Notice2024-05929
Notice of Proposed Information Collection Requests: 2025-2027 IMLS Museums Empowered Notice of Funding Opportunity
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Published
March 20, 2024
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National Foundation on the Arts and the HumanitiesInstitute of Museum and Library Services
Abstract
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a pre-clearance consultation program to provide the general public and Federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing collections of information in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. This pre-clearance consultation program helps to ensure that requested data can be provided in the desired format, reporting burden (time and financial resources) is minimized, collection instruments are clearly understood, and the impact of collection requirements on respondents can be properly assessed. By this Notice, IMLS is soliciting comments concerning the Notice of Funding Opportunity for Museums Empowered, a special initiative of the Museums for America grant program designed to support projects that use the transformative power of professional development and training to generate systemic change within museums of all types and sizes. A copy of the proposed information collection request can be obtained by contacting the individual listed below in the ADDRESSES section of this Notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 55 (Wednesday, March 20, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19890-19891]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-05929]
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NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Notice of Proposed Information Collection Requests: 2025-2027
IMLS Museums Empowered Notice of Funding Opportunity
AGENCY: Institute of Museum and Library Services, National Foundation
on the Arts and the Humanities.
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ACTION: Notice, request for comments, collection of information.
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SUMMARY: The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), as part
of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden,
conducts a pre-clearance consultation program to provide the general
public and Federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed
and/or continuing collections of information in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act. This pre-clearance consultation program helps
to ensure that requested data can be provided in the desired format,
reporting burden (time and financial resources) is minimized,
collection instruments are clearly understood, and the impact of
collection requirements on respondents can be properly assessed. By
this Notice, IMLS is soliciting comments concerning the Notice of
Funding Opportunity for Museums Empowered, a special initiative of the
Museums for America grant program designed to support projects that use
the transformative power of professional development and training to
generate systemic change within museums of all types and sizes.
A copy of the proposed information collection request can be
obtained by contacting the individual listed below in the ADDRESSES
section of this Notice.
DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the office listed in the
addressee section below on or before May 19, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Send comments to Sandra Narva, Senior Grants Management
Specialist--Team Lead, Office of Grants Policy and Management,
Institute of Museum and Library Services, 955 L'Enfant Plaza North SW,
Suite 4000, Washington, DC 20024-2135. Ms. Narva can be reached by
telephone: 202-653-4634, or by email at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#bbc8d5dac9cddafbd2d6d7c895dcd4cd"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="9ceff2fdeeeafddcf5f1f0efb2fbf3ea">[email protected]</span></a>. Office hours
are from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., E.T., Monday through Friday, except
federal holidays. Persons who are deaf or hard of hearing (TTY users)
can contact IMLS at 202-207-7858 via 711 for TTY-Based
Telecommunications Relay Service.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mark Isaksen, Supervisory Grants
Management Specialist, Office of Museum Services, Institute of Museum
and Library Services, 955 L'Enfant Plaza North SW, Suite 4000,
Washington, DC 20024-2135. Mr. Isaksen can be reached by telephone at
202-653-4667, or by email at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#b0ddd9c3d1dbc3d5def0d9dddcc39ed7dfc6"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="d6bbbfa5b7bda5b3b896bfbbbaa5f8b1b9a0">[email protected]</span></a>. Persons who are deaf or
hard of hearing (TTY users) can contact IMLS at 202-207-7858 via 711
for TTY-Based Telecommunications Relay Service.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: IMLS is particularly interested in public
comments that help the agency to:
<bullet> Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency,
including whether the information will have practical utility;
<bullet> Evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the
burden of the proposed collection of information including the validity
of the methodology and assumptions used;
<bullet> Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and
<bullet> Minimize the burden of the collection of information on
those who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate
automated electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection
techniques, or other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting
electronic submissions of responses.
I. Background
IMLS is the primary source of Federal support for the Nation's
libraries and museums. We advance, support, and empower America's
museums, libraries, and related organizations through grant making,
research, and policy development. To learn more, visit <a href="http://www.imls.gov">www.imls.gov</a>.
II. Current Actions
The goal of Museums Empowered is to strengthen the ability of an
individual museum to serve its public through professional development
activities that cross-cut various departments to generate systemic
change within the museum. It has four project categories: Diversity,
Equity, and Inclusion; Digital Technology; Evaluation; and
Organizational Management.
This action is to renew the content, forms, and instructions for
the Notice of Funding Opportunity for the next three years.
Agency: Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Title: 2025-2027 IMLS Museums Empowered Notice of Funding
Opportunity.
OMB Number: 3137-0107.
Respondents/Affected Public: Museums that meet the IMLS Museums for
America institutional eligibility criteria.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Respondents: 65.
Frequency of Response: Once per year.
Estimated Average Burden Hours per Response: 45.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 2,925.
Total Annual Cost Burden: $94,917.
Total Annual Federal Costs: $10,087.
Public Comments Invited: Comments submitted in response to this
Notice will be summarized and/or included in the request for OMB's
clearance of this information collection.
Dated: March 15, 2024.
Suzanne Mbollo,
Grants Management Specialist, Institute of Museum and Library Services.
[FR Doc. 2024-05929 Filed 3-19-24; 8:45 am]
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