[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 247 (Wednesday, December 27, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Page 89408]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-28581]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Telecommunications and Information Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB 
Review; Comment Request; Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund 
Grant Program Forms

    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 October 4, 2023 during a 60-day comment period. 
This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
    Agency: National Telecommunications and Information Administration 
(NTIA), Commerce.
    Title: Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund Grant Program 
Forms.
    OMB Control Number: 0660-0053.
    Form Number(s): None.
    Type of Request: Revision of a current information collection.
    Number of Respondents: 18 hours for Baseline and Performance 
Progress Reports; 100 hours for Budget Submission Form.
    Average Hours Per Response: 33.22.
    Burden Hours: 1,856 hours.
    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 NTIA to collect information using the Performance 
Progress Report (PPR) form and Baseline Report.
    For the budget submission form, NTIA intends to use the information 
collected (1) to evaluate whether an applicant is eligible for a grant; 
(2) to evaluate applications by peer/expert reviewers against objective 
criteria; and (3) to collect corroborative information, as applicable, 
from applicants deemed highly qualified. NTIA also intends to use 
information collected from the application as baseline information 
after award of the grant to evaluate the grantee's progress toward 
completion of the objectives for which the grant was made.
    Affected Public: Grant award recipients consisting of for-profit 
companies, non-profit companies, institutions of higher education, 
industry groups, and consortia including two or more such entities.
    Frequency: One-time (Baseline and Budget Submission Forms) and bi-
annual (Performance Progress Report).
    Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
    Legal Authority: Section 9202(a)(1) of the William M. (Mac) 
Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, 
Pub. L. 116-283, 134 Stat. 3388 (Jan. 1, 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 either the title of the collection or the OMB 
Control Number 0660-0053.

Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary of 
Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2023-28581 Filed 12-26-23; 8:45 am]
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