Notice2022-12759
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Connecting Minority Communities Pilot Program
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Published
June 14, 2022
Issuing agencies
Commerce DepartmentNational Telecommunications and Information Administration
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 114 (Tuesday, June 14, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Page 35971]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-12759]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Telecommunications and Information Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Connecting Minority Communities Pilot Program
The Department of Commerce will submit the following information
collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and clearance in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995, on or after the date of publication of this notice. We invite the
general public and other Federal agencies to comment on proposed and
continuing information collections, which helps us assess the impact of
our information collection requirements and minimize the public's
reporting burden. Public comments were previously requested via the
Federal Register on February 16, 2022 during a 60-day comment period.
This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
Agency: National Telecommunications and Information Administration
(NTIA), Commerce.
Title: Connecting Minority Communities Pilot Program.
OMB Control Number: 0660-XXXX.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: New information collection.
Number of Respondents: 100.
Average Hours per Response: 33.22.
Burden Hours: 13,288.
Needs and Uses: With this information collection, NTIA will monitor
the grant recipients' spending for compliance with grant terms and
conditions. In the absence of collecting this information, NTIA would
fail to evaluate effectively the award recipients' progress toward
completing project activities and achieving core purposes of the CMC.
Moreover, without these reports, NTIA would lack the ability to monitor
effectively the award recipients' expenditure of funds to deter waste,
fraud, ad abuse of CMC funds. Therefore, it is necessary for NTIA to
collect information using the Baseline Report, Semi-Annual Performance
(Technical) Reports and Annual Report.
Affected Public: Grant award recipients consisting of Historically
Black colleges or universities (HBCUs); Tribal Colleges or Universities
(TCUs); Minority-serving institutions (MSIs); or consortiums that are
led by a historically Black college or university, a Tribal College or
University, or a Minority-serving institution and that also include:
(a) an MBE; or (b) an organization described in section 501(c)(3) of
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and exempt from tax under section
501(a) of such Code.
Frequency: Semi-annually and Annually; The Baseline Report is a
one-time collection of information from award recipients covering
project plans and details about key outputs and outcomes.
Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, Division N,
Title IX, Section 905, Public Law 116-260, 134 Stat. 1182 (Dec. 27,
2020)
This information collection request may be viewed at
<a href="http://www.reginfo.gov">www.reginfo.gov</a>. Follow the instructions to view the Department of
Commerce collections currently under review by OMB.
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information
collection should be submitted within 30 days of the publication of
this notice on the following website <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>.
Find this particular information collection by selecting ``Currently
under 30-day Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search
function and entering the title of the collection.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information
Officer, Department of Commerce.
[FR Doc. 2022-12759 Filed 6-13-22; 8:45 am]
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