# Attachment A:

ICR Renewal Terms and Clearance. Office of Management and Budget, Control Number 2050

- 0139, June 24, 2008.

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En vironmental Protection Agency Solid Waste and E mergency Response F OR C E RTIFYING O FFICIAL: M olly O'Neill F OR CLEA R A NC E O FFIC E R: Rick Westlund
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A CTION R E QU ESTE D: Extension without change of a currently approv ed collection TYPE O F R EVIE W R E QU ESTE D: Regular ICR R EFE R E NC E NU MBE R: 200707-2050-001 A G E NC Y ICR TR A C KING NU MBE R: 1698.07 TITLE: EPA's WasteWise Program ( Renewal) LIST O F INF OR MATION COLLE CTION S: See next page

O MB A CTION: Approv ed with change O MB CONTROL NU MBE R: 2050-0139 The agency is required to display the O MB Control Number and inform respondents of its legal significance in accordance with 5 CFR 1320.5(b).

EXPIR ATION D ATE: 06/30/2011 DIS CONTINU E D ATE:

B URD E N: R ESP ON SES HOUR S CO STS
Pre vious 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 P R A 0 0 0

TE R MS O F CLEA R A NC E: EPA’s intended uses of the information collected through this ICR are: “1) identify and recognize outstanding waste reduction achie v ements by individual organizations; 2) compile aggregate results that indicate ov erall accomplishments of WasteWise partners; 3) identify cost-effectiv e waste reduction strategies to share with other organizations; and 4) identify topics on which to de v elop assistance and information efforts.”
This information collection is approv ed for 3 years in order to allow EPA to de v elop a program e v aluation method for the WasteWise program, consistent with all rele v ant O MB guidance, including O MB’s Standards and Guidelines for Statistical Surv ey and O MB’s Guidance on Agency Surv ey and Statistical Information Collections, and O MB's program e valuation guidance (e.g., e v aluation under the Program Assessment Tool). EPA should also take into account the peer re view comments the agency receiv ed 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 e v aluation protocol to an external peer re view. Such peer re view shall comport with standards for peer re view of influential scientific information as found in the O MB Peer Re view Bulletin. EPA shall share

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with O MB its draft charge to the peer re viewers, all comments receiv ed from the peer re viewers, 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 e valuation method, the external peer re view comments, the agency’s response to the peer re view comments, and an explanation of the re visions adopted in the information collection to address past O MB concerns and the peer re view comments.
If the agency decides to aggregate and disseminate aggregated results information, such dissemination must be accompanied by the following cav eat: “ This figure represents the total amount of waste reduction, waste pre v ention, 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 pre v ention, recycling and buy-recycled efforts achie v ed 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: Ov erall 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; Descriptiv e 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.

O MB Authorizing Official: Ke vin F. Neyland Deputy Administrator, Office Of Information And Regulatory AffairsList of ICs CFR Citation Form Name IC Title Form No.
EPA's WasteWise Program (Priv ate Sector) EPA's WasteWise Program (State)