[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 193 (Friday, October 4, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 62238]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-25256]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY


Agency Information Collection Under Review by the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB)

AGENCY: Department of Energy.

ACTION: Submission for OMB review; comment request.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Energy (DOE) has submitted an information 
collection package to the OMB for renewal under the Paperwork Reduction 
Act of 1995. The package requests a 3-year extension of its financial 
assistance information collection, OMB Control Number 1910-0400, titled 
``Financial Assistance''. This information collection package covers 
information necessary to solicit, negotiate, award and administer 
grants and cooperative agreements under the Department's financial 
assistance programs. The information is used by Departmental management 
to exercise management oversight, with respect to the implementation of 
applicable statutory and regulatory requirements and obligations. The 
collection of this information is critical to ensure the Government has 
sufficient information to judge the degree to which awardees meet the 
terms of their agreements; that public funds are being spent in the 
manner intended; and that fraud, waste, and abuse are immediately 
detected and eliminated.

Dates and Addresses: Comments regarding the information collection 
package should be submitted to the OMB Desk Officer at the following 
address no later than November 4, 2002. DOE Desk Officer, Office of 
Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), Office of Management and 
Budget, Docket Library, Room 10102, 725 17th Street, NW., Washington, 
DC 20503. If you anticipate that you will be submitting comments, but 
find it difficult to do so within the period of time allowed by this 
notice, you should advise the OMB Desk Officer of your intention to do 
so as soon as possible. The Desk Officer may be telephoned at (202) 
395-3087.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Susan L. Frey , Director, Records 
Management Division, Office of Records and Business Management, Office 
of the Chief Information Officer, U.S. Department of Energy, 
Washington, DC 20585-1290, (301) 903-3666, or e-mail 
[email protected]. (Also notify Richard B. Langston, Office of 
Procurement and Assistance Policy (ME-61), Washington, DC 20585 or e-
mail [email protected].)

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The package contains: (1) Title: Financial 
Assistance;
    (2) Current OMB Control Number: 1910-0400; (3) Type of Respondents: 
DOE financial assistance applicants and awardees; (4) Estimated Number 
of Responses: 44,457; (5) Estimated Total Burden Hours: 15,544, 
including recordkeeping hours, required to provide the information; (6) 
Purpose: This information is required by the Department to ensure that 
programmatic and administrative management requirements and resources 
are managed efficiently and effectively and to exercise management 
oversight of DOE award recipients; (7) Number of Collections: The 
package contains 58 information and/or recordkeeping requirements.

    Statutory Authority: Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. No. 104-13).

    Issued in Washington, DC, on September 30, 2002.
Susan L. Frey,
Director, Records Management Division, Office of Records and Business 
Management, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 02-25256 Filed 10-3-02; 8:45 am]
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