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OMB Control No: 3045-0035	ICR Reference No: 202104-3045-002
Status: Historical Active	Previous ICR Reference No: 202103-3045-005
Agency/Subagency: CNCS	Agency Tracking No:
Title: Senior Corps Grant Application
Type of Information Collection: No material or nonsubstantive change to a currently approved collection	Common Form ICR: No
Type of Review Request: Emergency	Approval Requested By: 03/17/2021
OIRA Conclusion Action: Approved without change	Conclusion Date: 04/30/2021
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA)	Date Received in OIRA: 04/30/2021
Terms of Clearance:

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	09/30/2021	09/30/2021	09/30/2021
Responses	5,650	0	2,350
Time Burden (Hours)	20,020	0	18,370
Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0

Abstract: The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) doing business as AmeriCorps, has submitted an emergency modification to a currently approved public information collection request (ICR) entitled Senior Corps Grant Application for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Pub. L. 104-13, (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). The proposed modification will collect information regarding alternative service plans of AmeriCorps Senior grantees.

Emergency Justfication: AmeriCorps Seniors provides grants to organization to engage Americans 55 years and older in volunteer service. AmeriCorps Seniors knows that due to the continued impact of COVID-19, AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers may continue to be unable to serve. AmeriCorps Seniors FGP and SCP grantees have been authorized to continue to pay AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers who are unable to serve a temporary allowance through March 31, 2021. The temporary allowance may be discontinued following this date, following an OMB review of the situation. Information from the survey – detailing how many volunteers are still unable to serve and potential vaccine affect on volunteers’ ability to serve – will be useful in making a determination to extend the temporary allowance. During COVID-19 grantees were to put in place a plan and structure – i.e. infrastructure, training, electronic equipment – that supports AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers in FGP and SCP service in an alternative manner and complies with each programs’ statutory and regulatory requirements. OMB has requested information about service activities during COVID-19. Existing reporting mechanisms – grant applications, progress reports, financial reports - were not sufficient to get at this information. Public harm is reasonably likely to occur if normal clearance procedures are followed and if the temporary pay allowance is not extended past March 31, 2021. The temporary pay allowance is crucial to helping preserve the volunteer workforce who are trained and experienced service providers and to minimize potential service disruptions. It is also vital to ensuring the continuity of service for these programs. AmeriCorps Seniors runs the risk that volunteers will leave, not return, and that grantees will cease from seeking to engage in national service. There is also the very real economic costs associated by senior volunteers – all of which are below 200% of the poverty line. For these seniors, their stipend is vital to getting their prescriptions, getting to doctor appointments, ensuring payment of their utilities, etc. This is needed more than ever due to the exceptional circumstances of COVID-19.

Authorizing Statute(s): PL: Pub.L. 106 - 170 5001 Name of Law: Domestic Volunteer Service Act (DVSA) as Amended
   PL: Pub.L. 106 - 170 5011 Name of Law: Domestic Volunteer Service Act (DVSA) as Amended
   PL: Pub.L. 106 - 170 5013 Name of Law: Domestic Volunteer Service Act (DVSA) as Amended
   PL: Pub.L. 106 - 170 5082 Name of Law: Domestic Volunteer Service Act (DVSA) as Amended

Citations for New Statutory Requirements: None

Associated Rulemaking Information
RIN:	Stage of Rulemaking:	Federal Register Citation:	Date:
	Not associated with rulemaking

Federal Register Notices & Comments
30-day Notice:	Federal Register Citation:	Citation Date:
	86 FR 14318	03/15/2021
Did the Agency receive public comments on this ICR? No

ICR Summary of Burden

	Total Approved	Previously Approved	Change Due to Agency Discretion
Annual Number of Responses	5,650	2,350	3,300
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	20,020	18,370	1,650
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0

Burden increases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: Yes

Burden Increase Due to: Miscellaneous Actions

Burden decreases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: No

Burden Reduction Due to:

Short Statement: The burden has increased because we will be asking the questions every two months through the end of September rather than just one time. This is the only change in this request for nonsubstantive change; the instrument and burden per response remains the same.

Annual Cost to Federal Government: $15,609

Does this IC contain surveys, censuses, or employ statistical methods? No

Does this ICR request any personally identifiable information (see OMB Circular No. A-130 for an explanation of this term)? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination. No

Does this ICR include a form that requires a Privacy Act Statement (see 5 U.S.C. §552a(e)(3))? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination. No

Is this ICR related to the Affordable Care Act [Pub. L. 111-148 & 111-152]? No

Is this ICR related to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, [Pub. L. 111-203]? No

Is this ICR related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)? No

Is this ICR related to the Pandemic Response? Yes

Agency Contact: Amy Borgstrom 202 606-6930 aborgstrom@cns.gov

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