Notice2023-28641
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Lead and Copper Rule Revisions (LCRR) (Renewal)
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Published
December 28, 2023
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Environmental Protection Agency
Abstract
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), Lead and Copper Rule Revisions (LCRR)" (EPA ICR Number 2606.03, OMB Control Number 2040-0297) 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 LCRR ICR, which is currently approved through December 31, 2023. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register on July 24, 2023, 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 248 (Thursday, December 28, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 89689-89690]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-28641]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OW-2017-0300; FRL-11639-01-OMS]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Lead and Copper Rule Revisions (LCRR) (Renewal)
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), Lead and Copper Rule Revisions
(LCRR)'' (EPA ICR Number 2606.03, OMB Control Number 2040-0297) 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 LCRR ICR, which is currently approved through December
31, 2023. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal
Register on July 24, 2023, during a 60-day comment period. This notice
allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before January 29,
2024.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OW-2017-0300, to EPA online using <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a> (our preferred
method) 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: Amina Grant, Office of Water, Mail
Code 4607M, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW,
Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: 202-564-7683; email address:
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#7b3c091a150f553a1612151a3b1e0b1a551c140d"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="bafdc8dbd4ce94fbd7d3d4dbfadfcadb94ddd5cc">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a proposed extension of the LCRR
ICR, which is currently approved through December 31, 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 July 24, 2023, during a 60-day comment period (88 FR 47496). This
notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments. Supporting
documents, which explain in detail the information that 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: This ICR renewal characterizes the incremental impacts of
the LCRR regarding burden and costs for the three-year period of
January 1, 2024, through December 31, 2026. In addition to renewing the
LCRR ICR, this request includes information on potential burden that
may result if respondents follow recommendations included in EPA's SL
Inventory Guidance when seeking to comply with LCRR inventory
requirements over the same three-year period.
EPA intends to revise the LCRR prior to its compliance date. The
proposed Lead and Copper Rule Improvements (LCRI) was published on
December 6, 2023 (88 FR 84878), and EPA intends to promulgate the final
LCRI by October 16, 2024, revising many rule areas of the LCRR.
Additional information on the potential burden established in the
proposal preamble may result from respondents following EPA's
recommendations in the ``Guidance for Developing and Maintaining a
Service Line Inventory'' (August 2022, EPA 816-B-22-001) (referred to
as SL Inventory Guidance) when seeking to comply with the requirements
of the LCRR. If the LCRI is promulgated as planned, there would be no
need for water systems to implement the LCRR except for the initial
inventory requirements, public education requirements for consumers
served by a lead, galvanized requiring replacement, or unknown service
line, and the 24-hour public notice requirement. Similarly, states are
not expected to apply for or obtain primacy for the LCRR. Currently,
most states have sought, or intend to seek, an extension until December
18, 2025, to obtain primacy for the LCRR. If the LCRI is promulgated as
planned in 2024, that primacy deadline would no longer be applicable.
For the purposes of this ICR, however, this notice includes the
estimated burden and costs associated with this ICR renewal for the
LCRR as well as describes what would happen without promulgation of the
LCRI. It is provided for the reader to understand the information that
would be collected if the LCRI is not promulgated. When EPA promulgates
the LCRI, the Agency intends to issue a new ICR that would describe and
assess the revised burden and costs to reflect the changed regulatory
requirements of the LCRI.
Form Numbers: None.
Respondents/affected entities: Respondents include owners/operators
of PWSs and primacy agencies (and the EPA Regions with primary agency
responsibility).
Respondent's obligation to respond: Both mandatory (LCRR
requirements) and voluntary (SL Inventory Guidance) components.
Estimated number of respondents: The number of respondents is
67,712.
Frequency of response: Once and annually, varies by activity.
Total estimated burden: 9,660,286 hours (per year). Burden is
defined at 5 CFR 1320.03(b).
Total estimated cost: $641,162,423(per year), which includes
$225,456,799 annualized capital or operation & maintenance costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is an increase of 8,530,946 hours
in the total estimated respondent burden compared with the ICR
currently approved by OMB. This increase is primarily due to the
differing ICR burden estimation windows. The previous ICR covered the
first three years after the promulgation of the LCRR when PWSs and
primacy agencies could have been engaged in the regulatory startup/
implementation activities identified in the currently approved ICR.
This ICR renewal covers these same activities from the current ICR for
only the first year of the renewal period (2024). In the next two years
covered by the ICR renewal (2025 and 2026), if the LCRI is not
promulgated as planned in 2024, both systems and primacy agencies would
work to
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implement several ongoing, additional LCRR requirements.
Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Information Engagement Division.
[FR Doc. 2023-28641 Filed 12-27-23; 8:45 am]
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