The CDFI Fund provides financial
assistance in the form of grants, loans, equity investments and
deposits to community development financial institutions providing
capital and financial services to underserved markets.
The Community
Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund) requests
Emergency Processing for a revision to Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) Control Number 1559-0021 in order to clear the current
Healthy Food Financing Initiative-Financial Assistance (HFFI-FA)
Application. The CDFI Fund receives an annual appropriation from
Congress to fund HFFI-FA awards was appropriated $22 million under
the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 (P.L. 116-6). The
revision of this OMB number to include the current HFFI-FA
Application will allow the CDFI Fund to provide HFFI-FA awards
under the FY 2019 Community Development Financial Institutions
Program (CDFI Program) and Native American CDFI Assistance (NACA
Program) funding rounds which are expected to open May 6, 2019. If
normal clearance procedures were followed, CDFI Fund would be
unable to collect the necessary HFFI-FA applications and disburse
the funds that Congress has appropriated for this program during
the 2019 funding round. Treasury requests approval of this
reinstatement by May 6, 2019 and has submitted a notice to the
Federal Register soliciting public comments during the period of
OMB review. The CDFI Fund receives regular input from the financial
institutions it serves and has taken all practical steps to
minimize the burden of collecting HFFI-FA applications. This
includes administering HFFI-FA awards in conjunction with the
annual CDFI Program and NACA Program application process to
eliminate potential duplication.
US Code:
12
USC 4701 Name of Law: Community Development Banking and
Financial Institutions Act of 1994
US Code: 12
USC 4703 Name of Law: null
This revised Information
Collection Request (ICR) is being submitted to clear the 2019 HFFI
application questions. These seven questions are completed by
respondents as part of the larger Financial Assistance application
and the burden for them is already accounted for in the existing
approved burden under this control number. As such there is no
change in burden due to these questions. However, there was an
error in the entry of data into ROCIS for the previous ICR
submission which is being corrected here. The currently approved
total burden of 65,000 hours is being reduced to 45,000 hours,
matching what was estimated in the previous supporting
statement.
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).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(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);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.