Notice2024-16032
Information Collection; CDP Supply Chain Climate Change Information Request
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Published
July 22, 2024
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 89, Number 140 (Monday, July 22, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59100-59101]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-16032]
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GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
[OMB Control No. 3090-0319; Docket No. 2024-0001; Sequence No. 8]
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 September 20, 2024.
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#3c5659581259505d7c5b4f5d125b534a"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="204a45440e454c41604753410e474f56">[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 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.C. 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
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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: 1,000.
Responses per Respondent: 1.
Total Annual Responses: 320.
Estimated Time per Respondent: 26.3.
Total Burden Hours: 8,421.
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.
Lois Mandell,
Director, Regulatory Secretariat Division, General Services
Administration.
[FR Doc. 2024-16032 Filed 7-19-24; 8:45 am]
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