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The Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) provides that those on active-duty military service are entitled to have an interest rate in excess of 6% be capped at 6% for the duration of their qualifying military service. The Department is requesting an extension of the currently approved information collection. These Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) Program and Direct Loan Program regulations have not changed. The regulations require a loan holder to match its database against the Department of Defense's Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) and automatically apply the interest rate limitation, as appropriate, to borrowers under the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act. The form in this collection would only be used in limited cases where the borrower is not found in the Defense Manpower Data Center, or does not have a copy of military orders, but still wishes to receive benefits under the SCRA.

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The Office of Intramural Training & Education (OITE) administers a variety of programs and initiatives to recruit pre-college through post-doctoral educational level individuals into the National Institutes of Health Intramural Research Program (NIH-IRP) to facilitate their development into future biomedical scientists and to track the placement of former trainees after completion of their training program. Selection of participants in the NIH Intramural Research Program for a series of online collection forms for prospective and current trainees. The collection forms are either open year-round or have specific time periods for submissions. The OITE advertises the collection periods within the website https://www.training.nih.gov. This revision is designed to address collection changes related to a new application software, government requirement for electronic collections, surveys designed to assess the composition of the NIH trainee community, and survey to obtain details about research group conflicts.

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This information collection is needed to evaluate the adequacy of reception facilities prior to issuance of a Certificate of Adequacy. Information for the advance notice ensures effective management of reception facilities and reduces the burden to facilities and ships. Respondents are reception facilities and vessels. The statutory authority is 33 U.S. Code 1903 and 1905.

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This request is for an extension without revision of the Atlantic Highly Migratory Species (HMS) electronic monitoring (EM) and vessel monitoring system (VMS) information collection. The burden and cost estimates have been updated to reflect minor changes in the number of permit holders, and hourly labor costs from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. EM and VMS provide essential data to monitor vessel-based bluefin tuna quotas, while VMS also provides location data needed to enforce fishery closed areas. The legislative authorities to collect data from the various sectors of the economy that harvest marine resources in the exclusive economic zone are the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act) and the Atlantic Tunas Convention Act (ATCA). Under this dual authority, the Secretary of Commerce has promulgated rules that require specific types of record keeping and data submissions. HMS are species that travel long distances and often cross domestic and international boundaries. NOAA Fisheries manages HMS fisheries—tunas, sharks, swordfish, and billfish—in U.S. Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of America, and Caribbean waters.

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This information collection request relates to two prohibited transaction class exemptions (PTEs) that the Department has granted, both of which involve settlement agreements. These two exemptions are described below. PTE 94-71 exempts from certain restrictions of ERISA and certain taxes imposed by the Code, a transaction or activity that is authorized, prior to the execution of the transaction or activity, by a settlement agreement, to which the Department is a party, resulting from an investigation of an employee benefit plan conducted by the Department. The following information collections are among the conditions for the exemption: (1) A party engaging in a settlement agreement arising out of a Department investigation must provide written notice to the affected participants and beneficiaries of the plan at least 30 days prior to entry into the settlement agreement. The notice must contain an objective description of the transaction or activity, the approximate date on which the transaction will occur, the address of the regional or district office of the Department that negotiated the settlement agreement, and a statement informing participants and beneficiaries of their right to forward their comments to such office. (2) A copy of the notice and a description of the method by which it will be distributed must be approved in advance by the regional or district office of the Department which negotiated the settlement. PTE 2003-39 exempts from certain restrictions of ERISA and certain taxes imposed by the Code, transactions arising out of the settlement of litigation that involve: the release by the plan or a plan fiduciary of legal claims against parties in interest in exchange for payment given by or on behalf of the party in interest to the plan; an extension of credit by a plan to a party interest in connection with a settlement; and the plan's acquisition, holding, and disposition of employer securities received in settlement of litigation. The relief is granted provided certain conditions are met, such as the requirement of an independent fiduciary who has no relationship to, or interest in, any parties in the litigation to authorize the settlement and the settlement terms of the agreement and any extension of credit are reasonable and no less favorable than comparable arm's length agreement. The other conditions include the following information collections: (1) The terms of the settlement must be specifically described in a written agreement or consent decree. (2) The fiduciary acting on behalf of the plan must acknowledge in writing that the person is a fiduciary with respect to the settlement of the litigation. (3) The plan fiduciary must maintain records of the transaction for six years and must disclose the records on request to the Department and other interested persons.

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The instrument will be used to allow individuals to become CVI Authorized Users and access historical records generated under the CFATS program. Prior to the lapse in CFATS authority, completion of the application to obtain CVI Authorized User status required an individual to check several CVI affirmation statements, complete a web- based CVI authorized user application, and provide responses to several identity verification questions. Upon completion of the application, the system assigned a unique CVI Authorization Number to the individual and transmitted that number to the individual. CISA maintains a record of those individuals who have completed the training and received a CVI Authorized User Number.

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The Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 (“VAWA”) protects qualified tenants, participants, applicants, and affiliated individuals in all HUD-covered housing programs, who are victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking. On November 16, 2016, HUD published a final rule (VAWA Rule) at 81 FR 80724, implementing VAWA’s provisions in its housing programs. The VAWA Rule includes the following Appendices, which entail certain reporting and recordkeeping burdens: (A) Notice of Occupancy Rights Under the Violence Against Women Act; (B) Model Emergency Transfer Plan for Victims of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, or Stalking; (C) Certification of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, or Stalking, and Alternate Documentation; and (D) Emergency Transfer Request for Certain Victims of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, or Stalking. Under the VAWA Rule, PHAs, owners, and managers (collectively “Covered Housing Providers” or “CHPs”) Under the VAWA Rule, each CHP must make use of Appendix A and Appendix C, by providing copies of the Notice of Occupancy Rights and the Certification form. Each CHP presented with a claim for continued or initial tenancy or assistance, based on the victim’s status as a victim of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, may request that the victim document or provide written evidence to demonstrate that the violence occurred, and Certification form is one such way of documenting the violence. Each CHP must also establish an emergency transfer plan, although it need not be modeled on Appendix B. CHPs’ use of an Emergency Transfer Request form, like the model in Appendix D, is also discretionary. CHPs must track and report annually to HUD if they have any Emergency Transfer Requests and outcomes. Finally, under the VAWA Rule, CHPs may opt to provide a lease bifurcation to VAWA-covered individuals.

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The Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (HEA), established the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) Program under Title IV, Part B. Section 493C [20 U.S.C. 1098e] of the HEA authorizes income-based repayment for Part B borrowers who have a partial financial hardship. The regulations in 34 CFR 682.215(e)(2) require notifications to borrowers from the loan holders once a borrower establishes a partial financial hardship and is placed in an income-based repayment (IBR) plan by the loan holder. The regulations identify information the loan holder must provide to the borrower to continue to participate in an IBR plan. This is a request for extension without change of the current information collection 1845-0114.

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Currently, for pipelines, it takes days for a batch of crude oil to cross the United States border from Canada and eventually travel to the entry point within the United States, leaving no easily identifiable starting point for monitoring timely entry and entry summary filings. Moreover, Canadian crude oil is actively traded as a commodity while in transit though the North American pipeline network, so ownership (and thus the right to make entry) may not be known to CBP until after the commodity crosses the U.S. border. Further, the need for confidentiality of transactional data among private parties, means there are limitations on CBP’s, and the trade’s, visibility into product origin traceability through the supply chain to establish Free Trade Agreement (FTA) eligibility. The current absence of a technology capable of tracking changes in ownership and destination of pipeline-borne goods, from wellhead to refinery, has resulted in CBP creating a patchwork of local policies for data collection from carriers and importers over the course of five decades. Under the auspices of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate’s (S&T) Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP), with the endorsement of the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC), and at the suggestion of the COAC's Pipeline Working Group (PWG), industry and CBP Subject Matter Experts conducted three and a half years of joint development with a cohort of SVIP software companies. They determined that entry summary data derived from private party transactions using a common platform of emergent technologies, which passes this data to CBP using the same platform, represents a viable means of regulating continuous flow commodities on a pipeline network. The new platform will consist of decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) and verifiable credentials (VCs), secured, exchanged and rendered to CBP’s Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) in accordance with Global Interoperability Standards (GIS). In CBP’s first operational use of GIS data, an SVIP cohort company will identify legitimate products and associated companies to build a transparent supply chain for pipeline-borne crude oil imported from Canada. This will enable recordation of bi-lateral transaction data at each step in a supply chain, secure it from disclosure to unauthorized parties, allow dynamic updates of ownership and destination information, and render these data to CBP in real time while creating an immutable chain of custody from wellhead to refinery. In addition to potentially eliminating all port level paper processes, adoption of these technologies could create a revolutionary automation environment in which pre-arrival data collection, in-bond tracking, and Free Trade Agreement compliance traceability – the business process goals of the PWG – are achieved as a matter of course. Therefore, the purpose of the requested pilot is to test the usefulness of supplying GIS data to ACE technology with a view toward resolving existing and anticipated issues, and by eventually, if the pilot is successful, changing existing policy and regulations to implement the new policies and regulations. This collection of information is authorized by 19 USC 1411 National Customs Automation Program.

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Title 38 U.S.C. Chapter 17 authorizes VA to provide hospital care, medical services, domiciliary care, and nursing home care to eligible Veterans. Title 38 U.S.C. § 1705 requires VA to design, establish, and operate a system of annual patient enrollment in accordance with a series of stipulated priorities. A consequence of this is that many groups of Veterans who are in a lower priority group (WWI Veterans, Veterans with disabilities rated as 0% service-connected seeking treatment for other than their service-connected conditions, Veterans exposed to a toxic substance, radiation, or environmental hazard and nonservice-connected Veterans) may request that they be allowed to be income tested in order to gain a higher priority. Title 38 U.S.C. § 1722 establishes eligibility assessment procedures for cost-free VA medical care, based on income levels, which will determine whether nonservice-connected and 0% service-connected non-compensable Veterans are able to defray the necessary expenses of care for nonservice-connected conditions. Title 38 U.S.C. § 1722A establishes the eligibility assessment procedures, based on income levels, for determining Veterans’ eligibility for cost-free medications. Title 38 U.S.C. § 1710B defines the procedures for establishing eligibility for cost-free Extended Care benefits. Title 38 U.S.C § 1729 authorizes VA to recover from Veterans’ health insurance carriers the cost of care furnished for their nonservice-connected conditions. VA Form 10-10EC, Application for Extended Care Services, is used to collect financial information necessary to determine a Veteran’s copayment obligation for extended care services, also known as long term care (LTC). The 10-10EC design and formatting have been revised to clarify the instructions and make it easier to understand and complete the form. However, there are no changes to the anticipated annual number of responses or burden hours for this information collection.

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The FR 2510 collects granular exposure data on the assets, liabilities, and off-balance sheet holdings of certain large banking organizations, providing breakdowns by country, instrument, currency, maturity, sector, and other factors, and also collects country exposure data on an immediate counterparty basis and detailed information on firms’ derivatives exposures. The respondent panel consists of bank holding companies (BHCs) headquartered in the United States that are global systemically important BHCs (U.S. G-SIBs) under the Board’s Regulation Q - Capital Adequacy of Bank Holding Companies, Savings and Loan Holding Companies, and State Member Banks (12 CFR Part 217). The information collected by the FR 2510 supports the Board’s supervision of U.S. G-SIBs by allowing for a more complete balance sheet analysis of these firms and allows the Board to more closely monitor the systemic impacts of such firms’ activities and investments.

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The FR 2510 collects granular exposure data on the assets, liabilities, and off-balance sheet holdings of certain large banking organizations, providing breakdowns by country, instrument, currency, maturity, sector, and other factors, and also collects country exposure data on an immediate counterparty basis and detailed information on firms’ derivatives exposures. The respondent panel consists of bank holding companies (BHCs) headquartered in the United States that are global systemically important BHCs (U.S. G-SIBs) under the Board’s Regulation Q - Capital Adequacy of Bank Holding Companies, Savings and Loan Holding Companies, and State Member Banks (12 CFR Part 217). The information collected by the FR 2510 supports the Board’s supervision of U.S. G-SIBs by allowing for a more complete balance sheet analysis of these firms and allows the Board to more closely monitor the systemic impacts of such firms’ activities and investments.

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In accordance with Title 46 CFR Parts 10, 11, 12, 13, and 16, the collection of this information is necessary to determine competency, character & physical qualifications for the issuance of a Merchant Mariner Credential (MMC) or Medical Certificate.

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The FR 3033p is the first part of a two-stage survey series, which is a census survey designed to identify the universe of finance companies eligible for potential inclusion in the FR 3033s. It gathers limited information including total assets, areas of specialization, and information on the corporate structure of such companies. The second part of this information collection, the FR 3033s, collects balance sheet data on major categories of consumer and business credit receivables and major liabilities, along with income and expenses, and is used to gather information on the scope of a company’s operations and loan and lease servicing activities. The data collected from this voluntary survey will be used for two purposes: to benchmark the consumer and business finance series collected on the Board’s monthly Domestic Finance Company Report of Consolidated Assets and Liabilities (FR 2248; OMB No. 7100-0005) and to increase the Federal Reserve’s understanding of an important part of the financial system.

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The Department of Education (the Department) is requesting an extension without change of the current record keeping information collection. There has been no change in either the statute as provided by the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (HEA) or in the regulations. The regulations identify the requirements under which an institution must readmit servicemembers with the same academic status they held at the institution when they last attended (or were accepted for attendance). The regulations require institutions to charge readmitted servicemembers, for the first academic year of their return, the same institutional charges they were charged for the academic year during which they left the institution (see section 484C of the HEA).

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This request is for a revision. There are no changes to the proposed types or the uses of the information collected through Generic Information Collections (GenICs) submitted under the Generic Clearance for the Collection of Qualitative Feedback on Agency Service Delivery (0970-0401). Burden estimates have been updated to reflect the Administration for Children and Families’ (ACF’s) use of this generic mechanism since the most recent approval in 2021 and anticipated use over the next three years.

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VA Form 26-8937 is used by lenders authorized to close VA-guaranteed loans on the automatic basis pursuant to 38 U.S.C. 3702(d) for submission to VA prior to loan closing as a means of obtaining information on any existing benefit-related indebtedness of veteran home loan applicant.

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SSA uses the SSA-795 to obtain information from claimants or other persons having knowledge of facts in connection with claims for Social Security benefits or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments when there is no standard form to collect the needed information. SSA then uses the information to process claims for benefits or for ongoing issues related to the above programs. The respondents are applicants and recipients, or others having knowledge of facts in connection with claims for Social Security or SSI.

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Title II of the Social Security Act provides retirement, survivors, and disability benefits to members of the public who meet the required eligibility criteria and file the appropriate application. This collection comprises the various application methods for the retirement, survivors, and disability benefits. These methods include the following modalities: paper forms (Forms SSA–1, SSA–2, and SSA–16), Modernized Claims System (MCS) screens for in-person interview applications, as well as the Internet-based iClaim and iAppointment applications allowing the public to apply electronically. SSA uses the information collected using these modalities to determine: (1) the applicants' eligibility for the above-mentioned Social Security benefits, and (2) the amount of the benefits. The respondents are applicants for retirement, survivors, and disability benefits under Title II of the Act, their representatives, and in some instances, applicants for SSI payments or their representatives who are requesting to file for SSI through iClaim.

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The Bureau of Transportation Statistics collects financial data from commuter and small certificated air carriers to enable the Department of Transportation (DOT) to monitor the state of this important segment of the airline industry. Responding to this collection is mandatory on a quarterly basis. Both commuter and small certificated carriers are required to report to the F1 Report of Financial Data which includes operating revenues and expenses. The small certificated carriers are also required to submit the F2 Report of Aircraft Operating Expenses and Related Statistics. The data collection provides the DOT with initial and ongoing air carrier fitness, the monitoring of industry fuel consumption for emergency preparedness planning, the gross domestic product by industry, and the setting of intra-Alaska bush mail rates for the United States Postal Service.