\"Schwartz, Jerry\" \<Jerry_Schwartz@afandpa.org\>

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ICR Number 2155.01 Docket ID No. OW-2004-0020

Attached please find AF&PA request for an additional sixty days to
submit

comments on ICR Number 2155.01 Docket ID no. OW-2004-0020.

Jerry Schwartz

Senior Director,

Water Quality Programs

AF&PA

1111 19th Street, N.W.

Suite 800

Washington, D.C. 20036

Phone: (202) 463-2581

Fax: (202) 463-2423

jerry_schwartz@afandpa.org

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**RE: Request for Sixty Days' Additional Time to Submit Comments on ICR
Number 2155.01\
Docket ID No. OW-2004-0020**

Ladies and Gentlemen:

The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) requests sixty
additional days to submit comments on an Information Collection Request
(ICR), No. 2155.01, that EPA has forwarded to the Office of Management
and Budget for review and approval. The announcement of this action is
at 70 Fed. Reg. 15,079 (March 24, 2005).

The Federal Register notice gives thirty days, until April 25, 2005, to
submit comments on the ICR. The ICR addresses a proposed EPA study to
estimate "nonuse benefits" from anticipated reductions in impingement
and entrainment from cooling water intake structures under § 316(b) of
the Clean Water Act. This ICR raises complex issues of economic theory,
resource valuation, and psychology. It is fundamental to the process by
which EPA, and other federal agencies, calculate "benefits" that cannot
be directly measured. The thirty days that EPA has allotted for comment
are insufficient for the purpose. AF&PA anticipates filing comments that
draw on the research literature on how people respond to stated
preference surveys involving natural resources, especially marginal
changes in resources with which people may not be very familiar. Our
comments will require the use of an economic consultant. We believe it
will take an additional sixty days to respond adequately to EPA's
Federal Register notice.

Accordingly, AF&PA requests that EPA and OMB allow an additional sixty
days for comments and accept comments through June 25.

> Respectfully submitted,
>
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> Jerry Schwartz
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> Senior Director, Water Quality Programs