Notice2022-18689
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Departmental Offices Information Collection Requests
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August 30, 2022
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The Department of the Treasury will submit the following information collection requests 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. The public is invited to submit comments on these requests.
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 167 (Tuesday, August 30, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53052-53053]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-18689]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request; Departmental Offices Information Collection
Requests
AGENCY: Departmental Offices, U.S. Department of the Treasury.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Department of the Treasury will submit the following
information collection requests 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. The public is invited to submit comments on these requests.
DATES: Comments should be received on or before September 29, 2022 to
be assured of consideration.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of
this notice to <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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Copies of the submissions may be
obtained from Melody Braswell by emailing <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#4f1f1d0e0f3b3d2a2e3c3a3d3661282039"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="c595978485b1b7a0a4b6b0b7bceba2aab3">[email protected]</span></a>, calling
(202) 622-1035, or viewing the entire information collection request at
<a href="http://www.reginfo.gov">www.reginfo.gov</a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
The Office of Economic Policy
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed
Collection; Comment Request; Application, Evaluation Design Plan,
Reports, and Recordkeeping for the Social Impact Partnerships to Pay
for Results Act (SIPPRA) Grant Program.
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Control Number: 1505-0260.
Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
Description: SIPPRA, enacted February 9, 2018, amends Title XX of
the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. 1397 et seq., to provide $100
million in funding to implement social impact partnership projects''
(projects) and feasibility studies for such projects. SIPPRA authorizes
the Secretary of the Treasury to enter into award agreements with state
or local governments for projects or feasibility studies. Treasury, in
consultation with other federal agencies, administers the SIPPRA grant
program.
SIPPRA authorizes Treasury to conduct a request for proposals for
projects, make award determinations, and enter into project award
agreements. Treasury intends to publish a Notice of Funding
Availability (NOFA) seeking applications for projects and anticipates
that ten or more persons will respond to its NOFA announcing
availability of funding for SIPPRA projects.
Although Treasury is asking applicants to use the SF-424 and SF-425
families of common forms for their applications and reports, Treasury
also expects to solicit additional detailed information from applicants
to effectively and efficiently assess and evaluate whether applications
for projects comply with statutory requirements. This request includes
only the burden for this additional information. The burden for the SF-
424 forms is covered under OMB Control Numbers 4040-0004, 4040-0006,
4040-0007, 4040-0008, 4040-0009, 4040-0010, and 4040-0013. The burden
for the SF-425 form is covered under OMB Control Number 4040-0014. The
additional information includes the following components:
<bullet> <a href="http://SAM.gov">SAM.gov</a> registration;
[cir] Notice of Intent to Apply (optional);
[cir] Project Narrative, to include an Executive Summary;
[cir] Project Narrative Attachments, to include project budget,
narrative statement addressing partnership agreements, an estimate of
the value to the federal government of the interventions being proposed
in the project, partner qualifications, independent evaluator
qualifications, evaluation design plan, independent evaluator contract,
outcome valuation (for which Treasury's SIPPRA website will provide
guidance to assist applicants), legal compliance, and (optional)
additional supporting documentation such as a preexisting feasibility
study;
[cir] Treasury Office of Civil Rights and Diversity Assurances and
Certifications, Terms and Conditions, and Compliance Data;
[cir] Additional documentation related to Title VI of the Civil
Rights Act;
[cir] Copy of application proposing privileged or confidential
information to be redacted;
[cir] Administrative Reporting, including a Quarterly Performance
Report, Evaluation Progress Reports, and Final Evaluation Report; and
[cir] Records Retention requirements.
Use of the Data
The information collected under this NOFA: (1) Identifies eligible
recipients and activities; (2) helps identify which applications
sufficiently address all statutory requirements and which proposed
projects are the most competitive; (3) determines the appropriate
amount of funding; (4) allows evaluation of compliance with SIPPRA and
Federal laws and policies on grants (e.g., Office of Management and
Budget's Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and
Audit Requirements for Federal Awards 2 CFR part 200, (herein OMB
Uniform Guidance); Title VI of the Civil Rights Act); (5) tracks
recipients' progress; and (6) collects statutorily mandated reports
prepared by recipients' contracted independent evaluators.
The Notice of Intent is optional; it will assist Treasury and the
Federal Interagency Council on Social Impact Partnerships (Interagency
Council) in estimating the number of applications to be received, and
thus, enable them to conduct intake and evaluation of applications as
efficiently and economically as possible.
The application Executive Summary will assist Treasury and the
Interagency Council in streamlining the processing of applications and
in optimizing the eligibility phase of application review. The
application standard forms, Project Narrative, and Project Narrative
attachment components of the grant application are intended to provide
Treasury with the information necessary to properly evaluate and assess
whether applications include statutorily mandated information.
Additionally, certain components of the application, in particular the
evaluation design plan and outcome valuation, will enable the
Interagency Council to determine whether to make statutorily mandated
certifications regarding the proposed projects.
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<a href="http://SAM.gov">SAM.gov</a> registration is required under the OMB Uniform Guidance.
To comply with the OMB Uniform Guidance performance and financial
monitoring and reporting requirements, 2 CFR 200.328-200.330, Treasury
intends to require a quarterly performance and annual financial report
from grant recipients. SIPPRA requires that recipients submit progress
reports prepared by an independent evaluator on a periodic basis and
before the scheduled time of outcome payments. 42 U.S.C. 1397n-4(d).
SIPPRA also requires that recipients submit a final report prepared by
an independent evaluator within six months of a project's completion.
42 U.S.C. 1397n-4(e). Per the statute, Treasury will use these reports
to determine if outcome payments are warranted.
Treasury intends to require recipients under this NOFA to comply
with the OMB Uniform Guidance's record retention requirement, 2 CFR
200.334, which requires them to maintain records for three years after
grant close-out.
SIPPRA establishes a Commission on Social Impact Partnerships
(Commission) whose principal obligation is to make recommendations to
Treasury regarding the funding of SIPPRA projects and feasibility
studies. 42 U.S.C. 1397n-6. The Commission is subject to the provisions
of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), which generally requires
that documents made available to the Commission be made available for
public inspection and copying. 5 U.S.C. app. section 10(b). Treasury
may provide to the Commission all complete applications received under
this NOFA from eligible applicants and would make all such applications
available for public inspection and copying. However, FACA also
provides that trade secrets and commercial or financial information
that is privileged or confidential (confidential business information)
under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) need not be made publicly
available. 5 U.S.C. 552(b)(4). To assist Treasury in complying with
FACA's public disclosure requirements while protecting confidential
business information in accordance with FOIA, Treasury expects to
request applicants to propose redactions of confidential business
information. An applicant may omit pages for which it does not propose
any redactions. Treasury expects to review the redactions proposed by
each applicant.
Also, applicants must provide qualifications of key project
personnel and partners. Applicants may voluntarily provide curriculum
vitae for key project personnel and partners, but the application will
not require that personally identifiable information (PII) is
collected.
Planned Revisions to the Data Collection
For several reasons, Treasury expects to make a number of changes
in the second SIPPRA NOFA relative to the first SIPPRA NOFA. Treasury
understands that Congress intended for SIPPRA to be a demonstration
program, which suggests that trying different strategies and approaches
in the second NOFA and comparing them to those used in the first NOFA
may be consistent with congressional intent. Treasury also believes
that the revisions it plans may increase the number of applications it
receives, reduce the burden on applicants and stakeholders, reduce
application review time, and enhance the success of projects. Treasury
is interested in receiving comments on applicants' experiences with the
application process under the first NOFA and suggestions on revisions
Treasury should consider in the second NOFA to make the application and
application review process more user-friendly and efficient. The most
salient revisions Treasury plans to make in the second NOFA are
addressed below.
Treasury anticipates providing more guidance, expanded FAQs, and
additional online resources to prospective applicants for the second
NOFA. More specifically, Treasury plans to expand its guidance on
evaluation plan design, causal impact measurement requirements, and
quasi-experimental design criteria. Treasury anticipates the guidance
it plans to provide in the second NOFA will reduce applicants' burden
during the application process and recipients' burden throughout the
project performance period. Treasury also anticipates this guidance
will be one means by which Treasury and the Interagency Council may be
able to reduce application review time.
Treasury also plans to replace the outcome valuation methodology,
budget impact analysis, required in the first NOFA, with a different
methodology, benefit-cost analysis. Treasury is planning on making this
change because testing different approaches to value determination may
help broaden insights in valuation practices in the pay for success
field.
Through its outreach with Federal agencies and external
stakeholders, Treasury has identified the need to make the application
and the application review process more efficient for all parties.
Treasury invites suggestions and specific strategies and efficiencies
that Treasury may incorporate into the second NOFA that will increase
administrative efficiencies to the extent permitted under the statute
and other federal laws and regulations.
Under the first NOFA, Treasury provided applicants three months
from the date of NOFA publication in the Federal Register to submit
their applications. In the second NOFA, Treasury anticipates providing
approximately five months from the date of publication for applicants
to submit their applications. Treasury is interested in learning
whether prospective applicants favor a shorter window of time to submit
their applications, which would leave more time for project
implementation, or conversely, if they favor a longer application
timeframe (e.g., five or six months), which would give applicants more
time to submit their applications, but less time for project
implementation. (The statute does not permit Treasury to obligate funds
beyond February 2028. Treasury is interested in an approach that
provides an applicant sufficient time to submit an application while
still providing sufficient project implementation time.)
Affected Public: State, Local, or Tribal Governments.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 25.
Estimated Frequency of Response: Once; on occasion.
Estimated Total Number of Annual Responses: 25.
Estimated Time per Response: 359 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 8,975 hours.
(Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.)
Melody Braswell,
Treasury PRA Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2022-18689 Filed 8-29-22; 8:45 am]
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