Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request; EPA Program Information on Source Water Protection (Renewal)
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), EPA Program Information on Source Water Protection (EPA ICR Number 1816.09, OMB ...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), EPA Program Information on Source Water Protection (EPA ICR Number 1816.09, OMB Control Number 2040-0197) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. This is a proposed extension of the ICR, which is currently approved through September 30, 2026. Public comments were previously requested via the
Federal Register
on July 9, 2026, during a 60-day comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
DATES:
Comments may be submitted on or before October 26, 2026.
ADDRESSES:
Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-OW-2026-4852 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.
Submit written comments and recommendations to OMB for the proposed information collection within 30 days of publication of this notice to
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
Find this particular information collection by selecting “Currently under 30-day Review—Open for Public Comments” or by using the search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Laura Montoya, Drinking Water Capacity and Compliance Assistance Division, Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water, MC 4606M, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: 202-564-2202; email address:
montoya.laura@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
This is a proposed extension of the ICR, which is currently approved through September 30, 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 July 9, 2026 during a 60-day comment period (91 FR 42440). This notice allows 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:
EPA is collecting data from the states on their advancement toward substantial implementation of source water protection strategies for all community water systems (CWSs). EPA and states use this voluntary collection of data to track and understand the progress toward increasing the percentage of CWSs (and the populations they serve) where risk is minimized through source water protection. Source water protection data that states submit directly to the Safe Drinking Water Information System is accessible to the public via EPA's website at:
www.epa.gov/ground-water-and-drinking-water/safe-drinking-water-information-system-sdwis-federal-reporting.
Availability of this information, together with source water and demographic indicators that are publicly available via EPA's Drinking Water Mapping Application to Protect Source Waters on EPA's website at:
www.epa.gov/sourcewaterprotection/drinking-water-mapping-application-protect-source-waters-dwmaps,
empowers communities to include these considerations in their own analyses and outreach efforts.
Form Numbers:
None.
Respondents/affected entities:
51.
Respondent's obligation to respond:
Voluntary.
Estimated number of respondents:
51 (total).
Frequency of response:
Annual.
Total estimated burden:
102 hours (per year). Burden is defined at 5 CFR 1320.03(b).
Total estimated cost:
$6,608 (per year), which includes $0 annualized capital or operation & maintenance costs.
Changes in the Estimates:
There is decrease of 186 hours in the total estimated respondent burden compared with the ICR currently approved by OMB . This decrease is anticipated because all states will report source water protection data directly to the Safe Drinking Water Information System, decreasing the previous burden of reporting information to EPA Regional contacts via email. Additionally, state databases are fully developed and tracking is routine,
( printed page 60624)
which EPA expects will minimize hourly burden and cost for states.
Courtney Kerwin,
Deputy Director, Data and Enterprise Programs Division.
Use this for formal legal and research references to the published document.
91 FR 60623
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; EPA Program Information on Source Water Protection (Renewal),” thefederalregister.org (September 24, 2026), https://thefederalregister.org/documents/2026-19502/agency-information-collection-activities-submission-to-the-office-of-management-and-budget-for-review-and-approval-comme.
www.regulations.gov
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain
www.epa.gov/dockets
5 CFR 1320.03(b)