[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 17 (Monday, January 27, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Page 4359]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-01605]



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OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET


Technical Support Document: Technical Update of the Social Cost 
of Carbon for Regulatory Impact Analysis Under Executive Order No. 
12866

AGENCY: Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and 
Budget.

ACTION: Notice of extension of public comment period.

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SUMMARY: On November 26, 2013, the Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB) invited public comments on the Technical Support Document 
entitled Technical Update of the Social Cost of Carbon for Regulatory 
Impact Analysis Under Executive Order 12866. That request may be found 
at 78 FR 70586. This notice extends the public comment period for 
another 30 days.
    OMB requests that comments be submitted electronically to OMB by 
February 26, 2014 through www.regulations.gov.

DATES: The ongoing public comment period that opened on November 26, 
2013 will remain open until February 26, 2014.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments by one of the following methods:
     www.regulations.gov: Direct comments to Docket ID OMB-OMB-
2013-0007
     Email: [email protected] [Please note that this is a 
corrected email address.]
     Fax: (202) 395-7285
     Mail: Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office 
of Management and Budget, Attn: Mabel Echols, NEOB, Room 10202, 725 
17th Street NW., Washington, DC 20503. To ensure that your comments are 
received, we recommend that comments be electronically submitted.
    All comments and recommendations submitted in response to this 
notice will be made available to the public. For this reason, please do 
not include in your comments information of a confidential nature, such 
as sensitive personal information or proprietary information. The 
www.regulations.gov Web site is an ``anonymous access'' system, which 
means OMB will not know your identity or contact information unless you 
provide it in the body of your comment.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mabel Echols, Office of Information 
and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, NEOB, Room 
10202, 725 17th Street NW., Washington, DC 20503. Telephone: (202) 395-
3741.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Social Cost of Carbon (SCC) is used to 
estimate the value to society of marginal reductions in carbon 
emissions. The Technical Support Document (TSD), available at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/assets/inforeg/technical-update-social-cost-of-carbon-for-regulator-impact-analysis.pdf, 
explains the derivation of the SCC estimates using three peer reviewed 
integrated assessment models and provides updated values of the SCC 
that reflect minor technical corrections to the estimates released in 
May of 2013. In order to allow commenters adequate time to review the 
TSD and related information in the scientific literature that they may 
wish to consider to inform their comments, OMB is extending the comment 
period by 30 days.

Howard A. Shelanski,
Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
[FR Doc. 2014-01605 Filed 1-23-14; 4:15 pm]
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