[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 238 (Wednesday, December 15, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71268-71269]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-27048]


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GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

[OMB Control No. 3090-0319; Docket No. 2021-0001; Sequence No. 11]


Submission for OMB Review; CDP Supply Chain Climate Change 
Information Request

AGENCY: Office of Government-wide Policy (OGP), General Services 
Administration (GSA).

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, and 
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), GSA will invite the public 
to comment on a renewal and extension concerning the CDP Supply Chain 
Climate Change Information Request.

DATES: GSA will consider all comments received by January 14, 2022.

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ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for this information 
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice 
to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular information 
collection by selecting ``Currently under Review--Open for Public 
Comments'' or by using the search function.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Jed Ela, Sustainability Advisor, 
Office of Government-wide Policy, at [email protected], 202-854-8804.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

A. Purpose

    The CDP Supply Chain Climate Change Information Request is an 
electronic questionnaire designed to collect information that is widely 
used by large private and public sector organizations to understand, 
assess, and mitigate potentially disruptive and costly supply chain 
risks, investment risks, and environmental impacts. The questionnaire 
is administered by CDP North America, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit 
organization (``CDP''). CDP administers the questionnaire annually on 
behalf of over 590 institutional investors, 200 major corporations, and 
several large governmental purchasing organizations in addition to GSA. 
CDP's most recent annual survey was directed to over 20,000 companies, 
with over 9,600 electing to respond.
    Under previously approved information collection requests, GSA has 
directed CDP since 2017 to include several hundred major Federal 
contractors annually among its potential survey respondents. In 
accordance with 31 U.S. Code Sec.  3512(c)(1)(b), GSA uses information 
received from these companies via CDP to inform and develop purchasing 
policies and contract requirements necessary to safeguard Federal 
assets against waste, loss, and misappropriation resulting from 
unmitigated exposure to supply chain energy market and environmental 
risks. GSA also uses the information in accordance with Executive 
Orders 13990, 14008, and 14030 to inform development of policies and 
programs to reduce climate risks and greenhouse gas emissions 
associated with federal procurement activities.
    For example, GSA has used CDP information in recent years to 
perform critical market research in connection with multi-billion-
dollar strategic contracting efforts. In one case, GSA determined that 
data center facilities used by potential network infrastructure 
providers could be at risk due to flooding, extreme heat, or lack of 
available cooling water sources, placing Federal client operations at 
risk. In another case, GSA used information from the CDP survey to 
research potential contractors' existing risk mitigation and greenhouse 
gas reduction practices and to design appropriate contract requirements 
to ensure that contractors assess and mitigate these risks and reduce 
greenhouse gases associated with their federal contract activities. In 
another case, GSA determined that energy savings practices available to 
potential information technology service providers could significantly 
lower their overhead costs and that this would likely reduce contract 
costs for GSA and other Federal agencies. GSA uses the information 
collected to research development of similar policies and programs and 
to verify contractor compliance with existing programs.

B. Annual Burden Hours

    GSA expects to direct CDP to request voluntary survey responses 
from up to 500 large and medium-sized businesses per year. Estimates of 
response time per respondent vary greatly depending on whether each 
requested respondent (a) elects not to respond; (b) responds, but would 
have responded to CDP regardless of GSA's request (because the 
respondent was also requested to respond to CDP by other customer and/
or investor stakeholders); or (c) responds to CDP because of GSA's 
request. Analysis of total response time is thus based on estimates for 
each of these categories.
    (a) Requested respondents who elect not to respond. Based on 
historical CDP response rates and GSA's intended recipients, GSA 
estimates that 250 out of 500 annual requested respondents will be in 
this category. Hour burden for this category: 250 non-responses; time 
per respondent 0; total time 0.
    (b) Respondents who would have responded to CDP regardless of GSA's 
request. These respondents will complete some or all of the collection 
instrument, but would have done so regardless of GSA's request. In 
addition, some of these respondents will answer a small number of 
additional questions (requiring a small fraction of their overall 
response time to CDP) based on GSA's request. In addition, all of these 
respondents will need to complete one additional question in order to 
direct CDP to share their responses with GSA. Based on historical CDP 
response rates and GSA's intended recipients, GSA estimates that 220 
out of 500 annual requested respondents will be in this category. Hour 
burden for this category: 220 responses; average time per respondent 5 
minutes; total burden 18 hours.
    (c) Respondents who respond to CDP because of GSA's request. These 
respondents may need to invest significant time drafting their 
responses and gathering facts, including searching and compiling 
existing data sources such as utility bills, and completing and 
reviewing the collection instrument. Based on historical CDP response 
rates and GSA's intended recipients, GSA estimates that 30 out of 500 
annual requested respondents will be in this category. Based on 
discussions with several dozen previous respondents to CDP's 
questionnaire, as well as public input received in response to a 
related information collection request notice (see 82 FR 3794), time 
burden for this collection is estimated to average 120 hours per 
response. Hour burden for this category: 30 responses; average time per 
respondent 120 hours; total burden 3600 hours.
    Based on the individual category response times above, the total 
estimated response burden for all 500 requested respondents is 
summarized below.
    Frequency: Annual.
    Affected Public: Federal contractors.
    Number of Respondents: 500.
    Responses per Respondent: 1.
    Total Annual Responses: 250.
    Estimated Time per Respondent: 14.5.
    Total Burden Hours: 3,618.

C. Public Comments

    A 60-day notice published in the Federal Register at 86 FR 51889 on 
September 17, 2021. The one comment received requested that GSA 
provides detail on how it will summarize the responses CDP receives; 
and that a link to the CDP questionnaire is included in the Supporting 
Statement.
    In response, the link to the scorecard summarizing CDP responses 
will be updated on d2d.gsa.gov, and the link to the questionnaire will 
be included in the supporting statement.
    Obtaining Copies of Proposals: Requesters may obtain a copy of the 
information collection documents from the GSA Regulatory Secretariat 
Division, by calling 202-501-4755 or emailing [email protected].

Beth Anne Killoran,
Deputy Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2021-27048 Filed 12-14-21; 8:45 am]
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