[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 34 (Tuesday, February 20, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6377-6379]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-3702]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Proposed Collection; Comment Request
Proposed Project #1
Title: PROGRAM NARRATIVE; Application for Federal Assistance;
Objective Work Plan: Administration for Native Americans.
OMB No.: 0980-0204.
Description: The information collected by PROGRAM NARRATIVE;
Application for Federal Assistance, the Objective Work Plan, is needed
to properly administer and monitor the Administration for Native
Americans' (ANA) Program's competitive areas--Social and Economic
Development Strategies (SEDS), ANA Environmental Regulatory
Enhancement, ANA Native American Languages Preservation and
Enhancement, and ANA Mitigation of Environmental Impacts to Indian
Lands Due to Department of Defense Activities by providing information
in an application for a grant award. This data is used by
legislatively-mandated Native American review panels, and ANA, as the
basis for recommendations for the decisions to award competitive ANA
grants.
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Annual Burden Estimates
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Average
No. of burden Total
Instrument No. of responses hours burden
respondents per per hours
respondent response
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OMB 0980-0204............... 571 1 29.5 17,800
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Estimated total annual burden hours: 17,800.
Proposed Project #2
Title: OBJECTIVE PROGRESS REPORT; project progress about
Administration for Native Americans financial assistance grants.
OMB No.: 0980-0155.
Description: The information collected by the OBJECTIVE PROGRESS
REPORT on an ANA grantee's project progress is needed to properly
administer and monitor the progress of Administration for Native
Americans' competitive areas grants--Social and Economic Development
Strategies (SEDS), ANA Environmental Regulatory Enhancement, ANA Native
American Languages Preservation and Enhancement, and ANA Mitigation of
Environmental Impacts to Indian Lands due to Department of Defense
Activities. This information is used to perform legislatively required
Federal financial and program management oversight functions.
Annual Burden Estimates
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Average
No. of burden Total
Instrument No. of responses hours burden
respondents per per hours
respondent response
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OMB 0980-0155............... 250 2 2 1,000
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Estimated total annual burden hours: 1,000.
Proposed Project #3
Title: OBJECTIVE EVALUATION REPORT; project self evaluation of
Administration for Native Americans financial assistance grants.
OMB No.: 0980-0144.
Description: The project self evaluation information collected by
the OBJECTIVE EVALUATION REPORT about a grantee's project is needed to
meet ANA's legislatively required evaluation of grantee locally-
determined financial assistance grant objectives. The report is used in
the following Administration for Native Americans' Program's
competitive areas grants--Social and Economic Development Strategies
(SEDS), ANA Regulatory Environmental Enhancement, ANA Native American
Languages Preservation and Enhancements, and ANA Mitigation of
Environmental Impacts to Indian Lands Due to Department of Defense
Activities. The information, when aggregated, is used by Congress,
Federal agencies, and others.
Annual Burden Estimates
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Average
No. of burden Total
Instrument No. of responses hours burden
respondents per per hours
respondent response
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OMB 0980-0144............... 250 1 2 500
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Estimated total annual burden hours: 500.
Respondents:
Federally recognized Indian Tribes;
Consortia of Indian Tribes;
Incorporated non-Federally recognized Tribes;
Incorporated nonprofit multipurpose community-based Indian
organizations;
Urban Indian Centers;
National or regional incorporated nonprofit Native
American organizations with community-specific objectives;
Alaska Native Villages as defined in the Alaska Claims
Settlement Act (ANSCA) and/or nonprofit village consortia;
Incorporated nonprofit Alaska Native multi-purpose
community-based organizations;
Nonprofit Alaska Native Regional Corporations/Associations
in Alaska with village-specific providers;
Nonprofit Native organizations in Alaska with village-
specific projects;
Public and nonprofit private agencies serving Native
Hawaiians;
Public and nonprofit private agencies serving Native
peoples from Guam, American Samoa, Palau, or the Commonwealth of the
Northern Mariana Islands. (The populations served may be located on
these islands or in the United States); and
Tribally Controlled Community Colleges, Tribally
Controlled Post-Secondary Vocational Institutions, and colleges and
universities located in
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Hawaii, Guam, American Samoa, Palau, or the Commonwealth of the
Northern Mariana Islands which serve Native American Pacific Islanders.
In compliance with the requirements of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Administration for Children and
Families is soliciting public comment on the specific aspects of the
information collection described below. Copies of the proposed
collection of information form can be obtained and comments may be
forwarded by writing to The Administration for Children and Families,
Office of Information Services, Division of Information Resource
Management Services, 370 L'Enfant Promenade, SW., Washington, DC 20447,
Attn: ACF Reports Clearance Officer. All requests should be identified
by title.
In addition, requests of copies may be made and comments forwarded
to the Reports Clearance Officer over the Internet by sending a message
to rkatson@acf.dhhs.gov. Electronic comments must be submitted as an
ASCII file without special characters or encryption.
Comments are invited on: (a) whether the proposed 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
proposed collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (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. Consideration will be given to
comments and suggestions submitted within 60 days of this publication.
Dated: February 16, 1996.
Roberta Katson,
Director, Division of Information Resource Management Services.
[FR Doc. 96-3702 Filed 2-16-96; 8:45 am]
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