[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 38 (Tuesday, February 26, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8786-8787]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-4487]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Telecommunications and Information Administration


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    The Department of Commerce has submitted to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) for clearance the following proposal for 
collection of information under the provisions of the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35).
    Agency: National Telecommunications and Information Administration 
(NTIA).
    Title: Technology Opportunities Program (TOP) Grant Recipient 
Survey.
    Form Number(s): None.
    OMB Approval Number: 0660-0013.

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    Type of Request: Regular submission.
    Burden Hours: 210.
    Number of Respondents: 210.
    Average Hours Per Response: 1.
    Needs and Uses: The purpose of the Technology Opportunities Program 
(TOP) is to promote the widespread availability and use of digital 
network technologies in the public and non-profit sectors to serve 
communities nationwide. As part of the Department of Commerce's 
National Telecommunications and Information Administration, TOP 
projects are nationally-significant demonstrations of how digital 
network technologies can be used to extend and improve the delivery of 
valuable services and opportunities to all Americans. It does this by 
providing matching funds to pubic and non-profit sector organizations 
to use these technologies to provide community-wide information, 
health, life-long learning, public safety and other public services. 
TOP will evaluate and actively share the lessons learned from these 
projects to ensure the benefits are broadly distributed. TOP will use 
this survey to ensure that grant recipients are effectively promoting 
the efficient and widespread use of advance telecommunications services 
to serve American communities and to comply with the Government 
Performance and Results Act.
    NTIA is interested in the effects that the funded projects are 
having at the local level and, over the long term, at the national 
level. It is NTIA's intention to understand the nature and degree of 
those effects on the organizations that are involved with the projects, 
the individuals who are served by the projects, and the community as a 
whole. NTIA is especially interested in understanding the difference 
that the Federal grants have had in the creation, scale, scope and 
sustainability of the projects.
    Affected Public: Not-for-profit institutions, and state, local or 
tribal government.
    Frequency: Annually.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    OMB Desk Officer: David Rostker, (202) 395-3897.
    Copies of the above information collection proposal can be obtained 
by calling or writing Madeleine Clayton, Departmental Paperwork 
Clearance Officer, (202) 482-3129, Department of Commerce, Room 6086, 
14th and Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230 (or via the 
Internet at [email protected]).
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice 
to David Rostker, OMB Desk Officer, Room 10202, New Executive Office 
Building, Washington, DC 20503.

    Dated: February 20, 2002.
Gwellnar Banks,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 02-4487 Filed 2-25-02; 8:45 am]
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