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Previous ICR	202001-3064-006

Federal Register Notices

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Before an insured state nonmember bank establishes or operates a new domestic branch or moves its main office or a branch from one location to another, it must obtain the FDIC’s prior written consent.

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Federal Register Notices

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In accordance with National Defense Authorization Act of 2006 (Public Law 109-163 Sec. 562 (b)(11)), data is collected on the quality of casualty assistance provided to next of kin of military decedents.

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Previous ICR	201911-3235-014

Federal Register Notices

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A Notice of Exempt Preliminary Roll-Up Communication provides information regarding ownership interests and any potential conflicts of interest to be included in statements submitted by or on behalf of a person pursuant to Rule 14a-2(b)(4) and Rule 14a-6(n).

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Previous ICR	202206-2132-001

Federal Register Notices

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The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, enacted as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, established a new All Stations Accessibility Program (ASAP) to provide federal competitive grants for repairing, improving, modifying, retrofitting, or relocating infrastructure of stations or facilities for passenger use, including load-bearing members that are an essential part of the structural frame. Federal funds can also be used for developing or modifying a plan for pursuing public transportation accessibility projects, assessments of accessibility, or assessments of planned modifications to stations or facilities for passenger use or programs of projects in an eligible area. The information collection (IC) request is for an extension without change of a currently approved collection which is due to expire on December 31, 2022. FTA began this information collection in June 2022 under a six-month OMB emergency approval. On September 27, 2022, FTA issued a 60-day Federal Register Notice (FRN) requesting the extension of the approved information collection under the regular Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) clearance process. There were no comments received from that notice. As required, a 30-day FRN requesting public comments followed. There have been no changes to the respondent universe or burden since the initial emergency request. FTA is requesting OMB approval under the normal PRA process for up to three years. This is a voluntary program where recipients submit initial information at the application stage and if funding is received; additional data is required at the project management stage. Information is submitted by eligible recipients for ASAP to include designated recipients that allocate funds to legacy rail fixed guideway public transportation systems, states (including territories and Washington D.C.) or local governmental entities that operate legacy rail fixed guideway public transportation systems. The information is received online via TrAMS, FTA's transit award and management system. There are no changes to this IC as FTA has not applied any substantive changes or adjustments from the initial assumptions of the emergency approval. FTA plans to announce the first grant recipients of this program in early 2023.

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The goal of these forms is to collect information about a researcher's commitment to protect confidential data from unauthorized access and disclosure. NCHS is the Nation’s principal health statistics agency and compiles statistical information to guide actions and policies to improve the health of the U.S. population. The national surveys and data systems administered by NCHS are a unique public resource for health information, a critical element of public health and health policy. Making these data available to the public upon request is an essential mission of NCHS. NCHS endeavors to disseminate its data widely in accordance with the requirements of the Evidence Act (see 44 U.S.C. 3582).

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Previous ICR	202107-0960-005

Federal Register Notices

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SSA's International Direct Deposit (IDD) Program allows beneficiaries living abroad to receive their payments via direct deposit to an account at a financial institution outside the United States. SSA uses Form SSA-1199-(Country) to obtain the direct deposit information for such foreign accounts, and enroll title II beneficiaries residing abroad in IDD. Routing account number information varies slightly for each foreign country, so we use a variation of the Treasury Department's Form SF–1199A for each country. The respondents are Social Security beneficiaries residing abroad who want SSA to deposit their benefits payments directly to a foreign financial institution.

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Previous ICR	201906-0945-003

Federal Register Notices

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Requiring certain recipients and applicants to assure and certify compliance serves two purposes. First, through the act of reading and reviewing the statutory requirements to which recipients or applicants assure and certify compliance, recipients would be apprised of their obligations under the applicable Federal health care conscience and associated anti-discrimination laws. Second, a recipient’s or applicant’s awareness of its obligation would increase the likelihood that it would comply with such laws and consequently afford entities and individuals protection of their conscience rights and protection from coercion or discrimination. Because of this awareness, the Department anticipates that proposed § 88.4 may generate changes in the policies, procedures, and operations of the persons and entities covered

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Previous ICR	201901-1110-002

Federal Register Notices

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The survey is intended to measure the effectiveness of the FBI's Office of Private Sector's engagement efforts with the Private Sector.

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Previous ICR	201911-1530-002

Federal Register Notices

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The Direct Deposit Sign-Up Form is used by recipients to authorize the deposit of Federal payments into their accounts at financial institutions. The information is used to route the Direct Deposit payment to the correct account at the correct financial institution. It identifies persons who have executed the form.

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Previous ICR	201906-3235-014

Federal Register Notices

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Rule 6a-4 directs certain futures markets that wish to trade security futures products to register with the Commission on Form 1-N. The rule is designed to provide the Commission with information that would help enable it to ensure that the activities of these Security Futures Product Exchanges were consistent with the Exchange Act.

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Previous ICR	201909-3235-010

Federal Register Notices

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Rule 15Fi-2 prescribes documentation standards for the timely and accurate acknowledgment and verification of SBS transactions by SBS Entities. The rule contains seven paragraphs: (a) the trade acknowledgment obligations of specific SBS Entities; (b) the prescribed time frames under which a trade acknowledgment must be provided; (c) the form and content requirements of the trade acknowledgment; (d) SBS Entities’ verification obligations; (e) a limited exception from the requirement to provide a clearing agency a trade acknowledgment in a clearing transaction; (f) a limited exception from the requirement to provide a trade acknowledgment for certain transactions executed on a security-based swap execution facility or a national securities exchange or accepted for clearing by a clearing agency; and (g) a limited exemption from the requirements of Exchange Act Rule 10b-10 for a broker-dealer acting as principal for its own account in a security-based swap transaction.

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Previous ICR	201909-0518-001

Federal Register Notices

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The collection is used to evaluate user satisfaction with the content and usefulness of Web-based delivery methods.

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Previous ICR	202005-1652-003

Federal Register Notices

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The TSA Canine Program is a Congressionally-mandated program that operates pursuant to section 110(e)(3) of the Aviation and Transportation Security Act (ATSA), Pub. L. 107-71 (115 Stat. 597, Nov. 19, 2001); and the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007, Pub. L. 110-53 (121 Stat. 266, Aug. 3, 2007). The TSA Canine Program developed the TSA CTC to train and deploy explosive detection canine teams to Federal, State, and local agencies in support of daily activities that protect the transportation domain. TSA created the TSA CTC Adoption Program under the authority of 41 CFR 102-36.35(d) and 102–36.365 to find suitable individuals or families to adopt and provide good homes to canines who do not graduate from the training program. Individuals seeking to adopt a TSA canine must complete the TSA CTC Adoption Application. This collection of information allows the TSA CTC to collect personal information from the applicants to determine their suitability to adopt a TSA canine.

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Previous ICR	202212-2900-002

Federal Register Notices

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On January 5, 2021, the President signed into law the Johnny Isakson and David P. Roe, M.D. Veterans Health Care and Benefits Improvement Act of 2020 (the “Act”). Public Law (Pub. L.) 116-315. Section 3002 of the Act amended section 1730A to add a copayment exemption for veterans who are either Indian or urban Indian, as those terms are defined in section 4 of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act. Section 4 is codified at 25 U.S.C. 1603, and the definitions for Indian and urban Indian are located in paragraphs 13 and 28, respectively, of section 1603. This rulemaking revises several VA regulations concerning copayment exemptions to be consistent with the amendment made to 38 U.S.C. 1730A by section 3002 of the Act. To demonstrate that a veteran meets the definition of Indian or urban Indian, as defined in 25 U.S.C. 1603(13) and (28), the veteran must submit appropriate documentation to VA. New form 10-334 was created by VA to be used as a cover sheet for submission of this documentation. The documents submitted by individual veterans will be reviewed by VHA staff for the purposes of establishing copay exemption, in accordance with the statute. VA will determine if a veteran meets the definition of Indian or urban Indian as defined in 25 U.S.C. 1603(13) and (28) and qualifies for an exemption from the copayment for certain health care.

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Previous ICR	201811-0960-010

Federal Register Notices

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To ensure we credit the correct person with the reported earnings, SSA verifies wage reports for children under age seven with the children’s employers before posting to the earnings record. SSA uses form SSA-L3231, Request for Employer Information, for this purpose. The respondents are employers who report earnings for children under age seven.

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Previous ICR	201806-1545-005

Federal Register Notices

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Form 2290 is used to compute and report the tax imposed by section 4481 on the highway use of certain motor vehicles. The information is used to determine whether the taxpayer has paid the correct amount of tax.

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Previous ICR	202010-3235-009

Federal Register Notices

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Schedule 13E-3 provides shareholders and the marketplace with information concerning going private transactions that is important in determining how to respond to such transactions.

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Previous ICR	202207-3235-024

Federal Register Notices

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Schedule 14D-1F may be used by any person making a cash tender or exchange offer (the "bidder") for securities of any issuer, incorporated or organized under the laws of Canada, that is a foreign private issuer, and less than 40% of the issuer's securities are held by U.S. investors.

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Previous ICR	201810-0960-013

Federal Register Notices

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SSA uses Form SSA-781 to determine if non-custodial parents who file for spouse, mother’s, father’s, or surviving divorced mother’s or father’s benefits based on having a child in their care, meet the “in-care” requirements. The in-care provision requires claimants to have an entitled child under age 16, or disabled in their care. The respondents are applicants for spouse; mother’s; father’s, or surviving divorced mother’s or father’s Social Security benefits.

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Previous ICR	202304-7100-002

Federal Register Notices

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The FR LL-10(b) form is used to collect information from a newly formed savings and loan holding company (SLHC) and also covers certain requests for deregistration as an SLHC.

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Previous ICR	201810-1660-003

Federal Register Notices

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The assessment is structured by the 32 core capabilities from the 2015 National Preparedness Goal. States, territories, urban areas, and tribes provide information on capability targets, their current capability levels and capability gaps for each core capability. Respondent States, Tribes, territories, and urban areas gather the information and complete the THIRA and SPR following the “Comprehensive Preparedness Guide (CPG) 201, Third Edition.”

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Previous ICR	202002-3038-001

Federal Register Notices

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The CFTC requests the extension without change of the OMB clearance for the information collections associated with Part 160 of the Commission's regulations (Privacy of Consumer Financial Information). The passage of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, Public Law 111-203, 124 Stat. 1376 (2010), broadened the Commission's regulatory authority under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act ("GLB Act") to cover two new entities: Swap Dealers and Major Swap Participants, in addition to Futures Commission Merchants, Commodity Trading Advisors, Commodity Pool Operators, and Introducing Brokers, Specifically, amendments to the GLB Act found in section 1093 of the Dodd-Frank Act, reaffirmed the Commission's authority to promulgate regulations to require entities that are subject to the Commission's jurisdiction to provide certain privacy protections for consumer financial information. These regulations were later extended to Retail Foreign Exchange Dealers. Section 124 of the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 (“CFMA”) amended the Commodity Exchange Act (the “Act”) and added a new Section 5g to the Act to (i) add that futures commission merchants, commodity trading advisors, commodity pool operators, and introducing brokers that are subject to CFTC jurisdiction with respect to any financial activity shall be treated as a financial institution for purposes of Title V, Subtitle A of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (“GLB Act”), (ii) treat the Commission as a Federal functional regulator for purposes of applying the provisions of the GLB Act, and (iii) direct the Commission to prescribe regulations under Title V of the GLB Act. The Commission adopted regulations for these entities under part 160 and later extended them to retail foreign exchange dealers, swap dealers, and major swap participants. Part 160 requires those subject to the regulations, among other things, to provide privacy and opt out notices to customers and to adopt appropriate policies and procedures to safeguard customer records and information.

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Previous ICR	202111-2577-001

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Pursuant to the 1996 MTW Statute and 2016 MTW Expansion Statute (Section 239 of the Fiscal Year 2016 Appropriations Act, P.L. 114-113), Appendix I of the MTW Operations Notice provides waivers of certain provisions of the 1937 Act as well as the implementing requirements and regulations. The MTW HAP Rider is being added to the Housing Assistance Payments Contract for the Section 8-Tenant Based Assistance Housing Choice Voucher Program and the Section 8 Project-Based Voucher Program to ensure that any particular provisions of the HAP Contract differ from or conflict with the MTW activities included in the PHA’s approved MTW Supplement to its PHA Plan, that the provisions of the MTW Operations Notice and the approved MTW Supplement to the PHA Plan will supersede any conflicting or differing HAP Contract language. The MTW HAP Rider will have no significant impact on information collection burden.

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Previous ICR	201909-1205-005

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This Information Collection Request (ICR) seeks approval under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) to extend and revise this collection made necessary by a statutory requirement for a CW-1 temporary labor certification. More specifically, the Department of Labor (DOL or Department) proposes to extend the Form ETA-9142C, Application for Temporary Employment Certification and appendices, and Form ETA-9141C, Application for Prevailing Wage Determination to carry out responsibilities created for the Department under the Northern Mariana Islands U.S. Workforce Act of 2018 (Pub. L. 115-218). The ETA Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC) will continue to use this information collection to meet its statutory and regulatory responsibilities for administering the CW-1 temporary labor certification program. An employer seeking to employ CW-1 workers must file a completed CW-1 Application for Temporary Employment Certification (Form ETA-9142C), all appropriate appendices, and a valid Application for Prevailing Wage Determination, with the OFLC National Processing Center (NPC). These forms and all supporting documentation constitute the CW-1 application submitted by an employer to secure a temporary labor certification determination from the OFLC.

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The current authorization for the Regional Educational Laboratories (REL) program is under the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002, Part D, Section 174, (20 U.S.C. 9564), administered by the Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences (IES), National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance (NCEE). The goal of the REL program is to partner with educators and policymakers to conduct work that is change-oriented and supports meaningful local, regional, or state decisions about education policies, programs, and practices to improve outcomes for students. School readiness, particularly language and literacy readiness, in South Carolina (SC) remains a high-leverage need. This need is reflected in the state’s Kindergarten Readiness Assessment (KRA). The KRA measures four domains of learning and development, including language and literacy. Demonstrating readiness occurs when students show the foundational skills and behaviors that prepare them for instruction based on kindergarten standards. In 2020/21 Modified KRA scores in SC revealed that only 27 percent of incoming kindergartners demonstrated readiness (South Carolina Education Oversight Committee, 2021). Achievement gaps were also observed, with 17 percent of African American kindergarteners and 13 percent of Hispanic kindergarteners meeting the demonstrating readiness mark, compared to 35 percent of White students. There is a clear need to improve equity in learning opportunities and in school readiness outcomes among SC children. Members of the SC research partnership have identified teacher professional development (PD) in language and literacy as a critical component to improving the quality of early learning and are specifically interested in understanding the effectiveness of and the facilitators and barriers to implementation of the Professional Learning Community: Emergent Literacy (PLC-EL; Kosanovich et al., 2020). The purpose of this study is to understand the impact of the PLC-EL program on preschool teachers’ knowledge, practice, and student achievement in print knowledge, phonological awareness, oral language, and vocabulary. In addition, this study will identify factors that influence program effectiveness and the facilitators and barriers of effective implementation that inform scale-up initiatives across the state. This study will using a randomized controlled trial design to help ensure that–all else equal–this study will yield the strongest, most reliable evidence possible on which to base policy and practice. The study sample will include approximately 100 preschool centers across SC, 2,940 students, 226 preschool teachers, 25 PLC-EL Facilitators, center leaders, and a subset of district and state education leaders. The study findings will help the Office of Early Learning & Literacy (OELL) at SCDE meet its goals of improving equitable access to high-quality PD for educators and equitable access to high-quality instruction for students by training facilitators to implement the PLC-EL in a large sample of preschool centers in four separate regions of the state. In addition, the study findings will provide the OELL at SCDE with actionable information about facilitators and barriers to implementation that can be used to inform scale-up initiatives across the state.