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to recruit, train, and accept with regard
to Civil Service classification laws,
rules, or regulations, the services of
individuals to serve without
compensation. Subject to certain
conditions, most volunteers may assist
in agency programs/projects, and may
perform activities that agency
employees are allowed to perform.
Volunteers must be at least 14 years of
age. Persons interested in volunteering
must write, call, email, visit an NRCS
office, or the NRCS Web site at https://
www.nrcs.usda.gov. The forms are
available electronically and can be
completed electronically.
Estimate of Burden: Public reporting
burden for this collection of information
is estimated to average 4 minutes per
response.
Type of Respondents: Retirees,
students, teachers, or senior citizens.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
200.
Estimated Number of Responses: 200.
Estimated Number of Responses per
Respondent: 1.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on
Respondents: 13 hours.
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Timesheet Form
Title: NRCS–PER–004, Timesheet
Form.
OMB Number: 0578–0024.
Expiration Date of Approval: 3 years
from approval date.
Type of Request: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Abstract: The timesheet is an optional
form and provides the volunteer or
volunteer’s supervisor a simplified
method for tracking the volunteer’s
time. The form is placed in a volunteer
‘‘case file’’ and will be destroyed 3 years
after the volunteer has completed
service. In the event the volunteer is
injured while engaged in volunteer
activities and claims Workman’s
Compensation, the ‘‘case file’’ will be
transferred to an Official Personnel
Folder.
Estimate of Burden: Public reporting
burden for this collection of information
is estimated to average 4 minutes per
response.
Type of Respondents: Retirees,
students, teachers, or senior citizens.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
7,120.
Estimated Number of Responses:
3,760.
Estimated Number of Responses per
Respondent: 2.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on
Respondents: 474 hours.
Comments are invited on (1) whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of the agency, including
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whether the information will have
practical utility; (2) 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; (3)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (4) ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on those who are to respond, including
the use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
All responses to this notice will be
summarized and included in the request
for OMB approval. All comments will
become a matter of public record.
Signed this 16 day of October 2015, in
Washington, DC.
Jason A. Weller,
Chief, Natural Resources Conservation
Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Rural Utility Service
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
October 22, 2015.
The Department of Agriculture has
submitted the following information
collection requirement(s) to Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and clearance under the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
Public Law 104–13. Comments
regarding (a) whether the collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
agency, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate
of burden including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (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 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 should be addressed to: Desk
Officer for Agriculture, Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Office of Management and Budget, New
Executive Office Building, 725—17th
Street NW., Washington, DC 20502.
Commenters are encouraged to submit
their comments to OMB via email to:
OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov or fax
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(202) 395–5806 and to Departmental
Clearance Office, USDA, OCIO, Mail
Stop 7602, Washington, DC 20250–
7602. Comments regarding these
information collections are best assured
of having their full effect if received
within 30 days of this notification.
Copies of the submission(s) may be
obtained by calling (202) 720–8681.
An agency may not conduct or
sponsor a collection of information
unless the collection of information
displays a currently valid OMB control
number and the agency informs
potential persons who are to respond to
the collection of information that such
persons are not required to respond to
the collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid OMB control
number.
Rural Utilities Service
Title: Certification of Authority.
OMB Control Number: 0572–0074.
Summary of Collection: The Rural
Utilities Service (RUS) is a credit agency
of the U.S. Department of Agriculture
(USDA). It makes mortgage loans and
loan guarantees to finance electric,
telecommunications, and water and
waste facilities in rural areas. Rural
Electrification Act of 1936, 7 U.S.C. 901
et seq., as amended, (RE ACT) and as
prescribed by Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) Circular A–129, Policies
for Federal Credit Programs and NonTax Receivables, which states that
agencies must, based on a review of a
loan application, determine that an
applicant complies with statutory,
regulatory, and administrative eligibility
requirements for loan assistance. A
major factor in managing loan programs
is controlling the advancement of funds.
RUS Form 675 allows this control to be
achieved by providing a list of
authorized signatures against which
signatures requesting funds are
compared.
Need and Use of the Information:
RUS will collect information to ensure
that only authorized representatives of
the borrower signs the lending
requisition form. Without the
information RUS would not know if the
request for a loan advance was
legitimate or not and the potential for
waste, loss, unauthorized use, and
misappropriation would be increased.
Description of Respondents: Not-forprofit institutions; Business or other forprofit.
Number of Respondents: 250.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 25.
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Rural Utilities Service
Title: Lien Accommodations and
Subordinations 7 CFR part 1717,
subparts R and S.
OMB Control Number: 0572–0100.
Summary of Collection: The Rural
Electrification Act (RE Act) of 1936, 7
U.S.C. 901 et seq., as amended,
authorizes and empowers the
Administrator of the Rural Utilities
Service (RUS) to make loans in the
several States and Territories of the
United States for rural electrification
and the furnishing electric energy to
persons in rural areas who are not
receiving central station service. The RE
Act also authorizes and empowers the
Administrator of RUS to provide
financial assistance to borrowers for
purposes provided in the RE Act by
accommodating or subordinating loans
made by the National Rural Utilities
Cooperative Finance Corporation, the
Federal Financing Bank, and other
lending agencies.
Need and Use of the Information:
RUS will use the information to
determine an applicant’s eligibility for a
lien accommodation or lien
subordination under the RE Act;
facilitates an applicant’s solicitation and
acquisition of non-RUS loans as to
converse available Government funds;
monitor the compliance of borrowers
with debt covenants and regulatory
requirements in order to protect loan
security; and subsequently to granting
the lien accommodation or lien
subordination, administer each so as to
minimize its cost to the Government. If
the information were not collected, RUS
would not be able to accomplish its
statutory goals.
Description of Respondents: Not-forprofit institutions; Business or other forprofit.
Number of Respondents: 15.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 290.
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Rural Utilities Service
Title: 7 CFR 1717 Subpart D, Mergers
and Consolidations of Electric
Borrowers.
OMB Control Number: 0572–0114.
Summary of Collection: The Rural
Utilities Service (RUS) is a credit agency
of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It
makes mortgage loans and loan
guarantees to finance electric,
telecommunications, water and waste
and water facilities in rural areas. Loan
programs are managed in accordance
with the Rural Electrification Act (RE
Act) of 1936, 7 U.S.C. 901 et seq., as
amended and as prescribed by the
Office of Management and Budget
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(OMB) Circular A–129, Policies for
Federal Credit Programs and Non-tax
Receivable, states that agencies must
base on a review of a loan application
determine that an applicant complies
with statutory, regulatory, and
administrative eligibility requirements
for loan assistance.
Need and Use of the Information:
RUS will collect information to
streamline procedures and allow
borrowers the flexibility to meet new
business challenges and opportunities.
The information is necessary for RUS to
conduct business with successor entity
while protecting the security of
Government loans and avoiding defaults
and to grant merger approval when
required.
Description of Respondents: Business
or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 10.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 140.
Rural Utilities Service
Title: Use of Consultants Funded by
Borrowers, 7 CFR 1789.
OMB Control Number: 0572–0115.
Summary of Collection: The Rural
Utilities Service (RUS) is a credit agency
of the Department of Agriculture that
makes mortgage loans and loan
guarantees to finance electric,
telecommunications, and water and
waste facilities in rural areas. The loan
programs are managed in accordance
with the Rural Electrification Act (RE
Act) of 1936, 7 U.S.C. 901 et seq., as
amended, and as prescribed by Office of
Management and Budget Circular A–
129, Policies for Federal Credit
Programs and Non-Tax Receivable,
which states that agencies must, based
on a review of a loan application,
determine that an applicant complies
with statutory, regulatory, and
administrative eligibility requirements
for loan assistance. RUS has the
authority to use consultants voluntarily
funded by borrowers for financial, legal,
engineering, and other technical
services. However, all RUS borrowers
are eligible to fund consultant services
but are not required to fund consultants.
Need and Use of the Information:
RUS will collect information to
determine whether it is appropriate to
use a consultant voluntarily funded by
the borrower to expedite a particular
borrower application. If the information
were not submitted, RUS would be
unable to determine if using a
consultant would accelerate the specific
application process.
Description of Respondents: Not-forprofit institutions; Business or other forprofit.
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Number of Respondents: 1.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 2.
Charlene Parker,
Departmental Information Collection
Clearance Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Bureau of the Census
[Docket Number 151008932–5932–01]
Streamlining Summary Level 070
Tables in the 5-Year American
Community Survey
Bureau of the Census,
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of Final Program.
AGENCY:
The Census Bureau hereby
announces that it will streamline the
production and release of American
Community Survey (ACS) Summary
Level 070 tables (state/county/county
subdivision/place remainder (or part))
to the 15 tables necessary for the
delineation of metropolitan,
micropolitan, and related statistical
areas as defined by the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB). The
ACS collects detailed demographic,
social, economic, and housing data from
about 3.5 million addresses in the
United States and 36,000 in Puerto Rico
each year. Annual data products are
released in the form of 1-Year and 5Year estimates with 5-Year estimates
being produced for over 578,000
geographies by 87 different summary
levels. Most summary levels and their
corresponding geographies are then
produced for approximately 1,000
detailed tables. As a cost-saving
measure and to improve the usability of
the estimates, the Census Bureau has
decided to streamline the production
and release of Summary Level 070
tables to the 15 tables necessary for
delineation. Based on data user
analytics, customer feedback, and
responses from an earlier Federal
Register Notice (June 5, 2015; 80 FR
32084) soliciting comments on the
streamlining of the summary level, we
believe that the streamlining of this
summary level will not have a
significant impact to our data users.
Therefore, beginning in December 2015,
the Census Bureau will be tabulating
and releasing only those 15 tables for
Summary Level 070 that are necessary
for the delineation of metropolitan,
micropolitan, and related statistical
SUMMARY:
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Rural Utility Service
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
October 22, 2015.
The Department of Agriculture has submitted the following
information collection requirement(s) to Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for review and clearance under the Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995, Public Law 104-13. Comments regarding (a) whether the
collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of
the functions of the agency, including whether the information will
have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of
burden including the validity of the methodology and assumptions used;
(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 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 should
be addressed to: Desk Officer for Agriculture, Office of Information
and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, New Executive
Office Building, 725--17th Street NW., Washington, DC 20502. Commenters
are encouraged to submit their comments to OMB via email to:
OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov or fax (202) 395-5806 and to Departmental
Clearance Office, USDA, OCIO, Mail Stop 7602, Washington, DC 20250-
7602. Comments regarding these information collections are best assured
of having their full effect if received within 30 days of this
notification. Copies of the submission(s) may be obtained by calling
(202) 720-8681.
An agency may not conduct or sponsor a collection of information
unless the collection of information displays a currently valid OMB
control number and the agency informs potential persons who are to
respond to the collection of information that such persons are not
required to respond to the collection of information unless it displays
a currently valid OMB control number.
Rural Utilities Service
Title: Certification of Authority.
OMB Control Number: 0572-0074.
Summary of Collection: The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) is a
credit agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). It makes
mortgage loans and loan guarantees to finance electric,
telecommunications, and water and waste facilities in rural areas.
Rural Electrification Act of 1936, 7 U.S.C. 901 et seq., as amended,
(RE ACT) and as prescribed by Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Circular A-129, Policies for Federal Credit Programs and Non-Tax
Receivables, which states that agencies must, based on a review of a
loan application, determine that an applicant complies with statutory,
regulatory, and administrative eligibility requirements for loan
assistance. A major factor in managing loan programs is controlling the
advancement of funds. RUS Form 675 allows this control to be achieved
by providing a list of authorized signatures against which signatures
requesting funds are compared.
Need and Use of the Information: RUS will collect information to
ensure that only authorized representatives of the borrower signs the
lending requisition form. Without the information RUS would not know if
the request for a loan advance was legitimate or not and the potential
for waste, loss, unauthorized use, and misappropriation would be
increased.
Description of Respondents: Not-for-profit institutions; Business
or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 250.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting: On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 25.
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Rural Utilities Service
Title: Lien Accommodations and Subordinations 7 CFR part 1717,
subparts R and S.
OMB Control Number: 0572-0100.
Summary of Collection: The Rural Electrification Act (RE Act) of
1936, 7 U.S.C. 901 et seq., as amended, authorizes and empowers the
Administrator of the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) to make loans in the
several States and Territories of the United States for rural
electrification and the furnishing electric energy to persons in rural
areas who are not receiving central station service. The RE Act also
authorizes and empowers the Administrator of RUS to provide financial
assistance to borrowers for purposes provided in the RE Act by
accommodating or subordinating loans made by the National Rural
Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation, the Federal Financing Bank,
and other lending agencies.
Need and Use of the Information: RUS will use the information to
determine an applicant's eligibility for a lien accommodation or lien
subordination under the RE Act; facilitates an applicant's solicitation
and acquisition of non-RUS loans as to converse available Government
funds; monitor the compliance of borrowers with debt covenants and
regulatory requirements in order to protect loan security; and
subsequently to granting the lien accommodation or lien subordination,
administer each so as to minimize its cost to the Government. If the
information were not collected, RUS would not be able to accomplish its
statutory goals.
Description of Respondents: Not-for-profit institutions; Business
or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 15.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting: On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 290.
Rural Utilities Service
Title: 7 CFR 1717 Subpart D, Mergers and Consolidations of Electric
Borrowers.
OMB Control Number: 0572-0114.
Summary of Collection: The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) is a
credit agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It makes mortgage
loans and loan guarantees to finance electric, telecommunications,
water and waste and water facilities in rural areas. Loan programs are
managed in accordance with the Rural Electrification Act (RE Act) of
1936, 7 U.S.C. 901 et seq., as amended and as prescribed by the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-129, Policies for Federal
Credit Programs and Non-tax Receivable, states that agencies must base
on a review of a loan application determine that an applicant complies
with statutory, regulatory, and administrative eligibility requirements
for loan assistance.
Need and Use of the Information: RUS will collect information to
streamline procedures and allow borrowers the flexibility to meet new
business challenges and opportunities. The information is necessary for
RUS to conduct business with successor entity while protecting the
security of Government loans and avoiding defaults and to grant merger
approval when required.
Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 10.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting: On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 140.
Rural Utilities Service
Title: Use of Consultants Funded by Borrowers, 7 CFR 1789.
OMB Control Number: 0572-0115.
Summary of Collection: The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) is a
credit agency of the Department of Agriculture that makes mortgage
loans and loan guarantees to finance electric, telecommunications, and
water and waste facilities in rural areas. The loan programs are
managed in accordance with the Rural Electrification Act (RE Act) of
1936, 7 U.S.C. 901 et seq., as amended, and as prescribed by Office of
Management and Budget Circular A-129, Policies for Federal Credit
Programs and Non-Tax Receivable, which states that agencies must, based
on a review of a loan application, determine that an applicant complies
with statutory, regulatory, and administrative eligibility requirements
for loan assistance. RUS has the authority to use consultants
voluntarily funded by borrowers for financial, legal, engineering, and
other technical services. However, all RUS borrowers are eligible to
fund consultant services but are not required to fund consultants.
Need and Use of the Information: RUS will collect information to
determine whether it is appropriate to use a consultant voluntarily
funded by the borrower to expedite a particular borrower application.
If the information were not submitted, RUS would be unable to determine
if using a consultant would accelerate the specific application
process.
Description of Respondents: Not-for-profit institutions; Business
or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 1.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting: On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 2.
Charlene Parker,
Departmental Information Collection Clearance Officer.
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