[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 240 (Friday, December 15, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 87058-87059]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-27639]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB 
Review; Comment Request; Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund

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

ACTION: Notice of information collection; request for comment.

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SUMMARY: The Department of the Treasury will submit the following 
information collection requests 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. The public is invited to submit comments on these requests.

DATES: Comments should be received on or before January 16, 2024 to be 
assured of consideration.

ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of 
this notice to 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.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Copies of the submissions may be 
obtained from Spencer W. Clark by emailing [email protected], calling 
(202) 927-5331, or viewing the entire information collection request at 
www.reginfo.gov.

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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Title: Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund.
    OMB Control Number: 1505-0277.
    Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    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) authorized the Coronavirus Capital 
Projects Fund (``CPF''). The CPF provides $10 billion in funding for 
the Department of the Treasury (``Treasury'') to provide grant payments 
to States (defined to include the District of Columbia and Puerto 
Rico), seven territories and freely associated states (including 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 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'').
    Section 604(b) of the Act prescribes that the $10 billion be 
allocated to eligible grant recipients according to a formula provided 
in the statute. Treasury has used this formula to calculate the CPF 
grant fund allocations for each eligible recipient and has posted these 
allocations on its website. In general, each State (including the 
District of Columbia and Puerto Rico) will receive between 
approximately $107 million and $500 million, each of the seven named 
territories and freely associated states will receive approximately $14 
million, and each Tribal government will receive approximately 
$167,000.
    Treasury has separately received approval under OMB #1505-0274 for 
information collections related to applying for CPF grant awards 
(``Applications'') and for specifying the use of funds (``Grant 
Plans'').
    For non-Tribal entities, the current information collection is 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 for 
States, Territories, and Freely Associated Sates, which provides these 
recipients information needed to fulfill their reporting requirements 
and compliance obligations.
    For Tribal entities, the current information collection will be 
used to solicit information for annual reports. The information 
collection is described generally in the Compliance and Reporting 
Guidance for Tribal Entities, which provides Tribal entities with 
information needed to fulfill their reporting requirements and 
compliance obligations.
    Form: None.
    Affected Public: State, Territorial, Tribal and Freely Associated 
States Governments.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 609.
    Frequency of Response: Quarterly, Annually.
    Estimated Total Number of Annual Responses: 845.
    Estimated Time per Response: Varies from 20 to 80 hours per year 
depending on type of respondent and report.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 30,352.

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

Spencer W. Clark,
Treasury PRA Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2023-27639 Filed 12-14-23; 8:45 am]
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