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Previous ICR	201909-0910-005

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FDA supports intramural training programs through non-employee fellowship and traineeship programs. Non-employee fellows and trainees will submit information about financial investments and current relationships. The purpose of this information allows FDA to determine if there is a conflict of interest between the fellow’s or trainee’s financial and relationship interests and their activities at FDA.

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Previous ICR	201907-0935-001

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The CAHPS Home and Community-Based Services Survey is the first cross-disability survey of home and community-based service beneficiaries’ experience receiving long-term services and supports. It is designed to facilitate comparisons across state Medicaid HCBS programs throughout the country that target adults with disabilities, e.g., including frail elderly, individuals with physical disabilities, persons with developmental or intellectual disabilities, those with acquired brain injury and persons with severe mental illness. The HCBS CAHPS Survey was developed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for voluntary use by state Medicaid programs, including both fee-for-service HCBS programs as well as managed long-term services and supports (MLTSS) programs. States with adequate sample sizes may consider using survey metrics in value-based purchasing initiatives. The HCBS-CAHPS Database will serve as a primary source of data available to states, agency programs and researchers to help answer important questions related to beneficiary experiences. AHRQ, through its contractor, will collect and make available de-identified survey data, enabling HCBS programs to identify areas where quality can be improved. Rationale for the information collection. Aggregated HCBS Database results will be made publicly available on AHRQ’s CAHPS website. Technical assistance will be provided by AHRQ through its contractor, Westat at no charge to programs to facilitate the access and use of these materials for quality improvement and research. Technical assistance will also be provided to support HCBS-CAHPS data submission.

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Previous ICR	202002-0938-007

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This form is used in connection with claims for emergency hospital services provided by hospitals that do no have an agreement in effect under Section 1866 of the Social Security Act. 42 CFR 424.103 (b) requires that before a non-participating hospital may be paid for emergency services rendered to a Medicare beneficiary, a statement must be submitted that is

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The goal of this Generic clearance and its surveys is to capture feedback from actual users of the system immediately after they finish using the system, while their user experience, negative or positive, is still fresh in their minds. This user feedback will allow our team to discover areas of improvement within EPS. It will help us improve the user experience, provide better service/support, improve marketing strategies, and identify gaps/issues that require resolution. For example, if we get several responses through the collection instrument stating that users feel that the EPS system is slow, we can use that feedback to invest efforts into increasing the EPS response times. As the feedback is analyzed and implemented over time, the survey questions will evolve to support implemented changes, providing the EPS team with the most up-to-date feedback on system improvement. By using a Generic Instrument Collection, the survey will evolve over time. Within the CMS EPS, features are frequently added, and sometimes even removed. The team needs to be able to add new survey questions, specific to those new features, in order to capture valuable feedback on the effectiveness, ease-of-use, pain points, and areas of improvement for the feature. When features are removed from the CMS EPS, questions relevant to those features must be modified or removed from the survey as well. In general, given that the CMS EPS is a dynamic system, designed to meet enterprise needs that change over time, a Generic Instrument Collection will allow the survey to evolve as the system evolves, and remain relevant, capturing up-to-date feedback on the system.

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Previous ICR	201805-1103-001

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Under the Violent Crime and Control Act of 1994, the U.S. Department of Justice COPS Office requires programmatic progress reports from active COPS grantees in order to monitor each program, project or activity funded by the COPS Office.

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Previous ICR	202110-0584-001CF

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Previous ICR	201905-2501-001

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The subject information collection is required to for the competitive grant applications and to ensure eligibility of applicants for funding. This extension further standardizes the format of information previously included in the information collections for grant applications, but does not significantly increase the information burden.

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Previous ICR	202101-2528-006

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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has invested considerable resources into strategies to address family homelessness. Senate Report 109-109 for the FY 2006 Transportation, Treasury, Judiciary, HUD, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill directed the Department to focus its energies on families who experience homelessness and to “undertake research to ascertain the impact of various service and housing interventions in ending homelessness for families.” In 2008, HUD launched the Family Options Study, a multi-site experiment designed to test the impacts of different housing and service interventions on families who experience homelessness, in five key domains: housing stability, family preservation, adult well-being, child well-being, and self-sufficiency. The study, conducted by Abt Associates and its partner Vanderbilt University, compared the effect of three active interventions—long-term housing subsidy, community-based rapid re-housing, and project-based transitional housing—to one another and to the usual care available in the study communities. From September 2010 through January 2012, 2,282 families (with 5,397 children) across 12 communities enrolled in the Family Options Study after spending at least 7 days in emergency shelter. At the time of enrollment families provided their consent to participate in the study and completed a baseline survey (OMB #2528-0259, Expiration Date: 05/31/2013). The study randomized these 2,282 families to one of four interventions distinguished by the type and duration of housing assistance and supportive services. The research team tracked the families for over three years and administered two separate follow-up surveys to families during that time period under the same OMB control number; a 20-month followup survey (OMB #2528-0259, Expiration Date: 3/31/2015) and a 37-month followup survey (OMB #2528-0259, Expiration Date: 3/31/2017).

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Previous ICR	202105-0572-009CF

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Previous ICR	202112-2577-003

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In the COVID-19 era many Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) and Property Owner Agents (POA) as well as families have been reluctant to conduct or allow the inspectors to conduct physical inspections as additional COVID variants still pose threats. This means that residents may be living in undesirable or unhealthy conditions. To address these potential concerns with minimum risk or exposure or disruption to residents, the Department would like to employ RVI. The RVI protocol is a tool that efficiently allows HUD to provide inspections to those properties that are unable to receive in-person inspections due to COVID. The RVI protocol is a tool that allows HUD to provide oversight to those properties that are unable to receive in-person inspections, including habitability inspections due to national emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Previous ICR	202006-0572-001CF

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Previous ICR	201903-2577-004

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The form will streamline the process and reduce burden on PHAs when submitting a market analysis as part of a flat rent exception request in accordance with Notice PIH 2015-13(HA), which implements Section 238 of Title II of P.L. 113-235, the Department of Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act of 2015. Notice PIH 2015-13(HA) allows PHAs to request flat rents that are based on the local rental market conditions, when the PHA can demonstrate through a market analysis that the FMRs are not reflective of the local market.

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Previous ICR	201902-2060-006

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The National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) for Mercury (40 CFR Part 61, Subpart E) apply to the new and existing facilities which process mercury ore to recover mercury, use mercury chlor-alkali cells to produce chlorine gas and alkali metal hydroxide, and incinerate or dry wastewater treatment plant sludge. In general, all NESHAP standards require initial notifications, performance tests, and periodic reports by the owners/operators of the affected facilities. They are also required to maintain records of the occurrence and duration of any startup, shutdown, or malfunction in the operation of an affected facility, or any period during which the monitoring system is inoperative. These notifications, reports, and records are essential in determining compliance with 40 CFR Part 61, Subpart E.

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Previous ICR	201310-2900-008

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Legal authority for this data collection is found in Public Law 116-315, Sec. 5402 – “Study of Barriers for Women Veterans to Receipt of Health Care from Department of Veterans Affairs” which requires VA to conduct an independent comprehensive study of the barriers to the provision of comprehensive health care for women Veterans. Per Sec. 5402, this current study is to build on previous studies “National Survey of Women Veterans in Fiscal Year 2007–2008” and “Study of Barriers for Women Veterans to VA Health Care 2015.” The aim of the proposed survey is to better understand barriers women Veterans face accessing VA care, the comprehensiveness of care, and progress made in reducing barriers to VA healthcare for women Veterans since the previous study conducted in 2015. The data collected will allow VA to plan and provide better health care for women Veterans and to support reports to Congress about the status of women Veterans’ health care.

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Previous ICR	202204-0503-002

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To facilitate candidates' consideration for a scholarship by participating USDA Agencies and 1994 Land-Grant Tribal Colleges and Universities.

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Previous ICR	202201-0575-001CF

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Previous ICR	201912-1545-001CF

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Previous ICR	202211-0938-001CF

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Previous ICR	201912-0575-007CF

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The Office of Population Affairs (OPA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is requesting 2 years of approval by OMB on a new collection. The Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) Tier 1 and Tier 2 Implementation Study will document how 75 grantees funded in 2020 and 2021 are implementing their grant strategies to reduce rates of teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections in their selected communities or priority areas. OPA anticipates that grantees will employ diverse strategies working with partner organizations within communities to implement their teen pregnancy prevention projects. To document approaches and experiences of each grantee, a lead staff member in each grantee organization and up to one other staff member will be interviewed during an in-person or virtual site visit. Up to two staff members from key grantee partner organizations will be interviewed for 31 of the 62 Tier 1 grantees and all 13 Tier 2 grantees. Type of respondent: Interview participants will include up to 124 Tier 1 grantee staff members, 62 Tier 1 grantee partner organization staff members, 26 Tier 2 grantee staff members and 26 Tier 2 grantee partner organization staff members. Frequency: One time. Affected parties: Public and private businesses.

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Previous ICR	201710-1910-001

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The information collections in this package are used by the Department to exercise management control and oversight of patent matters.

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Previous ICR	201909-1840-005

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The Title III, Part A Native American-Serving Nontribal Institutions (NASNTI) Program provides grants and related assistance to NASNTI to enable such institutions to plan, develop, undertake, and carry out activities to improve and expand such institutions' capacity to serve Native American and low-income individuals.

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The Office of Population Affairs (OPA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is requesting 3 years of approval by OMB on a new collection. The Title X Implementation Study will document how organizations funded by the Title X Service Grants program design and implement their program services. The study will document (1) how grantees ensure access to equitable, affordable, client-centered quality family planning services; (2) the steps that Title X grantees take to provide clients from diverse communities with equitable access to affordable, high-quality, client-centered health services; (3) any pivots and/or accommodations to providing care they made in recent years, including during the COVID-19 pandemic; and (4) how they assess their impact. To carry out these objectives, the study team will rely on the following five proposed data sources: (1) a web-based survey of the 2022 cohort of Title X grantees; (2) grantee telephone interviews; (3) in-person or virtual listening visits with clinic administrators, service providers, and community outreach or partner staff at a subset of Title X sub-recipients and service delivery sites; (4) a web-based survey of clients at up to 10 of the sites selected for listening visits; and (5) telephone interviews with subject matter experts. Data collection will begin in fall 2022, pending OMB approval, with the grantee survey and interviews, which will inform selection of sites for the listening visits.

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Previous ICR	202207-0575-002CF

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Previous ICR	202112-1405-009

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Per guidance from the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force, an agency may be required to provide a reasonable accommodation to employees or prospective employees who communicate to the agency that they are not vaccinated against COVID-19 because of a medical reason or disability, or because of a sincerely held religious belief, practice, or observance.