
increase
of
3,166,793
hours
in
the
total
estimated
burden
currently
identified
in
the
OMB
Inventory
of
Approved
ICR
Burdens.
This
increase
in
the
applicant
respondent
and
NPDES­
authorized
state
burden
is
due
to
a
technical
correction
to
the
methodology
used
to
estimate
the
number
of
construction
sites
covered
by
a
permit.
The
methodology
used
in
this
ICR
to
estimate
of
the
number
of
construction
sites
is
consistent
with
the
methodology
used
to
estimate
the
number
of
small
construction
sites,
consistent
with
the
NPDES
Storm
Water
Program
Phase
II
ICR,
OMB
Control
No.
2040
 
0211,
EPA
ICR
No.
1820.03.

Dated:
March
18,
2003.
Oscar
Morales,
Director,
Collection
Strategies
Division.
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Agency
Information
Collection
Activities;
Submission
of
EPA
ICR
No.
1500.05
(
OMB
No.
2040
 
0138)
to
OMB
for
Review
and
Approval;
Comment
Request
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
the
following
Information
Collection
Request
(
ICR)
has
been
forwarded
to
the
Office
of
Management
and
Budget
(
OMB)
for
review
and
approval:
National
Estuary
Program.
The
ICR
describes
the
nature
of
the
information
collection
and
its
estimated
burden
and
cost.
DATES:
Additional
comments
may
be
submitted
on
or
before
April
28,
2003.
ADDRESSES:
Follow
the
detailed
instructions
in
SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION.

FOR
FURTHER
INFORMATION
CONTACT:
Gregory
Colianni,
Oceans
and
Coastal
Protection
Division,
Office
of
Wetlands,
Oceans,
and
Watersheds,
mailcode
4504T,
Environmental
Protection
Agency,
1200
Pennsylvania
Ave.,
NW.,
Washington,
DC
20460;
telephone
number:
(
202)
566
 
1249;
fax
number:
(
202)
566
 
1336;
e­
mail
address:
colianni.
gregory@
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
October
29,
2002,
(
67
FR
65978),
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.
OW
 
2003
 
0001,
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
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Federal
Register
/
Vol.
68,
No.
59
/
Thursday,
March
27,
2003
/
Notices
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,
and
according
to
the
following
detailed
instructions:
(
1)
Submit
your
comments
to
EPA
online
using
EDOCKET
(
our
preferred
method),
by
e­
mail
to
OW
 
Docket@
epa.
gov,
or
by
mail
to:
EPA
Docket
Center,
Environmental
Protection
Agency,
Mailcode:
4101T,
1200
Pennsylvania
Ave.,
NW.,
Washington,
DC
20460,
and
(
2)
Mail
your
comments
to
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.
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
http://
www.
epa.
gov/
edocket.
Title:
National
Estuary
Program,
(
OMB
Control
Number
2040
 
0138,
EPA
ICR
Number
1500.05).
This
is
a
request
to
renew
an
existing
approved
collection
that
is
scheduled
to
expire
on
April
30,
2003.
Under
the
OMB
regulations,
the
Agency
may
continue
to
conduct
or
sponsor
the
collection
of
information
while
this
submission
is
pending
at
OMB.
Abstract:
Annual
Workplans:
The
NEP
involves
collecting
information
from
the
State
or
local
agency
or
nongovernmental
organizations
that
receive
funds
under
section
320
of
the
Clean
Water
Act.
The
regulation
requiring
this
information
is
found
at
40
CFR
part
35.
Prospective
grant
recipients
seek
funding
to
develop
or
oversee
and
coordinate
implementation
of
CCMPs
for
estuaries
of
national
significance.
In
order
to
receive
funds,
grantees
must
submit
an
annual
workplan
to
EPA.
The
workplan
consists
of
two
parts:
(
a)
Progress
on
projects
funded
previously;
and
(
b)
new
projects
proposed
with
dollar
amounts
and
completion
dates.
The
workplan
is
reviewed
by
EPA
and
also
serves
as
the
scope
of
work
for
the
grant
agreement.
EPA
also
uses
these
workplans
to
track
performance
of
each
of
the
28
estuary
programs
currently
in
the
NEP.

Implementation
Reviews
EPA
provides
funding
to
NEPs
to
support
long­
term
implementation
of
CCMPs
if
such
programs
pass
an
implementation
review
process.
Implementation
reviews
are
used
to
determine
progress
each
NEP
is
making
in
implementing
its
CCMP
and
achieving
environmental
results.
In
addition
to
evaluating
progress,
the
results
are
used
to
identify
areas
of
weakness
each
NEP
should
address
for
long­
term
success
in
protecting
and
restoring
their
estuaries.
EPA
will
also
compile
successful
tools
and
approaches
as
well
as
lessons
learned
from
all
implementation
reviews
to
transfer
to
the
NEPs
and
other
watershed
programs.
For
this
ICR
cycle,
implementation
reviews
will
be
required
for
9
programs
in
FY2004
and
19
programs
in
FY2005.
No
implementation
reviews
will
be
required
in
FY2003.

Government
Performance
Results
Act
(
GPRA)
EPA
requests
that
each
of
the
28
NEP
receiving
section
320
funds
reports
information
that
can
be
used
in
the
GPRA
reporting
process.
This
reporting
is
done
on
an
annual
basis
and
is
used
to
show
environmental
results
that
are
being
achieved
within
the
overall
NEP
Program.
This
information
is
ultimately
submitted
to
Congress
along
with
GPRA
information
from
other
EPA
programs.
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
are
listed
in
40
CFR
part
9
and
48
CFR
chapter
15,
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
100
hours
per
response
for
annual
workplans,
250
hours
per
response
for
implementation
reviews,
and
35
hours
per
response
for
GPRA
reporting.
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:
state
or
local
governments
or
nongovernmental
organizations.
Estimated
Number
of
Respondents:
28.
Frequency
of
Response:
annual
workplans,
triennial
implementation
reviews,
annual
GPRA
reports.
Estimated
Total
Annual
Hour
Burden:
6,113
hours.
Estimated
Total
Annual
Cost:
$
366,800,
includes
$
0
annualized
capital
or
O&
M
costs.
Changes
in
the
Estimates:
An
action
notice
from
OMB
increased
the
original
burden
request
for
the
previous
ICR
by
40,800
hours.
This
cycle
will
reduce
the
estimated
burden
by
40,654
to
6,113
annual
respondent
hours.
These
estimated
hours
are
based
on
the
experience
of
the
NEP
participants
to
date.

Dated:
March
17,
2003.

Oscar
Morales,

Director,
Collection
Strategies
Division.
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