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2060-0703 200909-2060-001
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EPA/OAR 2254.02
Responsible Appliance Disposal Program
New collection (Request for a new OMB Control Number)   No
Regular
Approved with change 08/09/2016
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA) 09/08/2009
OMB noted that EPA should be careful to not characterize data reported by Partner companies as an aggregate summary of emissions reductions resulting from the Program. EPA recognizes that some of the activities and emissions reductions reported by Partners may have been achieved in the absence of the Program. EPA also recognizes that there are emissions reductions occurring in the industry that have been a direct or indirect result of the influence of the Program, but are not being reported to EPA. As a result, EPA has been and will continue to be clear in any Program related communication that when providing a summary or an aggregation of emission reductions it is appropriately characterized as resulting from Partners’ reported activities. OMB understands that EPA is committed to improving its ability to meaningfully evaluate the contributions of voluntary programs characterized by the absence of readily available, high quality, or detailed data, particularly on non-participants. After assessing available methods from the literature that may be useful in this context, EPA/NCEE will undertake one to three case studies to examine how much it can say with regard to the potential role that voluntary programs have played in participant actions. The extent to which these issues can be feasibly and defensibly addressed will depend on the voluntary program and the details of its design and implementation, including its industry context and the environmental problem it has been created to address. OMB will expect a progress report on these efforts when the next renewal for this ICR is submitted.
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