[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 90 (Tuesday, May 10, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28103-28104]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-09953]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY


Agency Information Collection Activities; Emergency Submission 
for OMB Review; Comment Request; Capital Projects Fund Compliance 
Reporting

AGENCY: Departmental Offices, U.S. Department of the Treasury.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Department of the Treasury has submitted the following 
information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB) for review and clearance utilizing emergency review procedures in 
accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. Emergency review 
and approval of this collection has been requested from OMB by April 
30, 2022. The public is invited to submit comments on this request.

DATES: Written comments must be received on or before May 25, 2022.

ADDRESSES: Send comments regarding the burden estimate, or any other 
aspect of the information collection, including suggestions for 
reducing the burden, by the following method:
     Federal E-rulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. 
Follow the instructions for submitting comments. Refer to Docket Number 
TREAS-DO-2022-0011 and the specific Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB) control number 1505-NEW.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For questions related to this program, 
please contact Jeremy Turret by emailing [email protected], or 
calling 202-622-4256. Additionally, you can view the information 
collection requests at www.reginfo.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Title: Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund.
    OMB Control Number: 1505-XXXX.
    Type of Review: New Collection.

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    Description: Section 604 of the Social Security Act (the ``Act''), 
as added by section 9901 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, 
Public Law 117-2 (Mar. 11, 2021) established the Coronavirus Capital 
Projects Fund (``CPF''). The CPF provides $10 billion in funding for 
the U.S. Department of the Treasury (``Treasury'') to make payments 
according to a statutory formula to States (defined to include each of 
the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico), seven 
territories and freely associated states (the United States Virgin 
Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 
Islands, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of 
Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau), and Tribal governments \1\ to 
carry out critical capital projects directly enabling work, education, 
and health monitoring, including remote options, in response to the 
public health emergency with respect to the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-
19).
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    \1\ An eligible Tribal government is the recognized governing 
body of any Indian or Alaska Native tribe, band, nation, pueblo, 
village, community, component band, or component reservation, 
individually identified (including parenthetically) in the list 
published most recently as of the date of enactment of this Act 
pursuant to section 104 of the Federally Recognized Indian Tribe 
List Act of 1994 (25 U.S.C. 5131). The State of Hawaii, for 
exclusive use of the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands and the 
Native Hawaiian Education Programs to assist Native Hawaiians, is 
also eligible to apply for funding under this funding category.
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    The current information collection will be used to solicit 
information related to quarterly project and expenditure reports and 
annual performance reports. Both information collections are described 
generally in the Compliance and Reporting Guidance. The Compliance and 
Reporting Guidance provides recipients with information needed to 
fulfill their reporting requirements and compliance obligations. 
Treasury will also prepare an IT portal user guide with specific 
instructions on entering data into the reporting web-based portal.
    The initial Project and Expenditure Report must be submitted by 
States, territories, and freely associated states on July 31, 2022,\2\ 
with subsequent reports being due quarterly for the duration of the 
period of performance. The Project and Expenditure Report contains a 
set of standardized questions to ascertain the recipient's use of funds 
received as of the date of reporting, as well as the status of 
individual projects. Treasury will make the data submitted by 
recipients publicly available.
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    \2\ State, territory, and freely associated state recipients 
that have not received any payments by June 15, 2022, will be 
exempted from the report due on July 31, 2022.
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    The first interim Performance Report must be submitted by States, 
territories, and freely associated states on January 31, 2023, with 
subsequent reports being due annually on July 31 for the duration of 
the period of performance. The Performance Report will contain detailed 
performance data corresponding to the ``Programs'' specified previously 
in a recipient's Grant Plan. This will include information on efforts 
to improve equity and engage communities. The Performance Report is 
largely freely written text, and while there are certain data and 
topics that recipients must cover in the Performance Report, it is 
mostly free-form written content. Recipients are required to publish 
the Performance Report on their website and provide the reports to 
Treasury. Treasury will make the Performance Reports and associated 
data submitted by recipients publicly available.
    Forms: Compliance and Reporting Guidance for States, Territories, 
and Freely Associated States
    Affected Public: State, Territorial, and Freely Associated State 
Governments.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 59.
    Frequency of Response: 4 times per year for Progress and 
Expenditure reports; 1 time per year for Performance Reports.
    Estimated Total Number of Annual Responses: 295.
    Estimated Time per Response: 62 hours for Project and Expenditure 
Reports. 80 hours for Performance Reports.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 19,352.
    Request for Comments: Comments submitted in response to this notice 
will be summarized and included in the request for Office of Management 
and Budget approval. All comments will become a matter of public 
record. 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 technology; and (e) estimates of capital or start-up 
costs and costs of operation, maintenance, and purchase of services 
required to provide information.

(Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.)

Molly Stasko,
Treasury PRA Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2022-09953 Filed 5-9-22; 8:45 am]
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