Document ID: EPA-HQ-OAR-2008-0655-0002
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; GreenChill Advanced Refrigeration Partnership; EPA ICR No. 2349.01, OMB Control No. 2060-NEW
Posted Date: 2010-01-25T05:00Z

[Federal Register: January 25, 2010 (Volume 75, Number 15)]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2008-0655; FRL-9106-2; EPA ICR No. 2349.01, OMB Control No. 
2060-New]

 
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for 
Review and Approval; Comment Request; GreenChill Advanced Refrigeration 
Partnership

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA)(44 U.S.C. 
3501 et seq.), this document announces that an Information Collection 
Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB) for review and approval. This is a request for a new collection. 
The ICR, which is abstracted below, describes the nature of the 
information collection and its estimated burden and cost.

DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before February 24, 
2010.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-
2008-0655 to (1) EPA online using http://www.regulations.gov (our 
preferred method), by e-mail to a-and-r-docket@epamail.epa.gov, or y 
mail to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental Protection Agency, Mailcode: 
2822T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460, and (2) OMB 
by mail to: 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: Keilly Witman, Environmental 
Protection Agency, Stratospheric Protection Division, Office of Air and 
Radiation, Mailcode: 6205J, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 
20460; telephone number: 202-343-9742; fax number: 202-343-2362; 
witman.keilly@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 June 3, 2009 (74 FR 26689) EPA sought comments on this ICR 
pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received no comments during the 
comment period. Any additional comments on this ICR should be submitted 
to EPA and OMB within 30 days of this notice.
    EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID 
No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2008-0655, which is available for online viewing at 
http://www.regulations.gov, or in person viewing at the Air Docket in 
the EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution 
Ave., NW., Washington, DC. The EPA/DC Public Reading Room is open from 
8 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 Docket is 202-566-1742.
    Use EPA's electronic docket and comment system at http://
www.regulations.gov, to submit or view public comments, access the 
index listing of the contents of the docket, and to access those 
documents in the docket that are available electronically. Once in the 
system, select ``docket search,'' then key in the docket ID number 
identified above. Please note that EPA's policy is that public 
comments, whether submitted electronically or in paper, will be made 
available for public viewing at http://www.regulations.gov 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. For 
further information about the electronic docket, go to http://
www.regulations.gov.
    Title: GreenChill Advanced Refrigeration Partnership.
    ICR numbers: EPA ICR No. 2349.01, OMB Control No. 2060-New.
    ICR Status: This ICR is for a new information collection activity. 
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 
in title 40 of the CFR, after appearing in the Federal Register when 
approved, are listed in 40 CFR part 9, are displayed either by 
publication in the Federal Register or by other appropriate means, such 
as on the related collection instrument or form, if applicable. The 
display of OMB control numbers in certain EPA regulations is 
consolidated in 40 CFR part 9.
    Abstract: The GreenChill Advanced Refrigeration Partnership 
(hereafter referred to as GreenChill Partnership or GreenChill) is an 
EPA cooperative alliance with the supermarket industry to promote 
advanced refrigeration technologies, strategies, and practices that 
reduce emissions of ozone-depleting and greenhouse gas refrigerants. A 
food retailer's decision to participate in the GreenChill Partnership 
is completely voluntary. After joining GreenChill by submitting a 
signed ``Partnership Agreement,'' food retailers are asked to submit a 
``Stocks and Emissions Report'' to an independent third party. The form 
requires partners to provide corporate-wide, aggregated data on the 
stocks and emissions of all refrigerants used in commercial 
refrigeration and air conditioning appliances. The independent third 
party summarizes the information submitted by the food retailers, 
removes any identifying information, and sends a summary of the 
information to GreenChill. Partners are then asked to submit a 
``Corporate Refrigerant Management Plan'' with their emissions 
reductions goals for the next year, along with a brief description of 
their plan to meet that goal (such as retrofitting old equipment, 
etc.). These two forms are necessary for GreenChill to track annual 
supermarket refrigerant emissions rates, allowing GreenChill and its 
food retail partners to benchmark partners' progress on reducing 
emissions. The partner emissions data is also the basis for the 
achievement awards that GreenChill gives out to its partners.
    Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping 
burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 18.1 
hours for the first year and 11 hours per year for the second and third 
years per response. 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 which have subsequently changed; train 
personnel to be able to

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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: GreenChill Food Retail Partners.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 17.
    Frequency of Response: Annual.
    Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 169.
    Estimated Total Annual Cost: $1378.29 for the first year and 
$812.91 per year for the second and third years. This includes an 
estimated burden cost of $1367.86 and an estimated cost of $10.43 for 
capital investment or maintenance and operational costs for the first 
year and an estimated burden cost of $808.05 and an estimated cost of 
$4.86 for capital investment or maintenance and operational costs for 
the second and third years.

    Dated: January 19, 2010.
John Moses,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. 2010-1362 Filed 1-22-10; 8:45 am]
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