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A grantee provides (1) a final report
that summarizes the technical project
reports, (2) an evaluation report, and (3)
a closeout financial report at the end of
the grant period project. These final
reports are due no later than 90 days
after the end of the 12-month
performance period. Federal Mine
Safety and Health Act of 1977 section
103(h) authorizes this information
collection. See 30 U.S.C. 813(h).
This proposed information collection
is subject to the PRA. A Federal agency
generally cannot conduct or sponsor a
collection of information, and the public
is generally not required to respond to
an information collection, unless it is
approved by the OMB under the PRA
and displays a currently valid OMB
Control Number. In addition,
notwithstanding any other provisions of
law, no person shall generally be subject
to penalty for failing to comply with a
collection of information if the
collection of information does not
display a valid Control Number. See 5
CFR 1320.5(a) and 1320.6. For
additional information, see the related
notice published in the Federal Register
on June 12, 2017 (82 FR 26951).
Interested parties are encouraged to
send comments to the OMB, Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs at
the address shown in the ADDRESSES
section within thirty (30) days of
publication of this notice in the Federal
Register. In order to help ensure
appropriate consideration, comments
should mention OMB ICR Reference
Number 201711–1219–001. The OMB is
particularly interested in comments
that:
• Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the agency, 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 submission of
responses.
Agency: DOL–MSHA.
Title of Collection: Mine Safety and
Health Administration Grant
Performance Reports.
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OMB ICR Reference Number: 201711–
1219–001.
Affected Public: State, Local, and
Tribal Governments.
Total Estimated Number of
Respondents: 60.
Total Estimated Number of
Responses: 300.
Total Estimated Annual Time Burden:
750 hours.
Total Estimated Annual Other Costs
Burden: $53.
Dated: March 27, 2018.
Michel Smyth,
Departmental Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2018–06549 Filed 3–30–18; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Office of Workers’ Compensation
Programs
Division of Coal Mine Workers’
Compensation; Proposed Collection;
Comment Request: Request To Be
Selected as Payee (CM–910)
ACTION:
Notice.
Division of Coal Mine Workers’
Compensation, Office of Workers’
Compensation Programs, DOL.
SUMMARY: The Department of Labor, as
part of its continuing effort to reduce
paperwork and respondent burden,
conducts a pre-clearance consultation
program to provide the general public
and Federal agencies with an
opportunity to comment on proposed
and/or continuing collections of
information in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA95). This program helps to ensure
that requested data can be provided in
the desired format, reporting burden
(time and financial resources) is
minimized, collection instruments are
clearly understood, and the impact of
collection requirements on respondents
can be properly assessed.
Currently, the Office of Workers’
Compensation Programs is soliciting
comments concerning the proposed
collection: Request to be Selected as
Payee (CM–910). A copy of the
proposed information collection request
can be obtained by contacting the office
listed below in the ADDRESSES section of
this notice.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted to the office listed in the
ADDRESSES section below on or before
April 2, 2018.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
by mail, delivery service or by hand to
Ms. Yoon Ferguson, U.S. Department of
Labor, 200 Constitution Ave. NW, Room
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S–3323, Washington, DC 20210; by fax
to (202) 354–9647; or by Email to
ferguson.yoon@dol.gov. Please use only
one method of transmission for
comments (mail/delivery, fax, or Email).
Please note that comments submitted
after the comment period will not be
considered.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background: The Black Lung
Benefits Act (BLBA), 30 U.S.C. 901 et
seq., provides for the payment of
benefits to coal miners who are totally
disabled due to pneumoconiosis and to
certain survivors of the miner. If a
beneficiary is incapable of handling his
or her affairs, the person or institution
responsible for their care is required to
apply to receive the benefit payments on
the beneficiary’s behalf. The CM–910 is
the form completed by representative
payee applicants. The payee applicant
completes the form and either mails it
or files it electronically through a web
portal for evaluation by the district
office that has jurisdiction over the
beneficiary’s claim file. Regulations 20
CFR 725.505–513 require the collection
of this information. This information
collection is currently approved for use
through June 30, 2018.
II. Review Focus: The Department of
Labor is particularly interested in
comments which:
* Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the agency, 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.
III. Current Actions: The Department
of Labor seeks approval for the
extension of this currently-approved
information collection in order to carry
out its responsibility to evaluate an
applicant’s ability to be a representative
payee. If the Program were not able to
screen representative payee applicants,
the beneficiaries’ best interests would
not be served.
Agency: Office of Workers’
Compensation Programs.
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Type of Review: Extension.
Title: Request to be Selected as Payee.
OMB Number: 1240–0010.
Agency Number: CM–910.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households; Business or other for profit;
Not-for-profit institutions.
Total Respondents: 250.
Total Annual Responses: 250.
Average Time per Response: 15
minutes.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 63
hours.
Frequency: On occasion.
Total Burden Cost (capital/startup):
$0.
Total Burden Cost (operating/
maintenance): $132.50.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for Office of
Management and Budget approval of the
information collection request; they will
also become a matter of public record.
Dated: March 13, 2018.
Yoon Ferguson,
Agency Clearance Officer, Office of Workers’
Compensation Programs, U.S. Department of
Labor.
[FR Doc. 2018–05624 Filed 3–30–18; 8:45 am]
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LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION
Notice of Revisions to Performance
Area Four of LSC’s Performance
Criteria
Legal Services Corporation.
Notice of revisions to
guidelines.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
To provide grantees with the
most effective guidance, in 2018 the
Legal Services Corporation revised
Performance Area Four to refine and
expand the areas of inquiry to focus on
those criteria for which LSC has found
the most deficiencies, particularly
Criteria 1 (Board Governance), 4
(Financial Administration), and 7
(General Resource Development). The
2018 revisions codify the work of LSC
staff with numerous grantees and
provide evidence-based guidance to
recipients on how to run a highperforming nonprofit organization.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Lynn Jennings, Vice President for Grants
Management, Legal Services
Corporation, 3333 K Street NW,
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SUMMARY:
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performancearea4@lsc.gov.
LSC’s
Performance Criteria indicate that legal
services programs should be led and
managed effectively with high-quality
governance, administrative systems,
procedures, and policies. Good
leadership and strong internal
operations increase the likelihood of
effective program services for clients.
Over the past several years, LSC has
observed some areas of weakness in
grantee governance through
performance quality visits, compliance
reviews, and Office of Inspector General
(OIG) visits. The 2018 revisions codify
the work of LSC staff with numerous
grantees and provide evidence-based
guidance to recipients on how to run a
high-performing nonprofit organization.
Since 2010, LSC’s Office of Program
Performance has conducted 133
Program Quality Visits of 124 grantees.
LSC issued 1,901 Tier One 1
recommendations across the reports
summarizing those visits. Of the 1,901
Tier One recommendations, 695
recommendations—36.5%, the most of
any performance area—pertained to
Performance Area 4. From 2011 to 2016,
LSC’s Office of Compliance and
Enforcement conducted 111 Compliance
Reviews of 106 grantees. LSC issued
more than 1,200 Required Corrective
Actions (RCAs) related to both
regulatory and fiscal issues.
Approximately 25% of the RCAs
identified deficiencies in the grantees’
financial administration. Additionally,
OIG conducted 41 A–50 reviews
between June 2012 and September 2017.
As a result of those reviews, the OIG
made 160 referrals to OCE. The referrals
covered issues related to timekeeping,
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
1 According to LSC’s Office of Program
Performance Procedure Manual:
• Tier One Recommendations are those
recommendations that are determined to be
significant and will be included in the next Request
for Proposal to the grantee.
• Tier One Recommendations are those that if
addressed, have the potential for significantly
improving program quality and/or program
performance within the short term, i.e., two years.
A Tier One Recommendation must:
• be stated in simple straightforward terms such
that there is no doubt by the program that a
response is required; and
• have an objective, the value of which equals or
outweighs any additional burden that the
recommendation imposes on the program (does not
apply to statutory or regulatory requirements).
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deficiencies in policies and procedures,
cost allocation, and internal controls.
This is the background against which
LSC evaluated the existing criteria for
Performance Area 4. The statistics above
gave LSC valuable information about
which areas of grantee administration,
leadership, and governance needed
more rigorous evaluation.
These Performance Criteria are
guidelines for ensuring high program
quality. They are not requirements.
They reflect best practices to which
programs should aspire and which they
should, to the extent possible and
consistent with program resources,
attempt to achieve. These revisions do
not reflect a change in the purposes of
the Performance Criteria stated in the
Introduction to the 2007 revised
version. The purposes of the
Performance Criteria are twofold. First,
the Performance Criteria ‘‘guide LSC’s
assessments of program performance
generally and in the competitive grants
process.’’ Second, the Performance
Criteria serve as a ‘‘useful framework for
internal program self-evaluations,
planning, and program development, as
well as external peer reviews and expert
assessments by other funding sources.’’
LSC will begin using the revised
Performance Area 4 on June 1, 2018.
LSC management recognizes that it may
take time, guidance, and experience for
all grantees to adjust to the revisions.
LSC will, therefore, provide training and
forums to discuss the implementation of
the changes. When conducting program
assessments, LSC staff will take the
scope of the revisions and each
program’s capacity into consideration
when making recommendations.
As the table below indicates, LSC
reorganized the order of the
Performance Criteria. The current
Criterion 3—Overall Management and
Administration—includes a limited
review of a grantee’s technology
infrastructure and administration. To
more accurately reflect the role
technology plays in the daily operations
of an organization and in providing
efficient and effective client services,
LSC proposed creating a separate, new
technology criterion, Criterion 3:
Technology Infrastructure and
Administration. The criterion for
Overall Administration and
Management would now be Criterion 6,
with Internal Communication being
folded into the proposed Criterion 6.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Office of Workers' Compensation Programs
Division of Coal Mine Workers' Compensation; Proposed Collection;
Comment Request: Request To Be Selected as Payee (CM-910)
ACTION: Notice.
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AGENCY: Division of Coal Mine Workers' Compensation, Office of Workers'
Compensation Programs, DOL.
SUMMARY: The Department of Labor, as part of its continuing effort to
reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a pre-clearance
consultation program to provide the general public and Federal agencies
with an opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing
collections of information in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995 (PRA95). This program helps to ensure that requested data
can be provided in the desired format, reporting burden (time and
financial resources) is minimized, collection instruments are clearly
understood, and the impact of collection requirements on respondents
can be properly assessed.
Currently, the Office of Workers' Compensation Programs is
soliciting comments concerning the proposed collection: Request to be
Selected as Payee (CM-910). A copy of the proposed information
collection request can be obtained by contacting the office listed
below in the ADDRESSES section of this notice.
DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the office listed in the
ADDRESSES section below on or before April 2, 2018.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by mail, delivery service or by hand
to Ms. Yoon Ferguson, U.S. Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Ave.
NW, Room S-3323, Washington, DC 20210; by fax to (202) 354-9647; or by
Email to [email protected]. Please use only one method of
transmission for comments (mail/delivery, fax, or Email). Please note
that comments submitted after the comment period will not be
considered.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background: The Black Lung Benefits Act (BLBA), 30 U.S.C. 901 et
seq., provides for the payment of benefits to coal miners who are
totally disabled due to pneumoconiosis and to certain survivors of the
miner. If a beneficiary is incapable of handling his or her affairs,
the person or institution responsible for their care is required to
apply to receive the benefit payments on the beneficiary's behalf. The
CM-910 is the form completed by representative payee applicants. The
payee applicant completes the form and either mails it or files it
electronically through a web portal for evaluation by the district
office that has jurisdiction over the beneficiary's claim file.
Regulations 20 CFR 725.505-513 require the collection of this
information. This information collection is currently approved for use
through June 30, 2018.
II. Review Focus: The Department of Labor is particularly
interested in comments which:
* Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency,
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.
III. Current Actions: The Department of Labor seeks approval for
the extension of this currently-approved information collection in
order to carry out its responsibility to evaluate an applicant's
ability to be a representative payee. If the Program were not able to
screen representative payee applicants, the beneficiaries' best
interests would not be served.
Agency: Office of Workers' Compensation Programs.
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Type of Review: Extension.
Title: Request to be Selected as Payee.
OMB Number: 1240-0010.
Agency Number: CM-910.
Affected Public: Individuals or households; Business or other for
profit; Not-for-profit institutions.
Total Respondents: 250.
Total Annual Responses: 250.
Average Time per Response: 15 minutes.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 63 hours.
Frequency: On occasion.
Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): $0.
Total Burden Cost (operating/maintenance): $132.50.
Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized
and/or included in the request for Office of Management and Budget
approval of the information collection request; they will also become a
matter of public record.
Dated: March 13, 2018.
Yoon Ferguson,
Agency Clearance Officer, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs,
U.S. Department of Labor.
[FR Doc. 2018-05624 Filed 3-30-18; 8:45 am]
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