Information Collection Request (ICR) Tracker
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.
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| 202009-0960-009 | Disability Report-Appeal | SSA | 2020-12-09 | Active | Extension without change of a currently approved collection
Disability Report-Appeal
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SSA requires disability claimants who are appealing an unfavorable disability determination to complete the SSA3441BK, the associated Electronic Disability Collect System (EDCS) interview either via telephone or in person, or the Internet application, i3441. This form allows claimants to disclose any changes to their disability or resources that might influence SSA's unfavorable determination. We may use the information to: (1) reconsider and review an initial disability determination; (2) review a continuing disability; and (3) evaluate a request for a hearing. This information assists the State Disability Determination Services and administrative law judges (ALJ) in preparing for the appeals and hearings, and issuing a determination or decision on an individual's entitlement (initial or continuing) to disability benefits. Respondents are individuals who appeal denial, reduction, or cessation of Social Security disability income Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments, or who are requesting a hearing before an ALJ. |
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| 202008-0960-016 | Teacher Questionnaire; Request for Administrative Information | SSA | 2020-12-09 | Active | Revision of a currently approved collection
Teacher Questionnaire; Request for Administrative Information
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When determining the effects of a child’s impairment(s), SSA obtains information about the child’s functioning from teachers, parents, and others who have the opportunity to observe the child on a daily basis. SSA uses Forms SSA-5665-BK and SSA-5666 to make one-time requests for teacher reports; results of formal testing; therapy progress notes; individualized education programs; and other records of a child’s educational aptitude and achievement. Forms SSA-5665-BK and SSA-5666 are available electronically to school and training program administrators on SSA’s website. State Disability Determination Services (DDS) or SSA may send a request for completion of the SSA-5665-BK to a child’s local school administrative office or training program, which refers the request to the child’s teacher(s), who then accesses the form through the link. The teacher(s) forwards the completed SSA-5665-BK to the school’s or training program’s administrative office, which uploads it to SSA’s Electronic Records Express (ERE) system. The DDS or SSA may send a request for completion of the SSA 5666 and copies of the child’s school records to the central or local administrative school office, depending on which office maintains the child’s individual academic records. The administrative office or training program can also upload the child’s records via ERE. Although the SSA-5665-BK and SSA 5666 are available for online completion, some teachers and school personnel may print and manually complete the forms, then fax or mail them to the requesting DDS or SSA office. Respondents are teachers and other education personnel. |
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| 202006-0572-005 | Rural Broadband Loans, Loan/Grant Combination, and Loan Guarantees | USDA/RUS | 2020-12-08 | Active | Revision of a currently approved collection
Rural Broadband Loans, Loan/Grant Combination, and Loan Guarantees
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The Rural Utilities Service (RUS), is authorized by Title VI, Rural Broadband Access, of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936, as amended (RE Act), to provide loans, loan/grant combinations and loan guarantees to fund the cost of construction, improvement, or acquisition of facilities and equipment for the provision of broadband service in eligible rural areas in the States and Territories of the United States. 7 CFR part 1738 prescribes the types of loans available, facilities financed, and eligible applicants, as well as minimum equity requirements to be considered for a loan. In addition, 7 CFR part 1738 outlines the process through which RUS will consider applicants under the priority consideration required in Title VI. |
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| 202012-0960-001 | Request for Social Security Earnings Information | SSA | 2020-12-08 | Active | Revision of a currently approved collection
Request for Social Security Earnings Information
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The Social Security Act permits wage earners, or their authorized representative, to request Social Security earnings information from SSA using Form SSA-7050-F4. SSA uses the information the respondent provides on Form SSA-7050-F4 to verify the wage earner has: (1) earnings; (2) the right to access the correct Social Security Record; and (3) the right to request the earnings statement. If we verify all three items, SSA produces an Itemized Statement of Earnings (Form SSA-1826) and sends it to the requestor. The respondents are wage earners and their authorized representatives who are requesting Itemized Statement of Earnings records. |
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| 202012-2060-003 | Fuels Regulatory Streamlining (Final Rule) | EPA/OAR | 2020-12-08 | Active | New collection (Request for a new OMB Control Number)
Fuels Regulatory Streamlining (Final Rule)
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The final rule establishes a new 40 CFR part 1090, which will replace a patchwork of fuels regulations under 40 CFR part 80, and which permits several potentially cost-saving improvements, including: Promoting the fungibility of fuels, which will reduce distribution and storage costs; Reducing the regulated number of fuels characteristics to be tested and reported from 13 to four, which reduces reporting burdens; Leveraging the part 80 registration system so that parties who are already registered will remain registered under the new part 1090; Reducing the required frequency of batch reporting from quarterly to annual; Providing better formats and easier procedures for reporting; and Consolidating existing survey programs. |
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| 202010-0960-003 | Medicare Part D Subsidies | SSA | 2020-12-08 | Active | Revision of a currently approved collection
Medicare Part D Subsidies
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The Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA) established the Medicare Part D program for voluntary prescription drug coverage of premium, deductible, and co-payment costs for certain low-income individuals. The MMA also mandated the provision of subsidies for those individuals who qualify for the program and who meet eligibility criteria for help with premium, deductible, or co-payment costs. This law requires SSA to make eligibility determinations and to provide a process for appealing SSA's determinations. Regulation sections 418.3625(c), 418.3645, 418.3665(a), and 418.3670 contain public reporting requirements pertaining to administrative review hearings. Respondents are applicants for the Medicare Part D subsidies who request an administrative review hearing. |
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| 202009-0960-010 | Annual Earnings Test Direct Mail Follow-up Program Notices | SSA | 2020-12-08 | Active | Revision of a currently approved collection
Annual Earnings Test Direct Mail Follow-up Program Notices
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SSA developed the Annual Earnings Test Direct Mail Follow-up Program to improve beneficiary reporting on work and earnings during the year and earnings information at the end of the year. SSA may reduce benefits payable under the Social Security Act when an individual has wages or self-employment income exceeding the annual exempt amount. SSA identifies beneficiaries likely to receive more than the annual exempt amount, and requests more frequent estimates of earnings from them. When applicable, SSA also requests a future year estimate to reduce overpayments due to earnings. SSA sends letters (SSA-L9778, SSA-L9779, SSA-L9781, SSA-L9784, SSA L9785, and SSA-L9790) to beneficiaries requesting earnings information the month prior to their attainment of full retirement age. We send each beneficiary a tailored letter that includes relevant earnings data from SSA records. The Annual Earnings Test Direct Mail Follow-up Program helps to ensure Social Security payments are correct, and enables us to prevent earnings-related overpayments, and avoid erroneous withholding. The respondents are working Social Security beneficiaries with earnings over the exempt amount. |
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| 202008-0960-017 | Electronic Records Express | SSA | 2020-12-08 | Active | Revision of a currently approved collection
Electronic Records Express
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When a new source registers to use the website, SSA or state agency employees conduct the registration by phone or in person, and then keys the information into ERE. After completing the registration process, the registered user can provide evidence to the agency, and may request payment for providing evidence through the ERE website. SSA and state agency employees request the medical and educational records collected through the ERE website. The agency uses the information collected through ERE to make a determination on an Application for Benefits. We also use the ERE website to order and receive consultative examinations when we are unable to collect enough medical records to determine disability findings. The respondents are medical providers who evaluate or treat disability claimants or recipients, and other third parties with connections to disability applicants or recipients (ex: teachers and school administrators for child disability applicants), who voluntarily choose to use ERE to submit information. |
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| 202001-0570-002 | Advanced Biofuel Payment Program | USDA/RBS | 2020-12-07 | Active | Revision of a currently approved collection
Advanced Biofuel Payment Program
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This Program authorizes the Agency to enter into contracts to make payments to eligible entities to support and ensure an expanding production of advanced biofuels. Entities eligible to receive payments under the Program are producers of advanced biofuels that meet all of the requirements of the Program. Such entities can be an individual or legal entity, including a corporation, company, foundation, association, labor organization, firm, partnership, society, joint stock company, group of organizations, or non-profit that produces an advanced biofuel and that sells the advanced biofuel on the commercial market. Instructions to the forms are available on the USDA eForms website at https://forms.sc.egov.usda.gov/eForms/welcomeAction.do?Home. |
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| 202012-2060-002 | NSPS for Onshore Natural Gas Processing Plants (40 CFR part 60, subparts KKK and LLL) (Renewal) | EPA/OAR | 2020-12-02 | Active | Extension without change of a currently approved collection
NSPS for Onshore Natural Gas Processing Plants (40 CFR part 60, subparts KKK and LLL) (Renewal)
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Owners and operators of affected onshore natural gas processing plants are required to comply with reporting and record keeping requirements for the General Provisions (40 CFR Part 60, Subpart A), as well as for the specific requirements at 40 CFR Part 60, Subparts KKK and LLL. Owners or operators of the affected facilities must submit a one-time-only report of any physical or operational changes, initial performance tests, and periodic reports and results. Owners or operators 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 reports are used by EPA to determine compliance with these same standards |
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| 202011-0648-006 | NOAA Fisheries Greater Atlantic Region Vessel Identification Requirements | DOC/NOAA | 2020-12-02 | Active | Extension without change of a currently approved collection
NOAA Fisheries Greater Atlantic Region Vessel Identification Requirements
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) requests the approval of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for an extension of the existing collection of information under OMB Control Number 0648-0350 for Greater Atlantic Region Vessel Identification. Regulations at 50 CFR parts 648.8 and 697.8 require that vessels over 25 ft in registered length with Federal permits to fish in the Greater Atlantic region display the vessel’s name and official number. |
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| 202012-2050-001 | General Hazardous Waste Facility Standards (Renewal) | EPA/OLEM | 2020-12-01 | Active | Revision of a currently approved collection
General Hazardous Waste Facility Standards (Renewal)
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Section 3004 of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), as amended, requires that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) develop standards for hazardous waste treatment, storage and disposal facilities (TSDFs) as may be necessary to protect human health and the environment. Subsections 3004(a) (1), (3), (4), (5) and (6) specify that these standards include, but not be limited to, the following requirements: Maintaining records of all hazardous wastes identified or listed under Subtitle C that are treated, stored, or disposed of, and the manner in which such wastes were treated, stored, or disposed of; Operating methods, techniques, and practices for treatment, storage, or disposal of hazardous waste; Location, design, and construction of such hazardous waste treatment, disposal, or storage facilities; Contingency plans for effective action to minimize unanticipated damage from any treatment, storage, or disposal of any such hazardous waste; and Maintaining or operating such facilities and requiring such additional qualifications as to ownership, continuity of operation, training for personnel, and financial responsibility as may be necessary or desirable. The regulations implementing these requirements are codified in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Title 40, Parts 264 and 265. A brief summary of the information collection requirements associated with each TSDF regulation for the above areas is provided below. A more specific discussion of the data elements and respondent activities associated with each of the information collection requirements is presented in Section 4. |
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| 202011-1651-001 | Establishment of a Bonded Warehouse (Bonded Warehouse Regulations) | DHS/USCBP | 2020-12-01 | Active | Extension without change of a currently approved collection
Establishment of a Bonded Warehouse (Bonded Warehouse Regulations)
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Owners or lessees desiring to establish a bonded warehouse must make written application to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) port director of the port where the warehouse is located. The application must include the warehouse location, a description of the premises, and an indication of the class of bonded warehouse permit desired. Owners or lessees desiring to alter or to relocate a bonded warehouse may submit an application to the CBP port director of the port where the facility is located. The authority to establish and maintain a bonded warehouse is set forth in 19 U.S.C. 1555, and provided for by 19 CFR 19.2, 19 CFR 19.3, 19 CFR 19.6, 19 CFR 19.14, and 19 CFR 19.36. |
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| 202010-2133-003 | Generic Clearance for the Collection of Qualitative Feedback on Agency Service Delivery | DOT/MARAD | 2020-11-29 | Active | Extension without change of a currently approved collection
Generic Clearance for the Collection of Qualitative Feedback on Agency Service Delivery
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This collection of information is necessary to enable the Agency to garner customer and stakeholder feedback in an efficient, timely manner, in accordance with our commitment to improving service delivery. The information collected from our customers and stakeholders will help ensure that users have an effective, efficient, and satisfying experience with the Agency’s programs. This feedback will provide insights into customer or stakeholder perceptions, experiences and expectations, provide an early warning of issues with service, or focus attention on areas where communication, training or changes in operations might improve delivery of products or services. In addition it will also allow feedback to contribute directly to the improvement of program management. |
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| 202011-1405-002 | Passport Demand Forecasting Study | STATE/AFA | 2020-11-25 | Active | Reinstatement without change of a previously approved collection
Passport Demand Forecasting Study
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The Passport Demand Forecasting Study requests information from the public about the demand for U.S. passports, anticipated travel, and the demographic profile of the respondent. This voluntary survey is conducted on a monthly basis using responses from a randomly selected but nationally representative sample of U.S. nationals ages 18 and older. The information obtained from the survey is used to monitor and project the demand for U.S. passport books and U.S. passport cards. The Passport Demand Forecasting Survey aids the Department of State, Passport Services in making decisions about staffing, resource allocation, and budget. |
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| 202006-0572-003 | Technical Assistance Program - 7 CFR 1775 | USDA/RUS | 2020-11-23 | Active | Revision of a currently approved collection
Technical Assistance Program - 7 CFR 1775
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Technical Assistance and Training (TAT) and Solid Waste Management (SWM) are competitive grant programs administered by Rural Utilities Service (RUS) to make loans and grants to public agencies, American Indian tribes, and nonprofit corporations. The loans and grants fund the development of drinking water, wastewater, and solid waste disposal facilities in rural areas with populations of up to 10,000 residents. Grants are made for 100 percent of the cost of assistance. |
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| 202010-0570-006CF | Federal Financial Report | USDA/RBS | 2020-11-19 | Active | RCF New
Federal Financial Report
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| 202010-0570-005CF | Disclosure of Lobbying Activities | USDA/RBS | 2020-11-19 | Active | RCF New
Disclosure of Lobbying Activities
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| 202010-2133-001 | Uniform Financial Reporting Requirements | DOT/MARAD | 2020-11-19 | Active | Extension without change of a currently approved collection
Uniform Financial Reporting Requirements
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The Uniform Financial Reporting Requirements collection is required to obtain and/or retain benefits. The Form MA-172, is sent to, and prepared by, companies doing business with MARAD in order to determine compliance with regulatory and contractual requirements. It is used as a basis for preparing and filing semi-annual and annual financial statements with MARAD. Companies are required to provide their financial data to MARAD twice a year. Regulations requiring financial reports to MARAD are authorized by Section 801, Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended (46 App. U.S.C. 1211). Financial Reports are also required by regulation of purchasers of ships from MARAD on credit, companies chartering ships from MARAD, and of companies having Title XI guarantee obligations (46 CFR Part 298). The information is used within MARAD, retained for 3-5 years and is not disclosed outside of the agency (it is confidential business information). |
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| 202010-2133-002 | Voluntary Intermodal Sealift Agreement (VISA) | DOT/MARAD | 2020-11-19 | Active | Extension without change of a currently approved collection
Voluntary Intermodal Sealift Agreement (VISA)
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The Voluntary Intermodal Sealift Agreement (VISA) is a voluntary agreement, in accordance with section 708, Defense Production Act, 1950, as amended, under which participants agree to provide commercial sealift capacity and intermodal shipping services and systems, necessary to meet national defense requirements. The information received is used by MARAD personnel to evaluate the respondents’ eligibility for the VISA program. The respondents operate qualified dry cargo vessels. |
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