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89654 

Vol. 88, No. 248 

Thursday, December 28, 2023 

AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL 

DEVELOPMENT 

Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting 

Case Competition Submission Forms 

AGENCY: U.S. Agency for International 

Development (USAID). 

ACTION: Notice of information collection; 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The Office of Learning, 

Evaluation, and Research holds an 

annual Collaborating, Learning, and 

Adapting (CLA) Case Competition, 

wherein USAID partners and staff can 

submit examples of the way in which 

they have employed CLA approaches in 

their work. The submissions are posted 

online (available to the public), 

contributing to agency learning through 

these real-world experiences. As 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995, as amended, USAID is 

soliciting comments for this collection. 

DATES: Comments are due February 26, 

2024. 

ADDRESSES: Comments submitted in 

response to this notice should be 

submitted to amkoler@usaid.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Amy Koler, amkoler@usaid.gov, 202– 

257–0487. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: USAID, in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 

3506(c)(2)(A)), provides the general 

public and Federal agencies with an 

opportunity to comment on the 

proposed survey. 

Title of Collection: Collaborating, 

Learning, and Adapting Case 

Competition. 

OMB Control Number: XXXXXX. 

Type of Review: A new information 

collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: USAID 

partners and staff. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 85. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 837. 

Abstract: When a partner or USAID 

staff member decides to participate in 

the annual Collaborating, Learning, and 

Adapting (CLA) Case Competition, they 

must download the CLA Case 

Competition Submission Form from 

USAID’s Learning Lab website. Through 

answering the six question form, they 

detail the context in which they were 

working, the specific manner in which 

they applied a CLA approach (or 

approaches) and describe the result of 

using that approach. The answers to 

these questions, plus a summary and a 

photo, constitute their submission to the 

competition. When they submit their 

case competition submission, they must 

also submit the CLA Case Competition 

Web Submission Form. This form 

captures additional information about 

the case, the organization submitting the 

form, and their experience with the case 

competition, as well as point of contact 

information. The CLA Case Competition 

Submission Form is shared with the 

public through USAID’s Learning Lab 

website. The information from the CLA 

Case Competition Web Submission form 

is kept in a restricted online file. 

USAID and the Office of Management 

and Budget are particularly interested in 

comments that: 

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. 

Tania Alfonso, 

PLR/LER, Program Cycle Supervisory Team 

Lead, USAID. 

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BILLING CODE 6116–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Office of the Secretary 

[Docket No. USDA–2022–0010] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; USDA Generic Solution for 

Solicitation for Funding Opportunity 

Announcement 

ACTION: Notice; request for comments. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act, the U.S. 

Department of Agriculture (USDA) is 

requesting comments concerning 

authorization to revise the approved 

USDA Generic Solution for Solicitation 

for Funding Opportunity 

Announcement information collection 

request (ICR). This is a revision request. 

We are revising the ICR to cover the 

additional use across USDA agencies for 

grants, agreements, and other Federal 

financial assistance programs. 

DATES: We will consider comments we 

receive by February 26, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: We invite you to submit 

comments on this notice. 

Electronic Submission of Comments. 

You may submit comments, identified 

by Docket ID: USDA–2022–0010, 

electronically through the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal: http://

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions provided on that site to 

submit comments electronically. 

Submission of Comments by Mail, 

Hand Delivery, or Courier. You may 

submit comments to the Office of 

Budget and Program Analysis, USDA, 

Jamie L. Whitten Building, Room 101– 

A, 1400 Independence Ave. SW, 

Washington, DC 20250. USDA strongly 

encourages commenters to submit 

comments electronically. Electronic 

submission of comments allows you 

maximum time to prepare and submit a 

comment and ensures timely receipt by 

USDA. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Steve O’Neill, 202–720–0038, 

stephen.oneill@usda.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

compliance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)), 

USDA is requesting comments 

concerning a authorization to conduct 

the USDA Generic Solution for 

Solicitation for Funding Opportunity 

Announcement ICR. This is a revision 

request. 


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The U.S. Department of Agriculture 

(USDA) conducts a pre-clearance 

consultation program to provide the 

public and Federal agencies an 

opportunity to comment on proposed, 

revised, and continuing information 

collections before submitting them to 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB). 

This program helps to ensure 

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 

requirements can be properly assessed. 

USDA is requesting an increase the 

approved burden hours to cover grant or 

cooperative agreement activity and 

funding announcements of new 

programs for other types of Federal 

financial assistance. USDA requests an 

increase in the responses by 880,000, 

and the burden hours by 1.5 million 

hours. USDA has successfully used the 

existing approval for ongoing 

information collection activities and is 

expecting to well beyond the initial 

estimates when the ICR was first 

approved by OMB. The increase has 

been for the Federal financial 

assistances for new programs. 

Grants or Cooperative Agreement 

Periodically USDA solicits grant 

applications on http://grants.gov by 

issuing a Funding Opportunity 

Announcement, Request for 

Applications, Notice of Funding 

Announcement, Notice of Solicitation of 

Applications, Grants.gov 

announcement, or other funding 

announcement type. To ensure grants 

are awarded to the applicant(s) best 

suited to perform the functions of the 

grant, applicants are generally required 

to submit an application. The first part 

of USDA grant applications consists of 

submitting the application form(s), 

which includes the Standard Form 424, 

Application for Federal Assistance and 

may include additional standard grant 

application forms. The second part of a 

grant application usually requires a 

technical proposal demonstrating the 

applicant’s capabilities in accordance 

with a statement of work or selection 

criteria and other related information as 

specified in the funding announcement. 

Following the grant award, the grant 

awardee may also be required to provide 

progress reports or additional 

documents. 

Federal Financial Assistance Programs 

In addition to grants and agreements, 

there are other types of funding 

announcements. USDA agencies 

announce new Federal financial 

assistance programs in the Federal 

Register in a Notice of Funding 

Availability (NOFA) or other types of 

funding or program announcements. 

Generally, the applicants need to apply 

for financial assistance under the new 

program. The agencies generally require 

application forms and related forms for 

the applicants can apply for the Federal 

financial assistance. 

A Federal agency generally cannot 

conduct or sponsor a collection of 

information, and the public is generally 

not required to respond to an 

information collection, unless it is 

approved by OMB under the PRA and 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number. In addition, notwithstanding 

any other provisions of law, no person 

will be subject to penalty for failing to 

comply with a collection of information 

if the collection of information does not 

display a valid control number (see 5 

CFR 1320.5(a) and 1320.6). USDA 

intends to seek approval from OMB for 

the revision request for this collection of 

information for 3 years. 

Interested parties are encouraged to 

provide comments to the individual 

listed in the ADDRESSES section above. 

Comments must be written to receive 

consideration, and they will be 

summarized and included in the request 

for OMB approval of the final ICR. The 

comments will also become a matter of 

public record. Comments responsive to 

this request will be made available online, without redaction, as part of the 

submission to OMB; therefore, USDA is 

particularly interested in comments 

that: 

• 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; 

• 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 to respond, including using 

appropriate automated, electronic, 

mechanical, or other technological 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology, for example, 

permitting electronic submission of 

responses. 

USDA will consider the comments 

received and amend the ICR as 

appropriate. The final ICR package will 

then be submitted to OMB for review 

and approval. At that time, USDA will 

issue another Federal Register notice to 

announce the submission of the ICR to 

OMB and the opportunity to submit 

additional comments to OMB. 

Agency: USDA Office of the Secretary. 

Type of Review: Revision. 

OMB Control Number: 0503–0028. 

Title of Collection: USDA Generic 

Solution for Solicitation for Funding 

Opportunity Announcements. 

Affected Public: State, Local, and 

Tribal Governments; Private Sector— 

businesses or other for-profits and notfor-profit institutions. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 1 

million. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

Total Estimated Annual Responses: 1 

million. 

Estimated Average Time per 

Response: 20 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 20 million hours. 

Total Estimated Annual Other Cost 

Burden: $0. 

Stephen O’Neill, 

Legislative and Regulatory Division, OBPA– 

USDA. 

[FR Doc. 2023–28571 Filed 12–27–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–90–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

The Department of Agriculture has 

submitted the following information 

collection requirement(s) to OMB for 

review and clearance under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

Public Law 104–13. Comments are 

requested regarding whether the 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of burden including 

the validity of the methodology and 

assumptions used; ways to enhance the 

quality, utility and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and ways to 

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. 

Comments regarding this information 

collection received by January 29, 2024 

will be considered. Written comments 

and recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be 

submitted within 30 days of the 

publication of this notice on the 

following website www.reginfo.gov/ 


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