[Federal Register: June 13, 2001 (Volume 66, Number 114)]
[Notices]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
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Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request; Reporting Requirements under EPA's National
Wastewater Operator Training and Technical Assistance Program
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501
et seq.), this document announces that the following Information
Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management
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and Budget (OMB) for review and approval: National Wastewater Operator
Training and Technical Assistance Program, EPA ICR Number 1977.01. The
ICR describes the nature of the information collection and its expected
burden and cost; where appropriate, it includes the actual data
collection instrument.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before July 13, 2001.
ADDRESSES: Send comments, referencing EPA ICR No. 1977.01 to the
following addresses: Sandy Farmer, U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, Collection Strategies Division (Mail Code 2822), 1200
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460; and 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: For a copy of the ICR contact Sandy
Farmer at EPA by phone at (202) 260-2740, by E-mail at
farmer.sandy@epamail.epa.gov, or download off the Internet at http://
www.epa.gov/icr and refer to EPA ICR No. 1977.01. For technical
questions about the ICR, contact Curt Baranowski at 202-564-0636 in the
U.S. EPA, Office of Wastewater Management, Municipal Assistance Branch
(Mail Code 4204-M), 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC
20460.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Affected entities: Entities potentially
affected by this action are state and local governments, state and
county colleges, and those organizations which provide training
assistance through the Clean Water Act 104(g)(1) Program to municipal
wastewater treatment plants.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 48.
Frequency of Response: Biannually and annually.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 336.
Estimated Total Annualized Capital, O & M Cost Burden: $0.
Title: National Wastewater Treatment Plant Operator Training and
Technical Assistance Program. This non-rule ICR is a new collection.
Abstract: The Wastewater Operator Training Program provides on-site
technical assistance to municipal wastewater treatment plants.
Information will be collected from the network of forty-eight 104(g)(1)
training centers set up throughout the United States. The information
will be collected to identify the facilities assisted, the different
types of assistance the program provides and the environmental outcomes
and benefits of the assistance provided by the program. The information
will be collected and submitted on either an annual or semi-annual
basis. A database and spreadsheet have been developed for this purpose.
This ICR will be used by EPA for the technical and financial management
of the 104(g)(1) Program. The 104(g)(1) Program training centers shall
participate in the information collection, due to the fact that it is a
mandatory grant condition. All information in the data system will be
made public upon request.
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 are listed in 40 CFR part 9 and 48 CFR chapter 15. The
Federal Register document required under 5 CFR 1320.8(d), soliciting
comments on this collection of information, was published on January
30, 2001. No comments were received.
Burden Statement: The average annual burden hours to each 104(g)(1)
training center grantee will be 7 hours, for a total of 336 hours per
year. Data will be collected on an annual basis, in May of each year,
for the database collection, and data for the spreadsheet information
collection will be conducted on a semi-annual basis, in May and
November of each year. Reporting requirements will be included as grant
conditions, so it is expected that 100% of the 104(g) training centers
will respond to this collection request. All forty-eight (48) training
centers and EPA have the necessary equipment, desk-top computers and
software, to collect and manage this information. There will be no
additional start-up or maintenance costs associated with this project
to perform this information collection request. 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; 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.
Send comments on the Agency's need for this information, the
accuracy of the provided burden estimates, and any suggested methods
for minimizing respondent burden, including through the use of
automated collection techniques, to the addresses listed above. Please
refer to EPA ICR No. 1977.01 in any correspondence.
Dated: Dated: June 1, 2001.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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