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Previous ICR	202206-2120-008

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This is the renewal of a collection to solicit the data necessary to help the FAA evaluate and select airport terminal and tower projects for funding under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) (P.L. 117-58), signed on November 15, 2021. IIJA provides annual funding of about $1,020,000,000 annually for these programs through FY 2026. Additionally, the IIJA directs funds that are unobligated at the end of the fourth fiscal year after being first made available under the Airport Infrastructure Grant (AIG) program be converted to a new competitive funding program for the final fiscal year of availability. Of the amounts converted, the first $100,000,000 is set aside to augment the IIJA’s FAA Contract Tower program. Funds exceeding $100,000,000 are then awarded through the new competitive grant program, called the AIG Funding Reallocation (AFR) program. Airport owners and managers (sponsors) who elect to compete for funding and obtain benefits from the IIJA Airport Terminal and Tower Programs will submit project information. The information collected is based on grant considerations outlined in the IIJA and allows the FAA to evaluate and distribute IIJA funds to address aging infrastructure at the nation’s airports. Some 3,075 airports are eligible to participate in the IIJA Airport Terminal Program and about 170 for the Tower Program, though not all will have a project that fits the criteria outlined in the IIJA.

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Previous ICR	202206-0938-015

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Section 1311(c)(3) of the Affordable Care Act directs the Secretary to develop a system to rate QHPs on the basis of quality and price and requires Exchanges to display this quality rating information on their respective websites. Section 1311(c)(4) of the Affordable Care Act requires the Secretary to develop an enrollee satisfaction survey (ESS) system to assess enrollee experience with each QHP (with more than 500 enrollees in the previous year) offered through an Exchange. Section 1311(h) requires QHPs to contract with certain hospitals that meet specific patient safety and health care quality standards beginning January 1, 2015. CMS is requesting approval for information collection associated with these related Marketplace quality standards.

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Previous ICR	202205-0648-005

Federal Register Notices

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This request is for extension of a currently approved information collection. The information collection previously listed as ‘CCF Family of Forms’ was broken out into five separate collections in order to provide more granularity into the collection. These are not new requirements and do not change the information collected, rather they provide greater detail into the use and frequency of the information collected. NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) established the Capital Construction Fund (CCF) tax deferral program to allow fishermen to more quickly save for vessel acquisition, construction, or reconstruction. The information collected by NMFS involves applying for and entering into a formal agreement to defer taxable income, enroll vessels eligible for deposits, register objectives planned under the agreement, make deposits within the regulatory limits, withdraw funds for eligible purposes, certify total costs at completion, show the current depreciable tax basis in a fishing vessel, and verify proper reduction of the tax basis. The CCF program is a tax deferral program, not a tax free benefit, and the data collection allows for the enrollment, operation, and essential tax recapture required by the program.

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Previous ICR	202404-2126-001

Federal Register Notices

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This information collection is mandatory reporting for which the frequency is on an as needed basis. The information is collected from for-hire motor carriers, brokers and freight forwarders who are required to notify the Office of Registration and Safety Information located within DOT’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), when they change the name or address of their company. The name change request may be filed online through the Licensing and Insurance website, or companies may fax or mail the form requesting either name or address changes. Carriers may also, by use of this form, request reinstatement of a revoked operating authority either online or via fax. The purpose of the collection is to enable FMCSA to maintain up-to-date records which will allow the agency to recognize the entity in question in case of enforcement actions, or other procedures required to ensure the carrier is fit, willing and able to provide for-hire transportation services. The collection will also enable entities whose authority has been revoked to undergo the process to resume operations, if they are not otherwise blocked from doing so. This multi-purpose form simplifies the process of gathering the information needed to process the entities’ requests in a timely manner, with the least amount of effort for all parties involved. The information reported to and collected by FMCSA is motor carrier identification information (such as legal names, DOT numbers, etc.), phone numbers, address changes, changes in ownership, management, or control of the company, reinstatement of operating authority information, and payment information. This ICR renewal has a program adjustment of an increase of 37,551 responses and 9,387 burden hours. The increase is due to the increase in the number of respondents who completed Form MCSA-5889 from 2020-2022.

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Previous ICR	202207-1205-004

Federal Register Notices

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The Unemployment Insurance Data Validation Program requires States to operate a system for ascertaining the validity (adherence to Federal reporting requirements) of specified unemployment insurance data they submit to the Employment and Training Administration on certain reports they are required to submit monthly or quarterly. Some of these data are used to assess performance, including for the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (GPRA), or determine States' grants for UI administration.

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Previous ICR	202208-1902-001

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The FERC-542 contains the following information collections: (1) Research, development, and deployment expenditures; (2) annual charge adjustments (ACA) and (3) periodic rate adjustments. The Natural Gas Act (NGA) requires FERC to regulate the transmission and sale of natural gas for resale in interstate commerce and to ensure the rates jurisdictional natural gas pipelines charge are just and reasonable. It provides FERC with the authority to implement NGA mandates through its rules and regulations. FERC allows jurisdictional pipelines to flow through to their customers such costs as fuel or electric power costs necessary to operate compressor stations as well as the costs of storage services; research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) expenditures and FERC annual charge adjustment (ACA) assessments. To ensure these charges result in just and reasonable rates, FERC requires jurisdictional pipelines to file detailed and summary information on these flowed costs in the FERC-542. Analyses of FERC-542 data helps the Commission evaluate the charges to ensure compliance with NGA rate requirements.

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The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline and Crisis Services Program Evaluation assesses the implementation and expansion of the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline and Behavioral Health Crisis Services Continuum (BHCSC) in the United States (U.S.). The evaluation will provide SAMHSA, grantees, and other interested parties with information to strengthen the BHCSC for all people in crisis. The evaluation aims to understand the system response to behavioral health crises and outcomes of interventions delivered, with a focus on understanding how improving access to quality crisis services and supports. The multi-method, multi-study evaluation combines primary and existing data to answer questions related to the implementation of, and outcomes from, 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline and BHCSC delivery, including the structure, composition, and collaboration patterns of the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline and BHCSC at the national, state, territory, and Tribal levels, how agencies associated with the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline and BHCSC work together to provide behavioral health crisis services and the effect on broader use of crisis services like 911, the effectiveness of the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline and BHCSC in linking individuals to services and the relationship between the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline and BHCSC and short- and long-term behavioral outcomes, the effectiveness of the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline and BHCSC on immediate reductions in suicidal ideation, homicidal ideation, and overdose risk, the overall impact of the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline and BHCSC on suicide and overdose mortality and morbidity by comparing long-term trends in public health outcomes before and after the implementation of the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline and BHCSC.

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Previous ICR	202507-0920-013

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The purpose of this Generic Data Collection is to: 1) help CDC programs and their recipients develop strong performance measurement systems and practices; 2) define and operationalize priority performance measures; and 3) establish common data collection and reporting expectations. Data will enable the accurate, reliable, uniform and timely submission of recipients' progress. This Non-Substantive Change Request is submitted to update the Global Antimicrobial Resistance (AR) Laboratory and Response Network Performance Measurement tool included in this request are largely wording and formatting changes that enhance the clarity of the questions/instructions and facilitate ease of navigating the tool both as a Word/pdf document and in REDCap, the data collection platform for this tool. The overall content and substance of the tool remains unchanged.

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Previous ICR	202409-0938-012

Federal Register Notices

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Sections 2723 and 2761 of the Public Health Service Act (PHS Act) direct the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to enforce a provision (or provisions) of title XXVII of the PHS Act (including the implementing regulations in parts 144, 146, 147, and 148 of title 45 of the Code of Federal Regulations) with respect to health insurance issuers when a state has notified CMS that it has not enacted legislation to enforce or that it is not otherwise enforcing a provision (or provisions) of the group and individual market reforms with respect to health insurance issuers, or when CMS has determined that a state is not substantially enforcing one or more of those provisions. This collection of information includes requirements that are necessary for CMS to conduct compliance review activities.

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Previous ICR	202205-0420-002

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Peace Corps’ Office of Gifts and Grants Management (GGM) uses the information to process and manage all private sector financial donations to the Peace Corps. The type of information collected from potential donors to any of the funds includes name, address, gift amount, payment method and payment information, dedication message, donor intent, status as a returned Peace Corps Volunteer, consent to be listed in the agency’s donor recognition page, consent to share name with Peace Corps Volunteer, and consent to receive information about agency activities and opportunities to donate to or partner with the Peace Corps. Personal information, such as credit card information, is necessary to: a) process donations to the agency, b) respond to donor intent regarding the donation (i.e. dedication message or in honor or in memory of or a restricted gift to support a specific activity or Volunteer community project), c) send donor recognition items, where applicable, and/or, d) send the requisite tax acknowledgement letter.

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Previous ICR	202104-1405-003

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The United States is host to thousands of foreign missions. Many foreign mission members and their dependents are entitled to a range of diplomatic or consular benefits, privileges, and immunities. This group (collectively referred to as “foreign mission personnel”) are hereinafter referred to as “respondents” or “applicants.” The U.S. Department of State seeks to ensure that the benefits, privileges, and immunities of such entities and persons assigned to duty in the United States are properly extended and respected.

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The Prison Education Program (PEP) is authorized under section 484(t) of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (HEA) with the requirements for participation outlined in 34 CFR 668, Subpart P, effective July 1, 2023. The regulatory requirements are for a school to offer a PEP to confined or incarcerated individuals. This is a request for a new information collection to develop a form for Oversight Entities to have a mechanism to report the Best Interest Determination for every PEP under their jurisdiction as required under 34 CFR 668.241. This is an optional form which includes the required elements and is being offered for ease of reporting by the appropriate Oversight Entities. Oversight Entities include the appropriate State department of corrections or other entity responsible for overseeing correctional facilities or the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Once completed by the Oversight Entities, the report is forwarded to the institution which in turn will file the report with the Department of Education.

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Previous ICR	202002-1670-001

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The Technical Resource for Incident Prevention (TRIPwire) is the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Office for Bombing Prevention's (OBP) online, collaborative, information-sharing portal for bomb squad, law enforcement, and other emergency services personnel to learn about current terrorist improvised explosive device (IED) tactics, techniques, and procedures, including design and emplacement considerations.

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Previous ICR	202410-1870-001

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The collection, use, and reporting of education data is an integral component of the mission of the U.S. Department of Education (Department). The Department has collected civil rights data about the nation’s public schools via the Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) since 1968. As with previous CRDC collections, the purpose of the 2025–26 and 2027–28 CRDCs is to obtain vital data related to the civil rights laws’ requirement that public local educational agencies (LEA) and elementary and secondary schools provide equal educational opportunity. The Department has analyzed the uses of many data elements collected in the 2020–21 CRDC and sought advice from experts across the Department to refine, improve, and where appropriate, add or remove data elements from the collection. CRDC data definitions and metrics are consistent with other mandatory collections across the Department wherever possible. The Department seeks the Office of Management and Budget's approval under the Paperwork Reduction Act to collect from LEAs the elementary and secondary education data described in the sections of Attachment A. The Department requests that LEAs and other stakeholders review and comment on the proposed changes (detailed in Supporting Statement A, Attachments A-1, A-2, A-3, and A-4, and Attachment B).

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Previous ICR	202505-0938-002

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is requesting approval of revisions to the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility-Patient Assessment Instrument (IRF-PAI) Version 4.1 that will be effective on October 1, 2024. On April 7, 2023 the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) (88 FR 20950) which proposes modifications to the collection of quality reporting data in the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Quality Reporting Program (IRF QRP). Specifically, CMS proposes to adopt two new measures and remove three measures from the IRF QRP. Per the NPRM, CMS proposes to require IRFs to start collecting assessment data using the IRF-PAI Version 4.2 for IRF patients beginning October 1, 2024.

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Previous ICR	202112-1625-010

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This information collection aids the Coast Guard in determining if a vessel complies with certain safety and environmental protection standards. Plans/records for construction or modification of U.S. or foreign vessels submitted and/or maintained on board are needed for compliance with these standards. The statutory authority for the requirements are 33 U.S.C. 1903, 46 U.S.C. 3703, 3703a, 3705, 3706, 3707, 3710 and 3711.

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Previous ICR	202306-1840-002

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Student Support Services (SSS) program grantees must submit the Annual Performance Report (APR) annually. The reports are used to evaluate grantees' performance for substantial progress, respond to Government Performance and Results Act requirements, and award prior experience points at the end of each project (budget) period. The Department also aggregates the data to provide descriptive information on the projects and to analyze the impact of the SSS program on the academic progress of participating students. The Department of Education (Department) is requesting approval of a non-substantive change. The update made in the SSS annual performance report involves changes to a single field (Section II, field 8) pursuant to Executive Order "Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government" (January 20, 2025).

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Previous ICR	202109-0938-010

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CMS is strongly committed to providing appropriate education and technical outreach to States, issuers, self-insured group health plans and third-party administrators (TPA) participating in the Marketplace and/or market stabilization programs mandated by the ACA. CMS continues to engage with stakeholders in the Marketplace to obtain input through Satisfaction Surveys following Stakeholder Training events. The survey results will help to determine stakeholders’ level of satisfaction with training's, identify any issues with training and technical assistance delivery, clarify stakeholders’ needs and preferences, and define best practices for training and technical assistance. Forms being utilized for the 2017 Stakeholder Events have already been developed. CMS will continue to modify, enhance and develop forms for future years based on feedback from Stakeholders.

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Previous ICR	202406-1840-001

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The Department of Education is requesting approval of a non-substantive change to a currently approved collection. The update made in the UB/UBMS annual performance report involves changes to a single field (Section II, field 9), pursuant to Executive Order "Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government" (January 20, 2025).

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Previous ICR	202212-1240-002

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Previous ICR	202407-1845-005

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This is a request for a new information collection. Federal Student Aid (FSA) Partner Connect will be replacing Student Aid Internet Gateway (SAIG) Enrollment via fsawebenroll.ed.gov. SAIG Mailboxes will remain as the access point for electronically transmitting and receiving data. FSA Partner Connect System and User Access Management allows authorized entities, including postsecondary educational institutions, institutional third-party servicers, guaranty agencies and guaranty agency (GA) servicers, Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP) lenders and lender servicers, federal loan servicers, and State Higher Education Agencies, to exchange data electronically with the U.S. Department of Education (Department). In order to participate, each entity must enroll for system and service access through FSA Partner Connect (fsapartners.ed.gov). The enrollment process enables the organization enrolling to create new users and select services to receive, submit, view, and/or update student financial aid data online and by batch using Department provided software EDconnect (PC-based software) or TDClient (client software for multiple environments). As authorized by the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (HEA); 20 U.S.C. 1070 et seq., and in order to manage the Title IV, HEA assistance programs, the entities listed above may electronically transmit and receive data from the following FSA systems through SAIG Mailboxes by enrolling through FSA Partner Connect: Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) Processing System (FPS) Common Origination and Disbursement (COD) System National Student Loan Data System (NSLDS) Online Electronic Cohort Default Rate (eCDR) Appeals Total and Permanent Disability (TPD) System Digital Customer Care (DCC) Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Online Access and Identity Management System (AIMS) Financial Management System (FMS) Additionally, entities may request access to eZ-Audit and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Systemic Alien Verification Entitlements (SAVE) Program through FSA Partner Connect to manage Title IV, HEA assistance programs.

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Previous ICR	202206-1210-003

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Section 701(f) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) provides special enrollment rights to individuals who have previously declined health coverage offered to them to enroll in health coverage upon the occurrence of specified events, including when they lose other coverage, when employer contributions to the cost of other coverage cease, and when they marry, have a child or adopt a child (“special enrollment events”). Plans and issuers are required to provide for 30-day special enrollment periods following any of these events during which individuals who are eligible but not enrolled have a right to enroll without being denied enrollment or having to wait for a late enrollment opportunity (often called “open enrollment”). A group health plan may require, as a pre-condition to having a special enrollment right to enroll in group health coverage after losing eligibility under other coverage, that an employee or beneficiary who declines coverage provide the plan a written statement declaring whether he or she is declining coverage because of having other coverage. Failure to provide such a written statement can then be treated as eliminating the individual's right to special enrollment upon losing eligibility for such other coverage. The regulations further establish that the right to special enroll can be denied in such circumstances only if employees are given notice of the requirement for a written statement and the consequences of failing to provide the written statement at the time an employee declines enrollment. As part of the special enrollment notice, it must be given at or before the time the employee is initially offered the opportunity to enroll. This information collection request covers the requirement in the implementing regulations under section 701(f) for a special enrollment notice. This information collection implements the disclosure obligation of a plan to inform all employees, at or before the time they are initially offered the opportunity to enroll in the plan, of the plan's special enrollment rules. The regulations require plans and their issuers to provide all employees with a notice describing their special enrollment rights, whether or not they enroll. A group health plan may require, as a pre-condition to having a special enrollment right to enroll in group health coverage after losing eligibility under other coverage, that an employee or beneficiary who declines coverage provide the plan a written statement declaring whether he or she is declining coverage because of having other coverage. Failure to provide such a written statement can then be treated as eliminating the individual's right to special enrollment upon losing eligibility for such other coverage. The regulations further establish that the right to special enroll can be denied in such circumstances only if employees are given notice of the requirement for a written statement and the consequences of failing to provide the written statement at the time an employee declines enrollment. As part of the special enrollment notice, it must be given at or before the time the employee is initially offered the opportunity to enroll. This information collection request covers the requirement in the implementing regulations under section 701(f) for a special enrollment notice. This information collection implements the disclosure obligation of a plan to inform all employees, at or before the time they are initially offered the opportunity to enroll in the plan, of the plan's special enrollment rules. The regulations require plans and their issuers to provide all employees with a notice describing their special enrollment rights, whether or not they enroll.

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Previous ICR	202207-1405-001

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The Affidavit of Identifying Witness (DS-71) is used in conjunction with the Application for a U.S. Passport (DS-11). It is used by Passport Agents, Passport Acceptance Agents, and Consular Officers of the Department of State to collect information for the purpose of establishing the identity of a passport applicant who has not submitted adequate evidence of identity with his/her passport application. This affidavit is executed by a witness who affirms that he/she can identify the applicant.

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Previous ICR	202311-1004-001

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This control number enables the BLM to collect information that is necessary to authorize and manage rights-of-way for solar and wind energy, oil and gas pipelines, and electric transmission lines with a capacity of 100 Kilovolts (kV) or more. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is requesting to revise this control number to reflect changes to the underlying regulations pertaining to renewable energy rents affecting solar and wind energy developments. This proposed rule would update the procedures governing the BLM’s right-of-way programs, focusing on one main topic that would support Unleashing American Energy (EO 14154). This will generally remove impediments and burdensome regulations or other rules that are not required by law. The RIN number for this rulemaking action is 1004-AF45.

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Previous ICR	202205-1625-002

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Automated vital system regulations are necessary to promote the safety of life at sea on USCG certified vessels. The Coast Guard reviews plans, tests, and procedures to determine compliance and evaluate necessary manning of automated vessels. Respondents are owners, operators, shipyards, designers, and manufacturers of certain vessels. The statutory authority for the requirements is 46 U.S.C. 3306. This authority is delegated by the Secretary to the Coast Guard via the Department of Homeland Security Delegation No. 0170.1, Revision No. 01.2. (II)(92.b).