Key Information

Received	2022-10-13
Concluded	2022-12-20
Expires	2025-12-31
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	2105-0580
Previous ICR	202202-2105-003

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As a result of proposed rule, RIN 2105-AE26: Streamline and Update the Department of Transportation Acquisition Regulation posted to the Federal Register, 86FR69452, on December 7, 2021, TAR Case 2020-001, this is a request from the Department of Transportation (DOT) for OMB approval of a new Information Collection (IC). Under Public Law 113-283, Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014, each agency of the Federal Government must provide security for the information and information systems that support the operations and assets of the agency, including those provided or managed by another agency, contractor, or other source. DOT provided a 60-day comment period for the public to respond to the proposed rule and submit comments. The public comment period closed on February 7, 2022. DOT received no public comments on the proposed rule and no public comments were received on any of the information collection requirements in the rule. The final rule is estimated to be published in the month of September 2022.

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Received	2024-01-04
Concluded	2024-01-17
Expires	2025-12-31
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	1850-0888
Previous ICR	202310-1850-005

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The Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) is an international survey of teachers and principals focusing on the working conditions of teachers and the teaching and learning practices in schools. The United States will administer TALIS for the third time in 2024, having participated in 2013 and 2018. TALIS 2024 is sponsored by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). TALIS is steered by the TALIS Governing Board (TGB), comprising representatives from the OECD member countries, and implemented internationally by organizations contracted by the OECD (referred to as the International consortium). In the U.S., TALIS 2024 is conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) of the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. TALIS 2024 is focused on teachers; professional environment, teaching conditions, and their impact on school and teacher effectiveness. TALIS 2024 will address teacher training and professional development, teacher appraisal, school climate, school leadership, instructional approaches, pedagogical practices, and teaching experience with and support for teaching diverse populations. OECD has scheduled the main study to occur in the Northern hemisphere from February through March 2024 and in the Southern hemisphere from June through August 2024. To prepare for the main study, several TALIS countries will conduct pilot studies in February 2022; the U.S. will not participate. Countries will also conduct a field test in the first quarter of 2023, primarily to evaluate newly developed questionnaire items and school recruitment materials; the U.S. will participate in the field test. To meet the international data collection schedule for the field test, U.S. recruitment activities need to begin by August 2022 and U.S. questionnaires must be finalized by December 2022. TALIS 2024 includes the core TALIS teacher and principal surveys that are required for each participating country, as well as an optional Teacher Knowledge Survey (TKS). The TKS is intended to better understand the teacher pedagogical knowledge base at the national level. The US is including the TKS in the upcoming TALIS 2024 field test and will evaluate these results to determine the feasibility of including TKS as part of the US Main Study. The previous submission (OMB #1850-0888 v.8) requested approval for: (1) recruitment and pre-survey activities for the 2023 field test sample; (2) administration of the field test; and (3) school recruitment and pre-survey activities for the 2024 main study sample. That package was approved in August 2022. This submission requests approval for the final international versions of the principal and teacher instruments approved for the TALIS 2024 Field Test. The final U.S. adaptations of the 2024 core TALIS and TKS field test questionnaires that will be administered in the TALIS 2024 U.S. Field Test will be submitted to OMB as a non-substantive change request in Winter 2022/23.

Key Information

Received	2022-08-23
Concluded	2022-12-06
Expires	2025-12-31
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	1651-0096
Previous ICR	201812-1651-001

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In accordance with 19 CFR 19.42, the container station operator may make a request for the transfer of a container to the station by submitting to CBP an abstract of the manifest for the transferred containers including the bill of lading number, marks, numbers, description of the contents, and consignee.

Key Information

Received	2022-10-13
Concluded	2022-12-20
Expires	2025-12-31
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	2105-0579
Previous ICR	202202-2105-001

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Abstract

As a result of proposed rule, RIN 2105-AE26: Streamline and Update the Department of Transportation Acquisition Regulation posted to the Federal Register, 86FR69452, on December 7, 2021, TAR Case 2020-001, this is a request from the Department of Transportation (DOT) for OMB approval of a new Information Collection (IC). Under Public Law 113-283, Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014, each agency of the Federal Government must provide security for the information and information systems that support the operations and assets of the agency, including those provided or managed by another agency, contractor, or other source. DOT provided a 60-day comment period for the public to respond to the proposed rule and submit comments. The public comment period closed on February 7, 2022. DOT received no public comments on the proposed rule and no public comments were received on any of the information collection requirements in the rule. The final rule is estimated to be published in the month of September 2022.

Key Information

Received	2022-08-11
Concluded	2022-12-12
Expires	2025-12-31
Action	Approved with change
OMB Control #	3150-0163
Previous ICR	201902-3150-002

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States and federally recognized Indian Tribes are involved and interested in monitoring the safety status of nuclear power plants and other nuclear production and utilization facilities. This involvement is, in part, in response to the States' and Tribes' public health and safety responsibilities and, in part, in response to their citizens' desire to become more knowledgeable about the safety of nuclear power plants and other nuclear production and utilization facilities. States and Tribes have identified NRC inspections as one possible source of knowledge for their personnel regarding NRC licensee activities, and the NRC, through the policy statement, “Cooperation with States at Commercial Nuclear Power Plants and Other Nuclear Production or Utilization Facilities” (57 FR 6462; February 25, 1992), has been amenable to accommodating States' and Tribes' needs in this regard. The NRC uses the information collected under this information collection requirement to allow States and federally recognized Indian Tribes to participate in or observe inspections at NRC-licensed facilities. The types of information collected include written requests identifying specific inspections States and Tribes wish to observe; identification-related information required for site access to NRC-licensed facilities; training and qualifications of State and Tribal personnel participating in inspections; information required to define inspection roles for States and Tribes; and information to coordinate NRC and State and Tribal inspections.

Key Information

Received	2022-01-28
Concluded	2022-12-22
Expires	2025-12-31
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	2060-0021
Previous ICR	201811-2060-015

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The New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for Kraft Pulp Mills apply to the following facilities at kraft pulp mills: recovery furnaces, smelt dissolving tanks, lime kilns, digester systems, brown stock washer systems, black liquor oxidation systems, multiple effect evaporator systems and condensate stripper systems that were constructed, modified or reconstructed after the date of proposal. In pulp mills where kraft pulping is combined with neutral sulfite semi-chemical pulping, the provisions of 40 CFR Part 60, Subpart BB are applicable when any portion of the material charged to an affected facility is produced by the kraft pulping operation. Facilities may be exempt from the total reduced sulfur (TRS) standard if the facility can demonstrate that TRS emissions from a new, modified, or reconstructed brown stock washer can be neither technically nor economically feasible to control. 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 with 40 CFR Part 60, Subpart BB.

Key Information

Received	2023-09-20
Concluded	2023-12-29
Expires	2025-12-31
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	0938-1056
Previous ICR	202201-0938-015

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The primary function of the CMS 855S Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics and Supplies (DMEPOS) supplier enrollment application is to gather information from a supplier that tells us who it is, whether it meets certain qualifications to be a health care supplier, where it renders its services or supplies, the identity of the owners of the enrolling entity, and information necessary to establish correct claims payment. The goal of this revision of the CMS 855S is to simplify and clarify the current data collection and to remove obsolete and/or redundant questions. Grammar and spelling errors were corrected. Limited informational text has been added within the application form and instructions in conjunction with links to websites when greater detail is needed by the supplier. To clarify current data collection differentiations and to be in sync with accreditation coding, Section 3D (“Products and Services Furnished by This Supplier”) has been updated. This revision does not offer any new material data collection.

Key Information

Received	2022-10-25
Concluded	2022-12-14
Expires	2025-12-31
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	0702-0139
Previous ICR	201909-0702-001

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The Army and Air Force Exchange Service (Exchange) is a Non-Appropriated Fund (NAF) Instrumentality of the United States of America. This information collection is required to process and administer a number of different benefits available to eligible Exchange employees, former employees (retirees), their dependents, beneficiaries, spouses, and ex-spouses. The data collected allows for the accurate and timely processing of all pay, salary, health, retirement, annuities, and beneficiary funds by the Exchange Human Resources (HR) offices and the Finance & Accounting Treasury Benefits department.

Key Information

Received	2022-11-22
Concluded	2022-12-28
Expires	2025-12-31
Action	Approved with change
OMB Control #	0584-0614
Previous ICR	201909-0584-002

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In accordance with Section 16(h)(5) of the Food and Nutrition Act (FNA), as amended by section 4022 of the Agriculture Act of 2014, and 7 CFR 273.7(c)(17) the Department requires that State agencies report outcome data for the Supplemental Nutrition Employment Program (SNAP) Employment and Training (E&T) programs. In order for FNS to monitor the effectiveness of E&T programs State agencies are required to report outcome data on five separate reporting measures: (1) the number and percentage of E&T participants who retain employment 2 quarters and 4 quarters after completing E&T (2) the median wages for participants with earnings 2 quarters after completion of E&T (3) the number and percentage of participants that completed a training, education, work experience or on-the-job training component; (4) certain unique characteristics of SNAP E&T participants; and (5) additional reporting requirements for State agencies that pledge to serve all at-risk Able-bodied Adults without Dependents (ABAWDs). State agencies are also required to identify appropriate reporting measures for each proposed component that serves a threshold number of participants of at least 100 a year. State agencies identify the reporting measures for these components in State agencies’ E&T plans and report the outcome data to the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) through State agencies’ annual reports. State agencies are required to report outcome data annually.

Key Information

Received	2022-10-31
Concluded	2022-12-19
Expires	2025-12-31
Action	Approved with change
OMB Control #	0945-0002
Previous ICR	201906-0945-004

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Individuals may file written complaints with the Office for Civil Rights when they believe they have been discriminated against by programs or entities that receive Federal financial assistance from HHS or if they believe that, on or after April 14, 2003, their right to the privacy of protected health information has been violated. The complaint forms in this PRA submission provide the basic information needed by OCR to allow initial processing of such complaints.

Key Information

Received	2022-09-29
Concluded	2023-04-10
Expires	2025-12-31
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	1506-0049
Previous ICR	201809-1506-003

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The USA PATRIOT Act charged the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) with developing regulations to facilitate information sharing among governmental entities and financial institutions for the purpose of combatting terrorism and money laundering. On September 26, 2002, FinCEN published a final rule implementing section 314(a) of the USA PATRIOT Act. The rule required financial institutions, upon FinCEN’s request (a 314(a) request), to search their records to determine whether they have maintained an account or conducted a transaction with a person that a Federal law enforcement agency has certified is suspected, based on credible evidence, of engaging in terrorist activity or money laundering. The rule was expanded on February 10, 2010, to enable certain entities other than Federal law enforcement agencies to benefit from 314(a) requests to industry. As amended, the rule enables certain foreign law enforcement agencies, state and local law enforcement agencies, and FinCEN itself, on its own behalf and on behalf of appropriate components of Treasury, to initiate 314(a) requests. Rules implementing section 314(a) of the USA PATRIOT Act can be found at 31 CFR 1010.520. 31 CFR 1010.520(b)(3)(i) requires financial institutions, upon receiving a 314(a) request, to search their records to determine whether they maintain, or have maintained, an account for, or engaged in any transaction with, each individual, entity, or organization named in the 314(a) request. Unless noted otherwise in a request, financial institutions are only required to search their records for the following: (i) current accounts maintained for the named suspect; (ii) any account maintained for a named suspect during the preceding twelve months; and (iii) any transactions conducted by or on behalf of a named suspect, or any transmittal of funds conducted in which the named suspect was either the transmittor or the recipient, during the preceding six months, that is required under law or regulation to be recorded by the financial institution or is recorded and maintained electronically by the institution. 31 CFR 1010.520(b)(3)(ii) requires financial institutions that identify accounts or transactions to report the match to FinCEN in the manner and timeframe specified by FinCEN. 31 CFR 1010.520(b)(3)(iii) requires financial institutions to designate one person to be the point of contact at the institution to receive 314(a) requests.

Key Information

Received	2022-06-29
Concluded	2022-12-09
Expires	2025-12-31
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	3141-0014
Previous ICR	201809-3141-005

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The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA or the Act), 25 U.S.C. 2701, et seq., laid out a comprehensive framework for the regulation of gaming on Indian lands. Amongst other actions necessary to carry out the Commission’s statutory duties, the Act directs the Commission to monitor class II gaming conducted on Indian lands on a continuing basis in order to ensure that the Indian tribe is the primary beneficiary of the gaming operation and to protect such gaming as a means of generating tribal revenue, and to assure that gaming is conducted fairly and honestly by both the operator and players. 25 U.S.C. 2702(2), 2706(b)(1). The Act allows Indian tribes to use “electronic, computer, or other technologic aids” to conduct class II gaming activities. 25 U.S.C. 2703(7)(A). The Commission has promulgated part 547 of title 25, Code of Federal Regulations, to aid it in monitoring class II gaming facilities that use electronic, computer, or other technologic aids to conduct class II gaming.

Key Information

Received	2022-10-28
Concluded	2022-12-02
Expires	2025-12-31
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	1545-1842
Previous ICR	201906-1545-011

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Form 13441-A, Health Coverage Tax Credit (HCTC) Monthly Registration and Update Form will be directly mailed to all individuals who are potentially eligible for the HCTC. Potentially eligible individuals will use this form to determine if they are eligible for the Health Coverage Tax Credit and to register for the HCTC program. Participation in this program is voluntary. This form will be submitted by the individual to the HCTC program office in a postage-paid, return envelope. We will accept faxed forms, if necessary. Additionally, recipients may call the HCTC call center for help in completing this form.

Key Information

Received	2021-12-30
Concluded	2022-12-07
Expires	2025-12-31
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	2060-0680
Previous ICR	201809-2060-008

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This information collection is being conducted by the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPAs) Office of Air and Radiation (OAR) pursuant to section 114 of the Clean Air Act, as amended (CAA or the Act) to assist the Administrator of EPA in developing emissions standards and/or to inform future policy making decisions for aircraft gas turbine engines pursuant to section 231 of the Act. Under CAA section 231, the EPA is responsible for establishing standards for emissions from aircraft engines, and under CAA section 232, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is responsible for enforcing these standards. The EPA and the FAA traditionally work within the standard-setting process of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to establish international emission standards and related requirements, which individual nations later adopt into domestic law in fulfillment of their obligations under the Convention on International Civil Aviation (Chicago Convention). Historically, international emission standards have first been adopted by ICAO, and subsequently the EPA has initiated rulemakings under CAA section 231 to establish domestic standards that are at least as stringent as ICAOs standards.

Key Information

Received	2022-06-29
Concluded	2022-12-08
Expires	2025-12-31
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	3141-0012
Previous ICR	201809-3141-004

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The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act requires Indian tribes that conduct class II and/or class III gaming to issue "a separate license … for each place, facility, or location on Indian lands at which class II [and class III] gaming is conducted," and to ensure that "the construction and maintenance of the gaming facilities, and the operation of that gaming is conducted in a manner which adequately protects the environment and public health and safety." The Commission has promulgated part 559 of title 25, Code of Federal Regulations, to implement these requirements.

Key Information

Received	2022-10-13
Concluded	2022-12-20
Expires	2025-12-31
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	2105-0578
Previous ICR	202202-2105-002

Federal Register Notices

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Abstract

As a result of proposed rule, RIN 2105-AE26: Streamline and Update the Department of Transportation Acquisition Regulation posted to the Federal Register, 86FR69452, on December 7, 2021, TAR Case 2020-001, this is a request from the Department of Transportation (DOT) for OMB approval of a new Information Collection (IC). Under Public Law 113-283, Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014, each agency of the Federal Government must provide security for the information and information systems that support the operations and assets of the agency, including those provided or managed by another agency, contractor, or other source. DOT provided a 60-day comment period for the public to respond to the proposed rule and submit comments. The public comment period closed on February 7, 2022. DOT received no public comments on the proposed rule and no public comments were received on any of the information collection requirements in the rule. The final rule i estimated to be published in the month of September 2022.