View Information Collection Request (ICR) Package

OMB Control No: 2060-0702	ICR Reference No: 201001-2060-013
Status: Historical Active	Previous ICR Reference No:
Agency/Subagency: EPA/OAR	Agency Tracking No: 2349.01
Title: Green Chill Advanced Refrigeration Partnership
Type of Information Collection: New collection (Request for a new OMB Control Number)	Common Form ICR: No
Type of Review Request: Regular
OIRA Conclusion Action: Approved with change	Conclusion Date: 05/12/2016
	Date Received in OIRA: 01/27/2010
Terms of Clearance: 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.

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	05/31/2019	36 Months From Approved
Responses	204	0	0
Time Burden (Hours)	1,688	0	0
Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0

Abstract: The GreenChill Advanced Refrigeration Partnership (hereafter referred to as GreenChill Partnership or GreenChill) is an EPA cooperative alliance with the supermarket industry to promote advanced refrigeration technologies, strategies, and practices that reduce emissions of ozone-depleting and greenhouse gas refrigerants. A food retailer's decision to participate in the GreenChill Partnership is completely voluntary. After joining GreenChill by submitting a signed ''Partnership Agreement,'' food retailers are asked to submit a ''Stocks and Emissions Report'' to an independent third party. The form requires partners to provide corporate-wide, aggregated data on the stocks and emissions of all refrigerants used in commercial refrigeration and air conditioning appliances. The independent third party summarizes the information submitted by the food retailers, removes any identifying information, and sends a summary of the information to GreenChill. Partners are then asked to submit a ''Corporate Refrigerant Management Plan'' with their emissions reductions goals for the next year, along with a brief description of their plan to meet that goal (such as retrofitting old equipment, etc.). These two forms are necessary for GreenChill to track annual supermarket refrigerant emissions rates, allowing GreenChill and its food retail partners to benchmark partners' progress on reducing emissions. The partner emissions data is also the basis for the achievement awards that GreenChill gives out to its partners.

Authorizing Statute(s): None

Citations for New Statutory Requirements: None

Associated Rulemaking Information
RIN:	Stage of Rulemaking:	Federal Register Citation:	Date:
	Not associated with rulemaking

Federal Register Notices & Comments
60-day Notice:	Federal Register Citation:	Citation Date:
	74 FR 26690	06/03/2009
30-day Notice:	Federal Register Citation:	Citation Date:
	75 FR 3904	01/25/2010
Did the Agency receive public comments on this ICR? No

Number of Information Collection (IC) in this ICR: 1

IC Title	Form No.	Form Name
GreenChill Advanced Refrigeration Partnership	5900-213, 5900-214

ICR Summary of Burden

	Total Approved	Change Due to Agency Discretion
Annual Number of Responses	204	204
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	1,688	1,688
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0

Burden increases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: Yes

Burden Increase Due to: Miscellaneous Actions

Burden decreases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: No

Burden Reduction Due to:

Short Statement: This is a new collection for the GreenChill Advanced Refrigeration Partnership. It is an EPA cooperative alliance with the supermarket industry to promote advanced refrigeration technologies, strategies, and practices that reduce emissions of ozone-depleting and greenhouse gas refrigerants.

Annual Cost to Federal Government: $83,199

Does this IC contain surveys, censuses, or employ statistical methods? No

Is the Supporting Statement intended to be a Privacy Impact Assessment required by the E-Government Act of 2002? No

Is this ICR related to the Affordable Care Act [Pub. L. 111-148 & 111-152]? No

Is this ICR related to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, [Pub. L. 111-203]? No

Is this ICR related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)? No

Is this ICR related to the Pandemic Response? Uncollected

Agency Contact: Tom Land 202 343-9185 land.tom@epamail.epa.gov

View ICR - OIRA Conclusion