Supporting Statement for the New Hire Information Collection (FR 27; OMB No. 7100-0375)

The Board proposes to revise the FR 27 by removing the direct deposit section from the New Hire Portal and ask the respondent to provide that information after their New Employee Orientation (NEO). [...] Thus, instead of the new hire providing his or her name, home address or other personnel information several different times on various hardcopy forms, such information is automatically populated across all of the relevant sections of the New Hire Portal after this information is initially provided for the first section of the portal (e.g., the Fingerprint Card Information section and the Federal. [...] In addition, respondents provide information in the New Hire Portal that is used for the FEGLI form and for the “Designation of Beneficiary Unpaid Compensation of Deceased Employee” form, and respondents hired as Governors or Board officers also provide information in the New Hire Portal for use on the “Executive Death and Dismemberment Benefit for Officers and Governors” form. [...] Proposed Revisions to the FR 27 The Board proposes to remove the Direct Deposit section from the New Hire Portal and ask the respondent to provide that information after their NEO. [...] However, if certain information requested as part of the New Hire Information Collection is not provided by the new hire, the hiring process cannot be completed.2 Generally, information collected as part of the New Hire Information Collection will be kept confidential from the public under exemption 6 of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), which protects information that “would constitute a cle.