[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 219 (Thursday, November 13, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 60872]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-29779]
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CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
November 5, 1997.
The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), has
submitted the following public information collection requests (ICRs)
to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in
accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13,
(44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). Copies of these individual ICRs, with
applicable supporting documentation, may be obtained by calling the
Corporation for National and Community Service, Levon Buller, (202)
606-5000, Extension 383. Individuals who use a telecommunications
device for the deaf (TTY/TDD) may call 1-(800) 833-3722 between the
hours of 9:00 am and 5:00 pm Eastern time, Monday through Friday.
Comments should be sent to the Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Attn: OMB Desk Officer for the Corporation for National and
Community Service, Office of Management and Budget, Room 10235,
Washington, D.C., 20503. (202) 395-7316, by December 15, 1997. The OMB
is particularly interested in comments which: evaluate whether the
proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the Corporation, including whether the
information will have practical utility; evaluate the accuracy of the
agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of
information, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions
used; enhance the quality, utility and clarity of the information to be
collected; and minimize the burden of the collection of information on
those who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate
automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection
techniques or other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting
electronic submissions of responses.
Type of Review: Renewal
Agency: Corporation for National and Community Service.
Title: Voucher and Payment Request Form
OMB Number: 3045-0014
Frequency: The form will be used an estimated average of 40,000
times per year
Affected Public: AmeriCorps participants and the loan holders or
schools to which they wish to make payments.
Number of Respondents: 40,000.
Estimated Time Per Respondent: Three minutes (1/4 minute for
AmeriCorps participants and 2 3/4 minute for school/loan holder)
Total Burden Hours: 2,000 hours
Total Annualized capital/startup costs: none
Total Annual Cost (operating/maintaining systems or purchasing
services): $250,000
Description: The Corporation for National and Community Service
proposes to revise a form that is currently being used by former
AmeriCorps members to make payments from their accounts in the National
Service Trust Fund. The National and Community Service Trust Act of
1993 states that individuals who complete a term of community service
in an approved national service position be given an ``educational
award''. These awards represent amounts of money kept in the National
Service Trust, which is an account in the U.S. Treasury. The education
awards may be used by the individuals who earn them-- AmeriCorps
members--to pay costs of attending educational institutions and to
repay student loans. The Act requires the Corporation for National
Service to establish procedures that will allow AmeriCorps members to
make payments to qualified institutions of higher education and to
holders of their qualified student loans.
The form under consideration here, the Voucher and Payment Request
Form (OMB No. 3045-0014), has been used since the summer of 1994 to
meet the payment requirements of the Act. This form has three purposes.
It is the vehicle by which an AmeriCorps member authorizes and requests
that a payment be made from his or her account. It serves as the
document by which the school or loan company indicates the amount for
which the individual is eligible. And the school or loan company uses
it to certify that the payment meets various legislative and regulatory
requirements.
This application is to renew the form but in a somewhat revised
format. The revisions are to (1) eliminate one unnecessary response
contained on the current form, (2) clarify instructions for completing
the form, (3) simplify technical language on the original form, and (4)
put onto one document space for signatures and the statements for which
the signatories indicate affirmation. Regarding this last point, the
current form refers those who complete the form to certain statements
contained in a separate document. It is assumed that, by signing the
form, the signatories are verifying agreement with those statements. On
the proposed revised form, the statements and the signatures will be on
one document. This will clearly bind the statements to the affirming
signatures.
Dated: November 5, 1997.
David N. Spevacek,
Director, Financial Operations.
[FR Doc. 97-29779 Filed 11-12-97; 8:45 am]
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