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The Department of Education proposes to amend the Student Assistance General Provisions regulations issued under the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (HEA), to implement changes made to the Student Assistance General Provisions regulations – Subpart D – Institutional and Financial Assistance Information for §668.41 - Reporting and disclosure of information. These final regulations are a result of negotiated rulemaking and would delete requirements to the current regulations in §668.41(h). The current regulations in §668.41(h) require institutions that use pre-dispute arbitration agreements or class action waivers as a condition of enrollment disclose that information to students, prospective students, and the public in an easily accessible format. The final regulations in §685.300 contain provisions which would replace those in current §668.41(h), rendering it unnecessary. This request is to remove from the current information collection the regulatory requirements, burden hours, and costs associated with the regulations in §668.41(h) while retaining the burden hours previously calculated for the remaining sections of §668.41.

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The Department of Education amends the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) Program regulations to implement changes Subpart D – Administration of the Federal Family Education Loan Programs by a Guaranty Agency for §682.402(e) and §682.414(b). These final regulations are a result of negotiated rule making and will add new requirements to the current regulations. The final regulations in §682.402(e)(6)(iii) will require that if a FFEL borrower submits an application for discharge that a FFEL program loan holder determines is incomplete, the loan holder will notify the borrower of that determination and allow the borrower 30 days to amend the application and provide supplemental information. The final regulations in §682.402(e)(6)(vii) will require a guaranty agency to issue a decision that explains the reasons for any adverse determination on a false certification discharge application, describes the evidence on which the decision was made, and provides the borrower, upon request, copies of the evidence. The guaranty agency will consider any response or additional information from the borrower and notify the borrower as to whether the determination is changed. The final regulations in §682.402(e)(6)(ix) will provide the borrower with the option to request that the Secretary review the guaranty agency's decision. The final regulations in §682.414(b)(4) will require FFEL Program lenders to report detailed information related to a borrower’s deferments, forbearances, repayment plans, delinquency, and contact information on any FFEL loan to the Department by an established deadline.

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Pursuant to section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA, in the first FR notice (87 FR 11425) published on March 1, 2022, EPA solicited comments and information pertaining to the distribution of offsite consequence analysis information under the accidental release prevention requirements; Risk Management Programs under the Clean Air Act Section 112(r)(7). The regulations include requirements for submittal of a Risk Management Plan (RMP) to EPA, which includes information on offsite consequence analysis (OCA) as well as other elements of the Risk Management Program. The Chemical Safety Information, Site Security, and Fuels Regulatory Relief Act (CSISSFRRA), published on August 4, 2000 (65 FR 48108), required the President, who delegated to EPA and the Department of Justice (DOJ), the responsibility to promulgate regulations on the distribution of OCA information, imposed minimal information and recordkeeping requirements. In accordance with the final rule, the Federal Government established 55 reading rooms at Federal facilities geographically distributed across the United States and its territories, where the public may read, but not mechanically copy or remove, paper copies of OCA information for up to 10 stationary sources per calendar month. The public may also obtain OCA information that the Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC) in whose jurisdiction the requestor lives or works, is authorized to provide. The final rule also authorizes and encourages State and local government officials to access OCA information for their official use, and to provide the public with read-only access to OCA sections of RMPs for sources located within the jurisdiction of the LEPC where the person lives or works and for any other stationary sources with vulnerability zones extending into the LEPCs jurisdiction. EPA also established a Vulnerable Zone Indicator System (VZIS) which informs any person located in any state whether an address specified by that person might be within the vulnerable zone of one or more stationary sources, according to the data reported in RMPs. The VZIS is available on the internet. Members of the public who do not have access to the internet are able to obtain the same information by regular mail request to the EPA. An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. The OMB control numbers for EPAs regulations in 40 CFR are listed in 40 CFR part 9.

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The New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for Ammonium Sulfate Manufacturing Plants (40 CFR Part 60, Subpart PP) were proposed on February 4, 1980, promulgated on November 12, 1980, and amended on October 17, 2000. These regulations apply to ammonium sulfate dryers located at both existing and new ammonium sulfate manufacturing plants in the caprolactam by-product, synthetic, and coke oven by-products sectors of the ammonium sulfate manufacturing industry. New facilities include those that commenced construction, modification or reconstruction after the date of proposal. This information is being collected to assure compliance with 40 CFR Part 60, Subpart PP. In general, all NSPS standards require initial notifications, performance tests, and periodic reports by the owners/operators of the affected facilities. They are also required to maintain records of the occurrence and duration of any startup, shutdown, or malfunction in the operation of an affected facility, or any period during which the monitoring system is inoperative. These notifications, reports, and records are essential in determining compliance, and are required of all affected facilities subject to NSPS.

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The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) requests an approval of a renewal of the three-year clearance for the agency’s information collection requests for the Guidelines for IMLS Grants to States Five-Year Evaluation under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA). Each State Library Administrative Agency (SLAA) is required, under 20 U.S.C. § 9101 et seq. (in particular 20 U.S.C. § 9134, attached at the end of this document), to submit a plan that details library services goals for a five-year period, along with associated certifications. IMLS authorizing legislation (20 U.S.C. § 9134) directs SLAAs to “independently evaluate, and report to the Director regarding, the activities assisted under this subchapter, prior to the end of the Five-Year Plan.” This evaluation provides SLAAs an opportunity to measure progress toward meeting the goals set forth in their approved Five-Year Plans, along with a framework to synthesize information across all state reports to facilitate telling a national story. These guidelines were approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in 2019 and received a 4-month extension of the 6/30/2022 expiration date in the spring of 2022. They are being submitted with minor updates intended to increase efficiencies of the data collection itself and minimize confusion around reporting requirements. These changes are based on feedback from SLAAs and their independent evaluators received during the most recent evaluation-reporting submissions.

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Individuals, Businesses, and Tribal governments planning to remove forest products from lands managed by the Forest Service or Bureau of Land Management must first obtain a permit or contract in order to comply with authorizing laws, ensure applicants meet certain criteria, and ensure compliance with the terms of the permit or contract. Tribal governments are required under Proposed Rule 0596-AD00 to make their request in writing for the free use of forest products for traditional or cultural purposes.

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The Department of Labor (Department), Employment and Training Administration (ETA) is submitting this Information Collection Request (ICR) to implement and collect an annual Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessment (RESEA) state plan as described in Section 306(e) of the Social Security Act (SSA). On February 9, 2018, the President signed the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, Public Law 115-123 (BBA), which included amendments to the SSA that create a permanent authorization for the RESEA program. Section 306 of the SSA introduced several new program requirements including the requirement that states must submit an annual state plan to be considered eligible for funding. To be considered eligible for RESEA funding for a Fiscal Year, a state must submit a state plan that outlines how the state intends to conduct a program of reemployment services and eligibility assessments by responding to all the required elements identified in Section 306(e) of the SSA and this ICR.

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ENERGY STAR is a voluntary program developed in collaboration with industry to create a self-sustaining market for energy efficient products. The center piece of the program is the ENERGY STAR label, a registered certification label that helps consumers identify products that save energy, save money, and help protect the environment without sacrificing quality or performance. In order to protect the integrity of the label and enhance its effectiveness in the marketplace, EPA must ensure that products carrying the label meet program requirements.

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FEMA’s Radiological Emergency Preparedness (REP) Program coordinates the National effort to provide State, Tribal and local governments with relevant and executable planning, training, technical assistance, exercise guidance, and policies necessary to ensure that adequate capabilities exist to prepare for, respond to, and recover from incidents involving commercial nuclear power plants (NPPs). The REP Program assists State, Tribal and local governments in the development and conduct of off-site emergency planning and preparedness activities within the emergency planning zones (EPZs) of Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)-licensed commercial nuclear power facilities. The intent of this request is the collection of comments on an extension, with change, of a currently approved information collection an OMB control number representing all information collections related to FEMA REP Program requirements described in 44 CFR parts 350 and 352.

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This information collection helps support implementation of statutory provisions applicable to laboratories that conduct testing on human specimens under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA). These requirements are codified in 42 U.S.C. 263a and implementing regulations are found in 42 CFR 493.

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This information collection supports implementation of Sections 503A and 503B of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act) - which governs pharmacy compounding and outsourcing facilities. The requirements include reporting, recordkeeping, and disclosures.

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The goal of this generic information collection request is to enable CDC/NIOSH to support the effective use of respiratory protection by providing information that may be used to improve the design and implementation of employer-administered programs. Using the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) respiratory protection program (RPP) requirements as the foundational framework, this research will assess current perceptions in respirator use as well as gaps in respirator use, maintenance, and implementation. Data collection efforts will seek to 1) determine the perceived knowledge, skills, and uses of respirators among those who wear a respirator as a part of their job and/or those who oversee respirator use, and 2) identify patterns in RPPs and other health and safety programs such as practices and directives that are included or missing to inform new content for improved respirator training, management, and effective, trusted use.

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This is an ongoing activity of AHRQ’s Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) Program. AHRQ’s EPC Program develops evidence reports and technology assessments on topics relevant to clinical and other health care organization and delivery issues—specifically those that are common, expensive, and/or significant for the Medicare and Medicaid populations. For example, recent reviews have focused on clinical conditions, such as “Radiation Therapy for Brain Metastases” ; health delivery topics, such as “Transitions of Care From Pediatric to Adult Services for Children With Special Healthcare Needs” ; and specific technologies, such as “Telehealth for Women’s Preventive Services.” These evidence reports include systematic reviews, technical briefs, and rapid reviews; and provide an essential foundation from which to understand what we know from existing research and what critical research gaps remain. These reports, reviews, and technology assessments are based on rigorous, comprehensive syntheses and analyses of the scientific literature on topics. EPC reports and assessments emphasize explicit and detailed documentation of methods, rationale, and assumptions. EPC reports are conducted in accordance with an established policy on financial and nonfinancial interests. These scientific syntheses may include meta-analyses and cost analyses. The EPC Program supports AHRQ’s mission by synthesizing and disseminating the available research as a “science partner” with private and public organizations in their efforts to improve the quality, effectiveness, and appropriateness of health care. The EPC Program is a trusted source of rigorous, comprehensive, and unbiased evidence reviews for stakeholders. The resulting evidence reports and technology assessments are used by Federal and State agencies, private-sector professional societies, health delivery systems, providers, payers, and others committed to evidence-based health care. These end-users may use EPC Program evidence reports to inform policy decisions, clinical practice guidelines, and other healthcare decisions. This research has the following goals: o Use research methods to gather knowledge on the effectiveness and harms of certain treatments and healthcare delivery processes and models for medical conditions, both published and unpublished, to evaluate the quality of research studies and the evidence from these studies. o Promote the use of evidence in healthcare decision making to improve healthcare and health. o Identify research gaps to inform future research investments.

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In 1997, AHRQ launched an initiative to promote evidence-based practice in everyday care through establishment of the Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) Program. Since then, the EPCs have been reviewing all relevant scientific literature on a wide spectrum of clinical and health services topics to produce various types of evidence reports. This program directly addresses AHRQ’s abovementioned mission to promote health care quality improvement by conducting synthesis and dissemination of existing scientific evidence for use by various stakeholders. Majority of these evidence reports are systematic reviews (SRs), which are used as evidence bases for clinical practice guidelines, research agenda, healthcare coverage, and other health related policies. Performing SRs is costly in time, labor, and money. Moreover, there is an increasing expectation of quicker turnaround in producing SRs to accommodate the fast moving pace of innovations and new scientific discoveries in healthcare. Some SRs overlap or are replicated; independent teams of SR producers often extract data from the same studies, resulting in replication of work. Current methodology makes it difficult to harness and reuse previous work when updating SRs. An open-access repository of extracted data from primary studies could improve the efficiency of conducting SRs by sharing this extracted data for SR updates or new SRs. A repository of such data would also greatly facilitate methodological research to improve the conduct of SR and primary research. It can foster collaboration, transparency, and reliability among research groups who contribute data. It can also provide valuable information to patients and stakeholders who view the deposited data. In an effort to reduce the economic burden of conducting SRs, the EPC program undertook development of a collaborative, Web-based repository of systematic review data called the Systematic Review Data Repository (SRDR). This resource serves as both an archive and data extraction tool, shared among organizations and individuals producing SRs worldwide, enabling the creation of a central database of SR data. This database is collaboratively vetted, freely accessible, and integrates seamlessly with reviewers’ existing workflows, with the ultimate goal of facilitating the efficient generation and update of evidence reviews, and thus speeding and improving policy-making with regards to health care. The SRDR project aims to achieve the following goals: 1) Create online easy-to-use Web-based tools for conducting systematic reviews to facilitate extraction of data from primary studies; 2) Develop an open-access searchable archive of key questions addressed in systematic reviews; 3) Maintain a public repository of primary study data including provision of technical support for repository users; and 4) Develop a process for making summary data from systematic reviews digitally shareable to end-users.

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The Secretary establishes regulations for Federal Pell Grants (Pell Grants or Pell) for Prison Education Programs (PEPs), to implement the new statutory requirements in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, that amend the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (HEA), to establish Pell Grant eligibility for a confined or incarcerated individual enrolled in a PEP. These final regulations are a result of negotiated rulemaking and will add new title IV regulations to especially in Subpart P of 34 CFR Section 668. The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 added section 484(t) to the HEA to formally establish Pell Grant eligibility for confined or incarcerated individuals, as long as they are enrolled in a PEP as defined under the HEA. The final regulations implement the statutory requirements allowing access to Federal Pell Grants for individuals who are confined or incarcerated when enrolled in programs that meet necessary standards. This collection establishes new burden under regulations at 34 CFR 668.237 - Accreditation requirements. These final regulations prescribe program evaluation at the first two additional Prison Education Program (PEP) locations of a participating institution of higher education to ensure institutional ability to offer and implement the PEP in accordance with the accrediting agency’s standards. The final regulations require the accrediting agency to conduct a site visit no later than one year after the institution has initiated a PEP at its first two additional locations at correctional facilities. Additionally, the final regulations require accrediting agencies to review the methodology used by an institution in determining the PEP meets the same standards for substantially similar non-PEP programs offered at the institution.

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The Department of Education amends the Student Assistance General Provisions regulations to implement changes to § 668.28 – Non-Federal revenue (90/10). These final changes are based on requirements of the American Rescue Plan of 2021 which amended Section 487 of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended, (HEA). These final regulations are a result of negotiated rulemaking in 2021 and will add new requirements to the current regulations. The final regulations will amend the heading of §668.28 and references throughout the section to change “non-title IV revenue” to “non-Federal funds”. The final regulations amend §668.28(a)(2) to create a disbursement rule that outlines how proprietary institutions calculate the percentage of their revenue that is Federal revenue and creates an end-of-fiscal-year deadline for proprietary institutions to request and disburse title IV funds to students. The final regulations also modify §668.28(c)(3) with the steps that proprietary institutions must take if they fail to derive at least 10 percent of their revenue from allowable non-Federal sources by requiring them to notify students of the failure and the students’ potential loss of title IV aid at that proprietary institution.

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The Department of Education (the Department) amends the Student Assistance General Provisions regulations to implement changes to §668.43 – Financial assistance information . These changes are based on requirements of Section 485(a)(1)(G) of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended, (HEA). These final regulations are a result of negotiated rulemaking in 2021 and add new requirements to the current regulations. The final regulations in §668.43 would put in place new institutional disclosure requirements for participants in the proposed Prison Education Program (PEP). Specifically, §668.43(a)(5)(v) is amended to require disclosure of typical State or Federal prohibitions on the licensure or employment of formerly confined or incarcerated individuals for a PEP that is designed to meet educational requirements for a specific professional license or certification. This information is required for licensure requirements in States other than the State where the correctional facility is located or the State where most students are likely to return.

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The information is required to allow HUD to conduct a competition to designate rural, tribal and urban Promise Zone designations.

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Title 5, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 731 (suitability), Executive Order (E.O.) 13764 (contractor fitness), E.O. 12968/SEAD 4 (classified access), and Homeland Security Directive-12 (badging) requires all federal and contractor employees to undergo a background investigation when seeking employment with an agency. The NCUA Personnel Security Processing Forms (Personnel Security Data Form-Contractor, Personnel Security Data Form-Employee and the Authorization for Release of Credit Information) are used to collect information necessary for applying the government-established suitability/fitness criteria on employees before they can begin employment with or perform contractual services for the NCUA. It may be also required should a contract employee be moved to a new contract work. The background investigation process culminates in an adjudicative determination on whether or not these employees are fit to perform services on behalf of the agency.

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The Consumer Product Safety Commission needs the reports of qualification testing to assure that lighters subject to the safety standard comply with the child resistance levels established in the standard. The ongoing production and quality control records required by the standard are used to ensure that production lighters continue to be made to the same manufacturing specifications as the lighters that passed the child-panel qualifications test and are used by the manufacturer or importer to issue its batch by batch certificate of compliance pursuant to section 14(a) of the CPSA.