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The USGS Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Units Program originated in 1935 to fill a need for qualified wildlife and fisheries professionals and provide evidence based graduate research to inform resource management. Currently the program has 40 individual Units in 38 states and formalizes relationships among a state natural resources management agency, a host university, the USGS, the USFWS, and the Wildlife Management Institute. The program’s graduate education and research mission has remained largely unchanged through its tenure, yet the issues challenging fish and wildlife conservation have transformed. This raises questions about the program’s support and sustainability into the future and how best to address cooperator needs. Through focused surveys and interviews, this information collection will ask participants to evaluate their communication and relationships with individuals in the program. The data will be used to examine the structure, communication, and socio-technical connectivity using network analysis and agent based modeling. This information collection aims to improve our understanding of the Cooperative Research Units Program and how it meets its partners’ needs.

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OMB Memorandum M-20-23, “Aligning Federal Agency Operations with the National Guidelines for Opening Up American Again,” dated April 20, 2020, requires employers to develop and implement policies and procedures for workforce contact tracing following an employee’s COVID-19 positive test. In doing so, M-20-23 requires symptomatic Federal employees and contractors to follow their Agency’s process if they are symptomatic or test positive for COVID-19. EPA’s processes will protect the anonymity and privacy of Federal employees and contractors, to the extent possible, while disclosing only the information necessary for agencies to take appropriate actions of notifying potentially affected employees and cleaning the facility. Additionally, per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidance entitled Get and Keep America Open, COVID-19 Contact Tracing is essential to reduce the spread of COVID-19. Furthermore, in response to the Coronavirus Pandemic, public health leaders are calling for communities around the country to ramp up capacity and implement a massive contact tracing effort to control spread of the Coronavirus. The response and recovery from the effect of COVID-19 will continue to present Federal agencies with unprecedented challenges, as well as opportunities for improvement, that require new processes and practices such as COVID-19 Contact Tracing to keep the workforce and the public safe. As EPA plans to reconstitute the workforce, it is essential to have an internal EPA Contact Tracing Program that informs mission readiness and protects our workforce.

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Subtitle C, Title XXXV of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year (FY) 2004, The Maritime Security Act of 2003 (MSA 2003), as amended, provides for enrollment of eligible vessels in the Maritime Security Program (MSP) for FY 2006 through FY 2015. The National Defense Authorization Act of 2013 extended the MSP from fiscal year 2016 through 2025. The respondents are required, to obtain and/or retain benefits, to submit an initial application in written form to the Secretary of the Maritime Administration (MARAD) on behalf of the Secretary of Transportation. The application format, can be completed electronically and submitted electronically (electronic signatures are accepted). The application information is used by MARAD’s Office of Sealift Support to evaluate eligibility of the applicant for participation in the MSP. In addition, respondents are required to submit monthly vouchers and reports that require certification under the signature of an authorized company representative and an annual financial report. The monthly vouchers and reports can also be submitted electronically as well as the annual financial reports. Monthly and annual reporting information is submitted directly to the Office of Sealift Support, and is used to monitor participant compliance with program requirements. Requests for amendments are handled in the same manner as an application.

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IRC section 42 permits owners of residential rental projects providing low-income housing to claim a credit against their income tax. If the property is disposed of or it falls to meet certain requirements over a 15-year compliance period and a bond is not posted, the owner must recapture on Form 8611 part of the credit(s) taken in prior years.

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USMMA graduates and SMA SIP graduates use form MA-935 to request a waiver of their service obligation requirement, form MA-936 to request deferring their service obligation, or form MA-937 to request one final review of the MARAD decision made on these requests by the Maritime Administrator. The information collected on these forms is then reviewed by the responsible government agencies (MARAD, DOD, Coast Guard and NOAA) as part of the service obligation compliance function. Failure to collect this information would make it difficult for MARAD to determine compliance with the obligation and the enabling statute. Every student and graduate of the USMMA and each SMA SIP subsidized student and graduate of the State maritime academies incurs a mandatory service obligation as a participant in the Federal maritime academy program. This obligation consists of: (1) completing the academies course of instruction; (2) maintaining a license as an officer in the merchant marine of the United States for at least six years following graduation from a maritime academy; (3) serving as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Naval Reserve, the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve or any other reserve unit of an armed force of the United States for at least six years following graduation from a maritime academy; and (4) serving as a merchant marine officer on U.S.-flag vessels, as an employee in a U.S. maritime-related industry ashore or as a commissioned officer on active duty in an armed force of the United States or NOAA Corps. The employment service obligation is three years for SIP subsidized state maritime academy graduates and five years for U.S. Merchant Marine Academy graduates. The graduates of the USMMA and the SMA graduates provide an annual report to the USMMA or MARAD between January and March that provides service obligation compliance data for the previous year. Students and graduates of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and State maritime academies are required to complete these forms when requesting waivers and/or deferments of their service obligation contract.

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The Harbor Maintenance Fee (HMF) and Trust Fund is used for the operation and maintenance of certain U.S. channels and harbors by the Army Corps of Engineers. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is required to collect the HMF from importers, domestic shippers, and passenger vessel operators using federal navigation projects. Commercial cargo loaded on or unloaded from a commercial vessel is subject to a port use fee of 0.125 percent of its value if the loading or unloading occurs at a port that has been designated by the Army Corps of Engineers. The HMF also applies to the total ticket value of embarking and disembarking passengers and on cargo admissions into a Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ). CBP Form 349, Harbor Maintenance Fee Quarterly Summary Report, and CBP Form 350, Harbor Maintenance Fee Amended Quarterly Summary Report are completed by domestic shippers, foreign trade zone applicants, and passenger vessel operators and submitted with payment to CBP. CBP uses the information collected on CBP Forms 349 and 350 to verify that the fee collected is timely and accurately submitted. These forms are authorized by the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 (26 U.S.C. 4461, et seq.) and provided for by 19 CFR 24.24, which also includes the list of designated ports. CBP Forms 349 and 350 are accessible at http://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/publications/forms or they may be completed and filed electronically at www.pay.gov.

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The notice provides a description of the procedures that taxpayers will be required to follow to make an irrevocable election to take the investment tax credit for energy property under section 48 of the Internal Revenue Code in lieu of the production tax credit under section 45 of the Internal Revenue Code.

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The reporting requirements are to ensure the check pilots and instructors are adequately trained and checked/evaluated to ensure they are capable and competent to perform the duties and responsibilities required by the air carrier to meet the regulations. Experienced pilots who would otherwise qualify as flight instructors or check airmen, but who may not medically eligible to hold the requisite medical certificate are mandated to keep records that may be inspected by the FAA to certify eligibility to perform flight instructor or check airmen functions. This information is inspected on occasion and will be used by the FAA to determine and to assure that check airmen and instructors maintain the high qualification standards (training and experience) required to perform their safety functions.

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Pursuant to delegated authority under the Defense Production Act (50 App. U.S.C. §§2061-2170), EO 13603, EO 12656, and 46 CFR 340; MARAD issues pre-emergency, standby Port Planning Orders (PPO) to the DoD-designated strategic commercial seaports (port) for providing port facilities to support military deployments during national emergencies. At DoD request (since the 1980's), MARAD has been collecting a Monthly Readiness Report from each port to validate the port’s ability to provide the PPO delineated facilities to DoD within the PPO delineated time frame. GAO Report GAO-14-184SU, dated February 02, 2014, recommended that MARAD collect additional data from the strategic commercial ports. DoD now requires this enhanced data on a quarterly basis for DoD contingency planning and readiness evaluation purposes. The collected information is required to obtain and/or retain benefits. All data collected from the strategic commercial seaports is maintained by the Office of the Associate Administrator for Strategic Sealift as For Official Use Only (FOUO) and is not intended for release to the public.

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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 main objective of the TeamSTEPPS 3.0 program is to improve patient safety by training health care staff in various teamwork, communication, and patient safety concepts, tools, and techniques and ultimately increase national capacity for supporting teamwork-based patient safety efforts in health care organizations.

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To meet the goals and objectives that demonstrate the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPAs) and the Administrations commitment to achieving environmental justice and embedding environmental justice into Agency programs, the Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Grantmaking Program provides about $600 million in 11 cooperative agreements funding to Grantmakers who will function as pass-through entities for the Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Subgrants (2 CFR Parts 200 and 1500). Each Grantmaker will collaborate with EPA to design and build their own processes to receive and evaluate applications to fund the initial development of community-led environmental justice projects.Emergency Justfication:With this Information Collection Request (ICR), EPA seeks emergency clearance by October 31, 2024 for six Grantmakers to solicit applications for their first round of subgrants to be launched in October 2024. EPA cannot reasonably comply with the normal clearance procedures because the time between the Grantmakers receipt of their funding awards and the launch of their subaward programs (3 months) does not allow sufficient time to obtain PRA clearance using the standard ICR process (which typically takes 6-9 months). Collection of the information requested under this emergency clearance (i.e., applications) is essential for the Grantmakers to have a mechanism for selecting and distributing subaward grants to fund environmental justice projects in underserved communities, thus fulfilling the central objective of the program. The six-month emergency clearance period will cover the first round of subaward applications that will be solicited by six Grantmakers in October 2024. Subsequent rounds of applications for these six Grantmakers will be authorized via a Standard ICR package for the Grantmaking Program that will be submitted for review via the standard ICR approval process.

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The items covered by this information collection package are used for the planning and design of electric distribution, transmission, and generation system and facilities owned by RUS Borrowers.

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The Peer Review Improvement Act of 1982 authorizes quality improvement organizations (QIOs), formerly known as PROs, to acquire information necessary to fulfill their duties and functions and places limits on disclosure of the information. These requirements are on the QIOs to provide notices to the affected parties when disclosing information about them. These reqirements serve to protect the rights of the affected parties.

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Pursuant to the Inventors' Rights Act of 1999, 35 U.S.C. 297, and implementing regulations at 37 CFR part 4, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is required to provide a forum for the publication of complaints concerning invention promoters and responses from the invention promoters. Upon receipt of a complaint, the USPTO will forward it to the inventor promoter for a response. The USPTO does not investigate these complaints or participate in any legal proceedings against invention promoters or promotion firms. Under the Act, USPTO is responsible for making complaints and responses available to the public on the USPTO's website. A complaint submitted to the USPTO must be clearly marked, or otherwise identified, as a complaint. The complaint must include: (1) The name and address of the complaint; (2) the name and address of the invention promoter; (3) the name of the customer; (4) the invention promotion services offered or performed by the invention promoter; (5) the name of the mass media in which the invention promoter advertised providing such services; (6) and example of the relationship between the customer and the invention promoter; and (7) a signature of the complainant. Identifying information is necessary so that the USPTO can both forward the complaint to the invention promoter or promotion firm as well as notify the complainant that the complaint has been forwarded. Complainants should understand that the complaints will be forwarded to the invention promoter for response and that the complaint and response will be made available to the public as required by the Inventors' Rights Act. If the USPTO does not receive a response from the invention promoter, the complaint will be published without a response. The USPTO does not accept under this program complaints that request confidentiality. This information collection contains one form, Complaint Regarding Invention Promoter (PTO/2048A), which is used by the public to submit a complaint under this program. This form is available for download from the USPTO website. Use of this form is voluntary, and the complainant may submit his or her complaint without the form via any of the approved methods of collection as long as the complainant includes the necessary information and the submission is clearly marked as a complaint filed under the Inventors' Rights Act. There is no associated form for submitting responses to the complaints.

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This information is being requested in order to promote the safety of individuals in Federal buildings and on DoD installations, consistent with the COVID-19 Workplace Safety: Agency Model Safety Principles established by the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force and guidance from the CDC and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. This information will be used by DoD staff charged with implementing and enforcing workplace safety protocols and is required for ensuring compliance with the requirement for attestation by all civilian employees, on-site contractors, and official visitors. Vaccination status for Military Service members will be obtained by alternate means using DoD’s Individual Medical Readiness system.

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This information collection extends the existing requirements for both the Connected Care Pilot Program and the COVID-19 Telehealth Program.

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This form is used by taxpayers to apply for relief from a significant hardship which may have already occurred or is about to occur if the IRS takes or fails to take certain actions. This form is submitted to the IRS Taxpayer Advocate Office in the state or city where the taxpayer lives.

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Certain sellers of gasoline and diesel fuel may be required under section 4101 to post bond before they incur liability for gasoline and diesel fuel excise taxes imposed by sections 4081 and 4091. This form is used by taxpayers to give bond and provide other information required by regulations sections 48.4101-2.

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UAM vehicles are a part of NASA’s vision for Advanced Air Mobility, which seeks to develop new air transportation systems that move people and cargo between places previously not served or underserved by aviation. Representative UAM vehicle concepts involve the use of electrically driven rotors, and the noise from these air vehicles in communities may restrict their operation. The collection is a laboratory psychoacoustic test that seeks test subject annoyance response to sounds of different vehicles. The UAM Vehicle Noise Human Response Study is divided into a feasibility phase (Phase 1) and an implementation phase (Phase 2). In response to the recognition that annoyance response studies benefit from a diversity of test subjects, it was decided that both phases of the UAM Vehicle Noise Human Response Study will remotely administer a psychoacoustic test. The approval sought by this ICR only concerns Phase 1 of the test.