Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Clean Water State Revolving Fund and Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Programs (Renewal)
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is planning to submit an information collection request (ICR), Clean Water State Revolving Fund and Drinking Water State Revolving Fund...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is planning to submit an information collection request (ICR), Clean Water State Revolving Fund and Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Programs (EPA ICR Number 1803.10 OMB Control Number 2040-0185) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. Before doing so, EPA is soliciting public comments on specific aspects of the proposed information collection as described below. This is a proposed extension of the ICR, which is currently approved through August 31, 2026. This notice allows for 30 days for public comments.
DATES:
Comments must be submitted on or before September 28, 2026.
ADDRESSES:
Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-OW-2002-0059, to EPA online using
www.regulations.gov
(our preferred method), by email to
OW-Docket@epa.gov,
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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Howard Rubin, Drinking Water Infrastructure Development Division,
( printed page 55332)
Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water, 4606M, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: 202-564-2051; email address:
Rubin.HowardE@epa.gov.
or Mark Mylin, Water Infrastructure Division, Office of Wastewater Management, 4204M, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: 202-564-0607; email address:
Mylin.Mark@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
This is a proposed extension of the ICR, which is currently approved through August 31, 2026. 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 May 5, 2026, during a 60-day comment period (91 FR 24231). 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
www.regulations.gov
or in person at the EPA Docket Center, WJC West, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC. The telephone number for the Docket Center is 202-566-1744. For additional information about EPA's public docket, visit
www.epa.gov/dockets.
Abstract:
The information collection activities will occur primarily at the program-level through the State Capitalization Grant Agreement/Intended Use Plan and Annual Report. The information on the Intended Use Plan (IUP) is needed annually to describe how the State intends to use available State Revolving Fund (SRF) funds for the year to meet the objectives of the Clean Water Act (CWA) or Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) and to further the goal of protecting public health. The Annual Report is needed to provide detailed information on how the State has met its goals and objectives of the previous one or two fiscal years as stated in the IUP and grant agreement. The CWA and SDWA require this information to ensure the national accountability, adequate public review and comment, fiscal integrity, and consistent management needed to achieve public health and CWA and SDWA compliance objectives. Additional information about the CWSRFs and DWSRFs are available at
www.epa.gov/cwsrf/learn-about-clean-water-state-revolving-fund-cwsrf
and
www.epa.gov/dwsrf/how-drinking-water-state-revolving-fund-works#tab-1,
respectively.
Form Numbers:
None.
Respondents/affected entities:
Entities affected by this action are States and local governments
Respondent's obligation to respond:
Mandatory, per the Clean Water Act Title VI and the Safe Drinking Water Act Section 1452.
Estimated number of respondents:
1,440 State and local Respondents (total).
Frequency of response:
Varies by requirement (
i.e.,
quarterly, semi-annually, annually).
Total estimated burden:
93,553 hours (per year). Burden is defined at 5 CFR 1320.03(b).
Total estimated cost:
$12,892,005 (per year), which includes $100,000 annualized capital or operation & maintenance costs.
Changes in the estimates:
There is a decrease of 14,966 hours in the total estimated respondent burden compared with the ICR currently approved by OMB. This decrease is due to the end of supplemental capitalization grants appropriated by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) to both SRF programs after Fiscal Year 2026.
Courtney Kerwin,
Deputy Director, Data and Enterprise Programs Division.
Use this for formal legal and research references to the published document.
91 FR 55331
Web Citation
Suggested Web Citation
Use this when citing the archival web version of the document.
“Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Clean Water State Revolving Fund and Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Programs (Renewal),” thefederalregister.org (August 27, 2026), https://thefederalregister.org/documents/2026-17456/agency-information-collection-activities-submission-to-the-office-of-management-and-budget-for-review-and-approval-comme.
www.regulations.gov
www.epa.gov/dockets
5 CFR 1320.03(b)