Key Information

Received	2022-06-28
Concluded	2022-08-01
Expires	2025-08-31
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	0704-0467
Previous ICR	201905-0704-003

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The information collection is necessary to obtain minimal information on which to base an opinion about post Government employment of select former and departing Department of Defense (DoD) employees seeking to work for Defense Contractors within two years after leaving DoD. The departing or former DoD employee uses the opinion request form to organize and provide employment-related information to an ethics official who will use the information to render an advisory opinion to the employee requesting the opinion. The National Defense Authorization Act of 2008, Public Law 110-181, section 847, requires that select DoD officials and former DoD officials who, within two years after leaving DoD, expect to receive compensation from a DoD contractor, shall, before accepting such compensation, request a written opinion regarding the applicability of post-employment restrictions to activities that the official or former official may undertake on behalf of a contractor.

Key Information

Received	2022-06-28
Concluded	2025-01-07
Expires	2028-01-31
Action	Approved with change
OMB Control #	2060-0442
Previous ICR	201904-2060-012

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The New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for the regulations published at 40 CFR Part 60, Subpart K were proposed on June 11, 1973, and promulgated on March 8, 1974. These regulations apply to existing facilities and new facilities that store petroleum liquids in storage vessels with a storage capacity greater than 151,416 liters (40,000 gallons), including: storage vessels with capacity greater than 151,416 liters (40,000 gallons), but not exceeding 246,052 liters (65,000 gallons). New facilities include those that commenced construction, modification after the date of proposal. This information is being collected to assure compliance with 40 CFR Part 60, Subpart K. 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.

Key Information

Received	2022-06-28
Concluded	2022-08-24
Expires	2025-11-30
Action	Approved with change
OMB Control #	2900-0804
Previous ICR	202109-2900-011

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Due to Congress authorizing VA to require a prospective fiduciary to obtain a surety bond as a part of the certification process of a prospective fiduciary, VA is requiring fiduciaries to submit proof of adequate bonding with annual accounting to facilitate its oversight responsibility as mandated. RIN 2900-AR11, Fiduciary Bond, does not use a form to collect this information. However, the amended information request is made by VA field fiduciary personnel. They make the request either verbally or by letter that informs the fiduciary to submit the original bond certificate or the contractual agreement between the fiduciary and the bonding company as proof of adequate bonding. This amended collection of information is required to fulfill VA requirements mandated by Congress, for oversight of fiduciaries. The VA Fiduciary Program would not be able to provide adequate oversight of certain fiduciaries appointed to receive VA benefits in excess of $25,000 on behalf of a beneficiary without proof that surety bonds are in place to protect these funds.

Key Information

Received	2022-06-28
Concluded	2022-08-05
Expires	2025-12-31
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	1557-0236
Previous ICR	201904-1557-003

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The OCC assesses its efforts to provide supervisory support, technical assistance, education, and other outreach to the minority-owned institutions under its supervision. To perform this assessment, it is necessary to obtain, from the individual institutions, feedback on the effectiveness of the OCC's current efforts in these areas and suggestions as to how the OCC might enhance or augment its supervision and technical assistance going forward. The OCC uses the information gathered to assess the needs of minority-owned institutions as well as its efforts to address those needs. The OCC also uses the information to focus and enhance its supervisory, technical assistance, education, and other outreach activities with respect to minority-owned institutions.

Key Information

Received	2022-06-28
Concluded	2022-08-04
Expires	2025-11-30
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	0910-0773
Previous ICR	201903-0910-018

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The Food and Drug Administration is establishing requirements for shippers, carriers by motor vehicle and rail vehicle, and receivers engaged in the transportation of food, including food for animals, to use sanitary transportation practices to ensure the safety of the food they transport. This action is part of our larger effort to focus on prevention of food safety problems throughout the food chain and is part of our implementation of the Sanitary Food Transportation Act of 2005 (2005 SFTA) and the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act of 2011 (FSMA).

Key Information

Received	2022-06-27
Concluded	2022-08-05
Expires	2025-12-31
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	1557-0194
Previous ICR	201904-1557-002

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Part 24 requires national banks to submit occasional filings for approval to the OCC for public welfare investments. The information is needed to ensure national bank compliance with the law and to ensure national bank safety and soundness. The OCC uses the information to determine whether the investment meets the statutory and regulatory requirements, is consistent with safe and sound business practices, such as by not exposing the bank to unlimited liability, and does not pose significant risk to the federal deposit insurance system.

Key Information

Received	2022-06-27
Concluded	2022-11-30
Expires	2025-12-31
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	3141-0009
Previous ICR	201809-3141-003

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The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act directs the National Indian Gaming 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. The Commission has established minimum internal control standards to aid it in monitoring class II gaming on a continuing basis.

Key Information

Received	2022-06-27
Concluded	2022-08-10
Expires	2025-12-31
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	3245-0365
Previous ICR	201809-3245-001

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SBA's Office of Credit Risk Management oversees SBA's ?(a) Lenders, Certified Development Companies, and Microloan interned. In connection with this oversight, SBA requests that these entities provide information related to their operations and lending activity. SBA uses the information reported to facilitate its oversight of these groups, including evaluating portfolio performance, management and operations, eligibility and credit administration, and compliance with Loan Program Requirements.

Key Information

Received	2022-06-27
Concluded	2022-08-05
Expires	2025-12-31
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	1557-0345
Previous ICR	201904-1557-005

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Regulation C, which implements the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) enacted in 1975, requires certain depository and non-depository institutions that make certain mortgage loans to collect, report, and disclose data about originations and purchases of mortgage loans, as well as loan applications that do not result in originations. HMDA generates loan data that can be used to: (1) help determine whether financial institutions are serving the housing needs of their communities; (2) assist public officials in distributing public-sector investments so as to attract private investment to areas where it is needed; and (3) assist in identifying possible discriminatory lending patterns and enforcing anti-discrimination statutes. The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (the Dodd-Frank Act) transferred HMDA and its rulemaking authority from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board) to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and transferred supervisory and enforcement authority for HMDA for depository institutions over $10 billion in consolidated assets from the Board, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, OCC, and National Credit Union Administration to the CFPB. The CFPB published a final rule on October 28, 2015, that expanded the data collected and reported under HMDA, as implemented by Regulation C, and published a final rule on September 13, 2017, with additional corrections and clarifications (final rules). The final rules also modified the types of lenders and loans covered under Regulation C. First, for data collected in 2017, and reported in 2018, the rule simply reduces the number of institutions covered under Regulation C because only depositories originating more than 25 closed end loans must report. Then, starting January 1, 2018, an institution was required to begin collecting expanded data under HMDA if it either originates 25 or more closed end mortgage loans or 500 or more open-end lines of credit secured by a dwelling in each of the two preceding years, in addition to meeting other criteria. These institutions will begin reporting the expanded HMDA data in 2019. Starting in 2020, an institution will collect data on open-end lines of credit if it originates more than 100 open-end lines of credit secured by a dwelling in each of the two preceding years (and report that open-end lines of credit data beginning in 2021). An institution also will collect and report covered loans and applications quarterly if it received a total of at least 60,000 covered loans and applications in the preceding calendar year. An institution must report a covered loan if it has met the loan origination threshold for that loan category (open end or closed-end); an institution that is not required to report data may voluntarily do so. In addition, the types of loans covered under Regulation C changed under the final rules beginning in 2018. Covered institutions are required to collect and report any mortgage loan secured by a dwelling, including open end lines of credit, regardless of the loan’s purpose. Dwelling secured loans that are made principally for a commercial or business purpose, as well as agricultural–purpose loans and other specified loans are excluded. On September 7, 2018, the CFPB issued an interpretive and procedural rule to implement section 104(a) of the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act (EGRRCPA). Section 104(a) amended certain provisions of the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) by adding partial exemptions from HMDA's requirements for certain insured depository institutions and insured credit unions. Insured depository institutions and insured credit unions covered by a partial exemption have the option of reporting exempt data fields as long as they report all data fields within any exempt data point for which they report data.

Key Information

Received	2022-06-27
Concluded	2022-10-31
Expires	2025-10-31
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	3170-0002
Previous ICR	202008-3170-001

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The consumer disclosures included in Regulation V are designed to alert consumers that a financial institution furnished negative information about them to a consumer reporting agency, that they have a right to opt out of receiving marketing materials and credit or insurance offers, that their credit report was used in setting the material terms of credit that may be less favorable than the terms offered to consumers with better credit histories, that they maintain certain rights with respect to a theft of their identity that they reported to a consumer reporting agency, that they maintain rights with respect to knowing what is in their consumer reporting agency file, that they can request a free credit report, that they can report a theft of their identity to the CFPB, and that they maintain rights with respect to obtaining a security freeze. Consumers then can use the information provided to consider how and when to check and use their credit reports.

Key Information

Received	2022-06-27
Concluded	2022-10-04
Expires	2025-12-31
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	2132-0561
Previous ICR	201905-2132-001

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The information collection request is for an extension without change of a currently approved information collection under OMB control number 2132-0561 “Fixed Guideway Capital Investment Grants (CIG) Program Section 5309". The Fixed Guideway Capital Investment Grants (CIG) Program provides funding for fixed guideway investments such as new and expanded rapid rail, commuter rail, light rail, streetcars, bus rapid transit, and ferries, as well as corridor-based bus rapid transit investments that emulate the features of rail. This discretionary program requires projects to proceed through a multi-step, multi-year process to be eligible for funding. This is a mandatory collection of information (reporting) that State and local government agencies, including transit agencies must provide on an annual basis when seeking federal funding under the CIG program. The information reported includes general criteria for entry into the program (e.g. project background, operations cost, maintenance cost, etc.), project justification data (e.g. mobility improvements, congestion relief, land use, environmental benefits, etc.) and local financial commitment information. The information is received by FTA staff and consultants who evaluate and rate the data at various points in the process.

Key Information

Received	2022-06-27
Concluded	2023-02-24
Expires	2026-02-28
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	3141-0004
Previous ICR	201809-3141-001

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The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act requires the National Indian Gaming Commission Chairman to review and approve all management contracts for the operation and management of class II and/or class III gaming activities, and to conduct background investigations of persons with direct or indirect financial interests in, and management responsibility for, management contracts. The Commission has promulgated parts 533, 535, and 537 of title 25, Code of Federal Regulations, to implement these statutory requirements.

Key Information

Received	2022-06-27
Concluded	2023-02-24
Expires	2026-02-28
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	3141-0007
Previous ICR	201809-3141-002

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The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA or the Act), Public Law 100–497, 25 U.S.C. 2701, et seq., was signed into law on October 17, 1988. The Act established the National Indian Gaming Commission (Commission) and set out a comprehensive framework for the regulation of gaming on Indian lands. The Act sets standards for the regulation of Indian gaming, including the requirement that Indian tribes that conduct class II and/or class III gaming activities must pay annual fees to the Commission on the basis of their respective assessable gross gaming revenues, using rates established by the Commission. 25 U.S.C. 2717. These fees are used to fund the Commission’s performance of its statutory duties. 25 U.S.C. 2717a.

Key Information

Received	2022-06-27
Concluded	2022-10-04
Expires	2025-10-31
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	2132-0578
Previous ICR	201807-2132-001

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This is a request for an extension without change of a currently approved information collection (OMB# 2132-0578) “Public Transportation Safety Certification Training Program (PTSCTP)”. There have been no programmatic or statutory changes or requirements since the last OMB submission. Therefore there are no changes to the respondents, responses or annual burden hours. This is a mandatory information collection. Through the PTSCTP, FTA provides minimum training requirements for Federal and State personnel and contractors who conduct safety audits and examinations of transit systems and for transit agency personnel and contractors who are directly responsible for safety oversight. The program respondents are Rail Transit Agencies (RTAs) and State Safety Oversight Agencies (SSOAs) who will forward training information to FTA on behalf of designated personnel. This requirement is necessary to assure that compliance with the requirements is properly and earnestly undertaken by respondents who are directly responsible for safety oversight of our Nation’s public transportation systems. The information collected allows the FTA to record completion of the required training and to ensure annual certification.

Key Information

Received	2022-06-24
Concluded	2022-08-12
Expires	2025-03-31
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	0920-1169
Previous ICR	202106-0920-022

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Requesting a non-substantial change to the information collection request (ICR) for qualitative data collection activities to develop CDC's Let’s Stop HIV Together social marketing campaign, OMB #0920-1169. Specifically, requesting a non-substantial change to the messages included in Attachment 7.

Key Information

Received	2022-06-24
Concluded	2022-07-26
Expires	2025-12-31
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	0910-0584
Previous ICR	201908-0910-018

Federal Register Notices

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This information collection was established as a special control for the class II device type, Novel Influenza A Reagents. This classification results from the review of a request from a device sponsor (CDC) for a diagnostic test intended to diagnose influenza subtype H5 (Asian lineage), commonly known as avian flu. This classification permits the legal distribution of this device, and the information collection addressed here plays a significant role in providing a reasonable assurance of the safety and effectiveness of this device and of similar future devices. Specifically, the information collection asks sponsors to obtain and analyze data postmarket to ensure the continued reliability of the device, given the propensity of influenza viruses to mutate and the potential for changes in disease prevalence. This involves collecting data on the clinical performance of the device under new prevalence conditions if there is a change in prevalence of influenza caused by the specific novel virus that the device is intended to detect, as compared to the prevalence of this virus when the clinical studies described in the 510(k) were conducted. The information collection described above is a measure that FDA determined to be necessary to provide reasonable assurance of safety and effectiveness of Novel Influenza A Reagents.

Key Information

Received	2022-06-24
Concluded	2022-06-24
Expires	2025-06-30
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	7100-0370
Previous ICR	202205-7100-009

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In 2015, the Board and certain other agencies published a final rule implementing part of section 1473 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act), which relates to the supervision and regulation of appraisal management companies (AMCs). An AMC is an entity that serves as an intermediary for, and provides certain appraisal-related services to, creditors. The Board’s final rule instituted certain recordkeeping and disclosure requirements for AMCs and U.S. states, which are located in the Board’s Regulation Y - Bank Holding Companies and Change in Bank Control (12 CFR Part 225).

Key Information

Received	2022-06-24
Concluded	2022-08-19
Expires	2025-08-31
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	0938-1298
Previous ICR	201902-0938-009

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Providers of services participating in the Medicare program are required under sections 1815(a) and 1861(v)(1)(A) of the Act (42 U.S.C. 1395g) to submit annual information to achieve settlement of costs for health care services rendered to Medicare beneficiaries. In addition, regulations at 42 CFR 413.20 and 413.24 require adequate cost data and cost reports from providers on an annual basis. The form CMS-224-14 cost report is needed to determine a provider's reasonable costs incurred in furnishing medical services to Medicare beneficiaries and reimbursement due to or from a provider.

Key Information

Received	2022-06-24
Concluded	2022-08-15
Expires	2025-09-30
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	0651-0044
Previous ICR	201904-0651-002

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Pursuant to the Inventors' Rights Act of 1999, 35 U.S.C. 297, and implementing regulations at 37 CFR part 4, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is required to provide a forum for the publication of complaints concerning invention promoters and responses from the invention promoters. Upon receipt of a complaint, the USPTO will forward it to the inventor promoter for a response. The USPTO does not investigate these complaints or participate in any legal proceedings against invention promoters or promotion firms. Under the Act, USPTO is responsible for making complaints and responses available to the public on the USPTO's website. A complaint submitted to the USPTO must be clearly marked, or otherwise identified, as a complaint. The complaint must include: (1) The name and address of the complaint; (2) the name and address of the invention promoter; (3) the name of the customer; (4) the invention promotion services offered or performed by the invention promoter; (5) the name of the mass media in which the invention promoter advertised providing such services; (6) and example of the relationship between the customer and the invention promoter; and (7) a signature of the complainant. Identifying information is necessary so that the USPTO can both forward the complaint to the invention promoter or promotion firm as well as notify the complainant that the complaint has been forwarded. Complainants should understand that the complaints will be forwarded to the invention promoter for response and that the complaint and response will be made available to the public as required by the Inventors' Rights Act. If the USPTO does not receive a response from the invention promoter, the complaint will be published without a response. The USPTO does not accept under this program complaints that request confidentiality. This information collection contains one form, Complaint Regarding Invention Promoter (PTO/2048A), which is used by the public to submit a complaint under this program. This form is available for download from the USPTO website. Use of this form is voluntary, and the complainant may submit his or her complaint without the form via any of the approved methods of collection as long as the complainant includes the necessary information and the submission is clearly marked as a complaint filed under the Inventors' Rights Act. There is no associated form for submitting responses to the complaints.

Key Information

Received	2022-06-24
Concluded	2022-07-28
Expires	2025-12-31
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	1140-0032
Previous ICR	202005-1140-002

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The recordkeeping requirement for this collection allows Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives personnel to inquire about firearms acquisition and disposition (A&D) records, during the course of criminal investigations or government compliance inspections.