Justification for Change Budget and PIS forms

Justification for Change

3137-0092 Generic Clearance for IMLS Grant Forms: Budget Form and Program Information Sheet, and Digital Product Form and instructions

IMLS is requesting a change to a previously approved clearance in order to change the grant Program Information Sheet, and Budget Form. There are no changes requested for the Digital Product Form. This updated grant submission expiration date of 07/31/2018, remains the same.

Request abstract:

In this clearance submission (3137-0092) and justification, IMLS is requesting a change to a previously approved clearance for the forms used in the applications to its grant programs.

Budget form:

Within the IMLS NOFO for all grant applications awarded grantees are required to identify whether the ‘sub’ participants are contracts or subawards. Previously IMLS did not provide a data field for this distinction. Within Section 5 Contracts and Subawards, a drop down list has been added so that the additional participant status can be selected. This additional field on the form does not change the burden estimate.

Program Information Sheet:

The IMLS program office gained approval for increasing the CAP amount in the Museums for America program and the National Leadership Grants for Museums after the original FY17 document was submitted. The changes to this document in Section 3.d.2 with cost share amount was increased from $150,000 to $500,000 and section 3.e.2 increased the maximum for research and non-research grants from $500,000 to $1,000,000 and for rapid prototyping grant from $25,000 to $50,000.

The respondent burden should remain the same.