[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 219 (Thursday, November 13, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 60872]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-29779]



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CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

November 5, 1997.
    The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), has 
submitted the following public information collection requests (ICRs) 
to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in 
accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13, 
(44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). Copies of these individual ICRs, with 
applicable supporting documentation, may be obtained by calling the 
Corporation for National and Community Service, Levon Buller, (202) 
606-5000, Extension 383. Individuals who use a telecommunications 
device for the deaf (TTY/TDD) may call 1-(800) 833-3722 between the 
hours of 9:00 am and 5:00 pm Eastern time, Monday through Friday.
    Comments should be sent to the Office of Information and Regulatory 
Affairs, Attn: OMB Desk Officer for the Corporation for National and 
Community Service, Office of Management and Budget, Room 10235, 
Washington, D.C., 20503. (202) 395-7316, by December 15, 1997. 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 the Corporation, 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 
used; enhance the quality, utility and clarity of the information to be 
collected; and 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, e.g., permitting 
electronic submissions of responses.
    Type of Review: Renewal
    Agency: Corporation for National and Community Service.
    Title: Voucher and Payment Request Form
    OMB Number: 3045-0014
    Frequency: The form will be used an estimated average of 40,000 
times per year
    Affected Public: AmeriCorps participants and the loan holders or 
schools to which they wish to make payments.
    Number of Respondents: 40,000.
    Estimated Time Per Respondent: Three minutes (1/4 minute for 
AmeriCorps participants and 2 3/4 minute for school/loan holder)
    Total Burden Hours: 2,000 hours
    Total Annualized capital/startup costs: none
    Total Annual Cost (operating/maintaining systems or purchasing 
services): $250,000
    Description: The Corporation for National and Community Service 
proposes to revise a form that is currently being used by former 
AmeriCorps members to make payments from their accounts in the National 
Service Trust Fund. The National and Community Service Trust Act of 
1993 states that individuals who complete a term of community service 
in an approved national service position be given an ``educational 
award''. These awards represent amounts of money kept in the National 
Service Trust, which is an account in the U.S. Treasury. The education 
awards may be used by the individuals who earn them-- AmeriCorps 
members--to pay costs of attending educational institutions and to 
repay student loans. The Act requires the Corporation for National 
Service to establish procedures that will allow AmeriCorps members to 
make payments to qualified institutions of higher education and to 
holders of their qualified student loans.
    The form under consideration here, the Voucher and Payment Request 
Form (OMB No. 3045-0014), has been used since the summer of 1994 to 
meet the payment requirements of the Act. This form has three purposes. 
It is the vehicle by which an AmeriCorps member authorizes and requests 
that a payment be made from his or her account. It serves as the 
document by which the school or loan company indicates the amount for 
which the individual is eligible. And the school or loan company uses 
it to certify that the payment meets various legislative and regulatory 
requirements.
    This application is to renew the form but in a somewhat revised 
format. The revisions are to (1) eliminate one unnecessary response 
contained on the current form, (2) clarify instructions for completing 
the form, (3) simplify technical language on the original form, and (4) 
put onto one document space for signatures and the statements for which 
the signatories indicate affirmation. Regarding this last point, the 
current form refers those who complete the form to certain statements 
contained in a separate document. It is assumed that, by signing the 
form, the signatories are verifying agreement with those statements. On 
the proposed revised form, the statements and the signatures will be on 
one document. This will clearly bind the statements to the affirming 
signatures.
    Dated: November 5, 1997.
David N. Spevacek,
Director, Financial Operations.
[FR Doc. 97-29779 Filed 11-12-97; 8:45 am]
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