Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed eCollection eComments Requested; New Collection, 62324 [2020-21820]

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• Department of Justice

[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 192 (Friday, October 2, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Page 62324]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-21820]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

[OMB Number 1122-NEW]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed eCollection 
eComments Requested; New Collection

AGENCY: Office on Violence Against Women, Department of Justice.

ACTION: 60-Day notice.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women 
(OVW) will be submitting the following information collection request 
to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in 
accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.

DATES: Comments are encouraged and will be accepted for 60 days until 
December 1, 2020.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Written comments and/or suggestion 
regarding the items contained in this notice, especially the estimated 
public burden and associated response time, should be directed to Cathy 
Poston, Office on Violence Against Women, at 202-514-5430 or 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Written comments and suggestions from the 
public and affected agencies concerning the proposed collection of 
information are encouraged. Your comments should address one or more of 
the following four points:
    (1) 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;
    (2) 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;
    (3) Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to 
be collected; and
    (4) 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.

Overview of This Information Collection

    (1) Type of Information Collection: New collection
    (2) Title of the Form/Collection: OVW Consolidated Progress Report 
Template
    (3) Agency form number, if any, and the applicable component of the 
Department of Justice sponsoring the collection: Form Number: 1122-NEW. 
U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women (OVW)
    (4) Affected public who will be asked or required to respond, as 
well as a brief abstract: Primary: The affected public includes 
grantees and subgrantees of formula and discretionary grant programs 
authorized under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) of 1994, and 
reauthorized and amended by the Violence Against Women Act of 2000, the 
Violence Against Women Act of 2005, and the Violence Against Women Act 
of 2013 and administered by OVW. These include states, territories, 
Tribes or units of local government, institutions of higher education 
including colleges and universities, tribal organizations, federal, 
state, tribal, territorial or local courts or court-based programs, 
state sexual assault coalitions, state domestic violence coalitions; 
territorial domestic violence or sexual assault coalitions, tribal 
coalitions, community-based organizations, and non-profit, 
nongovernmental organizations.
    This submission is to seeking to consolidate previously approved 
collections (OMB Numbers 1122-0003, 1122-0022, 1122-0005, 1122-0006, 
1122-0007, 1122-0008, 122-0009, 1122-0010, 1122-0011, 1122-0012, 1122-
0013, 1122-0016, 1122-0017, 1122-0018, 1122-0021, 1122-0023, 1122-0024, 
1122-0026, 1122-0027, and 1122-0028) under one, new OMB number, so as 
to align with a new data collection platform that removes OVW's need to 
have separate and distinct forms for collecting performance data. Per 
GPRA and subsequent legislation, OMB's Uniform Administrative 
Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal 
Awards, and OVW's monitoring policies and procedures, OVW requires 
semi-annual performance reports from its grantees under discretionary 
programs and initiatives, as well as annual reports from grantees and 
subgrantees under two formula grant programs. Performance reports 
collect Congressionally mandated data as well as numeric and narrative 
information on the grantee/subgrantee's progress toward project goals. 
There is a great deal of consistency across the current forms in terms 
of data collected; however; because until now the technology on which 
OVW's grants management system operated required each data collection 
to exist as a distinct form, an OMB number was obtained and routinely 
updated for each form. That system, Office of Justice Programs' Grants 
Management System, has been retired and a new grants management system, 
JustGrants, is being implemented in October 2020. The new system allows 
OVW to compile a library of performance questions that can be selected 
and sequenced to match each program's current OMB-approved form. Thus, 
the requested OMB number is to cover OVW's performance reporting 
question library, though grantees will only be required to answer a 
subset of the available questions.
    (5) An estimate of the total number of respondents and the amount 
of time estimated for an average respondent to respond/reply: At any 
given time, there are approximately 3,000 grantees and approximately 
3,000 subgrantees subject to the above-mentioned reporting 
requirements, and there is some degree of overlap among grantees and 
subgrantees, meaning some organizations have multiple, active OVW 
awards on which they are required to report. It is estimated that it 
will take the approximately 6000 grantees and subgrantees 60 minutes to 
complete an annual or semiannual progress reporting form.
    (6) An estimate of the total public burden (in hours) associated 
with the collection: The total annual hour burden for OVW grantees and 
subgrantees to complete the annual or semiannual progress reporting 
form is 6000.
    If additional information is required contact: Melody Braswell, 
Deputy Clearance Officer, United States Department of Justice, Justice 
Management Division, Policy and Planning Staff, Two Constitution 
Square, 145 N Street NE, 3E, 405B, Washington, DC 20530.

    Dated: September 29, 2020.
Melody Braswell,
Department Clearance Officer, PRA, U.S. Department of Justice.
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