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This Part establishes the minimum procedures and standards for designating Federal lands unsuitable for certain types of surface mining operations and for terminating designations pursuant to a petition. The information requested will aid the regulatory authority in the decision making process to approve or disapprove a request.

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To help assure that quality control (QC) data is reliable and to provide due process for QC findings and liabilities. Part 275 (Subpart C) requires a sampling plan and has arbitration and good cause processes.

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30 USC 1201 et seq. authorized Federal, State, and Tribal governments to reclaim private lands and allows for the establishment of procedures for the recovery of the cost of reclamation activities on privately owned lands. These procedures are intended to ensure that governments have sufficient capability to file liens so that certain landowners will not receive a windfall from reclamation.

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This Part establishes procedures and requirements for terminating jurisdiction of surface coal mining and reclamation operations, for petitions for rulemaking, and for citizen suits filed under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977.

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The Speaker Request Form will be the first point of contact between CISA and the public to initiate CISA speaking engagements. The form will be available on www.cisa.gov and any member of the public can submit a request for a CISA employee to speak at an event. The form will be used by CISA to track and manage external speaking engagements. The information will be used to schedule and determine the most appropriate CISA speaker based on date, time, location, presentation format, and topic. The form collects information about the event, discussion topics, presentation format, media participation, disclosures, special event guest, and event coordinator information. Information from the Speaker Request Form regarding the requested speaking engagement, the host organization, the speaking topic, agenda and additional event details will be collected. The requested information helps CISA determine whether the speaker should attend the engagement and/or how CISA should best prepare for the event. The information is used to determine if the event warrants the time and attention of the invited speaker and what messages and information can be shared on behalf of the Agency with a public or targeted audience. The CISA Speakers Bureau team will use the information to identify a speaker and route the Speakers Request Form to that person for consideration. The information is then sent to DHS Public Affairs for awareness of CISA speaking engagements.

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This form provides a systematic means of aiding the State's Quality Control Reviewer in analyzing the case record, planning and doing field investigation and gathering, comparing, analyzing and evaluating data.

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This collection of information is required to implement the duty preference provisions of the United States-Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act of 2000 (CBTPA), to expand trade benefits to countries in the Caribbean Basin.

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The Department of the Interior and its bureaus (Department or DOI) has various authorities that permit the acceptance of donations or gifts in furtherance of resource conservation projects and other programs. Before accepting a donation, DOI must first evaluate whether or not the circumstances of the donation maintain the integrity of the Department's programs and operations, the impartiality of the Department, and public confidence in the Department. Prior to enacting the Donations Policy, DOI conducted a risk analysis in which $25,000 was determined to be the threshold above which there was a greater risk of possible legal or ethical questions associated with donations. Therefore, for donations valued at $25,000 or more, donors are requested to complete a DI-3680 Donor Certification form (DI-3680 form) to provide information clarifying business and legal interactions with the Department and consistency with the Donations Policy prior to acceptance.

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The Lien Notice enables the carriers, cartman, and similar businesses to notify Customs that a lien exists against an individual/business for non-payment of freight charges, etc., so that Customs and Border Protection will not permit delivery of the merchandise from public stores or from a bonded warehouse until the line is discharged.

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The Uniform Financial Reporting Requirements collection is required to obtain and/or retain benefits. The Form MA-172, is sent to, and prepared by, companies doing business with MARAD in order to determine compliance with regulatory and contractual requirements. It is used as a basis for preparing and filing semi-annual and annual financial statements with MARAD. Companies are required to provide their financial data to MARAD twice a year. Regulations requiring financial reports to MARAD are authorized by Section 801, Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended (46 App. U.S.C. 1211). Financial Reports are also required by regulation of purchasers of ships from MARAD on credit, companies chartering ships from MARAD, and of companies having Title XI guarantee obligations (46 CFR Part 298). The information is used within MARAD, retained for 3-5 years and is not disclosed outside of the agency (it is confidential business information).

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The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) is an accredited federal services academy that confers BS and MS degrees. The USMMA will conduct an annual voluntary survey of its immediate, five-year and ten-year alumni, consisting of approximately 600 individuals each year. The survey will be administered by the Academic Division of the Academy under the supervision of the Office of Institutional Assessment. The information gathered will be analyzed and used to measure success in meeting institutional and academic program goals and improvement of administrative and educational services provided to students. The survey consists of four categories: 1) Employment which includes employment status, time to obtain employment, type of employment and position, and salary with results used to ensure job placement of graduates within the maritime industry; 2) Education and Institutional Assessment which surveys the Academy’s overall academic program in preparing its graduates for employment with results used to modify institutional learning goals and/or Academic Division Goals to better prepare students for employment in the maritime industry and other administrative areas which are used to improve student support services; 3) Departmental Assessment which surveys specific department and course learning goals with results used to modify or improve the curriculum; and 4) Program Assessment which surveys the quality of the program in preparing students for the U.S. Coast license exam and whether the programs itself along with its particular components contains the requisite courses to best prepare graduates for today’s workforce in a domestic and international environment. Summary of findings will serve as supporting evidence to inform senior leadership in decision-making in terms of the curriculum and allocation of resources and most importantly in meeting the criteria established by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE) by demonstrating continuous improvement in assessment and strategic planning efforts to meet the Academy’s mission statement. Summary of findings will serve as supporting evidence to inform senior leadership in decision-making in terms of the curriculum and allocation of resources and most importantly in meeting the criteria established by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE) by demonstrating continuous improvement in assessment and strategic planning efforts to meet the Academy’s mission statement.

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The USGS is working with the Federal Advisory Committee on Water Information (ACWI) and its Subcommittee on Ground Water (SOGW) to develop and administer a National Ground-Water Monitoring Network (NGWMN). This network is required as part of Public Law 111-11, Subtitle F-Secure Water: Section 9507 "Water Data Enhancement by the United States Geological Survey". The Network will consist of an aggregation of well data from existing Federal, Multi-state, State, Tribal, and local groundwater monitoring networks. To support data providers for the National Ground-Water Monitoring Network, the USGS will be providing funding through cooperative agreements to water-resource agencies that collect groundwater data. The USGS will be soliciting applications for funding that will request information from the Agency collecting the data. Elements will include contact information (phone number and email address), and a proposal describing their existing data collection and a plan to evaluate their data for incorporation into the NGWMN. The proposal will be evaluated by the USGS and the NGWMN Program Board to appropriate funding. The proposal will describe the groundwater networks to be included in the NGWMN, the purpose of the networks, an estimate of the number of wells they would submit for the network, an overview of the methods they would use to select and classify wells for the network a description of data collection techniques, and information on their databases. The proposal would also require estimates of one-time costs to complete the above tasks and annual costs to participate in the network.

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The Maritime Administration is required to review requests for medals and awards from merchant mariners for the periods of WWII, Korea, Vietnam and Operations Desert Storm, Desert Shield, Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. This information is voluntary and is used by the Maritime Administration, Office of Sealift Support personnel to assist in processing and verifying requests for seamen’s service awards from merchant mariners for the period of WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Operation Desert Storm, Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. Medals and other decorations are issued only by request from individual citizens (seamen and/or their families. Without this information collection, merchant seamen who have valiantly served their nation during war-time or risked their lives to rescue other seamen during peace-time would have no other method to obtain actual or replacement service decorations.

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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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OSM and State regulatory authorities use the information collected by 30 CFR Part 800 to ensure that persons conducting or planning to conduct surface coal mining and reclamation operations post and maintain (1) an appropriate liability insurance policy and (2) a performance bond in a form and amount adequate to guarantee fulfillment of all reclamation obligations.

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The Rental Assistance Demonstration allows Public Housing and Moderate Rehabilitation (Mod Rehab) properties to convert to long-term Section 8 rental assistance contracts; and Rent Supplement, Rental Assistance Payment and Mod Rehab properties upon contract expiration or termination, to convert tenant protection vouchers (TPVs) to project-based vouchers (PBVs). Participation in the initiative will be voluntary.

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When the terms of a Multifamily contract are breached or when a mortgagee meets conditions stated within the Multifamily contract for an automatic assignment, the holder of the mortgage may file for insurance benefits. To receive these benefits, the mortgagee must prepare and submit to HUD the Multifamily Insurance Benefits Claims Package. HUD uses the information collection to determine the insurance benefits owed to the mortgagee.

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HUD collects this information to establish a manufactured housing dispute resolution program for states that choose not to operate their own dispute resolution programs. Form HUD-310-DRSC allows a state to certify that its state dispute resolution program meets the program requirements. Form HUD-311-DR allows persons who have initiated their participation in the federal dispute resolution program to submit the necessary information regarding their request to the federal program for further action There are two groups of respondents. The first group is the 50 states; the second group consists of individual purchasers, manufacturers, retailers, and installers of manufactured housing. HUD has engaged dispute resolution professionals from various federal agencies to review the submissions and then possibly contact the submitting party or agency, and to act as neutrals, mediators, and arbitrators.

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This request is for an extension of an existing information collection under OMB Control No. 0648-0151. NMFS does not anticipate that the extension will substantially add to the burden to individual private applicants for incidental take authorizations under the existing Control Number. The main difference we expect related to this extension is that there will be a larger number of applicants/respondents than accounted for in the existing OMB Control Number. In preparing this renewal, it was observed that some totals in the previous Supporting Statement were inaccurate. These have been corrected in this document. The Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 (MMPA; 16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.) prohibits the "taking" of marine mammals unless otherwise authorized or exempted by law. The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) uses the information collection to: evaluate the proposed activity's impact on marine mammals; arrive at the appropriate determinations required by the MMPA and other applicable laws prior to issuing or denying the authorization; and monitor impacts of activities for which take authorizations have been issued.

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This information describes the eligibility of HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME) beneficiaries, the eligibility of proposed HOME activities, HOME program agreements, and HOME performance reports. The data identifies who benefits from the HOME program and how statutory and regulatory requirements are satisfied. The respondents are state and local government HOME participating jurisdictions.