20004 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 82 / Thursday, April 30, 2009 / Notices 

PEACE CORPS 

Notice of Public Use Form Review 

Request to the Office of Management 

and Budget 

AGENCY: Peace Corps. 

ACTION: Notice of public use form 

review request to the Office of 

Management and Budget. (Renewal with 

minimal text changes in the previously 

approved collection of OMB Control 

Number 0420–0005, Peace Corps 

Application.) 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1981 (44 U.S.C., 

Chapter 35), the Peace Corps has 

submitted to the Office of Management 

and Budget a request for renewal of 

information collection, OMB Control 

Number 0420–0005, the Peace Corps 

Volunteer Application. This is a 

renewal of an active OMB Control 

Number. The purpose of this notice is 

to allow for public comments on 

whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

Peace Corps, including whether the 

information will have practical use; the 

accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the 

burden of the proposed collections 

information, including the validity of 

the methodology and assumptions used; 

ways to enhance the quality, utility and 

the 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 automated collection 

techniques, when appropriate, and other 

forms of information technology. A copy 

of the proposed information collection 

form may be obtained from Ms. Dorothy 

Sullivan, Office of Volunteer Recruit 

and Selection, Operations Division, 

Recruitment Support Branch, Peace 

Corps, 1111 20th Street, NW., Room 

3157, Washington, DC 20526. Ms. 

Sullivan can be contacted by telephone 

at 202–692–1873 or 800–424–8580 ext 

1873 or e-mail at 

dsullivan@peacecorps.gov. Comments 

on the updated electronic version of this 

application should also be addressed to 

the attention of Ms. Sullivan and should 

be received on or before sixty days from 

June 29, 2009. 

Need for and Use of this Information: 

This use of this application completed 

voluntarily by potential Peace Corps 

Volunteers in order to identify 

prospective applicants and process the 

applicants for Volunteer service. This 

information, which is gathered by an 

electronic on-line version of the 

previous used paper form, is used to 

determine qualifications and potential 

for placement of applicants, in 

fulfillment of the first goal of the Peace 

Corps as required by Congressional 

legislation and to enhance the Peace 

Corps Volunteer process. 

Respondents: Potential Peace Corps 

Volunteers. 

Respondent’s Obligation to Reply: 

Voluntary. 

Burden on the Public: 

a. Annual reporting burden: 320,000 

hours. 

b. Annual recordkeeping burden: 0 

hours. 

c. Estimated average burden per 

response: 8 hours. 

d. Frequency of response: One time. 

e. Estimated number of likely 

respondents: 40,000. 

f. Estimated cost to respondents: $0. 

Dated: April 21, 2009. 

Garry Stanberry, 

Deputy Associate Director for Management. 

[FR Doc. E9–9929 Filed 4–29–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

PEACE CORPS 

Notice of Information Collection for 

Review by OMB and Public Comment 

on Peace Corps’ Intention To Conduct 

a Survey of and Focus Groups With 

Returned Peace Corps Volunteers 

AGENCY: Peace Corps. 

ACTION: Notice of information collection 

for review by OMB and public comment 

on Peace Corps’ Intention to Conduct A 

Survey of and Focus Groups with 

Returned Peace Corps Volunteers. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act, this notice 

invites the public to comment on the 

collection of information by the Peace 

Corps and gives notice of the Peace 

Corps’ intention to request Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

approval of the information collection. 

The Peace Corps’ Office of Strategic 

Information, Research and Planning 

wishes to survey a sample of Returned 

Peace Corps Volunteers about their incountry experience, post-service 

transition, post-service education and 

career, and their third core goal 

activities of promoting a better 

understanding of other peoples on the 

part of Americans. In concert with the 

survey, the Peace Corps’ Office of 

Strategic Information, Research and 

Planning also wishes to conduct focus 

groups with Returned Peace Corps 

Volunteers (RPCVs) about their postservice education and career. The data 

collected from both the survey and the 

focus groups will inform agency 

programming and help the Agency to 

assess, based on analysis of this updated 

and objective data, the extent of RPCVs’ 

cross-cultural activities with their 

family, friends, and communities 

throughout the United States with 

whom RPCVs come in contact. The data 

will be used specifically by the Office of 

Domestic Programs to review the range 

and type of services and support rated 

as useful by RPCVs. The data will be 

used by the Peace Corps’ Office of 

Strategic Information, Research and 

Planning to support Agency level 

reporting. Submit comments on or 

before sixty days from June 29, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Comments should be 

addressed to Susan Jenkins, Office of 

Strategic Information, Research and 

Planning, Peace Corps, 1111 20th Street, 

NW., Washington, DC 20526. Dr. 

Jenkins can be contacted by telephone at 

202–692–1241 or e-mail at 

SJenkin2@peacecorps.gov. E-mail 

comments must be made in text and not 

in attachments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Susan Jenkins, Office of Strategic 

Information, Research and Planning, 

Peace Corps, 1111 20th Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20526. 

Need For and Use of This 

Information: The survey is the fourth in 

a series of Returned Peace Corps 

Volunteer surveys that have been 

administered approximately every ten 

years. This iteration will be a voluntary, 

Web-based survey to gather information 

about Volunteers’ in-country 

experience, post-service transition, postservice education and career, and their 

third goal activities of promoting a 

better understanding of other peoples on 

the part of Americans. The data will be 

used to assess the range and type of 

services available to RPCVs, improve 

Peace Corps operations (e.g., 

recruitment for the Peace Corps 

Response program), and support Agency 

level performance reporting. Where 

possible, data will be compared across 

surveys to look for trends over time. 

Data will be collected from a simple 

random sample of Returned Peace Corps 

Volunteers sufficient to gather data with 

a 99 percent confidence level and a 

confidence interval of plus or minus 5. 

The focus group questions focus on a 

subset of the topics asked about through 

the survey. Specifically, the focus 

groups will provide more detailed 

responses from RPCVs about the effect 

of the Peace Corps on their subsequent 

career choices and paths. 

Respondents: Returned Peace Corps 

Volunteers. 

Respondents’ Obligation To Reply: 

Voluntary. 

Burden on the Public: