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Greenhouse Gas Emissions Value Analysis (45Y and 48E)

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DOE seeks to collect information from electricity producers in order to provide such electricity producers with an emissions value that a qualifying facility may use to petition the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for a Provisional Emissions Rate (PER) and claim the section 45Y or 48E tax credits. DOE will share relevant information collected with one or more National Laboratories as needed so those Laboratories can perform the required emissions analysis. Likely respondents include owners of electricity generating facilities or energy storage technology as defined in 26 U.S.C. 45Y, 48E.

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Pub.L. 117 - 169 45Y and 48E	View Law

42 USC 7545(o)(1)(H)	View Law

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The Mail, Internet, or Telephone Order Merchandise Rule

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The Rule requires mail, internet, and telephone order merchants to substantiate any shipment representation, to notify consumer of and obtain consent for shipping delays, and to make prompt and full refunds if consumers exercise the option to cancel their orders.

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15 USC 41 et. seq	View Law

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Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) Competitive Grant Project Information

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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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Pub.L. 117 - 58 801	View Law

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Capital Construction Fund Agreement, Certificate Family of Forms, and Deposit/Withdrawal Report

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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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46 USC 1101-1295g	View Law

46 USC 53503	View Law

Pub.L. 91 - 469 101	View Law

Pub.L. 99 - 514 261	View Law

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Motor Carrier Records Change Form

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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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49 USC 13904

49 USC 13902

49 USC 13905(c)

49 USC 13903

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Unemployment Insurance Data Validation (DV) Program

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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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42 USC 303(a)(6)	View Law

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[OADPS] The Performance Measures Project: Improving Performance Measurement and Monitoring by CDC Programs

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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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42 USC 45 CFR 75.342

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Best Interest Determination - Prison Education Program

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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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20 USC 1091	View Law

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Office of Gifts and Grants Management Donation Form

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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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22 USC 2509 (a)(4)	View Law

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Foreign Diplomatic Services Applications (FDSA)

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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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22 USC 4301	View Law

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Mandatory Civil Rights Data Collection

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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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20 USC 3413 (C)(1)	View Law

20 USC 3471(a)	View Law

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20 USC 7913	View Law

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20 USC 3412(g)	View Law

20 USC 3411	View Law

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Federal Student Aid (FSA) Partner Connect System and User Access Management

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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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20 USC 1070

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Peace Corps Volunteer Authorization for Examination and/or Treatment

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5 USC 8142

5 USC 8101 et.seq

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Upward Bound (UB) Upward Bound Math Science (UBMS) Annual Performance Report

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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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Pub.L. 105 - 110 402A-C

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Affidavit of Identifying Witness

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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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22 USC 211	View Law

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Overseas Vetting Questionnaire

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The Department of State intends to use the information collected through the proposed Overseas Vetting Questionnaire to conduct personnel vetting investigations for persons under consideration for, or retention in, low risk or public trust positions under Executive Order 13467, as amended and EO 13488, as amended.

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NSPS for Stationary Compression Ignition Internal Combustion Engines (40 CFR Part 60, Subpart IIII) (Proposed Rule)

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The New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for Stationary Compression Ignition Internal Combustion Engines (40 CFR Part 60, Subpart IIII) were proposed on July 11, 2005; promulgated on July 11, 2006; and revised on November 13, 2019, and August 10, 2022. The proposed amendments mainly add electronic reporting provisions to the rule. In general, the changes do not result in regulated entities needing to submit anything additional electronically that is not currently submitted via paper copies, and this is therefore expected to lessen recordkeeping and reporting burden. This supporting statement addresses incremental information collection activities that will be imposed by the amendments to the NSPS for Stationary Compression Ignition Internal Combustion Engines. These regulations apply to manufacturers, owners, and operators of new stationary compression ignition (CI) internal combustion engines (ICE). New facilities include those that either commenced construction, modification, or reconstruction after the date of proposal. For the purposes of this subpart, the date that construction commences is the date the engine is ordered by the owner or operator. This information is being collected to assure compliance with 40 CFR Part 60, Subpart IIII. In general, all NSPS standards require initial notifications, performance tests, and periodic reports by the owners/operators of the affected facilities. They are also required to maintain records of the occurrence and duration of any startup, shutdown, or malfunction in the operation of an affected facility, or any period during which the monitoring system is inoperative. These notifications, reports, and records are essential in determining compliance, and are required of all affected facilities subject to the NSPS.

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42 USC 7401 et seq	View Law

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Benefit Rights and Experience Report

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The data in the ETA 218, Benefit Rights and Experience Report, includes numbers of individuals who were and were not monetarily eligible, those eligible for the maximum benefits, those eligible based on classification by potential duration categories, and those exhausting their full entitlement as classified by actual duration categories. This data is collected as part of the initial claim process. It is transmitted electronically to the National Office on a quarterly basis. This data is used by the National Office in solvency studies, cost estimating and modeling, and to assess State benefit formulas. If this data were not available, cost estimating and modeling would be less accurate.

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42 USC 503(a)(6)	View Law

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Donor Certification Form

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The Department of the Interior and its bureaus (Department or DOI) has various authorities that permit the acceptance of donations or gifts in furtherance of resource conservation projects and other programs. Before accepting a donation, DOI must first evaluate whether or not the circumstances of the donation maintain the integrity of the Department's programs and operations, the impartiality of the Department, and public confidence in the Department. Prior to enacting the Donations Policy, DOI conducted a risk analysis in which $25,000 was determined to be the threshold above which there was a greater risk of possible legal or ethical questions associated with donations. Therefore, for donations valued at $25,000 or more, donors are requested to complete a DI-3680 Donor Certification form (DI-3680 form) to provide information clarifying business and legal interactions with the Department and consistency with the Donations Policy prior to acceptance.

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54 USC 307107	View Law

30 USC 1231b3	View Law

16 USC 3192	View Law

16 USC 3196	View Law

54 USC 200103(i)	View Law

9 Stat. 395

18 USC 201	View Law

16 USC 460/-1h	View Law

16 USC 4601-4608	View Law

25 USC 5341	View Law

25 USC 2006	View Law

43 USC 1701 and 1737c	View Law

43 USC 395	View Law

16 USC 661	View Law

16 USC 3741	View Law

16 USC 3701	View Law

43 USC 36a-c	View Law

43 USC 1473	View Law

54 USC 101101	View Law

54 USC 102503(b)	View Law

54 USC 101111	View Law

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National Survey of the Use of Booster Seats

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The National Survey of the Use of Booster Seats (NSUBS) is a voluntary collection of restraint use information for children under 13. NSUBS is a biennial collection. Data collectors observe restraint use for all passenger vehicle occupants included in the survey and for those vehicles that voluntarily participate, the data collectors conduct a brief interview with the vehicle driver or other knowledgeable adult to determine the age, height, weight, race, and ethnicity of the child occupants and age of the driver. Data collectors do not collect personal identifying information such as names, addresses, phone number of participating vehicle occupants. Data collectors use paper forms to collect information at fast food restaurants, gas stations, day care centers, and recreation centers where vehicles are mostly likely to have child occupants. The contractor supplies an electronic file of the data collected to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The contractor creates replicate weights, derives analytic variables, and adds auxiliary information on state laws. NHTSA uses the NSUBS data to estimate booster seat use among 4- to 7-year-old children. It also estimates restraint use for all children under 13, race and ethnicity breakouts of restraint use among all occupants in a vehicle, and estimates the extent to which children are “prematurely transitioned” from one restraint type to others that are inappropriate for their age as well as height and weight. The survey produces biennial estimates of: • Restraint use by Age Group • Restraint use by Weight Group • Restraint use by Height Group • Restraint use by Office of Management and Budget (OMB) categories for Race/Ethnicity NHTSA also asks the adult drivers their age to analyze the impact of driver age on driver seat belt use and child restraint use. NHTSA will tabulate the survey data, analyze the results, and publish the data in technical reports. NHTSA plans to release the results and the electronic file of the data collected to the public. NHTSA uses the NSUBS information to design outreach programs to help ensure that more of the nation’s children are using restraints that will protect them in motor vehicle crashes. The survey data will allow programs to better reach the caretakers whose children are unrestrained or not using the best restraint choice for their children’s sizes. The findings may also be of interest to State legislatures wanting to strengthen their child restraint laws by enacting mandatory or enhanced booster seat use provisions. The survey was previously approved as OMB Control No. 2127-0644 (current expiration date: 06/30/2022). The new collection will increase the number of respondents from 4,800 drivers to 5,300 drivers based on the average number of drivers interviewed over the last three surveys. This increases the burden hours by 36 hours (from 340 hours to 376 hours). NHTSA continues to estimate that there are no costs associated with the information collection.

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Pub.L. 106 - 414 1-17	View Law

Pub.L. 107 - 318 1-7	View Law

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Business Trends and Outlook Survey

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The Business Trends and Outlook Survey (BTOS) will be a new experimental survey with bi-weekly data collection and publication. This continuous near real time data publication will provide a baseline of the U.S. economy and will measure change as a result of current and future economic shocks. The ongoing nature of the BTOS is in response to stakeholder feedback on the Small Business Pulse Survey (SBPS), which was that economic baseline or ‘norms’ data would have been helpful to have in comparison to the SBPS data on pandemic impact.

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13 USC 131, 182	View Law

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Mandatory Toy Safety Standards: Requirements for Neck Floats

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The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (CPSIA) mandates that ASTM F963 shall be a mandatory toy safety standard. This toy safety standard sets forth only minimal labeling requirements for aquatic toys such as neck floats. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC or Commission) proposes to establish new performance and revised labeling requirements to address potentially deadly hazards associated with neck floats. The Commission is also amending CPSC’s list of notice of requirements (NORs) to include neck floats. This proposed rule contains information collection requirements that are subject to public comment and review by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.

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Pharmacy Billing Requirements

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The National Council for Prescription Drug Programs standardized pharmacy billing data requirements are the electronic billing format used by pharmacies throughout the country to request payment for prescription drugs through data clearinghouses. They identify the provider, claimant, prescribing physician, drug by National Drug Code number, prescription volume and charge. Similar data elements are required to process paper-based pharmacy bills.

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30 USC 901 et seq	View Law

42 USC 7384 et seq	View Law

5 USC 8101 et seq	View Law

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Wildlife Video Data Scoring

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We have developed an online application for project collaborators and volunteers to watch video clips that were collected from caribou collars (animal-borne video collars) and enter data about the behaviors and habitats observed in the clips. Information collected from the videos will be analyzed to describe caribou foraging behavior, how it varies across the summer, and the factors that influence it. This information is being collected as part of a long-term project to understand how climate variability influence caribou forage conditions, behaviors, distributions, and population dynamics. Results of the analyses will be published in peer-reviewed scientific publications that will be available to the public.

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43 USC 31	View Law

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Applications and Reporting Requirements for Incidental Taking of Marine Mammals by Specified Activities Under the Marine Mammal Protection Act.

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This request is for an extension and revision of an existing information collection under OMB Control No. 0648-0151. NMFS does not anticipate that the extension will substantially add to the burden to individual private applicants for incidental take authorizations under the existing Control Number. The main difference we expect related to this extension is that there will be a smaller number of applicants/respondents than accounted for in the existing OMB Control Number. This renewal removes the passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) and protected species observer (PSO) burden estimates. The Office of Protected Resources determined that those activities do not fall under the burden associated with this collection. The Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 (MMPA; 16 U.S.C. 1361 et. seq.) prohibits the “take” of marine mammals unless otherwise authorized or exempted by law. Among the provisions that allow for lawful take of marine mammals, sections 101(a)(5)(A) and (D) of the MMPA direct the Secretary of Commerce to allow, upon request, the incidental, but not intentional, taking of small numbers of marine mammals by U.S. citizens who engage in a specified activity (other than commercial fishing), within a specified geographical region if, after notice and opportunity for public comment, we find that the taking will have a negligible impact on the affected species or stock(s) and will not have an immitigable adverse impact on the availability of the species or stock(s) for subsistence uses (where relevant). NMFS also must set forth the permissible methods of taking; other means of effecting the least practicable adverse impact on the species or stock and its habitat (mitigation); and requirements pertaining to the monitoring and reporting of such taking. Issuance of an incidental take authorization (Authorization) under MMPA section 101(a)(5)(A) (through issuance of a Letter of Authorization (LOA) following issuance of incidental take regulations) or 101(a)(5)(D) (through issuance of an Incidental Harassment Authorization (IHA)) requires three sets of information collection: (1) a complete application for an Authorization, as set forth in NMFS’ implementing regulations at 50 CFR 216.104, which provides the information necessary to make the required statutory determinations, including estimates of take and an assessment of impacts on the affected species and stocks; (2) information relating to required monitoring; and (3) information related to required reporting. As required by the MMPA, these collections of information enable NMFS to: (1) prospectively evaluate the proposed activity’s impact on marine mammals; (2) arrive at the appropriate determinations required by the MMPA and other applicable laws prior to issuing the Authorization; and (3) monitor impacts of activities for which Authorizations have been issued to determine if predictions regarding impacts on marine mammals remain valid.

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16 USC 1531 et seq	View Law

16 USC 1361	View Law

42 USC 4321 et seq	View Law

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