[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 143 (Thursday, July 29, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Page 40843]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-16163]



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GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

[OMB Control No. 3090-0287; Docket No. 2021-0001; Sequence No. 8]


Information Collection; Background Investigations for Child Care 
Workers; GSA Form 176

AGENCY: Office of Mission Assurance, 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 Division 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 childcare 
workers accessing GSA owned and leased controlled facilities.

DATES: Submit comments on or before: September 27, 2021.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments regarding this burden estimate or any other 
aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for 
reducing this burden to 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.
    If your comment cannot be submitted using regulations.gov, call or 
email the points of contact in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT 
section of this document for alternate instructions.
    Instructions: Please submit comments only and cite Information 
Collection 3090-0287, Background Investigations for Child Care Workers, 
in all correspondence related to this collection. Comments received 
generally will be posted without change to regulations.gov, including 
any personal and/or business confidential information provided. To 
confirm receipt of your comment(s), please check regulations.gov 
approximately two-to-three days after submission to verify posting.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Phil Ahn, Security Officer, Office 
of Mission Assurance, GSA, by email at [email protected].

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 requires 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 Tier 1 and the Office of Personnel 
Management offers a Tier 1C for child care.
    However, there is no requirement in the law or HSPD-12 that 
requires childcare employees to be subject to the Tier 1C since 
employees of childcare providers are neither government employees nor 
government contractors. The childcare providers are 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 childcare center located in a Federal 
building or in leased space must undergo a background check.
    According to GSA policy, childcare 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 SF-87 
and/or electronic prints from an enrollment center.
    3. Electronically submit the e-qip (SF85) application for 
completion of the Tier 1C.
    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.

B. Annual Reporting Burden

    Respondents: 1200.
    Responses per Respondent: 1.
    Hours per Response: 1.
    Total Burden Hours: 1200.

C. Public Comments

    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.
    Obtaining Copies of Proposals: Requesters may obtain a copy of the 
information collection documents from the GSA Regulatory Secretariat 
Division, by calling 202-501-4755 or emailing [email protected]. Please 
cite Background Investigations for Child Care Workers, in all 
correspondence.

Beth Anne Killoran,
Deputy Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2021-16163 Filed 7-28-21; 8:45 am]
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