[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 101 (Thursday, May 24, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31017-31018]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-12645]


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GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

[OMB Control No. 3090-0287; Docket 2012-0001; Sequence 7]


Office of Facilities Management and Program Services; Information 
Collection; Background Investigations for Child Care Workers

AGENCY: Office of Facilities Management and Program Services, Public 
Building Service (PBS), U.S. General Services Administration (GSA).

ACTION: Notice of request for comments regarding an existing OMB 
information collection.

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SUMMARY: Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act, the 
Regulatory Secretariat will be submitting to the Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB) a request to review and approve a previously approved 
information collection requirement regarding the collection of personal 
data for background investigations for child care workers accessing GSA 
owned and leased controlled facilities.
    Public comments are particularly invited on: Whether this 
collection of information is necessary and whether it will have 
practical utility; whether our estimate of the public burden of this 
collection of information is accurate, and based on valid assumptions 
and methodology; ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of 
the information to be collected.

DATES: Submit comments on or before: July 23, 2012.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Reginald Johnson, Program Analyst, 
Building Security and Policy Division, GSA, by telephone at (202) 208-
7909 or email at [email protected].

ADDRESSES: Submit comments identified by Information Collection 3090-
0287, Background Investigations for Child Care Workers by any of the 
following methods:
     Regulations.gov: http://www.regulations.gov. Submit 
comments via the Federal eRulemaking portal by searching the OMB 
control number. Select the link ``Submit a Comment'' that corresponds 
with ``Information Collection 3090-0287, Background Investigations for 
Child Care Workers''. Follow the instructions provided at the ``Submit 
a Comment'' screen. Please include your name, company name (if any), 
and ``Information Collection 3090-0287, Background Investigations for 
Child Care Workers'' on your attached document.
     Fax: 202-501-4067
     Mail: General Services Administration, Regulatory 
Secretariat (MVCB), 1275 First Street NE., Washington, DC 20417. ATTN: 
Hada Flowers/IC 3090-0287, Background Investigations for Child Care 
Workers.
    Instructions: Please submit comments only and cite Information 
Collection 3090-0287, Background Investigations for Child Care Workers, 
in all correspondence related to this collection. All comments received 
will be posted without change to http://www.regulations.gov, including 
any personal and/or business confidential information provided.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

A. Purpose

    Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD) 12 ``Policy for a 
Common Identification Standard for Federal Employees and Contractors'' 
requires the implementation of a governmentwide standard for secure and 
reliable forms of identification for Federal employees and contractors. 
OMB's implementing instructions require all contract employees 
requiring routine access to federally controlled facilities for greater 
than six (6) months to receive a background investigation. The minimum 
background investigation is the National Agency Check with Written 
Inquiries or NACI.
    However, there is no requirement in the law or HSPD-12 that 
requires child care employees to be subject to the NACI since employees 
of child care providers are neither government employees nor government 
contractors. Instead, the child care providers are

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required to complete the criminal history background checks mandated in 
the Crime Control Act of 1990, Public Law 101-647, dated November 29, 
1990, as amended by Public Law 102-190, dated December 5, 1991. These 
statutes require that each employee of a child care center located in a 
Federal building or in leased space must undergo a background check.
    According to GSA policy, child care workers (as described above) 
will need to submit the following:
    1. An original signed copy of a Basic National Agency Check 
Criminal History, GSA Form 176; and
    2. Two sets of fingerprints on FBI Fingerprint Cards, for FD-258.
    This is not a request to collect new information, this is a request 
to change the form that is currently being used to collect this 
information. The new GSA forms will be less of a public burden. This 
information is presently being collected on either the old Federal 
Protective Service 176 Form or the SF85P.

    Please Note:  The original request to review and approve the new 
information collection requirement regarding the collection of 
personal data for background check investigations was for both 
temporary contractors and child care workers accessing GSA owned and 
leased controlled facilities. However, through discussions with OMB 
a more streamlined will be developed for conducting background 
checks on temporary contractors. GSA is therefore pulling the 
request for review and approval of the collection of personal data 
for background check investigations of temporary contractors, form 
GSA 176T, presented in the Federal Register publication of February 
17, 2009, 74 FR 7439. GSA is proceeding with the request for review 
and approval for background check investigations of child care 
workers, form GSA 176C--to be referred to as form GSA 176, HSPD-12, 
Background Check Investigations for Child Care Workers.

B. Annual Reporting Burden

    Respondents: 3,060.
    Responses per Respondent: 1.
    Hours per Response: 1.
    Total Burden Hours: 3,060.
    Obtaining Copies of Proposals: Requesters may obtain a copy of the 
information collection documents from the General Services 
Administration, Regulatory Secretariat (MVCB), 1275 First Street NE., 
Washington, DC 20417, telephone (202) 501-4755. Please cite Background 
Investigations for Child Care Workers, in all correspondence.

    Dated: May 14, 2012.
Casey Coleman,
Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2012-12645 Filed 5-23-12; 8:45 am]
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