Document ID: DOT-OST-2010-0212-0001
Agency: dot
Document Type: Rule
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Uniform Administrative Requirements For Grants and Cooperative Agreements to State and Local Governments, etc.
Posted Date: 2010-09-03T04:00Z

[Federal Register: September 3, 2010 (Volume 75, Number 171)]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

[Docket No. DOT-OST-2010-0212]

 
Agency Request for Approval of a Previously Approved Information 
Collection(s): Uniform Administrative Requirements for Grants and 
Cooperative Agreements to State and Local Governments and for Grants 
and Cooperative Agreements With Institutions of Higher Education, 
Hospitals, and Other Nonprofit Organizations

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary.

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Transportation (DOT) invites public comments 
about our intention to request Office of Management and Budget (OMB) 
approval to renew a previously approved information collection. This 
information collection involves the use of various forms necessary 
because of management and oversight responsibilities of the agency 
imposed by OMB Circular 2 CFR 215 (A-110) (Uniform Administrative 
Requirements for Grants and Agreements with Institutions of Higher 
Education, Hospitals, and Other Non-Profit Organizations) and OMB 
Circular A-102 (Uniform Administrative Requirements for Grants and 
Cooperative Agreements to State and Local Governments). These forms 
include Application for Federal Assistance (SF-424), Federal Financial 
Report (SF-425), Request for Advance or Reimbursement (SF-270), and 
Outlay Report and Request for Reimbursement for Construction Programs 
(SF-271).
    The Department has terminated Financial Status Report (SF-269 and 
SF-269A) and Federal Cash Transactions Report (SF-272 and SF-272A). The 
information contained in these forms is now consolidated into SF-425, 
which was approved by OMB for Federal-wide use on October 1, 2008 and 
recently revised on June 28, 2010. We are required to publish this 
notice in the Federal Register in accordance with the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13.

DATES: Written comments must be submitted November 2, 2010.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by Docket No. DOT-OST-
2010-0212 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: Ellen Shields, Associate Director of 
the Financial Assistance Management Division, M-65, Office of the 
Senior Procurement Executive, Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department 
of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590, 
(202) 366-4268. Refer to OMB Control Number 2105-0520.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    OMB Control Number: 2105-0520.
    Title: Uniform Administrative Requirements For Grants and 
Cooperative Agreements to State and Local Governments and For Grants 
and Cooperative Agreements with Institutions of Higher Education, 
Hospitals, and Other Nonprofit Organizations.
    Form Numbers: SF-424, SF-425, SF-270, and SF-271.
    Type of Request: Revision of a previously approved collection.
    Abstract: This request combines two previously approved Information 
Collection Requests (ICR) (OMB Control numbers 2105-0531 and 2105-0520) 
into OMB Control Number 2105-0520. The Department is also requesting 
the renewal of information and collection requirements imposed by OMB 
Circular A-110 (Uniform Administrative Requirements for Grants and 
Agreements with Institutions of Higher Education, Hospitals, and Other 
Non-Profit Organizations, which the Department of Transportation 
codified at 49 CFR 18.40, 18.41 and 19), and OMB Circular 102 (Uniform 
Administrative Requirements for Grants and Cooperative Agreements to 
State and Local Governments). OMB provides management and oversight of 
the circulars. OMB also provides for a standard figure of seventy 
burden hours per grantee annually for completion of required forms. 
This collection covers only those DOT programs that utilize the 
standard OMB forms SF-424, SF-425, SF-270, and SF-271. The Department 
requests the Discontinuance of SF-269, SF-269A, SF-272, and SF-272A as 
well as OMB Control Number 2105-0531.
    The Department's request for approval of the Federal Financial 
Report (FFR) (SF-425) is based on the Federal Register notice dated 
August 13, 2008, which states ``As soon as possible after October 1, 
2008, and no later than October 1, 2009, each agency must transition 
from the SF-269, SF-269A, SF-272, and SF-272A to the SF-425, by 
requiring recipients to use the FFR for all financial reports submitted 
after the date it makes the transition. In making the transition, an 
agency would incorporate the requirement to use the FFR into terms and 
conditions of new and ongoing grant and cooperative agreement awards, 
State plans, and/or program regulations that specify financial 
reporting requirements.'' Comments on this notice were received and 
addressed in a Federal Register notice dated August 13, 2008 (72 FR, 
69236). These comments and responses can be found on the OMB Forms Web 
site at http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/grants/grants_standard_report_
forms.html.
    Respondents: Grantees.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 3,329.
    Estimated Frequency: Quarterly.
    Estimated Number of Responses: 10,814.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden: 756,980 hours.
    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. All 
responses to this notice will be summarized and included in the request 
for OMB approval. All comments will also become a matter of public 
record.

    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 August 30, 2010.
Patricia Lawton,
DOT Paperwork Reduction Act Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief 
Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2010-22048 Filed 9-2-10; 8:45 am]
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