NPDES Electronic Reporting (Final Rule)

ICR 201509-2020-001

OMB: 2020-0035

Federal Form Document

Forms and Documents
Document
Name
Status
No forms / supporting documents in this ICR. Check IC Document Collections.
IC Document Collections
IC ID
Document
Title
Status
207981
Modified
207980
Modified
ICR Details
2020-0035 201509-2020-001
Historical Inactive 201307-2020-003
EPA/OECA 2468.02
NPDES Electronic Reporting (Final Rule)
New collection (Request for a new OMB Control Number)   No
Regular
Preapproved 01/08/2016
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA) 09/23/2015
The collection is pre-approved, contingent upon no substantive changes being made to this collection after adoption of the final rule. Otherwise this collection should be re-submitted to OMB for review.
  Inventory as of this Action Requested Previously Approved
01/31/2019 36 Months From Approved
1,213,853 0 0
673,779 0 0
0 0 0

EPA is publishing this final regulation that requires the electronic reporting and sharing of Clean Water Act National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) program information instead of the current paper-based reporting of this information. This action will save time and resources for permittees, states, tribes, territories, and the U.S. Government while increasing data accuracy, improving compliance, and supporting EPA's goal of providing better protection of the nation's waters. By modernizing this Clean Water Act reporting program, permittees and regulators will use existing, available information technology to electronically report information and data related to the NPDES permit program. This regulation will help provide greater clarity on who is and who is not in compliance and enhances transparency by providing a timelier, complete, more accurate, and nationally-consistent set of data about the NPDES program. By providing improved data in a more accessible form, this final rulemaking will improve the ability of EPA and authorized NPDES programs to target the most serious water quality and compliance problems. Furthermore, by reducing the time and resources devoted to outdated data management activities, the rule could allow authorized NPDES programs to shift limited resources to important water quality and public health protection activities. The transition from paper to electronic reporting will require close coordination and cooperation between EPA and authorized NPDES programs. This regulation provides important flexibility while still implementing electronic reporting in a timely and effective fashion.

PL: Pub.L. 92 - 500 501 Name of Law: Clean Water Act
  
None

2020-AA47 Final or interim final rulemaking

No

2
IC Title Form No. Form Name
Private Sector (Regulated Entities)
States/Tribes/Territories

  Total Request Previously Approved Change Due to New Statute Change Due to Agency Discretion Change Due to Adjustment in Estimate Change Due to Potential Violation of the PRA
Annual Number of Responses 1,213,853 0 0 1,213,853 0 0
Annual Time Burden (Hours) 673,779 0 0 673,779 0 0
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars) 0 0 0 0 0 0
Yes
Changing Regulations
No
The NPDES Electronic Reporting Rule creates some additional short-term burden in order to transition from paper to electronic reporting. EPA believes electronic reporting is needed to improve data quality and availability while reducing costs in the long term. Specifically, the rule is expected to save time and resources for states while improving compliance and better protecting the Nation's waters. This ICR estimates that respondents would incur a total average annual incremental burden reduction of 197,236 hours to comply with the requirements of the NPDES Electronic Reporting Rule in the first three years of its implementation. Note that the net burden reduction results from labor burden reductions to state authorized NPDES programs; regulated entities do not experience a net reduction in labor burden. The State/Territories IC in ROCIS also does not capture the offsetting burden decrease because the existing burden is captured under other OMB control numbers, and the system cannot approve a negative burden figure here. This reduction will be captured later when the effects of electronic reporting are incorporated into the existing NPDES ICRs.

$2,618,460
No
No
No
No
No
Uncollected
Carey Johnston 202 566-1014

  No

On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding the proposed collection of information, that the certification covers:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
    (i) Why the information is being collected;
    (ii) Use of information;
    (iii) Burden estimate;
    (iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a benefit, or mandatory);
    (v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
    (vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control number;
 
 
 
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.
09/23/2015


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