Notice2021-20140
Information Collection; CDP Supply Chain Climate Change Information Request
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Published
September 17, 2021
Issuing agencies
General Services Administration
Abstract
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.
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[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 178 (Friday, September 17, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51889-51890]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2021-20140]
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GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
[OMB Control No. 3090-0319; Docket No. 2021-0001; Sequence No. 11]
Information Collection; CDP Supply Chain Climate Change
Information Request
AGENCY: Office of Government-wide Policy (OGP), General Services
Administration (GSA).
ACTION: Notice and request for comments.
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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 16, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments regarding this burden estimate or any other
aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for
reducing this burden to <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">http://www.regulations.gov</a>. Submit comments via
the Federal eRulemaking portal by searching for ``Information
Collection 3090-0319; CDP Supply Chain Climate Change Information
Request.'' Select the link ``Comment Now'' that corresponds with
``Information Collection 3090-0319; CDP Supply Chain Climate Change
Information Request.'' Follow the instructions provided on the screen.
Please include your name, company name (if any), and ``Information
Collection 3090-0319; CDP Supply Chain Climate Change Information
Request'' on your attached document. If your comment cannot be
submitted using <a href="http://regulations.gov">regulations.gov</a>, call or email the point of contact in
the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of this document for
alternate instructions.
Instructions: Please submit comments only and cite ``Information
Collection 3090-0319; CDP Supply Chain Climate Change Information
Request'', in all correspondence related to this collection. Comments
received generally will be posted without change to <a href="http://regulations.gov">regulations.gov</a>,
including any personal and/or business confidential information
provided. To confirm receipt of your comment(s), please check
<a href="http://regulations.gov">regulations.gov</a>, approximately two-to-three days after submission to
verify posting.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Jed Ela, Sustainability Advisor,
Office of Government-wide Policy, at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#1b717e7f357e777a5b7c687a357c746d"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="274d424309424b466740544609404851">[email protected]</span></a>, 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
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North America, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization (``CDP''). CDP
administers the questionnaire annually on behalf of over 590
institutional investors, 200 major corporations, and several large
governmental purchasing organizations in addition to GSA. CDP's most
recent annual survey was directed to over 20,000 companies, with over
9,600 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 Sec. 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 supply chain energy market and environmental
risks. GSA also uses the information in accordance with Executive
Orders 13990, 14008, and 14030 to inform development of policies and
programs to reduce climate risks and greenhouse gas emissions
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 gases 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 500 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 250 out of 500 annual requested respondents will be in
this category. Hour burden for this category: 250 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 220
out of 500 annual requested respondents will be in this category. Hour
burden for this category: 220 responses; average time per respondent 5
minutes; total burden 18 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 30 out of 500
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: 30 responses; average time per
respondent 120 hours; total burden 3,600 hours.
Based on the individual category response times above, the total
estimated response burden for all 500 requested respondents is
summarized below.
Frequency: Annual.
Affected Public: Federal contractors.
Number of Respondents: 500.
Responses per Respondent: 1.
Total Annual Responses: 250.
Estimated Time Per Respondent: 14.5.
Total Burden Hours: 3,618.
C. Public Comments
Public comments are particularly invited on: Whether this
collection of information is necessary, whether it will have practical
utility; whether our estimate of the public burden of this collection
of information is accurate, and based on valid assumptions and
methodology; ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and ways in which we can minimize the
burden of the collection of information on those who are to respond,
through the use of appropriate technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Beth Anne Killoran,
Deputy Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2021-20140 Filed 9-16-21; 8:45 am]
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