Attachment A:

ICR Renewal Terms and Clearance. Office of 

Management and Budget, Control Number 

2050-0139, June 24, 2008.
NOTICE OF OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET ACTION

 Date 06/24/2008

Environmental Protection Agency

Solid Waste and Emergency Response

FOR CERTIFYING OFFICIAL: Molly O'Neill 

FOR CLEARANCE OFFICER: Rick Westlund 

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, OMB has taken action on your request received

07/24/2007

ACTION REQUESTED: Extension without change of a currently approved collection

TYPE OF REVIEW REQUESTED: Regular

ICR REFERENCE NUMBER: 200707-2050-001

AGENCY ICR TRACKING NUMBER: 1698.07

TITLE: EPA's WasteWise Program (Renewal)

LIST OF INFORMATION COLLECTIONS: See next page

OMB ACTION: Approved with change

OMB CONTROL NUMBER: 2050-0139

The agency is required to display the OMB Control Number and inform respondents of its legal significance in 

accordance with 5 CFR 1320.5(b).

EXPIRATION DATE: 06/30/2011 DISCONTINUE DATE:

BURDEN: RESPONSES HOURS COSTS

Previous 1,625 56,700 0

New 1,875 70,350 0

Difference

 Change due to New Statute 0 0 0

 Change due to Agency Discretion 0 0 0

 Change due to Agency Adjustment 250 13,650 0

 Change Due to Potential Violation of the PRA 0 0 0

TERMS OF CLEARANCE: EPA’s intended uses of the information collected through this ICR are: “1) 

identify and recognize outstanding waste reduction achievements by individual organizations; 2) compile 

aggregate results that indicate overall accomplishments of WasteWise partners; 3) identify cost-effective 

waste reduction strategies to share with other organizations; and 4) identify topics on which to develop 

assistance and information efforts.”

This information collection is approved for 3 years in order to allow EPA to develop a program evaluation 

method for the WasteWise program, consistent with all relevant OMB guidance, including OMB’s Standards 

and Guidelines for Statistical Survey and OMB’s Guidance on Agency Surv ey and Statistical Information 

Collections, and OMB's program evaluation guidance (e.g., evaluation under the Program Assessment Tool). 

EPA should also take into account the peer review comments the agency received on the last proposed 

method. In drafting the method, EPA must address the following issues: appropriate baseline, appropriate 

entity boundary for reporting, conditions for additionality, self-selection bias, and low response rates from the 

partners and low item response rates from the partners. Before resubmitting the method, EPA must subject 

the program evaluation protocol to an external peer review. Such peer review shall comport with standards 

for peer review of influential scientific information as found in the OMB Peer Review Bulletin. EPA shall share 
NOTICE OF OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET ACTION

 Date 06/24/2008

with OMB its draft charge to the peer reviewers, all comments received from the peer reviewers, and the 

Agency’s response to the comments of the peer re viewers. When the agency submits the next submission, 

EPA must provide the program evaluation method, the external peer review comments, the agency’s 

response to the peer review comments, and an explanation of the revisions adopted in the information 

collection to address past OMB concerns and the peer review comments.

If the agency decides to aggregate and disseminate aggregated results information, such dissemination must 

be accompanied by the following caveat: “ This figure represents the total amount of waste reduction, waste 

prevention, recycling and buy-recycled efforts reported by those WasteWise partners who submitted annual 

reports to EPA for 20XX. EPA is not claiming that all of the waste reduction, waste prevention, recycling and 

buy-recycled efforts achieved by WasteWise partners are attributable to the WasteWise program. EPA is 

working on a method to better quantify the impact of WasteWise on business behavior and waste reduction.”

When the agency submits the next ICR for renewal, the agency must provide the following information or their 

equivalent if the forms are amended: 

Overall response rate from the participants;

Item non-response rates for each question in Section II of the Registration Form and Sections II through IV in 

the Assessment Form;

Descriptive statistics (including but not limited to mean, median, mode) of the responses for each question in 

Section II of the Registration Form and Sections II through IV in the Assessment Form.

OMB Authorizing Official: Kevin F. Neyland

 Deputy Administrator,

Office Of Information And Regulatory Affairs
List of ICs

IC Title Form No. Form Name CFR Citation

EPA's WasteWise 

Program (Private Sector)

EPA's WasteWise 

Program (State)