Notice2025-03311
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Clean Water Act Section 404 State-Assumed Programs (Renewal)
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Published
February 28, 2025
Issuing agencies
Environmental Protection Agency
Abstract
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), Clean Water Act Section 404 State-Assumed Programs (OMB Control Number 2040-0168; EPA ICR Number 0220.18) 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 28, 2025. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register on August 14, 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 90, Number 39 (Friday, February 28, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10897-10898]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-03311]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OW-2020-0276; FRL-12660-01-OMS]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Clean Water Act Section 404 State-Assumed Programs (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), Clean Water Act Section 404
State-Assumed Programs (OMB Control Number 2040-0168; EPA ICR Number
0220.18) 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 28, 2025. Public comments were previously requested via the
Federal Register on August 14, 2023, 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 31, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OW-2020-0276, 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: Christine Maietta, Oceans, Wetlands,
and Communities Division, Office of Wetlands, Oceans, and Watersheds,
(Mail Code 4504T), Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania
Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 564-3351; email
address: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#12262226753f60677e777f73797b7c75527762733c757d64"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="c6f2f6f2a1ebb4b3aaa3aba7adafa8a186a3b6a7e8a1a9b0">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a proposed extension of the ICR,
which is currently approved through February 28, 2025. 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 August 14, 2023 during a 60-day comment period (88 FR 55276). 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, Mail Code 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW,
Washington, DC 20460. 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 information collection request describes the burden
(hours) and labor cost (dollars) associated with 40 CFR 233, the
regulations that implement Clean Water Act Section 404(g). The Clean
Water Act authorizes states [tribes] to assume the section 404 permit
program for discharges of dredged or fill material into certain waters
of the U.S. Implementing regulations establish specific information
that must be submitted to EPA when a state/tribe requests program
assumption and while administering the program. There are three types
of information collected for different needs. The three parts are: (1)
Information needed for EPA to review and approve state or tribal
requests to assume the program; (2) information needed from permit
applicants for reviewing and processing the permit application; and (3)
information the state or tribe must submit to EPA in their annual
report summarizing program administration.
Form Numbers: None.
Respondents/affected entities: Tribes, states, and the regulated
community (i.e., permittees)
Respondent's obligation to respond: Required to obtain or retain
benefits. (40 CFR 233)
Estimated number of respondents: During the three-year collection
period, the agency estimated a total of three (3) states will be
approved to administer the Section 404 program (noting that two states
have already received approval to administer a Section 404 program, and
the agency assumed one (1) state and zero (0) Tribes will submit a new
request during this collection period); and a total of 15,237
permittees are expected to seek a Section 404 permit across the three
states approved to administer the Section 404 programs.
Frequency of response: Frequency of information collected from
Tribes, states, and permittees depends on the
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associated activity. Collection frequencies vary from regular to
irregular or rare.
Total estimated burden: 130,600 (per year). Burden is defined at 5
CFR 1320.03(b).
Total estimated cost: $6,576,054 (per year), includes $0 annualized
capital or operation & maintenance costs.
Changes in the estimates: There is a decrease of 88,281 hours in
the total estimated respondent burden compared with the ICR currently
approved by OMB. The primary factor contributing to the overall
decrease in burden and labor costs between this renewal and the
previous ICR was the reduction in the number of Tribes and states
seeking assumption and administering a Section 404 program. Other
factors that influenced the overall burden and costs estimates included
revising scaling factors for individual activities (e.g., completing
and reviewing permit applications, and program modification) and
updating labor costs to 2024 hourly wages. Additionally, the agency
recognized the seven state feasibility studies provided useful
information to inform burden and costs associated with Section 404
program assumption. For this reason, this collection request
incorporates data from those studies and presents a summary of that
information in a new ``pre-submission activities'' category.
Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Information Engagement Division.
[FR Doc. 2025-03311 Filed 2-27-25; 8:45 am]
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