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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 87 / Friday, May 7, 2021 / Notices worked with the applicant. Reference checking is a necessary supplement to the evaluation of resumes and other descriptions of training and experience, and allows the selecting official to hire applicants with a strong history of performance. The questions on this form have been developed following the OPM, MSPB, and DOJ Best Practice guidelines for reference checking.
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6 An estimate of the total public burden in hours associated with the collection: The estimated annual public burden associated with this collection is 1000 hours, which is equal to 1000
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Melody Braswell, Department Clearance Officer for PRA, U.S.
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OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND
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Notice of Availability and Request for Comment on Technical Support Document: Social Cost of Carbon, Methane, and Nitrous Oxide Interim Estimates Under Executive Order 13990
Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President.
ACTION: Notice of availability and request for comments.
AGENCY:

The Office of Management and Budget OMB, on behalf of the cochairs of the Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases, including the Council of Economic Advisors CEA and the Office of Science and Technology Policy OSTP, request comments on Technical Support Document: Social Cost of Carbon, Methane, and Nitrous Oxide
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Interim Estimates under Executive Order 13990, released on February 26, 2021, available at: https
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/
uploads/2021/02/TechnicalSupport Document_SocialCostofCarbonMethane NitrousOxide.pdf. The estimates of the social cost of carbon SCCO2, social cost of methane SCCH4, and social cost of nitrous oxide SCN2O, collectively called the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases SCGHG, are used to estimate the value to society of marginal reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, or conversely, the social costs of increasing such emissions, in the policy making process.
DATES: To ensure consideration, comments must be in writing and received by June 21, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments by one of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: http
www.regulations.gov our preferred method. Follow the online instructions for submitting comments.
Please note that we cannot provide an option for written or faxed comments at this time due to COVID19 protocols.
Please submit comments electronically.
All comments and recommendations submitted in response to this notice will be made available to the public. For this reason, please do not include in your comments information of a confidential nature, such as sensitive personal information or proprietary information.
The www.regulations.gov website is an anonymous access system, which means OMB will not know your identity or contact information unless you provide it in the body of your comment.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For further information, contact: Italy Martin, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, Email:
SocialCostofGreenhouseGases Comments@omb.eop.gov, Telephone:
202 3951046.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Federal agencies began regularly incorporating SCCO2 estimates in benefit-cost analyses conducted under Executive Order E.O. 12866 in 2008, following a court ruling in which an agency was ordered to consider the value of reducing carbon dioxide emissions in a rulemaking process. In 2009, an original interagency working group IWG was established to ensure that agencies were using the best available science and to promote consistency in the estimated values. The IWG published SCCO2
estimates in 2010. These estimates were updated in 2013. In August 2016, the IWG published a technical support document TSD providing SCCH4 and
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SCN2O estimates using methodologies that are consistent with the methodology underlying the SCCO2
estimates.
The Technical Support Document interim TSD released on February 26, 2021, provides an interim update of SC
GHG estimates, which are reported in 2020 dollars, but otherwise use identical methods and inputs to those presented in the 2016 version of the TSD and its Addendum, including the same three peer-reviewed integrated assessment models. In addition, the interim TSD
discusses scientific and economic advances that have been made since the time of the last updates to the IWG SC
GHG estimates. This notice requests public comment on the interim TSD as well as on how best to incorporate the latest peer-reviewed science and economics literature in order to develop an updated set of SCGHG estimates.
CEA, OMB, and OSTP request that comments be submitted electronically to OMB by 45 days after publication in the Federal Register through www.regulations.gov.
Outline of Notice 1. Background 2. Issues for Comment 1. Background A robust and scientifically founded assessment of the positive and negative impacts that an action can be expected to have on society is a core tenet of the policy-making process. This is particularly important in the area of climate change. In order to meet this charge, the Executive Branch has developed a set of estimates that represent the monetized impact to society associated with an incremental change in greenhouse gas emissions.
These estimates have been developed over the course of many years, using the best science and economics available, and with input from the public.
The latest iteration of this longstanding policy was launched by the re-constituted Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases, which was re-established by Executive Oder E.O. 13990. The reconstituted IWG is committed to ensuring that the estimates agencies consider when monetizing the value of changes in greenhouse gas emissions resulting from regulations and other relevant agency actions continue to reflect the best available science and methodologies. In order to meet this charge, the IWG issued an interim Technical Support Document on February 26, 2021. It presents interim estimates of the social cost of carbon, methane, and nitrous oxide, as directed
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