Notice2025-16556
Submission for OMB Review; Art-in-Architecture Program Center for Fine Arts; GSA Form 7437
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Published
August 28, 2025
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General Services Administration
Abstract
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 165 (Thursday, August 28, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Page 42012]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-16556]
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GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
[OMB Control No. 3090-0274; Docket No. 2025-0001; Sequence No. 6]
Submission for OMB Review; 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 September 29, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for this 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 Review--Open for Public
Comments'' or by using the search function.
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#a6ccc3c8c8cfc0c3d488c1cfc4d5c9c8e6c1d5c788c1c9d0"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="59333c3737303f3c2b773e303b2a3637193e2a38773e362f">[email 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.
In accordance with E.O. 14168 ``Defending Women from Gender
Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal
Government,'' and E.O. 14148 ``Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive
Orders and Actions,'' issued on January 20, 2025, the optional
demographic and gender information on form GSA 7437 will no longer be
collected.
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
A 60-day notice was published in the Federal Register at 90 FR
15006 on April 7, 2025. A comment was received, however, it did not
change the estimate of the burden.
Comment: The respondent indicated a suggestion that funding should
be allocated towards areas beyond AIA.
Response: This comment is outside the scope of the information
collection.
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 <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#81c6d2c0d3e4e6d2e4e2c1e6f2e0afe6eef7"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="d89f8b998abdbf8bbdbb98bfabb9f6bfb7ae">[email protected]</span></a>. Please
cite OMB Control No. 3090-0274, Art-in-Architecture Program Center for
Fine Arts, GSA Form 7437.
Patrick Dale,
Management & Program Analyst, Office of Acquisition Policy, General
Services Administration.
[FR Doc. 2025-16556 Filed 8-27-25; 8:45 am]
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