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The three prohibited transaction class exemptions (PTEs) included in this ICR, (1) PTE 76-1, (2) PTE 77-10, and (3) PTE 78-6, exempt certain types of transactions commonly entered into by “multiemployer” plans from certain of the prohibitions contained in sections 406 and 407(a) of ERISA. The Department determined that, in the absence of these exemptions, the affected plans would not be able to operate efficiently or to enter into routine types of transactions necessary for their operations. In order to ensure that the class exemptions for these necessary transactions meet the statutory standards, the Department imposed conditions contained in the exemptions that are information collections. The information collections consist of recordkeeping and third-party disclosures.

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BJS is submitting a nonsubstantive change request to increase the number of total respondents from 30,000 to 60,000. The approved supporting statement (part A) outlines proposed projects anticipated under the generic clearance. The largest project proposed under our victimization statistics project area was not accounted for in the total responses. This work includes but is not limited to testing survey items on various types of cybercrime through web panel screening of respondents, cognitive testing, and usability testing. The total burden hours remain the same. Request for a 3-year renewal to a generic clearance for the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) that will allow it to develop, test, and improve its survey and data collection instruments and methodologies. The procedures utilized to this effect include, but are not limited to, tests of various types of survey and data collection operations, focus groups, cognitive interview activities, pilot testing, field testing, exploratory interviews, experiments with questionnaire design, and usability testing of electronic data collection instruments.

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The Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) Online Reporting Tool (CORT) instruments will be used to monitor CSAP discretionary grant programs through administration of a suite of data collection instruments for grant compliance and programmatic performance monitoring. This request for data collection will replace OMB No. 0930-0354: Division of State Programs – Management Reporting Tool. Data collected through the CORT will provide critical information to SAMHSA’s Government Project Officers related to grant oversight, including barriers and facilitators that the grantees have experienced, and an understanding of the technical assistance needed to help grantees implement their programs. The information also provides a mechanism to ensure grantees are meeting the requirements of the grant funding announcement as outlined in their notice of grant award. In addition, the tool reflects CSAP’s desire to elicit pertinent program level data that can be used not only to guide future programs and practices, but also to respond to stakeholder, congressional and agency inquiries

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Institutions participating in the Revolving Loan Programs will be collecting additional gender information from their applicants for the Annual Operating Report (AOR). Beginning with the reporting period of 7/1/2023- 6/30/2024, and all future reporting periods, schools must collect additional gender information from their applicants who participate in the HPSL, LDS, PCL, and NSL revolving loan programs. This change is required under Executive Order 14075 – Executive Order on Advancing Quality for Lesbian Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex individuals. Additionally, specifications for submission of the deferment form are being updated.

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The mission of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is to provide high quality medical and dental care to eligible Veterans. Executive Order 12862, dated September 11, 1993, calls for the establishment and implementation of customer service standards, and for agencies to “survey customers to determine the kind and quality of services they want and their level of satisfaction with current services.” The overall purpose of the VHA Office of Dentistry Dental Patient Satisfaction Survey is to systematically obtain information from patients that can be used to identify problems or complaints that need attention and to improve the quality of dental health care services delivered to Veterans. The Office of Dentistry (OOD) currently tracks a number of clinical parameters indicative of quality care (e.g., appropriate use of fluoride products in high caries risk patients, frequency of dental examinations and care provided to medically compelling patients); however, patient satisfaction with this care is not specifically measured. Information obtained from this dental survey will be made readily available to VA Central Office (VACO), Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN), VHA field staff, and stakeholders as part of the Network Performance Report and via the VA Intranet. This data will be used to demonstrate that VA is providing timely, high quality health care services to patients and to measure improvement toward performance goals. The VHA program office has now included an electronic version of the survey, which is ready to be implemented as an online option for collecting survey responses. Also, changes were made to some survey questions, including updates to the Race & Ethnicity options to reflect current collection requirements.

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The FDIC will use the Visitor Notification form to collect biographical, passport (for foreign nationals), and employment information from certain visitors to the FDIC in order to assess the risk to FDIC facilities and personnel. The FDIC will require certain visitors to FDIC facilities, including support staff and interpreters, to complete and submit the form.

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To regulate interstate and foreign commerce in distilled spirits, wine, and malt beverages, the Federal Alcohol Administration Act (FAA Act; 27 U.S.C. 201 et seq.) requires certain alcohol beverage industry members to obtain a permit from the Secretary of the Treasury, and it prohibits unfair trade practices, deceptive advertising and labeling of alcohol beverages, and interlocking directorates. Under the FAA Act at 27 U.S.C. 207, violations of the Act are subject to civil and criminal penalties, but the Secretary is authorized to accept monetary compromise for such alleged violations. Under that authority, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) regulations allow a proponent or their agent to submit a monetary offer in compromise to resolve alleged FAA Act violations using form TTB F 5640.2. The form identifies the proponent, the alleged FAA Act violation(s), the amount of the compromise offer, and the reason(s) why TTB should accept the offer. TTB uses the collected information to evaluate the adequacy of the compromise offer in relation to the alleged violation(s) of the FAA Act and to determine if it should accept the offer or pursue civil penalties or criminal prosecution against the alleged violator.

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OSHA's On-Site Consultation Service offers free and confidential advice to small and medium-sized businesses in all states across the country, with priority given to high-hazard worksites. Consultation services are totally separate from enforcement and do not result in penalties or citations. The Consultation Program regulations specify services to be provided, and practices and procedures to be followed by the State On-site Consultation Programs. Information collection requirements set forth in the On-site Consultation Program regulations are in two categories: State Responsibilities and Employer Responsibilities. OSHA is proposing to revise the approved Occupational Safety and Health On-Site Consultation Agreements (29 CFR Part 1908), OMB Control Number 1218-0110, paperwork package to include the approved Process Safety Management On-Site Consultation Agreements (29 CFR 1908), OMB Control Number 1218-0281.

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The Government Securities Act of 1986 requires all financial institutions acting as government securities brokers and dealers to notify their federal regulatory agencies of their broker-dealer activities, unless exempted from the notice requirement by Treasury Department regulation.

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The Internal Revenue Code (IRC), at 26 U.S.C. 5111–5114, authorizes drawback (refund) of excise tax paid on distilled spirits that are subsequently used in the manufacture medicines, medicinal preparations, food products, flavors, flavoring extracts, or perfume that are unfit for beverage purposes, and it authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to prescribe regulations to ensure that drawback is not paid for unauthorized purposes. Under these authorities, TTB has issued regulations that require nonbeverage drawback claimants to show that the taxpaid distilled spirits for which a drawback claim is made were used in the manufacture of a non-beverage product that is qualified for drawback under the IRC. This showing is based on the product’s formula and process, which is submitted on form TTB F 5154.1 or electronically via TTB's Formulas Online system, and any required sample submission. This information collection is necessary to protect the revenue as it allows TTB to determine if a given product is unfit for beverage use and is of a type authorized for drawback by the IRC. This information collection also is beneficial to respondents as TTB’s determination allows claimants to know in advance of actual manufacture if a product is or is not fit for beverage purposes and thus eligible or not eligible for drawback. In addition, by filing a letterhead notice, manufacturers may adopt approved nonbeverage product formulas for use at other plants they operate, and they may adopt such formulas from predecessor proprietors.

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States with an approved waiver under section 1915 (c) of the act are required to submit a report annually in order for CMS to: (1) Verify that State assurances regarding waiver cost-neutrality are met, and (2) determine the waiver's impact on the type, amount, and cost of services provided under the State Plan and health welfare of recipients.

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For imports of alcohol beverages, many foreign countries require product testing as a condition of entry, and many of those countries will accept a report of analysis of imported alcohol beverages from a chemist certified by the exporting country's government. As such, TTB offers its Voluntary Chemist Certification Program as a service to the American alcohol beverage industry to facilitate exportation of domestic beverage alcohol products to foreign markets. This voluntary TTB program ensures that American chemists, enologists, brewers, and alcohol beverage industry technicians (hereafter collectively referred to as "chemists") have the required proficiencies to conduct the required chemical analyses and generate quality data for such product tests. The information collection for TTB's voluntary chemist certification program includes the applications for certification, submission of laboratory test results, requests for TTB-affirmed reports of analysis, and notices to TTB regarding changes in a certified chemist's place of employment place or status. Under this program, TTB certified chemists and their laboratories must also maintain usual and customary business records regarding all analytical results conducted under the TTB certification and those related to laboratory equipment, quality control policies, procedures and systems, and analyst training and competence. This information collection chemists have the proficiency to conduct any chemical analysis required by importing countries. .

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This information collection involves the submission of various forms by (1) contractors who wish to do business with the FDIC or are currently under contract with the FDIC; (2) those vendors and parties participating in innovation pilot programs and prize competitions with the possibility of being awarded a contract; and (3) government agencies or commercial businesses that provide FDIC with past performance information. There is no change in the method or substance of the collection. However, the FDIC has amended this submission to account for the burdens associated with vendors and parties participating in innovation pilot programs and prize competitions.

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In an effort to continue to meet Government Performance and Results Modernization Act (GPRAMA) of 2010 reporting requirements and to align performance reporting requirements with other parts of the Federal Statistical System, SAMHSA will combine and align the existing client-level performance instrument for the SAMHSA Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) and National Outcomes Measures (NOMs) instrument for the SAMHSA Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), and (2) create a two-component tool that will allow for a client (or caregiver) self-administered questionnaire (called SAMHSA Unified Performance Reporting Tool (SUPRT) – C: Client or Caregiver Form or ‘SUPRT-C’) and a grantee completion of administrative data (called SAMHSA Unified Performance Reporting Tool (SUPRT) – A: Administrative Report or ‘SUPRT-A’).

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A senior loan officer at each respondent bank completes this voluntary survey through an electronic submission, up to six times a year. Consistent with the Senior Financial Officer Survey (FR 2023; OMB No. 7100-0223), senior staff at the Reserve Banks with knowledge of bank lending practices serve as the main contacts for Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices (SLOOS) respondents in their district and help administer the survey. The current reporting panel consists of up to 80 large domestically chartered commercial banks and up to 24 large U.S. branches and agencies of foreign banks. The purpose of the survey is to provide qualitative and limited quantitative information on credit availability and demand, as well as on evolving developments and lending practices in the U.S. loan markets. A portion of each survey typically covers special topics of timely interest. Although the Board has the authority to conduct the survey up to six times a year, the survey has typically been conducted only four times a year since 1992. Consistent with the FR 2023, other types of respondents, such as other depository institutions, bank holding companies, or other financial entities, may be surveyed, if appropriate. The respondents’ answers provide information that is critical to the Federal Reserve System’s monitoring of bank lending practices and credit markets. The Federal Reserve relies on the regular opportunity to solicit information from banks within the framework of the survey. Aggregated survey results from 1997 to present are available to the public on the Board’s website.

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Title XI of the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 (FIRREA) (12 U.S.C. § 3331 et seq.) requires that, for federally related transactions, regulated institutions obtain real estate appraisals performed by certified or licensed appraisers in conformance with uniform appraisal standards. The Board’s regulations implementing Title XI of FIRREA, contained in the Board’s Regulation Y - Bank Holding Companies and Change in Bank Control (12 CFR Part 225), include certain recordkeeping requirements that apply to state member banks (SMBs), bank holding companies (BHC), and nonbank subsidiaries of BHCs that extend mortgage credit (together, institutions). The Board and other supervisory agencies also have issued Interagency Appraisal and Evaluation Guidelines (the Guidelines) that convey supervisory expectations relating to real estate appraisals and evaluations used to support real estate-related financial transactions. These Guidelines recommend that institutions adopt certain policies and procedures to ensure compliance with Title XI of FIRREA and Regulation Y.

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The PIMS measures for the Outreach Program enable HRSA and the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy to capture awardee-level and aggregate data that illustrate the impact and scope of federal funding. The collection of this information helps further inform and substantiate the focus and objectives of the grant program. The respondents would be award recipients of the Rural Health Care Services Outreach Program.

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