[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 123 (Friday, June 26, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36772-36773]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-15706]
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COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR SEVERELY DISABLED
Notice of AbilityOne Nonprofit Agency Recordkeeping Requirements
AGENCY: Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely
Disabled.
ACTION: Notice of recordkeeping requirements.
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SUMMARY: The Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or
Severely Disabled (Committee) has submitted the collection of
information listed below to OMB for approval under the provisions of
the Paperwork Reduction Act. This notice solicits comments on that
collection of information.
DATES: Submit your written comments on the information collection on or
before August 26, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments on the requirement to Lou Bartalot,
Director of Compliance, Committee for Purchase From People Who Are
Blind or Severely Disabled, 1401 South Clark Street, Suite 715,
Arlington, VA 22202; fax (703) 603-0655; or email
[email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request additional information
contact Lou Bartalot or Amy Jensen at information in above paragraph.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Regulations at 5 CFR part 1320, which implement provisions of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), require that
interested members of the public and affected agencies have an
opportunity to comment on information collection and recordkeeping
activities (see 5 CFR
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1320.8(d)). The Committee plans to submit a request to OMB to approve
the collection of information for nonprofit agency responsibilities
related to recordkeeping. The Committee is requesting a 3-year term of
approval for this information collection activity.
Federal agencies may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not
required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays
a currently valid OMB control number. The OMB control number for this
collection of information is 3037-0014.
The Javits-Wagner-O'Day (JWOD) Act of 1971 (41 U.S.C. 8501 et seq.)
is the authorizing legislation for the AbilityOne Program. The
AbilityOne Program creates jobs and training opportunities for people
who are blind or who have other significant disabilities. Its primary
means of doing so is by requiring Government agencies to purchase
selected products and services from nonprofit agencies employing such
individuals. The AbilityOne Program is administered by the Committee.
Two national, independent organizations, National Industries for the
Blind (NIB) and SourceAmerica, help state and private nonprofit
agencies participate in the AbilityOne Program.
The implementing regulations for the JWOD Act, which are located at
41 CFR chapter 51, detail the recordkeeping requirements imposed on
nonprofit agencies participating in the AbilityOne Program. Section 51-
2.4 of the regulations describes the criteria that the Committee must
consider when adding a product or service to its Procurement List. One
of these criteria is that a proposed addition must demonstrate a
potential to generate employment for people who are blind or
significantly disabled. The Committee decided that evidence that
employment will be generated for those individuals consists of
recordkeeping that tracks direct labor hours and revenues for products
or services sold through an AbilityOne Program contract. This
recordkeeping can be done on each individual AbilityOne project or by
product or service family.
In addition, section 51-4.3 of the regulations requires that
nonprofit agencies keep records on direct labor hours performed by each
worker and keep an individual record or file for each individual who is
blind or significantly disabled, documenting that individual's
disability and capabilities for competitive employment. The records
that nonprofit agencies must keep in accordance with section 51-4.3 of
the regulations constitute the bulk of the hour burden associated with
this OMB control number.
This information collection request seeks approval for the
Committee to continue to ensure compliance with recordkeeping
requirements established by the authority of the JWOD Act and set forth
in the Act's implementing regulations and to ensure that the Committee
has the ability to confirm the suitability of products and services on
its Procurement List. The recordkeeping requirements described in this
document are the same as those previously imposed on nonprofit agencies
participating in the AbilityOne Program under OMB control number 3037-
0005.
Title: Nonprofit Agency Responsibilities, 41 CFR 51-2.4 and 51-4.3.
OMB Control Number: 3037-0014.
Description of Collection: Recordkeeping.
Description of Respondents: Nonprofit agencies participating in the
AbilityOne Program.
Annual Number of Respondents: About 570 nonprofit agencies will
annually participate in recordkeeping.
Total Annual Burden Hours: The recordkeeping burden is estimated to
average 567 hours per respondent. Total annual burden is 354,375 hours.
We invite comments concerning this information collection on: (1)
Whether the collection of information is necessary for the proper
performance of our agency's functions, including whether the
information will have practical utility; (2) the accuracy of our
estimate of the burden of the collection of information; (3) ways to
enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be
collected; and (4) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of
information on respondents.
Dated: June 23, 2015.
Barry S. Lineback,
Director, Business Operations.
[FR Doc. 2015-15706 Filed 6-25-15; 8:45 am]
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