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VA Form 21P-527EZ, is the prescribed form for claiming Veterans Pension under the Fully Developed Claim program. VA Form 21P-527 is used to gather the necessary information to determine a veteran’s eligibility for Veterans Pension. Without this information, VA will not be able to determine a Veteran’s eligibility to the benefit. A Veteran may also use this form to file a new Veterans Pension claim after VA has discontinued a previous pension award and the Veteran is requesting his or her benefits be reinstated.

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The Market Risk Regulatory Report for Institutions Subject to the Market Risk Capital Rule (FFIEC 102). is filed quarterly by FDIC-supervised banks and savings associations that are subject to the market risk capital rule. A bank, savings association, bank holding company, savings and loan holding company, or U.S. intermediate holding company must apply the market risk capital rule if the institution has aggregate trading assets and trading liabilities, as reported in the institution’s most recent Consolidated Reports of Condition and Income (Call Report) or Consolidated Financial Statements for Holding Companies (FR Y-9C), as applicable, equal to (a) 10 percent or more of quarter-end total assets or (b) $1 billion or more. The data collected in the Market Risk Regulatory Report is needed to assess the reasonableness and accuracy of a market risk institution’s calculation of its minimum capital requirements under the revised market risk capital rule and to evaluate a market risk institution’s capital in relation to its risks. Each market risk institution is required to file the FFIEC 102. The FFIEC 102 allows the agencies to better track growth in the more credit-risk related, less liquid, and less actively traded products subject to the market risk rule.

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This ICR collects information from food manufacturers who wish to obtain a determination from FDA that a food additive is generally recognized as safe (GRAS) and therefore not subject to premarket approval requirements. Respondents submit information as provided in agency regulations regarding GRAS notification, including a description of the substance, intended use, previous communications with the agency, contact information, etc. FDA has developed Form 3667 to facilitate its review of information being submitted so that a GRAS determination can be made. Food additives that are not GRAS must obtain premarket approval.

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he information collected serves to identify and develop safety countermeasures that will reduce the severity of injury and property damage caused by motor vehicle crashes. These Investigation-Based Crash Data Studies -- Crash Investigation Sampling System (CISS), Special Crash Investigations (SCI), and Special Studies -- involve voluntary information collections through which NHTSA collects detailed data on real world motor vehicle crashes. Specifically, these systems collect data, on vehicle safety system performance, occupant injury information including their kinematic interaction with interior components and scene geometry, marking and traffic controls. Respondents are police agencies that collection information on police-reported motor vehicle crashes, employees of tow yards where crashed vehicles are stored, people involved in these crashes, and hospitals with medical records for the people injured in the crash. For the standard investigation-based crash data studies acquisition process, once a crash has been selected for investigation, crash technicians or investigators locate, visit, measure, and photograph the crash scene; locate, inspect, and photograph vehicles; conduct a telephone or personal interview with the involved individuals or surrogate (another person who can provide occupant or crash information, such as parents for minor, or a parent or spouse for decreased individual); and obtain and record crash injury information received from various medical data sources. These information collections support NHTSA’s mission to save lives and prevent injuries due to traffic crashes. The data collected from these systems are used to describe and analyze circumstances, mechanisms, and consequences of serious motor vehicle crashes in the United States. Additionally, these data are used by NHTSA to identify the primary factors related to the source of crashes and their injury outcomes, develop and evaluate effective safety countermeasures, the establishment and enforcement of motor vehicle regulations, that reduce the severity of injury and property damage caused by motor vehicle crashes. On November 15, 2021, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Pub. L. 117-58), also referred to as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), was signed into law. The Crash Data section (section 24108) of the BIL authorizes the Secretary of Transportation (NHTSA by delegation) to use funds to enhance the collection of data under CISS by, among other things, including additional data collection sites. In the 60-day notice NHTSA published on January 26, 2022 (87 FR 4099), NHTSA estimated that there would be 32 data collection sites in each of the next three years. As a result of the additional funding provided by the BIL, NHTSA now plans to phase in 24 additional data collection sites in CISS over the next 3 years. NHTSA is now accounting for the increases in burden hours for interviewees, Police, Tow Yards and Medical Facilities for an additional 24 data collection sites. The total data collection sites will incrementally increase from 32 to 56 over the next three years. The increase in burden hours and cost for these additional data collection sites are reflected in the Burden to Respondent section of this document. The previous request for CISS (2017) indicated 5,605 burden hours, this request increases the burden to 12,063. The request for the collection of information is revised due to a) Increasing the number of crashes investigated by Crash Technicians for 2021 and future years, b) adding Special Study crashes into this package, and c) adding Special Crash Investigation (SCI) crashes into this package. The combined impact is an increase of 6,458 burden hours to NHTSA’s overall total.

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This information collection request covers the reporting and recordkeeping provisions associated with FDA's implementation of sections 222, 223, and 224 of the Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007 (FDAAA), which require that device establishment registrations and listings under section 21 U.S.C. 360(p) (including the submission of updated information) be submitted to the Secretary by electronic means, unless the Secretary grants a request for waiver of the requirement because the use of electronic means is not reasonable for the person requesting the waiver.

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Section 1311(c)(3) of the Affordable Care Act directs the Secretary to develop a system to rate QHPs on the basis of quality and price and requires Exchanges to display this quality rating information on their respective websites. Section 1311(c)(4) of the Affordable Care Act requires the Secretary to develop an enrollee satisfaction survey (ESS) system to assess enrollee experience with each QHP (with more than 500 enrollees in the previous year) offered through an Exchange. Section 1311(h) requires QHPs to contract with certain hospitals that meet specific patient safety and health care quality standards beginning January 1, 2015. CMS is requesting approval for information collection associated with these related Marketplace quality standards.

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The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) seeks to renew the control number (1004-0121) pertaining to the leasing of solid minerals other than coal and oil shale other than coal and oil shale on Federal land, and the development of those lease. Respondents affected by this information collection request are those who desire to obtain lease for Federal minerals other than coal and oil shale, and operators of such leases. The regulations at 43 CFR part 3590 apply to operations for discovery, testing, development, mining, reclamation, and processing. The BLM request that OMB renew this OMB Control Number of an additional three years.

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Due to Congress authorizing VA to require a prospective fiduciary to obtain a surety bond as a part of the certification process of a prospective fiduciary, VA is requiring fiduciaries to submit proof of adequate bonding with annual accounting to facilitate its oversight responsibility as mandated. RIN 2900-AR11, Fiduciary Bond, does not use a form to collect this information. However, the amended information request is made by VA field fiduciary personnel. They make the request either verbally or by letter that informs the fiduciary to submit the original bond certificate or the contractual agreement between the fiduciary and the bonding company as proof of adequate bonding. This amended collection of information is required to fulfill VA requirements mandated by Congress, for oversight of fiduciaries. The VA Fiduciary Program would not be able to provide adequate oversight of certain fiduciaries appointed to receive VA benefits in excess of $25,000 on behalf of a beneficiary without proof that surety bonds are in place to protect these funds.

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The Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO), the agency within Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) charged with helping implement many provisions of the Affordable Care Act including the establishment of Affordable Insurance Exchanges (Exchanges), needs to collect data from individual agent/brokers to register them with the Federally-facilitated Exchange (FFE) and provide the required training in Exchange enrollment policies and procedures. Both section 1312(e) of the Affordable Care Act and 45 CFR ?155.220 permit States to allow agent/brokers to enroll individuals, employers, and employees in Qualified Health Plans (QHPs), including through the Exchanges; and assist individuals in applying for advance payments of the premium tax credit and cost-sharing reductions. Agent/brokers will serve as additional access points to the Exchange for individuals or SHOP employers/employees requiring or desiring agent/broker assistance. Agent/brokers must register with the FFE and meet training requirements that enforce their understanding of eligibility and enrollment in Exchanges prior to enrolling individuals or SHOP employer/employees in QHPs through the Exchanges. They must also apply this understanding to the development of any non-Exchange Web site used as a tool for enrollment. Agent/broker designed and administered web sites or tools will improve the flow of information to the FFE, and State-based Exchanges may also find these tools useful toward streamlining data submissions and easing the burden on the Exchange. The collection of information from agent/brokers described in detail below is needed to register and completion training with the FFE. Collected information will be used by CMS/CCIIO to verify the completion of the training requirement, provide the public with a list of registered agent/brokers trained in Exchange enrollment requirements and functions, and perform oversight of agent/brokers operating through the FFE.

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These reports are used by the OCC to monitor overseas exposure of U.S. banks in individual countries. The OCC uses the information to analyze trends in overseas lending by individual U.S. banks and the U.S. banking system as a whole. The data are preliminary indicators of relative levels of risk undertaken by individual banks and serve as a crucial tool in the examination process.

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The information is needed to ensure that the Commission and other regulators have access to complete data concerning swaps, as required by the Commodity Exchange Act as amended by the Dodd-Frank Act. The data would be reported to and maintained in swap data repositories, where it would not be disclosed publicly, but would be available to the Commission and other financial regulators for fulfillment of various regulatory mandates. The information is for use by government entities to provide oversight and supervision and to ensure compliance with statutes and regulations relating to swaps. Respondents are entities or persons who trade swaps. The Commission’s regulations in Part 46 require reporting counterparties to report data for pre-enactment swap and transition swaps to SDRs. The SDRs provide this data to the Commission directly. The Commission uses this data in connection with fulfilling its regulatory duties.

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The market risk rule, which requires banking organizations to hold capital to cover their exposure to market risk, is an important component of the regulatory capital rules that have been adopted by the Board, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) (collectively, the agencies). In order to implement the market risk rule, the agencies, acting under the auspices of the FFIEC, implemented the FFIEC 102, which collects key information from respondents on how they measure and calculate market risk under the regulatory capital rules. The Board’s market risk rule applies to state member banks (SMBs), bank holding companies (BHCs), covered savings and loan holding companies (covered SLHCs), and intermediate holding companies (IHCs) with aggregate reported trading assets and trading liabilities equal to or greater than 10 percent of quarter-end total assets or $1 billion (collectively, Board-regulated respondents). Board-regulated respondents must file the FFIEC 102 quarterly with the Board.

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Transportation Service Providers (carriers) furnish information in a uniform format so that the United States Government can determine the cost of transportation, accessorial, and security protective services and select the best value carriers for millions of Bill of Lading shipments annually.

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The National Provider Identifier Application and Update Form is used by health care providers to apply for NPIs and furnish updates to the information they supplied on their initial applications. The form is also used to deactivate their NPIs if necessary. The original application form was approved in February 2005 and has been in use since May 23, 2005. The form is available on paper or can be completed via a web-based process. Health care providers can mail a paper application, complete the application via the web-based process via the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES), or have a trusted organization submit the application on their behalf via the Electronic File Interchange (EFI) process. The Enumerator uses the NPPES to process the application and generate the NPI. NPPES is the Medicare contractor tasked with issuing NPIs, and maintaining and storing NPI data. The National Provider Identifier (NPI) Application processes over 1 million new provider and/or updates to existing application annually.

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U.S. commercial banks, savings associations, Edge or agreement corporations, bank holding companies (BHCs), savings and loan holding companies (SLHCs), and U.S. intermediate holding companies of foreign banking organizations (IHCs) (collectively, U.S. banking organizations) that meet certain criteria set forth in the FFIEC 009 instructions must file the quarterly FFIEC 009 with the Board, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) (collectively, the agencies) to report information on international claims. The agencies use this information to monitor the degree of country risk and transfer risk in U.S. banking organizations’ portfolios and the potential impact of adverse international developments on the banking organizations. The FFIEC 009a is a supplement to the FFIEC 009 that must be filed by FFIEC 009 filers that have exposure exceeding certain thresholds set forth in the FFIEC 009a instructions. The FFIEC 009a collects quarterly information on material foreign country exposures of U.S. banking organizations. The agencies collect the FFIEC 009 and FFIEC 009a under the auspices of the FFIEC. The Board is responsible for collecting and compiling the data reported on the FFIEC 009 and FFIEC 009a on behalf of all three agencies. Each of the agencies submits a separate supporting statement to OMB for this collection of information for relevant banking organizations under their supervision. For the Board, these banking organizations are state member banks, Edge or agreement corporations, BHCs, SLHCs, and IHCs.

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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL) reviews and investigates civil rights and civil liberties complaints filed by the public regarding U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) policies and activities. Under 6 U.S.C. 345 and 42 U.S.C. 2000ee-1, CRCL reviews and assesses allegations involving a range of alleged civil rights and civil liberties abuses, such as: • Discrimination based on race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability; • Violation of rights while in immigration detention or as subject of immigration enforcement; • Discrimination or inappropriate questioning related to entry into the United States; • Violation of due process rights, such as the right to timely notice of charges or access to lawyer; • Violation of confidentiality provisions of the Violence Against Women Act; • Physical abuse or any other type of abuse; • Denial of meaningful access to DHS or DHS-supported programs, activities, or services due to limited English proficiency and • Any other civil rights, civil liberties, or human rights violation related to a Department program or activity, including allegations of discrimination by an organization or program that receives financial assistance from DHS.

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The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) requests an approval of a renewal of the three-year clearance for the agency’s information collection requests for the State Reporting System for the Grants to States (G2S) Program under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA). Each State Library Administrative Agency (SLAA) is required, under 20 U.S.C. § 9101 et seq. (in particular 20 U.S.C. § 9134), to submit a plan that details library services goals for a five-year period, along with associated certifications. Pursuant to 20 U.S.C. § 9134 (c), each SLAA that receives an IMLS grant under the Grants to States program is required to evaluate and report on all funded project activities to IMLS, prior to the end of the execution of its five-year plan. Each SLAA receives IMLS funding to support activities for the five-year period through a series of overlapping two-year grant awards. Each SLAA must file interim and final financial reports, and final performance reports for each of these two-year grants through IMLS’s State Program Report (SPR) system. This action is to incorporate a Site Visit Checklist as a stand-alone form in the SPR system, which has an OMB Control Number of 3137-0071, expiring 8/31/2024.

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Nonsterile medical devices that are labeled as sterile but are in interstate transit to a facility to be sterilized are normally considered by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to be adulterated and misbranded. FDA regulations established a control mechanism by which firms may manufacture and label medical devices as "sterile" at one establishment and ship the devices in interstate commerce for actual sterilization at another establishment, a practice that facilitates the processing of devices and is economically necessary for some firms. Manufacturers and sterilizers may sign an agreement containing instructions for maintaining accountability of the number of units in each shipment, acknowledgment that the devices are nonsterile and are being shipped for further processing, and specifications for the product's sterilization processing. This agreement allows the manufacturer to ship adulterated or misbranded products to be sterilized without initiating regulatory action and provides FDA with a means to protect consumers from use of nonsterile products. The agreement must include: (a) Instructions for maintaining accountability of the number of units in each shipment; (b) acknowledgment that the devices are nonsterile, being shipped for further processing; and (c) specifications for sterilization processing. These agreements must be retained for two years, as FDA may review them up to two years after final shipment or delivery of devices.

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The Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 (BHC Act) and Board’s Regulation Y - Bank Holding Companies and Change in Bank Control (12 CFR 225) require a bank holding company (BHC) to seek the prior approval of the Board before purchasing or redeeming its equity securities in certain circumstances. Due to the limited information that a BHC must provide in connection with any such request, there is no required reporting form, and each request for prior approval is generally filed 30 days before the proposed stock purchase or redemption as a notification with the Reserve Bank that has direct supervisory responsibility for the requesting BHC. The Federal Reserve uses the information provided in the redemption notice to supervise BHCs.

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The guidance document “Medical Device Accessories--Describing Accessories and Classification Mechanisms for Accessory Types” encourages manufacturers and other parties to utilize the “de novo request” process defined in section 513(f)(2) of the FD&C Act to request risk-based classifications of new types of medical device accessories. This process provides a pathway to class I or class II classification for accessory devices for which general controls, or general and special controls, provide a reasonable assurance of safety and effectiveness, but for which there is no legally marketed predicate device. Under the de novo request process, manufacturers and other parties may submit a de novo requesting that FDA make a classification determination for the accessory device. The de novo must include a description of the device and detailed information and reasons for any recommended classification.