ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION
AGENCY
[
OAR­
2004­
0501;
FRL­
]

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.

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
[
30
DAYS
AFTER
PUBLICATION
IN
THE
FEDERAL
REGISTER].

ADDRESSES:
Submit
your
comments,
referencing
docket
ID
number
OAR­
2004­
0501,

to
(
1)
EPA
online
using
EDOCKET
(
our
preferred
method),
by
email
to
a­
and­
r­

Docket@
epa.
gov,
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,
D.
C.
20460;
telephone
number:
2
(
202)
343­
9241;
fax
number:
(
202)
565­
2134;
email
address
sullivan.
jamest@
epa.
gov.

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
a­
and­
r­
docket@
epamail.
epa.
gov,
or
by
mail
to:
EPA
Docket
Center,
Environmental
3
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
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.
4
The
EPA
has
developed
this
ICR
to
obtain
authorization
to
collect
information
from
organizations
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
5
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.
6
Dated:
_____________________________

____________________________________
Sara
Hisel­
McCoy,
Acting
Director,
Collection
Strategies
Division
