Burden Calculation Tables

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Overview

Table 2
Table 3
Table 4
Table 5

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Sheet 1: Table 2

Performance criterion	Respondent activity	3-year managerial burden		3-year technical burden		Total 3-year burden
		Total burden per activity (hours)	Total labor cost at $69.06/hour (dollars)	Total burden per activity (hours)	Total labor cost at $33.15/hour (dollars)	Total burden per activity (hours)	Total labor cost (dollars)
1 - Risk-based Beach Evaluation and Classification Process	Identify factors used to evaluate and rank beaches.	3	$207	18	$597	21	$804
	Identify coastal recreation waters.	2	$138	180	$5,967	182	$6,105
	Notify the EPA at least annually if the list of beaches changes significantly because of revised beach rankings or changes to monitoring and notification requirements and considerations.	40	$2,762	240	$7,956	280	$10,718
	Provide for public review of the risk-based rank and classification.	10	$691	150	$4,973	160	$5,664
	Performance Criterion 1 Total	55	$3,798	588	$19,493	643	$23,291
2 - Tiered Monitoring Plan	Adequately prioritize, in the tiered monitoring plan the frequency, locations, and methods of monitoring and assessment of coastal waters.	100	$6,906	400	$13,260	500	$20,166
	Provide for public review of the tiered monitoring plan.	20	$1,381	120	$3,978	140	$5,359
	Develop appropriate quality control policies and procedures and submit adequate quality management plans and quality assurance project plans to the EPA for approval.	300	$20,718	60	$1,989	360	$22,707
	Performance Criterion 2 Total	420	$29,005	580	$19,227	1000	$48,232
3 - Methods and assessment procedures	Submit to the EPA methods for characterizing water quality relative to human health in coastal recreation areas.	50	$3,453	250	$8,288	300	$11,741
	Provide documentation of the performance of methods other than those that the EPA recommended or approved or validated.	40	$2,762	200	$6,630	240	$9,392
	Identify and submit to the EPA procedures for assessing short-term increases in fecal indicator bacteria densities that indicate risk to human health in coastal recreation waters.	50	$3,453	200	$6,630	250	$10,083
	Performance Criterion 3 Total	140	$9,668	650	$21,548	790	$31,216
4 - Monitoring report submission	Make monitoring data available to the public, including posting on a website.	300	$20,718	1,440	$47,736	1,740	$68,454
	Report monitoring data to the EPA at least annually or a frequency that the EPA Administrator determines. Reported data must be consistent with the EPA reporting requirements.	600	$41,436	600	$19,890	1,200	$61,326
	Performance Criterion 4 Total	900	$62,154	2,040	$67,626	2,940	$129,780
5 - Delegation of monitoring responsibilities	If a state delegates monitoring responsibility to local governments, the state's grant recipient must describe the process that the state follows.	6	$414	40	$1,326	46	$1,740
	Performance Criterion 5 Total	6	$414	40	$1,326	46	$1,740
6 - Public notification and risk communication plan	Identify measures to notify the EPA and local governments (if applicable) when indicator bacteria levels exceed a beach notification threshold.	2	$138	40	$1,326	42	$1,464
	Identify measures to notify the public when a beach notification threshold has been exceeded by posting a sign or functional equivalent.	2	$138	40	$1,326	42	$1,464
	Identify measures that inform the public of the potential risks associated with water contact activities in the coastal recreation waters that do not meet applicable WQS.	2	$138	40	$1,326	42	$1,464
	Provide for public review of the public notification and risk communication plan.	2	$138	50	$1,658	52	$1,796
	Performance Criterion 6 Total	8	$552	170	$5,636	178	$6,188
7 - Actions to notify the public	Promptly issue a public notification for exceedance of the beach notification threshold when there is no reason to doubt the accuracy of the sample.	100	$6,906	600	$19,890	700	$26,796
	If there is a reason to doubt the accuracy of the first sample, jurisdictions may resample before issuing a notification.	100	$6,906	200	$6,630	300	$13,536
	Performance Criterion 7 Total	200	$13,812	800	$26,520	1,000	$40,332
8 - Notification Report Submission	Jurisdictions must report to the EPA at least annually, or at a frequency the EPA Administrator determines, on the occurrence, nature, location, pollutants involved, and extent of any exceedances of any WQS for pathogens and pathogen indicators.	120	$8,287	72	$2,387	192	$10,674
	Performance Criterion 8 Total	120	$8,287	72	$2,387	192	$10,674
9 - Delegation of notification responsibilities	States must identify any local governments to which they have delegated responsibility for implementing a notification program and describe the process by which the state may delegate such authority.	6	$414	18	$597	24	$1,011
	Performance Criterion 9 Total	6	$414	18	$597	24	$1,011
10 – Adoption of new or revised WQS and identification and use of a beach notification threshold*	Develop and implement two separate schedules to adopt new or revised WQS by FY 2016 and to identify and use a beach notification threshold by FY 2016.	0	$0	0	$0	0	Bone, Tracy: Zero'd out line 38 ($23K, 300 hours) given we are no longer requesting schedules $0
	Before identification and use of a new beach notification threshold, continue to make beach notification decisions using the existing threshold based on the currently applicable WQS, e.g., SSM.	0	$0	0	$0	0	Bone, Tracy: Was zero under 2015 ICR. $0
	Performance Criterion 10 Total	0	$0	0	$0	$0	$0
11 - Public evaluation of program**	Provide an opportunity for the public to comment on the beach evaluation and classification process; sampling design and monitoring plan; and public notification and risk communication plan.	0	$0	0	$0	0	$0
	Performance Criterion 11 Total	0	$0	0	$0	0	$0
Three-year Total		1,855	$128,104	4,958	$164,360	6,813	$292,464
Annual Total		618	$42,701	1,653	$54,787	2,271	$97,488
* The information for this criterion is no longer collected because states have adopted new or revised water quality standards for recreation (or are in the process) and have identified beach notification thresholds.
** Burden and costs associated with this performance criterion are already accounted for under performance criteria 1, 2, and 6.

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Sheet 2: Table 3

Activities	3-year agency burden (hours)	3-year agency burden (dollars)	Per activity	39 Resp.
The EPA Headquarters to monitor state, tribal, and territorial beach programs annually to ensure compliance with the performance criteria.	1,521	Bone, Tracy: Update with 2017 salary $74,149	13	507
The EPA Regions to monitor state, tribal, and territorial beach programs annually to ensure compliance with the performance criteria.	2,106	$102,668	18	702
The EPA Headquarters and EPA Regions to provide miscellaneous support to eligible states, tribes, and territories.	1,638	$79,853	14	546
The EPA Regions to revise work plans and update beach monitoring and notification program procedures.	1,170	$57,038	10	390
The EPA Regions to perform technical review on Quality Assurance Project Plan and Grants Management Plan, DQOs and SOPs prior to implementation.	3,510	$171,113	30	1170
3-year total	9,945	$484,821	85	3315
Annual total	3,315	$161,607

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Sheet 3: Table 4

Performance Criterion	Respondent hours/year*	Respondent labor cost/year	Number respondents	Total hours/year	Total labor cost/year	Total O&M cost/year
1	215	$7,764	Bone, Tracy: Added Swimonmish to bring to 39 39	8,385	$302,783	$11,063,780
2	333	$16,077	39	12,987	$627,016
3	264	$10,405	39	10,296	$405,808
4	980	$43,260	39	38,220	$1,687,140
5	15	$580	39	585	$22,620
6	59	$2,063	39	2,301	$80,444
7	333	$13,444	39	12,987	$524,316
8	64	$3,558	39	2,496	$138,762
9	8	$337	39	312	$13,143
10	0	$0	39	0	$0
11	0	$0	39	0	$0
Total	2,271	$97,488	39	88,569	$3,802,032	$11,063,780
	*Alternated rounding up/down to avoid rounding discrepancy with Table 2

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Sheet 4: Table 5

Group	Burden (hours)	Labor cost	O&M cost	Total cost			2015 State	Change from 2015 State
39 respondents	88,569	$3,802,032	$11,063,780	$14,865,812		Hours	91,276	2,707
Agency	3,315	$161,607	$0	$161,607		O&M	$11,353,146	$289,366
Total	91,884	$3,963,639	$11,063,780	$15,027,419		Total	$15,453,308	$587,496
for O&M calculation:
6079	beaches
2	samples/beach-week
26	weeks/beach season year
35	$/sample
Total O&M=	$11,063,780	per year (for all jurisdictions)