Notice2022-09953
Agency Information Collection Activities; Emergency Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Capital Projects Fund Compliance Reporting
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Published
May 10, 2022
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Treasury Department
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The Department of the Treasury has submitted the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance utilizing emergency review procedures in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. Emergency review and approval of this collection has been requested from OMB by April 30, 2022. The public is invited to submit comments on this request.
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 90 (Tuesday, May 10, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28103-28104]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-09953]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Agency Information Collection Activities; Emergency Submission
for OMB Review; Comment Request; Capital Projects Fund Compliance
Reporting
AGENCY: Departmental Offices, U.S. Department of the Treasury.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Department of the Treasury has submitted the following
information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and clearance utilizing emergency review procedures in
accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. Emergency review
and approval of this collection has been requested from OMB by April
30, 2022. The public is invited to submit comments on this request.
DATES: Written comments must be received on or before May 25, 2022.
ADDRESSES: Send comments regarding the burden estimate, or any other
aspect of the information collection, including suggestions for
reducing the burden, by the following method:
<bullet> Federal E-rulemaking Portal: <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">http://www.regulations.gov</a>.
Follow the instructions for submitting comments. Refer to Docket Number
TREAS-DO-2022-0011 and the specific Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) control number 1505-NEW.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For questions related to this program,
please contact Jeremy Turret by emailing <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#f3b99681969e8adda78681819687b3878196928086818add949c85"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="6c26091e0901154238191e1e09182c181e090d1f191e15420b031a">[email protected]</span></a>, or
calling 202-622-4256. Additionally, you can view the information
collection requests at <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov">www.reginfo.gov</a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund.
OMB Control Number: 1505-XXXX.
Type of Review: New Collection.
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Description: Section 604 of the Social Security Act (the ``Act''),
as added by section 9901 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021,
Public Law 117-2 (Mar. 11, 2021) established the Coronavirus Capital
Projects Fund (``CPF''). The CPF provides $10 billion in funding for
the U.S. Department of the Treasury (``Treasury'') to make payments
according to a statutory formula to States (defined to include each of
the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico), seven
territories and freely associated states (the United States Virgin
Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana
Islands, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of
Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau), and Tribal governments \1\ to
carry out critical capital projects directly enabling work, education,
and health monitoring, including remote options, in response to the
public health emergency with respect to the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-
19).
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\1\ An eligible Tribal government is the recognized governing
body of any Indian or Alaska Native tribe, band, nation, pueblo,
village, community, component band, or component reservation,
individually identified (including parenthetically) in the list
published most recently as of the date of enactment of this Act
pursuant to section 104 of the Federally Recognized Indian Tribe
List Act of 1994 (25 U.S.C. 5131). The State of Hawaii, for
exclusive use of the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands and the
Native Hawaiian Education Programs to assist Native Hawaiians, is
also eligible to apply for funding under this funding category.
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The current information collection will be used to solicit
information related to quarterly project and expenditure reports and
annual performance reports. Both information collections are described
generally in the Compliance and Reporting Guidance. The Compliance and
Reporting Guidance provides recipients with information needed to
fulfill their reporting requirements and compliance obligations.
Treasury will also prepare an IT portal user guide with specific
instructions on entering data into the reporting web-based portal.
The initial Project and Expenditure Report must be submitted by
States, territories, and freely associated states on July 31, 2022,\2\
with subsequent reports being due quarterly for the duration of the
period of performance. The Project and Expenditure Report contains a
set of standardized questions to ascertain the recipient's use of funds
received as of the date of reporting, as well as the status of
individual projects. Treasury will make the data submitted by
recipients publicly available.
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\2\ State, territory, and freely associated state recipients
that have not received any payments by June 15, 2022, will be
exempted from the report due on July 31, 2022.
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The first interim Performance Report must be submitted by States,
territories, and freely associated states on January 31, 2023, with
subsequent reports being due annually on July 31 for the duration of
the period of performance. The Performance Report will contain detailed
performance data corresponding to the ``Programs'' specified previously
in a recipient's Grant Plan. This will include information on efforts
to improve equity and engage communities. The Performance Report is
largely freely written text, and while there are certain data and
topics that recipients must cover in the Performance Report, it is
mostly free-form written content. Recipients are required to publish
the Performance Report on their website and provide the reports to
Treasury. Treasury will make the Performance Reports and associated
data submitted by recipients publicly available.
Forms: Compliance and Reporting Guidance for States, Territories,
and Freely Associated States
Affected Public: State, Territorial, and Freely Associated State
Governments.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 59.
Frequency of Response: 4 times per year for Progress and
Expenditure reports; 1 time per year for Performance Reports.
Estimated Total Number of Annual Responses: 295.
Estimated Time per Response: 62 hours for Project and Expenditure
Reports. 80 hours for Performance Reports.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 19,352.
Request for Comments: Comments submitted in response to this notice
will be summarized and included in the request for Office of Management
and Budget approval. All comments will become a matter of public
record. 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 technology; and (e) estimates of capital or start-up
costs and costs of operation, maintenance, and purchase of services
required to provide information.
(Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.)
Molly Stasko,
Treasury PRA Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2022-09953 Filed 5-9-22; 8:45 am]
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