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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) requests to revise the currently approved AHRQ Safety Program for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Prevention. The AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention’s purpose is to reduce the incidence and prevalence of infections caused by MRSA in a variety of settings. The revision for the AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention includes the following modifications: 1. ICU/Non-ICU cohort: The optional point prevalence data will be collected at baseline (pre-intervention) and every six months throughout the 18-month implementation period rather than only at baseline. 2. Surgical Services cohort: After a discussion with the program’s Technical Expert Panel (TEP), it was decided to collect surgical site infection (SSI) outcome data on a different subset of surgical procedures performed within the cardiac surgery, orthopedic surgery, and neurosurgery specialty areas. 3. Long-Term Care (LTC) cohort: The LTC cohort will now also submit the Minimum Data Set (MDS) 3.0 M Skin Conditions data elements.

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This is an ongoing activity of AHRQ’s Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) Program. AHRQ’s EPC Program develops evidence reports and technology assessments on topics relevant to clinical and other health care organization and delivery issues—specifically those that are common, expensive, and/or significant for the Medicare and Medicaid populations. For example, recent reviews have focused on clinical conditions, such as “Radiation Therapy for Brain Metastases” ; health delivery topics, such as “Transitions of Care From Pediatric to Adult Services for Children With Special Healthcare Needs” ; and specific technologies, such as “Telehealth for Women’s Preventive Services.” These evidence reports include systematic reviews, technical briefs, and rapid reviews; and provide an essential foundation from which to understand what we know from existing research and what critical research gaps remain. These reports, reviews, and technology assessments are based on rigorous, comprehensive syntheses and analyses of the scientific literature on topics. EPC reports and assessments emphasize explicit and detailed documentation of methods, rationale, and assumptions. EPC reports are conducted in accordance with an established policy on financial and nonfinancial interests. These scientific syntheses may include meta-analyses and cost analyses. The EPC Program supports AHRQ’s mission by synthesizing and disseminating the available research as a “science partner” with private and public organizations in their efforts to improve the quality, effectiveness, and appropriateness of health care. The EPC Program is a trusted source of rigorous, comprehensive, and unbiased evidence reviews for stakeholders. The resulting evidence reports and technology assessments are used by Federal and State agencies, private-sector professional societies, health delivery systems, providers, payers, and others committed to evidence-based health care. These end-users may use EPC Program evidence reports to inform policy decisions, clinical practice guidelines, and other healthcare decisions. This research has the following goals: o Use research methods to gather knowledge on the effectiveness and harms of certain treatments and healthcare delivery processes and models for medical conditions, both published and unpublished, to evaluate the quality of research studies and the evidence from these studies. o Promote the use of evidence in healthcare decision making to improve healthcare and health. o Identify research gaps to inform future research investments.

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The Federal Credit Union Act (at 12 U.S.C. 1761b(2)) requires that the boards of federal credit unions (FCU) arrange for adequate fidelity coverage for officers and employees having custody of or responsibility for handling funds. The regulation contains a number of reporting requirements where a credit union seeks to exercise flexibility under the regulations. These requirements enable NCUA to monitor the FCU’s financial condition for safety and soundness purposes and helps to assure that FCUs are properly and adequately protected against potential losses due to insider abuse such as fraud and embezzlement.

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The Secretary establishes regulations for Federal Pell Grants (Pell Grants or Pell) for Prison Education Programs (PEPs), to implement the new statutory requirements in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, that amend the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (HEA), to establish Pell Grant eligibility for a confined or incarcerated individual enrolled in a PEP. These final regulations are a result of negotiated rulemaking and will add new title IV regulations to especially in Subpart P of 34 CFR Section 668. The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 added section 484(t) to the HEA to formally establish Pell Grant eligibility for confined or incarcerated individuals, as long as they are enrolled in a PEP as defined under the HEA. The final regulations implement the statutory requirements allowing access to Federal Pell Grants for individuals who are confined or incarcerated when enrolled in programs that meet necessary standards. This collection establishes new burden under regulations at 34 CFR 668.237 - Accreditation requirements. These final regulations prescribe program evaluation at the first two additional Prison Education Program (PEP) locations of a participating institution of higher education to ensure institutional ability to offer and implement the PEP in accordance with the accrediting agency’s standards. The final regulations require the accrediting agency to conduct a site visit no later than one year after the institution has initiated a PEP at its first two additional locations at correctional facilities. Additionally, the final regulations require accrediting agencies to review the methodology used by an institution in determining the PEP meets the same standards for substantially similar non-PEP programs offered at the institution.

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The goal of this generic information collection request is to enable CDC/NIOSH to support the effective use of respiratory protection by providing information that may be used to improve the design and implementation of employer-administered programs. Using the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) respiratory protection program (RPP) requirements as the foundational framework, this research will assess current perceptions in respirator use as well as gaps in respirator use, maintenance, and implementation. Data collection efforts will seek to 1) determine the perceived knowledge, skills, and uses of respirators among those who wear a respirator as a part of their job and/or those who oversee respirator use, and 2) identify patterns in RPPs and other health and safety programs such as practices and directives that are included or missing to inform new content for improved respirator training, management, and effective, trusted use.

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The Department of Education amends the Student Assistance General Provisions regulations to implement changes to § 668.28 – Non-Federal revenue (90/10). These final changes are based on requirements of the American Rescue Plan of 2021 which amended Section 487 of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended, (HEA). These final regulations are a result of negotiated rulemaking in 2021 and will add new requirements to the current regulations. The final regulations will amend the heading of §668.28 and references throughout the section to change “non-title IV revenue” to “non-Federal funds”. The final regulations amend §668.28(a)(2) to create a disbursement rule that outlines how proprietary institutions calculate the percentage of their revenue that is Federal revenue and creates an end-of-fiscal-year deadline for proprietary institutions to request and disburse title IV funds to students. The final regulations also modify §668.28(c)(3) with the steps that proprietary institutions must take if they fail to derive at least 10 percent of their revenue from allowable non-Federal sources by requiring them to notify students of the failure and the students’ potential loss of title IV aid at that proprietary institution.

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The Consumer Product Safety Commission needs the reports of qualification testing to assure that lighters subject to the safety standard comply with the child resistance levels established in the standard. The ongoing production and quality control records required by the standard are used to ensure that production lighters continue to be made to the same manufacturing specifications as the lighters that passed the child-panel qualifications test and are used by the manufacturer or importer to issue its batch by batch certificate of compliance pursuant to section 14(a) of the CPSA.

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The purpose of the 2020 Post-Census Group Quarters Review (2020 PCGQR) is to provide a mechanism for governmental units (GUs) to request a review of their official 2020 Census results, specifically those for the population in group quarters (GQs). Tribal chairpersons and the highest elected officials (or their representative) from state and local governments in the United States and Puerto Rico can submit a 2020 PCGQR case to request review of the official 2020 Census counts of group quarters population counts. The U.S. Census Bureau will review requests from the highest elected or appointed officials of tribal, state, and local governmental units for corrections to their 2020 Census count. The Census Bureau terms these requests for review a “case.” The Census Bureau will conduct 2020 PCGQR case research by examining the 2020 Census records for the 2020 tabulation block(s) identified in the 2020 PCGQR case. All population counts are current as of April 1, 2020. Revised GQ population counts will be provided to the Census Bureau’s Population Estimates Program where they will be included in the baseline data used to produce upcoming annual population estimates. Corresponding changes to demographic characteristics will be incorporated into subsequent rounds of estimates. The estimates developed from the updated population base will also be used by the American Community Survey (ACS) and the Puerto Rico Community Survey (PRCS). No new 2020 Census information products will be created by the 2020 PCGQR. This includes no revisions to 2020 Census information products such as the counts delivered to the President for apportionment or the 2020 Census Public Law 94-171 Redistricting Data Files and Geographic Products.

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Information is necessary to determine eligibility of medical devices for establishment of additional device categories for payment under transitional pass-through payment provisions as required by section 1833(t)(6) of the Social Security Act.

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This information collection concerns the documentation submitted by State agencies requesting FNS authorization to operate disaster supplemental nutrition assistance programs (DSNAP) for victims of disaster; once these DSNAP State agencies are up and running they can request to expand and modify to increase their parameters to operate in other area declared a disaster. 83, Number 169, Page 44258

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The Department of Labor (Department), Employment and Training Administration (ETA) is submitting this Information Collection Request (ICR) to implement and collect an annual Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessment (RESEA) state plan as described in Section 306(e) of the Social Security Act (SSA). On February 9, 2018, the President signed the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, Public Law 115-123 (BBA), which included amendments to the SSA that create a permanent authorization for the RESEA program. Section 306 of the SSA introduced several new program requirements including the requirement that states must submit an annual state plan to be considered eligible for funding. To be considered eligible for RESEA funding for a Fiscal Year, a state must submit a state plan that outlines how the state intends to conduct a program of reemployment services and eligibility assessments by responding to all the required elements identified in Section 306(e) of the SSA and this ICR.

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An October 1997 Report and Order in ET Docket No. 96-2 established a Coordination Zone that covers the Islands of Puerto Rico, Desecheo, Mona, Vieques, and Culebra within the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. The Coordination Zone and notifications procedures enable the Arecibo Radio Astronomy Observatory (Observatory) to receive information needed to assess whether a radio service applicant's proposed operations will cause harmful interference to the Observatory's operations, and promote efficient resolution of problems through coordination between radio service applicants and the Observatory.

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Pursuant to section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA, in the first FR notice (87 FR 11425) published on March 1, 2022, EPA solicited comments and information pertaining to the distribution of offsite consequence analysis information under the accidental release prevention requirements; Risk Management Programs under the Clean Air Act Section 112(r)(7). The regulations include requirements for submittal of a Risk Management Plan (RMP) to EPA, which includes information on offsite consequence analysis (OCA) as well as other elements of the Risk Management Program. The Chemical Safety Information, Site Security, and Fuels Regulatory Relief Act (CSISSFRRA), published on August 4, 2000 (65 FR 48108), required the President, who delegated to EPA and the Department of Justice (DOJ), the responsibility to promulgate regulations on the distribution of OCA information, imposed minimal information and recordkeeping requirements. In accordance with the final rule, the Federal Government established 55 reading rooms at Federal facilities geographically distributed across the United States and its territories, where the public may read, but not mechanically copy or remove, paper copies of OCA information for up to 10 stationary sources per calendar month. The public may also obtain OCA information that the Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC) in whose jurisdiction the requestor lives or works, is authorized to provide. The final rule also authorizes and encourages State and local government officials to access OCA information for their official use, and to provide the public with read-only access to OCA sections of RMPs for sources located within the jurisdiction of the LEPC where the person lives or works and for any other stationary sources with vulnerability zones extending into the LEPCs jurisdiction. EPA also established a Vulnerable Zone Indicator System (VZIS) which informs any person located in any state whether an address specified by that person might be within the vulnerable zone of one or more stationary sources, according to the data reported in RMPs. The VZIS is available on the internet. Members of the public who do not have access to the internet are able to obtain the same information by regular mail request to the EPA. An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. The OMB control numbers for EPAs regulations in 40 CFR are listed in 40 CFR part 9.

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After the National Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony in early December, the holiday festivities in President’s Park, a unit of the National Park Service, continue with the National Christmas Tree Music Program. This holiday themed event welcomes performance groups from schools, choirs, and dance studios who contribute their talents and enrich the already memorable experience for park visitors. While the majority of groups are local, we often have groups from across the country and even as far away as Australia perform. For many groups this experience is a significant aspect of their holiday tradition as friends and family come to support and enjoy President’s Park. To ensure that all groups have a fair opportunity to perform, we collect applications and select groups at random based on their preferred performance dates.

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The National Land Remote Sensing Education, Outreach and Research Activity (NLRSEORA) promotes the uses of space-based land remote sensing data and technologies through education and outreach at the State and local level and through university based and collaborative research projects. Nonprofit organizations, Public and Private colleges and universities may apply for financial support by completing forms SF 424, SF 424a and SF 424b (the paperwork burden for these forms have been previously approved). After acceptance, progress reports covering each year's activities and one final report at the end of the grant period must be submitted as described in the award terms and conditions.

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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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Section 103(a) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), as amended, requires the person in charge of a facility or vessel to immediately notify the National Response Center (NRC) of a hazardous substance release into the environment if the amount of the release equals or exceeds the substances reportable quantity (RQ) limit. The RQs for the hazardous substance can be found in Table 302.4 of 40 CFR 302.4. Section 311 of the Clean Water Act (CWA) as amended, requires the person in charge of a vessel to immediately notify the NRC of an oil spill into U.S. navigable waters if the spill causes a sheen, violates applicable water quality standards, or causes a sludge or emulsion to be deposited beneath the surface of the water or upon adjoining shorelines. The reporting of a hazardous substance release that is at or above the substances RQ allows the federal government to determine whether a federal response action is required to control or mitigate any potential adverse effects to public health or welfare or the environment. Likewise, the reporting of oil spills allows the federal government to determine whether cleaning up the oil spill is required to mitigate or prevent damage to public health or welfare or the environment. The hazardous substance and oil release information collected under CERCLA section 103(a) and CWA section 311 also is available to EPA program offices and other federal agencies that use the information to evaluate the potential need for additional regulations, new permitting requirements for specific substances or sources, or improved emergency response planning. Release notification information is stored in EPAs Web EOC, a web-based crisis management system which supports response management for significant incidents and daily operations in the Regional Response Centers and EPAs Headquarters Emergency Operations Center. State and local government authorities and the regulated community use release information for purposes of local emergency response planning. The public has access to release information through the Freedom of Information Act. The public may request release information for purposes of maintaining an awareness of what types of releases are occurring in different localities and what actions, if any, are being taken to protect public health and welfare and the environment.

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The ABIP is a series of agreements between the FCC's Enforcement Bureau and a private entity, usually a state broadcast association, whereby the private entity agrees to facilitate inspections of participating broadcast stations to determine compliance with FCC Rules. Broadcast stations participate in ABIP on a voluntary basis. The private entities notify their local FCC office in writing of those stations that pass the ABIP inspection, and the FCC uses this information to determine which broadcast stations have been certified in compliance with FCC Rules and will not be subject to certain random FCC inspections.

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This information collection is necessary to allow practitioner enter a limited appearance for document assistance before the Board of Immigration Appeals or the Immigration Court, to assist a pro se noncitizen respondent in proceedings before EOIR with a legal filing or other document. Pursuant to the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Professional Conduct for Practitioners—Rules and Procedures, and Representation and Appearances, 85 FR 61640 (Sept. 30, 2020), the agency indicated that it intended to revise several currently approved information collections to allow for the entry of a limited appearance. However, after further consideration, the agency has determined that a separate stand-alone form for the entry of a limited appearance before each adjudicatory component would be the most appropriate method for the collection of this information. The separate forms EOIR–60 and EOIR–61 are intended to provide greater clarity to the practitioners using the forms, the pro se respondents engaging with the practitioners in a limited capacity, and for the EOIR staff processing the forms.