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Number of Responses: 68. 

Total Annual Burden: 20 hours and 

$2,000. 

17. Writing and Submitting Narratives 

of Social and Economic Disadvantage 

When Applying for DBE Certification 

Based on an Individualized Showing of 

Disadvantage 

The DBE program is intended to be as 

inclusive as possible while still 

remaining narrowly tailored. 

Individuals who are not members of 

groups whose members are presumed 

socially and economically 

disadvantaged may still qualify for DBE 

certification. Appendix E of the 

regulation states that to demonstrate 

their eligibility, these individuals must 

submit a narrative describing the 

individual’s experiences of social 

disadvantage and a separate narrative in 

which the individual describes why the 

individual is economically 

disadvantaged. This information 

collection is critical for ensuring that 

only fully qualified firms receive DBE 

certification. 

Respondents: DBE certification 

applicants whose owners are not 

presumed socially and economically 

disadvantaged under the DBE 

regulation. 

Number of Respondents: 264. 

Frequency: Once. 

Number of Responses: 264. 

Total Annual Burden: 90 hours and 

$8,000. 

Public Comments Invited: You are 

asked to comment on any aspect of this 

information collection, including (a) 

Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the 

Department’s performance; (b) the 

accuracy of the estimated burden; (c) 

ways for the Department to enhance the 

quality, utility and clarity of the 

information collection; and (d) ways 

that the burden could be minimized 

without reducing the quality of the 

collected information. The agency will 

summarize and/or include your 

comments in the request for OMB’s 

clearance of this information collection. 

Authority: The Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as 

amended; and 49 CFR 1:48. 

Issued in Washington, DC on September 8, 

2021. 

Irene B. Marion, 

Director, Departmental Office of Civil Rights, 

U.S. Department of Transportation. 

[FR Doc. 2021–19940 Filed 9–14–21; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Office of the Secretary 

[Docket No. DOT–OST–2021–0105] 

Agency Request for Renewal of a 

Previously Approved Information 

Collection(s): Disadvantaged Business 

Enterprise (DBE) Program Collections 

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, 

Department of Transportation. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The Department of 

Transportation (DOT) invites public 

comments about our intention to request 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) approval to renew information 

collections associated with DOT’s 

Disadvantaged Business Enterprise 

(DBE) and Airport Concessions DBE 

(ACDBE) program. These collections 

are: Uniform Report of DBE Awards or 

Commitments and Payments, the 

Uniform Certification Application 

(UCA), Annual Affidavit of No Change, 

DOT Personal Net Worth Form, and 

Reporting Requirements for Percentages 

of DBEs in Various Categories. 

DATES: Written comments should be 

submitted by October 15, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

[identified by Docket No. DOT–OST– 

2021–0105] through one of the 

following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Fax: 1–202–493–2251. 

• Mail or Hand Delivery: Docket 

Management Facility, U.S. Department 

of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE, West Building, Room W12– 

140, Washington, DC 20590, between 9 

a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through 

Friday, except on Federal holidays. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Marc Pentino, (202)366–6968, 

marc.pentino@dot.gov, or Aarathi Haig, 

aarathi.haig@dot.gov/Departmental 

Office of Civil Rights, Office of the 

Secretary, U.S. Department of 

Transportation, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE, Washington, DC, 20590 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: All five 

collections were previously approved 

under one OMB Control Number to 

allow DOT to more efficiently 

administer the DBE program. The 

information to be collected is necessary 

because it helps to ensure that State and 

local recipients that let federally funded 

contracts carry out their mandated 

responsibility to provide a level playing 

field for small businesses owned and 

controlled by socially and economically 

disadvantaged individuals. We are 

required to publish this notice in the 

Federal Register by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 

Chapter 35, as amended (Pub. L. 104– 

13). 

OMB Control Number: 2105–0510. 

Title: Disadvantaged Business 

Enterprise Program Collections. 

Form Numbers: Not applicable. 

Type of Review: Renewal of an 

information collection. 

Background: DOT’s DBE program is 

mandated by statute, including Section 

1101(b) of the Fixing America’s Surface 

Transportation Act (FAST Act) (Pub. L. 

114–94) and 49 U.S.C. 47113. The 

Department’s final regulations 

implementing these statutes are 49 CFR 

parts 23 and 26. The program is 

implemented by recipients of DOT 

financial assistance (State highway 

agencies, transit authorities, and 

airports). 

The ‘‘Uniform Report of DBE Awards 

or Commitments and Payments’’ is 

necessary for the Department to be able 

to carry out its oversight 

responsibilities. It implements statutory 

reporting requirements and 49 CFR 

26.11 and 26.47. 

The ‘‘Uniform Certification 

Application Form’’ is required under 49 

CFR 26.83(c)(2) and is necessary for 

determining whether a particular firm 

qualifies for DBE certification. 

The ‘‘Annual Affidavit of No Change’’ 

is mandated under 49 CFR 26.83(j) and 

is necessary to ensure the integrity of 

the DBE program that requires DBEs 

annually state that they remain eligible 

for the program. 

The ‘‘Personal Net Worth Form’’ is 

necessary to implement the requirement 

found in 49 CFR 26.67(a)(2) that a firm 

applying for DBE status must certify that 

the personal net worth of the 

disadvantaged owner(s) on whom the 

firm relies for certification eligibility 

does not exceed the current limit of 

$1.32 million. 

The ‘‘Percentages of DBEs in Various 

Categories’’ collection is necessary to 

implement a long-standing statutory 

requirement calling on States to report 

annually, a list of small businesses 

certified as DBEs that are owned and 

controlled by socially and economically 

disadvantaged individuals, most 

recently included at section 

1101(b)(4)(A) and (B) of the FAST Act. 

Submission of this information will also 

satisfy 49 CFR 26.11(e). 

The information collections support 

one of DOT’s strategic objectives of 

mission efficiency and support. The 

collection also helps ensure that State 

and local recipients that let federally 

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mandated responsibility to ensure that 

only eligible small businesses owned 

and controlled by socially and 

economically disadvantaged individuals 

may compete for such contracts. 

Uniform Report of DBE Awards/ 

Commitments and Payments 

Respondents: State and local 

recipients of DOT funds. 

Number of Respondents: 1,198 

recipients. 

Frequency: Once/twice a year. 

Number of Responses: 1,198 (one per 

recipient). 

Total Annual Burden: 315 hours and 

$61,000. 

Uniform Certification Application Form 

Respondents: Firms applying for 

initial DBE or ACDBE certification. 

Number of Respondents: 9,500. 

Frequency: Once during initial 

certification. 

Number of Responses: 9,500 (one per 

respondent). 

Total Annual Burden: 40 hours and 

$2,000. 

Annual Affidavit of No Change 

Respondents: Firms that have DBE or 

ACDBE certification. 

Number of Respondents: 45,525 

(41,800 DBEs and 3,725 ACDBEs). 

Frequency: Once per year. 

Number of Responses: 45,525 (one per 

respondent). 

Total Annual Burden: 91,050 hours (2 

hours/respondent * 45,525 respondents) 

and $4,552,500 ($100/respondent * 

45,525 respondents). 

Personal Net Worth Form 

Respondents: Firms applying for DBE 

or ACDBE certification. 

Number of Respondents: 9,500. 

Frequency: Once. 

Number of Responses: 9,500. 

Total Annual Burden: 95,000 hours 

(10 hours/respondent * 9,500 

respondents) and $28.5 million ($150/ 

hour x 10 hours/respondent = $1,500/ 

respondent; $1,500/respondent * 9,500 

respondents = $14.25 million). 

Percentage of DBEs in Various 

Categories 

Respondents: States (through their 

Unified Certification Programs). 

Number of Respondents: 53 (50 states, 

plus the District of Columbia, Puerto 

Rico, and the Northern Mariana 

Islands). 

Frequency: Once per year. 

Number of Responses: 53. 

Total Annual Burden: 180 hours and 

$10,000. 

Public Comments Invited: You are 

asked to comment on any aspect of this 

information collection, including (a) 

Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the 

Department’s performance; (b) the 

accuracy of the estimated burden; (c) 

ways for the Department to enhance the 

quality, utility and clarity of the 

information collection; and (d) ways 

that the burden could be minimized 

without reducing the quality of the 

collected information. The agency will 

summarize and/or include your 

comments in the request for OMB’s 

clearance of this information collection. 

Authority: The Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as 

amended; and 49 CFR 1.48. 

Issued in Washington, DC on September 8, 

2021. 

Irene B. Marion, 

Director, Departmental Office of Civil Rights, 

U.S. Department of Transportation. 

[FR Doc. 2021–19938 Filed 9–14–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–9X–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Community Development Financial 

Institutions Fund 

Notice of Information Collection and 

Request for Public Comment 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of the 

Treasury, as part of its continuing effort 

to reduce paperwork and respondent 

burden, invites the general public and 

other Federal agencies to take this 

opportunity to comment on proposed 

and/or continuing information 

collections, as required by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 

Currently, the Community Development 

Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund, a 

wholly owned government corporation 

within the Department of the Treasury, 

is soliciting comments concerning the 

CDFI Bond Guarantee Program’s 

information collection. The CDFI Bond 

Guarantee Program proposes minor 

revisions to the existing approved forms 

and is seeking approval for a Tertiary 

Loan Monitoring (TLM) Report. 

DATES: Written comments should be 

received on or before November 15, 

2021 to be assured of consideration. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all comments to 

Susan Suckfiel, CDFI Bond Guarantee 

Program Manager, at the Community 

Development Financial Institutions 

Fund, U.S. Department of the Treasury, 

at bgp@cdfi.treas.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: You 

may request a copy of the Tertiary Loan 

Monitoring Report and current 

information collection by emailing 

Susan Suckfiel, CDFI Bond Guarantee 

Program Manager, at bgp@cdfi.treas.gov. 

Requests for additional information 

should be directed to Susan Suckfiel, 

CDFI Bond Guarantee Program Manager, 

at the Community Development 

Financial Institutions Fund, U.S. 

Department of the Treasury, 1500 

Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20220, (202) 653–0421, option 5 (not 

a toll-free number), or by email to bgp@

cdfi.treas.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

information collection currently 

includes the following applications and 

reports: (1) Qualified Issuer Application 

(including, Appendix QI–2E), (2) 

Guarantee Application (including, 

Appendices A–2A, A–2C, and B–ID), (3) 

Secondary Loan Requirements 

Certification, (4) Financial Condition 

Monitoring (FCM) Report, (5) Pledged 

Loan Monitoring (PLM) Report, (6) 

Annual Assessment Report, and (7) 

Secondary Loan Commitment Form. 

Regarding the minor edits, for the 

Pledged Loan Monitoring Report, there 

is an additional field, column (14f) the 

‘Pledged Loan Date’; also, several 

unused fields were removed. For the 

Secondary Loan Commitment Form, the 

following additional rows were added to 

the signature line: Bond Identifier, 

Reviewing Official Name, and 

Approving Official Name. The 

Guarantee Application was updated to 

reflect a new year (2021) application 

round and new application deadlines. 

The minor revisions to the Guarantee 

Application are: the addition of a 

clarifying paragraph regarding 

applications which are deferred until a 

subsequent application round, updated 

AMIS charts and instructions, a 

reference to the new sample template to 

the Term Sheet, and the deletion of 

references to additional collateral 

requirements and third party support 

that are no longer applicable. Lastly, the 

Qualified Issuer application received 

the following minor updates: references 

to a new year (2021) application round, 

new application deadlines, and AMIS 

charts and instructions. The proposed 

Tertiary Loan Report will provide the 

CDFI Fund with information to monitor 

this type of collateral for the program 

that otherwise is not collected. 

The total information collection: (1) 

Qualified Issuer Application, (2) 

Guarantee Application, (3) Secondary 

Loan Requirements Certification, (4) 

Financial Condition Monitoring Report, 

(5) Pledged Loan Monitoring Report, (6) 

Tertiary Loan Monitoring Report, (7) 

Annual Assessment Report, and (8) 


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