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This generic clearance covers a variety of surveys that will provide valuable statistics to sponsoring cooperators. These data are needed by the cooperators in time frames that make individual clearances impractical. This generic clearance will go through the regular clearance process at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) with a 60-day notice and a 30-day notice as part of the 120-day review period. This generic clearance package describes the general scope of the surveys, their quick turnaround time, their length, size of sample, sample design, and some typical topics. Each individual survey will go into the clearance process with an abbreviated clearance package that will justify the particular content of the survey, describe the sample design, the timeline for the survey activities, and the questionnaire. The review period for each individual survey is approximately 45 days, including a 30-day Federal Register notice period. OMB will provide comments as soon after the end of the 30-day notice period as possible. This generic clearance approval is for a three-year period.

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GSA Form 3040 is required by 41 CFR 102-37.360 in order to evaluate State agency performance in carrying out their donation responsibilities in a fair and equitable manner and to ensure State agencies are effectively distributing property transferred to them by GSA. The 3040 reports are used by GSA Zonal Offices in their State agency reviews to evaluate State agency performance in carrying out their donation responsibilities. Data provided by State agencies is also used by GSA Central Office representatives to report to Congress, OMB, and federal working groups on the value and purposes for which donated property has been acquired by donees.

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The Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (PSHSB or Bureau) is submitting a non-substantive change request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in order to establish mandatory electronic filing of System Security and Integrity Policies and Procedures (SSI Plans) by covered entities under the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) through the new CALEA Electronic Filing System (CEFS) (OMB Control No. 3060-0809). CEFS requires users to register with and use the Commission Registration System (OMB Control Nos. 3060-0917 and 3060-0918) and to electronically file Requests for Confidential Treatment (OMB Control No. 3060-0862). When mandatory electronic filing becomes effective, SSI Plans will be required to be submitted electronically through CEFS: https://www.fcc.gov/cefs. When mandatory electronic filing becomes effective, paper versions of SSI Plans will no longer be accepted. Section 1.20005 of the Commission’s rules will be updated to reflect this change. Other than mandatory electronic filing, there are no other changes to this information collection. PSHSB issued the order to amend section 1.20005 to establish mandatory filing and the new rule will become effective 30 days after publication in the Federal Register. This information that applicants (entities) submit on FCC Form 161 is used to change or update information in the CORES system for entity's name, address, Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN), telephone number, email, fax, contact representative address, telephone number, email and fax. The Commission Registration System (CORES) assigns each entity doing business with the Commission a FCC Registration Number (FRN). The FRN is used to collect and to report any delinquent amounts arising from such applicant's (entity's) relationship with the FCC. The respondents are anyone doing business with the FCC. Please see the non-substantive change request justification for the reasoning behind this submission to the Office of Management and Budget for review and approval.

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The Federal Communications Commission (“Commission”) is requesting that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approve a revision of the information collection titled, “Application for Voluntary Assignment of Transfers and Controls, 47 CFR 73.3540” under OMB Control Number 3060-1290. There are no changes in the number of responses, respondents, annual burden hours for respondents. The Commission has updated the International Bureau Filing System (IBFS) to allow for filing of electronic forms directly into the system through an integrated web-based program with fillable fields. The integrated web-based program requires the use of an FCC Registration Number (FRN) will include support for Forms 314-IBFS, 315-IBFS, and 316-IBFS. Applicants will be required to submit these forms through the integrated web-based program. The forms were previously in development but are now completed and included as part of this collection. Please see the non-substantive change justification for the reason behind this change request submission to the Office of Management and Budget for review and approval.

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Since 2012, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has conducted the Patents for Humanity Program, a biennial award program to incentivize the distribution of patented technologies or products for the purpose of addressing humanitarian needs. The program is open to any U.S. patent owners, patent applicants, or patent licensees or licensors. The USPTO collects information from applicants that describe what actions they have taken with their technology to address the world’s most pressing humanitarian problems. There are numerous categories of awards including: medicine, nutrition, sanitation, household energy, and living standards. Sometimes the program includes additional categories specific for that year.

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The National Safety Stand-Down to Prevent Falls in construction raises fall hazard awareness across the country in an effort to stop fall fatalities and injuries. Participants (mainly employers) download a Certificate of Participation by completing a simple eight question online survey. The survey is the primary means that OSHA will have for validating participation in the Stand-Down.

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The Export Import Bank of the US (Ex-Im Bank) pursuant to the Export Import Bank Act of 1945, as amended (12 USC 635, et seq), facilitates the finance of export of U.S. goods and services. By neutralizing the effect of export credit insurance and guarantees offered by foreign governments and by absorbing credit risks that the private sector will not accept, Ex-Im Bank enables U.S. exporters to compete fairly in foreign markets on the basis of price and product. This collection of information is used to obtain a preliminary determination of the eligibility of the applicant and transaction for Ex-Im Bank assistance.

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The Commission is amending part 1, with supporting amendments in parts 1, 22, 30, and 39, to codify via direct application to all FCMs the conditional and time-limited no-action position in CFTC Letter No. 19-17, which allows DCOs to permit FCM clearing members to treat the separate accounts of a single customer as accounts of separate entities for purposes of Commission regulation 39.13(g)(8)(iii). The amendments add for all FCMs a margin adequacy requirement similar to that applied to clearing FCMs by DCOs in regulation 39.13(g)(8)(iii) (prohibiting margin withdrawals if such withdrawals would create or exacerbate an under-margining scenario) and provide for separate account treatment for purposes of the margin adequacy requirement, subject to certain conditions designed to mitigate risk consistent with CEA section 4d(a)(2) and the Commission’s implementing regulations. The amendments add new Commission regulation § 1.44 and new appendix A to part 1 and make supporting amendments to Commission regulations §§ 1.3, 1.17, 1.20, 1.32, 1.58, and 1.73 in part 1, 22.2 in part 22, 30.2 and 30.7 in part 30, and 39.13 in part 39.

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The Export Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) pursuant to the Export Import Bank Act of 1945, as amended (12 USC 635, et seq), facilitates the finance of export of U.S. goods and services. By neutralizing the effect of export credit insurance and guarantees offered by foreign governments and by absorbing credit risks that the private sector will not accept, Ex-Im Bank enables U.S. exporters to complete fairly in foreign markets on the basis of price and product. This collection of information is necessary, pursuant to 12 USC Sec. 635 (a) (1), to determine eligibility of the export for Ex-Im Bank assistance. This form will enable Ex-Im Bank to identify the specific details of the export transaction. These details are necessary for determining the eligibility of claims for approval. Ex-Im Bank staff and contractors review this information to assist in determining that an export transaction, on which a claim for non-payment has been submitted, meets all of the terms and conditions of cover.

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Form 8621 is filed by a U.S. shareholder who owns stock in a foreign investment company. The form is used to report income, make an election to extend the time for payment of tax, and to pay an additional tax and interest amount. Form 8621-A is used by shareholders of a former Passive Foreign Investment Company (PFIC) or a Section 1297(e) PFIC to make a late purging election under IRC Section 1298(b)(1) to terminate their subjection to taxation under Section 1291. The IRS uses Form 8621 and Form 8621-A to determine if these shareholders have correctly reported amounts of income, made the election correctly, and have correctly computed the additional tax and interest amount.

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The Export Import Bank of the United States (EXIM Bank) pursuant to the Export Import Bank Act of 1945, as amended (12 USC 635, et seq), facilitates the financing of exports of U.S. goods and services. By neutralizing the effect of export credit insurance and loan guarantees offered by foreign governments and by absorbing credit risks that the private sector will not accept, EXIM Bank enables U.S. exporters to compete fairly in foreign markets on the basis of price and product quality. This collection of information is necessary, pursuant to 12 USC Sec. 635 (a) (1), to determine eligibility of the applicant for EXIM Bank assistance. The "Application for Exporter Short-term Single-buyer Insurance" form will be used by entities involved in the export of US goods and services, to provide EXIM Bank with the information necessary to obtain legislatively required assurance of repayment and fulfills other statutory requirements. EXIM is requesting the collection of information due to added Section 403 of the EXIM Charter.

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This request is to establish a new umbrella generic clearance for the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) to request information from potential participants at ACF gatherings, such as meetings or conferences. This may include large scale conferences, meetings for grantees or contractors, workshops, trainings, poster sessions, and other in-person and virtual gatherings for individuals with interest in ACF programs (clients, researchers, policymakers, etc.), among others. To ensure ACF has adequate information to plan these activities, the Agency must often collect information from potential participants such as basic contact information, preferences for attendance (mode, special requests, etc.), organizational affiliation, feedback about meeting content, etc. Additionally, some activities require ACF to have additional information to have the means to select the most appropriate participants for attendance according to the type or purpose of a given activity, or to group participants into the most appropriate category or activity during an event. This may include information about poster presentations, speaking panels, training courses, professional perspectives or experiences, etc. In addition, attendees may be asked to submit an application or abstract for prescreening to be selected for attendance. The planning for meetings is most often on a quick timeline and the standard timeline to comply with a full request under the Paperwork Reduction Act would inhibit the ability to collect information to inform these activities. Therefore, an umbrella generic is necessary to allow for quick turnaround requests for similar information collections related to these activities. As part of this generic, ACF requests OMB provide a response on individual generic information collections within 5 business days. If no response is received and the request meets the purposes, uses and scope outlined in this document, ACF may move forward with the proposed information collection.

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This is the annual report format to implement regulations at 45 CFR96.130 regarding States' compliance with Section 1926 of the Public Health Service Act (42 USC 300x-26) related to sale or distribution of tobacco products to minors.

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SAMHSA is requesting clearance for eleven data collection instruments and forms related to the implementation and impact studies to be conducted as part of the evaluation. The evaluation will provide new information about how grants support adoption of the CCBHC model, how grants influence sustainable expansion of CCBHC capacities beyond the grant period, and how implementation of the model influences client-level outcomes. An evaluation of the IA and PDI grantees specifically provides an opportunity to examine implementation successes and challenges within each area of the certification criteria among a larger and more diverse group of clinics operating in different state and community contexts. By carefully measuring that context and how it changes over time, the evaluation can provide new information about how factors such as alternative sources of funding and state/community support for the model can influence implementation and outcomes. Finally, this evaluation has an opportunity to assess changes in quality of care and longitudinal client-level health, behavioral health, and functional outcomes.

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The Crew Member Self-Defense Training Program enables TSA to train volunteer flight attendants, pilots, flight engineers, and navigators to defend themselves on an aircraft. Information collected as the result of this proposal would be used to register and enroll volunteer in self-defense training programs and obtain feedback from trainees on the quality of the training they received.

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This information collection is for conducting a sound response laboratory test, which is called a psychoacoustic test, to better understand human noise response to passenger and equivalent cargo carrying Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) aircraft. These AAM aircraft are expected to takeoff and land in closer proximity to communities than conventional aircraft. The aircraft are being designed to use multiple electrically driven rotors. Different AAM aircraft are unique in their design and geometric placement of rotors around the aircraft. The unique propulsion systems of AAM aircraft means that the sounds they produce will also be unique compared to conventional aircraft. Yet, insufficient data exists on how humans will respond to AAM aircraft noise. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) seeks to gather data on the human noise response to AAM aircraft through the Varied AAM Noise and Geographic Area Response Difference (VANGARD) laboratory test. The VANGARD test will play electronically stored sounds of different single AAM aircraft flyovers to test participants and ask for their annoyance response to each sound. The VANGARD test is one of many initial psychoacoustic tests being planned to gather data for research purposes on AAM vehicle noise response. VANGARD test objectives are not designed to affect existing or proposed aircraft operations, and its objectives are not designed to affect noise policy. One aspect of the VANGARD test that is different from many other psychoacoustic tests on AAM vehicle noise is that it will be conducted using an online test application and gather human response data from geographically diverse participants. By addressing insufficient data on AAM aircraft noise response, VANGARD test results will allow subsequent studies on human noise response to AAM aircraft to be more informed in their design and test objectives.

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Section 728 of the Dodd-Frank Act specifically requires the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC” or “Commission”) to establish certain standards for the registration and governance of swap data repositories (“SDRs”), including regulations regarding SDRs reporting data to the Commission and to the public. In addition to implementing standards governing registration of and statutory duties applicable to SDRs, the CFTC is also required to adopt regulations that mitigate certain conflicts of interest in the operation of these entities and ensure appropriate levels of access by the Commission and certain other regulators to the data maintained by SDRs. The information from this collection is necessary for the Commission to perform its regulatory mandate to provide oversight of the markets and SDRs. Without accurate reporting of the data as set forth in the Commission’s regulations discussed in this statement, the Commission would be unable to fulfill its regulatory mandate of monitoring systemic risk.

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Section 2(h)(1)(A) of the Commodity Exchange Act requires certain counterparties to submit for clearing certain swaps if they are required to be cleared by the Commission. Commission regulation 50.52 permits certain affiliated entities to elect not to clear certain inter-affiliate swaps that otherwise would be required to be cleared, provided that they meet certain conditions. The rule further requires the reporting of certain information if the inter-affiliate exemption is elected. This collection pertains to information the Commission needs to monitor use of the exemption and assess market risk in connection therewith.

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The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) Bureau provides care and custody for unaccompanied alien children until they can be safely released to a sponsor, repatriated to their home country, or obtain legal status. ORR funds residential care provider facilities that provide temporary housing and other services to children in ORR custody. Generally, care provider facilities are State-licensed (with the exception of those located in states unwilling to consider them for licensure and temporary influx care facilities) and must meet ORR requirements to ensure a high-level quality of care. Services provided at care provider facilities include, but are not limited to, education, recreation, vocational training, acculturation, nutrition, medical, mental health, legal, and case management. ORR uses several instruments directly related to the care of unaccompanied alien children. The instruments in this information collection allow ORR to provide legal and advocacy services to unaccompanied alien children, as required by the legal authorities that govern the bureau. This request is to remove five forms from this collection, add two new forms, move two forms from different information collections into this collection (with revisions to one of those forms), and revise three existing forms in this collection. The title of this collection has also been updated from “Legal Services for Unaccompanied Children” to “Legal and Advocacy Services for Unaccompanied Alien Children.” Details about requested revisions are described in section A15.

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This form is used when the beneficiary of the letter of credit, the recipient of a funding under a direct buyer credit loan, or the recipient of payment under a reimbursement load or payment under a supplier credit is not the exporter. If the need to use this form arises, the insured holds it in the event of a claim, at which time it would be submitted to Ex-Im Bank along with other claim documentation. This form provided Ex-Im Bank Staff with the information necessary to make a determination of the eligibility of the claimed export transaction for coverage.