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Total Respondents: 297,521.
Frequency: Semi-annually.
Total Responses: 297,521.
Average Time per Response: 30
minutes.
Estimated Total Burden Hours:
148,760.
Total Burden Cost (capital/startup):
$00.00.
Total Burden Cost (operating/
maintenance): $00.00.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for Office of
Management and Budget approval of the
information collection request; they also
will become a matter of public record.
Signed at Washington, DC, this 15th day of
April, 2016.
Kimberly D. Hill,
Chief, Division of Management Systems,
Bureau of Labor Statistics.
[FR Doc. 2016–09380 Filed 4–21–16; 8:45 am]
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OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND
BUDGET
Information Collection; Request for
Public Comments
Office of Management and
Budget.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:

In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. 3501, et seq.), the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) invites
the general public and Federal agencies
to comment on a revision of an
approved information form (SF–SAC)
that is used to report audit results, audit
findings, and questioned costs as
required by the Single Audit Act
Amendments of 1996 (31 U.S.C. 7501, et
seq.) and 2 CFR part 200,’’Uniform
Administrative Requirements, Cost
Principles, and Audit Requirements for
Federal Awards.’’
The first notice of this information
collection request, as required by the
Paperwork Reduction act, was
published in the Federal Register on
December 9, 2015 (80 FR 76581). The
proposed changes are to revise some
existing data elements in the form and
add other data elements that would
make it easier for the Federal agencies
to identify the types of audit findings
reported in the audits performed under
the Single Audit Act. The current Form
SF–SAC was designed for audit periods
ending in 2013, 2014 and 2015 (for FY
2015 for audit periods beginning before
December 26, 2014). The proposed
revised Form SF–SAC is designed for

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audit periods ending in 2015, 2016 and
2017 (for FY 2015 audit periods
beginning on or after December 26,
2014). The detail proposed changes, the
proposed format and discussion of the
public comments and responses are
described on OMB Web site at: http://
www.whitehouse.gov/omb/grants_
forms/. To help respondents make sure
they complete the correct version of the
Form SF–SAC and to prevent them from
filling out the Form SF–SAC when they
are not required to do so, the Federal
Audit Clearinghouse (FAC) data
collection system will ask if the auditee
is a state, local government, Indian
Tribe, institution of higher education
(IHE), or nonprofit organization, the
auditee’s fiscal period begin and end
dates, is the auditee U.S. based, and did
the auditee met the expenditure
threshold. For fiscal years starting on or
after December 26, 2014, the FAC also
plans to allow Non-Federal entities who
did not meet the threshold requiring
submission of a Single Audit report to
voluntarily notify the FAC that they did
not meet the reporting threshold. This
information helps the Federal agencies
in the review of applicants that fall
below the reporting requirements. The
FAC plans to put this information on
their Web site. The FAC intends to
continue collection of late submissions
and revisions from auditees on the two
previous versions of the Form SF–SAC.
The FAC may suspend the collection of
late submissions on previous versions of
the Form SF–SAC after five years.
Pilot Project To Reduce Duplication Via
Single Audit Concept Form
In developing the current form, OMB
has identified some potential
duplication in the current process for
reporting the SF–SAC and the Schedule
of Expenditure for Financial Assistance
(SEFA). Currently, awardees subject to
Single Audit reporting create a Schedule
of Expenditures of Federal Awards
(SEFA) and use it to complete their SF–
FAC through the Federal Audit Clearing
(FAC) House. The SEFA and the SF–
SAC contain similar data which is
submitted to FAC in two formats.
Therefore, as a part of the DATA Act
Section 5 Pilot to Reduce Recipient
Reporting Burden, OMB and the
Department of Health and Humand
Services (DATA Act Program
Management Office (DAP)) would like
to test a more streamlined process for
submitting the SEFA. Under this test,
participants would be provided the
opportunity to use an expanded SF–
SAC Concept Form which includes a
additional information related to the
SEFA notes . The FAC would then
generate a customizable SEFA that a

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recipient could download, modify, and
include in their Annual Single Audit
Report.
DAP has developed a detailed draft
sampling process to help identify and
recruit potential participants for the
Test Model. DAP has determined that it
will target a minimum of 42 participants
per Test Model. In order to achieve this
goal, DAP will perform targeted
outreach to a sample of Federal award
recipients from the USAspending.gov
database for FY15 reflecting the
diversity of the recipient community.
DAP target recipients who meet the
Single Audit criterion of expending
$750,000 or more annually in federal
funds. Recognizing that PRA requires
that OMB approve federally sponsored
data collection of the public, DAP will
reach out to an identified sample of 702
recipients with information on the
Section 5 Grants Pilot and a Test Model
participation form to request
information from recipients after
receiving OMB PRA clearance. DAP
expects to receive PRA clearance for this
data collection in late winter/early
spring 2016. Interested participants will
be requested to read brief descriptions
of the Test Models and indicate all Test
Models in which they would like to
participate. DAP will continuously
monitor recipient responses, feedback,
and preferences. DAP will assign
interested recipients to Test Models
based on indicated interest while
maintaining diversity amongst
recipients for each Test Model. DAP
will follow up and engage with
recipients as necessary in an effort to
achieve the stated goal of 42
participants per Test Model. DAP is also
collecting contact information for
recipients interested in Test Model
participation through voluntary selfnomination and third-party
recommendations.
The concept form is included under
this notice and will be used for the pilot
project. We are not requesting
comments on this concept form during
this 30 day period, but the comments
will be collected as part of the pilot
project conducted by DAP. The concept
form is also displayed on OMB Web site
at http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/
grants_forms/.
DATES: Submit comments on or before
May 23, 2016. Late comments will be
considered to the extent practicable.
ADDRESSES: Electronic mail comments
may be submitted to: Gilbert Tran at
[email protected]. Please
include ‘‘Form SF–SAC 2016
Comments—30 Days PRA’’ in the
subject line and the full body of your
comments in the text of the electronic

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Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 78 / Friday, April 22, 2016 / Notices
message, not as an attachment. Please
include your name, title, organization,
postal address, telephone number and
email address in the text of the message.
Comments may also be submitted via
facsimile to 202–395–3952. Comments
may be mailed to Gilbert Tran, Office of
Federal Financial Management, Office
of Management and Budget, Room 6025,
New Executive Office Building,
Washington, DC 20503.
All responses will be summarized and
included in the request for OMB
approval. All comments will also be a
matter of public record.
Due to potential delays in OMB’s
receipt and processing of mail sent
through the U.S. Postal Service, we
encourage respondents to submit
comments electronically to ensure
timely receipt. We cannot guarantee that
mailed comments will be received
before the comment closing date.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Gilbert Tran, Office of Federal Financial
Management, Office of Management and
Budget, (202) 395–3052. The proposed
revisions to the Information Collection
Form, Form SF–SAC can be obtained by
contacting the Office of Federal
Financial Management as indicated
above or by download from the OMB
Grants Management home page on the
Internet at http://www.whitehouse.gov/
omb/grants_forms/.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control No.: 0348–0057.
Title: Data Collection Form.
Form No: SF–SAC.
Type of Review: Revision of a
currently approved collection
Respondents: States, local
governments, Indian tribes, institutions
of higher education (IHE), or nonprofit
organizations (Non-Federal entities) and
their auditors.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
72,600 (36,300 from auditors and 36,300
from auditees). Raising the threshold to
$750,000 is estimated to lower the
number of respondents by 13,400 (6,700
from auditors and 6,700 from auditees).
The respondents’ information is
collected by the Federal Audit
Clearinghouse (maintained by the U.S.
Bureau of the Census).
Estimated Time per Respondent: 100
hours for each of 400 large respondents
and 30 hours for each of 72,200 small
respondents for estimated annual
burden hours of 2,206,000.
Estimated Number of Responses per
Respondent: One response for each
auditee and one response by the auditor
for each single audit they perform.
Frequency of Response: Annually.
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auditees to the Federal government are
used by non-Federal entities, passthrough entities and Federal agencies to
ensure that Federal awards are
expended in accordance with applicable
laws and regulations. The Federal Audit
Clearinghouse (FAC) (maintained by the
U.S. Bureau of the Census) uses the
information on the SF–SAC to ensure
proper distribution of audit reports to
Federal agencies and identify nonFederal entities who have not filed the
required reports. The FAC also uses the
information on the SF–SAC to create a
government-wide database, which
contains information on audit results.
This database is publicly accessible on
the Internet at https://harvester.census.
gov/facdissem/main.aspx. The Uniform
Guidance indicates that the FAC is
authorized to make the reporting
package and the Form SF–SAC publicly
available on a Web site. There is an
exception for Indian Tribes and Tribal
Organizations. An auditee that is an
Indian Tribe or a Tribal Organization (as
defined in the Indian SelfDetermination, Education and
Assistance Act (ISDEAA), 25 U.S.C
450b(1)) may opt not to authorize the
FAC to make the reporting package
publicly available on a Web site. The
data collected by the FAC is used by
Federal agencies, pass-through entities,
non-Federal entities, auditors, the
Government Accountability Office,
OMB and the general public for
management of and information about
Federal awards and the results of audits.
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether
the proposed information collection is
necessary for the proper performance of
the functions of the agency, including
whether the information shall have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
estimate of the burden of the collection
of the information; (c) ways to enhance
the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (d)
ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
respond, including through the use of
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Mark Reger,
Deputy Controller.
[FR Doc. 2016–09413 Filed 4–21–16; 8:45 am]
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NATIONAL COUNCIL ON DISABILITY
Sunshine Act Meetings
The Members of the
National Council on Disability (NCD)
will hold a quarterly meeting on
Thursday, May 5, 2016, 1:00 p.m.–4:00

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p.m. (Eastern Daylight Time), and on
Friday, May 6, 2016, 9:00 a.m.–4:30
p.m. (Eastern Daylight Time) in
Washington, DC.
PLACE: The meeting will occur at a
different location each day. On
Thursday, the quarterly meeting will be
held at the White House Old Executive
Office Building. The location, due to
security clearance considerations, will
not be open to the public for in-person
attendance, however the quarterly
meeting’s proceedings will be available
by phone to all interested parties (in a
listen-only capacity with the exception
of the public comment period).
Interested parties may access
Thursday’s meeting’s proceedings by
phone by using the following call-in
number: 888–428–9490; passcode:
9482562. If asked, the call host’s name
is Clyde Terry. On Friday, the quarterly
meeting will be held at the Access
Board Conference Room, 1331 F Street
NW., Suite 800, Washington, DC.
Interested parties may join the meeting
in person or by phone in a listeningonly capacity (with the exception of the
public comment period) using the
following call-in number: 888–428–
9490; passcode: 9482562. If asked, the
call host’s name is Clyde Terry.
MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: The
Council will host a strategy session on
legislative and other next steps for its
2012 ‘‘Rocking the Cradle’’ report on the
rights of parents with disabilities and
their children; and hear policy
presentations on the topics of mental
health services in higher education, and
Medicaid managed care and the direct
care workforce. The Council will also
receive reports from its standing
committees; and receive public
comment during two town halls, on the
topics of mental health services in
higher education; and challenges of the
direct care workforce.
AGENDA: The times provided below are
approximations for when each agenda
item is anticipated to be discussed (all
times Eastern):
Thursday, May 5
1:00–4:00 p.m.—Strategy session on
legislative and other next steps for
NCD’s 2012 ‘‘Rocking the Cradle’’
report on the rights of parents with
disabilities and their children.
4:00 p.m.—Adjourn
Friday, May 6
9:00–9:30 a.m.—Welcome and
Introductions
9:30–10:15 a.m.—Update on the
Progress Report
10:15–10:30 a.m.—Break
10:30–11:15 a.m.—Mental Health
Services in Higher Education Panel

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