Notice2025-05933

Information Collection; Art-in-Architecture Program Center for Fine Arts; GSA Form 7437

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April 7, 2025

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General Services Administration

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Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act, the Regulatory Secretariat Division will be submitting to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request to review and approve a revision of an information collection requirement regarding the Art-in- Architecture (AIA) Program Center for Fine Arts, GSA Form 7437.

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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 65 (Monday, April 7, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15006-15007]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-05933]


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GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

[OMB Control No. 3090-0274; Docket No. 2025-0001; Sequence No. 6]


Information Collection; Art-in-Architecture Program Center for 
Fine Arts; GSA Form 7437

AGENCY: Public Buildings Service, General Services Administration 
(GSA).

ACTION: Notice; request for comments.

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SUMMARY: Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act, the 
Regulatory Secretariat Division will be submitting to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) a request to review and approve a revision 
of an information collection requirement regarding the Art-in-
Architecture (AIA) Program Center for Fine Arts, GSA Form 7437.

DATES: Submit comments on or before June 6, 2025.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments regarding this burden estimate or any other 
aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for 
reducing this burden to <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">http://www.regulations.gov</a>.
    Submit comments via the Federal eRulemaking portal by searching the 
OMB control number. Select the link ``Submit a Comment'' that 
corresponds with ``Information Collection 3090-0274, Art-in-
Architecture Program National Artist Registry, GSA Form 7437''. Follow 
the instructions provided at the ``Submit a Comment'' screen. Please 
include your name, company name (if any), and ``Information Collection 
3090-0274, Art-in-Architecture Program National Artist Registry, GSA 
Form 7437'' on your attached document. If your comment cannot be 
submitted using <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a>, call or email the points 
of contact in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of this 
document for alternate instructions.
    Instructions: Please submit comments only and cite Information 
Collection 3090-0274, Art-in-Architecture Program National Artist 
Registry, GSA Form 7437, in all correspondence related to this 
collection. Comments received generally will be posted without change 
to <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">http://www.regulations.gov</a>, including any personal and/or business 
confidential information provided. To confirm receipt of your 
comment(s), please check <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a>, approximately two-to-
three days after submission to verify posting.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Jennifer Gibson, Office of 
Architecture and Engineering, Center for Fine Arts (PA0D), 1800 F 
Street NW, Washington, DC 20405, at telephone 202-253-3020 or via email 
at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#ddb7b8b3b3b4bbb8aff3bab4bfaeb2b39dbaaebcf3bab2ab"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="c3a9a6adadaaa5a6b1eda4aaa1b0acad83a4b0a2eda4acb5">[email&#160;protected]</span></a>.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

A. Purpose

    The AIA Program actively seeks to commission works from American 
artists for public buildings. The GSA Form 7437, Art in Architecture 
Program National Artist Registry, will be used to collect information 
from artists across the country to participate and to be considered for 
commissions.
    The AIA Program is the result of a policy decision made in January 
1963 by GSA Administrator Bernard L. Boudin, who served on the Ad Hoc 
Committee on Federal Office Space in 1961-1962.
    The program has been modified over the years, most recently in 
2022, to align with Executive Order (E.O.) 14029 issued on May 14, 2021 
``Revocation of Certain Presidential Actions and Technical Amendment,'' 
and to support E.O. 13985 issued January 2021, titled ``Advancing 
Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the 
Federal Government. E.O. 14029 revoked E.O. 13934 issued July 3, 2020, 
Building and Rebuilding Monuments to American Heroes. E.O. 14189 of 
January 29, 2025 ``Celebrating America's 250th Birthday, revoked E.O. 
14129 and reinstates E.O. 13934. As mandated by E.O. 13934, the AIA 
program must prioritize the commissioning of artworks that portray 
historically significant Americans or events of American historical 
significance, or that illustrate the ideals upon which the Nation was 
founded. Priority is to be given to public-facing monuments to former 
Presidents of the United States, and to individuals and events relating 
to the discovery of America, the founding of the United States, and the 
abolition of slavery. Such works of art are to be designed to be 
appreciated by the general public and by those who use and interact 
with Federal buildings. When an artwork commissioned by GSA is meant to 
depict a historically significant American, the artwork is required to 
be a lifelike or realistic representation of that person, not an 
abstract or modernist representation.
    With the implementation of the 2025 policy, the AIA program seeks 
to commission works from the American artists that ``portray 
historically significant Americans or events of American historical 
significance or illustrate the ideals upon which our nation was 
founded.'' In support of the AIA program's goal to commission the most 
talented contemporary American artists to create works for the nation's 
important new civic buildings, it is necessary to identify those 
artists. The National Artist Registry (Registry) offers the opportunity 
for artists across the country to participate and to be considered for 
commissions.

B. Annual Reporting Burden

    Respondents: 300.
    Responses per Respondent: 1.
    Total Responses: 300.
    Hours per Response: 0.25.
    Total Burden Hours: 75.

C. Public Comments

    Public comments are particularly invited on: Whether this 
collection of information is necessary, whether it will have practical 
utility; whether our estimate of the public burden of this collection 
of information is accurate, and based on valid assumptions and 
methodology; ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the 
information to be collected; and ways in which we can minimize the 
burden of the collection of information on those who are to respond, 
through the use of appropriate technological collection techniques or 
other forms of information technology.
    Obtaining Copies of Proposals: Requesters may obtain a copy of the 
information collection documents from the GSA Regulatory Secretariat 
Division by calling 202-501-4755 or emailing

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<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#8acdd9cbd8efedd9efe9caedf9eba4ede5fc"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="7b3c283a291e1c281e183b1c081a551c140d">[email&#160;protected]</span></a>. Please cite OMB Control No. 3090-0274, Art-in-
Architecture Program Center for Fine Arts, GSA Form 7437.

Lois Mandell,
Director, Regulatory Secretariat Division, General Services 
Administration.
[FR Doc. 2025-05933 Filed 4-4-25; 8:45 am]
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