[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 236 (Monday, December 13, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 70823-70824]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-26933]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Economic Development Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment 
Request; Request To Amend an Investment Award and Project Service Maps

    The Department of Commerce will submit the following information 
collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for 
review and clearance in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
1995, on or after the date of publication of this notice. We invite the 
general public and other Federal agencies to comment on proposed, and 
continuing information collections, which helps us assess the impact of 
our information collection requirements and minimize the public's 
reporting burden. Public comments were previously requested via the 
Federal Register on October 6, 2021 during a 60-day comment period. 
This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
    Agency: Economic Development Administration (EDA), Commerce.
    Title: Request to Amend an Investment Award and Project Service 
Maps.
    OMB Control Number: 0610-0102.
    Form Number(s): None.
    Type of Request: Extension without change of a currently approved 
information collection.
    Number of Respondents: 632.
    Average Hours per Response: 2 hours for an amendment to a 
construction award, 1 hour for an amendment to a non-construction 
award, and 6 hours for a project service map.
    Burden Hours: 1,242 hours.

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                                                   Number of                                         Estimated
                Type of request                   respondents      Average hours per response      burden hours
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Requests for amendments to construction awards             600  2 hours/request.................           1,200
Requests for amendment to non-construction                  30  1 hour/request..................              30
 awards.
Project service maps..........................               2  6 hours/map.....................              12
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    Total.....................................             632  ................................           1,242
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    Needs and Uses: To effectively administer and monitor its economic 
development assistance programs, EDA collects certain information from 
applicants for, and recipients of, EDA investment assistance. EDA 
proposes to extend this information collection for when a recipient 
must submit a written request to EDA to amend an investment award and 
provide such information and documentation as EDA deems necessary to 
determine the merit of altering the terms of an award (see 13 CFR 
302.7(a)). Additionally, EDA may require a recipient to submit a 
project service map and information from which to determine whether 
services are provided to all segments of the region being assisted (see 
13 CFR 302.16(c)).
    Affected Public: Current recipients of EDA awards, including: (1) 
Cities or other political subdivisions of a State, including a special 
purpose unit of state or local government engaged in economic or 
infrastructure development activities, or a consortium of political 
subdivisions; (2) States; (3) institutions of higher education; (4) 
public or private non-profit organizations or associations; (5) 
District Organizations; (6) Indian Tribes; and (7) (for training, 
research, and technical assistance awards only) individuals and for-
profit businesses.
    Frequency: As needed to amend an investment award.
    Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
    Legal Authority: The Public Works and Economic Development Act of 
1965 (42 U.S.C. 3121 et. seq).
    This information collection request may be viewed at reginfo.gov. 
Follow the instructions to view Department of Commerce collections 
currently under review by OMB.
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be submitted within 30 days of the publication of 
this notice on the following website www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. 
Find this particular information collection by selecting ``Currently 
under 30-day Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search 
function and entering either the title of the collection or the OMB 
Control Number 0610-0102.

Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information 
Officer, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2021-26933 Filed 12-10-21; 8:45 am]
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