2173j03

EPA's Green Power Partnership and Combined Heat and Power Partnership

EPA ICR No. 2173.03

OMB Control Number 2060-0578

Justification for Non-Material Change

EPA has made revisions to the Green Power Partnership Agreement to ease the burden on the partners and to facilitate processing of the agreement form. We made the following changes: We moved all of the background information on the partnership requirements together on page 1 so that the partner only needs to fax us page 2 (the backside) of the agreement. We made this change to make it ease the burden on the partner. We updated a URL address listed in the third bullet under the "By Joining EPA's GPP" section so that it is corrected. We also removed the 5th bullet of the "General Terms" section \in the old version of the Partnership Agreement since this no longer is applies. In the "Contact Information" section, we no longer ask for fax number information so that we ease the burden on the partner. In the new version, we no longer ask the partner to tell us if they have a web page on their green power purchase nor do we ask if we can contact their green power provider if we have any questions on their current green power usage. We do ask in the new version three new questions for partners who are generating on-site green power: the year their on-site green power technology was installed (according to our partnership requirements, the technology has to be built after 1997), the location of the generator (zip code only), and who owns the generator. We ask these questions to better facilitate processing of the agreement form. Finally, we created an optional new section asking about the partner's reason for using green power.

We will also begin to develop a web page of our new partnership agreement form so that a partner has a third choice for submitting a completed partnership form.