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Communities Through the Federal 

Government, NASA has been working to 

identify and address barriers that 

underserved communities and 

individuals may face in taking 

advantage of procurement, contracting, 

or grant opportunities. To address these 

barriers, NASA has taken a few actions 

including proposing the term and 

condition described above. NASA is 

taking this action to ensure that entities 

funded by NASA are compliant with the 

procurement standards in the uniform 

guidance. NASA’s expectation is that 

this action will result in an increase in 

contracting opportunities for small and/ 

or minority businesses, women’s 

business enterprises and labor surplus 

area firms that contract with NASA 

financial assistance recipients. 

DATES: Comments must be received by 

February 10, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: Comments should be 

addressed to National Aeronautics and 

Space Administration Headquarters, 300 

E Street SW, Rm. 6O87, Washington, DC 

20546 or sent by email to HQfedregcomments@nasa.gov; Phone 

Number: 202–358–2180, FAX Number: 

202–358–3336. We encourage 

respondents to submit comments 

electronically to ensure timely receipt. 

We cannot guarantee that comments 

mailed will be received before the 

comment closing date. Please include 

‘‘Requirement to obtain a quotation from 

small and/or minority businesses, 

women’s business enterprises or labor 

surplus area firms’’ in the subject line of 

the email message. Please also include 

the full body of your comments in the 

text of the message and as an 

attachment. Include your name, title, 

organization, postal address, telephone 

number, and email address in your 

message. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Christiane S. Diallo, email: 

Christiane.diallo@nasa.gov, telephone 

(202) 358–5179. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

January 25, 2021, President Biden 

issued E.O. 13985, Advancing Racial 

Equity and Support for Underserved 

Communities Through the Federal 

Government, outlining a comprehensive 

approach to advancing equity for all, 

including people of color and others 

who have been historically underserved, 

marginalized, and adversely affected by 

persistent poverty and inequality. Given 

that advancing equity requires a 

systematic approach to embedding 

fairness in the decision-making process, 

the E.O. instructs agencies to recognize 

and work to redress inequities in their 

policies and programs that serve as 

barriers to equal opportunity. 

In response to E.O. 13985, NASA has 

been working to identify and address 

barriers that underserved communities 

and individuals may face in taking 

advantage of procurement, contracting, 

or grant opportunities. Through focused 

engagement with stakeholders and 

comments received from 86 FR 31735, 

June 15, 2021, Request for Information 

on Advancing Racial Equity and 

Support for Underserved Communities 

in NASA Programs, Contracts and 

Grants Process, NASA has learned that 

access to information and a lack of 

resources and opportunities are just 

some of the barriers faced by 

underserved communities. As such, 

GPC has reviewed NASA’s grants 

management policies and procedures 

and has identified a few actions that can 

be taken to reduce these barriers, 

including a proposed implementation of 

a new term and condition that requires 

recipients of NASA financial assistance 

to obtain a quotation from small and/or 

minority businesses, women’s business 

enterprises or labor surplus area firms 

when the acquisition of goods or 

services exceeds the simplified 

acquisition threshold. 

The full text of the new term and 

condition is provided below: 

Requirement To Obtain a Quotation 

From Small and/or Minority 

Businesses, Women’s Business 

Enterprises or Labor Surplus Area 

Firms 

Pursuant to the requirements in 2 CFR 

200.321, Contracting with small and 

minority businesses, women’s business 

enterprises, and labor surplus area 

firms, grant and cooperative agreement 

recipients shall, to the extent 

practicable, obtain at least one quotation 

in response to a recipient-issued 

Request for Quotation (RFQ) from a 

small and/or minority business, 

women’s business enterprise or labor 

surplus area firms when the acquisition 

of goods or services exceeds the 

simplified acquisition threshold (SAT) 

as defined in the Federal Acquisition 

Regulation (FAR) part 2.101, Definitions 

(currently the SAT is $250,000). In the 

event that recipients are unable to 

obtain at least one quote from a small 

and/or minority business women’s 

business enterprise or labor surplus area 

firm, a written justification indicating 

why this was not possible must be 

maintained in the recipient’s records. 

End of Proposed Term and Condition 

Implementation 

Upon receipt and resolution of all 

comments, it is NASA’s intention to 

implement the new term through a 

revision to the NASA Grant and 

Cooperative Agreement Manual 

(GCAM). These revised terms and 

conditions will become effective thirty 

days from the final notice publication 

date in the Federal Register and will be 

available in the GCAM. 

The new term and condition will be 

applied to all new NASA awards and 

funding amendments to existing awards 

made on or after the effective date. 

Cheryl Parker, 

Federal Register Liaison Officer. 

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Abstract: The information collection 

will enable the Evaluation and 

Assessment Capability (EAC) Section 

within NSF to garner quantitative and 

qualitative information that will be used 

to inform programmatic improvements, 

efficiencies, and enhanced program 

monitoring for the Convergence 

Accelerator (CA). This information 

collection, which entails collecting 

information from CA applicants and 

grantees through a series of surveys, 

interviews, and case studies, is in 

accordance with the Agency’s 

commitment to improving service 

delivery as well as the Agency’s 

strategic goal to ‘‘advance the capability 

of the Nation to meet current and future 

challenges.’’ 

For this effort, four survey 

instruments have been developed, each 

of which will include closed-ended and 

open-ended questions to generate 

quantitative and qualitative data. For 

ease of use for our respondent pool, 

each of the four survey instruments will 

be programmed into interactive web 

surveys and distributed to eligible 

respondents by email. The surveys, 

which will serve as a census for all 

applicable CA applicants and/or 

grantees, will be used to collect baseline 

measures at the start of the program and 

vital information on how grantees 

progress through the program. Followup interviews will be conducted with 

project team leaders, such as Principal 

Investigators (PIs) and Principal 

Directors (PDs), and case studies that 

will use a project team as the unit of 

analysis will be used to collect 

qualitatively rich discursive and 

observational information that cannot be 

collected within a web survey. Both 

follow-up interviews and case studies 

will be conducted virtually with the 

possibility of in-person interviews and 

non-participant observation to be held 

in the future. 

NSF/EAC will only submit a 

collection for approval under this 

generic clearance if it meets the 

following conditions: 

Æ The collection is voluntary; 

Æ The collection has a reasonably low 

burden for respondents (based on 

considerations of total burden hours, 

total number of respondents, or burdenhours per respondent) and is low-cost 

for the Federal government; 

Æ The collection is non-controversial 

and does not raise issues of concern for 

other Federal agencies; 

Æ The collection is targeted to the 

solicitation of opinions from 

respondents who have applied to the 

CA program (including those that have 

submitted successful grant applications 

and subsequently received funding); 

Æ Personally identifiable information 

(PII) is collected only to the extent 

necessary; and 

Æ Information gathered will be used 

for the dual and interrelated purposes of 

disseminating information about the CA 

program and using this information to 

make programmatic improvements, 

efficiencies, and enhanced program 

monitoring for the CA. 

Feedback collected under this generic 

clearance provides useful information 

for the continued evolution of the CA 

program, but it may not yield data that 

can be generalized to the overall 

population in all instances. Our 

qualitative data collection activities— 

follow-up interviews and case studies— 

are designed to investigate outlier CA 

teams or CA teams that demonstrate 

exceptional performance or successfully 

overcome significant challenges in their 

work with the CA. While the web 

surveys, which will be deployed at 

different times during the program, will 

collect data that will help the EAC 

monitor trends over time and assess 

overall program performance, the 

follow-up interviews and case studies 

will gather supplemental data that is 

more specific to individual CA teams. 

As a general matter, this information 

collection will not include questions of 

a sensitive nature, such as sexual 

behavior and attitudes, religious beliefs, 

and other matters that are commonly 

considered private. 

Below we provide NSF’s projected 

average estimates for the next three 

years: 

Affected Public: Individuals and 

households, Businesses and other forprofit organizations, Not-for-profit 

institutions, Federal government. 

Average Expected Annual Number of 

Activities: 10. 

Respondents: 300 per activity. 

Annual Responses: 3,000. 

Frequency of Response: Once per 

request. 

Average Minutes per Response: 75. 

Burden Hours: 1,400. 

Comments: Comments are invited on 

(a) whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

Agency, including whether the 

information shall have practical utility; 

(b) the accuracy of the Agency’s 

estimate of the burden of the proposed 

collection of information; (c) ways to 

enhance the quality, utility, and clarity 

of the information on respondents, 

including through the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology; and (d) 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. 

Dated: January 6, 2022. 

Suzanne H. Plimpton, 

Reports Clearance Officer, National Science 

Foundation. 

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