Notice2024-11765
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Materials Management (New)
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Published
May 29, 2024
Issuing agencies
Environmental Protection Agency
Abstract
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), Materials Management (EPA ICR Number 2789.01, OMB Control Number 2050-NEW) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. This is a request for approval of a new collection. Public comments were previously requested on the overall collection via the Federal Register on September 29, 2023, during a 60- day comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments on this specific information request.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 104 (Wednesday, May 29, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46393-46394]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-11765]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OLEM-2023-0416; FRL-12003-01-OMS]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Materials Management (New)
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an
information collection request (ICR), Materials Management (EPA ICR
Number 2789.01, OMB Control Number 2050-NEW) to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with
the Paperwork Reduction Act. This is a request for approval of a new
collection. Public comments were previously requested on the overall
collection via the Federal Register on September 29, 2023, during a 60-
day comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for
public comments on this specific information request.
DATES: Comments may be submitted on or before June 28, 2024.
ADDRESSES: 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: Hannah Blaufuss, Resource Conservation
and Sustainability Division, Office of Resource Conservation and
Recovery, 5306P, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania
Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: 202-564-5614; email
address: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#46042a273320333535682e272828272e0623362768212930"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="6e2c020f1b081b1d1d40060f00000f062e0b1e0f40090118">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a request for approval of a new
information collection under EPA's Materials Management Generic ICR. 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 on the overall collection
via the Federal Register on September 29, 2023 during a 60-day comment
period (88 FR 67277). This notice allows for an additional 30 days for
public comments. 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: Several statutes including the Save our Seas 2.0 Act (SOS
2.0) (Pub. L. 116-224), the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
(IIJA) (Pub. L. 117-58), and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
(RCRA) (Pub. L. 94-580) direct EPA to implement grants and programs
promoting efficient and equitable non-hazardous waste management in the
United States. EPA's Office of Land and Emergency Management, Office of
Resource Conservation and Recovery (ORCR) is charged with, among other
responsibilities, assuring that associated programs, policies, and
grant monies are properly targeted to meet those goals. This proposed
information collection is designed to provide ORCR with the timely and
consistent information on waste/materials generation, disposition, and
recovery it needs to fulfill that mission. Specifically, it will allow
EPA to develop and use new forms and methods to support additional
grant reporting requirements and volume resulting from recent funding
legislation. Furthermore, the collection will allow EPA to use
interviews, focus groups, and surveys to inform the Agency's
understanding of methods, amounts, and economics of solid waste
collection, management, recovery, reduction, and reuse.
EPA is recommending that OMB provides clearance for the Agency to
conduct this set of associated information collection activities as a
hybrid generic ICR. As described in OMB Memo ``Paperwork Reduction
Act--Generic Clearances'' from May 28, 2010:
A generic ICR is a request for OMB approval of a plan for
conducting more than one information collection using very similar
methods when (1) the need for and the overall practical utility of
the data collection can be evaluated in advance, as part of the
review of the proposed plan, but (2) the agency cannot determine the
details of the specific individual collections until a later time.
To use a generic ICR, agencies follow the traditional ICR process
to initially request OMB clearance for a general set of related
information collection activities. Agencies then file subsequent
requests (ICs) to gain clearance for specific actions on an as-needed
basis. However, because clearance for many of the common elements (such
as the agency's authority to collect information, the scope and
practical utility of information to be collected, the mechanisms and
methodologies that will be employed, and the overall estimates of
respondent burden) are established in the initial request, the content
of, and approval process for, individual ICs can be, to varying
extents, abridged. Within the range of generic ICR types, hybrid
generic ICRs require the highest level of public and OMB review--with
each IC submission having its own public notice and 30 day comment
period announced in the Federal Register. EPA believes that a hybrid
generic ICR is the most appropriate model to be used in this case
because it: (1) allows the Agency to react quickly to evolving national
strategies and infrastructure improvement plans; (2) allows the Agency
to apply insight gathered in initial ICs to inform the need, scope, and
methodologies used in subsequent information collections; and, (3)
maintains the public's and OMB's ability to apply robust scrutiny to
all proposed collections. Given the demonstrated need for fundamental
waste generation and management information, the evolving nature of
these data, and the expectations for pace/progress placed on ORCR,
pursuing individual conventional ICRs to gather the required
information would be impractical.
Form numbers: To be included in individual IC requests.
Respondents/affected entities: The grant reports would be
administered to grantees which include U.S. States and Territories,
communities of U.S. states, federally recognized Native American
Tribes, and intertribal consortia. Additional information collections
used to assess waste generation and management systems across the
country may expand that respondent universe to include, non-profit
organizations, public-private partnerships, U.S. cities and
municipalities, waste management and recycling facilities, and
individuals.
Respondent's obligation to respond: Grant recipients will be
required to submit progress and final reports according to the
Infrastructure
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Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) (Pub. L. 117-58). Other information
collection activities will be voluntary.
Estimated number of respondents: 146,345 (total).
Frequency of response: Grant recipients are required to report on a
quarterly basis. Other information collections will be determined on an
activity-by-activity basis, but no more than annually.
Total estimated burden: 15,397 hours (per year). Burden is defined
at 5 CFR 1320.03(b).
Total estimated cost: $1,001,153 (per year) which assumes a 100%
response rate, annualized capital or operation & maintenance costs are
not expected.
Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2024-11765 Filed 5-28-24; 8:45 am]
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