[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 49 (Monday, March 14, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Page 14255]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-05320]


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CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the 
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment 
Request; National Service Criminal History Check Recordkeeping 
Requirement

AGENCY: The Corporation for National and Community Service.

ACTION: Notice of information collection; request for comment.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 
Corporation for National and Community Service (operating as 
AmeriCorps) is proposing to renew an information collection.

DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the individual and office 
listed in the ADDRESSES section by May 13, 2022.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by the title of the 
information collection activity, by any of the following methods:
    (1) By mail sent to: AmeriCorps, Attention: Elizabeth Appel, Office 
of General Counsel, 250 E Street SW, Washington, DC 20525.
    (2) By hand delivery or by courier to the AmeriCorps mailroom at 
the mail address given in paragraph (1) above, between 9 a.m. and 4 
p.m. Eastern Time, Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
    (3) Electronically through www.regulations.gov.
    Comments submitted in response to this notice may be made available 
to the public through regulations.gov. For this reason, please do not 
include in your comments information of a confidential nature, such as 
sensitive personal information or proprietary information. If you send 
an email comment, your email address will be automatically captured and 
included as part of the comment that is placed in the public docket and 
made available on the internet. Please note that responses to this 
public comment request containing any routine notice about the 
confidentiality of the communication will be treated as public comment 
that may be made available to the public, notwithstanding the inclusion 
of the routine notice.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Elizabeth Appel, Associate General 
Counsel, 202-967-5070 or by email at [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title of Collection: National Service 
Criminal History Check Recordkeeping Requirement.
    OMB Control Number: 3045-0150.
    Type of Review: Renewal.
    Respondents/Affected Public: Businesses and organizations 
(AmeriCorps grantees and subgrantees).
    Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 337,071.
    Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 28,089.
    Abstract: Section 189D of the National and Community Service Act of 
1990, as amended, requires AmeriCorps grantees and subgrantees to 
conduct a National Service Criminal History Check on individuals in 
covered positions. Documenting compliance with the requirement is 
critical to that responsibility. The currently approved information 
collection is due to expire on July 31, 2022. This notice announces 
AmeriCorps' intention to seek renewal of the information collection 
approval.
    Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized 
and/or included in the request for OMB approval. Comments are invited 
on: (a) Whether the collection of information is necessary for the 
proper performance of the functions of the agency, including whether 
the information shall have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 
agency's estimate of the burden of the collection of information; (c) 
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to 
be collected; (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of 
information on respondents, including through the use of automated 
collection techniques or other forms of information technology; and (e) 
estimates of capital or start-up costs and costs of operation, 
maintenance, and purchase of services to provide information. Burden 
means the total time, effort, or financial resources expended by 
persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose or provide information 
to or for a Federal agency. This includes the time needed to review 
instructions; to develop, acquire, install, and utilize technology and 
systems for the purpose of collecting, validating and verifying 
information, processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and 
providing information; to train personnel and to be able to respond to 
a collection of information, to search data sources, to complete and 
review the collection of information; and to transmit or otherwise 
disclose the information. All written comments will be available for 
public inspection on regulations.gov.

    Dated: March 9, 2022.
Fernando Laguarda,
General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 2022-05320 Filed 3-11-22; 8:45 am]
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