Department of Commerce
Economic Development Administration
The Department of Commerce will submit the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, on or after the date of publication of this notice. We invite the general public and other Federal agencies to comment on proposed, and continuing information collections, which helps us ( printed page 48061) assess the impact of our information collection requirements and minimize the public's reporting burden. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register on May 15, 2026 during a 60-day comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
Agency: Economic Development Administration, Department of Commerce.
Title: Non-Infrastructure Metrics.
OMB Control Number: 0610-0098.
Form Number(s): ED-915, ED-916.
Type of Request: Regular submission (extension with revision).
Number of Respondents: 750.
Average Hours per Response: 2.5 hours.
Burden Hours: 1,475.
Affected Public: EDA-funded grantees: State, local and tribal governments; community organizations; non-profit organizations; Indian Tribes; Institution of Higher Education or a consortium of institutions of higher education.
Frequency: Annually.
Respondents' Obligation: Mandatory for all non-infrastructure and infrastructure award recipients.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to Public: $96,878 (cost assumes application of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics 2025 mean hourly employer costs for employee compensation for professional and related occupations of $65.68).
Needs and Uses: EDA's expansive portfolio of programs, changing technology, and advances in the field of program evaluation require comprehensive and relevant data collection to increase EDA's transparency, accountability, and inform the effectiveness of its investments. Thus, EDA proposes revising forms ED-916, ED-917, and ED-918, which are currently used to collect performance information from EDA grantees, and extending the ED-915. This revision also includes consolidating the ED-916, ED-917, and ED-918 into one streamlined data collection (the ED-916) that reduces the number of questions in order to prioritize measurement of return on investment and decrease participant burden. For the ED-915, EDA proposes to extend the data collection with no revision to the current instrument. These data collection instruments cover EDA's infrastructure and non-infrastructure program portfolios thereby providing EDA with a comprehensive view and helping ensure investments are evidence-based, data-driven, and accountable to participants and the public.
Legal Authority: The Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 3121 et seq.).
This information collection request may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov. Follow the instructions to view the Department of Commerce collections currently under review by OMB.
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information collection should be submitted within 30 days of the publication of this notice on the following website www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular information collection by selecting “Currently under 30-day Review—Open for Public Comments” or by using the search function and entering either the title of the collection or the OMB Control Number 0610-0098.
Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental PRA Compliance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary of Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.