[Federal Register: May 22, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 99)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[OAR-2002-0094; FRL-7502-6]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; (EPA ICR No. 2100.01)
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501
et seq.), this document announces that the following Information
Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for review and approval: Reporting Requirements Under
EPA's Climate Leaders Program, (EPA ICR No. 2100.01). This ICR
describes the nature of the information collection and its estimated
burden and cost.
DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before June 23, 2003.
ADDRESSES: Follow the detailed instructions in SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tom Kerr, Climate Protection
Partnerships Division, Office of Atmospheric Programs, Office of Air
and Radiation, Mailcode 6202J, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: 202-
564-0047; fax number: 202-565-2134; e-mail address: kerr.tom@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has submitted the following ICR to OMB
for review and approval according to the procedures prescribed in 5 CFR
1320.12. On June 18, 2002 (67 FR 117), EPA sought comments on this ICR
pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received 2 comments and has addressed
them in the program design.
EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID
No. OAR-2002-0094, which is available for public viewing at the Air and
Radiation Docket and Information Center in the EPA Docket Center (EPA/
DC), EPA West, Room B102, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC.
The EPA Docket Center Public Reading Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to
4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays. The
telephone number for the Reading Room is (202) 566-1744, and the
telephone number for the Air and Radiation Docket and Information
Center is (202) 566-1742. An electronic version of the public docket is
available through EPA Dockets (EDOCKET) at http://www.epa.gov/edocket.
Use EDOCKET to submit or view public comments, access the index listing
of the contents of the public docket, and to access those documents in
the public docket that are available electronically. Once in the
system, select ``search,'' then key in the docket ID number identified
above.
Any comments related to this ICR should be submitted to EPA and OMB
within 30 days of this notice, and according to the following detailed
instructions: (1) Submit your comments to EPA online using EDOCKET (our
preferred method), by e-mail to a-and-r-docket@epamail.epa.gov, or by
mail to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental Protection Agency, Mailcode:
6202J, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460, and (2) Mail
your comments to OMB at: Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Attention: Desk Officer for EPA,
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725 17th Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503.
EPA's policy is that public comments, whether submitted
electronically or in paper, will be made available for public viewing
in EDOCKET as EPA receives them and without change, unless the comment
contains copyrighted material, CBI, or other information whose public
disclosure is restricted by statute. When EPA identifies a comment
containing copyrighted material, EPA will provide a reference to that
material in the version of the comment that is placed in EDOCKET. The
entire printed comment, including the copyrighted material, will be
available in the public docket. Although identified as an item in the
official docket, information claimed as CBI, or whose disclosure is
otherwise restricted by statute, is not included in the official public
docket, and will not be available for public viewing in EDOCKET. For
further information about the electronic docket, see EPA's Federal
Register notice describing the electronic docket at 67 FR 38102 (May
31, 2002), or go to http://www.epa.gov/edocket.
Title: Reporting Requirements Under EPA's Climate Leaders Program
(EPA ICR Number 2100.01). This is a request for a new collection.
Abstract: Climate Leaders is an EPA-sponsored, voluntary program
that encourages companies to undertake greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction
goals and to develop a corporate GHG inventory to demonstrate progress
towards that goal. It is run through EPA's Climate Protection
Partnerships Division (CPPD) in the Office of Air & Radiation.
Companies report their GHG inventories to EPA on an annual basis to
demonstrate their progress toward their GHG reduction goal. This
reporting allows EPA to offer highly credible public recognition to
companies that have demonstrated leadership by meeting or exceeding
their goals.
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. The OMB control numbers for EPA's
regulations are listed in 40 CFR part 9 and 48 CFR chapter 15, and are
identified on the form and/or instrument, if applicable.
Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping
burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 73
hours per response. Burden means the total time, effort, or financial
resources expended by persons to generate, maintain, retain, or
disclose or provide information to or for a Federal agency. This
includes the time needed to review instructions; develop, acquire,
install, and utilize technology and systems for the purposes of
collecting, validating, and verifying information, processing and
maintaining information, and disclosing and providing information;
adjust the existing ways to comply with any previously applicable
instructions and requirements; train personnel to be able to respond to
a collection of information; search data sources; complete and review
the collection of information; and transmit or otherwise disclose the
information.
Respondents/Affected Entities: large companies/private entities.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 70.
Frequency of Response: annual.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 5,114 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Cost: $433,390, includes $5,810 annualized
capital or O&M costs.
Changes in the Estimates: This is a new information collection, and
as such, this section is not applicable.
Dated: May 8, 2003.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. 03-12868 Filed 5-21-03; 8:45 am]
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