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The forms included in this collection are associated with the Indian Housing Block Grant (IHBG) program, as authorized under Title I of the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Reauthorization Act (NAHASDA) (25 U.S.C. 4101). The IHBG program provides funding to eligible Native American tribes and tribally designated housing entities (TDHEs) in the form of formula-based allocations and competitive awards.

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Qualified employers use Form 8882 to request a credit for employer-provided childcare facilities and services. Section 45F provides credit based on costs incurred by an employer in providing childcare facilities and resource and referral services. The credit is 25% of the qualified childcare expenditures plus 10% of the qualified childcare resource and referral expenditures for the tax year, up to a maximum credit of $150,000 per tax year.

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The Secretary is authorized to require any “resident or citizen of the United States or a person in, and doing business in, the United States, to . . . keep records and file reports, when the resident, citizen, or person makes a transaction or maintains a relation for any person with a foreign financial agency.” The term “foreign financial agency” (FFA) means any person engaging in any activities outside the United States as a “financial agency,” which the statute defines as “a person acting for a person . . . as a financial institution, bailee, depository trustee, or agent, or acting in a similar way related to money, credit, securities, gold, or a transaction in money, credit, securities or gold, or a service provided with respect to money, securities, futures, precious metals, stones and jewels, or value that substitutes for currency.” The regulations implementing reports of transactions with FFAs are found at 31 CFR 1010.360. 31 CFR 1010.360(a) authorizes the Secretary, when the Secretary deems appropriate, to promulgate regulations requiring specified financial institutions to file reports of certain transactions with designated FFAs. A regulation promulgated pursuant to 31 CFR 1010.360(a) must designate one or more categories of information to be reported by the financial institution as it relates to a designated FFA, including one or more of the following: (i) checks or drafts; (ii) transmittal orders; (iii) loans; (iv) commercial paper; (v) stocks; (vi) bonds; and (vii) certificates of deposit. 31 CFR 1010.430(d) requires that all records that must be retained pursuant to 31 CFR Chapter X, be retained for a period of five years.

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Under section 469, credits from passive activities, to the extent they do not exceed the tax attributable to net passive income, are not allowed. Form 8582-CR is used to figure the passive activity credit allowed and the amount of credit to be reported on the tax return.

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This collection of information is necessary to enable NIAID to garner customer and stakeholder feedback in an efficient, timely manner, in accordance with our commitment to improving service delivery. The information collected from our customers and stakeholders will help ensure that users have an effective, efficient, and satisfying experience with the Agency's programs.

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The purpose of this request is to renew the currently OMB approved ICR and update the annual burden hour estimate. On December 16, 2015, FMCSA published a final rule entitled “Electronic Logging Devices and Hours of Service Supporting Documents,” (80 FR 78292) that established minimum performance and design standards for hours-of-service (HOS) ELDs; requirements for the mandatory use of these devices by drivers currently required to prepare HOS records of duty status (RODS); requirements concerning HOS supporting documents; and measures to address concerns about harassment resulting from the mandatory use of ELDs. To ensure consistency among ELD vendors and devices, detailed functional specifications were published as part of the December 2015 final rule. Each ELD vendor developing an ELD technology must register online at a secure FMCSA website where the ELD provider can securely certify that its ELD is compliant with the functional specifications. Each ELD vendor must certify that each ELD model and version has been sufficiently tested to meet the functional requirements in the rule under the conditions in which the ELD would be used. A motor carrier required to use an ELD must use only an ELD that is listed on FMCSA’s registered ELD list, accessible through the Agency’s Web site in accordance with 49 CFR 395.22. ELD providers are required to self-certify and register their devices with FMCSA online via an application Form MCSA-5893, “Electronic Logging Device (ELD) Vendor Registration and Certification.” Once completed, FMCSA will issue a unique identification number that the provider will embed in their device(s). The collection is mandatory reporting, where the ELD providers are expected report four times a year and will register an average of 2 devices. FMCSA maintains a list on their website of the current ELD vendors and devices that have been certified (by the vendors) to meet the technical specifications. The information is necessary for fleets and drivers to easily find a compliant ELD for their use in meeting the FMCSA regulation requiring the use of ELDs. The estimated annual burden for this ICR is 150 hours. FMCSA’s re-estimate of the number of respondents and responses has resulted in a program adjustment decrease of an estimated annual 149 respondents, 744 responses, and 186 burden hours.

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The Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA’s) National Business Emergency Operation Center (NBEOC) collects this data for the primary purpose of maintaining a private sector stakeholder roster and mailing list for information dissemination, outreach, and coordination. FEMA leverages this information to engage stakeholders to coordinate disaster response operations, garner donations, and gain situational awareness around private sector actions that will help inform FEMA Leadership and assist evidence-based decision making.

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This information is needed to ensure the safe transport of bulk hazardous liquids on chemical tank vessels and to protect the environment from pollution. Respondents are owners and operators of chemical tank vessels.

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Form 8-A is a registration statement for certain classes of securities pursuant to Section 12(b) or Section 12(g) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

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Executive Order 14011 (E.O. 14011), Establishment of Interagency Task Force on the Reunification of Families, in response to the prior Administration’s use of immigration laws to intentionally separate children from their parents and legal guardians (families), including through the use of the Zero-Tolerance Policy. E.O. 14011 directs the Interagency Task Force on the Reunification of Families (Task Force) to identify children who were separated and facilitate and enable the reunification of the families. Additionally, E.O. 14011 directs the Task Force to provide recommendations on providing additional services and support for the reunified families, including behavioral health services with a focus on trauma-informed care. The Secretary of Homeland Security is the chair of the Task Force and is joined by the Department of State, Department of Health and Human Services, and the Department of Justice. To carry out the Task Force role to reunify families, DHS is proposing this new data collection. The purpose is to achieve efficiencies to process these individuals for a successful family reunification. To streamline the reunification travel coordination process, the Task Force plans to collect details in advance of travel, information the Task Force needs to make arrangement for the beneficiary and coordination with stakeholders. To streamline the reunification travel coordination process, the Task Force plans to collect details in advance of travel, information the Task Force needs to make arrangement for the beneficiary and coordination with stakeholders.

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The Training and Exchanges Automated Management System (TEAMS) is USAID's official data management system and the entry point for data for U.S. exchange visitor programs. TEAMS incorporates processes to manage and support EV's who will come to the U.S. on a USAID J-1 visa. TEAMS manages data by interfacing with the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS), the system that DHS uses to maintain and monitor participants in U.S. programs. All EV's must be registered in SEVIS. USAID utilizes SEVIS to report on EV programs, and to issue Certificates of Eligibility for Exchange Visitor Status (Form DS-2019). The Automated Directive System (ADS) Chapter 252—Visa Compliance for Exchange Visitors, requires Agency operating units (OUs) or their Implementing Partners, in accordance with their awards, to enter data into TEAMS relevant to U.S. visits by sponsored foreign nationals who are recipients of USAID development assistance. TEAMS replaces the Training Results and Information Network (TraiNet) and Visa Compliance System (VCS). TEAMS combines the functionality of TraiNet and VCS into one system. (See USAID TEAMS Webpage: https://www.usaid.gov/work-usaid/resources-for-partners/exchange-visitor-visa-compliance/teams)

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Form T-1 is statement of eligibility and qualification under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 of a corporation designated to act as a trustee under an indenture.

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Section 471 under title IV-E of the Social Security Act (the Act) authorizes collection of information through the title IV-E plan (OMB control number 0970-0433). A title IV–E plan is required from each state, territorial and tribal child welfare agency requesting Federal funding for the title IV-E foster care, adoption assistance and optional guardianship assistance programs. The plan also includes information required for participation in the optional programs authorized by Public Law 115–123, the Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA). The FFPSA authorized optional title IV–E funding for time-limited (one year) prevention services for mental health/substance abuse and in-home parent skill-based programs for: (1) A child who is a candidate for foster care (as defined in section 475(13) of the Act), (2) pregnant/parenting foster youth, and (3) the parents/kin caregivers of those children and youth (sections 471(e), 474(a)(6), and 475(13) of the Act). A state or tribal title IV–E agency electing to participate in the program must submit a five-year title IV–E prevention program plan that meets the statutory requirements. See Program Instructions ACYF–CB–PI–18–09 and ACYF–CB–PI–18–10 for more information.) The FFPSA also amended Section 474(a)(7) of the Act to reimburse state and tribal IV–E agencies for a portion of the costs of operating kinship navigator programs that meet certain criteria. To qualify for funding under the title IV– E Kinship Navigator program, the program must meet the requirements of a kinship navigator program described in section 427(a)(1) of the Act. The kinship navigator program must also meet practice criteria of promising, supported, or well-supported in accordance with HHS criteria and be approved by HHS (section 471(e)(4)(C) of the Act). To begin participation in the title IV–E Kinship Navigator Program, a title IV–E agency must submit an attachment to its title IV–E plan that specifies the Kinship Navigator model it has chosen to implement, the date on which the provision of program services began or will begin, and that provides an assurance that the model meets the requirements of section 427(a)(1) of the Act as well as a brief narrative describing how the program will be operated. (Please see Program Instruction ACYF–CB–PI–18–11 for additional information.)

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This is a request for OMB to approve this information collection request for an extension of three years. The request “Generic Clearance for Application Information for Fellowships, Internships, Training Programs, and Specialty Positions” supports the science and research in a multidisciplinary environment at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), a part of the National Institutes of Health. Applicants may possess a variety of degrees including, but not limited to, high school, post-baccalaureate, graduate, postdoctoral, Registered Nurse, and Doctor of Medicine (MD). Potential applicants may apply for cancer-related positions by submitting applications, resumes, curriculum vitae (CV), reference letters, letters of intent and interest, and other related documentation directly to the Divisions, Offices, and Centers. The information is for internal use to make decisions about candidates invited to visit and attend NCI fellowships, internships, training opportunities, and apply for specialized staff and faculty positions.

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The collections in this ICR are mandatory and consists mostly of recordkeeping and disclosure, where a motor carrier provides information when a consumer requests that a mover provide an estimate and when a consumer decides to have a particular mover transport household goods. Certain information will be transferred to the consumer for the consumer to educate himself/herself of his/her rights and responsibilities in commercial transactions with the mover. This is a revision to the ICR due to a final rule. FMCSA updates the regulations at 49 CFR 371 and 375 in a final rule titled “Implementation of Household Goods Working Group Recommendations” (87 FR 24431). The final rule makes various changes to the household goods regulations that the Household Goods Consumer Protection Working Group recommended to FMCSA. These proposed changes include further revisions to streamline FMCSA’s publication “Your Rights and Responsibilities When You Move” which would be incorporated in appendix A of the regulations, requiring “Your Rights and Responsibilities When You Move” to be provided along with the estimate, requiring new binding or non-binding estimates when an individual shipper tenders more goods or requests additional service instead of a revised estimate, allowing a motor carrier to provide a virtual survey and removing the 50-mile radius for when a survey is required, removing the requirement for an order for service and incorporating that document into the bill of lading, and other minor updates to increase the clarity of the regulations. These proposed changes are intended to reduce the paperwork burden on household goods motor carriers and reduce confusion for individual shippers. FMCSA will use the information provided by the shippers, when necessary, while conducting reviews, audits and investigations of carriers to determine if a carrier/mover is in compliance with the Federal requirements. If this collected information were not available, FMCSA would have no means of independently verifying compliance. The collected information will assist consumers in their commercial dealings with interstate motor carriers by enabling them to receive consumer protection materials electronically. FMCSA will use the information provided by the shippers, when necessary, while conducting reviews, audits and investigations of carriers to determine if a carrier/mover is in compliance with the Federal requirements. If this collected information were not available, FMCSA will have no means of independently verifying compliance. The frequency of the collection varies and is based on the number of moves and requests made, based on shippers needs, and is not a factor FMCSA or the carrier can control. The information is not collected more frequently than quarterly since the data is required only when services are requested by the consumer. This is to help the consumer understand each part of the commercial transaction and determine whether they are being defrauded or deceived by a mover. This supporting statement divides the burden into five collections roughly corresponding to the subsections in the HHG regulations in which the specific paperwork and record keeping requirements for HHG movers appear: • IC-1: Required Information for Prospective Individual Shippers • IC-2: Estimating Charges • IC-3: Pick Up of Shipments of Household Goods • IC-4: Transportation of Shipments • IC-5: Consumer Complaints

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Form T-3 is an application for qualification of an indenture under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939.

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The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) was given major responsibility for initiating a worker safety and health training program under Section 126 of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA) for hazardous waste workers and emergency responders. A network of non-profit organizations that are committed to protecting workers and their communities by delivering high-quality, peer-reviewed safety and health curricula to target populations of hazardous waste workers and emergency responders has been developed. The WTP also funds Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grants, an e-Learning for HAZMAT Program that focuses on the development of e-Learning health and safety training products from a variety of delivery methods to assist both students and instructors in the training and education process. Since 2002 the WTP has funded 85 SBIR grants. The WTP would like to ascertain the successes of the SBIR e-Learning program.

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Section 18004(a)(1) of the CARES Act, Pub. L. No. 116-136 (March 27, 2020), authorizes the Secretary of Education to allocate formula grant funds to participating institutions of higher educations (IHEs). Section 18004(c) of the CARES Act allows the IHEs to use up to one-half of the total funds received to cover any costs associated with the significant changes to the delivery of instruction due to the coronavirus (with specific exceptions). Section 18004(a)(2) of the CARES Act authorizes the Secretary to make awards under parts A and B of title III, parts A and B of title V, and subpart 4 of part A of title VII of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (“HEA”), to address needs directly related to the coronavirus. These awards are in addition to awards made in Section 18004(a)(1) of the CARES Act. Section 18004(a)(3) of the CARES Act, Pub. authorizes the Secretary to allocate funds for part B of Title VII of the HEA, for IHEs that the Secretary determines have the greatest unmet needs related to coronavirus. This information collection request includes the quarterly budget and expenditure reporting form that will be used by grantees under these sections, as well as comparable sections of the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2021 (CRRSAA) (P.L. 116-260) and the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARP) (Pub. L. 117-2).

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Training informs miners of safety and health hazards inherent in the workplace and enables them to identify and avoid such hazards. Training becomes even more important in light of certain conditions that can exist when production demands increase, such as: an influx of new and less experienced miners and mine operators; longer work hours to meet production demands; and increased demand for contractors who may be less familiar with the dangers on mine property. In addition, with respect to miner health and safety training, Section 115(c) of the Mine Act, 30 U.S.C. 825(c) provides that, upon completion of each training each operator shall certify that the miner has received the specified training in each subject area of the approved health and safety training plan (this information requirement is covered in control number 1205-0009) ; paragraphs (d) and (e) address the Secretary of Labor's rulemaking authority with respect to miner training. MSHA's objective in these existing health and safety training requirements is to ensure that all miners receive the required training, which would result in a decrease in accidents, injuries, and fatalities. MSHA enforces training requirements at approximately 11,657 surface nonmetal mines and contractors.

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The Department's regulations at 30 CFR 57.22606(a) provide procedures by which a mine operator shall notify MSHA of all explosive materials and blasting units prior to their use in underground gassy metal and nonmetal mines.