30 day OMB posting Justification

SUPPORTING STATEMENT FOR PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT SUBMISSIONS

 

A. Justification

A1. Need for Information Collection

The Corporation for National and Community Service (the Corporation) awards grants to states, institutions of higher education, non-profit organizations, Indian tribes, and U.S. Territories to operate AmeriCorps State, AmeriCorps National, AmeriCorps NCCC, AmeriCorps VISTA, Social Innovation Fund and Senior Corps programs. This information collection comprises the questions current grantees answer to apply for continued Social Innovation Fund funding.

A2. Indicate how, by whom, and for what purpose the information is to be used.

Current Social Innovation Fund grantees respond to the questions included in these instructions in order to apply for continued funding. The information provided is assessed to determine whether a grantee has made sufficient progress towards its grant goals and is in good standing with Social Innovation Fund requirements and laws as to warrant continued funding.

 

 A3. Minimize Burden: Use of Improved Technology to Reduce Burden

The Corporation will be eliciting and accepting grantees response to these questions electronically via the eGrants system, the Corporation’s secure online grants management system, or via e-mail.

A4. Non-Duplication

There are no other sources of information by which the Corporation can meet the purposes described in A2 (above).

 

A5. Minimizing for economic burden for small businesses or other small entities.

This collection of information does not impact small businesses because they are not eligible to apply for grants. There is no economic burden to any other small entities beyond the cost of staff time to collect and report the data. This is minimized to the degree possible by only asking for the information absolutely necessary to assess progress on an annual basis. Other forms of progress reporting have been taken into consideration to eliminate duplication.

A6. Consequences of the collection if not conducted, conducted less frequently, as well as any technical or legal obstacles to reducing burden.

 

The Corporation will be unable to assess Social Innovation Fund grantees in a timely manner for annual award making.

A7. Special circumstances that would cause information collection to be collected in a manner requiring respondents to report more often than quarterly; report in fewer than 30 days after receipt of the request; submit more than an original and two copies; retain records for more than three years; and other ways specified in the Instructions focused on statistical methods, confidentially, and proprietary trade secrets.

There are no special circumstances that would require the collection of information in any other ways specified.

A8. Provide copy and identify the date and page number of publication in the Federal Register of the Agency’s notice. Summarize comments received and actions taken in response to comments. Specifically address comments received on cost and hour burden.

The 60 day Notice soliciting comments was published on Monday, December 31, 2012 on page 77039. No comments were received.

 

 A9. Payment to Respondents

There are no payments or gifts to respondents.

  

A10. Assurance of Confidentiality and its basis in statute, regulation, or agency policy.

Information provided by this collection will be held solely by grantees and CNCS staff.

A11. Sensitive Questions

 

The information collection does not include questions of a sensitive nature.

 

A12. Hour burden of the collection

This is the application instruction to apply for continued Social Innovation Fund funding.

We expect approximately 20 respondents, the current number of Social Innovation Fund portfolio members, to use these instructions to apply for continued funding. The frequency of response will not be greater than annually, and should not exceed 8 hours of effort per respondent. There is no estimated annual hour burden outside of the customary and usual business practices.

 

A13. Cost burden to the respondent

There is no cost to the respondent.

 

A14. Cost to Government

There are no additional costs to the Government.

A15. Reasons for program changes or adjustments in burden or cost.

Not applicable.

 

 A16. Publication of results

Not applicable because the responses to this information collection will not be published. 

 

A17. Explain the reason for seeking approval to not display the expiration date for OMB approval of the information collection.

Not applicable.

 

 A18. Exceptions to the certification statement

There are no exceptions to the certification statement in the submitted ROCIS form.

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