Document ID: EPA-HQ-OW-2003-0013-0025
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act; Drinking Water Security and Safety
Posted Date: 2014-11-25T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 227 (Tuesday, November 25, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 70179-70180]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-27816]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OW-2003-0013: FRL 9919-78-OEI]

Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; Title IV of the Public Health Security and 
Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002: Drinking Water 
Security and Safety

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted 
an information collection request (ICR), ``Title IV of the Public 
Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002: 
Drinking Water Security and Safety'' (EPA ICR No. 2103.05, OMB Control 
No. 2040-0253) 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 November 30, 2014. Public comments were 
previously requested via the Federal Register on July 16, 2014, 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 
this request, 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 December 26, 
2014.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OW-2003-0013, to (1) EPA online using www.regulations.gov (our 
preferred method), 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: Karen Edwards, Water Security 
Division, Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water, Mailcode: 4608T, 
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., 
Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: 202-564-3797; fax number: 202-
566-0055; email address: Edwards.Karen@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: Section 1433 of the Safe Drinking Water Act, as amended 
by the Bioterrorism Act, requires each community water system serving a 
population of more than 3,300 people to conduct a vulnerability 
assessment of its water system and to prepare or revise an emergency 
response plan that incorporates the results of the vulnerability 
assessment. These requirements are mandatory under the statute. EPA 
will continue to use the information collected under this ICR to 
determine whether community water systems have conducted vulnerability 
assessments and prepared or revised emergency response plans in 
compliance with Section 1433. EPA is required to protect all 
vulnerability assessments and all information derived from them from 
disclosure to unauthorized parties and has established an Information 
Protection Protocol describing how that will be accomplished.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: Entities potentially affected by 
this action are community water systems serving more than 3,300 
persons.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (Section 1433 of the 
Safe Drinking Water Act, as amended by the Bioterrorism Act).

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    Estimated number of respondents: 80 (total).
    Frequency of response: Once.
    Total estimated burden: 8,994 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.03(b).
    Total estimated cost: $803,501 (per year), includes $337 annualized 
capital or operation & maintenance costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is no increase of hours in the 
total estimated respondent burden compared with the ICR currently 
approved by OMB. The cost increase is an adjustment to the respondent 
burden estimates to account for inflation.

Courtney Kerwin,
Acting Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. 2014-27816 Filed 11-24-14; 8:45 am]
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