[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 157 (Tuesday, August 16, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48130-48132]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-16221]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[OAR-2005-0088, FRL-7953-5]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; 
Comment Request; Assessment of Indoor Air Quality Outreach Products and 
Services, EPA ICR Number 2190.01

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 EPA is planning to submit a 
proposed Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB). This is a request for a new collection. 
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 September 15, 2005.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number OAR-2005-
0088, to EPA online using EDOCKET (our preferred method), by email to 
[email protected], or by mail to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental 
Protection Agency, Air Docket, Mail Code: 6102T, 1200 Pennsylvania 
Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John Hall, Indoor Environments 
Division, mail code 6609J, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: 202-
343-9453; fax number: 202-343-2393; e-mail address: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has established a public docket for this 
ICR under Docket ID number OAR-2005-0088, which is available for public 
viewing at the Air Docket 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 
Docket is (202) 566-1744. 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. 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.
    Affected Entities: Entities potentially affected by this action 
include customers who request our products, including, but not limited 
to: teachers and day care workers; principals; superintendents; 
students; parents; care givers; nurses; health care providers; state 
and local health departments; facility managers; maintenance personnel; 
custodians; school business officials; private industry; home owners; 
home builders and architects; real estate industry personnel; 
commercial building owners and operators; and procurement officials 
that receive EPA outreach products and services. The burden from the 
product feedback form that will be provided to these customers will be 
minimal.
    Title: Assessment of Indoor Air Quality Outreach Products and 
Services.
    Abstract: The Environmental Protection Agency is seeking approval 
for a three year generic clearance from the Office of Management and 
Budget (OMB) to determine how well EPA outreach products and services 
meet customers' needs and to assess the effectiveness of its outreach 
products and services. This will be a voluntary collection of 
information to gauge customer satisfaction with outreach products and 
services, measure any resulting changes in knowledge or behavior, and 
evaluate environmental and human health impacts. EPA proposes to use 
assessment surveys to obtain feedback on outreach products and services 
including: documents, Web sites, and voluntary seminars and workshops 
delivered by Headquarters and Regional voluntary programs to the 
community. This feedback will help EPA improve the quality and delivery 
of voluntary tools and services.
    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 in 40 CFR are listed in 40 CFR part 9.
    This ICR will provide data for the purpose of informing EPA of the 
effectiveness of outreach products and services, and customer 
satisfaction with outreach products and services. The information 
collection is voluntary, and will be limited to non-sensitive data 
concerning the quality of outreach products and services. EPA will 
request feedback from a representative sample of those who receive 
products and services. The data collected will be used to estimate the 
rate of effectiveness of outreach products and services and no data 
collected will be used to make policy decisions.
    To help fulfill the broad mandate of protecting human health and 
the environment, EPA provides outreach products and services to the 
general public. Outreach products and services provide the general 
public with the specific information necessary to achieve and maintain 
good indoor air quality. In addition to providing information on indoor 
air quality, these products and services describe ways people can work 
to improve the indoor air quality in their home, work place, school, 
etc. Specific behavioral changes are described in our products and 
services that will help improve indoor air quality. In order to 
determine the effectiveness of the products and

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services EPA provides, it is essential to know to what extent the 
products and services impact customer behavior. It is also essential to 
know how satisfied customers are with these products and services, and 
if they are fully meeting their needs. A better understanding of the 
effectiveness of EPA's products will also provide a better 
understanding of the rate of improvement of indoor air quality among 
customers receiving our products.
    EPA believes that evaluating outreach products and services is 
necessary to ensure customer needs are met, as well as to maintain 
efficient and effective assistance. Understanding our customers' 
ability to use our tools and services in their practical applications, 
and the rates of use of these tools and services, will assist the 
Agency in planning its future outreach products and services efforts.
    Each product feedback form has a burden time of five minutes per 
respondent. There are three general questions to be asked of all 
customers indicating customer satisfaction with various outreach 
products and services. These questions will identify ways that products 
can be strengthened to better meet our customers' needs and will 
indicate the means by which our customers heard about our products. A 
better understanding of how IED's customers learn about its issues and 
products will help IED better target its audiences.
    Each of IED's products addresses particular IAQ issues and informs 
the customer of actions that can be taken to eliminate or reduce the 
IAQ problem. Behavioral change questions inform IED about what actions 
people have taken as a result of the products, and therefore indicate 
how effective the product is at affecting peoples' behaviors. IED has 
developed a question for each of the major topic areas covered by the 
division. One such question will be included in each product feedback 
form.
    For a small subset of our products, there is value in understanding 
what the customer has learned from a particular product, in addition to 
what behavioral changes they have made. Effective behavior change is 
multi-dimensional and encompasses a set of attributes including 
reaction, knowledge, attitude, skills, intentions and behaviors. These 
attributes can be considered milestones along a roadmap which 
ultimately leads to behavioral outcomes. Therefore, we will be asking a 
fifth question of these audiences. This additional question will add no 
significant burden time to the recipient of the questionnaire.
    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;
    (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: In order to minimize the respondent burden, 
product feedback form designs will be simple, convenient, easy to 
respond to, and clear in content and purpose. Product feedback forms 
will be of limited scope and require only a short time to complete. 
Below is the estimated project cost and hour burden estimate. This 
includes an estimate of the average annual reporting burden 
disaggregated to show the estimated average burden hours per response, 
the proposed frequency of response, and the estimated number of likely 
respondents. For the cost burden to respondents or record keepers 
resulting from the collection of information, this includes a total 
capital and start-up cost component annualized over its expected useful 
life, and a total operation and maintenance component.

           Table 6.1.--Three-Year Outreach Products and Services Assessment Activities--FY2006-FY2009
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                                  Type of survey                     Estimated
 Assistance activity  (number of    (number of     Estimated No.  survey time in   Total burden     Total cost
             events)                  events)     of respondents      minutes         (hours)
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Workshops (48)..................     \1\ (4,875)           3,900               5             325      $28,337.00
Outreach Products (25)..........   \2\ (112,500)          90,000               5           7,500      653,925.00
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    Totals over 3 years.........         117,375          93,900  ..............           7,825      682,262.00
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    Annual Totals...............          39,125          31,300  ..............           2,608     227,392.00
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\1\ Phone.
\2\ Mail/E-mail.


                       Table 6-3.--Three-Year Agency Burden/Cost for Implementing Surveys
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                                                                                   Total burden
                   Activities                          Hours       No. of events      (hours)       Total cost
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Survey Development..............................               5              40             200       $9,316.00
IED Review of Survey............................               5              40             200        9,316.00
Administration of Survey........................       \1\ .0167          93,900           1,568       73,043.00
Compilation of Survey Results...................         \2\ .05          93,900           4,695      218,693.00
Analysis of Survey Results......................         \2\ .05          93,900           4,695      218,693.00
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    3-Year Total................................  ..............         279,080          11,358      529,061.00
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    Annual Total................................  ..............          93,026           3,786     176,354.00
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\1\ 1 minute.
\2\ 3 minutes.


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    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: August 9, 2005.
Jeffrey Holmstead,
Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation, Office of Air and 
Radiation.
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