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The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Labor Market Information (LMI) Cooperative Agreement application package includes all information needed by the State Workforce Agencies to apply for funds to assist them in operating one or more of the four LMI programs operated by the BLS, and, once awarded, report on the status of obligation and expenditure of funds, as well as close out the Cooperative Agreement.

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Under 42 USC 2210, the Department of Justice would require personal information from individuals applying to receive funds under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act in order to determine their eligibility.Emergency Justfication:Emergency approval of this ICR will enable the public to submit immediate applications for compensation under the amended Downwinder, Onsite Participant, Uranium Worker, and Manhattan Project Waste provisions of RECA in a manner that does not delay or inhibit adjudication within the 1-year period required under the statute. In addition, emergency approval of this ICR will allow the DOJ to implement an electronic filing platform consistent with the questionnaires set forth on the forms. These steps are essential to ensuring that claims under RECA are adjudicated within the newly amended law's strict statutory limits in a manner that protects the taxpayer and the claimant.

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The application for Approved Finance Provider will be used to determine if the finance provider has the financial strength and administrative staff to originate, administer, collect, and if needed, restructure international loans. The application will also improve EXIM Bank's compliance with the Open Government initiative by providing transparency into specific information used to determine if an applicant is qualified to use our loan guarantee programs. EXIM Bank has made non substantive changes to the form. The purpose of the change is to reflect the requested content fully and clearly in accordance with what the form already requires. No additional burden or change in user experience will result.

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Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are a major cause of illness in the U.S., affecting one out of every 31 hospital inpatients (3% of all hospitalized patients) daily and resulting in as many as 700,000 infections per year. Some of the most predominant HAIs include catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI), central line-associated blood stream infections (CLABSI), and ventilator-associated pneumonia and ventilator-associated adverse events (VAP/VAE). The current estimate for CAUTI incidence in hospitalized patients is approximately 27,000 cases annually and 30,000 CLABSI cases annually,1 VAEs affect between 5-40% of patients requiring mechanical ventilator support for more than two days. VAE is considered the deadliest HAI, with all-cause mortality rates associated with VAE as high as 50% and a direct attributable mortality rate of 9%. To help hospitals reduce HAIs AHRQ created the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP). CUSP is designed to engage clinical teams to make healthcare safer by combining improved teamwork, clinical best practices, and the science of safety. The CUSP approach improves safety culture at the unit level, enables harm prevention, and engages providers who are on the front lines while integrating technical and adaptive/cultural approaches to making sustainable change. The Core CUSP toolkit provides teams with training resources and tools to apply the CUSP method and build their capacity to address safety issues. The AHRQ Safety Program for HAI Prevention Program will assess what components of the updated toolkits are routinely used and helpful and what components need additional updating and refinement. Current AHRQ HAI Prevention Toolkits provide a wealth of valuable information but also require revision to incorporate new evidence-based practices and remove those no longer supported by scientific evidence. Revised Toolkits based on lessons learned from the implementation of this program will enhance their utility to healthcare workers and support the adoption of the AHRQ Safety Program for HAI prevention practices.

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Section 731 of Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Act amended the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) to add section 4s(f) and 4s(g) which establish certain reporting, recordkeeping, and daily trading records requirements for swap dealers (SDs) and major swap participants (MSPs). Specifically, section 4s(f) authorizes the Commission to promulgate books and records and reporting requirements for SDs and MSPs. It also expressly obligates SDs and MSPs to maintain records of all activities related to their swaps businesses and to make reports regarding their transactions, positions and financial condition, as required by such regulations. Section 4s(g) requires SDs and MSPs to maintain daily trading records of their swaps that contain any information prescribed by Commission regulations; all related records (including records of related cash and forward transactions); all recorded communications (including electronic mail, instant messages, and recordings of telephone calls); and a complete audit trail for conducting comprehensive and accurate trade reconstruction. Section 4s(g) also requires that the daily trading records for each swap transaction be identifiable by transaction and by counterparty.

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On April 3, 2012, the Commission adopted Regulation 3.3 (Chief Compliance Officer) under sections 4d(d) and 4s(k) of the Commodity Exchange Act (“CEA”). Commission Regulation 3.3 requires each futures commission merchant (“FCM”), swap dealer (‘‘SD’’), and major swap participant (“MSP”) to designate, by filing a Form 8–R, a chief compliance officer (“CCO”) who is responsible for: (1) developing and administering each registrant’s policies and procedures that fulfill certainrelating to its business as a duties of the SD, MSP, or FCM and that are reasonably designed to ensure the registrant’s compliance withrequired to be established pursuant to the CEA and Commission regulations; (2) taking reasonable steps to resolve material conflicts of interest relating to the registrant’s business as a SD, MSP, or FCM; (3) taking reasonable steps to ensure compliance with the CEA and Commission regulations relating to the registrant’s business as a SD, MSP, or FCM; (4) taking reasonable steps to ensure the registrant establishes, maintains, and reviews written policies and procedures reasonably designed to remediate establishing procedures for the remediation of noncompliance issues identified by the chief compliance officerCCO; (5) taking reasonable steps to ensure the registrant establishing establishes procedures for the handling, management response, remediation, retesting, and closing of noncompliance issues; (6) preparing, signing, certifying, furnishing to the board of directors, senior officers, and (if applicable) audit committee, and filing with the Commission an annual compliance report that contains the information specified in the regulations Commission regulation 3.3(e; ). Commission regulation 3.3 also requires that SDs, MSPs, and FCMs: (1) amending the annual report if material errors or omissions are identified; and (2) request that the Commission grant an extension of time to furnish the annual report, if failure to timely furnish could not be eliminated without unreasonable effort or expense; and (3) maintaining records of the registrant’s compliance policies and procedures and records related to the annual report. The information collection obligations imposed by Commission Regulation 3.3 are essential to ensuring that FCMs, SDs, and MSPs maintain comprehensive policies and procedures that promote compliance with the CEA and Commission regulations. In particular, the Commission believes that, among other things, these obligations (i) promote compliance behavior through periodic self-evaluation, (ii) inform the Commission of possible compliance weaknesses, (iii) assist the Commission in determining whether the registrant remains in compliance with the CEA and Commission regulations, and (iv) help the Commission to assess whether the registrant has mechanisms in place to adequately address compliance problems that could lead to a failure of the registrant.

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Information collection associated with Federal Order for collecting information related to detecting and eradicating presence of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in dairy herds and milk. ( FR )

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Since 2010, the National Quitline Data Warehouse (NQDW) has collected a core set of information from the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico regarding the services telephone quitlines offer to tobacco users as well as the number and type of tobacco users who receive services from telephone quitlines. This change request makes minor changes based on recent executive orders.

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The purpose of OHHABS is 1) to provide a database for routine data collection at the state/territorial level to identify and characterize HAB events, HAB-associated illnesses, and HAB exposures in the United States and 2) to better inform and improve our understanding of HAB-associated illnesses and exposures through routine surveillance to inform public health policy and illness prevention efforts. OHHABS (electronic, year-round collection) includes questions about HAB events and HAB-associated-illness for human and animal cases. OHHABS, a web-based reporting system, is nationally available for state and territorial health departments to voluntarily report information about HAB-associated human and animal cases and HAB events. This revision contains updates to OHHABS that better align with HAB information as we know it today. Changes include modifying questions, streamlining data collection methods, and the separation of the data collection instrument.

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FERC-517 includes Chapters 15 through 18 of engineering guideline, governing the safety of hydropower projects licensed by the Commission under the Federal Power Act. These actions are intended to promote the safe operation, effective maintenance, and efficient repair of licensed hydropower projects and project works to ensure the protection of life, health, and property in surrounding communities. Specifically, the Commission's actions will: incorporate two tiers of project safety inspections by independent consultants, codify existing guidance requiring certain licensees to develop an owner’s dam safety program and a public safety plan, update existing regulations related to public safety incident reporting, and make various minor revisions.The regulations in 18 CFR Part 12 and the Engineering Guidelines outline the provisions and reporting requirements for the evaluation of safety of water power projects and project works that apply to: (1) Any project licensed under Part I of the Federal Power Act; (2) Any unlicensed constructed project for which the Commission has determined that an application for license must be filed under Part I of the Act; and (3) Any project exempted from licensing under Part I of the Federal Power Act, pursuant to subparts J or K of 18 CFR Part 4, to the extent that the Commission has conditioned the exemption on compliance with any particular provisions of 18 CFR Part 12. The following four sets of Engineering Guidelines for the Evaluation of Hydropower Projects: o Chapter 15 ― Supporting Technical Information Document, Docket No. AD20-20-000; o Chapter 16 ― Part 12D Program, Docket No. AD20-21-000; o Chapter 17 ― Potential Failure Mode Analysis, Docket No. AD20-22-000; and o Chapter 18 ― Level 2 Risk Analysis, Docket No. AD20-23-000.

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The information collected in DBIDS is used for the validation, verification and, if necessary, authentication of individuals seeking physical access to a DoD installation or base. It may also be used for the detection of fraudulent identification cards, the issuance of alerts for missing or wanted persons, and the record keeping of critical property, such as vehicles and weapons.

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The Highway Safety Act of 1966, 23 U.S.C. § 402, provides the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) funding to assist federally recognized tribes in implementing traffic safety projects. These projects are designed to reduce the high number of traffic crashes and their resulting fatalities, injuries and property damage within Indian communities. The funding is intended to supplement an existing traffic safety program on the reservations. These grants are funded in the form of reimbursements and each tribe applying for funding must demonstrate a need with traffic statistics and data. This process is documented by the regulations set at 23 CFR 1300.

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The Department of the Interior and Department of Education developed an American Indian Education Study Group (Study Group) to diagnose the causes of too common academic failure in BIE-funded schools, which are some of the lowest performing schools in the country. The Study Group, which encompasses a combination of management, legal, education, and tribal expertise, was charged with developing and implementing recommendations to transform the BIE. Based on the recommendations from the Study Group released on June 13, 2014 ("Blueprint for Reform"), BIE developed the Sovereignty in Indian Education Grant which awards competitive grants to tribes and their Tribal Education Departments (TEDs) to promote tribal control and operation of BIE-funded schools on their reservations. The purpose of the grant is to support the TEDs capacity to manage and operate tribally-controlled schools as defined in the Tribally Controlled Schools Act of 1988 (25 U.S.C 2501, P.L. 100-297). These funds will support the development of an implementation plan for the TEDs to review their infrastructure and determine the most efficient course of action to promote full operation of BIE-funded schools through a single grant, and begin the process of implementation of the tribally approved course of action.

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The Energy Policy Act of 2005 authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to provide assistance to Indian Tribes and Tribal energy resource development organizations for energy development and appropriates funds for such projects on a year-to-year basis. See 25 U.S.C. 3502. When funding is available, the Office of Indian Energy and Economic Development (IEED) may solicit proposals for projects for building capacity for Tribal energy resource development on Indian land from Tribal energy resource development organizations and Indian Tribes, including Alaska Native regional and village corporations under the TEDC program. For the purposes of this program, “Indian land” includes: all land within the boundaries of an Indian reservation, pueblo, or rancheria; any land outside those boundaries that is held by the United States in trust for a Tribe or individual Indian or by a Tribe or individual Indian with restrictions on alienation; and land owned by an Alaska Native regional or village corporation.

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The goal of this ICR is to to collect data to monitor project performance from recipients funded under the Rape Prevention and Education Program (RPE) funding opportunity. Information collected from recipients will be used to monitor and evaluate progress of program goals and objectives, identify technical assistance. This change request is submitted in order to comply with current EOs. The burden is unaffected.

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The goal of [NCEZID] Traveler-based Genomic Surveillance is to monitor importation of SARS-CoV-2 variants among arriving international air travelers at select U.S. airports. Data will be used to inform early detection of imported SARS-COV-2 variants into the U.S. and for program management purposes. Data is collected from two lower nasal dry self-swabs from participants in airports that are pooled in batches of 5-10 samples. One sample will be pooled with samples from other travelers from the same flight origin country. Pooled samples undergo SARS-CoV-2 reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) testing and whole genome sequencing on positive samples to determine viral lineage. The second will be kept if there is a need to look more closely at a positive pool. Samples may be sent to CDC for further testing. Surveillance may be expanded to test for other pathogens such as influenza. Participants complete a questionnaire with their demographic, clinical, and travel history information and will be given a free antigen test kit for their time. This Non-Substantive Change Request is submitted to modify the existing questionnaire through combining and/or dropping questions, standardizing response choices, limiting areas of confusion and conversation with frontline ground staff, and prioritizing collection of the highest value information. There is a reduction in burden associated with these changes.

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Many service members face adverse social determinants of health (SDOH), such as financial, housing, and food insecurity, isolation or distance from others, and social stressors such as racism and discrimination. Exposure to adverse SDOH may place service members at higher risk for behavioral health symptoms and/or suicidality. This study will develop and administer a cross-cutting, comprehensive assessment of upstream risk factors (i.e., SDOH) for behavioral health issues and suicide among Sailors and Marines to determine the relationship between social risk factors and future behavioral health issues in this population. We will also develop procedures for linking Sailors and Marines to appropriate services and programs based on their reported social and behavioral health needs.

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This information collection is for the Office of Indian Economic Development (OIED), under the Office of the Assistant Secretary – Indian Affairs, to solicit and award grants to eligible business incubators who will provide services to Native American entrepreneurs in Tribal reservation communities.

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Motor carriers of property and passengers, property brokers, surface freight forwarders, including exempt for hire and private motor carriers, operating in interstate or foreign commerce must register with the FMCSA. The collection is mandatory reporting. As a condition of registration, these entities must designate process agents for each State in which they operate on the “Designation of Agents for Service of Process” form, Form BOC-3. The form is submitted by registration applicants to FMCSA to meet a statutory requirement and is filed on an “as-needed” basis and cannot be done less frequently. Most forms are filed by blanket companies on behalf of carriers. Currently, information contained on the completed Form BOC-3 identifies a process agent for each State in which the motor carrier, freight forwarder, or broker will operate. These process agents are authorized by the transportation entity to accept, on its behalf, legal process or notice in Agency and court proceedings. Persons considering bringing legal actions against a carrier, broker, or freight forwarder may obtain the name of its process agent in a particular State by contacting FMCSA.

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This information collection requirement is necessary to validate eligibility for all individuals applying for DoD benefits and privileges. These benefits and privileges include but are not limited to, medical coverage, DoD identification cards, access to DoD installations, buildings or facilities, and access to DoD computer systems and networks. This information collection is required to obtain the necessary data elements to determine eligible individual's benefits and privileges, to provide a proper identification card reflecting those benefits and privileges, and to maintain a centralized database of the eligible population.