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AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting
Case Competition Submission Forms
U.S. Agency for International
Development (USAID).
ACTION: Notice of information collection;
request for comment.
AGENCY:
The Office of Learning,
Evaluation, and Research holds an
annual Collaborating, Learning, and
Adapting (CLA) Case Competition,
wherein USAID partners and staff can
submit examples of the way in which
they have employed CLA approaches in
their work. The submissions are posted
online (available to the public),
contributing to agency learning through
these real-world experiences. As
required by the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995, as amended, USAID is
soliciting comments for this collection.
DATES: Comments are due February 26,
2024.
ADDRESSES: Comments submitted in
response to this notice should be
submitted to amkoler@usaid.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Amy Koler, amkoler@usaid.gov, 202–
257–0487.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: USAID, in
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C.
3506(c)(2)(A)), provides the general
public and Federal agencies with an
opportunity to comment on the
proposed survey.
Title of Collection: Collaborating,
Learning, and Adapting Case
Competition.
OMB Control Number: XXXXXX.
Type of Review: A new information
collection.
Respondents/Affected Public: USAID
partners and staff.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 85.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Burden Hours: 837.
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Abstract: When a partner or USAID
staff member decides to participate in
the annual Collaborating, Learning, and
Adapting (CLA) Case Competition, they
must download the CLA Case
Competition Submission Form from
USAID’s Learning Lab website. Through
answering the six question form, they
detail the context in which they were
working, the specific manner in which
they applied a CLA approach (or
approaches) and describe the result of
using that approach. The answers to
these questions, plus a summary and a
photo, constitute their submission to the
competition. When they submit their
case competition submission, they must
also submit the CLA Case Competition
Web Submission Form. This form
captures additional information about
the case, the organization submitting the
form, and their experience with the case
competition, as well as point of contact
information. The CLA Case Competition
Submission Form is shared with the
public through USAID’s Learning Lab
website. The information from the CLA
Case Competition Web Submission form
is kept in a restricted online file.
USAID and the Office of Management
and Budget are particularly interested in
comments that:
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 submissions
of responses.
Tania Alfonso,
PLR/LER, Program Cycle Supervisory Team
Lead, USAID.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Office of the Secretary
[Docket No. USDA–2022–0010]
Agency Information Collection
Activities; USDA Generic Solution for
Solicitation for Funding Opportunity
Announcement
ACTION:
Notice; request for comments.
In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act, the U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA) is
requesting comments concerning
authorization to revise the approved
USDA Generic Solution for Solicitation
for Funding Opportunity
Announcement information collection
request (ICR). This is a revision request.
We are revising the ICR to cover the
additional use across USDA agencies for
grants, agreements, and other Federal
financial assistance programs.
DATES: We will consider comments we
receive by February 26, 2024.
ADDRESSES: We invite you to submit
comments on this notice.
Electronic Submission of Comments.
You may submit comments, identified
by Docket ID: USDA–2022–0010,
electronically through the Federal
eRulemaking Portal: https://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions provided on that site to
submit comments electronically.
Submission of Comments by Mail,
Hand Delivery, or Courier. You may
submit comments to the Office of
Budget and Program Analysis, USDA,
Jamie L. Whitten Building, Room 101–
A, 1400 Independence Ave. SW,
Washington, DC 20250. USDA strongly
encourages commenters to submit
comments electronically. Electronic
submission of comments allows you
maximum time to prepare and submit a
comment and ensures timely receipt by
USDA.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Steve O’Neill, 202–720–0038,
stephen.oneill@usda.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In
compliance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)),
USDA is requesting comments
concerning a authorization to conduct
the USDA Generic Solution for
Solicitation for Funding Opportunity
Announcement ICR. This is a revision
request.
SUMMARY:
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture
(USDA) conducts a pre-clearance
consultation program to provide the
public and Federal agencies an
opportunity to comment on proposed,
revised, and continuing information
collections before submitting them to
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB).
This program helps to ensure
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 can be properly assessed.
USDA is requesting an increase the
approved burden hours to cover grant or
cooperative agreement activity and
funding announcements of new
programs for other types of Federal
financial assistance. USDA requests an
increase in the responses by 880,000,
and the burden hours by 1.5 million
hours. USDA has successfully used the
existing approval for ongoing
information collection activities and is
expecting to well beyond the initial
estimates when the ICR was first
approved by OMB. The increase has
been for the Federal financial
assistances for new programs.
Grants or Cooperative Agreement
Periodically USDA solicits grant
applications on https://grants.gov by
issuing a Funding Opportunity
Announcement, Request for
Applications, Notice of Funding
Announcement, Notice of Solicitation of
Applications, Grants.gov
announcement, or other funding
announcement type. To ensure grants
are awarded to the applicant(s) best
suited to perform the functions of the
grant, applicants are generally required
to submit an application. The first part
of USDA grant applications consists of
submitting the application form(s),
which includes the Standard Form 424,
Application for Federal Assistance and
may include additional standard grant
application forms. The second part of a
grant application usually requires a
technical proposal demonstrating the
applicant’s capabilities in accordance
with a statement of work or selection
criteria and other related information as
specified in the funding announcement.
Following the grant award, the grant
awardee may also be required to provide
progress reports or additional
documents.
Federal Financial Assistance Programs
In addition to grants and agreements,
there are other types of funding
announcements. USDA agencies
announce new Federal financial
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assistance programs in the Federal
Register in a Notice of Funding
Availability (NOFA) or other types of
funding or program announcements.
Generally, the applicants need to apply
for financial assistance under the new
program. The agencies generally require
application forms and related forms for
the applicants can apply for the Federal
financial assistance.
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 OMB under the PRA and
displays a currently valid OMB control
number. In addition, notwithstanding
any other provisions of law, no person
will 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). USDA
intends to seek approval from OMB for
the revision request for this collection of
information for 3 years.
Interested parties are encouraged to
provide comments to the individual
listed in the ADDRESSES section above.
Comments must be written to receive
consideration, and they will be
summarized and included in the request
for OMB approval of the final ICR. The
comments will also become a matter of
public record. Comments responsive to
this request will be made available online, without redaction, as part of the
submission to OMB; therefore, USDA 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 using
appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology, for example,
permitting electronic submission of
responses.
USDA will consider the comments
received and amend the ICR as
appropriate. The final ICR package will
then be submitted to OMB for review
and approval. At that time, USDA will
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issue another Federal Register notice to
announce the submission of the ICR to
OMB and the opportunity to submit
additional comments to OMB.
Agency: USDA Office of the Secretary.
Type of Review: Revision.
OMB Control Number: 0503–0028.
Title of Collection: USDA Generic
Solution for Solicitation for Funding
Opportunity Announcements.
Affected Public: State, Local, and
Tribal Governments; Private Sector—
businesses or other for-profits and notfor-profit institutions.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 1
million.
Frequency: On occasion.
Total Estimated Annual Responses: 1
million.
Estimated Average Time per
Response: 20 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 20 million hours.
Total Estimated Annual Other Cost
Burden: $0.
Stephen O’Neill,
Legislative and Regulatory Division, OBPA–
USDA.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
The Department of Agriculture has
submitted the following information
collection requirement(s) to OMB for
review and clearance under the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
Public Law 104–13. Comments are
requested regarding 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; the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of burden including
the validity of the methodology and
assumptions used; ways to enhance the
quality, utility and clarity of the
information to be collected; and 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.
Comments regarding this information
collection received by January 29, 2024
will be considered. Written comments
and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be
submitted within 30 days of the
publication of this notice on the
following website www.reginfo.gov/
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Office of the Secretary
[Docket No. USDA-2022-0010]
Agency Information Collection Activities; USDA Generic Solution
for Solicitation for Funding Opportunity Announcement
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, the U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA) is requesting comments concerning
authorization to revise the approved USDA Generic Solution for
Solicitation for Funding Opportunity Announcement information
collection request (ICR). This is a revision request. We are revising
the ICR to cover the additional use across USDA agencies for grants,
agreements, and other Federal financial assistance programs.
DATES: We will consider comments we receive by February 26, 2024.
ADDRESSES: We invite you to submit comments on this notice.
Electronic Submission of Comments. You may submit comments,
identified by Docket ID: USDA-2022-0010, electronically through the
Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions provided on that site to submit comments electronically.
Submission of Comments by Mail, Hand Delivery, or Courier. You may
submit comments to the Office of Budget and Program Analysis, USDA,
Jamie L. Whitten Building, Room 101-A, 1400 Independence Ave. SW,
Washington, DC 20250. USDA strongly encourages commenters to submit
comments electronically. Electronic submission of comments allows you
maximum time to prepare and submit a comment and ensures timely receipt
by USDA.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Steve O'Neill, 202-720-0038,
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction
Act (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)), USDA is requesting comments concerning a
authorization to conduct the USDA Generic Solution for Solicitation for
Funding Opportunity Announcement ICR. This is a revision request.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) conducts a pre-clearance
consultation program to provide the public and Federal agencies an
opportunity to comment on proposed, revised, and continuing information
collections before submitting them to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB).
This program helps to ensure 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 can be properly assessed.
USDA is requesting an increase the approved burden hours to cover
grant or cooperative agreement activity and funding announcements of
new programs for other types of Federal financial assistance. USDA
requests an increase in the responses by 880,000, and the burden hours
by 1.5 million hours. USDA has successfully used the existing approval
for ongoing information collection activities and is expecting to well
beyond the initial estimates when the ICR was first approved by OMB.
The increase has been for the Federal financial assistances for new
programs.
Grants or Cooperative Agreement
Periodically USDA solicits grant applications on https://grants.gov
by issuing a Funding Opportunity Announcement, Request for
Applications, Notice of Funding Announcement, Notice of Solicitation of
Applications, Grants.gov announcement, or other funding announcement
type. To ensure grants are awarded to the applicant(s) best suited to
perform the functions of the grant, applicants are generally required
to submit an application. The first part of USDA grant applications
consists of submitting the application form(s), which includes the
Standard Form 424, Application for Federal Assistance and may include
additional standard grant application forms. The second part of a grant
application usually requires a technical proposal demonstrating the
applicant's capabilities in accordance with a statement of work or
selection criteria and other related information as specified in the
funding announcement. Following the grant award, the grant awardee may
also be required to provide progress reports or additional documents.
Federal Financial Assistance Programs
In addition to grants and agreements, there are other types of
funding announcements. USDA agencies announce new Federal financial
assistance programs in the Federal Register in a Notice of Funding
Availability (NOFA) or other types of funding or program announcements.
Generally, the applicants need to apply for financial assistance under
the new program. The agencies generally require application forms and
related forms for the applicants can apply for the Federal financial
assistance.
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 OMB under the PRA
and displays a currently valid OMB control number. In addition,
notwithstanding any other provisions of law, no person will 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). USDA intends to seek approval from
OMB for the revision request for this collection of information for 3
years.
Interested parties are encouraged to provide comments to the
individual listed in the ADDRESSES section above.
Comments must be written to receive consideration, and they will be
summarized and included in the request for OMB approval of the final
ICR. The comments will also become a matter of public record. Comments
responsive to this request will be made available on-line, without
redaction, as part of the submission to OMB; therefore, USDA 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 using appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology, for example, permitting
electronic submission of responses.
USDA will consider the comments received and amend the ICR as
appropriate. The final ICR package will then be submitted to OMB for
review and approval. At that time, USDA will issue another Federal
Register notice to announce the submission of the ICR to OMB and the
opportunity to submit additional comments to OMB.
Agency: USDA Office of the Secretary.
Type of Review: Revision.
OMB Control Number: 0503-0028.
Title of Collection: USDA Generic Solution for Solicitation for
Funding Opportunity Announcements.
Affected Public: State, Local, and Tribal Governments; Private
Sector--businesses or other for-profits and not-for-profit
institutions.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 1 million.
Frequency: On occasion.
Total Estimated Annual Responses: 1 million.
Estimated Average Time per Response: 20 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 20 million hours.
Total Estimated Annual Other Cost Burden: $0.
Stephen O'Neill,
Legislative and Regulatory Division, OBPA-USDA.
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