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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System. 

Michele Taylor Fennell, 

Associate Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. 2024–24279 Filed 10–18–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

GENERAL SERVICES 

ADMINISTRATION 

[OMB Control No. 3090–0319; Docket No. 

2024–0001; Sequence No. 8] 

Submission for OMB Review; CDP 

Supply Chain Climate Change 

Information Request 

AGENCY: Office of Government-wide 

Policy (OGP), General Services 

Administration (GSA). 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, and 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB), GSA will invite the public to 

comment on a renewal and extension 

concerning the CDP Supply Chain 

Climate Change Information Request. 

DATES: GSA will consider all comments 

received by November 20, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

recommendations for this information 

collection should be sent within 30 days 

of publication of this notice to 

www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. 

Find this particular information 

collection by selecting ‘‘Currently under 

Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or 

by using the search function. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Jed Ela, Sustainability Advisor, Office of 

Government-wide Policy, at jed.ela@

gsa.gov, 202–854–8804. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

A. Purpose 

The CDP Supply Chain Climate 

Change Information Request is an 

electronic questionnaire designed to 

collect information that is widely used 

by large private and public sector 

organizations to understand, assess, and 

mitigate potentially disruptive and 

costly supply chain risks, investment 

risks, and environmental impacts. The 

questionnaire is administered by CDP 

North America, Inc., a 501(c)(3) 

nonprofit organization (‘‘CDP’’). CDP 

administers the questionnaire annually 

on behalf of over 700 institutional 

investors, 300 major corporations, and 

several large governmental purchasing 

organizations in addition to GSA. CDP’s 

most recent annual survey was directed 

to over 40,000 companies, with over 

23,000 electing to respond. 

Under previously approved 

information collection requests, GSA 

has directed CDP since 2017 to include 

several hundred major Federal 

contractors annually among its potential 

survey respondents. In accordance with 

31 U.S. Code 3512(c)(1)(b), GSA uses 

information received from these 

companies via CDP to inform and 

develop purchasing policies and 

contract requirements necessary to 

safeguard Federal assets against waste, 

loss, and misappropriation resulting 

from unmitigated exposure to physical, 

market, regulatory, legal, and other 

types of risks in Federal supply chains. 

GSA also uses the information in 

accordance with Executive Orders 

13990, 14008, 14030, and 14057 to 

inform development of policies and 

programs to reduce similar risks and 

environmental impacts associated with 

federal procurement activities. 

For example, GSA has used CDP 

information in recent years to perform 

critical market research in connection 

with multi-billion-dollar strategic 

contracting efforts. In one case, GSA 

determined that data center facilities 

used by potential network infrastructure 

providers could be at risk due to 

flooding, extreme heat, or lack of 

available cooling water sources, placing 

Federal client operations at risk. In 

another case, GSA used information 

from the CDP survey to research 

potential contractors’ existing risk 

mitigation and greenhouse gas reduction 

practices and to design appropriate 

contract requirements to ensure that 

contractors assess and mitigate these 

risks and reduce greenhouse gasses 

associated with their federal contract 

activities. In another case, GSA 

determined that energy savings 

practices available to potential 

information technology service 

providers could significantly lower their 

overhead costs and that this would 

likely reduce contract costs for GSA and 

other Federal agencies. GSA uses the 

information collected to research 

development of similar policies and 

programs and to verify contractor 

compliance with existing programs. 

B. Annual Burden Hours 

GSA expects to direct CDP to request 

voluntary survey responses from up to 

1000 large and medium-sized 

businesses per year. Estimates of 

response time per respondent vary 

greatly depending on whether each 

requested respondent (a) elects not to 

respond; (b) responds, but would have 

responded to CDP regardless of GSA’s 

request (because the respondent was 

also requested to respond to CDP by 

other customer and/or investor 

stakeholders); or (c) responds to CDP 

because of GSA’s request. Analysis of 

total response time is thus based on 

estimates for each of these categories. 

(a) Requested respondents who elect 

not to respond. Based on historical CDP 

response rates and GSA’s intended 

recipients, GSA estimates that 680 out 

of 1000 annual requested respondents 

will be in this category. Hour burden for 

this category: 680 non-responses; time 

per respondent 0; total time 0. 

(b) Respondents who would have 

responded to CDP regardless of GSA’s 

request. These respondents will 

complete some or all of the collection 

instrument, but would have done so 

regardless of GSA’s request. In addition, 

some of these respondents will answer 

a small number of additional questions 

(requiring a small fraction of their 

overall response time to CDP) based on 

GSA’s request. In addition, all of these 

respondents will need to complete one 

additional question in order to direct 

CDP to share their responses with GSA. 

Based on historical CDP response rates 

and GSA’s intended recipients, GSA 

estimates that 250 out of 1000 annual 

requested respondents will be in this 

category. Hour burden for this category: 

250 responses; average time per 

respondent 5 minutes; total burden 21 

hours. 

(c) Respondents who respond to CDP 

because of GSA’s request. These 

respondents may need to invest 

significant time drafting their responses 

and gathering facts, including searching 

and compiling existing data sources 

such as utility bills, and completing and 

reviewing the collection instrument. 

Based on historical CDP response rates 

and GSA’s intended recipients, GSA 

estimates that 70 out of 1000 annual 

requested respondents will be in this 

category. Based on discussions with 

several dozen previous respondents to 

CDP’s questionnaire, as well as public 

input received in response to a related 

information collection request notice 

(see 82 FR 3794), time burden for this 

collection is estimated to average 120 

hours per response. Hour burden for 

this category: 70 responses; average time 

per respondent 120 hours; total burden 

8400 hours. 

Based on the individual category 

response times above, the total 

estimated response burden for all 1000 

requested respondents is summarized 

below. 

Frequency: Annual 

Affected Public: Federal contractors 

Number of Respondents: 1000 

Responses per Respondent: 1 

Total Annual Responses: 320 

Estimated Time per Respondent: 26.3 


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Total Burden Hours: 8421 

C. Public Comments 

A 60-day notice was published in the 

Federal Register at 89 FR 59100 on July 

22, 2024. Two comments were received. 

Comment: One commenter supported 

GSA’s use of the CDP Supply Chain 

Questionnaire, and further suggested 

sharing aggregate information from the 

surveys with federal agencies working 

on climate change issues; linking GSA’s 

efforts with other federal and nonfederal efforts to bolster supply chain 

resilience; and considering 

administering the survey on a voluntary 

basis to large federal grantees such as 

state agencies that receive considerable 

federal funding. 

Response: GSA appreciates this 

commenter’s support. GSA already 

shares aggregate information from this 

survey with other federal agencies and 

collaborates with other federal and nonfederal efforts to bolster supply chain 

resilience, and expects to continue to do 

so. GSA does not administer significant 

grants, and notes that CDP Supply 

Chain questionnaires were developed 

for use by private sector respondents 

and are not commonly used by public 

sector respondents, which would 

increases the potential burdens and 

decrease the utility of information 

collected from this type of respondents. 

Comment: One commenter asserted 

that climate change does not exist, and 

requested that GSA ‘‘reimburse the 

taxpayer for this hoax.’’ 

Response: The existence and impacts 

of climate change, including risks to the 

economy and efficiency of federal 

procurement and supply chains, are 

well supported by the Fifth National 

Climate Assessment (‘‘NCA5,’’ https://

nca2023.globalchange.gov), the US 

Government’s preeminent report on 

climate change impacts, risks, and 

responses. The NCA5 was mandated by 

Congress in the Global Change Research 

Act of 1990 and authored by the U.S. 

Global Change Research Program, a 

collaboration between at least fifteen 

U.S. Federal agencies. The NCA5 was 

based on a comprehensive review and 

assessment of information sources 

determined to meet the standards and 

documentation required under the 

Information Quality Act and the 

Foundations for Evidence-Based 

Policymaking Act of 2018, including 

peer-reviewed literature, other 

literature, Indigenous Knowledge, other 

expert and local knowledge, and climate 

data processed and prepared for authors 

by NOAA’s Technical Support Unit. 

NCA5 was thoroughly reviewed by 

Federal Government experts, external 

experts, and the public multiple times 

throughout the report development 

process. An expert external review was 

performed by an ad hoc committee of 

the National Academies of Sciences, 

Engineering, and Medicine. Even if 

climate change were a ‘‘hoax,’’ GSA 

lacks authorities or mechanisms for 

general reimbursements to taxpayers. 

Lois Mandell, 

Director, Regulatory Secretariat Division, 

General Services Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2024–24192 Filed 10–18–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6820–14–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[60Day–25–25AE; Docket No. CDC–2024– 

0078] 

Proposed Data Collection Submitted 

for Public Comment and 

Recommendations 

AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC), Department of Health 

and Human Services (HHS). 

ACTION: Notice with comment period. 

SUMMARY: The Centers for Disease 

Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of 

its continuing effort to reduce public 

burden and maximize the utility of 

government information, invites the 

general public and other federal 

agencies the opportunity to comment on 

a proposed and/or continuing 

information collection, as required by 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 

This notice invites comment on a 

proposed information collection project 

titled 2024 Marburg Airport Entry 

Questionnaires. This information 

collection is intended to assess risk for 

infection or exposure to Marburg in 

travelers coming to the United States 

from areas affected by an outbreak of 

Marburg originating in Rwanda. 

DATES: CDC must receive written 

comments on or before December 20, 

2024. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by Docket No. CDC–2024– 

0078 by either of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Mail: Jeffrey M. Zirger, Information 

Collection Review Office, Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 

Clifton Road NE, MS H21–8, Atlanta, 

Georgia 30329. 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the agency name and 

Docket Number. CDC will post, without 

change, all relevant comments to 

www.regulations.gov. 

Please note: Submit all comments 

through the Federal eRulemaking portal 

(www.regulations.gov) or by U.S. mail to 

the address listed above. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request more information on the 

proposed project or to obtain a copy of 

the information collection plan and 

instruments, contact Jeffrey M. Zirger, 

Information Collection Review Office, 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE, MS 

H21–8, Atlanta, Georgia 30329; 

Telephone: 404–639–7570; Email: omb@

cdc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) 

(44 U.S.C. 3501–3520), federal agencies 

must obtain approval from the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for each 

collection of information they conduct 

or sponsor. In addition, the PRA also 

requires federal agencies to provide a 

60-day notice in the Federal Register 

concerning each proposed collection of 

information, including each new 

proposed collection, each proposed 

extension of existing collection of 

information, and each reinstatement of 

previously approved information 

collection before submitting the 

collection to the OMB for approval. To 

comply with this requirement, we are 

publishing this notice of a proposed 

data collection as described below. 

The OMB is particularly interested in 

comments that will help: 

1. 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; 

2. 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; 

3. Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; 

4. 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 submissions 

of responses; and 

5. Assess information collection costs. 

Proposed Project 

2024 Marburg Airport Entry 

Questionnaires—New—National Center 

for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious 


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