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###### Overseas Private Investment Corporation

# AGENCY:

Overseas Private Investment Corporation.

# ACTION:

Request for comments. 

# SUMMARY:

                        Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), agencies are required to publish a Notice in the                         **Federal Register**                         notifying the public that the Agency has prepared an information collection request for OMB review and approval and has requested public review and comment on the submission. OPIC published its first                         **Federal Register**                         Notice on this information collection request on July 15, 2004, in vol. 69 No. 135, FR 42470, at which time a 60-calendar day comment period was announced. This comment period ended September 15, 2004. No comments were received in response to this notice. This information collection submission has now been submitted to OMB for review. Comments are again being solicited on the need for the information; the accuracy of the Agency's burden estimate, the quality, practical utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and on ways to minimize the reporting burden, including automated collection techniques and uses of other forms of technology. The proposed form under review, OMB control number 3420-0015, is summarized below.                     

# DATES:

Comments must be received within 30-calendar days of this Notice.

# ADDRESSES:

Copies of the subject form and the request for review submitted to OMB may be obtained from the Agency Submitting Officer. Comments on the form should be submitted to the OMB Reviewer.

# FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

*OPIC Agency Submitting Officer:*                         Bruce I. Campbell, Records Management Officer, Overseas Private Investment Corporation, 1100 New York Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20527; (202) 336-8563.                    

*OMB Reviewer:*                         David Rostker, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Docket Library, Room 10102, 725 17th Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503, (202) 395-3897.                    

## Summary of Form Under Review

*Type of Request:*                         Form Renewal.                    

*Title:*                         Application for Financing.                    

*Form Number:*                         OPIC-115.                    

*Frequency of Use:*                         One per investor, per project.                    

*Type of Respondents:*                         Business or other institutions (except farms); individuals.                    

*Standard Industrial Classification Codes:*                         All.                    

*Description of Affected Public:*                         U.S. companies or citizens investing overseas.                    

*Reporting Hours:*                         4 hours per project.                    

*Number of Responses:*                         300 per year.                    

*Federal Cost:*                         $21,600 per year.                    

*Authority for Information Collection:*                         Sections 231 and 234 (b) and (c) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended.                    

*Abstract (Needs and Uses):*                         The OPIC 115 form is the principal document used by OPIC to determine the investor's and project's eligibility for dept financing, to assess the environmental impact and developmental effects of the project, to measure the economic effects for the United States and the host country economy, and to collect information for underwriting analysis.                    

Dated: September 29, 2004.

Eli Landy, 

Senior Counsel, Administrative Affairs, Department of Legal Affairs.

[FR Doc. 04-22215  Filed 10-1-04; 8:45 am]

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