Notice2025-19685
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request Focus Groups as Used by EPA for Economics Projects (Renewal)
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Published
October 29, 2025
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Environmental Protection Agency
Abstract
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), Focus Groups as Used by EPA for Economics Projects (Renewal), (EPA ICR Number 2205.26, OMB Control Number 2090-0028) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. This is a proposed renewal of the ICR, which is currently approved through October 31, 2025. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register on August 28, 2025, during a 60-day comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 207 (Wednesday, October 29, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48794-48795]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-19685]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OA-2025-0172; FRL-13055-01-OMS]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment
Request Focus Groups as Used by EPA for Economics Projects (Renewal)
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an
information collection request (ICR), Focus Groups as Used by EPA for
Economics Projects (Renewal), (EPA ICR Number 2205.26, OMB Control
Number 2090-0028) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act.
This is a proposed renewal of the ICR, which is currently approved
through October 31, 2025. Public comments were previously requested via
the Federal Register on August 28, 2025, during a 60-day comment
period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public
comments.
DATES: Comments may be submitted on or before November 28, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OA-2025-0172, to EPA online using <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a> (our preferred
method), or by mail to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental Protection
Agency, Mail Code 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC
20460.
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.
Submit written comments and recommendations to OMB for the proposed
information collection within 30 days of publication of this notice to
<a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>. Find this particular information
collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--Open for
Public Comments'' or by using the search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Chris Moore, Office of Policy
(MC1809T), Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW,
Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: 202-566-2348; email address:
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#4b262424392e6528233922380b2e3b2a652c243d"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="f19c9e9e8394df9299839882b1948190df969e87">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a proposed renewal of the ICR, which
is currently approved through October 31, 2025. 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.
Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register
on August 28, 2025, during a 60-day comment period (90 FR 42007). This
notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments. 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 <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a> or in person at the EPA
Docket Center, WJC West, Room 3334, 1301
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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 <a href="http://www.epa.gov/dockets">http://www.epa.gov/dockets</a>.
Abstract: EPA is seeking renewal of a generic information
collection request (ICR) for the conduct of focus groups and protocol
interviews (hereafter jointly referred to as focus groups) related to
economics projects. Over the next three years, the Agency anticipates
engaging in survey development efforts associated with a variety of
economics projects including those related to drinking water quality,
health risk reductions, coastal adaptation and restoration, to name a
few. Focus groups are an important part of any survey development
process, allowing researchers to directly gauge what specific issues
are important to the public and providing a means for explicitly
testing draft survey materials. Through these focus groups, the Agency
will be able to gain a more in-depth understanding of the public's
attitudes, beliefs, motivations and feelings regarding specific issues
and will provide valuable information regarding the quality of draft
survey instruments.
The information collected in the focus groups will be used
primarily to develop and improve economics-related surveys. To the
extent that these surveys are ultimately approved and successfully
administered, they will serve to expand the Agency's understanding of
benefits and costs of a variety of actions and could provide the means
to quantitatively assess the effects of others. Participation in the
focus groups will be voluntary, and the identity of the participants
will be kept confidential.
Form Numbers: None.
Respondents/affected entities: Individuals.
Respondent's obligation to respond: Voluntary.
Estimated number of respondents: 432 (total).
Frequency of response: Once.
Total estimated burden: 288 hours (per year). Burden is defined at
5 CFR 1320.03(b).
Total estimated cost: $100,973 (per year), which includes $80,000
annualized capital or operation & maintenance costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is decrease of 1,314 hours in the
3-year total estimated respondent burden compared with the ICR
currently approved by OMB. A decrease in burden over the previous ICR
conveys simply that EPA anticipates less need for the conduct of focus
groups under this ICR than in the past.
Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Information Engagement Division.
[FR Doc. 2025-19685 Filed 10-28-25; 8:45 am]
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