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GENERAL SERVICES
ADMINISTRATION
[OMB Control No. 3090–XXXX; Docket No.
2024–0001; Sequence No. 2]
Information Collection; Actual Place of
Residence Determination (GSA Form
5047)
Office of Human Resource
Management, Division of Human
Capital Policy and Programs, General
Services Administration (GSA).
ACTION: Notice of request for comments
regarding a request for a new OMB
clearance.
AGENCY:
Under the provisions of the
Paperwork Reduction Act, the
Regulatory Secretariat Division will be
submitting to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) a request to review
and approve a new information
collection requirement.
DATES: Submit comments on or before
April 22, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments
identified by Information Collection
3090–XXXX; ‘‘Actual Place of Residence
Determination (GSA Form 5047)’’ to:
https://www.regulations.gov. Submit
comments via the Federal eRulemaking
portal by searching for ‘‘Information
Collection 3090–XXXX; ‘‘Actual Place
of Residence Determination (GSA Form
5047).’’ Select the link ‘‘Submit a
Comment’’ that corresponds with
‘‘Information Collection 3090–XXXX;
Actual Place of Residence
Determination (GSA Form 5047).’’
Follow the instructions provided at the
‘‘Submit a Comment’’ screen. Please
include your name, company name (if
any), and ‘‘Information Collection 3090–
XXXX; Actual Place of Residence
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your attached document. If your
comment cannot be submitted using
https://www.regulations.gov, call or
email the points of contact in the FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of
this document for alternate instructions.
Instructions: Please submit comments
only and cite ‘‘Information Collection
3090–XXXX; Actual Place of Residence
Determination (GSA Form 5047),’’ in all
correspondence related to this
collection. Comments received generally
will be posted without change to
https://www.regulations.gov, including
any personal and/or business
confidential information provided. To
confirm receipt of your comment(s),
please check www.regulations.gov,
approximately two-to-three days after
submission to verify posting.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Colin C. Bennett, Human Resources
Specialist, Office of Human Resources
Management, Division of Human
Capital Policy and Programs, at
telephone 240–418–6822 or via email to
colin.bennett@gsa.gov for clarification of
content.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
A. Purpose
The General Services Administration
(GSA) routinely hires, reassigns,
promotes and transfers Federal
employees to duty stations in foreign
areas (i.e., locations outside of the
United States, its territories and
possessions). For this staffing activity,
GSA pays for the cost of relocation,
known as ‘‘permanent change of
station’’ relocation benefits (see further
5 U.S.C. 5722(a) and 5724(d)).
Relocation benefits include the cost of
travel and transportation, as well as the
cost of shipment of household goods to
a new post outside of the Continental
United States. In addition, most
overseas employees are eligible for
‘‘renewal agreement travel,’’ a travel
reimbursement authority that allows
agency to leverage funds to pay for
periodic travel back to the United States
between overseas tours of duty for paid
time off, known as ‘‘home leave’’ (see
further, 5 U.S.C. 5728(a) and 5 U.S.C.
6305(a)).
For an agency to calculate the costs of
relocation as well as renewal agreement
travel, both federal travel laws require
that the employee (or appointee)
designate an ‘‘actual place of
residence.’’ When such residence
cannot be easily determined by the job
candidate, the agency must instead
make an administrative residency
determination on behalf of the
employee. The new GSA Form 5047
will help agency representatives (i.e.
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human resources specialists) make a
determination of the actual place of
residence based upon documents and
input provided by the job candidates,
considered members of the public.
Typically, agencies use the definition
of ‘‘residence’’ from the Immigration
and Naturalization Act of 1952, codified
at 5 U.S.C. 1101(33), which defines
‘‘residence’’ as a ‘‘place of general
abode’’ or the ‘‘principal, actual
dwelling place in fact, without regard to
intent.’’ While for most employees (or
appointees) the determination of an
actual place of residence in the U.S. is
typically straightforward, residency may
be unclear if the appointee is already
overseas and has been overseas for a
long period of time. Long-term posts
overseas are often characterized by the
lease (or even sale) of the employee’s
primary U.S. dwelling, changes in the
declared U.S. voting registration
location, and/or changes in the state and
local income or property tax
jurisdictions.
To more effectively administer
permanent change of station relocation
as well as renewal agreement travel, the
General Services Administration (GSA)
has created a new agency form, GSA
Form 5047, Actual Place of Residence
Determination. This form will allow
employees, job candidates, and the
agency’s human resources specialists, to
more easily determine the actual place
of residence by working through a series
of guided questions on the form’s
worksheet. Following completion of the
form’s worksheet, the employee,
candidate, and human resources
specialist can summarize the
determination on the form’s front cover
sheet.
The questions on the worksheet
portion of the form are drawn from
governing administrative law
authorities, primary Comptroller
General decisions such as: Rafael
Arroyo, decision B–197205 (May 16,
1980), decision B–157548 (Sept. 13,
1965), 45 Comp. Gen. 136, and decision
B–140748 (Oct. 29, 1959), 39 Comp.
Gen. 337. Under these administrative
law authorities, the place of actual
residence is established at the time of
appointment or transfer (see also
decision B–136029, June 24, 1958, 37
Comp. Gen. 846). Use of this form is
therefore recommended for all overseas
appointments, transfers or
reassignments and, in particular, those
personnel selections of job candidates
via agency transfer employed by a
different U.S. Government agency and
already present overseas.
Use of this form will allow GSA to
comply with the Federal Travel
Regulations, which require the
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administrative determination and
documentation of the actual place of
residence for all overseas appointments
or placements (see further 41 CFR 302–
3.509). In addition, this form will also
allow the agency to leverage the renewal
agreement travel authority (i.e., the
Home Leave Act of 1954, 68 Stat. 1008)
only when appropriate and not in the
rare cases of local foreign hires who
have severed all jurisdictional nexuses
with the U.S.
Significantly, this residency
determination form can also be used to
determine eligibility for the following
other overseas allowance and benefit
authorities: (a) the 45-day annual leave
accrual authority (5 U.S.C. 6304(b)), (b)
home leave (5 U.S.C. 6305(a)) and (c)
living quarters allowance (5 U.S.C.
5923(a)(2)). Under each of these
authorities, local hires who currently
live in foreign areas are excluded from
benefits eligibility unless they can
demonstrate that foreign residence is
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temporary, is only pursuant to
continuous employment overseas with
the U.S. Government (or other U.S.
interest), and finally, there exists a
contractual transportation agreement
that provides for the eventual return of
the job candidate to a specificallyidentified place of actual residence
within the U.S.
B. Annual Reporting Burden
Respondents: 25 per year.
Responses per Respondent: 1.
Total Annual Responses: 25.
Hours per Response: 1.
Total Burden Hours: 25.
C. Public Comments
Public comments are encouraged, and
are particularly invited, on: (a) whether
this collection of information is
necessary, (b) whether it will have
practical utility, (c) whether our
estimate of the public burden of this
collection of information is accurate
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(and based on valid assumptions and
methodology), (d) whether or not there
are ways to enhance the new form’s
utility and clarity of the information to
be collected, and (e) whether or not
there might be ways in to minimize the
data collection burden through the use
of information technology.
Obtaining Copies of Proposals: We
have provided a copy of the proposed
draft GSA Form 5047 at the end of this
notice below the signature block. A
copy of the proposed draft form can
alternatively be obtained through GSA’s
Regulatory Secretariat Division by
calling (202) 501–4755 or emailing
GSARegSec@gsa.gov. Please cite OMB
Control No. 3090–XXXX, Actual Place
of Residency Determination (GSA Form
5047), in all correspondence.
Lois Mandell,
Director, Regulatory Secretariat Division,
General Services Administration.
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GSA Form 5047
ACTUAL PLACE OF RESIDENCE DETERMINATION
SECTION A •COVERSHEET
Name of Candidate
First
BACKGROUND. An employee's "actual place of residence in the U.~,i::;~fdetermined by an
appointing agency,. is a statutory requirern~mt that determines eligibilify'.Jor "permanent change
of station" (PCS) relocation costs (5 U.S.C. §§ 5722 and 5724(d))::Qh'c:l'~f:t~~ Administrative
Expenses Act of 1946 and home leav.e travel cost reirnbursernetlf(also krt~'W!) as "renewal
agreement travel," 5 u.s.c. § 5728) under the Horne Leav~<~ct of 1954.
Note: This residency determination form can also be L!.~,a t~ determine eligibilityif~h (a) the
45-day annual leave accrual authority (5 U.S.C. § 63()~(0)), fromJh'$ Annual and S16k Leave
Act of 1951., (b) home .leave (5 U.S.C, § 6305(a)) and'.(~l:,living,91;1arters allowance (5 U.S.C. §
5923(a)(2)), both from the Overseas Allowances Act of:1/$69{/<
' '
'<' i))\\~\:,-,\
'
Under GSA Order 5730.1, usually the "ac:;t!il~(place of residerl¢:~.i: is the principal, actual
dwelling place in fact, without regard to int:e'ot;'. ~t:;thtJime of s~i~l::tion for appointment or
transfer. (See 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (a)(33)). Thi,it!Jle 'is'i:ii~~J~.r.candiaeites who are selected
while residing within the U.S.
For candidates residing inJfii':tJ;l:.:..~d the ~'l,~~/~f~ppoint;ent or transfer, the actual
place of residence is [Wgiksheef'Nq, Requir~g]:
',,,''
r• ,,''
' '\I
City
For Depai:trt!'i~{\¾/~~(f!!'!~:i~tj~idates residing in a foreign area at the time of
selecti91(61 transfer,'tti.!)~ctuai'.~\~ce of residence determination is made as follows:
For e~;j~:,
selected f;g~the Department of Defense, use the ''Actual Residence at Time
of Appoirf i:ltltt Line ltemif of OoD Form 1617, TrsnsferofCivi/ian Employees Outside of
CONUS. Urid~;~·;QSA lort
·• ding travel policy (i.e., former 41 C.F.R. § 302-1.12(o)(3)(iii),
1997 edition) tlii~!~<~,. , red a continuous designation unless this designation was in error
or later circurnstan~/ifentitle a different determination. The residence listed on the DoD Form
1617 is [WorksheefNot Required]:
State (PostalAbbreviation)
City
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When Worksheet Requited:
For <:andrdates ft<>m ooores@ing]n a foreign area atthe time of selection 6ytransfer,
nm
•who ~o
have the Do0 form 1617.-"!ail8:ble, as well .-s candidates fromot~rfi!deral
agencies (e.g., C()mmerce Department, State ~rtment, USAID), GSAmust make an
administrative determination of the actwil place ofresidence. Use this form's
worksheet·todtrterminet.hemQstappropriateactual placeofresid~mc::e.
The~nei:any «J~flizedt~ f9rthe"a<:t~l pl~~ Qf resld~m~0 Jest
a~encies is basee1T1Ployrnent'1istory;:
(4) lndi\iidtJal orfamily assi>eiatlon With an area:·
(5) Exercising the privileges and duties.
ship; sue
<>q:>roperty la)(f3S; and
. .. ...... ... .. . . ... .... .
(S)Plaee ofbirth! education,and marriage
• gofpaying state income,
•
Baseido11 eva1uatk>1ti>faiit11 • •
ofthe worksheet below, th
, and foltoWing C'Oinpl~bn
is:
•
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SECTIONS
ACTUAL PLACE QF RES.IPeNCe VllQRKSAEET
Based on RafaelAiroyo:1Comptroller Genetaf decision B-197205 {1980),and other
a~mi11istrative lavvsouri;es,Co11siderthepreponder.an® oftheevidence .(from l?elow) ifthere
are multiple possible places of residence"
Name of Candidate
. Cu
Aug~2~, 1955,. s.-12·
Gen.210
City
Cartthis residenee·beconsidete<:1tempo
• (;ov.ernmenttluties'? lfYesi disregard this
Yes
No
Note± If the current loc:a
warethatthe .appointee may nott?e
eligib!efC)f{oreign 11111
ayannua[leaveapc:~1111; ho~ leave,
renewal agreement
authorities an r~ufre current
residents of foreign
residence onlytemporarily, pursuarit only to
contlnuotJs U
ymeot. and Sllpported bY,ii ctocumented transpprtation
agte:eii'lent
that.stipulltes eventual return transportation ti) an
anno
tl'!eU:$. \M'ile B--1~7~. Novell'lller 4, 1$55,·~
C()
e r$ciprocity to Job ~ntlidll\tes: appointed by transfer
from
circumstance$, such appointees are insteaid foreign "locaf'
hires,
~nt jurisclictional con11e¢t1ons to the Uniteci .States al'ld are
unable
requitements>ofthose authorities (i,e. continu()us u.s;
employmeot
t tC) a documented tJiinsportatjon l!lgree:merit}. In situatk)n~
where a. docu
rtatlon agl'.eel'ti&nt\lVas known.toexi$t, and has l:)een
stibsequentty I
be located, the job candidate's resume can be used instead to
sup1X,1r,t '¢1:>.ntin.UQµs: eo,pk>yme,rt OVfilf'$eas by tbe U.$,Go~rnflll9nt an~the ~nsportati<,n
agreement re:quire:mentcan be supfi<)rte:d by obtaining a copy of the origlnai retoeation
P!11ckage used to Slilnd. ttieJ1>Q <:a11di~.ate over$tras by the !()sing agen~y uhderthe
Administrative Expenses,Act of 1946.
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Residence ProVided in Agency Records
(e.i;t, Mailing Address forW-2 and Leave andEamings Statements)
B-125293, October 28, 1955, 35 Comp.. Gen; 244
Country (U.S. or Foreign)
State (if u:S.)
City
Historical Residence While Employed
(i.e,, r~idel'I~ during ttle prior5year$)
B-125293, October 28, 1955; 35 c:on,p'. Gen. 244
Country (U.S. or Foreign)
Fa
.·
S-140748", 39 Comp, GEi
ere you maintain a
burial plotl'lndlor
Does youffar'nily. (e:g.,
historical or affinltyt:?Yes
No
5. If you currentrypay U;S. State tax and/or local tax, whatstate and/or localjurisdlction?
State
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Local Jurisdiction (County; City, etc,)
6. .Do you pay income tax to a foreign country?. .
. No
7. lfyQu. payrf'leome taxto aforelgncountry, what country'?
Long-standing connections through birth, where y<:>u spent youryoutb, education {te~,
second~ry schooling arid/orcolleg~). andfor maniage
•'?"
B-15754$, 45 comp. Gim, 136 (1985)
D<> yot1 identify with a particular u .$; S~te ofTerritory due to aJ~~
connection, such as through birth, marriage and/or education,? ,ff''
Yes
No
If yes, what State or Territory:
Date
lnfor
purs1.1antfo federal law, in pal'tk:ular: 5 U.$.C; § 3301
[rules
Meli;\] and 5U,S.C:§: 3302[rutes for the competitive
servi
facilitates th~ correct benefits determination decisions
U;S.C. § 6304(b)), home leave and related renewal
forth
agree '
305(
nd 5 U.$.C, § 5728(a)), and permanent change of
statio
, emd 5724(d)); Disclosure ofinforrnatic:m reltted to the
candidate
datory undet thE!se authorities so thalthe correct payand
appointment; transfer, orreassignmentto a foreign area. Use
benefits can
ofthis infor
lied by Civil Service regulations found Within 5 U.s.c. Part 630 and
the Federal Ttav
•1ations under 41 C.F.R Part 302. The information collected via this
formwill Qnly be used bythe GSA Offic:e offluman Resources Ma:nagementand the
11Hnp10,iee's newsupetvisot under the provisions of5 u.s.c'. § 552a(b)(3) [routine use]. Such
information is not releasable to the public dye to 5 U.S;C. § 552(b)(6) 11i,d will be stored
within the Office of Personnel Management's Electronic Personnel Folder(eOPf) application,
tinder Systemof Record Notice (SORN) "OPM/GOVT-1" at 77 FR 73694(December 11,
2012). An employee's failure to provide the inforrnation requested on this form mayiead to the
erroneous paymentof eornpensatiort and benefits, t)t the non-pa~nt ofeligible
compensation and bene,fits.
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Instructions for Human Resources Offices
1. Interview the eanclidate and collect the OoO Fotm 1617 (if applicable) and demographic
informetion.
2, Complete the Section B Worksneet (if necessary).
3. Based upon tne totality of the evidence collected and all available facts (B-157548; Sept.
13; 1965;,iis comp. Gen. 136), document via tne W:lrksheet.and complete the co.vet
Sheet The place constituting the actual place of residence must be determined UJ>Qli the
fact& and circumstances ofeach individual case (EM 24663, Aug
, 1955, 35 Comp.
Gen. f01 andSeptember21,·1955, ~124492).
4. Sign and:date bottltheSectionBVVorksheet(itapplicable)a
Sheet
5, SubmitJotht:SOff~ 1;>ftheChi1:Sf fitl!lriCitll Offi~r (
for use in theird!l~rrninatiqn andJnctusion within
GSA form 5047 (Q2tXX/2Q24l Page 8
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[FR Doc No: 2024-03606]
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GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
[OMB Control No. 3090-XXXX; Docket No. 2024-0001; Sequence No. 2]
Information Collection; Actual Place of Residence Determination
(GSA Form 5047)
AGENCY: Office of Human Resource Management, Division of Human Capital
Policy and Programs, General Services Administration (GSA).
ACTION: Notice of request for comments regarding a request for a new
OMB clearance.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
SUMMARY: Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act, the
Regulatory Secretariat Division will be submitting to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) a request to review and approve a new
information collection requirement.
DATES: Submit comments on or before April 22, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments identified by Information Collection 3090-
XXXX; ``Actual Place of Residence Determination (GSA Form 5047)'' to:
https://www.regulations.gov. Submit comments via the Federal
eRulemaking portal by searching for ``Information Collection 3090-XXXX;
``Actual Place of Residence Determination (GSA Form 5047).'' Select the
link ``Submit a Comment'' that corresponds with ``Information
Collection 3090-XXXX; Actual Place of Residence Determination (GSA Form
5047).'' Follow the instructions provided at the ``Submit a Comment''
screen. Please include your name, company name (if any), and
``Information Collection 3090-XXXX; Actual Place of Residence
Determination (GSA Form 5047)'' on your attached document. If your
comment cannot be submitted using https://www.regulations.gov, call or
email the points of contact in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
section of this document for alternate instructions.
Instructions: Please submit comments only and cite ``Information
Collection 3090-XXXX; Actual Place of Residence Determination (GSA Form
5047),'' in all correspondence related to this collection. Comments
received generally will be posted without change to https://www.regulations.gov, including any personal and/or business
confidential information provided. To confirm receipt of your
comment(s), please check www.regulations.gov, approximately two-to-
three days after submission to verify posting.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Colin C. Bennett, Human Resources
Specialist, Office of Human Resources Management, Division of Human
Capital Policy and Programs, at telephone 240-418-6822 or via email to
[email protected] for clarification of content.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
A. Purpose
The General Services Administration (GSA) routinely hires,
reassigns, promotes and transfers Federal employees to duty stations in
foreign areas (i.e., locations outside of the United States, its
territories and possessions). For this staffing activity, GSA pays for
the cost of relocation, known as ``permanent change of station''
relocation benefits (see further 5 U.S.C. 5722(a) and 5724(d)).
Relocation benefits include the cost of travel and transportation, as
well as the cost of shipment of household goods to a new post outside
of the Continental United States. In addition, most overseas employees
are eligible for ``renewal agreement travel,'' a travel reimbursement
authority that allows agency to leverage funds to pay for periodic
travel back to the United States between overseas tours of duty for
paid time off, known as ``home leave'' (see further, 5 U.S.C. 5728(a)
and 5 U.S.C. 6305(a)).
For an agency to calculate the costs of relocation as well as
renewal agreement travel, both federal travel laws require that the
employee (or appointee) designate an ``actual place of residence.''
When such residence cannot be easily determined by the job candidate,
the agency must instead make an administrative residency determination
on behalf of the employee. The new GSA Form 5047 will help agency
representatives (i.e. human resources specialists) make a determination
of the actual place of residence based upon documents and input
provided by the job candidates, considered members of the public.
Typically, agencies use the definition of ``residence'' from the
Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1952, codified at 5 U.S.C.
1101(33), which defines ``residence'' as a ``place of general abode''
or the ``principal, actual dwelling place in fact, without regard to
intent.'' While for most employees (or appointees) the determination of
an actual place of residence in the U.S. is typically straightforward,
residency may be unclear if the appointee is already overseas and has
been overseas for a long period of time. Long-term posts overseas are
often characterized by the lease (or even sale) of the employee's
primary U.S. dwelling, changes in the declared U.S. voting registration
location, and/or changes in the state and local income or property tax
jurisdictions.
To more effectively administer permanent change of station
relocation as well as renewal agreement travel, the General Services
Administration (GSA) has created a new agency form, GSA Form 5047,
Actual Place of Residence Determination. This form will allow
employees, job candidates, and the agency's human resources
specialists, to more easily determine the actual place of residence by
working through a series of guided questions on the form's worksheet.
Following completion of the form's worksheet, the employee, candidate,
and human resources specialist can summarize the determination on the
form's front cover sheet.
The questions on the worksheet portion of the form are drawn from
governing administrative law authorities, primary Comptroller General
decisions such as: Rafael Arroyo, decision B-197205 (May 16, 1980),
decision B-157548 (Sept. 13, 1965), 45 Comp. Gen. 136, and decision B-
140748 (Oct. 29, 1959), 39 Comp. Gen. 337. Under these administrative
law authorities, the place of actual residence is established at the
time of appointment or transfer (see also decision B-136029, June 24,
1958, 37 Comp. Gen. 846). Use of this form is therefore recommended for
all overseas appointments, transfers or reassignments and, in
particular, those personnel selections of job candidates via agency
transfer employed by a different U.S. Government agency and already
present overseas.
Use of this form will allow GSA to comply with the Federal Travel
Regulations, which require the
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administrative determination and documentation of the actual place of
residence for all overseas appointments or placements (see further 41
CFR 302-3.509). In addition, this form will also allow the agency to
leverage the renewal agreement travel authority (i.e., the Home Leave
Act of 1954, 68 Stat. 1008) only when appropriate and not in the rare
cases of local foreign hires who have severed all jurisdictional
nexuses with the U.S.
Significantly, this residency determination form can also be used
to determine eligibility for the following other overseas allowance and
benefit authorities: (a) the 45-day annual leave accrual authority (5
U.S.C. 6304(b)), (b) home leave (5 U.S.C. 6305(a)) and (c) living
quarters allowance (5 U.S.C. 5923(a)(2)). Under each of these
authorities, local hires who currently live in foreign areas are
excluded from benefits eligibility unless they can demonstrate that
foreign residence is temporary, is only pursuant to continuous
employment overseas with the U.S. Government (or other U.S. interest),
and finally, there exists a contractual transportation agreement that
provides for the eventual return of the job candidate to a
specifically-identified place of actual residence within the U.S.
B. Annual Reporting Burden
Respondents: 25 per year.
Responses per Respondent: 1.
Total Annual Responses: 25.
Hours per Response: 1.
Total Burden Hours: 25.
C. Public Comments
Public comments are encouraged, and are particularly invited, on:
(a) whether this collection of information is necessary, (b) whether it
will have practical utility, (c) whether our estimate of the public
burden of this collection of information is accurate (and based on
valid assumptions and methodology), (d) whether or not there are ways
to enhance the new form's utility and clarity of the information to be
collected, and (e) whether or not there might be ways in to minimize
the data collection burden through the use of information technology.
Obtaining Copies of Proposals: We have provided a copy of the
proposed draft GSA Form 5047 at the end of this notice below the
signature block. A copy of the proposed draft form can alternatively be
obtained through GSA's Regulatory Secretariat Division by calling (202)
501-4755 or emailing [email protected]. Please cite OMB Control No.
3090-XXXX, Actual Place of Residency Determination (GSA Form 5047), in
all correspondence.
Lois Mandell,
Director, Regulatory Secretariat Division, General Services
Administration.
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