Document ID: EPA-HQ-OEI-2002-0011-0003
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission of EPA ICR No. 2083.01 to OMB for reviewand approval; Comment Request
Posted Date: 2003-03-19T05:00Z

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Notices
Magalie
R.
Salas,
Secretary.
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BILLING
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P
ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION
AGENCY
[
OEI
 
2002
 
0011;
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Agency
Information
Collection
Activities;
Submission
of
EPA
ICR
No.
2083.01
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:
Estimating
the
Value
of
Improvements
to
Coastal
Waters
 
A
Pilot
Study
of
A
Coastal
Water
Valuation
Survey.
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
18,
2003.
ADDRESSES:
Follow
the
detailed
instructions
in
SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION.

FOR
FURTHER
INFORMATION
CONTACT:
Dr.
Nicole
Owens,
National
Center
for
Environmental
Economics,
Office
of
Policy,
Economics,
and
Innovation,
Mail
Code
1809T,
Environmental
Protection
Agency,
1200
Pennsylvania
Ave.,
NW.,
Washington,
DC
20460;
telephone
number:
(
202)
566
 
2302;
fax
number:
(
202)
566
 
2338;
e­
mail
address:
owens.
nicole@
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
June
28,
2002
(
67
FR
43592),
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.
OEI
2002
 
0011,
which
is
available
for
public
viewing
at
the
Office
of
Environmental
Information
(
OEI)
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
through
Friday,
excluding
legal
holidays.
The
telephone
number
for
the
Reading
Room
is
(
202)
566
 
1744,
and
the
telephone
number
for
the
OEI
Docket
is
(
202)
566
 
1752.
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
oei.
docket@
epa.
gov,
or
by
mail
to:
EPA
Docket
Center,
Environmental
Protection
Agency,
Mailcode:
28221T,
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
to
http://
www.
epa.
gov/
edocket.
Title:
Estimating
the
Value
of
Improvements
to
Coastal
Waters
 
A
Pilot
Study
of
A
Coastal
Valuation
Survey
(
EPA
ICR
Number
2083.01).
This
is
a
request
for
a
new
collection.
Abstract:
This
Information
Collection
Request
(
ICR)
is
for
a
pilot
survey
being
conducted
by
the
Environmental
Protection
Agency's
(
EPA)
National
Center
for
Environmental
Economics
(
NCEE).
The
purpose
of
the
pilot
survey
is
to
conduct
research
on
and
test
various
aspects
of
a
computerized
stated
preference
survey
designed
to
estimate
willingness
to
pay
for
water
quality
improvements
in
coastal
waters.
Specifically,
we
will:
 
Test
the
quality
and
effectiveness
of
the
computerized
survey
instrument
in
yielding
robust
estimates
for
both
use
and
non­
use
values
of
improvements
to
coastal
water
quality;
 
Test
the
effect
of
the
use
of
color
in
computerized
survey
instruments;
 
Test
the
appropriateness
of
the
design
values
used
in
the
choice
questions;
 
Test
the
effect
of
a
$
5
incentive
on
the
response
rate;
 
Test
the
effectiveness
of
the
survey
administration
mode
for
periodic,
panel
surveys,
and
 
Test
the
effectiveness
of
the
survey
administration
mode
for
environmental
surveys.
The
subject
of
the
survey
was
chosen
for
a
variety
of
reasons.
First,
at
this
time,
no
suitable
information
exists
that
will
allow
the
estimation
of
the
benefits
of
statewide
or
national
changes
in
coastal
water
quality.
Existing
studies
focus
on
estimating
recreational
(
use)
values
for
very
specific
reaches
of
coastal
waters,
thus
limiting
the
use
of
the
resulting
estimates
for
benefit
transfer
and
ignoring
non­
use
values
completely
(
e.
g.,
Parsons
et
al.
(
2000)
and
Koaru,
1995).
Second,
the
results
of
this
survey
will
complement
those
from
an
ongoing
freshwater
quality
survey
(
USEPA,
2000).
Currently,
States,
tribes,
and
other
jurisdictions
measure
water
quality
by
determining
if
water
bodies
are
clean
enough
to
support
basic
uses,
such
as
swimming,
fishing,
and
aquatic
life.
In
keeping
with
these
definitions
of
water
quality,
the
survey
will
provide
estimates
of
willingness
to
pay
(
WTP)
for
more
fishable
and
swimmable
coastal
and
estuarine
waters
as
well
as
healthier
marine
and
estuarine
aquatic
environments.
In
the
valuation
portion
of
the
survey,
respondents
will
be
asked
a
series
of
five
questions
in
which
they
are
asked
to
compare
two
programs
with
the
status
quo.
The
programs
each
affect
water
quality
for
the
various
uses
in
different
ways
and
cost
varying
amounts
to
implement.
Analysis
of
the
resulting
data
will
yield
WTP
estimates
for
improvements
to
each
of
the
attributes.
Further
development
of
the
survey
cannot
be
completed
without
a
pilot
survey.
The
pilot
survey
will
take
place
in
California
using
a
computerized
survey
instrument.
The
survey
instrument
is
specific
to
the
state
of
California
and,
depending
upon
the
results
of
the
pilot
survey,
may
be
used
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to
estimate
willingness
to
pay
for
water
quality
improvements
for
the
three
specific
uses
noted
above.
Once
the
pilot
survey
is
complete
and
EPA
is
convinced
of
the
adequacy
of
the
questionnaire,
EPA's
National
Center
for
Environmental
Economics
hopes
to
develop
parallel
versions
of
the
survey
instrument
for
the
remaining
20
coastal
states
in
the
contiguous
United
States
as
well
as
a
version
for
inland
states.
The
coastal
state
versions
of
the
survey
will
elicit
resident's
willingness
to
pay
for
coastal
water
improvements
within
the
respondent's
home
state.
The
inland
version
of
the
survey
will
elicit
willingness
to
pay
for
coastal
water
improvements
generally.
Together
these
data
will
provide
valuable
information
to
estimate
improvements
to
coastal
waters
that
may
improve
the
quality
of
cost­
benefit
analyses
and
decisionmaking
at
EPA.
The
pilot
survey
is
designed
to
collect
information
using
Knowledge
Networks,
a
survey
research
firm
with
a
prerecruited
panel
of
individuals
throughout
the
United
States
who
complete
surveys
using
WebTV.
We
are
requesting
permission
to
conduct
a
pilot
survey
of
600
respondents
in
California.
It
should
be
noted,
however,
that
no
expectations
have
been
formed
regarding
the
administration
mode
for
future
pilots
or
surveys
using
this
or
parallel
survey
instruments.
While
we
expect
to
continue
using
a
selfadministered
computerized
format,
we
plan
to
explore
alternative
modes
of
administration.
The
only
burden
imposed
by
the
pilot
survey
on
respondents
will
be
the
time
required
to
complete
the
survey.
Based
upon
a
limited
number
of
cognitive
pretest
interviews,
the
survey
developers
estimate
that
this
will
involve
an
average
of
30
minutes
per
respondents.
With
a
total
of
600
respondents
for
the
pilot
survey
this
involves
a
total
of
150
hours.
Based
on
an
average
hourly
rate
of
$
22.15
(
including
employer
costs
of
all
employee
benefits),
the
survey
developers
expect
that
the
average
perrespondent
cost
for
the
pilot
survey
will
be
$
11.08
and
the
corresponding
onetime
total
cost
to
all
respondents
will
be
$
6645.00.
This
information
collection
does
not
involve
any
special
equipment,
thus,
respondents
will
not
incur
any
capital
or
operation
and
maintenance
(
O&
M)
costs.
Responses
to
the
pilot
survey
will
be
voluntary.
Typically,
panel
members
are
free
to
choose
whether
or
not
to
respond
to
any
particular
survey
as
long
as
they
meet
survey
quotas
set
in
their
agreement
with
the
research
firm.
The
survey
will
fully
conform
to
federal
regulations
 
specifically
the
Privacy
Act
of
1974
(
5
U.
S.
C.
552a),
the
Hawkins­
Stafford
Amendments
of
1988
(
Pub.
L.
100
 
297),
and
the
Computer
Security
Act
of
1987.
The
pilot
survey
data
will
be
collected
and
stored
electronically
by
the
survey
research
firm,
and
all
identifying
information
will
be
removed
by
the
survey
research
firm
prior
to
transfer
to
EPA.
EPA
will
perform
all
data
analyses
used
to
determine
the
efficacy
of
this
survey
instrument
for
estimating
the
values
associated
with
improved
coastal
water
quality.
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
1 
2
hour
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;
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:
Individuals
living
in
the
State
of
California.
Estimated
Number
of
Respondents:
600.
Frequency
of
Response:
1.
Estimated
Total
Annual
Hour
Burden:
300
hours.
Estimated
Total
Annual
Cost:
$
6645,
includes
$
0
annualized
capital
or
O&
M
costs.

Dated:
March
3,
2003.

Oscar
Morales,

Director,
Collection
Strategies
Division.
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Agency
Information
Collection
Activities:
Submission
of
EPA
ICR
No.
1381.06
(
OMB
No.
2050
 
0122)
for
OMB
Review;
Comment
Request;
Recordkeeping
and
Reporting
 
Solid
Waste
Disposal
Facilities
and
Practices
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
continuing
Information
Collection
Request
(
ICR)
to
the
Office
of
Management
and
Budget
(
OMB):
Recordkeeping
and
Reporting
Requirements
for
40
CFR
Part
258
 
Solid
Waste
Disposal
Facilities
and
Practices,
ICR
#
1381.06,
OMB
Control
Number
2050
 
0122,
Active
ICR
OMB
Expiration
Date:
08/
31/
2003.
Before
submitting
the
ICR
to
OMB
for
review
and
approval,
EPA
is
soliciting
comments
on
specific
aspects
of
the
proposed
information
collection
as
described
below.
DATES:
Comments
must
be
submitted
on
or
before
May
19,
2003.
ADDRESSES:
Follow
the
detailed
instructions
as
provided
in
Unit
I.
B.
of
the
SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION
section.

FOR
FURTHER
INFORMATION
CONTACT:
Craig
Dufficy,
Office
of
Solid
Waste,
(
5306W),
Environmental
Protection
Agency,
1200
Pennsylvania
Ave.,
NW.,
Washington,
DC
20460;
telephone
number:
(
703)
308
 
9037;
fax
number:
(
703)
308
 
8686;
email
address:
dufficy.
craig@
epa.
gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION:

I.
General
Information
A.
The
groups
affected
by
the
requirements
in
part
258
are
owners
or
operators
of
new
Municipal
Solid
Waste
Landfills
(
MSWLF),
existing
MSWLFs,
and
lateral
expansions
of
existing
MSWLFs.
These
owners
or
operators
could
include
Federal,
State,
and
Local
governments,
and
private
waste
management
companies.
Facilities
in
the
following
SIC
codes
may
be
affected
by
this
rule
listed
in
the
table
below:

SIC
Code/
Affected
Entity
922
Local
governments
495
Sanitary
services
282
Industrial
inorganic
chemicals
281
Industrial
organic
chemicals
287
Miscellaneous
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