82_FR_20421 82 FR 20339 - Information Collection; Environmentally Sound Products

82 FR 20339 - Information Collection; Environmentally Sound Products

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 82 (May 1, 2017)

Page Range20339-20340
FR Document2017-08671

Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act, the Regulatory Secretariat Division will be submitting to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request to review and approve an extension of a previously approved information collection requirement concerning environmentally sound products.

Federal Register, Volume 82 Issue 82 (Monday, May 1, 2017) 
[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 82 (Monday, May 1, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20339-20340]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2017-08671]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION

[OMB Control No. 9000-0134; Docket 2017-0053; Sequence 4]


Information Collection; Environmentally Sound Products

AGENCY: Department of Defense (DOD), General Services Administration 
(GSA), and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

ACTION: Notice of request for public comments regarding an extension to 
an existing OMB clearance.

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SUMMARY: Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act, the 
Regulatory Secretariat Division will be submitting to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) a request to review and approve an 
extension of a previously approved information collection requirement 
concerning environmentally sound products.

DATES: Submit comments on or before June 30, 2017.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments identified by Information Collection 9000-
0134, Environmentally Sound Products, by any of the following methods:
     Regulations.gov: http://www.regulations.gov. Submit 
comments via the Federal eRulemaking portal by searching the OMB 
control number 9000-0134. Select the link ``Comment Now'' that 
corresponds with ``Information Collection 9000-0134, Environmentally 
Sound Products''. Follow the instructions provided on the screen. 
Please include your name, company name (if any), and ``Information 
Collection 9000-0134, Environmentally Sound Products'' on your attached 
document.
     Mail: General Services Administration, Regulatory 
Secretariat Division (MVCB), 1800 F Street NW., Washington, DC 20405. 
ATTN: Ms. Jo Ann Sosa/IC 9000-0134, Environmentally Sound Products.
    Instructions: Please submit comments only and cite Information 
Collection 9000-0134, Environmentally Sound Products, in all 
correspondence related to this collection. Comments received generally 
will be posted without change to http://www.regulations.gov, including 
any personal and/or business confidential information provided. To 
confirm receipt of your comment(s), please check www.regulations.gov, 
approximately two to three days after submission to verify posting 
(except allow 30 days for posting of comments submitted by mail).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Charles Gray, Procurement Analyst, 
Governmentwide Acquisition Policy, GSA, 703-795-6328 or 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

A. Purpose

    OMB clearance 9000-0134 supports the information collection 
requirement contained in 52.223-9, Estimate of Percentage of Recovered 
Material Content for EPA-designated Items. Section 6002 of the Resource 
Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), Public Law 94-580, (42 U.S.C. 
6962), requires Federal agencies to develop affirmative procurement 
programs to ensure that items composed of recovered materials will be 
purchased to the maximum extent practicable. An agency's affirmative 
procurement program must include: (1) A recovered materials preference 
program and an agency promotion program for the preference program; (2) 
a program for requiring estimates of the total percentage of recovered 
materials used in the performance of a contract, certification of 
minimum recovered material content used, and where appropriate and 
reasonable, verification procedures for estimates and certifications; 
and (3) annual review and monitoring of the effectiveness of an 
agency's affirmative procurement program.
    For items the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has designated 
as produced or that can be produced from recovered material, agencies 
are required to track the percentaage of recovered material content 
used during contract performance. This requirement applies whenever an 
acquisition sets forth minimum percentages of recovered materials; when 
the price of the item exceeds $10,000; or when the aggregate amount 
paid for the item or functionally equivalent items in the preceding 
fiscal year was $10,000 or more.
    Pursuant to FAR clause 52.223-9, when the contract requires the 
delivery of or use of an EPA-designated item, contractors shall report 
the estimated percentage of total recovered material content delivered 
or used, at contract completion. The clause is included in 
solicitations and contracts exceeding $150,000, except for acquisitions 
of commercially-available, off-the-shelf (COTS) items.

B. Annual Reporting Burden

    Respondents: 1,047.
    Responses per Respondent: 1.5.
    Annual Responses: 1,571.
    Hours per Response: .50.
    Total Burden Hours: 785.
    Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profit and not for profit 
institutions.
    Frequency: Annual.

C. Public Comments

    Public Comments are particularly invited on: Whether this 
collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of 
functions of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), and whether it 
will have practical utility; whether our estimate of the public burden 
of this collection of information is accurate, and based on valid 
assumptions and methodology; ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 
clarity of the information to be collected; and ways in which we can 
minimize the burden of the collection of information on those who are 
to respond, through the use of appropriate technilogical collection 
techniques or other forms of information technology.
    Obtaining Copies of Proposals: Requesters may obtain a copy of the 
information collection documents from the General Services 
Administration, Regulatory Secretariat Division (MVCB), 1800 F Street 
NW., Washington, DC 20405, telephone 202-501-4755.
    Please cite OMB control No. 9000-0134, Environmentally Sound 
Products, in all correspondence.


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    Dated: April 25, 2017.
Lorin S. Curit,
Director, Federal Acquisition Policy Division, Office of Governmentwide 
Acquisition Policy, Office of Acquisition Policy, Office of 
Governmentwide Policy.
[FR Doc. 2017-08671 Filed 4-28-17; 8:45 am]
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Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Follow the instructions provided on the required to track the percentaage of (Prabal Chakrabarti, Senior Vice screen. Please include your name, recovered material content used during President) 600 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, company name (if any), and contract performance. This requirement Massachusetts 02210–2204. Comments ‘‘Information Collection 9000–0134, applies whenever an acquisition sets can also be sent electronically to Environmentally Sound Products’’ on forth minimum percentages of recovered BOS.SRC.Applications.Comments@ your attached document. materials; when the price of the item bos.frb.org: • Mail: General Services exceeds $10,000; or when the aggregate 1. Kennebunk Savings Bancorp, MHC Administration, Regulatory Secretariat amount paid for the item or functionally and Kennebunk Savings Bancorp, Inc., Division (MVCB), 1800 F Street NW., equivalent items in the preceding fiscal both of Kennebunk, Maine; to become a Washington, DC 20405. ATTN: Ms. Jo year was $10,000 or more. bank holding company and a mid-tier Ann Sosa/IC 9000–0134, Pursuant to FAR clause 52.223–9, stock bank holding company, by Environmentally Sound Products. when the contract requires the delivery acquiring 100 percent of the outstanding Instructions: Please submit comments of or use of an EPA-designated item, shares of Kennebunk Savings Bank, only and cite Information Collection contractors shall report the estimated Kennebunk, Maine. 9000–0134, Environmentally Sound percentage of total recovered material Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Products, in all correspondence related content delivered or used, at contract System, April 26, 2017. to this collection. Comments received completion. The clause is included in Yao-Chin Chao, generally will be posted without change solicitations and contracts exceeding Assistant Secretary of the Board. to http://www.regulations.gov, including $150,000, except for acquisitions of any personal and/or business commercially-available, off-the-shelf [FR Doc. 2017–08769 Filed 4–28–17; 8:45 am] confidential information provided. To (COTS) items. BILLING CODE 6210–01–P confirm receipt of your comment(s), B. Annual Reporting Burden please check www.regulations.gov, approximately two to three days after Respondents: 1,047. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE submission to verify posting (except Responses per Respondent: 1.5. allow 30 days for posting of comments Annual Responses: 1,571. GENERAL SERVICES Hours per Response: .50. submitted by mail). ADMINISTRATION Total Burden Hours: 785. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Affected Public: Businesses or other NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND Charles Gray, Procurement Analyst, for-profit and not for profit institutions. SPACE ADMINISTRATION Governmentwide Acquisition Policy, Frequency: Annual. GSA, 703–795–6328 or charles.gray@ [OMB Control No. 9000–0134; Docket 2017– gsa.gov. C. Public Comments 0053; Sequence 4] SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Public Comments are particularly Information Collection; invited on: Whether this collection of A. Purpose information is necessary for the proper Environmentally Sound Products OMB clearance 9000–0134 supports performance of functions of the Federal AGENCY: Department of Defense (DOD), the information collection requirement Acquisition Regulation (FAR), and General Services Administration (GSA), contained in 52.223–9, Estimate of whether it will have practical utility; and National Aeronautics and Space Percentage of Recovered Material whether our estimate of the public Administration (NASA). Content for EPA-designated Items. burden of this collection of information ACTION: Notice of request for public Section 6002 of the Resource is accurate, and based on valid comments regarding an extension to an Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), assumptions and methodology; ways to existing OMB clearance. Public Law 94–580, (42 U.S.C. 6962), enhance the quality, utility, and clarity requires Federal agencies to develop of the information to be collected; and SUMMARY: Under the provisions of the affirmative procurement programs to ways in which we can minimize the Paperwork Reduction Act, the ensure that items composed of burden of the collection of information Regulatory Secretariat Division will be recovered materials will be purchased to on those who are to respond, through submitting to the Office of Management the maximum extent practicable. An the use of appropriate technilogical and Budget (OMB) a request to review agency’s affirmative procurement collection techniques or other forms of and approve an extension of a program must include: (1) A recovered information technology. previously approved information materials preference program and an Obtaining Copies of Proposals: collection requirement concerning agency promotion program for the Requesters may obtain a copy of the environmentally sound products. preference program; (2) a program for information collection documents from srobinson on DSK5SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES DATES: Submit comments on or before requiring estimates of the total the General Services Administration, June 30, 2017. percentage of recovered materials used Regulatory Secretariat Division (MVCB), ADDRESSES: Submit comments in the performance of a contract, 1800 F Street NW., Washington, DC identified by Information Collection certification of minimum recovered 20405, telephone 202–501–4755. 9000–0134, Environmentally Sound material content used, and where Please cite OMB control No. 9000– Products, by any of the following appropriate and reasonable, verification 0134, Environmentally Sound Products, methods: procedures for estimates and in all correspondence. 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20340 Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 82 / Monday, May 1, 2017 / Notices Dated: April 25, 2017. • Mail: General Services engage in business with that prime Lorin S. Curit, Administration, Regulatory Secretariat contractor. Director, Federal Acquisition Policy Division, Division (MVCB), 1800 F Street NW., B. Annual Reporting Burden Office of Governmentwide Acquisition Policy, Washington, DC 20405–0001. ATTN: Office of Acquisition Policy, Office of Ms. Sosa/IC 9000–0135. Number of respondents: 4,444. Governmentwide Policy. Instructions: Please submit comments Responses per respondent: 2.5. [FR Doc. 2017–08671 Filed 4–28–17; 8:45 am] Total annual responses: 11,110. only and cite Information Collection Hours per response: .34. BILLING CODE 6820–EP–P 9000–0135, in all correspondence Total burden hours: 3,777. related to this collection. Comments Frequency: On occasion. received generally will be posted Affected public: Construction prime DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE without change to http:// contractors. www.regulations.gov, including any GENERAL SERVICES C. Public Comments personal and/or business confidential ADMINISTRATION information provided. To confirm Public comments are particularly receipt of your comment(s), please invited on: Whether this collection of NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND information is necessary for the proper check www.regulations.gov, SPACE ADMINISTRATION performance of functions of the FAR, approximately two to three days after submission to verify posting (except and whether it will have practical [OMB Control No. 9000–0135; Docket 2016– 0053; Sequence 40] allow 30 days for posting of comments utility; whether our estimate of the submitted by mail). public burden of this collection of Submission for OMB Review; FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. information is accurate, and based on Prospective Subcontractor Requests Cecelia L. Davis, Procurement Analyst, valid assumptions and methodology; for Bonds Acquisition Policy Division, at 202– ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 219–0202 or email cecelia.davis@ clarity of the information to be AGENCY: Department of Defense (DOD), collected; and ways in which we can General Services Administration (GSA), gsa.gov. minimize the burden of the collection of and National Aeronautics and Space SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: information on those who are to Administration (NASA). respond, through the use of appropriate A. Purpose ACTION: Notice. technological collection techniques or Part 28 of the Federal Acquisition other forms of information technology. SUMMARY: Under the provisions of the Regulation (FAR) contains guidance Obtaining Copies of Proposals: Paperwork Reduction Act, the related to insuring against damages Requesters may obtain a copy of the Regulatory Secretariat Division will be under Federal contracts (e.g., bonds, bid information collection documents from submitting to the Office of Management guarantees, etc.). Part 52 contains the the General Services Administration, and Budget (OMB) a request to review corresponding provisions and clauses. Regulatory Secretariat Division (MVCB), and approve an extension of a These collectively implement the 1800 F Street NW., Washington, DC previously approved information statutory requirement for Federal 20405, telephone 202–501–4755. Please collection concerning subcontractor contractors to report payment bonds cite OMB Control Number 9000–0135, requests for bonds. A notice was under construction contracts subject to Prospective Subcontractor Requests for published in the Federal Register on 40 U.S.C. chapter 31, subchapter III, Bonds, in all correspondence. December 21, 2016. No comments were Bonds. Dated: April 25, 2017. received. This information collection is Lorin S. Curit, DATES: Submit comments on or before mandated by Section 806 of the Director, Federal Acquisition Policy Division, May 31, 2017. National Defense Authorization Act for Office of Government-wide Acquisition ADDRESSES: Submit comments regarding Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 (Pub. L. Policy, Office of Acquisition Policy, Office this burden estimate or any other aspect 102–190), as amended by Section 2091 of Government-wide Policy. of this collection of information, of the Federal Acquisition Streamlining [FR Doc. 2017–08672 Filed 4–28–17; 8:45 am] including suggestions for reducing this Act of 1994 (Pub. L. 103–335). The BILLING CODE 6820–EP–P burden to: Office of Information and clause at 52.228–12, Prospective Regulatory Affairs of OMB, Attention: Subcontractor Requests for Bonds, Desk Officer for GSA, Room 10236, implements Section 806(a)(3) of Public DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE NEOB, Washington, DC 20503. Law 102–190, as amended, which states that, upon the request of a prospective GENERAL SERVICES Additionally submit a copy to GSA by ADMINISTRATION any of the following methods: subcontractor or supplier offering to • Regulations.gov: http:// furnish labor or material under a NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND www.regulations.gov. Submit comments construction contract for which a SPACE ADMINISTRATION via the Federal eRulemaking portal by payment bond has been furnished searching the OMB control number pursuant to 40 U.S.C. 31, the contractor [OMB Control No. 9000–0089; Docket No. 9000–0135. Select the link ‘‘Comment shall promptly provide a copy of such 2017–0053; Sequence 3] Now’’ that corresponds with payment bond to the requestor. Information Collection; Request for ‘‘Information Collection 9000–0135, Given that payment bonds, in srobinson on DSK5SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES Authorization of Additional Prospective Subcontractor Requests for conjunction with performance bonds, Classification and Rate, Standard Form Bond.’’ Follow the instructions are used to secure the contractor’s 1444 provided on the screen. Please include obligations, thereby assuring that your name, company name (if any), and payments are made to subcontractors AGENCY: Department of Defense (DOD), ‘‘Information Collection 9000–0135, and vendors under the contract, the General Services Administration (GSA), Prospective Subcontractor Requests for requester will use information on and National Aeronautics and Space Bond’’ on your attached document. payment bonds to determine whether to Administration (NASA). VerDate Sep<11>2014 20:35 Apr 28, 2017 Jkt 241001 PO 00000 Frm 00028 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\01MYN1.SGM 01MYN1


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CategoryRegulatory Information
CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
GS 4.107:
AE 2.106:
PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice of request for public comments regarding an extension to an existing OMB clearance.
DatesSubmit comments on or before June 30, 2017.
ContactMr. Charles Gray, Procurement Analyst, Governmentwide Acquisition Policy, GSA, 703-795-6328 or [email protected]
FR Citation82 FR 20339 
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