CDP Supply Chain Climate
Change Information Request
Extension without change of a currently approved collection
No
Regular
12/22/2021
Requested
Previously Approved
36 Months From Approved
02/28/2022
250
130
3,618
1,310
254,000
40,220
The CDP Supply Chain Climate Change
Information Request is an electronic questionnaire designed to
collect information that is widely used by large commercial and
governmental organizations to understand, assess, and mitigate
potentially disruptive and costly supply chain risks and
environmental impacts. The questionnaire is administered by CDP
North America, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization (“CDP”).
CDP administers the questionnaire annually on behalf of over 590
institutional investors, 200 major corporations, and several large
governmental purchasing organizations in addition to the U.S.
General Services Administration (GSA). CDP’s most recent annual
survey was directed to over 20,000 companies, with over 9,600
electing to respond. Under the previously approved information
collection request, GSA has directed CDP since 2017 to include
several hundred major Federal contractors annually among its
potential survey respondents. In accordance with 31 U.S. Code §
3512(c)(1)(B), GSA uses the information received from these
companies via CDP to inform and develop purchasing policies and
contract requirements necessary to safeguard Federal assets against
waste, loss, and misappropriation resulting from unmitigated
exposure to supply chain energy market and environmental risks. In
accordance with Executive Orders 13990, 14008, and 14030, GSA also
uses the information to inform development of policies and programs
to reduce climate risks and greenhouse gas emissions associated
with federal procurement activities. This collection request is for
GSA to direct CDP to survey specific recipients using CDP’s
standard questionnaire. CDP, not GSA, is solely responsible for
authoring and administering the questionnaire. GSA is not
requesting (and does not have the ability as part of CDP’s process)
to revise the questionnaire, including to revise questions or to
include or exclude specific questions. GSA-requested recipients
will be notified both by CDP and directly by GSA that GSA is a
sponsor of the collection and will use the information.
In order to better achieve the
purposes described above, GSA intends to expand this program from
300 to 500 maximum annual recipients, which will increase the
number of elected respondents to 250—up from the previously
approved 130. The burden worksheet has been updated to reflect this
increase. Estimates of response rates per category have been
updated based on GSA’s latest data from the existing collection,
and cost burden has been adjusted due to increases in the GS
equivalent pay rate.
$47,000
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Jedediah Ela 202
854-8804
No
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.