Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Application Package for VISTA Project Implementation Evaluation Sponsor Survey, 6532 [2020-02154]

Agencies

• Corporation for National and Community Service

[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 24 (Wednesday, February 5, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Page 6532]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-02154]


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CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the 
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment 
Request; Application Package for VISTA Project Implementation 
Evaluation Sponsor Survey

AGENCY: Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS).

ACTION: Notice of information collection; request for comment.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, CNCS 
is proposing a new information collection.

DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the individual and office 
listed in the ADDRESSES section by April 6, 2020.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by the title of the 
information collection activity, by any of the following methods:
    (1) By mail sent to: Corporation for National and Community 
Service, Attention: Craig Kinnear, 250 E Street SW, Washington, DC 
20525.
    (2) By hand delivery or by courier to the CNCS mailroom at the mail 
address given in paragraph (1) above, between 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. 
Eastern Time, Monday through Friday, except federal holidays.
    (3) Electronically through www.regulations.gov.
    Comments submitted in response to this notice may be made available 
to the public through regulations.gov. For this reason, please do not 
include in your comments information of a confidential nature, such as 
sensitive personal information or proprietary information. If you send 
an email comment, your email address will be automatically captured and 
included as part of the comment that is placed in the public docket and 
made available on the internet. Please note that responses to this 
public comment request containing any routine notice about the 
confidentiality of the communication will be treated as public comment 
that may be made available to the public, notwithstanding the inclusion 
of the routine notice.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Craig Kinnear, (202) 606-6708, or by 
email at [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Title of Collection: VISTA Project Implementation Evaluation 
Sponsor Survey.
    OMB Control Number: TBD.
    Type of Review: New.
    Respondents/Affected Public: Businesses and Organizations.
    Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 800.
    Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 200.
    Abstract: To inform CNCS's implementation of its Transformation and 
Sustainability Plan, a CNCS contractor will conduct a study about 
Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) project development, 
management, and sustainability, including member recruitment and 
retention. The survey of approximately 800 VISTA project sponsors, 
which will be administered online, will help to identify implementation 
challenges and best practices among VISTA project sponsors, will be 
used to make program improvements and mitigate potential challenges, 
and will also be used to develop training and technical assistance 
materials to strengthen and enhance VISTA programming. Sponsors will be 
sent individualized emails and survey data will be merged with existing 
administrative data regarding project characteristics.
    Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized 
and/or included in the request for OMB approval. Comments are invited 
on: (a) Whether the 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 collection of information; (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 respondents, including through the use of automated 
collection techniques or other forms of information technology; and (e) 
estimates of capital or start-up costs and costs of operation, 
maintenance, and purchase of services to provide information. Burden 
means the total time, effort, or financial resources expended by 
persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose or provide information 
to or for a Federal agency. This includes the time needed to review 
instructions; to develop, acquire, install and utilize technology and 
systems for the purpose of collecting, validating and verifying 
information, processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and 
providing information; to train personnel and to be able to respond to 
a collection of information, to search data sources, to complete and 
review the collection of information; and to transmit or otherwise 
disclose the information. All written comments will be available for 
public inspection on regulations.gov.

    Dated: January 28, 2020.
Desiree Tucker-Sorini,
Director, AmeriCorps VISTA.
[FR Doc. 2020-02154 Filed 2-4-20; 8:45 am]
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