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###### Overseas Private Investment Corporation

# AGENCY:

Overseas Private Investment Corporation.

# ACTION:

 Request for Comments.

# SUMMARY:

                        Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), agencies are required to publish a Notice in the                         **Federal Register**                         notifying the public that the Agency is preparing an information collection request for OMB review and approval and to request public review and comment on the submission. Comments are being solicited on the need for the information, its practical utility, the accuracy of the Agency's burden estimate, and on ways to minimize the reporting burden, including automated collection techniques and uses of other forms of technology. The proposed form under review is summarized below.                    

# DATES:

Comments must be received on or before June 25, 2001.

# ADDRESSES:

Copies of the subject form and the request for review prepared for submission to OMB may be obtained from the Agency Submitting Officer. Comments on the form should be submitted to the Agency Submitting Officer.

# FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

*OPIC Agency Submitting Officer:*                         Carol Brock, Records Manager, Overseas Private Investment Corporation, 1100 New York Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20527; 202/336-8563.                    

## Summary of Form Under Review

*Type of Request:*                        Form Renewal.                    

*Title:*                         Project Information Report.                    

*Form Number:*                         OPIC-71.                    

*Frequency of Use:*                         No more than once per contract.                    

*Type of Respondents:*                         Business or other institutions (except farms).                    

*Standard Industrial Classification Codes:*                         All.                    

*Description of Affected Public:*                         U.S. companies investing overseas.                    

*Reporting Hours:*                         7 hours per project.                    

*Number of Responses:*                         25 per year.                    

*Federal Cost:*                         $1,600 per year.                    

*Authority for Information Collection:*                         Title 22 U.S.C. 2191(k)(2) and 2199(h) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended.                    

*Abstract (Needs and Uses):*                         The project information report is necessary to elicit and record the information on the developmental, environmental, and U.S. economic effects of OPIC-assisted projects. The information will be used by OPIC's staff and management solely                               ( print page 20842)                            as a basis for monitoring these projects, and reporting the results in aggregate form, as required by Congress.                    

Dated: April 19, 2001.

Rumu Sarkar,

Assistant General Counsel, Administrative Affairs, Department of Legal Affairs.

[FR Doc. 01-10248  Filed 4-24-01; 8:45 am]

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