Notice2021-18958
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Application Package for NCCC Impact Evaluation
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September 2, 2021
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Corporation for National and Community Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Corporation for National and Community Service (operating as AmeriCorps) is proposing a renewal of the existing public information collection request (ICR) entitled NCCC Impact Evaluation with revisions that expand the scope to include COVID-19 vaccine distribution and related activities case studies.
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[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 168 (Thursday, September 2, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Page 49319]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2021-18958]
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CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Application Package for NCCC Impact Evaluation
AGENCY: The Corporation for National and Community Service.
ACTION: Notice of information collection; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
Corporation for National and Community Service (operating as
AmeriCorps) is proposing a renewal of the existing public information
collection request (ICR) entitled NCCC Impact Evaluation with revisions
that expand the scope to include COVID-19 vaccine distribution and
related activities case studies.
DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the individual and office
listed in the ADDRESSES section by November 1, 2021.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by the title of the
information collection activity, by any of the following methods:
(1) By mail sent to: AmeriCorps, Attention: Melissa Gouge, 250 E
Street SW, Washington, DC 20525.
(2) By hand delivery or by courier to the AmeriCorps mailroom at
the mail address given in paragraph (1) above, between 9:00 a.m. and
4:00 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday through Friday, except federal holidays.
(3) Electronically through <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a>.
Comments submitted in response to this notice may be made available
to the public through <a href="http://regulations.gov">regulations.gov</a>. For this reason, please do not
include in your comments information of a confidential nature, such as
sensitive personal information or proprietary information. If you send
an email comment, your email address will be automatically captured and
included as part of the comment that is placed in the public docket and
made available on the internet. Please note that responses to this
public comment request containing any routine notice about the
confidentiality of the communication will be treated as public comment
that may be made available to the public, notwithstanding the inclusion
of the routine notice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Melissa Gouge, 202-606-6736, or by
email at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#5439333b21333114373a277a333b22"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="87eae0e8f2e0e2c7e4e9f4a9e0e8f1">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title of Collection: NCCC Impact Evaluation.
OMB Control Number: 3045-0189.
Type of Review: Renewal.
Respondents/Affected Public: Individuals and Households; Businesses
and Organizations.
Total Estimated Number of Additional Responses: 210.
Total Estimated Number of Additional Burden Hours: 305.
Abstract: AmeriCorps NCCC program members have been a crucial part
of AmeriCorps' COVID-19 pandemic response, serving as personnel on
vaccine distribution mission assignments alongside FEMA and other
agencies. No one could have anticipated the COVID-19 pandemic, but we
have seized an opportunity to develop questions that build on the
existing study but are specific to these ongoing activities.
These activities are an essential element of our agency's COVID-19
pandemic response--one that is also essential to our mission--to
improve lives and strengthen communities. To further our mission in a
time of increasing uncertainty, we aim to collect information on
current activity that must be measured now in order to assess,
identify, and make any identified programmatic changes. Peak
performance of these projects is crucial to our agency's COVID-19
pandemic response and public safety writ large.
Vaccine delivery is of increasing importance as the COVID-19
pandemic continues an unpredictable course. In time, we hope, the
pandemic will subside, but it is crucial that we analyze these mission
assignments now to make improvements that will literally save lives.
How will this save lives? Currently, just over 50% of Americans are
fully vaccinated against the virus (Source: <a href="http://CDC.gov">CDC.gov</a>, accessed 08/20/
2021). Vaccines have proven to decrease severity of illness and
fatalities from COVID-19. AmeriCorps NCCC members are increasing access
to vaccines through their service. Programmatic improvements instituted
`in real time' to enhance their efforts will lead to even greater
access and a healthier public.
Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized
and/or included in the request for OMB approval. Comments are invited
on: (a) Whether the collection of information is necessary for the
proper performance of the functions of the agency, including whether
the information shall have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency's estimate of the burden of the collection of information; (c)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of
information on respondents, including through the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of information technology; and (e)
estimates of capital or start-up costs and costs of operation,
maintenance, and purchase of services to provide information. Burden
means the total time, effort, or financial resources expended by
persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose or provide information
to or for a Federal agency. This includes the time needed to review
instructions; to develop, acquire, install and utilize technology and
systems for the purpose of collecting, validating and verifying
information, processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and
providing information; to train personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information, to search data sources, to complete and
review the collection of information; and to transmit or otherwise
disclose the information. All written comments will be available for
public inspection on <a href="http://regulations.gov">regulations.gov</a>.
Dated: August 27, 2021.
Mary Hyde,
Director, Office of Research and Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 2021-18958 Filed 9-1-21; 8:45 am]
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