Federal Register Notice

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AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Notice of Public Information Collection Requirements Submitted to

OMB for Review

SUMMARY: This Federal Register notice was originally published on

October 29, 2010 (75 FR 66724) and is being republished. Unfortunately,

it appears that supporting documentation sent to OMB included language

from USAID's December 2002 certification rather than from its September

2004 certification attached. The agency has worked with OMB to correct

this error. Also, revisions were made regarding the certification

burden due to the respondents providing a response three times a year

vs. two. In addition, less preparation time was required for all

involved parties due to their familiarity with the certification

process and salary costs and benefits costs increased due to inflation

and an increase in the cost of living. U.S. Agency for International

Development (USAID) has resubmitted the following information

collections to OMB for review and clearance under the Paperwork

Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13. Comments regarding this

information collection are best assured of having their full effect if

received within 30 days of this notification. Comments should be sent

via e-mail to [email protected] (attention: USAID desk

officer) or fax to 202-395-6882.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

OMB Number: OMB 0412-0565.

Form Number: N/A.

Title: Applicant's Certification that it Does not Support Terrorist

Organizations or Individuals.

Type of Submission: Revision of Information Collection.

Purpose: The United States Agency for International Development

(USAID) needs to require applicants for assistance to certify that it

does not and will not engage in financial transactions with, and does

not and will not provide material support and resources to individuals

or organizations that engage in terrorism. The purpose of this

requirement is to assure that USAID does not directly provide support

to such organizations or individuals, and to assure that recipients are

aware of these requirements when it considers individuals or

organizations are subrecipients.

Annual Reporting Burden

Respondents: 2,000.

Total annual responses: 6,000.

Total annual hours requested: 1,500 hours.

Dated: January 31, 2011.

Lynn P. Winston,

Acting Chief, Information and Records Division, Office of Management

Services, Bureau for Management.

Attachment

Certification

By signing and submitting this application, the prospective

recipient provides the certification set out below:

1. The Recipient, to the best of its current knowledge, did not

provide, within the previous ten years, and will take all reasonable

steps to ensure that it does not and will not knowingly provide,

material support or resources to any individual or entity that commits,

attempts to commit, advocates, facilitates, or participates in

terrorist acts, or has committed, attempted to commit, facilitated, or

participated in terrorist acts, as that term is defined in paragraph 3.

2. The following steps may enable the Recipient to comply with its

obligations under paragraph 1:

a. Before providing any material support or resources to an

individual or entity, the Recipient will verify that the individual or

entity does not (i) appear on the master list of Specially Designated

Nationals and Blocked Persons, which list is maintained by the U.S.

Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and is available

online at OFAC's Web site: http://www. treas.gov/offices/eotffc/ofac/

sdn/t11sdn.pdf, or (ii) is not included in any supplementary

information concerning prohibited individuals or entities that may be

provided by USAID to the Recipient.

b. Before providing any material support or resources to an

individual or entity, the Recipient also will verify that the

individual or entity has not been designated by the United Nations

Security (UNSC) sanctions committee established under UNSC Resolution

1267 (1999) (the ``1267 Committee'') [individuals and entities linked

to the Taliban, Usama bin Laden, or the Al Qaida Organization]. To

determine whether there has been a published designation of an

individual or entity by the 1267 Committee, the Recipient should refer

to the consolidated list available online at the Committee's Web site:

http://www.un.org/Docs/sc/committees/1267/1267ListEng.htm.

c. Before providing any material support or resources to an

individual or entity, the Recipient will consider all information about

that individual or entity of which it is aware and all public

information that is reasonably available to it or of which it should be

aware.

d. The Recipient also will implement reasonable monitoring and

oversight procedures to safeguard against assistance being diverted to

support terrorist activity.

3. For purposes of this Certification--

a. ``Material support and resources'' means currency or monetary

instruments or financial securities, financial services, lodging,

training, except advice or assistance, safehouses, false documentation

or identification, communications equipment, facilities, weapons,

lethal subtances, explosives, personnel, transportation, and other

physical assests, except medicine or religious materials.''

b. ``Terrorist act'' means--

(i) An act prohibited pursuant to one of the 12 United Nations

Conventions and Protocols related to terrorism (see UN terrorism

conventions Internet site: http://untreaty.un.org/English/

Terrorism.asp); or

(ii) An act of premeditated, politically motivated violence

perpetrated against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or

clandestine agents; or

(iii) Any other act intended to cause death or serious bodily

injury to a civilian, or to any other person not taking an active part

in hostilities in a situation of armed conflict, when the purpose of

such act, by its nature or context, is to intimidate a population, or

to compel a government or an international organization to do or to

abstain from doing any act.

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c. ``Entity'' means a partnership, association, corporation, or

other organization, group or subgroup.

d. References in this Certification to the provision of material

support and resources shall not be deemed to include the furnishing of

USAID funds or USAID-financed commodities to the ultimate beneficiaries

of USAID assistance, such as recipients of food, medical care, micro-

enterprise loans, shelter, etc., unless the Recipient has reason to

believe that one or more of these beneficiaries commits, attempts to

commit, advocates, facilitates, or participates in terrorist acts, or

has committed, attempted to commit, facilitated or participated in

terrorist acts.

e. The Recipient's obligations under paragraph 1 are not applicable

to the procurement of goods and/or services by the Recipient that are

acquired in the ordinary course of business through contract or

purchase, e.g., utilities, rents, office supplies, gasoline, etc.,

unless the Recipient has reason to believe that a vendor or supplier of

such goods and services commits, attempts to commit, advocates,

facilitates, or participates in terrorist acts, or has committed,

attempted to commit, facilitated or participated in terrorist acts.

This Certification is an express term and condition of any

agreement issued as a result of this application, and any violation of

it shall be grounds for unilateral termination of the agreement by

USAID prior to the end of its term.

[FR Doc. 2011-2669 Filed 2-8-11; 8:45 am]

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