[Federal Register: January 22, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 13)]
[Notices]               
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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE

 
Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request

AGENCY: Corporation for National and Community Service.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Corporation for National and Community Service 
(hereinafter the ``Corporation''), as part of its continuing effort to 
reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a pre-clearance 
consultation program to provide the general public and federal agencies 
with an opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing 
collections of information in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction 
Act of 1995 (PRA95) (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)). This program helps to 
ensure that requested data can be provided in the desired format, 
reporting burden (time and financial resources) is minimized, 
collection instruments are clearly understood, and the impact of 
collection requirement on respondents can be properly assessed.
    Currently, the Corporation is soliciting comments concerning its 
proposed renewal of the Presidential

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Freedom Scholarship application. These applications are used by high 
school students and a school representative to be considered for a 
scholarship.
    Copies of the information collection requests can be obtained by 
contacting the office listed in the address section of this notice.

DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the individual and office 
listed in the ADDRESSES section by March 23, 2007.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by the title of the 
information collection activity, by any of the following methods:
    (1) By mail sent to: Corporation for National and Community 
Service, Learn and Serve America; Attention Elson Nash, Associate 
Director for Project Management, Room 9605, 1201 New York Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20525.
    (2) By hand delivery or by courier to the Corporation's mailroom at 
Room 6010 at the mail address given in paragraph (1) above, between 9 
a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
    (3) By fax to: (202) 565-2787, Attention Elson Nash.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Elson Nash, (202) 606-6834, or by e-
mail at enash@cns.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Corporation is particularly interested 
in comments that:
     Evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the 
burden of the proposed collection of information, including the 
validity of the methodology and assumptions used; Enhance the quality, 
utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and
     Minimize the burden of the collection of information on 
those who are expected to respond, including the use of appropriate 
automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection 
techniques or other forms of information technology (e.g., permitting 
electronic submissions of responses).

Background

    The Presidential Freedom Scholarship Application is completed by an 
applicant interested in obtaining a scholarship for community service 
activities. The application is completed through the Web or it can be 
downloaded and faxed.

Current Action

    The Corporation seeks to renew the current application. The 
application document will not be altered in any way from the 
previously-approved application. Information collected on this form 
will be used for scholarship selection.
    Type of Review: Renewal.
    Agency: Corporation for National and Community Service.
    Title: Presidential Freedom Scholarship application.
    OMB Number: 3045-0088.
    Agency Number: None.
    Affected Public: Prospective scholarship recipients.
    Total Respondents: 8000 (4000 students, 4000 counselors).
    Frequency: Annually.
    Average Time per Response: 20 minutes.
    Estimated Total Burden Hours: 2,667 hours.
    Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): 0.
    Total Burden Cost (operating/maintenance): $350,000.
    Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized 
and/or included in the request for Office of Management and Budget 
approval of the information collection request; they will also become a 
matter of public record.

    Dated: January 12, 2007.
Amy Cohen,
Director, Learn and Serve America.
[FR Doc. E7-739 Filed 1-19-07; 8:45 am]