[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 61 (Thursday, March 30, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19094-19095]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-06588]
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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; Application Package for: Current Population Survey Civic
Engagement and Volunteering Supplement
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 30, 2023.
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 Andrea Robles, 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 9:00 a.m. and
4:00 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
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may be made available to the public, notwithstanding the inclusion of
the routine notice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Andrea Robles, Ph.D., 202-510-6292, or
by email at [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title of Collection: Current Population Survey Civic Engagement and
Volunteering Supplement.
OMB Control Number: 3045-0139. Type of Review: Renewal.
Respondents/Affected Public: Individuals and Households.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 60,000.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 6,670.
Abstract: AmeriCorps is mandated by the Serve America Act of 2009
to produce an annual Civic Health Assessment in partnership with the
National Conference on Citizenship. Volunteering and Civic Life
reports, tables and data are made public on the AmeriCorps VCLA website
and specialized tables are made available upon request.
The proposed survey will be the only source of nationally
representative data on the number of Americans who are active in their
communities through volunteering, social interactions, and civic
behaviors. These measures include formal volunteering in an
organization; a person's interactions with family, friends and
neighbors; participation in community events; informal interactions;
communication with one another on issues of public concern; and
interactions with public and private institutions.
AmeriCorps has partnered with the US Census and the Bureau of Labor
Statistics to collect data and produced annual volunteering reports
since 2002. Currently, AmeriCorps is soliciting comments concerning its
proposed renewal of the Current Population Survey Volunteering and
Civic Engagement Supplement. AmeriCorps is directed by Congress to
collect data and produce reports on the Nation's civic health and
volunteering activity (Authority: 42 U.S.C. 12639(a); 13 U.S.C. 8(b);
29 U.S.C. 1). AmeriCorps also seeks to continue using the currently
approved information collection until the revised information
collection is approved by OMB. The currently approved information
collection is due to expire on 11/20/2023.
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.
Mary Hyde,
Director, Office of Research and Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 2023-06588 Filed 3-29-23; 8:45 am]
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