ICR Extension_2008

Attachment A:
ICR Renewal Terms and Clearance. Office of
Management and Budget, Control Number
2050-0139, June 24, 2008.

NOTICE OF OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET ACTION
Date 06/24/2008
Environmental Protection Agency
Solid Waste and Emergency Response
FOR CERTIFYING OFFICIAL: Molly O'Neill
FOR CLEARANCE OFFICER: Rick Westlund
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, OMB has taken action on your request received
07/24/2007
ACTION REQUESTED: Extension without change of a currently approved collection
TYPE OF REVIEW REQUESTED: Regular
ICR REFERENCE NUMBER: 200707-2050-001
AGENCY ICR TRACKING NUMBER: 1698.07
TITLE: EPA's WasteWise Program (Renewal)
LIST OF INFORMATION COLLECTIONS: See next page
OMB ACTION: Approved with change
OMB CONTROL NUMBER: 2050-0139
The agency is required to display the OMB Control Number and inform respondents of its legal significance in
accordance with 5 CFR 1320.5(b).
EXPIRATION DATE: 06/30/2011
BURDEN:

DISCONTINUE DATE:
RESPONSES

HOURS

COSTS

Previous

1,625

56,700

0

New

1,875

70,350

0

Change due to New Statute

0

0

0

Change due to Agency Discretion

0

0

0

250

13,650

0

0

0

0

Difference

Change due to Agency Adjustment
Change Due to Potential Violation of the PRA

TERMS OF CLEARANCE: EPA’s intended uses of the information collected through this ICR are: “1)
identify and recognize outstanding waste reduction achievements by individual organizations; 2) compile
aggregate results that indicate overall accomplishments of WasteWise partners; 3) identify cost-effective
waste reduction strategies to share with other organizations; and 4) identify topics on which to develop
assistance and information efforts.”
This information collection is approved for 3 years in order to allow EPA to develop a program evaluation
method for the WasteWise program, consistent with all relevant OMB guidance, including OMB’s Standards
and Guidelines for Statistical Survey and OMB’s Guidance on Agency Surv ey and Statistical Information
Collections, and OMB's program evaluation guidance (e.g., evaluation under the Program Assessment Tool).
EPA should also take into account the peer review comments the agency received on the last proposed
method. In drafting the method, EPA must address the following issues: appropriate baseline, appropriate
entity boundary for reporting, conditions for additionality, self-selection bias, and low response rates from the
partners and low item response rates from the partners. Before resubmitting the method, EPA must subject
the program evaluation protocol to an external peer review. Such peer review shall comport with standards
for peer review of influential scientific information as found in the OMB Peer Review Bulletin. EPA shall share

NOTICE OF OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET ACTION
Date 06/24/2008
with OMB its draft charge to the peer reviewers, all comments received from the peer reviewers, and the
Agency’s response to the comments of the peer re viewers. When the agency submits the next submission,
EPA must provide the program evaluation method, the external peer review comments, the agency’s
response to the peer review comments, and an explanation of the revisions adopted in the information
collection to address past OMB concerns and the peer review comments.
If the agency decides to aggregate and disseminate aggregated results information, such dissemination must
be accompanied by the following caveat: “ This figure represents the total amount of waste reduction, waste
prevention, recycling and buy-recycled efforts reported by those WasteWise partners who submitted annual
reports to EPA for 20XX. EPA is not claiming that all of the waste reduction, waste prevention, recycling and
buy-recycled efforts achieved by WasteWise partners are attributable to the WasteWise program. EPA is
working on a method to better quantify the impact of WasteWise on business behavior and waste reduction.”
When the agency submits the next ICR for renewal, the agency must provide the following information or their
equivalent if the forms are amended:
Overall response rate from the participants;
Item non-response rates for each question in Section II of the Registration Form and Sections II through IV in
the Assessment Form;
Descriptive statistics (including but not limited to mean, median, mode) of the responses for each question in
Section II of the Registration Form and Sections II through IV in the Assessment Form.
OMB Authorizing Official:

Kevin F. Neyland
Deputy Administrator,
Office Of Information And Regulatory Affairs

List of ICs
IC Title
EPA's WasteWise
Program (Private Sector)
EPA's WasteWise
Program (State)

Form No.

Form Name

CFR Citation