Office of Facilities Management and Program Services; Submission for OMB Review; Background Check Investigations for Child Care Workers, 29212-29213 [E9-14468]

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[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 117 (Friday, June 19, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29212-29213]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-14468]


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GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

[OMB Control NO. 3090-00XX]


Office of Facilities Management and Program Services; Submission 
for OMB Review; Background Check Investigations for Child Care Workers

AGENCY: Office of Facilities Management and Program Services, Public 
Building Service (PBS), U.S. General Services Administration (GSA).

ACTION: Notice of request for comments regarding a new OMB information 
collection.

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SUMMARY: Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 
(44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), the General Services Administration will be 
submitting to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request to 
review and approve the new information collection requirement regarding 
the collection of personal data for background check investigations for 
child care workers accessing GSA owned and leased controlled 
facilities.
    Public comments are particularly invited on: Whether this 
collection of information is necessary and whether it will have 
practical utility; whether our estimate of the public burden of this 
collection of information is accurate, and based on valid assumptions 
and methodology; ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of 
the information to be collected.

DATES: Submit comments on or before: July 20, 2009.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Layna Koentopf, Program Analyst, 
Building Security and Policy Division, GSA, 1800 F Street, NW., 
Washington, DC 20405; or telephone (202) 208-1585. Please cite OMB 
Control No. 3090-00XX, Background Check Investigations for Child Care 
Workers.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments regarding this burden estimate or any other 
aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for 
reducing this burden to the GSA Desk Officer, OMB, Room 10236, NEOB, 
Washington, DC 20503, and a copy to the Regulatory Secretariat (VPR), 
U.S. General Services Administration, 1800 F Street, NW., Room 4041, 
Washington, DC 20405. Please cite Background Check Investigations for 
Child Care Workers, in all correspondence.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

A. Purpose

    Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD) 12 ``Policy for a 
Common Identification Standard for Federal Employees and Contractors'' 
requires the implementation of a governmentwide standard for secure and 
reliable forms of identification for Federal employees and contractors. 
OMB's implementing instructions requires all contract employees 
requiring routine access to Federally controlled facilities for greater 
than six (6) months to receive a background investigation. The minimum 
background investigation is the National Agency Check with Written 
Inquiries or NACI.
    However, there is no requirement in the law or HSPD-12 that 
requires child care employees to be subject to the NACI since employees 
of child care providers are neither government employees nor government 
contractors. Instead, the child care providers are required to complete 
the criminal history background checks mandated in the Crime Control 
Act of 1990, Public Law 101-647, dated November 29, 1990, as amended by 
Public Law 102-190, dated December 5, 1991. These statutes require that 
each employee of a child care center located in a Federal building or 
in leased space must undergo a background check.
    According to GSA policy, child care workers (as described above) 
will need to submit the following:
    1. An original signed copy of a Basic National Agency Check 
Criminal History, GSA Form 176; and
    2. Two sets of fingerprints on FBI Fingerprint Cards, for FD-258.

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    This information was previously collected on either the old Federal 
Protective Service 176 Form or the SF85P. This is a request to replace 
the form with the GSA Form 176. The new GSA form will be less of a 
public burden.

    Please Note: The original request to review and approve the new 
information collection requirement regarding the collection of 
personal data for background check investigations was for both 
temporary contractors and child care workers accessing GSA owned and 
leased controlled facilities. However, through discussions with OMB 
a more streamlined process will be developed for conducting 
background checks on temporary contractors. GSA is therefore pulling 
the request for review and approval of the collection of personal 
data for background check investigations of temporary contractors, 
form GSA 176T, presented in the Federal Register publication of 
February 17, 2009, 74 FR 7439. GSA is proceeding with the request 
for review and approval for background check investigations of child 
care workers, form GSA 176C--to be referred to as form GSA 176, 
Background Check Investigations for Child Care Workers.

B. Annual Reporting Burden

    Respondents: 3,060.
    Responses per Respondent: 1.
    Hours per Response: 1.
    Total Burden Hours: 3,060.
    Obtaining Copies of Proposals: Requesters may obtain a copy of the 
information collection documents from the General Services 
Administration, Regulatory Secretariat (VPR), 1800 F Street, NW., Room 
4041, Washington, DC 20405, telephone (202) 501-4755. Please cite 
Background Check Investigations for Child Care Workers, in all 
correspondence.

    Dated: June 12, 2009.
Casey Coleman,
Chief Information Officer, General Services Administration.
[FR Doc. E9-14468 Filed 6-18-09; 8:45 am]
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