Document ID: EPA-HQ-OA-2010-0757-0010
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Confidential Financial Disclosure Form for Special Government Employees Serving on Federal Advisory Committees at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Renewal)
Posted Date: 2014-08-27T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 166 (Wednesday, August 27, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51152-51153]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-20286]

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OA-2010-0757; FRL-9914-38-OEI]

Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; Confidential Financial Disclosure Form for 
Special Government Employees Serving on Federal Advisory Committees at 
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Renewal)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency has submitted an 
information collection request (ICR), ``Confidential Financial 
Disclosure Form for Special Government Employees Serving on Federal 
Advisory Committees at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 
(Renewal)'' (EPA ICR No. 2260.05, OMB Control No. 2090-0029), to the 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in 
accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). 
This is a proposed extension of the ICR, which is currently approved 
through August 31, 2014. Public comments were previously requested via 
the Federal Register (79 FR 35751) on June 24, 2014 during a 60-day 
comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public 
comments. A fuller description of the

[[Page 51153]]

ICR is given below, including its estimated burden and cost to the 
public. 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.

DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before September 26, 
2014.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OA-2010-0757, to (1) EPA online using www.regulations.gov (our 
preferred method), by email to oei.docket@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA 
Docket Center, Environmental Protection Agency, Mail Code 28221T, 1200 
Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460, and (2) OMB via email to 
oirasubmission@omb.eop.gov. Address comments to OMB Desk 
Officer for EPA.
    EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included in the 
public docket without change including any personal information 
provided, unless the comment includes profanity, threats, information 
claimed to be Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other 
information whose disclosure is restricted by statute.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Megan Moreau, Office of Diversity, 
Advisory Committee Management and Outreach, Office of Administration 
and Resources Management, Mail Code 1601M, Environmental Protection 
Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone 
number: 202-564-5320; fax number: 202-564-8129; email address: 
moreau.megan@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supporting documents which explain in detail 
the information that the EPA will be collecting are available in the 
public docket for this ICR. The docket can be viewed online at 
www.regulations.gov or in person at the EPA Docket Center, WJC West, 
Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave. NW., Washington, DC. The telephone 
number for the Docket Center is 202-566-1744. For additional 
information about EPA's public docket, visit http://www.epa.gov/dockets.
    Abstract: The purpose of this information collection request is to 
assist the EPA in selecting federal advisory committee members who will 
be appointed as Special Government Employees (SGEs), mostly to the 
EPA's scientific and technical committees. To select SGE members as 
efficiently and cost effectively as possible, the Agency needs to 
evaluate potential conflicts of interest before a candidate is hired as 
an SGE and appointed as a member to a committee by the EPA's 
Administrator or Deputy Administrator. Agency officials developed the 
``Confidential Financial Disclosure Form for Special Government 
Employees Serving on Federal Advisory Committees at the U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency,'' also referred to as Form 3110-48, 
for greater inclusion of information to discover any potential 
conflicts of interest as recommended by the Government Accountability 
Office.
    Form Numbers: EPA Form 3110-48.
    Respondents/affected entities: Individuals.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Required in order to serve as a 
SGE on an EPA federal advisory committee (5 CFR 2634.903).
    Estimated number of respondents: 250 (total).
    Frequency of response: Annual.
    Total estimated burden: 250 hours (per year). Burden is defined at 
5 CFR 1320.03(b).
    Total estimated cost: $22,000 (per year), includes $0 annualized 
capital or operation & maintenance costs.
    Changes in the estimates: There is a decrease of 50 hours in the 
total estimated respondent burden compared with the ICR currently 
approved by OMB. This change is due to a decrease in the estimated 
number of respondents from 300 to 250.

Spencer Clark,
Acting Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. 2014-20286 Filed 8-26-14; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6560-50-P