80 FR 68296 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 213 (November 4, 2015)

[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 213 (Wednesday, November 4, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 68296-68297]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-28043]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    The Department of Commerce will submit to the Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB) for clearance the following proposal for collection of 
information under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 
U.S.C. Chapter 35).
    Agency: Minority Business Development Agency
    Title: Online Customer Relationship Management (CRM)/Performance 
Databases, Online Phoenix Database, and Online Opportunity Database.
    OMB Control Number: 0640-0002.
    Form Number(s): 0640-002.
    Type of Request: Regular Submission.
    Number of Respondents: 29,206.
    Average Hours per Response: 1 to 210 minutes depending upon 
function.
    Burden Hours: 4,496.
    Needs and Uses: This request is for a revision with change to a 
current information collection. This revision continues an existing 
collection but adds a revised form to be used by the MBDA Business 
Centers. As part of its national service delivery system, MBDA awards 
cooperative agreements each year to fund the provision of business 
development services to eligible minority business enterprises (MBEs). 
The recipient of each cooperative agreement is competitively selected 
to operate one of the following business center programs: (1) An MBDA 
Business Center or (2) an American Indian Alaska Native (AIAN) Center. 
In accordance with the Government Performance Results Act (GPRA), MBDA 
requires all center operators to report basic client information, 
service activities and progress on attainment of program goals via the 
online CRM/Performance Databases. The data collected through the Online 
CRM/Performance Databases is used to regularly monitor and evaluate the 
progress of MBDA's funded centers, to provide the Department and OMB 
with a summary of the quantitative information that it requires about 
government supported programs, and to implement the GPRA. This 
information is also summarized and included in the MBDA Annual 
Performance Report, which is made available to the public, and may be 
used to support federal government research studies regarding minority 
business development issues.
    Additionally, the AINA program award recipients are required to 
maintain content for the CRM/Performance system and the Phoenix and 
other available online tools. The content registered in the Phoenix and 
other online business databases is used to match those registered MBEs 
with opportunities entered in the online databases by public and 
private sector entities. The MBEs may also self-register via the Online 
Phoenix Database for notification of potential business opportunities.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations; not-
for-profit institutions; individuals or households; Federal, State, 
Local or Tribal governments.
    Frequency: On occasion, semi-annually, annually.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    This information collection request may be viewed at reginfo.gov. 
Follow the instructions to view Department of

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Commerce collections currently under review by OMB.
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice 
to [email protected] or fax to (202) 395-5806.

    Dated: October 30, 2015.
Glenna Mickelson,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2015-28043 Filed 11-3-15; 8:45 am]
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