An Information Collection Request (ICR) is a federal agency's request for approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to collect information from the public.
Under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA), agencies must justify why the information is needed and how it will be used.
Federal agencies are required to submit an ICR whenever they create, renew, modify, or discontinue an information collection. Each ICR includes a description of the collection,
supporting materials and documentation (such as forms, surveys, or scripts), and proof that the agency has met the requirements of the PRA.
The ICR is submitted to the The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) within OMB for review and approval. OIRA grants approval for a maximum of three years, after
which the collection must be renewed through a new ICR submission.
ICRs are publicly available on RegInfo.gov, and additional guidance can be found in the FAQs.
Note: Presidential Action influences are notated for ICRs received between January 20, 2025 and July 19, 2025.
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| 202511-3206-003 | Survey of Student's Eligibility to Receive Benefits | OPM | 2025-11-28 | Received in OIRA | Revision of a currently approved collection
Survey of Student's Eligibility to Receive Benefits
Key Information
Authorizing Statutes
5 USC Chapter 84, Section 8441(4) (View Law) 5 USC Chapter 83, Section 8341(a)(4) (View Law) Abstract
RI 25-15 is used to collect information from adult children of deceased Federal employees or annuitants to assure that the adult children continues to be eligible for payments from OPM. |
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| 202511-1653-003 | The Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) | DHS/USICE | 2025-11-28 | Received in OIRA | Revision of a currently approved collection
The Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS)
Key Information
Authorizing Statutes
Pub.L. 104 - 208 641 (View Law) Pub.L. 107 - 56 - (View Law) 8 USC 1372 (View Law) Pub.L. 107 - 173 - (View Law) Abstract
The Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) is a web-based system used to collect and maintain information on F and M nonimmigrant students during their stay in the United States. The system also facilitates the Student and Exchange Visitor Program’s (SEVP) certification of educational institutions to enroll F and M nonimmigrants. |
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| 202511-1651-006 | Application for Withdrawal of Bonded Stores for Fishing Vessels and Certification of Use | DHS/USCBP | 2025-11-28 | Received in OIRA | Extension without change of a currently approved collection
Application for Withdrawal of Bonded Stores for Fishing Vessels and Certification of Use
Key Information
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The CBP Form 5125 is used for the withdrawal and lading of bonded merchandise (especially alcoholic beverages) for use on board fishing vessels and foreign or domestic vessels involved in international trade. The form also certifies the use: total consumption or partial consumption with secure storage for use on next voyage. |
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| 202511-3041-002 | Safety Standard for Cigarette Lighters | CPSC | 2025-11-28 | Received in OIRA | Extension without change of a currently approved collection
Safety Standard for Cigarette Lighters
Key Information
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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. |
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| 202510-2050-002 | Distribution of Offsite Consequence Analysis Information under Section 112(r)(7)(H) of the Clean Air Act (CAA), As Amended (Renewal) | EPA/OLEM | 2025-11-27 | Received in OIRA | Extension without change of a currently approved collection
Distribution of Offsite Consequence Analysis Information under Section 112(r)(7)(H) of the Clean Air Act (CAA), As Amended (Renewal)
Key Information
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The Clean Air Act Section 112(r)(7) requires EPA to promulgate reasonable regulations and appropriate guidance to provide for the prevention and detection of accidental releases and for responses to such releases. The regulations include requirements for submitting a risk management plan (RMP) to EPA. The RMP includes information on off-site consequence analysis (OCA) as well as other elements of the Risk Management Program. On August 5, 1999, the President signed the Chemical Safety Information, Site Security, and Fuels Regulatory Relief Act (CSISSFRRA), which required the President to promulgate regulations on the distribution of OCA information (CAA section 112(r)(7)(H)(ii)) to the public. The President delegated to EPA and the Department of Justice (DOJ) the responsibility to promulgate regulations to govern public dissemination of OCA information. The final rule was published on August 8, 2000 (65 FR 48108) and imposed minimal information collection and record keeping requirements. The Federal government established 55 reading rooms at Federal facilities geographically distributed across the United States and its territories. At a reading room the public can read, but not mechanically copy or remove, paper copies of OCA information for up to 10 stationary sources per calendar month. The public also has access to OCA information that the Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC) in the requestor’s local area (where the individual lives or works), is authorized to provide. State agencies are permitted to provide the same public access to paper copies of OCA information that a person would receive at their local agency. EPA also established a Vulnerable Zone Indicator System (VZIS) which indicates whether an address in any state is within the vulnerable zone of one or more stationary sources, according to the data reported in RMPs. The VZIS is available on the internet, which is the method used by all requestors of the data. |
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| 202510-2060-001 | EPA's ENERGY STAR Product Labeling (Renewal) | EPA/OAR | 2025-11-27 | Received in OIRA | Revision of a currently approved collection
EPA's ENERGY STAR Product Labeling (Renewal)
Key Information
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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 ENERGY STAR label is a registered certification label that helps consumers identify products that meet ENERGY STAR energy performance criteria. To protect the integrity of the label, EPA works to ensure that products carrying the label meet appropriate program requirements. EPA sets criteria for ENERGY STAR products and facilitates the sale of certified products by providing consumers with information about the products. To set criteria for efficient products, EPA analyzes data on the performance of products and works with stakeholders to set criteria based on established processes. EPA partners with retailers, energy efficiency program sponsors (EEPS), service providers and product brand owners who wish to use the ENERGY STAR label to differentiate products as more energy efficient. Partners sign Partnership Agreements that require adherence to logo-use guidelines and program requirements, as well as promotion of ENERGY STAR certified products through product offerings. To have products third-party certified as ENERGY STAR, product brand owner partners are required to have eligible products tested in an EPA-recognized laboratory and certified by an EPA-recognized third-party certification body (CB). EPA maintains an XML-based automated data exchange for CBs to share information with EPA on certified products. To monitor the ongoing performance of products and maintain program integrity, EPA also requires CBs to conduct post-market verification testing of a sampling of ENERGY STAR certified products and share information with EPA on products verified twice a year. For thermostats, there are additional reporting requirements to verify product performance. To monitor progress and support the best allocation of resources, EPA requires partners to submit data on annual shipments of and installations and incentives for ENERGY STAR certified products. Finally, for any ENERGY STAR recognition, EPA may ask Partners to submit applications if they wish to participate. |
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| 202511-2060-002 | Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) Program (Renewal) | EPA/OAR | 2025-11-27 | Received in OIRA | Extension without change of a currently approved collection
Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) Program (Renewal)
Key Information
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This ICR is for general registration, recordkeeping, and reporting under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program, required by Clean Air Act and implementing regulations in 40 CFR parts 80 and 1090. The RFS program relies upon marketable credits (RINs) to function, which necessitates recordkeeping and reporting to establish type and number of RINs generated, sold, retired, etc. EPA provides the secure systems that respondents use to register, submit compliance reports, and transact RINs, which removes a burden from industry. EPA uses the information to monitor compliance with RFS and to ensure the integrity of the RIN market and to ensure the integrity of the RIN market. |
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| 202511-0694-004 | Inclusions to the Section 232 National Security Adjustments to Imports | DOC/BIS | 2025-11-26 | Received in OIRA | Revision of a currently approved collection
Inclusions to the Section 232 National Security Adjustments to Imports
Key Information
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Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (19 U.S.C. 1862) authorizes the Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) to conduct comprehensive investigations to determine the effects of imports of an article on the national security of the United States. Such investigations can be initiated by an application by an interested party, a request from the head of any department or agency, or self-initiated by the Secretary. Once an investigation is initiated, the Secretary submits a report to the President on whether the importation of the article in question is occurring in such quantities or under such circumstances as to threaten to impair the national security of the United States. The President then determines whether it is necessary to take action to adjust the imports of an article and its derivatives under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act. Several Proclamations have directed the Secretary to create a process for including additional derivative articles within the scope of the new and existing ad valorem tariffs established under Section 232.. These Proclamations broadly authorize the Secretary to include additional derivative articles within the scope of the tariffs unilaterally, or at the request of a producer (or an industry association representing one or more such producers) of such articles or derivative articles within the United States after establishing that imports of said derivative article have increased in a manner that threatens to impair the national security of the United States or otherwise undermine the objectives set forth in the investigations under Section 232 or their associated Presidential Proclamations. |
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| 202511-1513-001 | Records of Operations - Importer of Tobacco Products or Processed Tobacco | TREAS/TTB | 2025-11-26 | Received in OIRA | Extension without change of a currently approved collection
Records of Operations - Importer of Tobacco Products or Processed Tobacco
Key Information
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The Internal Revenue Code (IRC) at 26 U.S.C. 5741 requires all manufacturers and importers of tobacco products, processed tobacco, or cigarette papers and tubes, and all export warehouse proprietors to keep records as the Secretary of the Treasury prescribes by regulation, subject to government inspection during business hours. Under that authority, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) regulations in 27 CFR part 41 require importers of tobacco products or processed tobacco to maintain usual and customary records kept during the normal course of business showing the receipt and disposition of imported tobacco products or processed tobacco. TTB uses the collected information to ensure that importers’ activities comply with the relevant provisions of the IRC and that processed tobacco, which is not taxed, is not diverted to taxable tobacco product manufacturing. |
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| 202404-2130-002 | Use of Locomotive Horns at Highway-Rail Grade Crossings | DOT/FRA | 2025-11-26 | Received in OIRA | Revision of a currently approved collection
Use of Locomotive Horns at Highway-Rail Grade Crossings
Key Information
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Under 49 CFR part 222, FRA seeks to collect information from railroads and public authorities in order to increase safety at public highway-rail grade crossings nationwide by requiring that locomotive horns be sounded when trains approach and pass through these crossings or by ensuring that a safety level at least equivalent to that provided by routine locomotive horn sounding exists for quiet zone corridors in which such horn sounding is silenced. This collection of information is collected as needed and it involves both reporting and recordkeeping requirements. |
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| 202511-1520-001 | Bureau of Engraving and Printing Features of Interest Survey for Banknote Equipment Manufacturers | TREAS/BEP | 2025-11-26 | Received in OIRA | Extension without change of a currently approved collection
Bureau of Engraving and Printing Features of Interest Survey for Banknote Equipment Manufacturers
Key Information
Authorizing Statutes
12 USC Banks and Banking Abstract
The Bureau of Engraving and Printing Feature of Interest Survey for Banknote Equipment Manufacturers (BEMs) is voluntarily completed by BEM companies to inform BEP's efforts to develop features to be included in future Federal Reserve Note (FRN) redesigns. The survey gives BEM companies the opportunity to comment whether proposed features and/or FRN redesigns (a.k.a. Features of Interest) can be detected, validated, transported, and stored by their products. Banknote Equipment Manufacturers (BEMs) are companies that produce any type of equipment that handles banknotes for commercial purposes involving accept/reject decisions for FRNs. |
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| 202511-0694-005 | International Import Certificate | DOC/BIS | 2025-11-26 | Received in OIRA | Extension without change of a currently approved collection
International Import Certificate
Key Information
Abstract
The United States and several other countries have undertaken to increase the effectiveness of their respective controls over international trade in strategic commodities by means of an import Certificate procedures. For the U.S. importer, this procedure provides that, where required by the exporting country with respect to a specific transaction, the importer certifies to the U.S. Government that he/she will import specific commodities into the United States and will not reexport such commodities except in accordance with the export control regulation of the United States. The U.S. Government, in turn, certifies that such representations have been made. |
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| 202504-0910-002 | Administrative Procedures for Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 Categorization | HHS/FDA | 2025-11-26 | Received in OIRA | Extension without change of a currently approved collection
Administrative Procedures for Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 Categorization
Key Information
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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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| 202511-0584-001 | Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program - Supplemental Nutrition Assistance for Victims of Disaster | USDA/FNS | 2025-11-26 | Received in OIRA | Revision of a currently approved collection
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program - Supplemental Nutrition Assistance for Victims of Disaster
Key Information
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This information collection concerns the documentation submitted by State agencies requesting FNS authorization to operate disaster supplemental nutrition assistance programs (DSNAP) for victims of disaster; once these DSNAP State agencies are up and running they can request to expand and modify to increase their parameters to operate in other area declared a disaster. 83, Number 169, Page 44258 |
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| 202511-1651-001 | Cargo Manifest/Declaration, Stow Plan, Container Status Messages and Importer Security Filing | DHS/USCBP | 2025-11-26 | Received in OIRA | Revision of a currently approved collection
Cargo Manifest/Declaration, Stow Plan, Container Status Messages and Importer Security Filing
Key Information
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Cargo Manifest/Declaration, Stow Plan, Container Status Messages and Importer Security Filing is essential to CBP for the control of cargo and for pre-arrival targeting of shipments for enforcement examination purposes.Emergency Justfication:This ICR is being submitted in tandem with the IFR publication, the ACAS IFR published was determined to be an emergency submission. OMB desk officer determined an memo was not needed. |
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| 202511-0596-001 | Forest Products Removal Permits and Contracts | USDA/FS | 2025-11-26 | Received in OIRA | Revision of a currently approved collection
Forest Products Removal Permits and Contracts
Key Information
Authorizing Statutes
16 USC 492 (View Law) 16 USC 551 (View Law) 16 USC 607, 607a (View Law) Pub.L. 110 - 246 122 (View Law) 25 USC 32A (View Law) 16 USC 477 (View Law) Abstract
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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| 202504-1218-004 | Welding, Cutting, and Brazing Standard (29 CFR part 1910, subpart Q) | DOL/OSHA | 2025-11-26 | Received in OIRA | Extension without change of a currently approved collection
Welding, Cutting, and Brazing Standard (29 CFR part 1910, subpart Q)
Key Information
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The information collected is used by employers and workers whenever welding, cutting, and brazing are performed. The purpose of the information is to ensure that employers evaluate hazards associated with welding and ensure that adequate measures are taken to make the process safe. |
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| 202511-0970-008 | Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Program State Plan Guidance | HHS/ACF | 2025-11-26 | Received in OIRA | Reinstatement without change of a previously approved collection
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Program State Plan Guidance
Key Information
Abstract
The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) state plan is a mandatory submission to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services by the state. The Secretary has delegated the collection and review of those submissions to the Office of Family Assistance (OFA) in the Administration for Children and Families. The TANF state plan consists of an outline specifying how the state will administer and operate its TANF program and certain required certifications by the state’s Chief Executive Officer. Authority to require states to submit a TANF plan is contained in section 402 of the Social Security Act (42 USC 602), as amended by Pub. L. 104-193, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. States are required to submit new plans periodically, within a 27-month period. This is a reinstatement without changes to the prior TANF state plan information collection. |
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| 202511-0938-009 | Recognition of Pass-Through Payment for Additional (New) Categories of Devices Under the Outpatient Prospective Payment System and Supporting Regulations (CMS-10052) | HHS/CMS | 2025-11-26 | Received in OIRA | Revision of a currently approved collection
Recognition of Pass-Through Payment for Additional (New) Categories of Devices Under the Outpatient Prospective Payment System and Supporting Regulations (CMS-10052)
Key Information
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Information is necessary to determine eligibility of medical devices for establishment of additional device categories for payment under transitional pass-through payment provisions as required by section 1833(t)(6) of the Social Security Act. |
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| 202511-0938-008 | Hospital Wage Index Occupational Mix Survey (CMS-10079) | HHS/CMS | 2025-11-26 | Received in OIRA | Extension without change of a currently approved collection
Hospital Wage Index Occupational Mix Survey (CMS-10079)
Key Information
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Section 304 of the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and Protection Act of 2000 requires CMS to collect wage data on hospital employees by occupational category, at least once every 3 years, in order to construct an occupational mix adjustment to the wage index. CMS first collected occupational mix data in 2003 for the FY 2005 wage index and a subsequent collection of occupational mix data was performed in 2006 for the FY 2007 and FY 2008 wage index. In response to industry comments suggesting ways to improve the occupational mix survey, CMS has revised the 2007/2008 survey that was used to calculate the FY 2010 wage index. We are revising the 2007/2008 survey to collect for a 12- month period (that is, from pay periods ending between January 1, 2010 and December 31, 2010). The revised occupational mix survey will be used to adjust the FY 2013 wage index. |
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