Document ID: EPA-HQ-OECA-2013-0667-0002
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Annual Public Water System Compliance Report (Renewal)
Posted Date: 2014-01-16T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 11 (Thursday, January 16, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2827-2828]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-00725]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OECA-2013-0667; FRL--9905-41-OEI]

Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; Annual Public Water System Compliance Report 
(Renewal)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency has submitted an 
information collection request (ICR), ``Annual Public Water System 
Compliance Report (Renewal) 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 proposed extension of 
the ICR, which is currently approved through March 31, 2014. Public 
comments were previously requested via the Federal Register (78 FR 
57378) on September 18, 2013 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 February 18, 
2014.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OECA-2013-0667, to: (1) EPA online using www.regulations.gov (our

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preferred method), by email to docket.oeca@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: Joyce Chandler, Monitoring, Assistance 
and Media Programs Division, Office of Compliance, MC-2227A, 
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 
Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 564-7073; fax number: 
(202) 564-0050; email address: chandler.joyce@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.
    EPA ICR#: 1812.05.
    OMB Control #: 2020-0020.
    Abstract: Section 1414 (c)(3)(A) of the Safe Drinking Water Act 
(SDWA) requires that each state (a term that includes states, 
commonwealths and territories) that has primary enforcement authority 
under the Safe Drinking Water Act shall prepare, make readily available 
to the public, and submit to the Administrator of EPA, an annual report 
of violations of national primary drinking water regulations in the 
state. These Annual State Public Water System Compliance Reports are to 
include violations of maximum contaminant levels, treatment 
requirements, variances and exemptions, and monitoring requirements 
determined to be significant by the Administrator after consultation 
with the states. To minimize a state's burden in preparing its annual 
statutorily-required report, EPA issued guidance that explains what 
Section 1414(c)(3)(A) requires and provides model language and 
reporting templates.
    Fifty-five states (including Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, 
American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, 
and Navajo Nation) currently have primary enforcement authority under 
the Safe Drinking Water Act. The Navajo Nation was approved for primacy 
on December 6, 2000. Currently the State of Wyoming and the District of 
Columbia neither have primary enforcement authority nor are they 
seeking primary authority, so the number of 55 states is unlikely to 
change over the next three years of this ICR.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: State, local and/or tribal 
governments.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory under Section 1414 
(c)(3)(A) of the Safe Drinking Water Act.
    Estimated number of respondents: 55 (total).
    Frequency of response: Annual.
    Total estimated burden: 4,400 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.03(b).
    Total estimated cost: $317,684.95 (per year), includes $0 
annualized capital or operation & maintenance costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is no change in the total estimated 
respondent burden compared with the ICR currently approved by OMB.

John Moses,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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