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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. 

Analysis 

Agency: Department of Homeland 

Security (DHS). 

Title: COVID–19 Contact Tracing. 

OMB Number: 1601–0027. 

Frequency: Annually. 

Affected Public: Affected Public. 

Number of Respondents: 500. 

Estimated Time per Respondent: 1. 

Total Burden Hours: 167. 

Robert Dorr, 

Executive Director, Business Management 

Directorate. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

[Docket Number DHS–2020–0047] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: DHS Civil Rights Evaluation 

Tool 1601–0024, DHS Form 3095 

AGENCY: Department of Homeland 

Security, (DHS) 

ACTION: 30-Day notice and request for 

comments; extension without change of 

a currently approved collection, 1601– 

0024. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Homeland 

Security, will submit the following 

Information Collection Request (ICR) to 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and clearance in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. DHS previously 

published this information collection 

request (ICR) in the Federal Register on 

Thursday, November 19, 2020 at 85 FR 

73731 for a 60-day public comment 

period. No comment was received by 

DHS. The purpose of this notice is to 

allow additional 30-days for public 

comments. 

DATES: Comments are encouraged and 

will be accepted until April 2, 2021. 

This process is conducted in accordance 

with 5 CFR 1320.1. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

PRAMain. Find this particular 

information collection by selecting 

‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open 

for Public Comments’’ or by using the 

search function. 

The Office of Management and Budget 

is particularly interested in comments 

which: 

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. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Recipients 

of federal financial assistance from the 

Department of Homeland Security 

(DHS) are required to meet certain legal 

requirements relating to 

nondiscrimination and 

nondiscriminatory use of federal funds. 

Those requirements include ensuring 

that entities receiving Federal financial 

assistance from the Department of 

Homeland Security do not deny benefits 

or services, or otherwise discriminate on 

the basis of race, color, national origin, 

disability, age, sex, or religion, in 

accordance with the following 

authorities: 

• Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 

1964 (Title VI) Public Law 88–352, 42 

U.S.C. 2000d–1 et seq., and the 

Department’s implementing regulation, 

6 CFR part 21 and 44 CFR part 7, which 

prohibit discrimination on the grounds 

of race, color, or national origin by 

recipients of Federal financial 

assistance. Title VI, through its 

prohibition against discrimination on 

the basis of national origin, requires 

recipients to take reasonable steps to 

provide meaningful access to persons 

who are limited English proficient 

(LEP). See Guidance to Federal 

Financial Assistance Recipients 

Regarding Title VI Prohibition Against 

National Origin Discrimination 

Affecting Limited English Proficient 

Persons, 76 FR 21755–21768 (April 18, 

2011). 

• Section 504 of the Rehabilitation 

Act of 1973 (Section 504), Public Law 

93–112, as amended by Public Law 93– 

516, 29 U.S.C. 794, which prohibits 

discrimination on the basis of disability 

by recipients of Federal financial 

assistance. 

• Title IX of the Education 

Amendments of 1972 (Title IX), 20 

U.S.C. 1681 et seq., and the 

Department’s implementing regulations, 

6 CFR part 17, and 44 CFR part 19, 

which prohibits discrimination on the 

basis of sex in education program and 

activities received Federal financial 

assistance. 

• Age Discrimination Act of 1975, 

Public Law 94–135, 42 U.S.C. Section 

6101 et seq., and the Department 

implementing regulation at 44 CFR part 

7, which prohibits discrimination on the 

basis of age by recipients of Federal 

financial assistance. 

• U.S. Department of Homeland 

Security regulation 6 CFR part 19, 

which prohibits organizations that 

receive financial assistance from DHS 

for a social service program from 

discriminating against beneficiaries on 

the basis of religion or religious belief, 

a refusal to hold a religious belief, or a 

refusal to attend or participate in a 

religious practice. 

The aforementioned civil rights 

authorities also prohibit retaliatory acts 

against individuals for participating or 

opposing discrimination in a complaint, 

investigation, or other proceeding 

related to prohibited discrimination. 

DHS has an obligation to enforce 

nondiscrimination requirements to 

ensure that its federally assisted 

programs and activities are 

administered in a nondiscriminatory 

manner. In order to carry out its 

enforcement responsibilities, DHS must 

obtain a signed assurance of compliance 

and collect and review information from 

recipients to ascertain their compliance 

with applicable requirements. DHS 

implementing regulations and the 

Department of Justice (DOJ) regulation 

Coordination of Non-discrimination in 

Federally Assisted Program, 28 CFR part 

42, provide for the collection of data 

and information from recipients (see 28 

CFR 42.406). 

DHS uses DHS Form 3095: DHS Civil 

Rights Evaluation Tool as the primary 

tool to implement this information 

collection. DHS is seeking an extension 

of the form for another three-year 

period. DHS is not proposing any 

changes to the information collected in 

the form but is proposing changes to 

Section 1 of the form on instructions to 

streamline the process for submitting 

the completed form. 

DHS uses the form to collect civil 

rights related information from all 

recipients of federal financial assistance 

from the Department. Recipients are 


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non-federal entities that receive federal 

financial assistance in the form of a 

grant, cooperative agreement, or other 

type of financial assistance directly from 

the Department and not through another 

recipient or ‘‘pass-through’’ entity. This 

information collection does not apply to 

subrecipients, federal contractors 

(unless the contract includes the 

provision of financial assistance), nor 

the ultimate beneficiaries of services, 

financial aid, or other benefits from the 

Department. 

Recipients are required to provide the 

information 30 days from acceptance of 

award. Recipient of multiple awards of 

DHS financial assistance only submit 

one completed form for their 

organization, not per award. Recipient 

are required to complete the form once 

every two years if they have an active 

award, not every time a grant is 

awarded. Entities whose award does not 

run a full two years are required to 

provide the information again if they 

receive a subsequent award more than 

two (2) years after the prior award. In 

responding to Section 4: Required 

Information, which contains the bulk of 

the information collection, if the 

recipient’s responses have not changed 

in the two year period since their initial 

submission, the recipient does not need 

to resubmit the information. Instead, the 

recipient will indicate ‘‘no change’’ for 

each applicable item. 

The purpose of the information 

collection is to advise recipients of their 

civil rights obligations and collect 

pertinent civil rights information to 

ascertain if the recipient has in place 

adequate policies and procedures to 

achieve compliance, and to determine 

what, if any, further action may be 

needed (technical assistance, training, 

compliance review, etc.) to ensure the 

recipient is able to meet its civil rights 

requirements and will carry out its 

programs and activities in a 

nondiscriminatory manner. 

Over the past three years, DHS has 

used the information collected via the 

DHS Civil Rights Evaluation Tool to 

identify gaps and deficiencies in 

recipient programs and directly help 

recipients address these gaps and 

deficiencies by providing technical 

assistance on developing or improving 

policies and procedures to prevent 

discrimination and ensure accessibility. 

DHS requires recipients to submit 

their completed forms and supporting 

information electronically, via email, to 

the Department, in an effort to minimize 

administrative burden on the recipient 

and the Department. DHS anticipates 

that records or files that will be used to 

respond to the information collection 

are already maintained in electronic 

format by the recipient, so providing the 

information electronically further 

minimizes administrative burden. DHS 

allows recipients to scan and submit 

documents that are not already 

maintained electronically. 

If the recipient is unable to submit 

their information electronically, 

alternative arrangements will be made 

to submit responses in hard copy. 

DHS is pursuing further streamlining 

of the submission process through 

development of an online portal that 

would allow recipients to submit the 

data directly in a fully electronic form 

and eliminate the need for recipients to 

email the form and supporting 

documents as attachments. 

The information collection will 

impact some small entities (e.g., nonprofit service providers, local fire 

departments, etc.), however as described 

in response to Question 2, recipients 

will only be required to provide this 

information once every two years, not 

every time a grant is awarded. 

Additionally, in responding to Section 

4: Required Information, if the 

recipient’s responses have not changed 

in the two year period since their initial 

submission, the recipient does not need 

to resubmit the information. This will 

dramatically reduce the administrative 

burden on recipients after the initial 

submission. Additionally, DHS will 

further minimize burden on recipients 

by making available sample policies and 

procedures to assist recipients in 

completing Section 4 of the Form, and 

providing technical assistance directly 

to the recipient as needed. 

In accordance with the authorities 

identified in Question 1, the Department 

is required to obtain a signed assurance 

of compliance from recipients and to 

ensure that its federally assisted 

programs and activities are 

administered in a nondiscriminatory 

manner. If the information collection is 

not conducted or is conducted less 

frequently, the Department will not be 

able to fulfill its obligations to ascertain 

recipient compliance and enforce 

nondiscrimination in recipient 

programs. This could lead to the award 

of federal financial assistance to 

recipients that are not complying with 

federal civil rights law, and the 

perpetuation of discrimination in the 

provision of benefits and services to 

members of the public. 

There are no confidentiality 

assurances associated with this 

collection. The only privacy-sensitive 

information the form collects are the 

names of Point of Contacts (POCs) from 

recipient organizations. Coverage for the 

collection of this information is 

provided under a Department Privacy 

Impact Assessment, DHS/ALL/PIA–006 

General Contacts List. 

DHS is seeking an extension of the 

form for another three-year period. DHS 

is not proposing any changes to the 

information collected in the form but is 

proposing changes to Section 1 of the 

form on instructions to streamline the 

process for submitting the completed 

form. The changes to Section 1 do not 

impact the burden analysis. The 

changes in costs in Item 14 reflect 

increased hourly rates for Federal staff 

as reported by Office of Personnel 

Management for 2020, as well as an 

increase in the number of staff 

participating in the review process. 

Despite these increases, because the 

number of recipients subject to the 

collection has decreased from the 

previous reporting period, the total costs 

reported in Item 13 and 14 have also 

decreased. 

Analysis 

Agency: Department of Homeland 

Security, (DHS). 

Title: DHS Civil Rights Evaluation 

Tool. 

OMB Number: 1601–0024. 

Frequency: On Occasion. 

Affected Public: State, Local and 

Tribal Government. 

Number of Respondents: 2929. 

Estimated Time per Respondent: 1 

Hour. 

Total Burden Hours: 11716. 

Robert Dorr, 

Executive Director, Business Management 

Directorate. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Transportation Security Administration 

[Docket No. TSA–2001–11120] 

Extension of Agency Information 

Collection Activity Under OMB Review: 

Imposition and Collection of 

Passenger Civil Aviation Security 

Service Fees 

AGENCY: Transportation Security 

Administration, DHS. 

ACTION: 30–day notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces that 

the Transportation Security 

Administration (TSA) has forwarded the 

Information Collection Request (ICR), 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) control number 1652–0001, 

abstracted below to OMB for review and 

approval of an extension of the 

currently approved collection under the 


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