Document ID: EPA-HQ-OEI-2011-0096-0018
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Cross-Media Electronic Reporting Rule (Renewal)
Posted Date: 2021-06-30T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 123 (Wednesday, June 30, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34742-34743]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-13950]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OEI-2011-0096; FRL-10025-76-OMS]

Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; Cross-Media Electronic Reporting Rule 
(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), Cross-Media Electronic Reporting 
Rule (EPA ICR Number 2002.08, OMB Control Number 2025-0003) 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 August 31, 
2021. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal 
Register on January 15, 2021, 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 July 30, 2021.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to EPA, referencing Docket ID No. EPA-
HQ-OEI-2011-0096, online using www.regulations.gov (our preferred 
method), oei.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.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Shirley Miller or Dipti Singh, 
Information Exchange Services Division, Office of Information 
Management, Office of Mission Support (2823T), Environmental Protection 
Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460; telephone 
number: 202-566-2908 or 202-566-0739, respectively; email address: 
miller.shirley@epa.gov or 66150f08010e48020f16120f2603160748010910.

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: The scope of this ICR is the electronic reporting 
components of CROMERR, which is designed to: (i) Allow EPA to comply 
with the Government Paperwork Elimination Act of 1998; (ii) provide a 
uniform, technology-neutral framework for electronic reporting across 
all EPA programs; (iii) allow EPA programs to offer electronic 
reporting as they become ready for CROMERRR; and (iv) provide states 
with a streamlined process--together with a uniform set of standards--
for approval of their electronic reporting provisions for all their 
EPA-authorized programs. Responses to the collection of information are 
voluntary. In order to accommodate CBI, the information collected must 
be in accordance with the confidentiality regulations set forth in 40 
CFR part 2, subpart B. Additionally, EPA will ensure that the 
information collection procedures comply with the Privacy Act of 1974 
and the OMB Circular 108.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: Entities that report electronically 
to EPA and state, tribal, or local government authorized programs; and 
state, tribal, and local government authorized programs implementing 
electronic reporting.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Voluntary, required to obtain 
or retain a benefit (Cross-Media Electronic Reporting Rule (CROMERR) 
established to ensure compliance with the Government Paperwork 
Elimination Act (GPEA)).
    Estimated number of respondents: 132,724 (total).

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    Frequency of response: On occasion.
    Total estimated burden: 81,985 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.03(b).
    Total estimated cost: $4,710,366 (per year), including $3,620,310 
in annualized labor costs and $1,090,056 in annualized capital or 
operation & maintenance costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is a decrease of 4,569 hours in the 
total estimated respondent burden compared with the ICR currently 
approved by OMB. The decrease in respondent burden can be attributed 
primarily to two reasons. First, over the past three years, the Agency 
made improvements to CDX to enhance efficiencies in end-user 
registration, integration, and Help Desk support. These improvements 
resulted in reduced burden to respondents. Second, through 
technological improvements, the Agency now is able to obtain real world 
data via Google Analytics on the frequency and amount of time a 
respondent spends accessing CDX web pages and features. Based on this 
information, EPA has revised the burden estimates associated with some 
of the CDX registration and identity proofing activities. The Agency 
believes that these revised burden estimates more accurately reflect 
the resources spent by respondents conducting electronic reporting 
activities under CROMERR. Note that the decrease in respondent burden 
described above was offset by an almost two-fold increase in the number 
of respondents that report to state, tribal, and local electronic 
document receiving systems. In developing this ICR, EPA revised the 
approach used to estimate the number of these reporters. The revised 
approach uses shared CROMERR services solution data to supplement 
estimates obtained based on analysis of respondent universe growth 
rates in EPA program ICRs, which was the previous approach used to 
estimate number of reporters. The overall change in respondent burden 
is considered an ``adjustment,'' because it results from changes in the 
respondent universe and hourly burden estimates used in the development 
of the ICR.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2021-13950 Filed 6-29-21; 8:45 am]
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