Document ID: EPA-HQ-OW-2020-0193-0004
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Effluent Limitation Guidelines and Standards for the Dental Category (Renewal)
Posted Date: 2020-12-31T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 251 (Thursday, December 31, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 86918-86919]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-28998]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OW-2020-0193; FRL 10017-31-OMS]

Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; Effluent Limitation Guidelines and Standards 
for the Dental Category (Renewal)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an 
information collection request (ICR), Effluent Limitation Guidelines 
and Standards for the Dental Category (OMB Control Number 2040-0287; 
EPA ICR Number 2514.03), to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) 
for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. 
This is a proposed extension of the ICR, which is currently approved 
through November 30, 2020. Public comments were previously requested 
via the Federal Register on April 30, 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 provided in the Executive 
Summary.

DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before February 1, 
2021.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to EPA, referencing Docket ID No. EPA-
HQ-OW-2020-0193 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. 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: Joshua Baehr, National Program Branch, 
Water Permits Division, OWM Mail

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Code: 4203M, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. 
NW, Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 564-0742; email 
address: Baehr.Joshua@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: This ICR calculates the burden and costs associated with 
reporting and record-keeping activities required under the Final 
Effluent Limitations Guidelines (ELG) and Standards for the Dental 
Category. For purposes of this estimate, EPA assumed all existing 
dentists affected by the original rulemaking would have complied with 
the One-Time Compliance Reporting by the time of this ICR renewal. This 
estimate includes the effort for One-Time Compliance Reporting for new 
dental offices which open during the ICR period and those which 
transfer ownership and conduct annual recordkeeping. This estimate is 
based on average total compensation labor rates from the Bureau of 
Labor Statistics for the dental office personnel involved in collecting 
and reporting the information required. This estimate also includes the 
effort for control authorities to review the information submitted by 
dentists that certify they meet the requirements of the final rule. EPA 
estimates that there will be no start-up or capital costs associated 
with the information described above. Respondent reports may contain 
confidential business information. If a respondent does consider this 
information to be of a confidential nature, the respondent may request 
that such information be treated as confidential. All confidential data 
will be handled in accordance with 40 CFR 122.7, 40 CFR part 2, and 
EPA's Security Manual part III, chapter 9, dated August 9, 1976.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: Dentists, Control Authorities.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR 403 & 441).
    Estimated number of respondents: 124,378 annual average (122,741 
permittees and 1,637 Publicly Owned Treatment Works and States/Tribes/
Territories).
    Frequency of response: One time.
    Total estimated burden: 392,646 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.03(b).
    Total estimated cost: $11,065,904 (per year), includes $9,671 in 
non-labor costs (i.e., postage and file storage).
    Changes in the Estimates: There is a decrease of 39,467 hours in 
the total estimated respondent burden compared with the ICR currently 
approved by OMB. The burden decrease is based on the assumption that 
all existing dental offices which place or remove amalgam submitted the 
required One-Time Compliance Report during the prior ICR period. EPA is 
assuming a one percent growth rate in dental offices and that only new 
dental offices and dental offices transferring ownership will be doing 
the One-Time Compliance Reporting.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2020-28998 Filed 12-30-20; 8:45 am]
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