[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 217 (Thursday, November 10, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 68441-68442]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-22464]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[OAR-2004-0501; FRL-7995-8]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB 
Review and Approval; Comment Request; Reporting Requirements Under 
EPA's Green Power Partnership and Combined Heat and Power (CHP) 
Partnership, ICR Number 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) for review and approval. This is a 
request for a new collection.

DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before December 12, 
2005.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number OAR-2004-
0501, to (1) EPA online using EDOCKET (our preferred method), by e-mail 
to [email protected], or by mail to: Environmental Protection 
Agency, EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), Air and Radiation Docket and 
Information Center, EPA West, Mail Code 6102T, 1200 Pennsylvania 
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460, and (2) OMB at: Office of 
Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB), Attention: Desk Officer for EPA, 725 17th Street, NW., 
Washington, DC 20503.

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 [email protected].

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 May 4, 2004 (70 FR 23152), EPA sought comments on this ICR 
pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received no comments.
    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 Avenue, 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 [email protected], or by 
mail to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental Protection Agency, Air and 
Radiation Docket and Information Center, MC 6102T, 1200 Pennsylvania 
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460.
    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, 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.
    Title: Reporting Requirements Under EPA's Green Power Partnership 
and Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Partnership.
    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

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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.
    Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping 
burden for this three (3) year collection of information is estimated 
to equal 3980 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. 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: 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.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 1,164.
    Frequency of Response: Annually, semiannually.
    Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 3,980 hours.
    Estimated Total Annual Costs: $298,886, which includes $0 
annualized capital/startup costs, $3,248 annual O&M costs, and $295,638 
annual labor costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: This does not apply, as this is a new 
collection.

    Dated: October 20, 2005.
Sara Hisel-McCoy,
Acting Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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