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This collection of information is necessary to enable the Agency 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. This Extension contains only minor edits.

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This information collection request is for a revision of the electronic Individual Development Plan (eIDP) for three years. The National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Center for Cancer Training (CCT) supports NCI's goal of training cancer researchers with various educational levels (post-baccalaureate, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows) and for varying periods of time (3 months to 5 years). The eIDP is an online, detailed questionnaire focused on responses to career and professional goals and expectations while the trainee works at the NIH.

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The President, by Executive order 13991 (January 20, 2021) established the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force. The Taskforce was established to give the heads of federal agencies ongoing guidance to keep their employees safe and their agencies operating during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Taskforce issued guidance, in accordance with the President’s Executive Order 14043 (September 9, 2021), requiring federal employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 by November 22, 2021 absent a legally required exception. To determine whether employees who request a religious exception qualify for the exception and a reasonable accommodation, or, alternatively, was required to comply with the November 22 deadline, the OCC developed the Request for Religious Exception to the COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement form (Request form). The Request form was developed, consistent with guidance issued by the Taskforce and the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Civil Rights and Diversity, to gather information from employees who have requested religious exceptions and medical professionals treating those employees, to determine whether such employees qualify for legal exceptions to the vaccine requirement. The Request form was used to collect information from job applicants who may request a legal exception and reasonable accommodation after receiving an offer of employment from the OCC. To ensure compliance with an applicable preliminary nationwide injunction, which may be supplemented, modified, or vacated, depending on the course of ongoing litigation, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency will take no action to implement or enforce the COVID-19 vaccination requirement pursuant to Executive Order 14043 on Requiring Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination for Federal Employees while the injunction is in effect.

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The President, by Executive order 13991 (January 20, 2021) established the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force. The Taskforce was established to give the heads of federal agencies ongoing guidance to keep their employees safe and their agencies operating during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Taskforce issued guidance, in accordance with the President’s Executive Order 14043 (September 9, 2021), requiring federal employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 by November 22, 2021 absent a legally required exception. To determine whether employees who request a medical exception qualify for the exception and a reasonable accommodation, or, alternatively, was required to comply with the November 22 deadline, the OCC developed the Request for Medical Exception to the COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement form (Request form). The Request form was developed, consistent with guidance issued by the Taskforce and the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Civil Rights and Diversity, to gather information from employees who have requested medical exceptions and medical professionals treating those employees, to determine whether such employees qualify for legal exceptions to the vaccine requirement. The Request form was used to collect information from job applicants who may request a legal exception and reasonable accommodation after receiving an offer of employment from the OCC. To ensure compliance with an applicable preliminary nationwide injunction, which may be supplemented, modified, or vacated, depending on the course of ongoing litigation, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency will take no action to implement or enforce the COVID-19 vaccination requirement pursuant to Executive Order 14043 on Requiring Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination for Federal Employees while the injunction is in effect.

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The respondents for this collection are institutions or organizations operating IRBs that review human subjects research conducted or supported by HHS, or, in the case of FDA's regulation, each IRB in the United States that reviews clinical investigations regulated by FDA under sections 505(i) or 520(g) of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act; and each IRB in the United States that reviews clinical investigations that are intended to support applications for research or marketing permits for FDA-regulated products.

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Form 8906, Distilled Spirits Credit, was developed to carry out the provisions of IRC section 5011(a). This section allows eligible wholesalers and persons subject to IRC section 5055 an income tax credit for the average cost of carrying excise tax on bottled distilled spirits. The form provides a means for the eligible taxpayer to compute the amount of credit.

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Section 475 was added by section 13223(a) of the Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1993, Pub. L. 103-66, 107 Stat.481, and is effective for all taxable years ending on or after December 31, 1993. The statutory requirements under 26 U.S.C. 475 are codified under 26 CFR Part 1, sections 1.475 et al. Information collection requirements under § 1.475(a)-4 sets forth an elective safe harbor that permits dealers in securities and dealers in commodities to elect to use the values of positions reported on certain financial statements as the fair market values of those positions for purposes of section 475 of the Internal Revenue Code (Code). This safe harbor is intended to reduce the compliance burden on taxpayers and to improve the administrability of the valuation requirement of section 475. The recordkeeping requirement under section 1.475(b)-4 are required to determine whether exemption from mark- to-market treatment is properly claimed, and will be used to make that determination upon audit of taxpayer's books and records. The information under section 1.475(c)-1(a)(3)(iii), is necessary to determine whether a consolidated group has elected to disregard inter-member transactions in determining a member's status as a dealer in securities.

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Federal civilian and military agencies must reimburse the Federal Employees Compensation Account for the amount expended for benefits to former Federal (civilian) employees and ex-servicemembers. The report informs ETA of the amount to bill such agencies.

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The information collected is used to compile, publish, and distribute a listing of approved sources of State and international certified shellfish dealers/shippers. Individual State food control officials and the food industry use the list to determine certified sources of shellfish. We administer the collection in an effort to help prevent and suppress the spread of communicable diseases through shellfish, which pose a unique public health concern in that the safety of molluscan shellfish directly reflects the cleanliness of the waters where they are grown.

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The federal Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) maintains the Electronic Document Exchange (EDE) application which allows state child support agencies to exchange encrypted case-related documents. The EDE application allows state child support agencies to effectively exchange documents pertaining to child and spousal support cases. State child support agencies submit case document requests to other states through the EDE, which are routed to the other state for response. The responding state uploads the appropriate documents to the EDE for the requesting state to download or explains when documents are unavailable. State child support agencies that use the EDE application will reduce delays, costs, and barriers associated with case processing; increase paternity and order establishment; increase state child and spousal support debt collections; improve document security; standardize data sharing; increase state participation; and improve overall child and spousal support outcomes. State child support agencies use the information collected, maintained, and disseminated through the EDE application for various child support purposes. OCSE maintains and tracks EDE application usage; however, OCSE does not see or use the content of exchanged documents.

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In 2015, the Board and certain other agencies published a final rule implementing part of section 1473 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act), which relates to the supervision and regulation of appraisal management companies (AMCs). An AMC is an entity that serves as an intermediary for, and provides certain appraisal-related services to, creditors. The Board’s final rule instituted certain recordkeeping and disclosure requirements for AMCs and U.S. states, which are located in the Board’s Regulation Y - Bank Holding Companies and Change in Bank Control (12 CFR Part 225).

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This is a request for a 3-year renewal of the generic clearance to allow the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) to continue to develop, test, and improve its survey and assessment instruments and methodologies. The procedures utilized to this effect include but are not limited to experiments with levels of incentives for various types of survey operations, focus groups, cognitive laboratory activities, pilot testing, exploratory interviews, experiments with questionnaire design, and usability testing of electronic data collection instruments.

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This information collection permits TSA to conduct a more effective oversight, planning, and regulatory function related to the affected parties, i.e., airport operators. The airport operators are charged under 49 CFR part 1542 with providing a safe and secure operating environment in which commercial passenger and other operations are conducted.

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The Internal Revenue Service offers free assistance with tax return preparation and tax counseling using specially trained volunteers. The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) and Tax Counseling for the Elderly (TCE) programs assist seniors, eligible taxpayers, and members of underserved populations. The information provided on the forms in this collection will be used to approve grant and participation applications for the TCE and VITA programs. It will also be used to administer the programs, establish effective controls, send correspondence, recognize volunteers, and assist taxpayers with locating TCE and VITA sites.

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The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services. Each month, BLS data collectors called economic assistants visit or call thousands of retail stores, service establishments, rental units, and doctors' offices, all over the United States to obtain information on the prices of the thousands of items used to track and measure price changes in the CPI. The collection of price data from rental units is essential for the timely and accurate calculation of the shelter component of the CPI. The CPI is then widely used as a measure of inflation, indicator of the effectiveness of government economic policy, deflator for other economic series and as a means of adjusting dollar values.

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The information collection request is for a revision of a currently approved information collection (IC) under OMB control number 2132-0563 “Job Access and Reverse Commute (JARC) Program. The revision is due to the annual burden hours decreasing from 3,971 hours to 98 hours for the current request; representing a decrease of 3,873 hours. The decrease is due to the decline in the open grants over the past three years and the elimination of the quarterly Federal Financial Reporting requirements since all the JARC projects are 100% completed. However, after outreach by FTA program managers to respondents there are still 49 respondents with small amounts of funding left available in their program accounts. As a result of the 100% completion, the only information provided to FTA are annual Milestone Progress Reports (MPR’s). The JARC program was a competitive grant program aimed at improving access to employment and employment related activities for welfare recipients and low-income individuals. Toward this goal, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) provided financial assistance for transportation services that met the unique transportation needs of eligible low-income individuals. The respondents were private non-profit organizations, State or local governments, and operators of public transportation services including private operators of public transportation services. The program was repealed by Congress under the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP-21) Act in 2012. This is a mandatory collection of information as FTA must continue to collect information under the program management stage until the period of availability expires; the funds are fully expended; the funds are rescinded by Congress; or the funds are otherwise reallocated. Since being repealed, the number of respondents affected by this IC will continue to decrease until all funds are expired. There are currently 49 respondents that are required to continue reporting under the project management stage. The reports required under this program are submitted on an annual basis. The reports are submitted to the program manager and contain financial and project updates. This IC is only being renewed because there are still very small amounts of funding left sitting in respondents accounts for draw down. FTA must continue to collect information under the program management stage until the period of availability expires; the funds are fully expended; the funds are rescinded by Congress; or the funds are otherwise reallocated. Once all funds are fully expended and the reporting requirements expire, this information collection will be discontinued.

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The NSF Partnership for Research and Education in Materials (PREM) program provides significant support ($0.5-0.6 million / year) for research, education, and infrastructure with a renewable term of 5 years, for a total investment of $2.5-3.0M. Because of the duration and size of these awards, it is necessary for the NSF to ensure that its substantial investment is spent appropriately, that each of the PREMs meets the goals stated in its strategic plan, and that each PREM's activities satisfy the goals and objectives of the PREM program. The PREM program currently funds a total of 32 active awards, For effective oversight of these substantial investments, the NSF requires that each currently funded PREM submit an annual progress report that describes all its activities. Each PREM is expected to submit a final report at the end of the award. Data contained in these reports are also submitted to a website managed by a contractor for NSF. Electronic submission will facilitate program-wide data analysis.

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The purpose of this request for review is for the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to obtain clearance to collect information to support the BLS international training program. This collection allows the BLS to collect the information needed to register trainees for the international training programs.

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The collection of this information is required to ensure that the Agency can effectively identify, evaluate, and take appropriate action concerning contractor conflicts of interest (COI). Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) contractors are required to disclose any actual or potential COI with regard to their employees, corporate affiliations, and business relationships. Contractors will be required to maintain a database of business relationships and report information to EPA on either an annual basis or when work is ordered under an Agency contract. Additionally, under some contracts, the contractor must request written approval from the contracting officer to enter into a proposed contract subject to the restrictions of EPA’s Limitation of Future Contracting Clause that can found at CFR 48 1552.209-74.

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To collect information related to the import and transport of meat, poultry and egg products necessary to protect the public health.