Information Collection Requirement; Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement; Requests for Reimbursement Under Section 3610 of the CARES Act, 15469-15470 [2021-06010]
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Defense Acquisition Regulations
System
[Docket Number DARS–2020–0047; OMB
Control Number 0750–0003]
Information Collection Requirement;
Defense Federal Acquisition
Regulation Supplement; Requests for
Reimbursement Under Section 3610 of
the CARES Act
Defense Acquisition
Regulations System, Department of
Defense (DoD).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Defense Acquisition
Regulations System has submitted to
OMB for clearance, the following
proposal for collection of information
under the provisions of the Paperwork
Reduction Act.
DATES: Consideration will be given to all
comments received by April 22, 2021.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title and OMB Number: Defense
Federal Acquisition Regulation
Supplement (DFARS), Requests for
Reimbursement under Section 3610 of
the CARES Act; OMB Control Number
0750–0003.
Type of Request: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Obligation to Respond: Required to
obtain or retain benefits.
Affected Public: Businesses or other
for-profit and not-for-profit institutions.
Number of Respondents: 16,224.
Responses per Respondent: 1.5
approximately.
Annual Responses: 24,337.
Average Burden per Response: 63
hours approximately.
Annual Burden Hours: 1,523,053.
Reporting Frequency: On occasion.
Needs and Uses: Section 3610 of the
Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic
Security (CARES) Act (Pub. L. 116–136),
enacted on March 27, 2020, authorizes,
but does not require, contracting officers
to modify contracts and other
agreements, without consideration, to
reimburse contractors for paid leave a
SUMMARY:
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contractor provides to keep its
employees or subcontractors in a ready
state, including to protect the life and
safety of Government and contractor
personnel, during the public health
emergency declared for Coronavirus
Disease (COVID–19).
A contractor request for
reimbursement under section 3610 must
include sufficient documentation to
support the request and enable the
contracting officer to determine whether
a contractor is eligible for
reimbursement under section 3610 and,
if so, the amount of reimbursement to
provide to a contractor. Contractors’
requests for reimbursement under
section 3610 will vary in dollar amount
and complexity; as such, so will the
amount and type of information needed
from a contractor to support their
reimbursement request. Based on this
variation, contracting officers will use
one of three DoD reimbursement
checklists to advise contractors of the
information needed to support their
request. The information described in
the checklists is necessary to collect
from contractors in order to ensure that
contracting officers are able to
determine whether to approve the
request for reimbursement and
expediently modify the affected
contract(s) for the authorized
reimbursement amount.
Section 3610 also requires that any
reimbursements made under its
authority are reduced by the amount of
credit a contractor is allowed under
other provisions of the CARES Act and
division G of the Families First
Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA)
(Pub. L. 116–127). As the status of such
credits may not be known at the time of
reimbursement, DFARS clause 252.243–
7999, Section 3610 Reimbursement
(Deviation 2020–O0021), requires
contractors to notify the contracting
officer of any credits received after
receiving reimbursement under section
3610 and make any repayment, as
necessary, to comply with the
requirements of section 3610. This
information is necessary so that
contracting officers may comply with
the provisions of section 3610.
Comments and recommendations on
the proposed information collection
should be sent to Ms. Susan Minson,
DoD Desk Officer, at Oira_submission@
omb.eop.gov. Please identify the
proposed information collection by DoD
Desk Officer and the Docket ID number
and title of the information collection.
You may also submit comments,
identified by docket number and title,
by the following method: Federal
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instructions for submitting comments.
DoD Clearance Officer: Ms. Angela
James. Requests for copies of the
information collection proposal should
be sent to Ms. James at whs.mcalex.esd.mbx.dd-dod-informationcollections@mail.mil.
Jennifer D. Johnson,
Regulatory Control Officer, Defense
Acquisition Regulations System.
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Army, Corps of
Engineers
Notice of Intent To Prepare a Draft
Integrated Feasibility Report and
Environmental Impact Statement for
the Charleston Peninsula Coastal
Flood Risk Management Study,
Charleston County, South Carolina
Department of the Army, U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, Department of
Defense (DoD).
ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an
Environmental Impact Statement.
AGENCY:
Pursuant to the requirements
of the National Environmental Policy
Act (NEPA) of 1969, as implemented by
the Council on Environmental Quality
Regulations, the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers (USACE), Charleston District,
announces its intent to conduct public
scoping and solicit public comments to
gather information to prepare a draft
Integrated Feasibility Report and
Environmental Impact Statement (IFR/
EIS). In April 2020, USACE released a
draft Integrated Feasibility Report/
Environmental Assessment (IFR/EA)
with a draft mitigated Finding of No
Significant Impacts (FONSI) for the
Charleston Peninsula Coastal Flood Risk
Management Study. After further agency
analysis, review of comments received
on the Draft IFR/EA, and continued
refinement of the study, USACE
concluded that an IFR/EIS with a
Record of Decision (ROD) would fulfill
NEPA compliance for the study.
Comments received during the draft
IFR/EA public comment period will be
considered as part of the scoping
process for the IFR/EIS, and do not need
be resubmitted.
DATES: USACE requests comments
concerning the scope of the alternatives
and identification of relevant
information, studies, and analyses. All
comments must be received by April 22,
2021. The draft IFR/EIS is scheduled to
be released for a minimum 45-day
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public review in late summer of 2021.
The final IFR/EIS is scheduled to be
released in the summer of 2022. The
ROD will be signed no sooner than 30
days after the release of the IFR/EIS.
ADDRESSES: Send written comments to
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Charleston District, ATTN: Planning
and Environmental Branch, 69A Hagood
Avenue, Charleston, SC 29403. Send
comments via email to Chs-PeninsulaStudy@usace.army.mil. Submit
comments online at the website:
www.sac.usace.army.mil/
charlestonpeninsulastudy.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Nancy Parrish, U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, 69A Hagood Avenue,
Charleston, SC 29403, (843) 329–8050,
or Chs-Peninsula-Study@
usace.army.mil.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: USACE is
issuing this notice pursuant to section
102(2)(c) of the National Environmental
Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), as amended,
42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.; and, the Council
on Environmental Quality’s (CEQ)
regulations for implementing the
procedural provisions of NEPA, 43 CFR
parts 1500 through 1508. USACE is
exercising its discretion to employ the
1978 CEQ NEPA regulations to this
ongoing NEPA process pursuant to
CEQ’s Update to the Regulations
Implementing the Procedural Provisions
of the National Environmental Policy
Act, Final Rule, 85 FR 43304, at 43339–
43340 (July 16, 2020).
Background: In April 2020, USACE
released a draft IFR/EA with a draft
mitigated FONSI for the Charleston
Peninsula Coastal Flood Risk
Management Study. After further agency
analysis, review of comments received
on the draft IFR/EA, and continued
refinement of the study, USACE
concluded that NEPA compliance for
the study should instead be completed
by transitioning to an EIS with a ROD.
Portions of the draft EA which remain
pertinent and current will be integrated
into the draft IFR/EIS, as appropriate.
The IFR/EIS culminating in a ROD will
enable the agency to develop a more
comprehensive and detailed analysis of
the study alternatives, cultural, visual,
and natural resource impacts (among
others), and mitigation proposals, as
well as provide enhanced and
additional opportunity for resource
agency and public input to the process.
Purpose and Need for the Proposed
Action: The Charleston Peninsula,
South Carolina, is a highly urbanized,
relatively flat, low-lying coastal
community. It is the historic core and
urban center of the City of Charleston.
The low elevation and tidal connections
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to the Charleston Harbor, and Ashley
and Cooper Rivers, put the Charleston
Peninsula at particular risk of flooding
from coastal storms and render it more
vulnerable to sea level rise and climate
change. The purpose of this proposed
action is to reduce risk to human health
and safety and reduce economic
damages resulting from coastal storm
surge inundation on the Charleston
Peninsula.
Preliminary Proposed Action and
Alternatives: As described in the draft
IFR/EA, multiple types of management
measures (including structural,
nonstructural, and natural or naturebased) were identified to achieve study
objectives, take advantage of identified
opportunities, and avoid constraints.
Management measures were subjected
to an initial evaluation assessment and
combined into the initial range of
alternatives. These were screened
against the study’s objectives and the
four evaluation criteria of the Economic
and Environmental Principles and
Guidelines for Water and Land Related
Resources Implementation Studies,
resulting in two action alternatives, in
addition to the No Action Alternative.
Alternative 2 consists of construction of
a storm surge wall along the perimeter
or nearshore of the peninsula, and
nonstructural measures in select areas of
the peninsula. Alternative 3 included
the measures in Alternative 2 as well as
an additional structural measure, the
wave attenuator. Since the public
release of the draft IFR/EA, Alternative
3 was further refined using modeling
and analysis to reduce uncertainty
associated with the wave attenuator.
This analysis showed that the wave
attenuator does not produce additional
(incremental) inundation reduction
benefits beyond the measures in
Alternative 2. Therefore, Alternative 3 is
not being carried forward into the final
array of alternatives for the IFR/EIS. The
final array is expected to include the No
Action Alternative and an optimized
Alternative 2, now known as the
proposed action.
Brief Summary of Expected Impacts:
Under this proposed action, the storm
surge wall would be strategically
aligned to avoid and minimize impacts
to existing wetland habitat and cultural
resources (substantial avoidance and
minimization of wetlands has already
taken place as part of the refinement of
the proposed action following release of
the draft IFR/EA). The wall would be
strategically located to allow for
continued operation of all ports,
marinas, and the Coast Guard Station.
The wall would tie into high ground as
appropriate, including the existing
Battery Wall. Nonstructural measures
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Defense Acquisition Regulations System
[Docket Number DARS-2020-0047; OMB Control Number 0750-0003]
Information Collection Requirement; Defense Federal Acquisition
Regulation Supplement; Requests for Reimbursement Under Section 3610 of
the CARES Act
AGENCY: Defense Acquisition Regulations System, Department of Defense
(DoD).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Defense Acquisition Regulations System has submitted to
OMB for clearance, the following proposal for collection of information
under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act.
DATES: Consideration will be given to all comments received by April
22, 2021.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title and OMB Number: Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation
Supplement (DFARS), Requests for Reimbursement under Section 3610 of
the CARES Act; OMB Control Number 0750-0003.
Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profit and not-for-profit
institutions.
Number of Respondents: 16,224.
Responses per Respondent: 1.5 approximately.
Annual Responses: 24,337.
Average Burden per Response: 63 hours approximately.
Annual Burden Hours: 1,523,053.
Reporting Frequency: On occasion.
Needs and Uses: Section 3610 of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and
Economic Security (CARES) Act (Pub. L. 116-136), enacted on March 27,
2020, authorizes, but does not require, contracting officers to modify
contracts and other agreements, without consideration, to reimburse
contractors for paid leave a contractor provides to keep its employees
or subcontractors in a ready state, including to protect the life and
safety of Government and contractor personnel, during the public health
emergency declared for Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19).
A contractor request for reimbursement under section 3610 must
include sufficient documentation to support the request and enable the
contracting officer to determine whether a contractor is eligible for
reimbursement under section 3610 and, if so, the amount of
reimbursement to provide to a contractor. Contractors' requests for
reimbursement under section 3610 will vary in dollar amount and
complexity; as such, so will the amount and type of information needed
from a contractor to support their reimbursement request. Based on this
variation, contracting officers will use one of three DoD reimbursement
checklists to advise contractors of the information needed to support
their request. The information described in the checklists is necessary
to collect from contractors in order to ensure that contracting
officers are able to determine whether to approve the request for
reimbursement and expediently modify the affected contract(s) for the
authorized reimbursement amount.
Section 3610 also requires that any reimbursements made under its
authority are reduced by the amount of credit a contractor is allowed
under other provisions of the CARES Act and division G of the Families
First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) (Pub. L. 116-127). As the status
of such credits may not be known at the time of reimbursement, DFARS
clause 252.243-7999, Section 3610 Reimbursement (Deviation 2020-O0021),
requires contractors to notify the contracting officer of any credits
received after receiving reimbursement under section 3610 and make any
repayment, as necessary, to comply with the requirements of section
3610. This information is necessary so that contracting officers may
comply with the provisions of section 3610.
Comments and recommendations on the proposed information collection
should be sent to Ms. Susan Minson, DoD Desk Officer, at
[email protected]. Please identify the proposed information
collection by DoD Desk Officer and the Docket ID number and title of
the information collection.
You may also submit comments, identified by docket number and
title, by the following method: Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://
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www.regulations.gov. Follow the instructions for submitting comments.
DoD Clearance Officer: Ms. Angela James. Requests for copies of the
information collection proposal should be sent to Ms. James at [email protected].
Jennifer D. Johnson,
Regulatory Control Officer, Defense Acquisition Regulations System.
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