24648 Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 80 / Tuesday, April 26, 2022 / Notices 

Dated: April 20, 2022. 

John A. Lipold, 

Designated Federal Official, IRSAC. 

[FR Doc. 2022–08766 Filed 4–25–22; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request; Application, 

Evaluation Design Plan, Reports, and 

Recordkeeping for the Social Impact 

Partnerships To Pay for Results Act 

(SIPPRA) Grant Program 

AGENCY: Office of Economic Policy, 

Department of the Treasury (Treasury). 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: Treasury, as part of its 

continuing effort to reduce paperwork 

and respondent burden, invites the 

general public and affected federal 

agencies to comment on the proposed 

information collections listed below, in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. Treasury’s Office 

of Economic Policy is soliciting 

comments concerning the application, 

evaluation design plan, report, and 

recordkeeping forms to be used for the 

Social Impact Partnerships to Pay for 

Results Act (SIPPRA). 

DATES: Written comments must be 

received on or before June 27, 2022 to 

be assured of consideration. This 

process is conducted in accordance with 

5 CFR part 1320. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments regarding 

the burden estimate, or any other aspect 

of the information collection, including 

suggestions for reducing the burden, to 

Treasury PRA Clearance Officer, 1750 

Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Suite 8100, 

Washington, DC 20220, or email at 

PRA@treasury.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Copies of the submissions may be 

obtained from Spencer W. Clark by 

emailing PRA@treasury.gov, calling 

(202) 927–5331, or viewing the entire 

information collection request at 

www.reginfo.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request; Application, 

Evaluation Design Plan, Reports, and 

Recordkeeping for the Social Impact 

Partnerships to Pay for Results Act 

(SIPPRA) Grant Program. 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) Control Number: 1505–0260. 

Type of Review: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Description: SIPPRA, enacted 

February 9, 2018, amends Title XX of 

the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. 1397 

et seq., to provide $100 million in 

funding to implement social impact 

partnership projects’’ (projects) and 

feasibility studies for such projects. 

SIPPRA authorizes the Secretary of the 

Treasury to enter into award agreements 

with state or local governments for 

projects or feasibility studies. Treasury, 

in consultation with other federal 

agencies, administers the SIPPRA grant 

program. 

SIPPRA authorizes Treasury to 

conduct a request for proposals for 

projects, make award determinations, 

and enter into project award 

agreements. Treasury intends to publish 

a Notice of Funding Availability 

(NOFA) seeking applications for 

projects and anticipates that ten or more 

persons will respond to its NOFA 

announcing availability of funding for 

SIPPRA projects. 

Although Treasury is asking 

applicants to use the SF–424 and SF– 

425 families of common forms for their 

applications and reports, Treasury also 

expects to solicit additional detailed 

information from applicants to 

effectively and efficiently assess and 

evaluate whether applications for 

projects comply with statutory 

requirements. This request includes 

only the burden for this additional 

information. The burden for the SF–424 

forms is covered under OMB Control 

Numbers 4040–0004, 4040–0006, 4040– 

0007, 4040–0008, 4040–0009, 4040– 

0010, and 4040–0013. The burden for 

the SF–425 form is covered under OMB 

Control Number 4040–0014. The 

additional information includes the 

following components: 

• SAM.gov registration; 

• Notice of Intent to Apply (optional); 

• Project Narrative, to include an 

Executive Summary; 

• Project Narrative Attachments, to 

include project budget, narrative 

statement addressing partnership 

agreements, an estimate of the value to 

the federal government of the 

interventions being proposed in the 

project, partner qualifications, 

independent evaluator qualifications, 

evaluation design plan, independent 

evaluator contract, outcome valuation 

(for which Treasury’s SIPPRA website 

will provide guidance to assist 

applicants), legal compliance, and 

(optional) additional supporting 

documentation such as a preexisting 

feasibility study; 

• Treasury Office of Civil Rights and 

Diversity Assurances and Certifications, 

Terms and Conditions, and Compliance 

Data; 

• Additional documentation related 

to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act; 

• Copy of application proposing 

privileged or confidential information to 

be redacted; 

• Administrative Reporting, 

including a Quarterly Performance 

Report, Evaluation Progress Reports, 

and Final Evaluation Report; and 

• Records Retention requirements. 

Use of the Data 

The information collected under this 

NOFA: (1) Identifies eligible recipients 

and activities; (2) helps identify which 

applications sufficiently address all 

statutory requirements and which 

proposed projects are the most 

competitive; (3) determines the 

appropriate amount of funding; (4) 

allows evaluation of compliance with 

SIPPRA and Federal laws and policies 

on grants (e.g., Office of Management 

and Budget’s Uniform Administrative 

Requirements, Cost Principles, and 

Audit Requirements for Federal Awards 

2 CFR part 200, (herein OMB Uniform 

Guidance); Title VI of the Civil Rights 

Act); (5) tracks recipients’ progress; and 

(6) collects statutorily mandated reports 

prepared by recipients’ contracted 

independent evaluators. 

• The Notice of Intent is optional; it 

will assist Treasury and the Federal 

Interagency Council on Social Impact 

Partnerships (Interagency Council) in 

estimating the number of applications to 

be received, and thus, enable them to 

conduct intake and evaluation of 

applications as efficiently and 

economically as possible. 

• The application Executive 

Summary will assist Treasury and the 

Interagency Council in streamlining the 

processing of applications and in 

optimizing the eligibility phase of 

application review. The application 

standard forms, Project Narrative, and 

Project Narrative attachment 

components of the grant application are 

intended to provide Treasury with the 

information necessary to properly 

evaluate and assess whether 

applications include statutorily 

mandated information. Additionally, 

certain components of the application, 

in particular the evaluation design plan 

and outcome valuation, will enable the 

Interagency Council to determine 

whether to make statutorily mandated 

certifications regarding the proposed 

projects. 

• SAM.gov registration is required 

under the OMB Uniform Guidance. 

• To comply with the OMB Uniform 

Guidance performance and financial 

monitoring and reporting requirements, 

2 CFR 200.328–200.330, Treasury 

intends to require a quarterly 


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performance and annual financial report 

from grant recipients. SIPPRA requires 

that recipients submit progress reports 

prepared by an independent evaluator 

on a periodic basis and before the 

scheduled time of outcome payments. 

42 U.S.C. 1397n–4(d). SIPPRA also 

requires that recipients submit a final 

report prepared by an independent 

evaluator within six months of a 

project’s completion. 42 U.S.C. 1397n– 

4(e). Per the statute, Treasury will use 

these reports to determine if outcome 

payments are warranted. 

• Treasury intends to require 

recipients under this NOFA to comply 

with the OMB Uniform Guidance’s 

record retention requirement, 2 CFR 

200.334, which requires them to 

maintain records for three years after 

grant close-out. 

SIPPRA establishes a Commission on 

Social Impact Partnerships 

(Commission) whose principal 

obligation is to make recommendations 

to Treasury regarding the funding of 

SIPPRA projects and feasibility studies. 

42 U.S.C. 1397n–6. The Commission is 

subject to the provisions of the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (FACA), which 

generally requires that documents made 

available to the Commission be made 

available for public inspection and 

copying. 5 U.S.C. app. section 10(b). 

Treasury may provide to the 

Commission all complete applications 

received under this NOFA from eligible 

applicants and would make all such 

applications available for public 

inspection and copying. However, 

FACA also provides that trade secrets 

and commercial or financial information 

that is privileged or confidential 

(confidential business information) 

under the Freedom of Information Act 

(FOIA) need not be made publicly 

available. 5 U.S.C. 552(b)(4). To assist 

Treasury in complying with FACA’s 

public disclosure requirements while 

protecting confidential business 

information in accordance with FOIA, 

Treasury expects to request applicants 

to propose redactions of confidential 

business information. An applicant may 

omit pages for which it does not 

propose any redactions. Treasury 

expects to review the redactions 

proposed by each applicant. 

Also, applicants must provide 

qualifications of key project personnel 

and partners. Applicants may 

voluntarily provide curriculum vitae for 

key project personnel and partners, but 

the application will not require that 

personally identifiable information (PII) 

is collected. 

Planned Revisions to the Data 

Collection 

For several reasons, Treasury expects 

to make a number of changes in the 

second SIPPRA NOFA relative to the 

first SIPPRA NOFA. Treasury 

understands that Congress intended for 

SIPPRA to be a demonstration program, 

which suggests that trying different 

strategies and approaches in the second 

NOFA and comparing them to those 

used in the first NOFA may be 

consistent with congressional intent. 

Treasury also believes that the revisions 

it plans may increase the number of 

applications it receives, reduce the 

burden on applicants and stakeholders, 

reduce application review time, and 

enhance the success of projects. 

Treasury is interested in receiving 

comments on applicants’ experiences 

with the application process under the 

first NOFA and suggestions on revisions 

Treasury should consider in the second 

NOFA to make the application and 

application review process more userfriendly and efficient. The most salient 

revisions Treasury plans to make in the 

second NOFA are addressed below. 

• Treasury anticipates providing 

more guidance, expanded FAQs, and 

additional online resources to 

prospective applicants for the second 

NOFA. More specifically, Treasury 

plans to expand its guidance on 

evaluation plan design, causal impact 

measurement requirements, and quasiexperimental design criteria. Treasury 

anticipates the guidance it plans to 

provide in the second NOFA will 

reduce applicants’ burden during the 

application process and recipients’ 

burden throughout the project 

performance period. Treasury also 

anticipates this guidance will be one 

means by which Treasury and the 

Interagency Council may be able to 

reduce application review time. 

• Treasury also plans to replace the 

outcome valuation methodology, budget 

impact analysis, required in the first 

NOFA, with a different methodology, 

benefit-cost analysis. Treasury is 

planning on making this change because 

testing different approaches to value 

determination may help broaden 

insights in valuation practices in the 

pay for success field. 

• Through its outreach with Federal 

agencies and external stakeholders, 

Treasury has identified the need to 

make the application and the 

application review process more 

efficient for all parties. Treasury invites 

suggestions and specific strategies and 

efficiencies that Treasury may 

incorporate into the second NOFA that 

will increase administrative efficiencies 

to the extent permitted under the statute 

and other federal laws and regulations. 

• Under the first NOFA, Treasury 

provided applicants three months from 

the date of NOFA publication in the 

Federal Register to submit their 

applications. In the second NOFA, 

Treasury anticipates providing 

approximately five months from the 

date of publication for applicants to 

submit their applications. Treasury is 

interested in learning whether 

prospective applicants favor a shorter 

window of time to submit their 

applications, which would leave more 

time for project implementation, or 

conversely, if they favor a longer 

application timeframe (e.g., five or six 

months), which would give applicants 

more time to submit their applications, 

but less time for project 

implementation. (The statute does not 

permit Treasury to obligate funds 

beyond February 2028. Treasury is 

interested in an approach that provides 

an applicant sufficient time to submit an 

application while still providing 

sufficient project implementation time.) 

Affected Public: State, Local, or Tribal 

Governments. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

25. 

Frequency of Response: Once; on 

occasion. 

Estimated Total Number of Annual 

Responses: 25. 

Estimated Time per Response: 359 

hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 8,975 hours. 

Request for Comments: Comments 

submitted in response to this notice will 

be summarized and included in the 

request for OMB approval. All 

comments may become a matter of 

public record. Comments are invited on: 

(a) Whether the 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 collection of 

information; (c) ways to enhance the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; (d) ways to 

minimize the burden of the collection of 

information on respondents, including 

through the use of technology; and (e) 

estimates of capital or start-up costs and 

costs of operation, maintenance, and 

purchase of services required to provide 

information. 


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24650 Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 80 / Tuesday, April 26, 2022 / Notices 

Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq. 

Catherine Wolfram, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Climate and 

Energy Economics. 

[FR Doc. 2022–08858 Filed 4–25–22; 8:45 am] 

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Notice of Open Public Hearing 

AGENCY: U.S.-China Economic and 

Security Review Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of open public hearing. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of the 

following hearing of the U.S.-China 

Economic and Security Review 

Commission. The Commission is 

mandated by Congress to investigate, 

assess, and report to Congress annually 

on ‘‘the national security implications of 

the economic relationship between the 

United States and the People’s Republic 

of China.’’ Pursuant to this mandate, the 

Commission will hold a public hearing 

in Washington, DC on May 12, 2022 on 

‘‘China’s Activities and Influence in 

South and Central Asia.’’ 

DATES: The hearing is scheduled for 

Thursday, May 12, 2022 at 9:30 a.m. 

ADDRESSES: This hearing will be held 

with panelists and Commissioners 

participating in-person or online via 

videoconference. Members of the 

audience will be able to view a live 

webcast via the Commission’s website at 

www.uscc.gov. Also, please check the 

Commission’s website for possible 

changes to the hearing schedule. 

Reservations are not required to attend 

the hearing. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any 

member of the public seeking further 

information concerning the hearing 

should contact Jameson Cunningham, 

444 North Capitol Street NW, Suite 602, 

Washington DC 20001; telephone: 202– 

624–1496, or via email at jcunningham@

uscc.gov. Reservations are not required 

to attend the hearing. 

ADA Accessibility: For questions 

about the accessibility of the event or to 

request an accommodation, please 

contact Jameson Cunningham via email 

at jcunningham@uscc.gov. Requests for 

an accommodation should be made as 

soon as possible, and at least five 

business days prior to the event. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background: This is the fifth public 

hearing the Commission will hold 

during its 2022 report cycle. This 

hearing will address China’s activities 

and influence in South Asia and Central 

Asia and the implications for U.S. 

interests. The hearing will start by 

examining China’s economic goals and 

security concerns in Pakistan and 

Afghanistan as well as shifts in China’s 

policy toward the region since the 

return of Taliban rule in Afghanistan. 

Next, the hearing will evaluate China’s 

growing presence as an economic and 

security partner in Central Asia and the 

implications for the China-Russia 

relationship. The hearing will then 

explore China’s growing influence in 

continental South Asia, including how 

it shapes China-India competition and 

affects states near the Sino-Indian 

border such as Nepal, Bhutan, and 

Bangladesh. Finally, the hearing will 

examine China’s strategic interests and 

advances in the Indian Ocean, including 

its economic engagement with Sri Lanka 

and the Maldives. 

The hearing will be co-chaired by 

Commissioner Carolyn Bartholomew 

and Commissioner Randall Schriver. 

Any interested party may file a written 

statement by May 12, 2022 by 

transmitting to the contact above. A 

portion of the hearing will include a 

question and answer period between the 

Commissioners and the witnesses. 

Authority: Congress created the U.S.- 

China Economic and Security Review 

Commission in 2000 in the National 

Defense Authorization Act (Pub. L. 106– 

398), as amended by Division P of the 

Consolidated Appropriations 

Resolution, 2003 (Pub. L. 108–7), as 

amended by Public Law 109–108 

(November 22, 2005), as amended by 

Public Law 113–291 (December 19, 

2014). 

Dated: April 20, 2022. 

Daniel W. Peck, 

Executive Director, U.S.-China Economic and 

Security Review Commission. 

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