Document ID: EPA-HQ-SFUND-2012-0578-0003
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Technical Assistance Needs Assessments at Superfund Remedial or Removal Sites
Posted Date: 2014-12-15T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 240 (Monday, December 15, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 74081-74082]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-29261]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-SFUND-2012-0578; FRL-9917-74-OEI]

Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; Technical Assistance Needs Assessments 
(TANAs) at Superfund Remedial or Removal Sites (NEW)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency has submitted an 
information collection request (ICR), ``Technical Assistance Needs 
Assessments (TANAs) at Superfund Remedial or Removal Sites (NEW)'' (EPA 
ICR No. 2470.01, OMB Control No. 2050-NEW) 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 request for 
approval of a new collection. Public comments were previously requested 
via the Federal Register (77 FR 74002) on December 12, 2012 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 January 14, 
2015.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
SFUND-2012-0578, to (1) EPA online using www.regulations.gov (our 
preferred method), by email to superfund.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: Laura Knudsen, Assessment and 
Remediation Division, Office of Superfund Remediation and Technology 
Innovation, Mail Code 5204P, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 
Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: 703-603-
8861 fax number: 703-603-9102 email address: knudsen.laura@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 covers the usage of TANAs with members of the 
impacted community in order to determine how the community is receiving 
technical information about a Superfund remedial or removal site; 
whether the community needs additional assistance in order to 
understand and respond to site-related technical information; and 
whether there are organizations in the community that are interested or 
involved in site-related issues and capable of acting as an appropriate 
conduit for technical assistance services to the affected community. 
The TANA will help ensure the community's needs for technical 
assistance are defined as early in the remedial/removal process as 
possible and enable meaningful community involvement in the Superfund 
decision-making process. Additionally, the TANA process produces a 
blueprint for designing a coordinated effort to meet the community's 
needs for additional technical assistance while minimizing the overlap 
of services provided.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: Individuals.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Voluntary.
    Estimated number of respondents: 250 (total).
    Frequency of response: Once.
    Total estimated burden: 250 hours (per year). Burden is defined at 
5 CFR 1320.03(b).
    Total estimated cost: $4,900 (per year), includes $0 annualized 
capital or operation & maintenance costs.

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    Changes in the Estimates: Not applicable. This is a new information 
collection.

Courtney Kerwin,
Acting Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. 2014-29261 Filed 12-12-14; 8:45 am]
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