Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund Reporting

Forms and Documents

Document Name	Status
Project and Expenditure Report – Tribal Entities Form and Instruction	Modified
Performance Report – States, Territories, and Freely Associated States Form and Instruction	Modified
Project and Expenditure Report – States, Territories, and Freely Associated States Form and Instruction	Modified
Justification of Non-Substantive Change 1505-0277 8.30.23.docx Justification for No Material/Nonsubstantive Change	2023-08-30
1505-0277 CPF Reporting Supporting Statement - Revised June 2023.docx Supporting Statement A	2023-06-02
1505-0277 Emergency Justification Memo 2023-06-02.docx Supplementary Document	2023-06-02

IC Document Collections

IC ID	Document Title	Status
258818	Project and Expenditure Report – Tribal Entities Form and Instruction	Modified
254958	Performance Report – States, Territories, and Freely Associated States Form and Instruction	Modified
254957	Project and Expenditure Report – States, Territories, and Freely Associated States Form and Instruction	Modified

ICR Details

OMB Control No: 1505-0277	ICR Reference No: 202308-1505-002
Status: Received in OIRA	Previous ICR Reference No: 202306-1505-001
Agency/Subagency: TREAS/DO	Agency Tracking No:
Title: Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund Reporting
Type of Information Collection: No material or nonsubstantive change to a currently approved collection	Common Form ICR:  No
Type of Review Request: Emergency	Approval Requested By: 06/05/2023
Date Submitted to OIRA: 08/30/2023

	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	12/31/2023	12/31/2023
Responses	845	845
Time Burden (Hours)	30,352	30,352
Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0

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Abstract: Section 604 of the Social Security Act (the “Act”), as added by section 9901 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, Pub. L. No. 117-2 (Mar. 11, 2021) authorized the Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund (“CPF”). The CPF provides $10 billion in funding for the Department of the Treasury (“Treasury”) to provide grant payments to States (defined to include the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico), seven territories and freely associated states (including the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau), and Tribal governments to carry out critical capital projects directly enabling work, education, and health monitoring, including remote options, in response to the public health emergency with respect to the Coronavirus Disease (“COVID-19”). Section 604(b) of the Act prescribes that the $10 billion be allocated to eligible grant recipients according to a formula provided in the statute. Treasury has used this formula to calculate the CPF grant fund allocations for each eligible recipient and has posted these allocations on its website . In general, each State (including the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico) will receive between approximately $107 million and $500 million, each of the seven named territories and freely associated states will receive approximately $14 million, and each Tribal government will receive approximately $167,000. Treasury has previously received approval under OMB #1505-0274 for information collections related to applying for CPF grant awards (“Applications”) and for specifying the use of funds (“Grant Plans”) The current information collection will be used to solicit information related to quarterly project and expenditure reports and annual performance reports. Both information collections are described generally in the Compliance and Reporting Guidance. The Compliance and Reporting Guidance provides recipients information needed to fulfill their reporting requirements and compliance obligations. Treasury will also prepare an IT portal user guide with specific instructions on entering data into the reporting web-based portal.

Emergency Justfication: Pursuant to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) procedures established at 5 C.F.R. § 1320.13, the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) requests emergency processing for a revision of the Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund (CPF) information collection (OMB Control Number 1505-0277). The revision is to make two additions to the Capital Projects Fund (CPF) reporting requirements. The new fields request that award recipients provide Federal Communications Commission (FCC) identifiers in order to uniquely identify the precise location of broadband projects receiving funding. The changes adding these two fields are identical for States and Tribal recipients. We expect our recipients to have these FCC identifiers on-hand already, and so there is no change in the estimated burden. • Provider ID. The Provider ID is the identifier that the FCC assigns to every Internet service Provider (ISP). Any entity responsible for a broadband implementation project already has this number, and Treasury is collecting those numbers to comply with FCC requirements. • Fabric ID. The Broadband DATA Act required the FCC to make a national map of broadband service at the location level. FCC licensees have access to the so-called “fabric”, a database of all serviceable locations. The Fabric ID is assigned to every “broadband serviceable location” in the fabric. For example, an apartment building which is broadband serviceable will have a unique Fabric ID assigned by the FCC. CPF recipients who are completing broadband projects are required to provide the Fabric IDs for the locations that they are serving. Section 60105 of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (P.L. 117-58) required the FCC to establish an online mapping tool with broadband locations funded by Federal agencies. The FCC first provided agencies with specifications for submitting data to this map in March 2023, which indicated that the Provider ID and Fabric ID would be required (and that latitude/longitude could not be used as a substitute to the Fabric ID for identifying location). As a result, CPF reporting guidance has to be updated to match those specifications for Q2 reporting, which is due by July 1, 2023. CPF award recipients must receive sufficient information about their reporting requirements in advance of the deadline, so approval of this revision is requested by June 5, 2023. Treasury cannot reasonably comply with the normal clearance procedures under 5 CFR 1320.13(a)(2) because of the need to comply with recently issued FCC guidance when collecting the next quarterly reports. Given the inability to seek public comment during such a short timeframe, Treasury requests a waiver from the requirement to publish notice in the Federal Register seeking public comment.

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Authorizing Statute(s): PL: Pub.L. 117 - 2 9901 Name of Law: American Rescue Plan Act of 2021
  

Citations for New Statutory Requirements: PL: Pub.L. 117 - 2 9901 Name of Law: American Rescue Plan Act of 2021

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Associated Rulemaking Information
RIN:	Stage of Rulemaking:	Federal Register Citation:	Date:
	Not associated with rulemaking

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Federal Register Notices & Comments

Did the Agency receive public comments on this ICR? No

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Number of Information Collection (IC) in this ICR: 3

IC Title	Form No.	Form Name
Performance Report – States, Territories, and Freely Associated States	N/A	Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund Compliance and Reporting Guidance For States, Territories, and Freely Associated States
Project and Expenditure Report – States, Territories, and Freely Associated States	N/A	Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund Compliance and Reporting Guidance For States, Territories, and Freely Associated States
Project and Expenditure Report – Tribal Entities	N/A	Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund Compliance and Reporting Guidance For Tribal Entities

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ICR Summary of Burden

	Total Request	Previously Approved	Change Due to New Statute	Change Due to Agency Discretion	Change Due to Adjustment in Estimate	Change Due to Potential Violation of the PRA
Annual Number of Responses	845	845	0	0	0	0
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	30,352	30,352	0	0	0	0
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0	0	0	0

Burden increases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: No

Burden Increase Due to:

Burden decreases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: No

Burden Reduction Due to:

Short Statement:

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Annual Cost to Federal Government: $0

Does this IC contain surveys, censuses, or employ statistical methods? No

Does this ICR request any personally identifiable information (see OMB Circular No. A-130 for an explanation of this term)? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination.     No

Does this ICR include a form that requires a Privacy Act Statement (see 5 U.S.C. §552a(e)(3))? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination.     No

Is this ICR related to the Affordable Care Act [Pub. L. 111-148 & 111-152]? No

Is this ICR related to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, [Pub. L. 111-203]? No

Is this ICR related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)? No

Is this ICR related to the Pandemic Response? Yes

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Common Form ICR:  No

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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:

(a) It is necessary for the proper performance of agency functions;

(b) It avoids unnecessary duplication;

(c) It reduces burden on small entities;

(d) It uses plain, coherent, and unambiguous language that is understandable to respondents;

(e) Its implementation will be consistent and compatible with current reporting and recordkeeping practices;

(f) It indicates the retention periods for recordkeeping requirements;

(g) It informs respondents of the information called for under 5 CFR 1320.8 (b)(3) about:

(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;

(h) It was developed by an office that has planned and allocated resources for the efficient and effective management and use of the information to be collected.

(i) It uses effective and efficient statistical survey methodology (if applicable); and

(j) It makes appropriate use of information technology.

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.

Certification Date: 08/30/2023

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