The Office of Small Business Lending Fund (SBLF) Program Oversight within Treasury Office of Inspector General (OIG) was created through § 3011 of the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010, Public Law 111-240. A Special Deputy Inspector General for SBLF Program Oversight is responsible for audit and investigations related to the SSBCI program; and must report to the Secretary of the Treasury and Congress on the results of oversight activities, including recommended program improvements. In addition to the above survey, Treasury OIG seeks to survey SSBCI recipients on what specific factors contributed to their use of the SSBCI funds.
Treasury is requesting expedited clearance of this information collection activity. Under § 3011 of the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010, the Special Deputy Inspector General for SBLF Program Oversight is responsible for audit and investigations related to the SSBCI program and must report to the Secretary of the Treasury and Congress on the results of oversight activities, including recommended program improvements. We are concerned about meeting this requirement timely for 2013, and therefore request to expedite the clearance process for this information collection. Secondly, this information collection primarily requests respondentâs opinions and viewpoints and has a relatively modest time burden of an estimated 1.5 hours. We pre-tested it with eight SSBCI participants. Based on comments from the SSBCI participants in these pretests, we made appropriate revisions to the survey. All of the pretest participants were able to complete the survey in less than 1.5 hours.
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PL: Pub.L. 111 - 240 3011 Name of Law: Small Business Jobs Act of 2010
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
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(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a benefit, or mandatory);
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