30-Day Notice

Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 62 / Thursday, March 31, 2022 / Notices
CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget for Review
and Approval; Comment Request;
AmeriCorps Diversity Questionnaire
Form
Corporation for National and
Community Service.
ACTION: Notice of information collection;
request for comment.
AGENCY:

The Corporation for National
and Community Service, operating as
AmeriCorps, has submitted a public
information collection request (ICR)
entitled AmeriCorps Diversity
Questionnaire Form for review and
approval in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted to the individual and office
listed in the ADDRESSES section by May
2, 2022.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting
‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open
for Public Comments’’ or by using the
search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Copies of this ICR, with applicable
supporting documentation, may be
obtained by calling the Corporation for
National and Community Service,
Sharron Tendai at 202–606–3904 or by
email to [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The OMB
is particularly interested in comments
which:
• Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of CNCS, including whether
the information will have practical
utility;
• Evaluate the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions;
• Propose ways to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and
• Propose ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on those who are to respond, including
through the use of appropriate
automated, electronic, mechanical, or
other technological collection
techniques or other forms of information
technology.

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Comments
A 60-day notice requesting public
comment was published in the Federal
Register on January 13, 2022 at 87 FR
2145. The comment period ended
March 15, 2022. Twenty (20) public
comments were received from the
notice. Most of the comments focused
on the purpose of the data collection,
the ability or organizational capacity of
partners to collect the requested data,
the design of the data collection tool,
the format of the tool, the usage of the
data, the assessment of burden, and
training and technical assistance.
Changes to the questionnaire include
separating the requested data into two
sections for project information and
organizational information to be more
user-friendly, adding additional basic
organizational information to better
track data in AmeriCorps’ systems,
clarifying the instructions based on
feedback, clarifying purpose and usage
of the data to be collected, adding
definitions based on feedback and
aligning definitions with the rest of the
revisions to the tool. The burden
estimates are also increasing because
AmeriCorps revised the amount of time
estimated to complete the questionnaire
from 30 minutes to 5 hours to account
for the time it would take an
organization to collect and analyze the
data (previously not included) as well as
time to complete the questionnaire. The
burden has also increased as
AmeriCorps also plans to use the
Diversity Questionnaire in all of its
programs (AmeriCorps State and
National, Volunteers in Service to
America (VISTA), National Civilian
Community Corps (NCCC) and
AmeriCorps Seniors) while the current
OMB Control Number covers
AmeriCorps State & National.
Title of Collection: AmeriCorps
Diversity Questionnaire Form.
OMB Control Number: 3045–0193.
Type of Review: Renewal.
Respondents/Affected Public:
Organizations OR State, Local or Tribal
Governments.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 3,350.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Burden Hours: 16,750.
Abstract: This information collection
addresses the diversity of two
populations—the people being served
by AmeriCorps resources and partners
of AmeriCorps. It aims to collect the
proposed reach of beneficiaries of the
AmeriCorps investment, disaggregated
by poverty status, as well as
demographic information. It also
collects demographic information about
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and staff of organizations that are
applying for AmeriCorps resources. The
demographic information is racial/
ethnic identification, gender,
LGBTQIA+, disability, and veterans’
status. This is a Revision to an Existing
Collection. The revisions are intended
to improve the tool based on public
feedback as well as analysis of the first
round of information collection. The
revisions aim to clarify the intended use
of the data, render the tool more userfriendly, improve instructions, clarify
definitions and enable AmeriCorps to
track the information more effectively.
The information collection will
otherwise be used in the same manner
as the existing application. CNCS also
seeks to continue using the current
application until the revised application
is approved by OMB. The current
application is due to expire on March
31, 2022.
Dated: March 25, 2022.
Anna Mecagni,
Chief of Program Operations.
[FR Doc. 2022–06761 Filed 3–30–22; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Applications for New Awards;
Personnel Development To Improve
Services and Results for Children With
Disabilities—National Center for
Improving Teacher and Leader
Professions To Better Serve Children
With Disabilities
Office of Special Education and
Rehabilitative Services, Department of
Education.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

The Department of Education
(Department) is issuing a notice inviting
applications for new awards for fiscal
year (FY) 2022 for the National Center
for Improving Teacher and Leader
Professions to Better Serve Children
with Disabilities, Assistance Listing
Number 84.325A. This notice relates to
the approved information collection
under OMB control number 1820–0028.
DATES:
Applications Available: March 31,
2022.
Deadline for Transmittal of
Applications: May 31, 2022.
Deadline for Intergovernmental
Review: July 29, 2022.
Pre-Application Webinar Information:
No later than [April 5, 2022, the Office
of Special Education and Rehabilitative
Services (OSERS) will post details on
pre-recorded informational webinars
designed to provide technical assistance
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