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Section 2003 of the American Rescue Plan allocates funds for institutions of higher education that the Secretary determines have the greatest unmet needs related to the coronavirus. This collection includes 1) a certification and agreement and 2) a profile form that will be used by institutions applying for discretionary grant funding under this section.

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The purpose of the Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program (MSEIP) is to effect long-range improvement in science and engineering education at predominantly minority institutions and to increase the flow of underrepresented ethnic minorities, particularly minority women, into scientific and technological careers. MSEIP supports the Federal Government's efforts to improve and expand the scientific and technological capacity of the United States and to support its technological and economic competitiveness. This application package includes program background, application instructions, and forms needed to submit a complete application to the Department of Education.

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Prior to Small Business Administration (SBA) approval of subsequent loan disbursement, disaster loan borrowers are required to submit information to demonstrate that they used loan proceeds for authorized purposes only and to make certain certification regarding current financial condition and previously reported compensation paid in connection with the loan.

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Section 114 of the FACT Act amended section 615 of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) to require the Agencies (OCC, FRB, FDIC, NCUA, and FTC) to issue jointly: • Guidelines for financial institutions and creditors regarding identity theft with respect to their account holders and customers (in developing the guidelines, the Agencies are required to identify patterns, practices, and specific forms of activity that indicate the possible existence of identity theft. The guidelines must be updated as often as necessary and cannot be inconsistent with the policies and procedures required under section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act, 31 U.S.C. 5318(l).); • Regulations that require each financial institution and each creditor to establish reasonable policies and procedures for implementing the guidelines to identify possible risks to account holders or customers or to the safety and soundness of the institution or creditor; and • Regulations generally requiring credit and debit card issuers to assess the validity of change of address requests under certain circumstances. Section 315 of the FACT Act amended section 605 of the FCRA to require the Agencies to issue regulations providing guidance regarding reasonable policies and procedures that a user of consumer reports must employ when a user receives a notice of address discrepancy from a consumer reporting agency (CRA). These regulations were required to describe reasonable policies and procedures for users of consumer reports to: • Enable a user to form a reasonable belief that it knows the identity of the person for whom it has obtained a consumer report; and • Reconcile the address of the consumer with the CRA, if the user establishes a continuing relationship with the consumer and regularly and in the ordinary course of business furnishes information to the CRA.

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On November 15, 2021, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 (Pub. L. 117-58) “Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL)” was enacted. In addition to mandating that FRA establish an online portal and corresponding database to receive information regarding blocked highway-rail grade crossings, section 22404 of BIL “encourages each complainant to report the blocked crossing to the relevant railroad.” Therefore, in preparation for this new statutory mandate, FRA proposes to modify the existing web-based forms by adding one question, “have you contacted the railroad?” Otherwise, the rest of the questions on the web-based forms will remain the same. In 2020, FRA created a dedicated website allowing the public, law enforcement personnel, and first responders to use web-based forms to voluntarily submit information about blocked crossings to FRA. Under the currently approved information collection request, users provide information regarding the location, date, time, duration, and immediate impacts of highway-rail grade crossings blocked by slow-moving or stationary trains. FRA uses the data collected to gain a more complete picture of where, when, for how long, and what impacts result from reported blocked crossing incidents. This information is voluntary and open to the public. There is no requirement for recordkeeping. The frequency will be as needed as determined by the public.

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Regulation C, which implements the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) enacted in 1975, requires certain depository and non-depository institutions that make certain mortgage loans to collect, report, and disclose data about originations and purchases of mortgage loans, as well as loan applications that do not result in originations. HMDA generates loan data that can be used to: (1) help determine whether financial institutions are serving the housing needs of their communities; (2) assist public officials in distributing public-sector investments so as to attract private investment to areas where it is needed; and (3) assist in identifying possible discriminatory lending patterns and enforcing anti-discrimination statutes. The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (the Dodd-Frank Act) transferred HMDA and its rulemaking authority from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board) to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and transferred supervisory and enforcement authority for HMDA for depository institutions over $10 billion in consolidated assets from the Board, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, OCC, and National Credit Union Administration to the CFPB. The CFPB published a final rule on October 28, 2015, that expanded the data collected and reported under HMDA, as implemented by Regulation C, and published a final rule on September 13, 2017, with additional corrections and clarifications (final rules). The final rules also modified the types of lenders and loans covered under Regulation C. First, for data collected in 2017, and reported in 2018, the rule simply reduces the number of institutions covered under Regulation C because only depositories originating more than 25 closed end loans must report. Then, starting January 1, 2018, an institution was required to begin collecting expanded data under HMDA if it either originates 25 or more closed end mortgage loans or 500 or more open-end lines of credit secured by a dwelling in each of the two preceding years, in addition to meeting other criteria. These institutions will begin reporting the expanded HMDA data in 2019. Starting in 2020, an institution will collect data on open-end lines of credit if it originates more than 100 open-end lines of credit secured by a dwelling in each of the two preceding years (and report that open-end lines of credit data beginning in 2021). An institution also will collect and report covered loans and applications quarterly if it received a total of at least 60,000 covered loans and applications in the preceding calendar year. An institution must report a covered loan if it has met the loan origination threshold for that loan category (open end or closed-end); an institution that is not required to report data may voluntarily do so. In addition, the types of loans covered under Regulation C changed under the final rules beginning in 2018. Covered institutions are required to collect and report any mortgage loan secured by a dwelling, including open end lines of credit, regardless of the loan’s purpose. Dwelling secured loans that are made principally for a commercial or business purpose, as well as agricultural–purpose loans and other specified loans are excluded. On September 7, 2018, the CFPB issued an interpretive and procedural rule to implement section 104(a) of the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act (EGRRCPA). Section 104(a) amended certain provisions of the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) by adding partial exemptions from HMDA's requirements for certain insured depository institutions and insured credit unions. Insured depository institutions and insured credit unions covered by a partial exemption have the option of reporting exempt data fields as long as they report all data fields within any exempt data point for which they report data.

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The information collected through the Interagency Guidance is needed by national banks and Federal savings associations (FSAs) to manage their asset securitization activities in a safe and sound manner. The OCC uses the information to evaluate the quality of a national bank's or FSA's risk management practices and to assist national banks and FSAs lacking proper supervision of their asset securitization activities with the implementation of corrective action to ensure that these activities are conducted in a safe and sound manner.

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The purpose of this information collection request is to identify and document innovative practices in adult education and literacy that are associated with positive outcomes for adult learners so that they may be disseminated to adult education programs. The U.S. Department of Education will analyze the information that is collected about adult education programs and the outcomes they achieve to identify innovative practices that merit dissemination to the field.

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Comprehensive mortgage data is vital to assessing and monitoring credit quality and loss mitigation activities in the residential mortgage market and the federal banking system. This data is important and necessary to support supervisory activities to ensure the safety and soundness of the federal banking system. Section 104(a) of the Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009 (12 U.S.C. 1715z-25(a) (Act), as amended by section 1493(a) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, requires the OCC to submit a quarterly report to Congress on mortgage modification activity in the federal banking system. Section 104(b) of the Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z-25(b)) requires the OCC to collect mortgage modification data from national banks and federal savings associations and provides for the collection of all data necessary to fulfill the reporting requirements of section 104(a). Those requirements include information on the number of mortgage modifications in each state that have certain characteristics, such as changes to the principal amount of a loan or changes to a homeowner’s total monthly principal and interest payment. The OCC currently collects aggregate data on first-lien residential mortgage loans serviced by seven national banks with large mortgage-servicing portfolios. The required aggregate data are industry standard measures of portfolio performance, including: (1) outstanding loan count and unpaid principal balance; (2) delinquency and liquidation ratios; and (3) the number of loss mitigation actions completed.

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Section 7(a) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 636) authorizes the Small Business Administration to guarantee loans made by banks or other financial institutions to qualified small businesses in the 7(a) Loan Program. The regulations covering this loan program at 13 CFR Part 120 require loan applicants and lenders to provide certain information that is used to determine program eligibility and compliance. CARES Act PL 116-136 will also cover this program.

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During SBA’s review of loans made under the Paycheck Protection Program, SBA will collect information from those Borrowers that have known Affiliates or believed to have Affiliates as defined in 13 CFR 121.301(f). SBA will use the information to review the borrowers' eligibility certifications and compliance with SBA's size and affiliation requirements.

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Information collection is necessary to ensure Microloan Program activity meets the statutory goals of assisting mandated target market. The information is used by the reporting participants and the SBA to assist with portfolio management, risk management, loan servicing, oversight and compliance, data management and understanding of short and long term trends and development of outcome measures.

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The Director of the Office of Great Lakes Pilotage uses the software to carry out operational and rate-making oversight of pilotage activities on the Great Lakes. 46 U.S.C. 9303 is the authority for this collection.

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The Appraisal Complaint Form is an interagency form jointly developed by the FDIC, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the National Credit Union Association (NCUA), the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (BCFP) and the Federal Reserve Board (FRB). The form was developed for those who wish to file a formal, written complaint that an entity subject to the jurisdiction of one or more agencies has failed to comply with the appraisal independence standards or the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP).

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Decision Memorandum CAG#-00438N entitled Transcatheter Mitral Valve Repair (TMVR) for Degenerative Mitral Regurgitation was published August 7, 2014. In this decision, CMS determined that it the evidence is sufficient to cover TMVR under Coverage with Evidence Development for Medicare beneficiaries under certain conditions only when the provider is participating in and patients are enrolled in a qualifying clinical studies meeting certain requirements. Consistent with section 1142 of the Social Security Act, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) supports clinical research studies that the CMS determines meet specified standards and address the specified research questions.

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The information collections are required under section 711 of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. This section requires that certain agreements that are in fulfillment of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) are to be disclosed to the public and the appropriate Federal banking agencies. The information will assist the public in assessing whether the parties are meeting their obligations under the agreements and CRA.

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The Office of Credit Union Resources and Expansion (CURE) is responsible for the review and approval of charter applications submitted by organizing groups. CURE has implemented a charter modernization process to improve the quality of charter applications received. This will help ensure organizing groups submit a well-thought out, well-developed charter plan to minimize the back and forth communication and improve overall chartering processing times. CURE management implemented the Proof of Concept (POC) data collection through the CyberGrants system, which documents the four most critical elements for establishing a new charter. The information collection is needed to determine the adequacy of a group’s chartering concept and provide guidance, as needed, and would identify the level of understanding an organizing group has before they make a formal charter application submission as prescribed by Appendix B to 12 CFR Part 701 (12 U.S.C. 1758, 1759).

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Internal Revenue Code (IRC) section 7528 requires the payment of user fees for requests to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for ruling letters, opinion letters, and determination letters as determined according to categories established by the IRS. Revenue Procedure 2022-4, updated annually, provides the established categories and associated user fees for employee plan determination and opinion letters. Forms 8717 and 8717-A are used by employee plan providers and sponsors to indicate the type of letter request and pay the appropriate user fee. These forms are attached to the Forms 5300, 5307, 5310, 5316, and the Form 4461 series applications for determination or opinion letters.

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Section 1.1297-3(c) allows a shareholder of a 1297(e) PFIC to make a deemed dividend election pursuant to which the shareholder includes in income as a dividend its pro rata share of the post-1986 earning and profit of the PFIC attributable to all of the stock it held, directly or indirectly on the CFC qualification date, as defined in 1.1297-3(d). The IRS needs the information to substantiate the taxpayer's computation of the taxpayer's share of the PFIC's post-1986 earning and profits.