This ICR is approved. It adds 1.8 million burden hours for lead and copper, including adjustments to the lead and copper burden totals to reflect 1) the minor adjustments rule, 2) reduced monitoring and compliance activities based on schedules contained in the origianl lead and copper rule, and 3) a transfer of program overhead burden to the general drinking water program ICR. It also include 352 additional burden hours for aeramonus monitoring that were submitted on an ICR change worksheet dated 10/21/02. Simultaneously with this approval, OMB is closing out ICR 2040-0210, which had previously authorized reporting and record keeping requirements associated with lead and copper and which included 2.4 million burden hours for those activities._See ICR documentation for details of burden hour asjustments.
Inventory as of this Action
Requested
Previously Approved
06/30/2005
06/30/2005
12/31/2004
3,433,771
0
2,676,159
6,117,935
0
4,337,535
159,937,000
0
148,459,000
The Disinfectants/Disinfection Byproducts, Chemical and Radionuclides Rules ICR is the result of a consolidation of activities covered in the 1998 Stage 1 DBPR ICR, some rules and actitivites covered in the 1993 PWSS ICR and activities and rules previously covered in other Office of Ground Water Drinking Water (OGWDW) standalone ICRs. As part of the consolidation effort, the Disinfectants/Disinfection, Chemical, and Radionuclides Rules ICR will be amended to include burden and costs associated with the Lead and Copper Rule. The National Primary Drinking Water for Lead and Copper (The Lead and Coppe rule or LCR),.......
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