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Previous ICR	201909-1405-003

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The Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC), Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, U.S. Department of State, in accordance with the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) (22 U.S.C. 2751 et seq.) and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) (22 CFR Parts 120-130), has the principal missions of taking final action on license applications and other requests for defense trade transactions. By statute, Executive Order, regulation, and delegation of authority, Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC)is charged with controlling the export and temporary import of defense articles and provision of defense services covered by the U.S. Munitions List. The statutory authority of the President to promulgate regulations with respect to the export and the temporary import of defense articles and the provision of defense services was delegated to the Secretary of State by Executive Order 11958, as amended. These regulations are primarily administered by the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Defense Trade and the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls, Bureau of Political-Military Affairs. Section 126.18 eliminates, subject to certain conditions, the requirement for an approval by DDTC of the transfer of unclassified defense articles, which includes technical data, within a foreign business entity, foreign governmental entity, or international organization, that is an approved or otherwise authorized end-user or consignee (including transfers to approved sub-licensees) for those defense articles, including the transfer to dual nationals or third-country nationals who are bona fide regular employees, directly employed by the foreign consignee or end-user.

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Previous ICR	201910-1505-002

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Forms CQ-1 and CQ-2 are required by law to collect timely information on international portfolio capital movements, in particular data on financial and commercial liabilities to, and claims on, unaffiliated foreign residents held by non-financial enterprises in the U.S. This information is necessary in the computation of the U.S. balance of payments accounts and the U.S. international investment position, and in the formulation of U.S. international financial and monetary policies.

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Previous ICR	201911-1545-020

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Section 4681 imposes a tax on ozone-depleting chemicals sold or used by a manufacturer or importer thereof. Section 4681 also imposes a tax on ozone-depleting chemicals sold or used by a manufacturer or importer thereof and imported taxable products sold or used by an importer thereof. A floor stocks tax is also imposed. Section 4682 provides exemptions and reduced rates of tax for certain uses of ozone-depleting chemicals. These regulations provide reporting and recordkeeping rules and have been codified under 26 CFR part 52.

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Previous ICR	201904-0563-002

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This ICR is necessary for administering the crop insurance program and to determine insurance coverage, premiums, subsidies, payments and indemnities.

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Previous ICR	201801-1660-004

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The Crisis Counseling Assistance and Training Program (CCP) consists of two grant programs, the Immediate Services Program (ISP) and the Regular Services Program (RSP). The ISP and RSP provide supplemental funding to states and Federally recognized Tribes following a Presidentially declared major disaster under the Stafford Act. These grant programs provide funding for training and services, including community outreach, public education, and counseling techniques. States and Federally recognized Tribes are required to submit an application that provides information on Needs Assessment, Plan of Service, Program Management, and an accompanying Budget.

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The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARP) included an unprecedented $800 million to support the specific needs of homeless children and youth via the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief – Homeless Children and Youth (ARP-HCY) Fund. State educational agencies (SEAs) and local educational agencies (LEAs) must use ARP-HCY funds within the three-year funding period, to identify and serve children and youth experiencing homelessness with wrap-around services addressing challenges related to COVID-19, to enable them to attend school and fully participate in school activities. As a one-time grant program with three years of funding administered as part of the American Rescue Plan, this new data collection for the U.S. Department of Education (the Department) seeks to understand how funds under this grant program are being used. Specifically, the Department is seeking to learn about the distribution of ARP-HCY funds by SEAs, the characteristics of LEAs receiving funds, and the characteristics of LEAs who chose not to participate in the distribution of funds in each state. Additionally, the Department would like to gather information on how SEAs are using the funds that were set aside at the State level of the program and how LEAs are using funds received from this program. This is a request for a new collection, the ARP-HCY National Study, which will utilize a survey of all SEAs (ARP-HCY SEA Survey) and a representative sample of state and national LEAs (ARP-HCY LEA Survey) to answer evaluation research questions.

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Previous ICR	201903-2900-011

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VA Form 21-0304 is used to determine the monetary allowance for a child born with Spina Bifida or certain birth defects who is the natural child of a Vietnam and certain Thailand or Korea service veterans. Without this information, VA would be unable to effectively administer 38 U.S.C. 1805, 1815, 1821, and 1822.

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Previous ICR	201406-2900-049

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Legal authority for this data collection is found under 38 USC 521A that authorizes and mandates the collection of data during the grant application, implementation to include quarterly and annual reporting, and closeout phases of the adaptive sports grant. Mandated collection of data allows measurement and evaluation of the adaptive sports grant program, the goal of which is providing adaptive sport opportunities for disabled veterans and members of the Armed Forces.

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Previous ICR	202209-2900-002

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The PACT Act was signed into law on August 10, 2022, and mandated that VA implement toxic exposure screening to identify Veterans with potential toxic exposures during military, naval, air, or space service. The PACT Act imposed a Congressionally mandated timeline to implementation of 90 days, with full implementation completed by November 8, 2022. Pursuant to a six-month emergency PRA clearance from OMB, and to ensure efficacy of the screening tool and ease of use by screeners, the project team performed a pilot test of the toxic screening tool with a sampling from seven targeted clinical areas and sites for 10 days, beginning September 6, 2022. The goal was to collect feedback and best practices to use in refining the screening tool and training to increase best chance for success. VHA now seeks to renew the PRA clearance for the screening tool for a full three years. Information collected during the toxic exposure screening will be included in the Veteran’s electronic health record and will be used to connect Veterans with resources, services, and benefits available, as well as provide guidance that Veterans be engaged in ongoing care or establish care in VA or the community to address their exposure concerns. VA will use several different methods of gathering information from Veterans through the toxic exposure screening, including VHA staff or community care staff administering the screening during a health care appointment, VHA staff administering at other Veteran touch point events (e.g., screening blitz event), and Veterans completing the screening independently before being contacted by VHA staff for a follow-up consultation. Veterans have the option of declining the toxic exposure screening.

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Previous ICR	201903-2900-032

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The VA’s authority to provide reimbursement of qualifying adoption expenses for certain covered Veterans is found in Section 236 of the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2018, Public Law 115-141 (March 23, 2018) (the “2018 Act”) and Section 235 of the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019, Public Law 115-244 (September 21, 2018) (the “2019 Act”), which renewed and extended in nearly identical form Section 260 of the prior authorizing “2017 Act,” Public Law 114-223. VA has eliminated the section in the regulations that specifies an expiration date in order to accommodate Congressional renewal and extension of this authority under subsequent appropriations law. Veterans with a service-connected disability that results in their inability to procreate without the use of fertility treatments are authorized to receive reimbursement for certain adoption-related expenses for an adoption that is finalized after September 29, 2016 (the date the 2017 Act was enacted). To implement this benefit, VA uses VA Form 10-10152, paralleling DD 2675, which requires any Veteran requesting reimbursement of qualifying adoption expenses to submit the same types of evidence as required under similar DoD policy. VA Form 10-10152 was previously approved by OMB through the PRA clearance process, and VA now seeks a three-year extension of that approval of this information collection.

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Previous ICR	202110-3041-001

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CPSC staff will fill in the form during the course of a pool and spa inspection to determine if the swimming pool and spa drain cover meets the requirements of ANSI/APSP 16 2017.

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Previous ICR	201910-3133-004

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The rule specifies the minimum annual audit a credit union is required to obtain according to its charter type and asset size, the licensing authority required of persons performing certain audits, the auditing principles that apply to certain audits, and the accounting principles that must be followed in reports filed with the NCUA Board.

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Previous ICR	201909-3133-006

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Part 749 of the NCUA Regulations directs each credit union to have a vital records preservation program that includes procedures for maintaining duplicate vital records at a location far enough from the credit union's offices to avoid the simultaneous loss of both sets of records in the event of disaster. Part 749 also requires the program be in writing and include emergency contact information for employees, officials, regulatory offices, and vendors used to support vital records.

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Previous ICR	201805-0579-008

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To prevent and restrict the importation of poultry meat and other poultry products from Mexico due to the presence of Newcastle Disease in that country without a foreign meat inspection certificate accompanying the products from Sinaloa and Sonora to the United States.

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This information collection request is for a new project. The research team is requesting two years of approval. The purpose of this project is to understand the role of economic risk in public benefit recipients’ decision making about whether to increase earnings. This study will investigate the factors that influence the decisions made by people with low incomes to increase earnings (or not) by presenting beneficiaries with vignettes about other people with the opportunity to increase their earnings and asking them what decision they would make in similar circumstances. The vignettes will vary the risk of an opportunity, the ease of regaining benefits if income later dropped, and the extent of the earnings increase. The job opportunities and associated risks will vary systematically. The choices that study participants recommend will provide insight into the relative importance of these different factors – both alone and in combination. Guided by a better understanding of the role of risk and risk tolerance in families’ decisions about work, the government could design policy levers to reduce risk and thereby support families’ choices to increase earnings and achieve greater economic security.

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Previous ICR	201902-1545-011

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This information collection request contains final regulations implementing section 965 of the Internal Revenue Code (the “Code”). Section 965 was amended by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which was enacted on December 22, 2017. This document finalizes the proposed regulations published on August 9, 2018. The final regulations affect United States persons with direct or indirect ownership interests in certain foreign corporations.

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Previous ICR	201910-0970-009

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The report is used to collect descriptive program characteristics information on the programs operated by States and Territories in association with their Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) programs. All State and Territory expenditures claimed toward States and Territories Maintenance of Effort (MOE) requirements must be appropriate, i.e., meet all applicable MOE requirements. The Annual MOE Report provides the ability to learn about and to monitor the nature of State and Territory expenditures used to meet States and Territories MOE requirements, and it is an important source of information about the different ways that States and Territories are using their resources to help families attain and maintain self-sufficiency. In addition, the report is used to obtain State and Territory program characteristics for ACFs annual report to Congress, and the report serves as a useful resource to use in Congressional hearings about how TANF programs are evolving, in assessing State and Territory MOE expenditures, and in assessing the need for legislative changes.

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Previous ICR	202106-0970-006

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The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is authorized to collect and report the information requested under this form by the Block Grants to States Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. Implementing regulations at 45 CFR Part 286.255 (C) for tribes indicates the requirements for financial reports as necessary. Tribal TANF Financial Report (ACF-196T) collects the required information under these implementing regulations. This request is for an extension with minor, non-substantive revisions to remove an item related to an expired expenditure and to improve the clarity and look of the instructions.

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Previous ICR	201911-1205-007

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The Income and Eligibility Verification System (IEVS) is required by Title III of the Social Security Act, the Federal Unemployment Tax Act, and related statutes. It addresses the confidentiality and disclosure of state unemployment compensation information as well as the state income and eligibility verification provisions of the Deficit Reduction Act.

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Previous ICR	201912-1205-003

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Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) Efforts to Improve Outcomes is a data collection and reporting system that supplies critical information on the operation of the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program and the outcomes for its participants. Information is required to be collected by states, and is used by local, state, and federal agencies to (1) report program management information to Congress and other Federal agencies, and (2) to improve the effectiveness of job training programs.

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Previous ICR	201909-1545-020

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Form 8831 is used by a real estate mortgage investment conduit (REMIC) to figure its excise tax liability under Code sections 860E(e)(1), 860E(e)(6), and 860E-2(a)(7)(ii). IRS uses the information to determine the correct tax liability of the REMIC.

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Previous ICR	201908-1545-028

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The reporting requirements affect taxpayers that are qualified settlement funds; they will be required to file income tax returns, estimated income tax returns, and withholding tax returns. The information will facilitate taxpayer examinations.

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Previous ICR	202003-1660-007

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Use of the Application for Surplus Federal Real Property Public Benefit Conveyance and Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Program for Emergency Management Use is necessary to implement the processes and procedures for the successful, lawful, and expeditious conveyance of real property from the Federal Government to public entities such as state, local, county, city, town, or other like government bodies, as it relates to emergency management response purposes, including fire and rescue services. Utilization of this application will ensure that properties will be fully positioned for use at their highest and best potential as required by General Services Administration and Department of Defense regulations, public law, Executive Orders, and the Code of Federal Regulations.

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Previous ICR	202107-1660-003

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This collection seeks to identify fire departments in the United States to compile a database related to their demographics, capabilities, and activities. The database is used to guide programmatic decisions and provide information to the public and the fire service.

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Previous ICR	202112-2127-004

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This information collection request (ICR) is for an extension of a currently approved information collection that requires manufacturers of motor vehicles and equipment and operators of motor vehicles to submit incident reports for certain crashes involving Automated Driving Systems (ADS) and Level 2 Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS). NHTSA’s Standing General Order 2021-01 (General Order) requires vehicle and equipment manufacturers and operators of vehicles equipped with ADS or Level 2 ADAS to report crashes that meet specified criteria to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). This ICR covers the reporting requirements in the General Order with modifications that will be made in response to comments. ADS and ADAS are new technologies that fundamentally alter the task of driving a motor vehicle by automating certain driver inputs (e.g., steering, acceleration, and braking) and decision making (e.g., path following and obstacle avoidance) that would otherwise be left to human control. Given the rapid evolution of these technologies and testing of new technologies and features on publicly accessible roads, it is critical for NHTSA to exercise its robust oversight over potential safety defects in vehicles operating with ADS and Level 2 ADAS. Crashes involving these vehicles have already resulted in multiple fatalities and serious injuries, and NHTSA anticipates that the number of these crashes will continue to grow in the near future given the increased number of these vehicles on the road and the increased number of vehicle and equipment manufacturers in the market. The General Order provides the agency with critical and timely safety data, which assists the agency in identifying potential safety issues resulting from the operation of advanced technologies on public roads. Access to this crash data may show whether there are common patterns in vehicle crashes or systematic problems with specific vehicles or systems, any of which may reflect a potential safety defect. NHTSA requested and received emergency review and approval of this information collection. NHTSA submitted the request on June 29, 2021. On June 30, 2021, OMB granted NHTSA a six-month approval for this information collection and assigned this information collection the OMB control number 2127-0754. NHTSA is seeking a three-year extension of this information collection. When NHTSA submitted its request for emergency review, the agency estimated that the annual burden would be 12,539 hours and $0. NHTSA now estimates the annual burden to be 31,319 hours and $0. This is an increase of 19,046 hours and $0. The changes in burden estimate are a result of information received from reporting entities regarding time spent reporting information under the 6-month emergency clearance, actual reporting volume for five-months, and the change to the General Order to create a new 5-day reporting category (in place of 1-day and 10-day reports in certain circumstances). Adjustments were also made to remove burden time for training and creating accounts (which took place in the first 6 months for current reporting entities). NHTSA also created a new category of burden to account for additional screening time spent by reporting entities to ensure that they are meeting their reporting requirements. The change in burden hours represents a program change resulting in a decrease in burden hours by 8,320 hours and adjustments resulting in an increase of 27,100 hours.