[Federal Register: June 18, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 117)]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; 
Comment Request; Reporting Under EPA's Climate Leaders--EPA ICR No. xx

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 
Climate Leaders--EPA ICR No. xx. 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 August 19, 2002.

ADDRESSES: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Climate Protection 
Partnerships Division, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., (6202J), 
Washington, DC 20460.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tom Kerr, Telephone No. (202) 564-
0047, Facsimile No. (202) 565-2134; E-mail: kerr.tom@epa.gov. 
Interested parties can obtain a copy of this ICR without charge.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Affected entities: Entities potentially affected by this action are 
corporations that voluntarily agree to work with EPA to measure and 
record their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
    Title: Reporting Requirements Under EPA's Climate Leaders--EPA ICR 
No. xx.
    Abstract: In an effort to aid U.S. implementation of its 
commitments in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate 
Change, the President announced a Climate Change Strategy on February 
14, 2002, wherein he set a national U.S. GHG intensity goal of 18% by 
2012. Part of that strategy challenges companies to set GHG reduction 
goals by working with EPA through the voluntary Climate Leaders 
program. EPA has developed this ICR to ensure that the program is 
credible by obtaining authorization to collect information from Climate 
Leaders Partners to ensure the Partners are meeting their GHG goals.
    EPA has developed this ICR to obtain authorization to collect 
information from companies participating in Climate Leaders. Companies 
that join Climate Leaders voluntarily agree to the following: 
designating a Climate Leaders liaison; negotiating a corporate GHG 
reduction goal; and reporting to EPA, on an annual basis, the company's 
progress toward their reduction goal via Climate Leaders inventory 
protocol reporting forms. The information contained in the inventories 
of the companies that join Climate Leaders may be considered 
confidential business information and is maintained as such. EPA uses 
the data obtained from the companies to assess the success of the 
program in achieving its GHG 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

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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;
    (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 projected hour burden for this collection of 
information is as follows:
    Average annual reporting burden: 63 hours.
    Average annual recordkeeping burden: 0 hours.
    Average burden hours/response: 7 hours for a Letter of Intent (one-
time burden); 56 hours for the annual inventory.
    Frequency of response: one per respondent per year.
    Estimated number of respondents: 30.

    Cost burden to respondents:
    Estimated total annualized cost burden: $6,163.
    Total labor cost: $6,163.
    Total capital and start-up costs: $0.
    Estimated total operation and maintenance costs: $0.
    Purchase of services cost: $0.
    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: June 6, 2002.
Thomas M. Kerr,
EPA Office of Air & Radiation.
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