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The Funeral Rule

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The FTC seeks to extend for an additional three years the current Paperwork Reduction Act clearance for information collection requirements contained in its Funeral Industry Practice Rule ("Rule"). The Rule ensures that consumers who purchase funeral goods and services have accurate information about the terms and conditions for such goods and services. The Rule requires that funeral providers disclose this information to consumers and maintain records to facilitate enforcement of the Rule.

Federal Register Notices

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Authorizing Statutes

15 USC 57a	View Law

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Request to be Selected as a Payee

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SSA requires individuals applying to be representative payees for OASDI, or SSI recipients to complete Form SSA-11-BK or, supply the same information to a field office technician through a personal interview. SSA obtains information from applicant payees regarding their relationship to the recipient; personal qualifications; concerns for the recipient’s well-being; and intended use of payments if appointed as payee. SSA collects this on paper Form SSA-11-BK, or through eRPS, an electronic version of the form, which field office technicians complete during a face-to-face interview with the applicant. The respondents are individuals; private sector businesses and institutions; and State and local government institutions and agencies applying to become representative payees.

Federal Register Notices

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Authorizing Statutes

42 USC 405	View Law

42 USC 1383	View Law

Pub.L. 108 - 203 103 & 203	View Law

Pub.L. 115 - 165 103(a) & 104	View Law

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Truth in Lending Act (Regulation Z)

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The Truth in Lending Act (TILA), 15 U.S.C. 1601 et seq., was enacted to foster comparison credit shopping and informed credit decision making by requiring accurate disclosure of the costs and terms of credit to consumers and to protect consumers against inaccurate and unfair credit billing practices. Creditors are subject to disclosure and other requirements that apply to open-end credit (e.g., revolving credit or credit lines) and closed-end credit (e.g., installment financing). TILA imposes disclosure requirements on all types of creditors in connection with consumer credit, including mortgage companies, finance companies, retailers, and credit card issuers, to ensure that consumers are fully apprised of the terms of financing prior to consummation of the transaction and, as applicable, during the loan term.

Federal Register Notices

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Authorizing Statutes

15 USC 1601	View Law

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Rule 17a-22, 17 CFR 240.17a-22; Supplemental Material of Registered Clearing Agencies

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Registered clearing agencies must send the Commission copies of materials the clearing agency distributes or makes generally available to its participants and other business contacts. Rule 17a-22 enables the Commission to stay informed about the clearing agency's activities and enhances the Commission's monitoring of the clearing agency's compliance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and applicable regulations.

Federal Register Notices

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Authorizing Statutes

15 USC 78q-1	View Law

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Customer Account Statements (17 CFR 242.607)

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Rule 607 requires disclosure on each new account and on a yearly basis thereafter, on the annual statement, the firm's policies regarding receipt of payment for order flow from any market makers, exchanges or exchange members to which it routes customers' orders in national market system securities for executions; and information regarding the aggregate amount of monetary payments, discounts, rebated or reduction in fees received by the firm over the past year.

Federal Register Notices

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Authorizing Statutes

15 USC 78a et seq	View Law

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Asbestos-Containing Materials in Schools and Asbestos Model Accreditation Plans (Renewal)

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The Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act (AHERA) requires local education agencies (LEAs) to conduct inspections, develop management plans, and design or conduct response actions with respect to the presence of asbestos-containing materials in school buildings; and requires states to develop model accreditation plans for persons who perform asbestos inspections, develop management control plans, and design or conduct response actions. This information collection addresses the burden associated with recordkeeping requirements imposed on LEAs by the asbestos in schools rule, and reporting and recordkeeping requirements imposed on states and training providers related to the model accreditation plan rule.

Federal Register Notices

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Authorizing Statutes

15 USC 2643	View Law

15 USC 2601	View Law

15 USC 2646	View Law

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Application for payment of amounts due persons who have died, disappeared, or declared incompetent

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This information is collected only to determine if a representative or survivor of a producer is entitled to receive payments earned by a producer who dies, disappears, or is declared incompetent before receiving the payments.

Federal Register Notices

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Authorizing Statutes

54 Stat. 728

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Data Security Requirements for Accessing Confidential Data

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The Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018 (44 U.S.C. 3583) mandates that the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) establish a standard application process (SAP) for requesting access to certain confidential data assets. While the adoption of the SAP is required for statistical agencies and units designated under the Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act of 2018 (CIPSEA), it is recognized that other agencies and organizational units within the Executive Branch may benefit from the adoption of the SAP to accept applications for access to confidential data assets. The SAP is to be a process through which agencies, the Congressional Budget Office, State, local, and Tribal governments, researchers, and other individuals, as appropriate, may apply to access confidential data assets held by a federal statistical agency or unit for the purposes of developing evidence. With the Interagency Council on Statistical Policy (ICSP) as advisors, the entities upon whom this requirement is levied are working with the SAP Project Management Office (PMO) and with OMB to implement the SAP. The SAP Portal is to be a single web-based common application designed to collect information from individuals requesting access to confidential data assets from federal statistical agencies and units. In late 2022, the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES), in its role as the SAP PMO, published a 60-day Federal Register Notice (87 FR 53793) and 30-day Federal Register Notice (87 FR 66754) announcing plans to collect information through the SAP Portal. This collection request was submitted to the Office of Management and Budget as a Common Form in late 2022; the OMB control number for SAP Portal information collection is 3145-0271 and the expiration date is 12/31/2025. When an application for confidential data is approved through the SAP Portal, BTS will collect information to fulfill its data security requirements. This is a required step before providing the individual with access to confidential microdata for the purpose of evidence building. BTS’s data security agreements and other paperwork, along with the corresponding security protocols, allow BTS to maintain careful controls on confidentiality and privacy, as required by law. This collection will occur outside of the SAP Portal. On November 16, 2022, BTS published a 60-day Federal Register Notice [Vol 87, No 220, pages 68794-6] announcing plans for this collection. This submission requests approval to collect information from individuals to fulfill BTS’s data security requirements. This request is from BTS within the Department of Transportation.

Federal Register Notices

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Authorizing Statutes

44 USC 3583	View Law

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Patent Term Restoration, Due Diligence Petitions, Filing, Format, and Content of Petitions

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This information collection supports regulations in 21 CFR part 60 pertaining to patent term restoration and the submission of requests for revision of the regulatory review period under 21 CFR 60.25; due diligence petitions under 21 CFR 60.30; and requests for hearings under 21 CFR 60.40.

Federal Register Notices

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Authorizing Statutes

35 USC 156	View Law

21 USC 355(j)	View Law

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Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Consumer Education Website and Report of Serious Injuries and Death

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The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) proposes an extension to the reporting requirements related to the Consumer Education Website (at Section 45 CFR 98.43 of the Final Rule) to help create transparency and efficiency around the State/Territory interstate background check processes. OCC will use this information provided as a result to help ensure compliance with existing background check requirements in the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) Act and Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Final Rule. The existing Reporting of Serious Injuries and Death reporting requirement (at Section 45 CFR 98.42 of the Final Rule) will not be modified. These collections do not involve Federal forms.

Federal Register Notices

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Authorizing Statutes

Pub.L. 113 - 186 3 et seq	View Law

43 USC 9858 et seq	View Law

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Required Warnings for Cigarette Packages and Advertisements

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This ICR collects information from manufacturers, distributors, and certain retailers of cigarettes who will be required to submit plans to FDA relating to the random and equal display and distribution of required warning statements on cigarette packaging and quarterly rotation of required warning statements in alternating sequence in cigarette product advertising ("plan" or "plans"). A record of the FDA-approved plan must also be established and maintained.

Federal Register Notices

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Authorizing Statutes

21 USC 387e(g)	View Law

21 USC 387c	View Law

21 USC 387i	View Law

Pub.L. 111 - 31 123	View Law

21 USC 371	View Law

21 USC 374	View Law

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[NCCDPHP] Cognitive Testing and Pilot Testing for the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

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The recent changes in data collection methods and the changing landscape of survey research has created need for testing and evaluating protocols including sampling, use of existing large data bases and supplementing data collection with other sources of data at the individual or community/county level. In addition recent opportunities for funding pilot testing have become available allowing the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP) to explore pilots using larger numbers of participants in shorter time periods, thereby permitting a more robust examination of methods across more diverse populations and for a larger number of geographic jurisdictions. No changes are requested for the types/number of respondents currently approved for cognitive testing. No changes are requested for currently approved totals of in-person or by phone pilot testing. Substantial increases are requested for the numbers of respondents for pilots using the web (including all online data collection), including those who may be recruited/screened by phone or mail. The number included for online pilots also includes respondents who have been recruited by internet panels. The table below illustrates the requested changes in the pilot testing totals.

Federal Register Notices

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Authorizing Statutes

42 USC 241	View Law

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[NCHS] Application Form and Related Forms for the Operation of the National Death Index

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The National Death Index (NDI) and the services it provides allows NCHS to collect mortality data to support epidemiological research and to furnish mortality information to approved public health and medical investigators. This is a Revision request for a three-year clearance to use of the administrative forms (the application form, repeat request form, and transmittal form) and the fee worksheets utilized in the operation of the National Death Index (NDI) program.

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Authorizing Statutes

42 USC 306	View Law

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Departure Notification Record (DNR)

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This new information collection is necessary to assist ICE in enforcement. By identifying aliens who intend to voluntarily depart the country in compliance with U.S. law, ICE can focus efforts on aliens remaining in the country unlawfully without the intent to comply with departure from the United States as required. This collection would provide a way for aliens to voluntarily report intended departure information to ICE.Emergency Justfication:Through this collection, DHS collects biographic and biometric data elements, via mobile application, from aliens who wish to self-depart from the United States. DHS uses that information to facilitate self-departure of those aliens. DHS seeks reinstatement of this collection because “public harm is reasonably likely to result if normal clearance procedures are followed.

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PACE State Plan Amendment Pre-print (CMS-10227)

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The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 created Section 1934 of the Social Security Act that established the Program for the All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE). The legislation established the PACE program as a Medicaid State plan option serving the frail and elderly in the home and community. Pursuant to the notice given in 64 FR 66271 (November 24, 199), if a State elects to offer PACE as an optional Medicaid benefit, it must complete a State Plan Amendment described as Enclosures 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7. The information, collected by CMS on a one-time basis, is used by CMS to affirm that the State elects to offer PACE as an optional State plan service and the specifications of eligibility, payment and enrollment for the program.

Federal Register Notices

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Authorizing Statutes

42 USC 1396	View Law

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Application for the Uniendo a Puerto Rico Fund and the Connect USVI Fund Stage 2 Fixed Support

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The Commission requires service providers that seek to receive high-cost support in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands to compete in a Competitive Proposal Process by completing the required application, FCC Form 5634.

Federal Register Notices

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Authorizing Statutes

47 USC 214, 254	View Law

47 USC 151-154	View Law

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USGS Ashfall Report

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The Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) is a joint program of the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the Geophysical Institute of the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAFGI), and the State of Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys (ADGGS). AVO was formed in 1988, and uses federal, state, and university resources to monitor and study Alaska's hazardous volcanoes, to predict and record eruptive activity, and to mitigate volcanic hazards to life and property. This project creates a database module and web interface allowing the public and Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) staff to enter reports of ash fall in their local area in real time and retrospectively following an eruptive event. Users browsing the AVO web site during eruptions are directed towards a web form allowing them to fill in ash fall information and submit the information to AVO.

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Authorizing Statutes

42 USC 5121-5170	View Law

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Atlantic Highly Migratory Species Recreational Landings and Bluefin Tuna Catch Reports

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This request is for the extension of a currently approved information collection. This information collection consists of a mandatory catch reporting program in the recreational fishery for Atlantic bluefin tuna, swordfish, blue marlin, white marlin, and sailfish. Anglers harvesting these species must report through a toll-free telephone system, an Internet site, phone app, or through landing card programs administered by Maryland or North Carolina. Catch monitoring and collection of catch and effort statistics in these fisheries are required under the Atlantic Tunas Convention Act and the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act. The information collected through this program is essential for the United States to meet its reporting obligations to the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) and to assure the harvest of these species remains within ICCAT required quotas and landings limits.

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Authorizing Statutes

16 USC 1801 et seq.	View Law

16 USC 971 et seq.	View Law

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Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption 1992-6: Sale of Individual Life Insurance or Annuity Contracts by an Employee Benefit Plan

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PTE 92-6 exempts from the prohibited transaction restrictions the sale of individual life insurance or annuity contracts held by an employee benefit plan to: (1) plan participants under such plan; (2) relatives of such participants under such plan, (3) employers, any of whose employees are covered by such plan; (4) other employee benefit plans that have a party in interest relationship; (5) owner-employees (as defined in Code section 401(c)(3)), (6) shareholder-employees (as defined in Code section 1379 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 as in effect on the day before the enactment of the Subchapter S Revision Act of 1982), or (7) trusts established by plan participants of such plan or relatives of such participants who are the beneficiaries under such plan, for at least an amount equal to the amount necessary to put the plan in the same cash position as it would have been had it retained the contract, surrendered it, and made any distributions owing to the participant on his or her vested interest under such plan, provided certain conditions set forth in the class exemption are met. Plans utilizing the exemption are required to inform the insured participant of a proposed sale of a life insurance or annuity policy to the employer, a relative, a trust, another plan, an owner-employee, or a shareholder-employee and be given an opportunity to purchase such contract.

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Authorizing Statutes

29 USC 1108(a)	View Law

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Debt Instruments with original instrument discount (OID); Contingent Payments; Anti-Abuse Rule

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The regulations provide definitions, general rules, and reporting requirements for debt instruments that provide for contingent payments. The regulations also provide definitions, general rules, and recordkeeping requirements for integrated debt instruments.

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Authorizing Statutes

26 USC 1275	View Law

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Consent of Shareholder to Include Specific Amount in Gross Income

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Form 972 is used by a shareholder who agrees to report a consent dividend as taxable income on their own tax return. The shareholder completes the form and sends it to the corporation that will claim the consent dividend as a deduction.

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Authorizing Statutes

26 USC 565	View Law

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U.S. Departing Alien Income Tax Statement

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Form 2063 is used by a departing resident alien against whom a termination assessment has not been made, or a departing non- resident alien who has no taxable income from United States sources, to certify that they have satisfied all U.S. income tax obligations. The data is used by the IRS to certify that departing aliens have complied with U.S. income tax laws.

Federal Register Notices

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Authorizing Statutes

26 USC 6851	View Law

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Interagency Policy Statement on Funding and Liquidity Risk Management

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The Interagency Policy Statement on Funding and Liquidity Risk Management (Guidance) was issued to provide consistent interagency expectations on sound practices for managing funding and liquidity risk. The Guidance includes a number of voluntary recordkeeping provisions that apply to bank holding companies, savings and loan holding companies, state-licensed branches and agencies of foreign banks (other than insured branches), corporations organized or operating under sections 25 or 25A of the Federal Reserve Act (agreement corporations and Edge corporations), and state member banks (collectively, financial institutions). The recordkeeping provisions relate to liquidity risk management policies, procedures, and assumptions, and contingency funding plans (CFPs).

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12 USC 324	View Law

12 USC 602	View Law

12 USC 625	View Law

12 USC 1844(c)	View Law

12 USC 1467a(b)(3)	View Law

12 USC 3105(c)(2)	View Law

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Employment Tax Adjustments and Rules Relating to Additional Medicare Tax

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This information is required to verify compliance with return requirements under section 6011, employment tax adjustments under section 6205 and 6413, and claims for refund of overpayments of employment taxes under section 6402 and 6414.

Federal Register Notices

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Authorizing Statutes

26 USC 6205(a)	View Law

26 USC 6413(a)	View Law

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Creditability of Foreign Taxes

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Internal Revenue Code (IRC) section 901 allows a taxpayer a tax credit for the amount of any income, war profits, or excess profits taxes it has paid or accrued during the taxable year. Treasury Regulations section 1.901-2A(e) allows a dual capacity taxpayer to apply the safe harbor formula to qualifying levies when determining the credit. Section 1.901-2A(d) requires the taxpayer to provide a statement electing to use the safe harbor formula.

Federal Register Notices

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Authorizing Statutes

26 USC 901	View Law

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