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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: 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. 

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. 

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 

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 may be 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 on-line, 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: Request for approval 

of a new collection. 

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: 

10,000. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

Total Estimated Annual Responses: 

20,000. 

Estimated Average Time per 

Response: 20 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 400,000 hours. 

Total Estimated Annual Other Cost 

Burden: $0. 

Stephen O’Neill, 

Legislative and Regulatory Division, OBPA– 

USDA. 

[FR Doc. 2022–06642 Filed 3–29–22; 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 (1) 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; (2) the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of burden including 

the validity of the methodology and 

assumptions used; (3) ways to enhance 

the quality, utility and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and (4) 

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 April 29, 2022 

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/ 

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. 

An agency may not conduct or 

sponsor a collection of information 

unless the collection of information 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number and the agency informs 

potential persons who are to respond to 

the collection of information that such 

persons are not required to respond to 

the collection of information unless it 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number. 

Office of Partnerships and Public 

Engagement 

Title: USDA/1890 National Scholars 

Program Application. 

OMB Control Number: 0503–0015. 


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Summary of Collection: The USDA/ 

1890 National Scholars Program is a 

joint human capital initiative between 

the U.S. Department of Agriculture 

(USDA) and the 1890 Historically Black 

Land-Grant Universities. Through the 

1890 National Scholars Program, USDA 

offers scholarships to high school and 

college students who are seeking a 

bachelor’s degree in the fields of 

agriculture, food, science, or natural 

resource sciences and related 

disciplines at one of the established 

1890 Land-Grant Universities. A 

completed application is required for 

graduating high school students, college 

freshman and sophomores to be 

considered for the scholarship. 

Need and Use of the Information: The 

first section of the high school 

application requests the applicant to 

include biographical information (i.e., 

name, address, age, etc.); educational 

background information (i.e., grade 

point average, test scores, name of 

university(ies) interested in attending, 

and desired major); and extracurricular 

activities. The second section of the 

application is completed by the 

student’s guidance counselor and 

requests information pertaining to the 

student’s academic status, grade point 

average, and test scores. The last section 

of the application, which is to be 

completed by a teacher, provides 

information assessing the applicant’s 

interests, habits, and potential. 

The first section of the college 

application requests the applicant to 

include biographical information (i.e., 

name, address, age, etc.); educational 

background information) i.e., grade 

point average, name of university 

currently attending and declared major); 

activities. The second section of the 

application requires the submission of a 

transcript; essay containing 500–800 

words; two letters of recommendation 

submitted on behalf of the applicant. 

There are no sections included in the 

application that the letter writing 

officials will need to complete. 

The information will be used to assist 

the selecting agencies in their process of 

identifying potential recipients of the 

scholarship. The program would not be 

able to function consistently without 

this annual collection. 

Description of Respondents: 

Individuals or households. 

Number of Respondents: 2,000. 

Frequency of Responses: Reporting: 

Annually. 

Total Burden Hours: 4,000. 

Dated: March 24, 2022. 

Ruth Brown, 

Departmental Information Collection 

Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2022–06623 Filed 3–29–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3412–88–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Census Bureau 

Census Scientific Advisory Committee 

AGENCY: Census Bureau, Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Renewal of the Census 

Scientific Advisory Committee charter. 

SUMMARY: The Census Bureau is 

publishing this notice to announce the 

renewal of the Census Scientific 

Advisory Committee (Committee or 

CSAC). The purpose of the Committee is 

to provide advice to the Director of the 

Census Bureau on the full range of 

Census Bureau programs and activities 

including communications; decennial, 

demographic, and economic statistics; 

field operations; geography; and 

information technology. Additional 

information concerning the Committee 

can be found by visiting the 

Committee’s website at: https://

www.census.gov/about/cac/sac.html. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Shana J. Banks, Advisory Committee 

Branch Chief, Office of Program, 

Performance and Stakeholder 

Integration (PPSI), shana.j.banks@

census.gov, Department of Commerce, 

Census Bureau, telephone 301–763– 

3815. For TTY callers, please use the 

Federal Relay Service at 1–800–877– 

8339. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

In accordance with the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (FACA), the 

Secretary of the Department of 

Commerce (Secretary) intends to renew 

the CSAC. The Secretary has 

determined that the work of the 

Committee is in the public interest and 

relevant to the duties of the Census 

Bureau. The CSAC will operate under 

the provisions of FACA and will report 

to the Secretary through the Director of 

the Census Bureau. The CSAC will 

advise the Director of the Census Bureau 

on the full range of Census Bureau 

programs and activities. 

Objectives and Duties 

1. The Committee will address census 

policies, research and methodology, 

tests, operations, communications/ 

messaging, and other activities to 

ascertain needs and best practices to 

improve censuses, surveys, operations, 

and programs. 

2. The Committee will provide formal 

review and feedback on internal and 

external working papers, reports, and 

other documents related to the design 

and implementation of census programs 

and surveys. 

3. The Committee will provide 

scientific and technical expertise from 

the following disciplines: 

Demographics, economics, geography, 

psychology, statistics, survey 

methodology, social and behavorial 

sciences, information technology and 

computing, marketing and other fields 

of expertise, as appropriate, to address 

Census Bureau program needs and 

objectives. 

4. The Committee functions solely as 

an advisory body under the FACA. The 

function of this Committee will be a 

‘‘Scientific Technical Program Advisory 

Board.’’ 

Membership 

1. The Committee consists of up to 21 

members who serve at the discretion of 

the Director of the Census Bureau. 

2. The Committee aims to have a 

balanced representation among its 

members, considering such factors as 

geography, scientific expertise, 

community involvement, and 

knowledge of census programs and/or 

activities, and, where possible, the 

Census Bureau will also consider the 

ethnic, racial, and gender diversity and 

various abilities of the United States 

population. 

3. The Committee aims to include 

members from diverse backgrounds, 

including state, local and tribal 

governments; academia; research, 

national and community-based 

organizations; and, the private sector. 

4. Members will serve as Special 

Government Employees (SGEs). SGEs 

will be subject to the ethics rules 

applicable to SGEs. Members will be 

individually advised of the capacity in 

which they will serve through their 

appointment letters. 

5. SGEs will be selected from 

academia, public and private enterprise, 

and nonprofit organizations, which are 

further diversified by business type or 

industry, geography, and other factors. 

6. Membership is open to persons 

who are not seated on other Census 

Bureau stakeholder entities (i.e., State 

Data Centers, Census Information 

Centers, Federal State Cooperative on 

Populations Estimates Program, other 

Census Advisory Committees, etc.). 

Members who have served on another 

Census Bureau advisory committee may 

not be reappointed or serve on the 


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