[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 30 (Tuesday, February 14, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Page 9521]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-03131]


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GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

[OMB Control No. 3090-XXXX; Docket No. 2023-0001; Sequence No. 1]


Information Collection; Overseas Employment Agreement; GSA Form 
5040

AGENCY: Office of Human Resource Management, Division of Human Capital 
Policy and Programs, General Services Administration (GSA).

ACTION: Notice of request for comments regarding a request for a new 
OMB clearance.

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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 new 
information collection requirement.

DATES: Submit comments on or before April 17, 2023.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments identified by Information Collection 3090-
XXXX; Overseas Employment Agreement; GSA Form 5040 to: http://www.regulations.gov.
    Submit comments via the Federal eRulemaking portal by searching for 
``Information Collection 3090-XXXX; Overseas Employment Agreement; GSA 
Form 5040''. Select the link ``Submit a Comment'' that corresponds with 
``Information Collection 3090-XXXX; Overseas Employment Agreement; GSA 
Form 5040''. Follow the instructions provided at the ``Submit a 
Comment'' screen. Please include your name, company name (if any), and 
``Information Collection 3090-XXXX; Overseas Employment Agreement; GSA 
Form 5040'' on your attached document. If your comment cannot be 
submitted using https://www.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-XXXX; Overseas Employment Agreement; GSA Form 5040, in 
all correspondence related to this collection. Comments received 
generally will be posted without change to http://www.regulations.gov, 
including any personal and/or business confidential information 
provided. To confirm receipt of your comment(s), please check 
www.regulations.gov, approximately two-to-three days after submission 
to verify posting.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Colin C. Bennett, Human Resources 
Specialist, Office of Human Resources Management, Division of Human 
Capital Policy and Programs, at telephone 240-418-6822 or via email to 
[email protected] for clarification of content.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

A. Purpose

    The General Services Administration routinely hires, reassigns, 
promotes or transfers Federal employees to duty stations in foreign 
areas (i.e., outside of the United States and its territories and 
possessions). Under the Administrative Expenses Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 
808), as amended, agencies are permitted to use appropriated funds to 
pay for the various costs incurred for permanent change of station 
(PCS) to the foreign area (see further 5 U.S.C. 5722 et. seq.). Such 
costs include: (1) travel expenses of the new appointee (or employee) 
and transportation expenses of his or her immediate family and his 
household goods and personal effects from the place of actual residence 
at the time of appointment to the place of employment outside the 
continental United States; (2) these expenses on the return of an 
employee from his post of duty outside the continental United States to 
the place of his actual residence at the time of assignment to duty 
outside the continental United States; and (3) the expenses of 
transporting a privately owned motor vehicle as authorized under 5 
U.S.C. 5727(c). Under this authority, in return for this travel and 
transportation benefit, the appointee (or employee) must remain in the 
agency's service for 12 months (1 year). More information concerning 
this statutory requirement is found within the GSA Government Travel 
Regulations at 41 CFR part 302-3, subpart F.
    In order to more effectively memorialize the agency costs incurred, 
and the appointee's (or employee's) resulting service obligation, GSA 
has re-developed its existing form GSA 5040. The intent is for this 
form to be used: (1) as an information collection device to memorialize 
compensation, foreign allowance, and travel and transportation benefits 
provided, and (2) as an enforceable service agreement for PCS travel 
and transportation costs, pursuant to the Federal Claims Collection Act 
of 1966 and the Debt Collection Act Amendments of 1996 (see further 31 
U.S.C. 3711 et. seq.)

B. Annual Reporting Burden

    Respondents: 25 per year.
    Responses per Respondent: 1.
    Total Annual Responses: 25.
    Hours per Response: 1.
    Total Burden Hours: 25.

C. Public Comments

    Public comments are particularly invited on: Whether this 
collection of information is necessary, 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; and ways in which we can minimize the 
burden of the collection of information on those who are to respond, 
through the use of appropriate technological collection techniques or 
other forms of information technology.
    Obtaining Copies of Proposals: Requesters may obtain a copy of the 
information collection documents from the Regulatory Secretariat 
Division by calling 202-501-4755 or emailing [email protected]. Please 
cite OMB Control No. 3090-XXXX, Overseas Employment Agreement; GSA Form 
5040, in all correspondence.

Beth Anne Killoran,
Deputy Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2023-03131 Filed 2-13-23; 8:45 am]
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