[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 
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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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