No
material or nonsubstantive change to a currently approved
collection
No
Emergency
06/05/2023
08/30/2023
Requested
Previously Approved
12/31/2023
12/31/2023
845
845
30,352
30,352
0
0
Section 604 of the Social Security Act
(the “Act”), as added by section 9901 of the American Rescue Plan
Act of 2021, Pub. L. No. 117-2 (Mar. 11, 2021) authorized the
Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund (“CPF”). The CPF provides $10
billion in funding for the Department of the Treasury (“Treasury”)
to provide grant payments to States (defined to include the
District of Columbia and Puerto Rico), seven territories and freely
associated states (including the United States Virgin Islands,
Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana
Islands, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States
of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau), and Tribal governments
to carry out critical capital projects directly enabling work,
education, and health monitoring, including remote options, in
response to the public health emergency with respect to the
Coronavirus Disease (“COVID-19”). Section 604(b) of the Act
prescribes that the $10 billion be allocated to eligible grant
recipients according to a formula provided in the statute. Treasury
has used this formula to calculate the CPF grant fund allocations
for each eligible recipient and has posted these allocations on its
website . In general, each State (including the District of
Columbia and Puerto Rico) will receive between approximately $107
million and $500 million, each of the seven named territories and
freely associated states will receive approximately $14 million,
and each Tribal government will receive approximately $167,000.
Treasury has previously received approval under OMB #1505-0274 for
information collections related to applying for CPF grant awards
(“Applications”) and for specifying the use of funds (“Grant
Plans”) The current information collection will be used to solicit
information related to quarterly project and expenditure reports
and annual performance reports. Both information collections are
described generally in the Compliance and Reporting Guidance. The
Compliance and Reporting Guidance provides recipients information
needed to fulfill their reporting requirements and compliance
obligations. Treasury will also prepare an IT portal user guide
with specific instructions on entering data into the reporting
web-based portal.
Pursuant to the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) procedures established at 5 C.F.R. §
1320.13, the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) requests
emergency processing for a revision of the Coronavirus Capital
Projects Fund (CPF) information collection (OMB Control Number
1505-0277). The revision is to make two additions to the Capital
Projects Fund (CPF) reporting requirements. The new fields request
that award recipients provide Federal Communications Commission
(FCC) identifiers in order to uniquely identify the precise
location of broadband projects receiving funding. The changes
adding these two fields are identical for States and Tribal
recipients. We expect our recipients to have these FCC identifiers
on-hand already, and so there is no change in the estimated burden.
• Provider ID. The Provider ID is the identifier that the FCC
assigns to every Internet service Provider (ISP). Any entity
responsible for a broadband implementation project already has this
number, and Treasury is collecting those numbers to comply with FCC
requirements. • Fabric ID. The Broadband DATA Act required the FCC
to make a national map of broadband service at the location level.
FCC licensees have access to the so-called “fabric”, a database of
all serviceable locations. The Fabric ID is assigned to every
“broadband serviceable location” in the fabric. For example, an
apartment building which is broadband serviceable will have a
unique Fabric ID assigned by the FCC. CPF recipients who are
completing broadband projects are required to provide the Fabric
IDs for the locations that they are serving. Section 60105 of the
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (P.L. 117-58) required the
FCC to establish an online mapping tool with broadband locations
funded by Federal agencies. The FCC first provided agencies with
specifications for submitting data to this map in March 2023, which
indicated that the Provider ID and Fabric ID would be required (and
that latitude/longitude could not be used as a substitute to the
Fabric ID for identifying location). As a result, CPF reporting
guidance has to be updated to match those specifications for Q2
reporting, which is due by July 1, 2023. CPF award recipients must
receive sufficient information about their reporting requirements
in advance of the deadline, so approval of this revision is
requested by June 5, 2023. Treasury cannot reasonably comply with
the normal clearance procedures under 5 CFR 1320.13(a)(2) because
of the need to comply with recently issued FCC guidance when
collecting the next quarterly reports. Given the inability to seek
public comment during such a short timeframe, Treasury requests a
waiver from the requirement to publish notice in the Federal
Register seeking public comment.
Jeremy Turret 202 615-5272
jeremy.turret@treasury.gov
No
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.