Climate Action Report FOIA Email 5.16.03 (a)

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CREATION DATE/TIME:l6-MAY-2003 16:07:04.00
SUBJECT:: EPA has faxed response to CEI
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TEXT:
For your information - EPA has this afternoon sent the following
document via fax and mail to CET in response to their letter on the
Climate Action Report.
(See attached file: EPA KNelson Response 7428.pdf)
We posted this response on the EPA IQG site this afternoon as well.
Here's a link to that site (see item 7b):
http: //www.epa.gov/oei/qualityguidelines/aftreq-correction-sub.htm
Finally, we have modified several pages on our website where necessary
to cite the Climate Action Report as a State Department document. See,
for example, the main page listed below:
http: //yosemite.epa.gov/OAR/globalwarming.nsf/content/ResourceCenterPublica
tionsuSClimateActionReport .html
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4. Mr
Ž S UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
MWI ~~~~~WASHINGTON, 0.C. 20460
MAY I 6 2003 OFFICE OF
ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION
Christopher C. Homer
Competitive Enterprise Institute
1001 Coniiecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 1250
Washington, D.C. 20036
Re: Information Quality Guidelines Request for COrrection #7428
Dear Mr. Homer:
The purpose of this letter is to respond to your February 10, 2003, request to the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Guidelines for Ensuring and Maximizing the
Quality, Objectivity, Uti Lity', and Integrity of Information Disseminated by the Environmental
Protection Agency UInformration Quality Guidelinies) (IQG RFC #7428). You requested that EPA
cease dissemination of the U.S. Climate Action Report 2002. This letter also responds to your
June 4, 2002, letter requesting that EPA cease dissemination of the Report.
The u~S. Climate Action Report 2002 is the U.S. Third National Communication that
was prepared and submitted by the'United States pursuant to its obligations under the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Since the UNIFCCC was
ratified by the U.S. in 1992, the State Departmient has been responsible for developing and
submitting each of the U.S. national communications underthe UNFCCC (i.e., in 1994, 1997,
and 2002). In 2002, as in previous years, the State Department convened an interagency team to
draft the document. This team included staff from the Office of Management and Budget,
Council on Environmental Quality, Environmental Protection Agency, the Departments of State,
Energy, Interior, Commerce, Defense, and Transportation, the US Global Change Research
Program, U.S. Agency furlInternational Developmeflt, and other federal agencies. The document
was submitted by the State Departmnent to the UNFCCC Secretariat on May 28, 2002.
EPA subsequently made the document available op its Web site because 'of its advanced
web hosting capability, which mnay have been interpreted as an indication that this was an EPA
report. The State Department has-the responsibility within the U.S. Government for developing
and distributing the document to the UNFCCC Secretariat and to other Parties to the Convention.
The document clearly states (oin the inside cover page) that the Climate Action Report is a U.S.
State Department publication.
Therefore, EPA has determined that it is not the appropriate agency to consider
Information Quality Guidelines requests for correction relative to the Climate Action Report.
The EPA Information Quality Guidelines apply to information EPA disseminates to the public
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that is prepared by the Agency to support or represent an EPA
Furthermore, the EPA
support a regulation, guidance or other Agency decision or position.
prepared or subrmtted by an
Information Quality Guidelines apply if EPA distributes information
or agrees with it; if EPA
outside party in a manner that reasonably suggests that EPA endorses
EPA's viewpoint; or if
indicates in its distribution that the information supports Or represents
to, formulate or support a
EPA in its distribution proposes to use or uses the information
EPA hosts
regulation. guidance, policy, or other Agency decision or positioti. In this instance,
Department~in~providing
the~Climnate Action Report on its Web site solely to assist the State
drafting effort for the
public access to the Report. While EPA did participate in the~interagency
viewpoint or otherwise adopting or
document, EPA is not using it to support or represent an EPA term
endorsing it. Accordingly, EPA is not "disseminating" information in the document, as that
the correction process under the
is used in the EPA Information Quality Guidelines. Because
EPA Information Quality Guidelines is limited to requests for Correction of infotmation
and reconsideration
disseminated by EPA, EPA Information Quality Guidelines correction
processes do not apply to the information in the Climate Action Report, as described in your
request.
to the StateDepartment
in view of these considerations, we have forwarded your request
for their information, and we suggest that you contact the State Department if you wish to pursue
prominently that the US.
this matter. EPA has made several changes to its Web site to state
Climate Action Report 2002 is a State Department publication.
described in your request
If you are dissatisfied with EPA's decision that the information
is not covered by the EPA Information Quality Guidelines, you may submit a Request for
submitted within 90 days of the
Reconsideration (RER). EPA recommends that this request be
Information Quality
date on this letter. To do so~ send a written request to the Agency's
Guidelines Processing Staff via mail (Information Quality Guidelines Staff, Mail Code 28220T,
electromicmail
U.S. EPA, 1200 Peninsylvania Ave., NW Washington, D.C., 20460),
(quality.guidelines ~epa.gov) or fax.(202 566-0255.). The RFR should reference the request
in the first sentence/first
number assigned to the original request for correction (identified
paragraph of this response). Additional information that should be included in the request is
listed on Information Quality Guidelines Web site (tn/wWCtEvOiOaiVudlns)
Sincerely,
Kimberly T. Nelson
A~sistanlt Administrator and
Chief Information Officer
Department
cc: Dan Reifsnyder, Director, Office of Global Change, U.S. State
Jeffrey R. Holmstead, Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation, U.S.-EPA