Notice2023-02665
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Procedures for Implementing the National Environmental Policy Act and Assessing the Environmental Effects Abroad of EPA Actions (Renewal)
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Published
February 8, 2023
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Environmental Protection Agency
Abstract
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), Procedures for Implementing the National Environmental Policy Act and Assessing the Environmental Effects Abroad of EPA Actions (EPA ICR Number 2243.10, OMB Control Number 2020-0033) 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 February 23, 2023. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register on June 28, 2022, during a 60-day comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 26 (Wednesday, February 8, 2023)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-02665]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OA-2019-0296; FRL-10660-01-OMS]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Procedures for Implementing the National Environmental Policy
Act and Assessing the Environmental Effects Abroad of EPA Actions
(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), Procedures for Implementing the
National Environmental Policy Act and Assessing the Environmental
Effects Abroad of EPA Actions (EPA ICR Number 2243.10, OMB Control
Number 2020-0033) 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 February 23, 2023. Public comments were previously requested
via the Federal Register on June 28, 2022, during a 60-day comment
period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public
comments.
DATES: Comments may be submitted on or before March 10, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to EPA, referencing Docket ID Number
EPA-HQ-OA-2019-0296, online using <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a> (our preferred
method), by email to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#137c7a61724c6066717e7a60607a7c7d537c7e713d767c633d747c65"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="0f60667d6e507c7a6d62667c7c6660614f60626d216a607f21686079">[email protected]</span></a>, 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.
Submit written comments and recommendations to OMB for the proposed
information collection within 30 days of publication of this notice to
<a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>. Find this particular information
collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--Open for
Public Comments'' or by using the search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Candi Schaedle, NEPA Compliance
Division, Office of Federal Activities, Mail Code 2501G, Environmental
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460;
telephone number: 202-564-6121; email address: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#daa9b9b2bbbfbeb6bff4b9bbb4beb39abfaabbf4bdb5ac"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="99eafaf1f8fcfdf5fcb7faf8f7fdf0d9fce9f8b7fef6ef">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a proposed extension of the ICR,
which is currently approved through February 23, 2023. 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.
Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register
on June 28, 2022, during a 60-day comment period. This notice allows
for an additional 30 days for public comments. 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 <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a> 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
<a href="http://www.epa.gov/dockets">http://www.epa.gov/dockets</a>.
Abstract: The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), 42
U.S.C. 4321-4347 establishes a national policy for the environment. The
Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) oversees the NEPA
implementation. CEQ's Regulations at 40 CFR parts 1500 through 1508 set
the standard for NEPA compliance. They also require agencies to
establish their own NEPA implementing procedures. The EPA's procedures
for implementing NEPA are found in 40 CFR part 6. Through this part,
the EPA adopted the CEQ Regulations and supplemented those regulations
for actions proposed by the EPA that are subject to NEPA requirements.
The EPA actions subject to NEPA include the award of wastewater
treatment construction grants under section 201 of the Clean Water Act,
the EPA's issuance of new source National Pollutant Discharge
Elimination System (NPDES) permits under section 402 of the Clean Water
Act, certain research and development projects, the EPA actions
involving renovations or new construction of EPA facilities, and
certain grants awarded for projects authorized by Congress through the
agency's annual appropriations act. The EPA is collecting information
from certain applicants as part of the process of complying with either
NEPA or Executive Order 12114 (``Environmental Effects Abroad of Major
Federal Actions''). The EPA's NEPA regulations apply to actions of the
EPA that are subject to NEPA in order to ensure that environmental
information is available to the agency's decision-makers and the public
before decisions are made and before actions are taken. When the EPA
conducts an environmental assessment pursuant to its Executive Order
12114 procedures, the agency generally follows its NEPA procedures.
Compliance with the procedures is the responsibility of the EPA's
Responsible Officials, and for applicant proposed actions applicants
may be required to provide environmental information to the EPA as part
of the environmental review process. For this ICR, applicant-proposed
projects subject to either NEPA or Executive Order 12114 (and that are
not addressed in other EPA programs' ICRs) are addressed through the
NEPA process.
Form Numbers: None.
Respondents/affected entities: Certain grant or permit applicants
who must submit environmental information documentation to the EPA for
their projects to comply with NEPA or Executive Order 12114, including
Wastewater Treatment Construction Grants Program facilities funded
under section 201 of the Clean Water Act, State and Tribal Assistance
Grant recipients, and new source NPDES permittees.
Respondent's obligation to respond: Voluntary.
Estimated number of respondents: 516 (total).
Frequency of response: On occasion.
Total estimated burden: 73,800 hours (per year). Burden is defined
at 5 CFR 1320.03(b).
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Total estimated cost: $6,259,214 (per year), includes $0 annualized
capital or operation & maintenance costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is an increase of 66,240 hours in
the total estimated respondent burden compared with the ICR currently
approved by OMB. This increase is due to an adjustment change in the
size of the respondent universe due to the return of congressional
earmarks in the EPA annual appropriations act.
Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2023-02665 Filed 2-7-23; 8:45 am]
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