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Received	2025-10-17
OMB Control #	0651-0069
Previous ICR	202507-0651-007

Federal Register Notices

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The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, which was enacted into law on September 16, 2011, provided for many changes to the procedures of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB” or “Board,” formerly the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences) procedures. These changes included the introduction of inter partes review, post-grant review, derivation proceedings, and the transitional program for covered business method patents. Under these administrative trial proceedings, third parties may file a petition with the PTAB challenging the validity of issued patents, with each proceeding having different requirements regarding timing restrictions, grounds for challenging validity, and who may request review. Inter partes review is a trial proceeding conducted at the Board to review the patentability of one or more claims in a patent only on a ground that could be raised under §§ 102 or 103, and only on the basis of prior art consisting of patents or printed publications. Post grant review is a trial proceeding conducted at the Board to review the patentability of one or more claims in a patent on any ground that could be raised under § 282(b)(2) or (3). A derivation proceeding is a trial proceeding conducted at the Board to determine whether (1) an inventor named in an earlier application derived the claimed invention from an inventor named in the petitioner’s application, and (2) the earlier application claiming such invention was filed without authorization. The transitional program for covered business method patents is a trial proceeding conducted at the Board to review the patentability of one or more claims in a covered business method patent. The covered business method program expired on September 16, 2020 and the Board no longer accepts new petitions related to this program, but continues to accept papers in previously-instituted proceedings. This information collection covers information submitted by the public to petition the Board to initiate an inter partes review, post-grant review, derivation proceeding, and the transitional program for covered business method patents, as well as any responses to such petitions, and the filing of any motions, replies, oppositions, and other actions, after a review/proceeding has been instituted.

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Received	2025-10-17
OMB Control #	1545-0988
Previous ICR	202301-1545-019

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Owners of residential low-income rental buildings may claim a low-income housing credit for each qualified building over a 10-year credit period. Form 8609 can be used to obtain a housing credit allocation from the housing credit agency. Form 8609, along with Form 8609-A, is used by the owner to certify necessary information required by the law. The private sector and government agencies, such as housing credit agencies, are affected groups.

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Received	2025-10-16
OMB Control #	1850-0928
Previous ICR	202507-1850-004

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The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), is a federally authorized survey of student achievement at grades 4, 8, and 12 in various subject areas, such as mathematics, reading, writing, science, U.S. history, and civics. The National Assessment of Educational Progress Authorization Act (Pub. L. 107–279, title III, section 303) requires the assessment to collect data on specified student groups and characteristics, including information organized by race/ethnicity, sex, socio-economic status, disability, and limited English proficiency. It requires fair and accurate presentation of achievement data and permits the collection of background, noncognitive, or descriptive information that is related to academic achievement and aids in fair reporting of results. The intent of the law is to provide representative sample data on student achievement for the nation, the states, and subpopulations of students and to monitor progress over time. NAEP consists of two assessment programs: the NAEP long-term trend (LTT) assessment and the main NAEP assessment. The LTT assessments are given at the national level only and are administered to students at ages 9, 13, and 17 in a manner that is very different from that used for the main NAEP assessments. LTT reports mathematics and reading results that present trend data since the 1970s. In addition to the operational assessments, NAEP uses two other kinds of assessment activities: pilot assessments and special studies. Pilot assessments test items and procedures for future administrations of NAEP, while special studies (e.g., the Middle School Transcript Study (MSTS), and the High School Transcript Study (HSTS)) are opportunities for NAEP to investigate particular aspects of the assessment without impacting the reporting of the NAEP results.  This request is a second Amendment to the initially approved NAEP 2026 Clearance Package (OMB# 1850-0928 v.36) to conduct NAEP in 2026, specifically: (1) Main NAEP operational assessments will include for grades 4 and 8 (first administration of the new frameworks for reading and mathematics), grade 8 (civics and U.S. history); in Puerto Rico, grades 4 and 8 mathematics will be the only subject assessed and will include the new framework; (2) Pilot testing in grades 4, 8, and 12 (reading and mathematics); in Puerto Rico, grades 4 and 8 mathematics will be the only subject assessed. All documents in this package are the finalized materials to be used for the data collection in early 2026. Specifically, this Amendment includes the following updates: 1. Appendix D: updates to the eNAEP Download Center and the preassessment guides, 2. Appendices J1, J2, J3, J-S: editorial updates to several survey questionnaire items, 3. Appendix C: the sampling memo, and 4. Appendix I: all finalized AMS screens that will be accessed and used by school staff for the NAEP assessment. As of April 2025, NCES’s assurances of confidentiality protections for NAEP 2026 have changed due to recent staffing changes at the Department of Education. NCES has removed the Foundations of Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018, Title III, Part B, Confidential Information Protection (‘‘CIPSEA’’) as a confidentiality assurance. However, confidentiality assurances under the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 (ESRA) remain in effect.

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Received	2025-10-16
OMB Control #	1506-0083
Previous ICR	202505-1506-001

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FinCEN issued a final rule that requires U.S. financial institutions to notify their foreign correspondent account holders that they may not provide Huione Group with access to correspondent accounts maintained at the U.S. financial institution. The requirement is intended to ensure cooperation from correspondent account holders in preventing Huione Group’s access to the U.S. financial system. U.S. financial institutions are required to document compliance with the notification requirement.

Key Information

Received	2025-10-15
Concluded	2025-10-15
Expires	2026-02-28
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	7100-0302
Previous ICR	202302-7100-005

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The survey data are used to gather information to enable the Federal Reserve System (System) to carry out its policy and operational responsibilities. Under the guidance of the Board, Reserve Banks survey business contacts as economic developments warrant. Usually, these voluntary surveys are conducted by telephoning or e-mailing purchasing managers, economists, or other knowledgeable individuals at selected, relevant businesses. Reserve Banks may also use online survey tools to collect responses to the survey. The frequency and content of the questions, as well as the entities contacted, vary depending on developments in the economy. These surveys are conducted to provide Board members and Reserve Bank presidents real-time insights into economic conditions. The Board tailors these survey questions to match current concerns and interests, but they are not meant to supplant the more rigorous, existing economic reporting. The Board collects individual responses from the Reserve Banks and then distributes aggregate information to Board members and Reserve Bank presidents.

Key Information

Received	2025-10-15
Concluded	2025-10-15
Expires	2028-10-31
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	7100-0289
Previous ICR	202509-7100-009

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The Board’s Regulation A - Extensions of Credit by Federal Reserve Banks (12 CFR Part 201) states that a Reserve Bank shall require any information it believes appropriate or desirable to ensure that each discount window borrower uses the credit provided in a manner consistent with Regulation A. Regulation A also requires that each Reserve Bank shall keep itself informed of the general character and amount of loans and investments of a depository institution. Balance sheet data are collected on the FR 2046 report from certain institutions that borrow from the discount window in order to monitor discount window borrowing.

Key Information

Received	2025-10-10

Federal Register Notices

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EPA is proposing several new reporting and recordkeeping requirements or changes as part of the proposed rule. First, to implement the final rules subcategories, under CWA sections 304(i) and 308, this final rule includes changes to the individual reporting and recordkeeping requirements of section 423.19. In particular, EPA is adding an additional component to the annual progress reports under the subcategory for EGUs permanently ceasing coal combustion. EPA is adding reporting and recordkeeping requirements to facilitate evaluation of CRL discharges through groundwater. Second, to increase transparency for impacted communities, EPA requiring all steam electric plants subject to the reporting and recordkeeping requirements of 423.19(d)(k) to post this reporting and recordkeeping information to a public-facing website.

Key Information

Received	2025-10-08
OMB Control #	1910-5179
Previous ICR	202410-1910-001

Federal Register Notices

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The proposed data collection will explore employment related to energy, including electric power generation, electric power transmission, distribution, and storage; energy efficiency, including heating, cooling and building envelope; fuels; and motor vehicles production. The purpose is to quantify that employment, and its distribution among different sources of energy and the technologies. This effort will collect data necessary to extrapolate this information by primary value chain activity. It will also collect information on demographics and hiring security.

Key Information

Received	2025-10-06
Concluded	2025-10-06
Expires	2026-02-28
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	7100-0289
Previous ICR	202302-7100-011

Federal Register Notices

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The Board’s Regulation A - Extensions of Credit by Federal Reserve Banks (12 CFR Part 201) requires that Reserve Banks review balance sheet data in determining whether to extend credit and to help ascertain whether undue use is made of such credit. Balance sheet data are collected on the FR 2046 report from certain institutions that borrow from the discount window in order to monitor discount window borrowing.

Key Information

Received	2025-10-03
OMB Control #	1557-0231
Previous ICR	202208-1557-003

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The OCC conducts an annual data collection, known as the Money Laundering Risk (MLR) System, from community banks (which include both national banks and federal savings associations) and trust banks to assist OCC examiners in supervising Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and sanctions compliance. The MLR System enhances the ability of examiners and bank management to identify and evaluate BSA/money laundering and Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctions risks associated with banks’ products, services, customers, and geographies. At this time, the OCC is requesting to renew the MLR System community bank data collection.

Key Information

Received	2025-10-03
OMB Control #	2060-0734
Previous ICR	202401-2060-001

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This information collection is authorized under the AIM Act (Section 103 in Division S, Innovation for the Environment, of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (Pub. L. 116- 260)). Consistent with the AIM Act’s mandate that on a periodic basis, to be determined by the Administrator, but not less frequently than annually, each person who, within the applicable reporting period, produces, imports, exports, destroys, transforms, uses as a process agent, receives application-specific allowances, repackages, recycles for fire suppression, or reclaims a regulated substance shall submit to the Administrator reports and maintain records. The reports describe, as applicable, the quantity of the regulated substance that the person—produced, imported, and exported; destroyed by a technology approved by the Administrator; used and entirely consumed (except for trace quantities) in the manufacture of another chemical; used as a process agent; or recycled and reclaimed. Further, anyone who receives application-specific allowances (via allocation, transfer, or conferral) must report on the conferral or transfer of allowances, their use of allowances, and request application-specific allowances annually, if needed and eligible. Additional records must be maintained, as are additional reports to document compliance.

Key Information

Received	2025-10-02
OMB Control #	0920-1428
Previous ICR	202410-0920-016

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The purpose of the mChoice project is to rigorously evaluate the use of provider and patient education and support tools in clinical settings to increase PrEP screening, counseling, initiation, adherence, and persistence by MSM. This research project will involve interaction with human participants and intends to collect new individually identifiable data and biospecimens from the participants. This project is considered human subjects research and will be covered by the Paperwork Reduction Act. The mChoice intervention will target healthcare providers and PrEP users. The study will provide training to healthcare providers to improve knowledge of PrEP clinical guidelines and enhance provider communications with their patients. PrEP users will receive CleverCap, an electronic medication monitoring device that is linked to the CleverCap mobile phone application that provides medication dispensing information and reminders to support medication adherence, as well as health information and appointment reminders. This non-substantive change request is submitted to modify data collection documents for compliance with EO 14168 following Reinstatement. The burden remains the same.

Key Information

Received	2025-10-02
OMB Control #	0693-0103

Key Information

Received	2025-10-01
OMB Control #	2132-0561
Previous ICR	202206-2132-004

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This ICR requests an extension without change for OMB Control No. 2132-0561, Fixed Guideway Capital Investment Grants (CIG) Program (49 U.S.C. § 5309). The CIG program provides discretionary funding for fixed-guideway projects such as rapid rail, commuter rail, light rail, streetcar, ferry, and corridor-based bus rapid transit that emulate rail features. Program applicants (state and local governments, transit agencies) must submit multi-year, multi-step project information annually to demonstrate eligibility and compete for funding. Required submissions include project background, operating and maintenance cost estimates, project justification (mobility and congestion benefits, land use and environmental impacts), and documentation of local financial commitment. FTA staff and contracted reviewers use the information to evaluate, rate, and advance projects through the CIG process. There have been no statutory or programmatic changes to the collection; however, a data-driven reassessment of respondent activities and time estimates has reduced the estimated burden hours in this submission. Labor rates have been updated.

Key Information

Received	2025-10-01
OMB Control #	0938-1310
Previous ICR	202111-0938-008

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Section 156.220 of Title 45 of the Code of Federal Regulations establishes new standards for qualified health plan (QHP) issuers to submit specific information related to transparency in coverage. QHPs are required to post and make are established for the submission of specific information data related to transparency in coverage available to the public in plain language and submit this data to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Exchange, and the State insurance commissioner and for posting this information to make it available to the public in plain language. Section 2715A of the Public Health Service Act as added by the ACA largely extends the transparency provisions set forth in section 1311(e)(3) to non-grandfathered group health plans and health insurance issuers offering group and individual health insurance coverage.

Key Information

Received	2025-10-01
OMB Control #	0938-1217
Previous ICR	202204-0938-012

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Under sections 1401, 1411, and 1412 of the Affordable Care Act and 45 CFR part 155 subpart D, an Exchange makes an advance determination of tax credit eligibility for individuals who enroll in QHP coverage through the Exchange and seek financial assistance. Using information available at the time of enrollment, the Exchange determines whether the individual meets the income and other requirements for advance payments and the amount of the advance payments that can be used to pay premiums. Advance payments are made periodically under section 1412 of the Affordable Care Act to the issuer of the QHP in which the individual enrolls. Section 1402 of the Affordable Care Act provides for the reduction of cost sharing for certain individuals enrolled in a QHP through an Exchange, and section 1412 of the Affordable Care Act provides for the advance payment of these reductions to issuers. The statute directs issuers to reduce cost sharing for essential health benefits for individuals with household incomes between 100 and 400 percent of the Federal poverty level (FPL) who are enrolled in a silver level QHP through an individual market Exchange and are eligible for advance payments of the premium tax credit. Health insurance issuers will manually enter enrollment and payment data into a Microsoft Excel-based spreadsheet, and submit the information to HHS. The data collection will be used by HHS to make payments or collect charges from issuers under the following programs: advance payments of the premium tax credit, advanced cost-sharing reductions, and Marketplace user fees. HHS will use the information collected to make payments and collect charges in January 2014 and for a number of months thereafter, as may be required based on HHS's operational progress.

Key Information

Received	2025-09-30
OMB Control #	0910-0773
Previous ICR	202206-0910-007

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The Food and Drug Administration is establishing requirements for shippers, carriers by motor vehicle and rail vehicle, and receivers engaged in the transportation of food, including food for animals, to use sanitary transportation practices to ensure the safety of the food they transport. This action is part of our larger effort to focus on prevention of food safety problems throughout the food chain and is part of our implementation of the Sanitary Food Transportation Act of 2005 (2005 SFTA) and the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act of 2011 (FSMA).

Key Information

Received	2025-09-30
OMB Control #	0930-0208
Previous ICR	202411-0930-001

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SAMHSA uses the performance measures to report on the performance of its discretionary services grant programs. This information is collected using a client tool that provides CSAT the capacity to report for all of its discretionary program: particular populations served, numbers of people served, types and locations of particular activities supported, effectiveness across programs for particular populations, the characteristics and effectiveness across programs of activities relative to national, subpopulation and geographic area data and trends.

Key Information

Received	2025-09-30
OMB Control #	0910-0750
Previous ICR	202206-0910-008

Federal Register Notices

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This ICR collects information from recognized accreditation bodies and accredited auditors/certification bodies regarding food and feed products of eligible entities that offer their food or feed for import to the United States. Eligible entities will participate in FDA Third Party program to obtain food safety audits and certifications from third party auditors/certification bodies on an annual basis for the purpose of verifying that the food is produced in compliance with applicable regulations.

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Received	2025-09-30
OMB Control #	0915-0247
Previous ICR	202210-0915-007

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The Children’s Hospitals Graduate Medical Education (CHGME) Payment Program provides Federal support for graduate medical education to freestanding children’s hospitals. Eligible children’s hospitals receive payments for both direct and indirect medical education. Data based on the number of FTE residents trained in applicant children’s hospital and teaching health center training programs is needed to determine the amount of graduate medical education payments to be distributed to participating children’s hospitals and teaching health centers. Children’s hospitals and teaching health centers applying for and receiving CHGME Payment Program and THCGME Program funds and fiscal intermediaries auditing data submitted by the participating children’s hospitals and teaching health centers are the anticipated respondents. If this data is not collected, HRSA will have no means to monitor grantees, verify grantee reporting, or determine grantee eligibility for CHGME funding.