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Received	2025-03-26
Concluded	2025-03-27
Expires	2027-05-31
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	3045-0200
Previous ICR	202402-3045-001

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This information collection will allow AmeriCorps to assess the well-being of AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers and communities served and examine current programmatic structure and service delivery processes that grantees and their host sites may have put in place in response to shifts in social, economic, and health due to the COVID-19 public health emergency.

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Received	2025-03-26
Concluded	2025-03-27
Expires	2027-09-30
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	3045-0202
Previous ICR	202406-3045-002

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This new information collection, for the Puerto Rico Bundled Evaluation, will evaluate the context, implementation, and outcomes of 13 AmeriCorps-supported organizations in Puerto Rico with AmeriCorps State and National formula grants (funded through the Puerto Rico service commission, Comisión de Voluntariado y Servicio Comunitario), as well as those that have both AmeriCorps State and National grants and AmeriCorps VISTA projects. This information collection will also evaluate the effectiveness of evaluation capacity building workshops to be provided to the bundle participants.

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Received	2025-03-26
Concluded	2025-03-27
Expires	2027-04-30
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	3045-0199
Previous ICR	202406-3045-001

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This information collection includes a survey of Public Health AmeriCorps (PHA) members, a survey of PHA grantees and a PHA grantee training and technical assistance form, and questions for PHA grantees who choose to participate in focus groups, to allow AmeriCorps to evaluate the success of PHA in meeting its goals of addressing public health needs and developing the next generation of public health leaders.

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Received	2025-03-26
Concluded	2025-03-27
Expires	2027-11-30
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	3045-0175
Previous ICR	202408-3045-001

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The Employers of National Service program seeks to connect employers from all sectors with AmeriCorps and Peace Corps alumni. This information collection advances that program by including an enrollment form for organizations committed to becoming an Employer of National Service and help connect them to job seekers, and an annual survey form for the organization to share success stories and updates.

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Received	2025-03-26
Concluded	2025-05-06
Expires	2026-06-30
Action	Approved with change
OMB Control #	0596-0247
Previous ICR	202306-0596-005

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The Public Lands Corps is a work and education program involving the nation’s land management agencies, conservation and service corps, and environmental organizations that contribute to the rehabilitation, restoration, and repair of public lands resources and infrastructures. Public Lands Corps projects provide opportunities for community and national public service, work experience and training for young people who are unemployed or underemployed persons, students, recent graduates, and others with an interest in natural and cultural resources careers. The Agency has developed a tracking sheet (FS-1800-0026, Workforce Development Participant Tracking Form) to support the effective management of the Public Lands Corps Program. The utilization of the Workforce Development Participant Tracking Form will assist the Agency in ensuring qualified program participants lawfully receive a certificate of non-competitive hiring eligibility,which can be used to apply to Forest Service merit announcements on USAJobs.

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Received	2025-03-26
Concluded	2025-03-27
Expires	2026-03-31
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	3045-0190
Previous ICR	202209-3045-002

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The AmeriCorps NCCC Sponsor Survey is completed by organizations who have sponsored an AmeriCorps NCCC team. Survey responses will enable the Corporation for National and Community Service to improve their delivery of national service via NCCC teams. NCCC teams engage in projects across the United States to address critical needs in natural and other disasters, infrastructure improvement, environmental stewardship, energy conservation, and urban and rural development.

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Received	2025-03-25
Concluded	2025-06-10
Expires	2026-08-31
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	1190-0020
Previous ICR	202305-1190-002

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The Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice enforces the nation's federal civil rights statutes. Members of the public play a critical role in this effort by reporting civil rights violations to the Division. To facilitate this reporting process, the Division is developing a streamlined online Reporting Portal for Civil Rights Violations. This Portal is designed to facilitate and enhance individual complainant's reporting opportunities, save members of the public time in reporting violations, and improve how the Division responds to those reports. The information the Division plans to collect using the reporting portal will help the Division fulfill its enforcement responsibilities.

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Received	2025-03-25
Concluded	2025-04-18
Expires	2027-12-31
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	1840-0748
Previous ICR	202407-1840-003

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Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) Program grantees must submit a performance report annually. In addition, grantees are required to submit a supplement to the final performance report two years after submission of their final report. The reports are used to evaluate grantee performance. Further, the data from the reports will be aggregated to evaluate the accomplishments and impact of the GAANN Program as a whole. Results will be reported to the Secretary in order to respond to performance requirements.

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Received	2025-03-25
Concluded	2025-03-25
Expires	2027-11-30
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	1910-5175
Previous ICR	202402-1910-004

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The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) requires that an environmental analysis be completed for all major Federal actions significantly affecting the environment including projects entirely or partly financed by Federal agencies. To effectively perform environmental analyses for these projects, DOE needs to collect project-specific environmental information from Federal financial assistance awardees.

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Received	2025-03-24
Concluded	2025-03-27
Expires	2027-12-31
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	1210-0161
Previous ICR	202408-1210-002

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EBSA conducts the surveys to evaluate the Participant Assistance Program (PAP) provided by the benefits advisor staff nationwide to understand how well the Agency is meeting service delivery goals by; (1) assessing EBSA's customers' perception of the services provided by the EBSA benefit advisors, and (2) determining what actions the performance data indicate could enable each regional office to provide the best possible participant assistance service; and (3) establishing a current baseline for EBSA's (Government Performance and Accountability Act GPRA) measurement. EBSA will use the data from the survey to track the agency's progress on accomplishing it's GPRA measurement goal. The PAP Customer Survey collects customer satisfaction data for a sample of private citizens who call into the participant assistance program to ask about their private sector employer provided benefits such as pensions, retirement savings, and health benefits. Three types of callers are queried: (1) those who need benefit claim assistance, (2) those who have a valid benefit claim, and (3) those who have an invalid benefit claim will be queried. The results of the survey will be analyzed to provide actionable data that could be used to improve program performance. The study includes data from the EBSA regional offices in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Dallas, Kansas City, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, and San Francisco, as well as the District offices in Miami, Seattle, and Washington.

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Received	2025-03-24
Concluded	2025-03-25
Action	Approved with change
OMB Control #	1121-0111
Previous ICR	202408-1121-002

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The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is submitting a nonsubstantive change to remove the gender identity questions and other questions using the term “gender” on the NCVS per the Executive Order (EO) 14168 titled “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.” This is a substantive change to the currently approved collection to obtain approval for full-scale implementation of the new NCVS instrument in 2025. The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) collects analyzes publishes, and disseminates statistics on the amount and type of crime committed against households and individuals in the U.S. Since 1972, the NCVS has been providing national data on personal and household victimization, both reported and not reported to police. The data collection allows the BJS to fulfill its mission of collecting, analyzing, publishing, and disseminating information on victims of crime. Together with the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) statistics on crimes reported to law enforcement agencies, the NCVS provides an understanding of the nature of and changes in the nation’s crime problems. The BJS is specifically requesting clearance for the core NCVS from January 2022 through December 2024. The core NCVS includes the administration of the basic screen questionnaire (NCVS-1, Attachment 19) and crime incident report (NCVS-2, Attachment 20) instruments to a nationally representative sample of persons age 12 or older living in households in the United States, including samples of persons representative of the 22 most populous states in the U.S. The core NCVS survey instrument covers nine general areas: 1) incidence of rape or sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault, simple assault, personal larceny, burglary, motor vehicle theft, and other theft; 2) characteristics of these victimizations, including location, time, presence of a weapon, injury, and property/monetary loss; 3) characteristics of victims, including sex, age, race, Hispanic origin, disability, and occupation; 4) relationship between victim and offender; 5) emotional impact of victimization; 6) victim self-defense and bystander intervention; 7) offender characteristics including sex, age, race, and Hispanic origin; 8) reporting to police and police response; and 9) bias- or hate-motivated victimizations. NCVS core work also includes the analysis and dissemination of data products and reports stemming from the core collection, as well as technical and methodological analyses and reports based on the sampling for, administration of, and analysis of data from the NCVS basic screen questionnaire and crime incident report.

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Received	2025-03-24
Concluded	2025-03-25
Expires	2027-06-30
Action	Approved with change
OMB Control #	1121-0098
Previous ICR	202405-1121-003

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The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is notifying OMB of a non-substantive change to the Survey of Inmates in Local Jails (SILJ) under OMB Control No: 1121-0098 (expiration date 6/30/2027). The change complies with Executive Order (EO) 14168, Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.

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Received	2025-03-24
Concluded	2025-03-25
Expires	2027-07-31
Action	Approved with change
OMB Control #	1121-0292
Previous ICR	202405-1121-001

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The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is notifying OMB of a nonsubstantive change to the Survey of Sexual Victimization (SSV) under OMB Control No: 1121-0292 (expiration date 07/31/2027). The change complies with Executive Order 14168, Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government. The National Prison Rape Statistics Program (NPRSP) is a collection mandated by Congress in the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003. The Survey of Sexual Victimization (SSV, formerly Survey of Sexual Violence), one part of the NPRSP, is the only national data collection for administrative information on sexual assaults within correctional facilities, characteristics of the victims and perpetrators, circumstances surrounding the incidents, and how incidents are reported, tracked, and adjudicated. This collection provides system-level and facility-level estimates of sexual victimization for the 12-month period ending December 31 of each year. It fulfills part of the Act and allows BJS to report statistics to Congress each year, as required by the Act. BJS requests approval to extend the currently approved SSV collection for 3 years.

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Received	2025-03-24
Concluded	2025-03-24
Expires	2027-10-31
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	2127-0770
Previous ICR	202308-2127-003

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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is seeking approval for this new information collection request (ICR) to allow NHTSA to conduct a study on driver monitoring systems (DMS). DMS refers to in-vehicle technology that can detect driver state and interact with the driver through the human-machine interface (the user interface that connects the driver to the vehicle). NHTSA is proposing to conduct a study to improve NHTSA’s understanding of the differences in approaches to driver state detection and the potential safety impacts of DMS. The voluntary study would involve recruiting licensed drivers for the following information collections as part of a simulated driving study: (1) an online eligibility questionnaire to determine eligibility for participation; (2) an appointment reminder confirmation process; (3) informed consent form for participation in Track A; (4) informed consent form for participation in Track B; (5) breathalyzer measurements to ensure continued eligibility for the study drives; (6) facial shape and height measurements; (7) sleep and food intake questionnaire; (8) Karolinska Sleepiness Scale measurements; (9) Track A study drives; (10) Track B study drives; and (11) Track B end of visit release agreement . The objective of this simulator driving study is to assess the ability of DMS to assess driver states (e.g., distracted, drowsy) and understand how differences in DMS impact the ability of a system to reliably assess different driving states. This study will add to the state of knowledge by experimentally collecting data to support a full assessment of the factors associated with DMS and the modeling of driver state based on sensor data. Response to the collections of information is voluntary and the information collections are part of a one-time study, although some information collections are collected multiple times per respondent. Respondents are generally healthy individuals aged 18 and older. Efforts will be made to enroll a diverse age sample that broadly represents the age of the driving population and includes those at greater risk of crashing (e.g., less than 25 years of age and greater than 65 years of age). Additional efforts will be made to enroll individuals with diverse skin tones, oversampling those who rate themselves higher on the Fitzpatrick Skin Type Scale. The study will be reviewed and approved by the University of Iowa Institutional Review Board (IRB) before any data collection procedures begin.

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Received	2025-03-24
Concluded	2025-03-25
Expires	2026-11-30
Action	Approved with change
OMB Control #	1121-0184
Previous ICR	202408-1121-003

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Nonsubstantive Change: The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is proposing to revise questions using the term “gender” on the SCS per the Executive Order (EO) 14168 titled “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.” The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) and the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) request clearance to conduct the 2025 School Crime Supplement (SCS) as a supplement to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) to collect information about school-related victimization. The NCVS and all related contacts and protocols have been previously approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) (OMB Control No: 1121-0111) and this request is specifically for a supplemental data collection instrument that will be added to the approved NCVS core from January 2025 through June 2025. Typically, the SCS is administered every two years. However, the SCS was postponed from 2021 to 2022 as a result of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on in-person learning. Due to implementation of the redesigned core NCVS instrument, 2025 was chosen for the next SCS data collection. Minor revisions were made to the 2022 SCS questionnaire for the 2025 administration. Certain items specifically related to COVID-19 and its impact on schooling were removed from the questionnaire. In addition, changes were made to the series of questions on drug and alcohol availability, such as adding a question on tobacco and updating examples of drugs available within existing questions.

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Received	2025-03-21
Concluded	2025-04-17
Expires	2027-07-31
Action	Approved with change
OMB Control #	0607-0936
Previous ICR	202407-0607-002

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The American Community Survey (ACS) is an ongoing monthly survey that collects detailed housing and socioeconomic data from a sample of about 3.5 million addresses in the United States and about 36,000 addresses in Puerto Rico each year, where it is known as the Puerto Rico Community Survey (PRCS). The ACS also collects detailed socioeconomic data from a sample of residents living in group quarters (GQ) facilities in the United States and Puerto Rico. Resulting tabulations from this data collection are provided on a yearly basis. The ACS allows the U.S. Census Bureau to provide timely and relevant housing and socioeconomic statistics, even for low levels of geography. The ACS conducts research, testing, and evaluations, through its Methods Panel program, aimed at improving the survey. The ACS Methods Panel is a research program designed to address and respond to survey issues and needs. The Census Bureau, for decades, has submitted information collection request revisions to conduct various iterations of the Methods Panel. In 2024, the Census Bureau requested authorization from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to revise the previous authorization for the ACS Methods Panel to conduct a test of new content to the survey, called the 2024 ACS Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) Test. The information collected in the 2024 ACS SOGI test was to be used to evaluate the quality of data from questions on sexual orientation and gender identity. The research sought to inform recommendations for potential production ACS implementation on question wording and response options, whether a confirmation question is asked of everyone or only of those people with discrepant responses for sex at birth and current gender identity, and the style of write-in boxes to use for internet respondents. Federal agencies had expressed interest in and identified legal uses for this information, including civil rights and equal employment enforcement. This Non-substantive Change Request is to request OMB approval to discontinue our use of OMB Control Number 0607-0936 for the ACS SOGI Test and to update records in ROCIS to formally show that the Census Bureau canceled the second part of the SOGI Test in January 2025 to bring it in compliance with Executive Order 14168. The Census Bureau is asking, however, that OMB Control Number 0607-0936 be reserved for future Methods Panel testing. The Census Bureau will submit a new request for future testing not related to gender identity.

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Received	2025-03-20
Concluded	2025-03-21
Expires	2027-10-31
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	2127-0771
Previous ICR	202405-2127-003

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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has proposed to perform research involving the collection of information from the public as part of a multi-year effort to learn about how humans interact with driving automation systems (DAS). This research will support NHTSA in understanding the potential safety challenges associated with human-DAS interactions, particularly in the context of mixed traffic interactions where some vehicles have DAS and others do not. Within mixed traffic environments, vehicles may also have DAS that perform more or less of the driving task (i.e., different levels of automation) and come with their own sets of expectations and limitations. This research will add to the state of knowledge and is not immediately intended to inform regulations or policy.

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Received	2025-03-20
Concluded	2025-03-21
Expires	2026-09-30
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	2126-0080
Previous ICR	202302-2126-002

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In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, FMCSA announces its plan to submit the Information Collection Request (ICR) described below to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. This one-time reporting ICR, Human Factors Considerations in Commercial Motor Vehicle Automated Driving Systems and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, is a driving simulator study with a series of questionnaires that will evaluate how commercial motor vehicle (CMV) drivers engage in CMVs equipped with Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Level 2 (L2) advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and Level 3 (L3) automated driving systems (ADS). Approximately 100 CMV drivers will participate in the study. Driver participation in the study is voluntary; therefore, there is no obligation to answer an undesired question in any part of the questionnaires nor continue to participate. The study will examine the effect of non-driving secondary task engagement, transfer of control, and training on driver behavior in CMVs equipped with ADAS and ADS. The data will be collected and analyzed by the highly trained research team at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI), and will be used to develop tools for the integration of ADS-equipped CMVs within the trucking industry and inform policy recommendations for automatic driving system (ADS) equipped CMVs.

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Received	2025-03-20
Concluded	2025-03-21
Expires	2027-06-30
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	2126-0083
Previous ICR	202308-2126-001

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FMCSA is requesting OMB approval for a new Information Collection, titled “Safety Impacts of Human-Automated Driving System (ADS) Team Driving Applications.” The ICR is a driving simulator study with a series of questionnaires and will quantify the safety implications of team driving applications between humans and ADS-equipped commercial motor vehicles (CMVs). The simulator study will consist of a 17-hour simulator study session completed at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI) with a simulated Level 4 (L4) ADS. L4 ADS-equipped CMVs are capable of all functions and controls necessary for driving without human monitoring in limited conditions, and the human driver will not be asked to take over control of the vehicle. Data will be collected from CMV drivers using VTTI’s heavy vehicle driving simulator and a series of questionnaires. Driver participation in the study is voluntary; therefore, there is no obligation to answer any part of the questionnaires nor to continue to participate. In accordance with USDOT’s policy on research involving human subjects, this study was reviewed and approved by Virginia Tech’s Institutional Review Board (IRB) prior to beginning data collection. Data will be collected during one extended study session and will involve three phases: a pre-study data collection, simulator data collection, and a post-study data collection. The data will help quantify safety implications of the four human-ADS teaming use cases, including 1) the analysis of potential requests for relief from FMCSA’s HOS regulations under 49 C.F.R. part 381 and 2) safety benefits and disbenefits on human-ADS teaming. Data collected will include quantitative and qualitative dependent variables, such as simulated driving performance, eye-glance patterns and duration, demographic characteristics, opinions and perceptions of situation awareness, risky driving, advanced technology, and effectiveness of driver training. The questionnaire data are needed to answer several research questions. Approximately 80 CMV drivers are expected to participate in this study.

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Received	2025-03-20
Concluded	2025-03-21
Expires	2026-01-31
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	3150-0256
Previous ICR	202205-3150-002

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As set forth under 29 CFR 1614, the EEO complaint process prescribes that when an aggrieved individual believes that they have been discriminated against on the basis of their race, color, religion, sex (including sexual orientation, gender identity and expressions, and pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), marital status, parental status, political affiliation, military service, and reprisal and seeks EEO counseling, the assigned EEO Counselor will conduct the pre-complaint (Informal) with the intentions of resolving the complaint within the Agency. At the conclusion of pre-complaint (Informal) process and if resolution was unsuccessful, the EEO Counselor during the final interview with the aggrieved person must discuss what occurred during the counseling process and provide the aggrieved with information to move the matter forward. Pursuant to 29 CFR § 1614.105(c), if the aggrieved individual decides to file a Formal complaint (i.e., NRC Form 646), the EEO Counselor must submit a written report (i.e., EEO Counselors Report) within fifteen (15) calendar days to the SBCR Director or designated official that will contain relevant information about the aggrieved individual, jurisdiction, claims, bases, Responding Management Officials (RMO), witnesses, requested remedies, and the EEO Counselor's checklist. The NRC Form 655, “EEO Counselor’s Report” is completed by an EEO counselor during this consultation, which must be conducted within 45 days of the date of the matter alleged to be discriminatory or, in the case of personnel action, within 45 days of the effective date of the action. Once the form is completed, an authorized NRC representative will place the completed NRC Form 646 in a secure folder created specifically for the aggrieved individual within an automated tracking system.