[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 59 (Tuesday, March 26, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20952-20953]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-06313]
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CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
Agency Information Collection Activities; Comment Request;
Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and
Approval; Comment Request; AmeriCorps Program Life Cycle Evaluation--
Puerto Rico Bundled Evaluation
AGENCY: 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 a new information collection.
DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the individual and office
listed in the ADDRESSES section by May 28, 2024.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by the title of the
information collection activity, by any of the following methods:
(1) Electronically through www.regulations.gov (preferred method)
(2) By mail sent to: AmeriCorps, Attention Jehyra M. Asencio-Yace,
250 E Street SW, Washington, DC 20525.
(3) By hand delivery or by courier to the AmeriCorps mailroom at
the mail address given in paragraph (2) above, between 9 a.m. and 4
p.m. Eastern Time, Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
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 may be made available to the public, notwithstanding the inclusion
of the routine notice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Jehyra M. Asencio Yace, 202-956-
9736, or by email at [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title of Collection: AmeriCorps Program Life Cycle Evaluation--
Puerto Rico Bundled Evaluation.
OMB Control Number: 3045-NEW.
Type of Review: New.
Respondents/Affected Public: Individuals and households (national
service members, national service member alumni, community members),
businesses and organizations (grantee and sponsor organization project
director and staff, partner organization staff, non-supported
organizations), and State, local, or Tribal governments (the Puerto
Rico service commission staff).
Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 558 responses.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 424 hours.
Abstract: The purpose of this evaluation is to provide insight on
the context, implementation, and outcomes of 13 AmeriCorps-supported
organizations in Puerto Rico with AmeriCorps State and National formula
grants (funded through the Puerto Rico service commission,
Comisi[oacute]n de Voluntariado y Servicio Comunitario), as well as
those that have both AmeriCorps State and National grants and
AmeriCorps VISTA projects. The evaluation will also explore the
effectiveness of evaluation capacity-building workshops to be provided
to the bundle participants.
AmeriCorps will conduct a 15-month-long bundled evaluation of
grantees and sponsors in Puerto Rico. Bundling combines programs and
projects in a similar place into a single evaluation. The bundled
evaluation will use surveys, interviews, and focus groups with a wide
range of stakeholders, including grantee and sponsor organization
project directors and staff, national service members, national service
member alumni, community members, partner organization staff, non-
supported organizations, and the Puerto Rico service commission staff.
This is a new information collection.
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;
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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. 2024-06313 Filed 3-25-24; 8:45 am]
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