Justification for Non-Substantive Change

Justification

Non-Substantive Change to an Existing Approved Information Collection

AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps Service Project Application

OMB Control Number 3045-0010

Expiration September 30, 2025

AmeriCorps is requesting this non-substantive change to bring its form, NCCC Service Project Application, into compliance with Executive Order (EO) 14168 of January 20, 2025, Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government, 90 Fed. Reg. 8615 (January 30, 2025) and EO 14173 of January 21, 2025, Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity, 90 Fed. Reg. 8633 (January 31, 2025).

Section 2(e) of EO 14168 on Defending Women requires:

Agencies shall remove all statements, policies, regulations, forms, communications, or other internal and external messages that promote or otherwise inculcate gender ideology, and shall cease issuing such statements, policies, regulations, forms, communications or other messages. Agency forms that require an individual’s sex shall list male or female, and shall not request gender identity. Agencies shall take all necessary steps, as permitted by law, to end the Federal funding of gender ideology.

AmeriCorps is therefore requesting this non-substantive change to delete the term “gender” (“sex” is already listed) and remove the phrase “gender identity or expression” in the non-discrimination notice on this form.

Section 3(c)(ii) of EO 14173 on Ending Illegal Discrimination requires OMB to:

(ii) Excise references to DEI and DEIA principles, under whatever name they may appear, from Federal acquisition, contracting, grants, and financial assistance procedures to streamline those procedures, improve speed and efficiency, lower costs, and comply with civil-rights laws; and

(iii) Terminate all ‘‘diversity,’’ ‘‘equity,’’ ‘‘equitable decision-making,’’ ‘‘equitable deployment of financial and technical assistance,’’ ‘‘advancing equity,’’and like mandates, requirements, programs, or activities, as appropriate.

AmeriCorps is therefore requesting this non-substantive change to delete the question on project objectives that includes advancing racial equity.

Finally, AmeriCorps has corrected an error in renumbering to assign the numbers nine and nineteen to the ninth and nineteenth questions, where number designations were missing and removed references to a secondary sponsor in questions 24-29 because few applicants have a secondary sponsor.