[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 28 (Friday, February 10, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Page 8820]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-02923]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Telecommunications and Information Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB 
Review and Approval; Comment Request; Middle Mile Grant Program

    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 November 4, 2022. This notice allows for an 
additional 30 days for public comments.
    Agency: National Telecommunications and Information Administration 
(NTIA), Commerce.
    Title: Middle Mile Grant Program.
    OMB Control Number: 0660-XXXX.
    Form Number(s): None.
    Type of Request: New information collection.
    Number of Respondents: 75.
    Average Hours per Response: 33.22.
    Burden Hours: 7,474.50.
    Needs and Uses: With this information collection, NTIA will be able 
to monitor the grant recipients' spending habits and activities. In the 
absence of collecting this information, NTIA would fail to evaluate the 
grant recipients' progress toward the grant program priority areas and 
program goals. Moreover, without these reports, the grants could be the 
subject of waste, fraud, and abuse of Federal funds. Therefore, it is 
necessary for the Agencies to collect information using the Bi-Annual 
Performance Report form.
    Affected Public: Grant award recipients consisting of States, 
political subdivisions of a State, Tribal governments, technology 
companies, electric utilities, utility cooperatives, public utility 
districts, telecommunications companies, telecommunications 
cooperatives, nonprofit foundations, nonprofit corporations, nonprofit 
institutions, nonprofit associations, regional planning councils, 
Native entities, economic development authorities, or any partnership 
of two (2) or more of these entities.
    Frequency: Bi-Annually and at the end of the Period of Performance.
    Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
    Legal Authority: Section 60401 of the Infrastructure Investment and 
Jobs Act of 2021, Public Law 117-58, 135 Stat. 429 (November 15, 2021).
    This information collection request may be viewed at 
www.reginfo.gov. Follow the instructions to view the 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 the title of the collection.

Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information 
Officer, Department of Commerce.
[FR Doc. 2023-02923 Filed 2-9-23; 8:45 am]
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