[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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