Document ID: EPA-HQ-OW-2010-0689-0006
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; 2011 Drinking Water Infrastructure Needs Survey and Assessment (Reinstatement); EPA ICR No. 2234.03; OMB Control No. 2040-0274
Posted Date: 2010-12-10T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 237 (Friday, December 10, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 76979-76980]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-31077]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OW-2010-0689; FRL-9237-2]

Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to OMB for 
Review and Approval; Comment Request; 2011 Drinking Water 
Infrastructure Needs Survey and Assessment (Reinstatement); EPA ICR No. 
2234.03; OMB Control No. 2040-0274

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44 
U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that an Information 
Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. This is a request for a 
reinstatement collection. The ICR, which is abstracted below, describes 
the nature of the information collection and its estimated burden and 
cost.

DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before January 10, 
2011.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OW-
2010-0689, to: (1) EPA online using http://www.regulations.gov (our 
preferred method), by e-mail to OW-Docket@epa.gov or by mail to: EPA 
Docket Center, Environmental Protection Agency, Mailcode: 28221T, 1200 
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., 
NW., Washington, DC 20460; and (2) OMB by mail to: Office of 
Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB), Attention: Desk Officer for EPA, 725 17th Street, NW., 
Washington, DC 20503.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert Barles, Drinking Water 
Protection Division (Mail Code 4606M), Office of Ground Water and 
Drinking Water, U.S. EPA, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 
20460; telephone number: 202-564-3814; fax number: 202-564-3757; e-mail 
address: barles.robert@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 September 10, 2010 (75 FR 55325), EPA sought comments on 
this ICR pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received no comments during 
the comment period. Any additional comments on this ICR should be 
submitted to EPA and OMB within 30 days of this notice.
    EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID 
No. EPA-HQ-OW-2010-0689, which is available for online viewing at 
www.regulations.gov, or in person viewing at the Water Docket in the 
EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution 
Ave., NW., Washington, DC. The EPA/DC 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 Water Docket is 202-566-2426.
    Use EPA's electronic docket and comment system at http://www.regulations.gov, to submit or view public comments, access the 
index listing of the contents of the docket, and to access those 
documents in the docket that are available electronically. Once in the 
system, select ``docket search,'' then key in the docket ID number 
identified above. Please note that EPA's policy is that public 
comments, whether submitted electronically or in paper, will be made 
available for public viewing at http://www.regulations.gov as EPA 
receives them and without change, unless the comment contains 
copyrighted material, confidential business information (CBI), or other 
information whose public disclosure is restricted by statute. For 
further information about the electronic docket, go to http://www.regulations.gov.
    Title: 2011 Drinking Water Infrastructure Needs Survey and 
Assessment (Reinstatement).
    ICR Numbers: EPA ICR No. 2234.03, OMB Control No. 2040-0274.
    ICR Status: This ICR seeks reinstatement of a previously approved 
information collection activity that was discontinued on December 31, 
2009. 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 in title 40 of the CFR, after appearing in the Federal 
Register when approved, are listed in 40 CFR part 9, and are displayed 
either by publication in the Federal Register or by other appropriate 
means, such as on the related collection instrument or form, if 
applicable. The display of OMB control numbers in certain EPA 
regulations is consolidated in 40 CFR part 9.
    Abstract: The purpose of this information collection is to identify 
the infrastructure needs of public water systems for the 20-year period 
from January 2011 through December 2031. EPA's Office of Ground Water 
and Drinking Water (OGWDW) will collect these data to comply with 
Sections 1452(h) and 1452(i)(4) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 
U.S.C. 300j-12).
    EPA will use a questionnaire to collect capital investment need 
information from community water systems serving more than 3,300 
persons and from American Indian and Alaskan Native Village community 
water systems and not-for-profit non-community water systems serving 
more than 25 persons. Participation in the survey is voluntary. The 
data from the questionnaires will provide EPA with a basis for 
estimating the nationwide infrastructure needs of public water systems. 
Also, as mandated by section 1452(a)(1)(D)(ii) of the Safe Drinking 
Water Act, EPA uses the results of the latest survey to allocate 
Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF) monies to the states. Under 
the allotment formula, each state receives a grant of the annual DWSRF 
appropriation in proportion to its share of the total national need--
with the proviso that each state receives at least one percent of the 
total funds available.
    Burden Statement: Over the entire survey effort, the annual public 
reporting and recordkeeping burden for this collection of information 
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estimated to average 7.55 hours per response for states and water 
system respondents combined. However, nearly all of the responses from 
water systems will occur in the single year of 2011. 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 which have 
subsequently changed; 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. The ICR provides a detailed explanation of the Agency's 
estimate, which is only briefly summarized here:
    Respondents/Affected Entities: Private and Public Water Systems, 
States, Tribes.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 3,176.
    Frequency of Response: Once.
    Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 16,332 hours.
    Estimated Total Annual Cost: $615,842. This cost is exclusively for 
labor as there are no capital investment or operations and maintenance 
costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is no currently approved burden as 
this ICR was previously discontinued during the gap between the three-
year ICR cycle and the four-year Needs Survey cycle. The 2011 survey 
requests 988 more hours of burden annually than the 2007 survey due to 
higher observed response rates, survey modifications and an increased 
number of tribes participating in the survey.

    Dated: December 3, 2010.
John Moses,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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