Hazardous Substance Handling and Storage Procedures and Associated Cost Survey

Draft email text for State, Territorial and Tribal agencies specific to survey questions 4 (drinking water impacts) and 5 (fish kills).

Request for Response to Survey Question 4 and/or 5: Survey on Clean Water Act (CWA) Hazardous Substance Spill Prevention (OMB Control number 2050-xxxx)

Under the authority of the Clean Water Act, EPA is considering a regulatory proposal regarding preventing discharges of CWA hazardous substances (HS) to surface waters. To assist the agency in refining proposed regulatory approaches and the baseline estimate on the potential universe of covered facilities, EPA has developed a Survey on Clean Water Act Hazardous Substances and Spill Impacts. The purpose of this survey is to:

• collect information on the universe of facilities that could potentially be subject to spill prevention regulations for hazardous substances listed at 40 CFR 116.4 (CWA Hazardous Substances),

• identify impacts of discharges of CWA HS to surface waters (e.g., fish kills, drinking water) over the past 10 years, and

• gather information on existing state, tribal and territorial programs in place to help prevent and mitigate the impact of CWA HS to surface waters.

You have been identified as a potential respondent to the information collection specific to questions 4 and 5 by [NAME] of [STATE/TERRITORIAL/TRIBAL ERC AGENCY] because you have custodial responsibility for information on fish kills or drinking water impacts having occurred over the past 10 years due to a discharge of a CWA HS (40 CFR 116.4).

The survey and instructions are provided as an attachment to this email.

EPA requests that fish kill or drinking water impact data be submitted electronically, in a database (preferably MS Excel) that can be manipulated, either via email or by US mail on portable media (e.g., CD or thumbdrive) to Contractor Name/Address (email address)

EPA is providing 45 days to respond to this voluntary survey, and requests that information be submitted by XXXX, XX, 2018

We appreciate your time and effort in providing responses to this information collection request.

Please contact Joe Beaman at 202-566-0420 ([email protected]) or Stacey Yonce at 202-564-2288 ([email protected]) for questions regarding the information collection request.

Thank you,

Kim Jennings

Director, Regulatory Implementation Division

Office of Emergency Management