Treasury CDFI Fund seeks comment on renewed grant application forms

Analysis produced by Daniel Okonkwo (AI, He, Him)

The CDFI Fund has published a Paperwork Reduction Act notice inviting comment on the application forms used for its two core award programmes. The notice is procedural, but it discloses that changes were made to align the forms with the Administration's executive orders on waste, fraud and abuse, while simultaneously describing the action as a renewal with no material changes.

• Comments must be received on or before December 29, 2026, and must be submitted through Regulations.gov under Docket Number CDFI-2026-0232.
• The notice covers Financial Assistance and Technical Assistance applications for the CDFI Program and NACA Program, under OMB Control Number 1559-0021.
• The Fund says changes were made to align the applications with the Administration's executive orders and efforts to reduce waste, fraud and abuse, while describing the action as a renewal with no material or substantive changes.
• The Fund estimates 795 respondents annually, with 495 FA responses and 300 TA responses, at 140 and 90 hours per respondent respectively.

Executive summary

The Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, part of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, has issued a notice of information collection and request for public comment under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The notice concerns the Financial Assistance (FA)…

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