Change Requests

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Stocks Reports

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The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) requests approval for non-substantive change to NASS’s Confidentiality Pledge. In the summer of 2025, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) requested that NASS update its confidentiality pledge. This change to NASS Confidentiality Pledge would affect all surveys conducted under NASS’s 34 active Information Collections (ICs). Current Language: “Your responses will be kept confidential and any person who willfully discloses ANY identifiable information about you or your operation is subject to a jail term, a fine, or both.” Proposed Revision: “Your responses will be kept confidential and any person who willfully discloses ANY identifiable information about you and your operations without your consent is subject to a jail term, a fine, or both.”

Federal Register Notices

60-Day FRN	View Notice
30-Day FRN	View Notice

Authorizing Statutes

Pub.L. 115 - 435 302	View Law

7 USC 2276	View Law

18 USC 1905	View Law

7 USC 3306.1	View Law

7 USC 951-958	View Law

7 USC 2204	View Law

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List Sampling Frame Surveys

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Abstract

The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) requests approval for non-substantive change to NASS’s Confidentiality Pledge. In the summer of 2025, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) requested that NASS update its confidentiality pledge. This change to NASS Confidentiality Pledge would affect all surveys conducted under NASS’s 34 active Information Collections (ICs). Current Language: “Your responses will be kept confidential and any person who willfully discloses ANY identifiable information about you or your operation is subject to a jail term, a fine, or both.” Proposed Revision: “Your responses will be kept confidential and any person who willfully discloses ANY identifiable information about you and your operations without your consent is subject to a jail term, a fine, or both.”

Federal Register Notices

60-Day FRN	View Notice
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Authorizing Statutes

18 USC 1905	View Law

7 USC 3601.1	View Law

Pub.L. 115 - 435 302	View Law

7 USC 2204	View Law

7 USC 2276	View Law

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Aquaculture Surveys

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The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) requests approval for non-substantive change to NASS’s Confidentiality Pledge. In the summer of 2025, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) requested that NASS update its confidentiality pledge. This change to NASS Confidentiality Pledge would affect all surveys conducted under NASS’s 34 active Information Collections (ICs). Current Language: “Your responses will be kept confidential and any person who willfully discloses ANY identifiable information about you or your operation is subject to a jail term, a fine, or both.” Proposed Revision: “Your responses will be kept confidential and any person who willfully discloses ANY identifiable information about you and your operations without your consent is subject to a jail term, a fine, or both.”

Federal Register Notices

60-Day FRN	View Notice
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Authorizing Statutes

Pub.L. 96 - 362 2801	View Law

7 USC 2204	View Law

Pub.L. 115 - 435 301	View Law

7 USC 2276	View Law

18 USC 1905	View Law

7 USC 3601.1	View Law

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Honey and Honey Bee Surveys

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The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) requests approval for non-substantive change to NASS’s Confidentiality Pledge. In the summer of 2025, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) requested that NASS update its confidentiality pledge. This change to NASS Confidentiality Pledge would affect all surveys conducted under NASS’s 34 active Information Collections (ICs). Current Language: “Your responses will be kept confidential and any person who willfully discloses ANY identifiable information about you or your operation is subject to a jail term, a fine, or both.” Proposed Revision: “Your responses will be kept confidential and any person who willfully discloses ANY identifiable information about you and your operations without your consent is subject to a jail term, a fine, or both.”

Federal Register Notices

60-Day FRN	View Notice
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Authorizing Statutes

18 USC 1905	View Law

7 USC 2204	View Law

7 USC 3601.1	View Law

Pub.L. 115 - 435 301	View Law

7 USC 4601 - 4613	View Law

7 USC 2276	View Law

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Census of Horticultural Specialties

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Abstract

The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) requests approval for non-substantive change to NASS’s Confidentiality Pledge. In the summer of 2025, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) requested that NASS update its confidentiality pledge. This change to NASS Confidentiality Pledge would affect all surveys conducted under NASS’s 34 active Information Collections (ICs). Current Language: “Your responses will be kept confidential and any person who willfully discloses ANY identifiable information about you or your operation is subject to a jail term, a fine, or both.” Proposed Revision: “Your responses will be kept confidential and any person who willfully discloses ANY identifiable information about you and your operations without your consent is subject to a jail term, a fine, or both.”

Federal Register Notices

60-Day FRN	View Notice
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Authorizing Statutes

Pub.L. 115 - 435 302	View Law

Pub.L. 110 - 246 10001	View Law

7 USC 3601.1	View Law

7 USC 2204g	View Law

7 USC 2204	View Law

7 USC 2276	View Law

18 USC 1905	View Law

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Request Type:

Livestock Slaughter

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Abstract

The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) requests approval for non-substantive change to NASS’s Confidentiality Pledge. In the summer of 2025, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) requested that NASS update its confidentiality pledge. This change to NASS Confidentiality Pledge would affect all surveys conducted under NASS’s 34 active Information Collections (ICs). Current Language: “Your responses will be kept confidential and any person who willfully discloses ANY identifiable information about you or your operation is subject to a jail term, a fine, or both.” Proposed Revision: “Your responses will be kept confidential and any person who willfully discloses ANY identifiable information about you and your operations without your consent is subject to a jail term, a fine, or both.”

Federal Register Notices

60-Day FRN	View Notice
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Authorizing Statutes

21 USC 620	View Law

7 USC 2204(a)	View Law

21 USC 661	View Law

7 USC 2276	View Law

7 USC 3601.1	View Law

18 USC 1905	View Law

Pub.L. 115 - 435 301	View Law

Pub.L. 104 - 13 3501	View Law

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Tenure, Ownership, and Transition of Agricultural Land (TOTAL)

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Abstract

The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) requests approval for non-substantive change to NASS’s Confidentiality Pledge. In the summer of 2025, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) requested that NASS update its confidentiality pledge. This change to NASS Confidentiality Pledge would affect all surveys conducted under NASS’s 34 active Information Collections (ICs). Current Language: “Your responses will be kept confidential and any person who willfully discloses ANY identifiable information about you or your operation is subject to a jail term, a fine, or both.” Proposed Revision: “Your responses will be kept confidential and any person who willfully discloses ANY identifiable information about you and your operations without your consent is subject to a jail term, a fine, or both.”

Federal Register Notices

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Authorizing Statutes

7 USC 2204(g)	View Law

7 USC 1303	View Law

Pub.L. 115 - 435 302	View Law

Pub.L. 104 - 13 3501	View Law

43 USC 1905	View Law

18 USC 1905	View Law

7 USC 2204(a)	View Law

7 USC 7998	View Law

7 USC 2276	View Law

7 USC 1441(a)	View Law

7 USC 35	View Law

7 USC 3601.1	View Law

36 USC 222.51	View Law

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Conservation Effects Assessment Project

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Abstract

The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) requests approval for non-substantive change to NASS’s Confidentiality Pledge. In the summer of 2025, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) requested that NASS update its confidentiality pledge. This change to NASS Confidentiality Pledge would affect all surveys conducted under NASS’s 34 active Information Collections (ICs). Current Language: “Your responses will be kept confidential and any person who willfully discloses ANY identifiable information about you or your operation is subject to a jail term, a fine, or both.” Proposed Revision: “Your responses will be kept confidential and any person who willfully discloses ANY identifiable information about you and your operations without your consent is subject to a jail term, a fine, or both.”

Federal Register Notices

60-Day FRN	View Notice
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Authorizing Statutes

18 USC 1905	View Law

7 USC 3601.1	View Law

Pub.L. 115 - 435 302	View Law

7 USC 2204(a)	View Law

7 USC 2276	View Law

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Generic Clearance of Survey Improvement Projects

Key Information

Abstract

The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) requests approval for non-substantive change to NASS’s Confidentiality Pledge. In the summer of 2025, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) requested that NASS update its confidentiality pledge. This change to NASS Confidentiality Pledge would affect all surveys conducted under NASS’s 34 active Information Collections (ICs). Current Language: “Your responses will be kept confidential and any person who willfully discloses ANY identifiable information about you or your operation is subject to a jail term, a fine, or both.” Proposed Revision: “Your responses will be kept confidential and any person who willfully discloses ANY identifiable information about you and your operations without your consent is subject to a jail term, a fine, or both.”

Federal Register Notices

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Authorizing Statutes

7 USC 2276	View Law

Pub.L. 115 - 435 3582	View Law

18 USC 1905	View Law

7 USC 2204	View Law

7 USC 3601.1	View Law

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Request Type:

Organic Survey

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The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) requests approval for non-substantive change to NASS’s Confidentiality Pledge. In the summer of 2025, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) requested that NASS update its confidentiality pledge. This change to NASS Confidentiality Pledge would affect all surveys conducted under NASS’s 34 active Information Collections (ICs). Current Language: “Your responses will be kept confidential and any person who willfully discloses ANY identifiable information about you or your operation is subject to a jail term, a fine, or both.” Proposed Revision: “Your responses will be kept confidential and any person who willfully discloses ANY identifiable information about you and your operations without your consent is subject to a jail term, a fine, or both.” The USDA Risk Management Agency (RMA) Organics survey will not be included in this information collection request (ICR). It will be submitted separately through IC 0535-0264.

Federal Register Notices

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Authorizing Statutes

7 USC 2204 (a)	View Law

7 USC 3601.1	View Law

Pub.L. 113 - 79 508	View Law

7 USC 2204 (g)	View Law

7 USC 5925c	View Law

Pub.L. 115 - 435 302	View Law

7 USC 2276	View Law

18 USC 1905	View Law

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Request Type:

Cost of Pollination Survey

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Abstract

The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) requests approval for non-substantive change to NASS’s Confidentiality Pledge. In the summer of 2025, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) requested that NASS update its confidentiality pledge. This change to NASS Confidentiality Pledge would affect all surveys conducted under NASS’s 34 active Information Collections (ICs). Current Language: “Your responses will be kept confidential and any person who willfully discloses ANY identifiable information about you or your operation is subject to a jail term, a fine, or both.” Proposed Revision: “Your responses will be kept confidential and any person who willfully discloses ANY identifiable information about you and your operations without your consent is subject to a jail term, a fine, or both.”

Federal Register Notices

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Request Type:

Local Food Marketing Practices Survey

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Abstract

The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) requests approval for non-substantive change to NASS’s Confidentiality Pledge. In the summer of 2025, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) requested that NASS update its confidentiality pledge. This change to NASS Confidentiality Pledge would affect all surveys conducted under NASS’s 34 active Information Collections (ICs). Current Language: “Your responses will be kept confidential and any person who willfully discloses ANY identifiable information about you or your operation is subject to a jail term, a fine, or both.” Proposed Revision: “Your responses will be kept confidential and any person who willfully discloses ANY identifiable information about you and your operations without your consent is subject to a jail term, a fine, or both.”

Federal Register Notices

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Authorizing Statutes

18 USC 1905	View Law

7 USC 2204 (a)	View Law

Pub.L. 115 - 435 301	View Law

7 USC 2276	View Law

7 USC 2204 (g)	View Law

7 USC 3306.1	View Law

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Fast Track Generic Clearance for Qualitative Feedback on Customer Satisfaction Surveys

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Abstract

The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) requests approval for non-substantive change to NASS’s Confidentiality Pledge. In the summer of 2025, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) requested that NASS update its confidentiality pledge. This change to NASS Confidentiality Pledge would affect all surveys conducted under NASS’s 34 active Information Collections (ICs). Current Language: “Your responses will be kept confidential and any person who willfully discloses ANY identifiable information about you or your operation is subject to a jail term, a fine, or both.” Proposed Revision: “Your responses will be kept confidential and any person who willfully discloses ANY identifiable information about you and your operations without your consent is subject to a jail term, a fine, or both.”

Federal Register Notices

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Authorizing Statutes

7 USC 2276	View Law

7 USC 3601.1	View Law

7 USC 2204(a)	View Law

Pub.L. 115 - 435 301	View Law

18 USC 1905	View Law

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Request Type:

Commercial Floriculture Survey

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Abstract

The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) requests approval for non-substantive change to NASS’s Confidentiality Pledge. In the summer of 2025, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) requested that NASS update its confidentiality pledge. This change to NASS Confidentiality Pledge would affect all surveys conducted under NASS’s 34 active Information Collections (ICs). Current Language: “Your responses will be kept confidential and any person who willfully discloses ANY identifiable information about you or your operation is subject to a jail term, a fine, or both.” Proposed Revision: “Your responses will be kept confidential and any person who willfully discloses ANY identifiable information about you and your operations without your consent is subject to a jail term, a fine, or both.”

Federal Register Notices

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Authorizing Statutes

7 USC 2276	View Law

18 USC 1905	View Law

Pub.L. 115 - 435 Part B	View Law

7 USC 2204	View Law

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Omb Control Number:

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Action:

Request Type:

NASS Data Security Requirements for Accessing Confidential Data

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Abstract

The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) requests approval for non-substantive change to NASS’s Confidentiality Pledge. In the summer of 2025, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) requested that NASS update its confidentiality pledge. This change to NASS Confidentiality Pledge would affect all surveys conducted under NASS’s 34 active Information Collections (ICs). Current Language: “Your responses will be kept confidential and any person who willfully discloses ANY identifiable information about you or your operation is subject to a jail term, a fine, or both.” Proposed Revision: “Your responses will be kept confidential and any person who willfully discloses ANY identifiable information about you and your operations without your consent is subject to a jail term, a fine, or both.”

Federal Register Notices

60-Day FRN	View Notice
30-Day FRN	View Notice

Authorizing Statutes

44 USC 3583	View Law

18 USC 1905	View Law

Pub.L. 115 - 435 301	View Law

7 USC 2204	View Law

7 USC 2276	View Law

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Omb Control Number:

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Action:

Request Type:

Agricultural Resource Management Phase 3 Economic Surveys

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Abstract

The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) requests approval for non-substantive change to NASS’s Confidentiality Pledge. In the summer of 2025, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) requested that NASS update its confidentiality pledge. This change to NASS Confidentiality Pledge would affect all surveys conducted under NASS’s 34 active Information Collections (ICs). Current Language: “Your responses will be kept confidential and any person who willfully discloses ANY identifiable information about you or your operation is subject to a jail term, a fine, or both.” Proposed Revision: “Your responses will be kept confidential and any person who willfully discloses ANY identifiable information about you and your operations without your consent is subject to a jail term, a fine, or both.”

Federal Register Notices

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Authorizing Statutes

36 USC 222.51	View Law

7 USC 35	View Law

7 USC 2276	View Law

7 USC 1441	View Law

7 USC 7998	View Law

7 USC 136i-2	View Law

7 USC 2204(a)	View Law

Pub.L. 115 - 435 302	View Law

7 USC 3601.1	View Law

Pub.L. 104 - 170 101	View Law

43 USC 1905	View Law

18 USC 1905	View Law

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National Park Service Education Reservation Request Form

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Abstract

The NPS is authorized by the 2016 National Park Service Centennial Act (Public Law 114 – 289) and Protection, Interpretation, and Research in System (54 U.S.C. 100701), to administer education programs for education audiences including but not limited to school groups, scouting groups, extracurricular groups, and home school groups. To effectively manage requests received for NPS educational programs, the NPS Washington Support Office Division of Interpretation, Education, and Volunteers seeks approval for the use of a new Service-wide form, the National Park Service Education Reservation Request Form.

Federal Register Notices

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Authorizing Statutes

54 USC 100701	View Law

Pub.L. 114 - 289 301	View Law

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10 CFR Part 55, Operators' Licenses

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Abstract

Part 55 of title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), “Operators’ Licenses,” specifies information and data to be provided by applicants and facility licensees so that the NRC may make determinations concerning the licensing and requalification of operators for nuclear reactors, as necessary to promote public health and safety. The reporting and recordkeeping requirements contained in 10 CFR Part 55 are mandatory for the affected facility licensees and applicants. In addition, the information collection includes two online forms for requesting exemptions from requirements for Part 55 Exemption Request and Part 55 Research and Test Reactor Exemption Request related to the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE). The information collected by the online form is the minimum needed by NRC to make a determination on the acceptability of the licensee’s request for an exemption.

Federal Register Notices

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Authorizing Statutes

Pub.L. 83 - 703 1-311	View Law

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Survivor Questionnaire

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Abstract

Under Section 6 of the Railroad Retirement Act, benefits are payable to the survivors or the estates of deceased railroad employees. The collection obtains information used to determine if and to whom benefits are payable; such as a widow(er) due survivor benefits, an executor of the estate, or a payer of burial expenses.

Federal Register Notices

60-Day FRN	View Notice
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Authorizing Statutes

45 USC 231(f) et seq.	View Law

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Request for Medicare Payment

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The Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) administers the Medicare program for persons covered by the Railroad Retirement System. The collection obtains the information needed by Palmetto GBA, the RRB's carrier, to pay claims for services covered under Part B of the program.

Federal Register Notices

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Authorizing Statutes

45 USC 231f(d)	View Law

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Employer's Deemed Service Month Questionnaire

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Under Section 3(i) of the Railroad Retirement Act, the Railroad Retirement Board may deem months of service in cases where an employee does not actually work in every month of the year. The collection obtains service and compensation information from railroad employers needed to determine if an employee may be credited with additional months of railroad service.

Federal Register Notices

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Authorizing Statutes

45 USC 231(f) et.seq.	View Law

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Action:

Request Type:

Fruit, Nuts, and Specialty Crops

Key Information

Abstract

The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) requests approval for non-substantive change to NASS’s Confidentiality Pledge. In the summer of 2025, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) requested that NASS update its confidentiality pledge. This change to NASS Confidentiality Pledge would affect all surveys conducted under NASS’s 34 active Information Collections (ICs). Current Language: “Your responses will be kept confidential and any person who willfully discloses ANY identifiable information about you or your operation is subject to a jail term, a fine, or both.” Proposed Revision: “Your responses will be kept confidential and any person who willfully discloses ANY identifiable information about you and your operations without your consent is subject to a jail term, a fine, or both.”

Federal Register Notices

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Authorizing Statutes

Pub.L. 115 - 435 301	View Law

7 USC 3601.1	View Law

7 USC 2204	View Law

18 USC 1905	View Law

7 USC 1421d	View Law

7 USC 2276	View Law

Presidential Action:

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Omb Control Number:

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Action:

Request Type:

Rule 15b1-1 (Application for Registration of Brokers or Dealers) and Form BD (Uniform Application for Broker-Dealer Registration)

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Abstract

Form BD is used to apply to the Commission for registration as a broker-dealer, non-bank municipal securities dealer, or non-bank government securities broker-dealer, and to amend such applications. In addition, the Commission uses the information disclosed by applicants in Form BD to develop a central information resource where members of the public may obtain relevant, up-to-date information about broker-dealers, municipal securities dealers, and government securities broker-dealers, and where the Commission, other regulators, and SROs may obtain information for investigatory purposes.

Federal Register Notices

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Authorizing Statutes

15 USC 78a et seq.	View Law

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Request Type:

Survey of Jails in Indian Country

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Abstract

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) requests clearance to conduct the Annual Survey of Jails in Indian Country (SJIC) for a three-year period under OMB Control Number 1121-0364. BJS started the SJIC in 1998 to track changes in the demographic characteristics of the Indian country jail population as well as changes in the size of jail population, jail capacity and crowding, and the flow of inmates moving into and out of Indian country jails. These statistics are part of BJS’s core corrections statistics, as they contribute fundamentally to BJS’s mission of describing movements of persons through the criminal justice system. Indian country jails are administered by tribal authorities or the Bureau of Indian Affairs, while the county and city jails covered by the Annual Survey of Jails (ASJ) are administered by local law enforcement authorities such as a sheriff or jail administrator. Together, the SJIC and ASJ produce annual national estimates on persons held in jails nationwide.

Federal Register Notices

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Authorizing Statutes

34 USC 10132	View Law

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Action:

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NIST Invention Disclosure and Inventor Information Collection

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Abstract

The NIST DN-45 Invention Disclosure Form is used to collect information pertaining to inventions created by Federal employees or by non-Federally employed individuals who have created an invention using NIST laboratory facilities as NIST Associates. The collection of this information is required to protect the United States rights to inventions created using Federal resources. The information collected on the form allows the Government to determine: 1) if an invention has been created; 2) the status of any statutory bar that pertains to the potential invention or that may pertain to the invention in the future. The information collected may allow the Government to begin a patent application process. The Inventor Information Sheet is used to collect from individuals who have been named as potential inventors on a NIST Invention Disclosure Form. The collection of this information is used for multiple purposes: 1) Some of the information may be required to file a patent application, if NIST seeks to protect a federally owned invention, pursuant to 35 USC §207. 2) The form, in part, is a statement made by the respondent declaring whether the respondent considers herself/himself to be an inventor. 3) Some of the information is needed for NIST to determine potential assignees with which NIST would potentially negotiate consolidation of rights and other patent related matters. 4) Some of the information helps NIST determine under which statutory authority NIST may consolidate rights in an invention with other potential assignees. 5) Country citizenship information is required to determine whether a Scientific and Technology agreement or treaty with the respondent’s country may impact the U.S. Government’s rights to the invention. The information is collected by the Technology Partnerships Office and shared with the Office of Chief Counsel at NIST. The information may also be shared with non-Governmental entities that may have ownership rights to the potential invention. The Government collects this information to execute the policy and objective of the Congress expressed at 35 U.S.C. §200. 35 U.S.C. §207 authorizes Federal agencies to apply for, obtain, and maintain patents or other forms of protection … on inventions in which the Federal Government owns a right, title, or interest. 35 U.S.C. §207 also authorizes each Federal agency to undertake all other suitable and necessary steps to protect and administer rights to federally owned inventions on behalf of the Federal government. The information collected through the NIST DN-45 is necessary for NIST to execute the authority granted at 35 U.S.C. §207.

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