[Federal Register: May 4, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 85)]
[Notices]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[OAR-2004-0501; FRL-7907-1]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; Reporting Under EPA's Green Power Partnership and
Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Partnership--EPA ICR No. 2173.01
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 notice announces that EPA is planning to submit the
following proposed Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB): Reporting Requirements Under EPA's
Green Power Partnership and Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Partnership--
EPA ICR No. 2173.01. Before submitting the ICR to OMB for review and
approval, EPA is soliciting comments on specific aspects of the
proposed information collection as described below.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before July 5, 2005.
ADDRESSES: Follow the detailed instructions in SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jim Sullivan, Climate Protection
Partnerships Division, Office of Atmospheric Programs, 6202J,
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 343-9241; fax number:
(202) 565-2134; e-mail address sullivan.jamest@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The EPA has established a public docket for
this ICR under Docket ID No. OAR-2004-0501, 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 obtain
a copy of the draft collection of information, 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 within
60 days of this notice, and according to the following detailed
instructions: 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, Air and
Radiation Docket and Information Center, MC 6102T, 1200 Pennsylvania
Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460.
EPA's policy is that public comments, whether submitted
electronically or on paper, will be made available for public viewing
in EDOCKET as EPA receives them and without change, unless the comment
contains copyrighted material, confidential business information (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
.
Affected Entities: Entities potentially affected by this action are
corporations, institutions, state, local, and tribal agencies that
voluntarily agree to work with EPA to purchase or market green power or
to support the use of CHP.
Title: Reporting Requirements Under EPA's Green Power Partnership
and CHP Partnership--EPA ICR No. 2173.01.
Abstract: In an effort to aid implementation of the President's May
2001 National Energy Strategy, as well as the President's February 2002
Climate Change Strategy, EPA has launched two new partnership programs
with industry and other stakeholders: The Green Power Partnership and
the CHP Partnership. These partnership programs encourage organizations
to invest in clean, efficient energy technologies, including renewable
energy and CHP.
The EPA has developed this ICR to obtain authorization to collect
information from organizations participating in the Green Power
Partnership and CHP Partnership to ensure that they are meeting their
voluntary renewable energy and CHP goals and to assure the credibility
of these partnership programs. Organizations that join these programs
voluntarily agree to the following respective actions: (1) Designating
a Green Power or CHP Partnership liaison; (2) for the Green Power
Partnership, reporting to EPA, on an annual basis, their progress
toward their green power commitment via a 1-page Green Power Partner
Yearly Report; (3) for the CHP Partnership, reporting to EPA
information on their existing CHP projects and project development
activity via the CHP Partner Projects Data Form. The EPA uses the data
obtained from its Partners to assess the success of these programs in
achieving their national energy and greenhouse gas reduction 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.
The EPA would like to solicit comments to:
(i) Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency,
including whether the information will have practical utility;
(ii) evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden
of the proposed collection of information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
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(iii) enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information
to be collected; and
(iv) minimize the burden of the collection of information on those
who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated
electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic
submission of responses.
Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping
burden for this three (3) year collection of information is estimated
to equal 3,980 hours and to average 3.4 hours per year per respondent.
The average number of annual burden hours per type of response is: 4.9
hours for a Letter of Intent (a one-time burden for Green Power and CHP
Partners); for the Green Power Partnership, 2.4 hours for the Green
Power Partner Yearly Report; for the CHP Partnership, 2.0 hours for end
user Partners to complete the CHP Partner Projects Data Form report on
completed CHP projects (a one-time report), or 1.7 hours per year for
CHP project updates for Partners with ongoing CHP project development
activities.
Partners from both programs may also submit voluntary updates of
simple information, such as contact information or company profiles,
via the Web site. These updates would take from 15 minutes to 0.5 hours
per response. A subset of Partners may participate in brief (i.e., 15
minute) telephone calls with EPA to clarify questions pertaining to the
Letter of Intent, Green Power Partner Yearly Report, or CHP Partner
Projects Data Form. All of these activities are included in the annual
burden estimate.
The estimated number of annual respondents averaged over three (3)
years is 1,164, which includes an average of 1,033 respondents for the
Green Power Partnership and 131 for the CHP Partnership.
There are no capital or start-up costs associated with this
information collection. The average annual operation and maintenance
cost resulting from this (3) three year collection of information is $3
per respondent. The average annual labor cost is $254 per respondent.
The resulting total annual cost averaged over the three year period is
$298,886. 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.
Dated: April 19, 2005.
Kathleen Hogan,
Director, Climate Protection Partnerships Division.
[FR Doc. 05-8866 Filed 5-3-05; 8:45 am]
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