Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 221 / Friday, November 17, 2023 / Notices 80285 

CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION 

BUREAU 

Academic Research Council Meeting 

AGENCY: Consumer Financial Protection 

Bureau. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: Under the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (FACA), this notice sets 

forth the announcement of a public 

meeting of the Academic Research 

Council (ARC or Council) of the 

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau 

(CFPB or Bureau). The notice also 

describes the functions of the Council. 

DATES: The meeting date is Friday, 

December 1, 2023, from approximately 

1 p.m. to 3:15 p.m., eastern daylight 

time. This meeting will be held virtually 

and is open to the general public. 

Members of the public will receive the 

agenda and dial-in information when 

they RSVP. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kim 

George, Outreach and Engagement 

Associate, Advisory Board and 

Councils, External Affairs Division, at 

202–450–8617, or email: CFPB_

CABandCouncilsEvents@cfpb.gov. If 

you require this document in an 

alternative electronic format, please 

contact CFPB_Accessibility@cfpb.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

Section 2 of the of the ARC Charter 

provides that pursuant to the executive 

and administrative powers conferred on 

the CFPB by section 1012 of the DoddFrank Wall Street Reform and Consumer 

Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act), the 

Director of the CFPB renews the 

discretionary Academic Research 

Council under agency authority in 

accordance with the provisions of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(FACA), as amended, 5 U.S.C. 10. 

Section 3 of the ARC Charter states: 

‘‘The committee will (1) provide the 

CFPB with advice about its strategic 

research planning process and research 

agenda, including views on the research 

that the CFPB should conduct relating 

to consumer financial products or 

services, consumer behavior, costbenefit analysis, or other topics to 

enable the agency to further its statutory 

purposes and objectives; and (2) provide 

the Office of Research with technical 

advice and feedback on research 

methodologies, data collection 

strategies, and methods of analysis, 

including methodologies and strategies 

for quantifying the costs and benefits of 

regulatory actions; and, (3) serve as peer 

reviewers of policy-determinative 

research conducted by the CFPB.’’ 

II. Agenda 

The ARC will discuss broad policy 

matters related to the Bureau’s Research 

Agenda and general scope of authority. 

If you require any additional 

reasonable accommodations(s) in order 

to attend this event, please contact the 

Reasonable Accommodations team at 

CFPB_ReasonableAccommodations@

cfpb.gov 48 hours prior to the start of 

this event. 

Written comments will be accepted 

from interested members of the public 

and should be sent to CFPB_

CABandCouncilsEvents@cfpb.gov, a 

minimum of seven (7) days in advance 

of the meeting. The comments will be 

provided to the ARC members for 

consideration. Individuals who wish to 

attend this meeting must RSVP via this 

link https://surveys.consumer

finance.gov/jfe/form/SV_

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III. Availability 

The Council’s agenda will be made 

available to the public on Friday, 

November 17, 2023, via 

consumerfinance.gov. 

A recording and summary of this 

meeting will be available after the 

meeting on the Bureau’s website 

consumerfinance.gov. 

Jocelyn Sutton, 

Deputy Chief of Staff, Consumer Financial 

Protection Bureau. 

[FR Doc. 2023–23894 Filed 11–16–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4810–AM–P 

CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND 

COMMUNITY SERVICE 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Comment Request; Package 

for AmeriCorps VISTA Application and 

Reporting Forms 

AGENCY: Corporation for National and 

Community Service. 

ACTION: Notice of information collection; 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Corporation for National and 

Community Service (operating as 

AmeriCorps) is proposing to revise an 

information collection. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted to the individual and office 

listed in the ADDRESSES section by 

January 16, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by the title of the information 

collection activity, by any of the 

following methods: 

(1) Electronically through 

www.regulations.gov (preferred 

method). 

(2) By mail sent to: AmeriCorps, 

Attention Kelly Daly, 250 E Street SW, 

Washington, DC 20525. 

(3) By hand delivery or by courier to 

the AmeriCorps mailroom at the mail 

address given in paragraph (2) above, 

between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Eastern Time, 

Monday through Friday, except Federal 

holidays. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice may be made available to the 

public through regulations.gov. For this 

reason, please do not include in your 

comments information of a confidential 

nature, such as sensitive personal 

information or proprietary information. 

If you send an email comment, your 

email address will be automatically 

captured and included as part of the 

comment that is placed in the public 

docket and made available on the 

internet. Please note that responses to 

this public comment request containing 

any routine notice about the 

confidentiality of the communication 

will be treated as public comment that 

may be made available to the public, 

notwithstanding the inclusion of the 

routine notice. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kelly Daly, 202–606–6849, or by email 

at kdaly@americorps.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title of Collection: AmeriCorps 

VISTA Application and Reporting 

Forms. 

OMB Control Number: 3045–0038 

Type of Review: Revision. 

Respondents/Affected Public: 

Businesses and Organizations AND/OR 

State, Local or Tribal Governments. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 750. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours:17,500. 

Abstract: AmeriCorps VISTA is 

revising its application and reporting 

package to reflect changes in the 

Support Grant budget instructions that 

allow for first-year Support Grant 

sponsors and to simplify instructions in 

both the Support and Program Grant 

budget instructions. The Concept Paper 

and Application Instructions are being 

revised to add information about the 

Unique Entity ID registration process on 

SAM.gov. The VISTA Progress Report 

and Progress Report Supplement were 

not revised. AmeriCorps also seeks to 

continue using the currently approved 

information collection until the revised 

information collection is approved by 

OMB. Once the revised information is 

approved by OMB, VISTA plans to use 

the revised forms through the remainder 


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