[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 85 (Wednesday, May 2, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Page 26051]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-10611]


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PEACE CORPS


Information Collection Request; Submission for OMB Review

AGENCY: Peace Corps.

ACTION: 60-Day notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: The Peace Corps will submit the following information 
collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for 
approval. The purpose of this notice is to allow 60 days for public 
comment in the Federal Register preceding submission to OMB. We are 
conducting this process in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act 
of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35).

DATES: Submit comments on or before July 2, 2012.

ADDRESSES: Comments should be addressed to Denora Miller, Freedom of 
Information Act Officer. Denora Miller can be contacted by telephone at 
202-692-1236 or email at [email protected]. Email comments must be 
made in text and not in attachments.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Denora Miller at Peace Corps address 
above.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Peace Corps' Press Office uses the 
Hometown News Release Form to collect information about a Peace Corps 
invitee's decision to serve and their local newspapers.
    Method: The Peace Corps currently emails the Hometown News Release 
Form to invitees. The respondent returns the form by email. The 
Hometown News Release Form will be available through the Peace Corps' 
new volunteer delivery and support system. The new method will replace 
sending the form by email.
    Title: Hometown News Release Form.
    OMB Control Number: 0420-pending.
    Type of information collection: Existing collection in use without 
an OMB control number.
    Affected public: Individuals or households.
    Respondents' obligation to reply: Voluntary.
    Burden to the public:

 
 
 
(a) Estimated number of respondents......  1,000
(b) Frequency of response................  one time
(c) Estimated average burden per response  15 minutes
(d) Estimated total reporting burden.....  250 hours
(e) Estimated annual cost to respondents.  $0.00
 

General description of collection: This information is used to inform 
reporters from local and college newspapers, as well as radio and 
television stations about an invitee's decision to serve in the Peace 
Corps. It helps notify the community that their neighbor or classmate 
will be gone for two years and also helps Peace Corps recruit the next 
generation of Peace Corps volunteers.
    Request For Comment: Peace Corps invites comments on whether the 
proposed collection of information is necessary for proper performance 
of the functions of the Peace Corps, including whether the information 
will have practical use; the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the 
burden of the proposed collection of information, including the 
validity of the information to be collected; and, ways to minimize the 
burden of the collection of information on those who are to respond, 
including through the use of automated collection techniques, when 
appropriate, and other forms of information technology.

    This notice issued in Washington, DC on April 27, 2012.
Garry W. Stanberry,
Acting Associate Director, Management.
[FR Doc. 2012-10611 Filed 5-1-12; 8:45 am]
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