Notice2023-28581
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund Grant Program Forms
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Published
December 27, 2023
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Commerce DepartmentNational Telecommunications and Information Administration
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 247 (Wednesday, December 27, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Page 89408]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-28581]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Telecommunications and Information Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request; Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund
Grant Program Forms
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 October 4, 2023 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: Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund Grant Program
Forms.
OMB Control Number: 0660-0053.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Revision of a current information collection.
Number of Respondents: 18 hours for Baseline and Performance
Progress Reports; 100 hours for Budget Submission Form.
Average Hours Per Response: 33.22.
Burden Hours: 1,856 hours.
Needs and Uses: With this information collection, NTIA will be able
to monitor the grant recipients' spending habits and activities. In the
absence of collecting this information, NTIA would fail to evaluate the
grant recipients' progress toward the grant program priority areas and
program goals. Moreover, without these reports, the grants could be the
subject of waste, fraud, and abuse of Federal funds. Therefore, it is
necessary for NTIA to collect information using the Performance
Progress Report (PPR) form and Baseline Report.
For the budget submission form, NTIA intends to use the information
collected (1) to evaluate whether an applicant is eligible for a grant;
(2) to evaluate applications by peer/expert reviewers against objective
criteria; and (3) to collect corroborative information, as applicable,
from applicants deemed highly qualified. NTIA also intends to use
information collected from the application as baseline information
after award of the grant to evaluate the grantee's progress toward
completion of the objectives for which the grant was made.
Affected Public: Grant award recipients consisting of for-profit
companies, non-profit companies, institutions of higher education,
industry groups, and consortia including two or more such entities.
Frequency: One-time (Baseline and Budget Submission Forms) and bi-
annual (Performance Progress Report).
Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Section 9202(a)(1) of the William M. (Mac)
Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021,
Pub. L. 116-283, 134 Stat. 3388 (Jan. 1, 2021).
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 either the title of the collection or the OMB
Control Number 0660-0053.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary of
Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2023-28581 Filed 12-26-23; 8:45 am]
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