Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 43 / Friday, March 5, 2010 / Notices 10225 

CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND 

COMMUNITY SERVICE 

Proposed Information Collection; 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Corporation for National and 

Community Service. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Corporation for National 

and Community Service (hereinafter the 

‘‘Corporation’’), as part of its continuing 

effort to reduce paperwork and 

respondent burden, conducts a preclearance consultation program to 

provide the general public and federal 

agencies with an opportunity to 

comment on proposed and/or 

continuing collections of information in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA95) (44 

U.S.C. Sec. 3506(c)(2)(A)). This program 

helps to ensure that 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 requirement on 

respondents can be properly assessed. 

Individuals who use a 

telecommunications device for the deaf 

(TTY–TDD) may call (202) 565–2799 

between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. eastern 

time, Monday through Friday. 

Currently, the Corporation is 

soliciting comments concerning 

AmeriCorps Application Instructions: 

Administrative, Program Development 

and Training grants. State commissions 

will respond to the questions included 

in this ICR in order to apply for funding 

through these grants. 

Copies of the information collection 

request can be obtained by contacting 

the office listed in the addresses section 

of this notice. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted to the individual and office 

listed in the ADDRESSES section by May 

4, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by the title of the information 

collection activity, by any of the 

following methods: 

(1) By mail sent to: Corporation for 

National and Community Service; 

Attention Amy Borgstrom, Associate 

Director for Policy, Room 9515; 1201 

New York Avenue, NW., Washington, 

DC, 20525. 

(2) By hand delivery or by courier to 

the Corporation’s mailroom at Room 

8100 at the mail address given in 

paragraph (1) above, between 9 a.m. and 

4 p.m. Monday through Friday, except 

Federal holidays. 

(3) By fax to: (202) 606–3476, 

Attention Amy Borgstrom, Associate 

Director for Policy. 

(4) Electronically through the http:// 

www.regulations.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Amy Borgstrom, (202) 606–6930, or by 

e-mail at aborgstrom@cns.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

The Corporation is particularly 

interested in comments that: 

• Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the Corporation, 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 expected to respond, including 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). 

Background: These application 

instructions will be used by applicants 

for funding through AmeriCorps State 

and National Administrative, Program 

Development and Training, and 

Disability grants. 

Current Action: The Corporation seeks 

to renew and revise the current 

AmeriCorps Administrative, Program 

Development and Training, and 

Disability Application Instructions. The 

Application Instructions are being 

revised for increased clarity and to align 

with new regulations. The Application 

Instructions will be used in the same 

manner as the existing Application 

Instructions. The Corporation also seeks 

to continue using the current 

Application Instructions until the 

revised Application Instructions are 

approved by OMB. The current ICRs are 

due to expire on May 31, 2010 (3045– 

0099). 

Type of Review: Renewal. 

Agency: Corporation for National and 

Community Service. 

Title: AmeriCorps Application 

Instructions: State Commissions; 

Administrative, Program Development 

and Training, and Disability. 

OMB Number: 3045–0099. 

Agency Number: None. 

Affected Public: Nonprofit 

organizations, State, Local and Tribal. 

Total Respondents: 54. 

Frequency: Annually. 

Average Time Per Response: 25 hours. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 1,350 

hours. 

Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): 

None. 

Total Burden Cost (operating/ 

maintenance): None. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and/or 

included in the request for Office of 

Management and Budget approval of the 

information collection request; they will 

also become a matter of public record. 

Dated: March 1, 2010. 

Kim Mansaray, 

Chief of Staff, AmeriCorps State and National. 

[FR Doc. 2010–4704 Filed 3–4–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Office of Postsecondary Education; 

Overview Information; Language 

Resource Centers Program; Notice 

Inviting Applications for New Awards 

for Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

(CFDA) Number: 84.229A. 

Dates: 

Applications Available: March 5, 

2010. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: April 20, 2010. 

Full Text of Announcement 

I. Funding Opportunity Description 

Purpose of Program: The Language 

Resource Centers (LRC) program 

provides grants to institutions of higher 

education to establish, strengthen, and 

operate centers that serve as resources 

for improving the Nation’s capacity for 

teaching and learning foreign languages. 

Priorities: This notice contains one 

competitive preference priority and one 

invitational priority. 

Competitive Preference Priority: In 

accordance with 34 CFR 75.105(b)(2)(ii), 

this priority is from the regulations for 

the LRC program (34 CFR 669.22(a)(2)). 

For FY 2010, this priority is a 

competitive preference priority. Under 

CFR 75.105(c)(2)(i), we award up to an 

additional five points to an application 

that meets this priority. 

This priority is: 

Applications that propose activities 

that focus on any of the seventy-eight 

(78) priority languages listed in the 

following paragraph, all of which were 

selected from the U.S. Department of 

Education’s list of Less Commonly 

Taught Languages (LCTLs): 


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