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Conservation Effects Assessment Project

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The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is requesting a substantive change to the National Resources Inventory Conservation Effects Assessment Project (NRI CEAP) survey. To aid in contacting respondents, the introduction of text and email reminder messages is being requested. The change in this request will increase burden hours.

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18 USC 1905	View Law

7 USC 2276	View Law

7 USC 3601.1	View Law

Pub.L. 115 - 435 302	View Law

7 USC 2204(a)	View Law

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Report on Occupational Employment and Wages

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The Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) survey is a Federal/State establishment survey of wage and salary workers designed to produce data on current detailed occupational employment and wages for each Metropolitan Statistical Area and Metropolitan Division as well as by detailed industry classification. OEWS survey data assists in the development of employment and training programs established by the Perkins Vocational Education Act of 1998 and the Workforce Investment Act of 1998. Respondents include private establishment, schools, hospitals, State and Local Government.

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Pub.L. 101 - 649 205	View Law

Pub.L. 105 - 220 309	View Law

29 USC 2	View Law

Pub.L. 105 - 332 118-122	View Law

29 USC 1	View Law

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Certification of Compliance with the Statutory Eligibility Requirements of the Violence Against Women Act as Amended

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This information is necessary for OVW to determine that grantees under the STOP Violence Against Women Formula Grant Program comply with the statutory eligibility requirements of the Violence Against Women Act, as amended. To be eligible for funds, applicants must certify that they are in compliance with relevant requirements under 28 CFR Part 90 and 34 U.S.C. §10441, 10446-10451, and 10454.

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34 USC 10441	View Law

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Rule 22d-1 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 - Exemption from section 22(d) to permit sales of redeemable securities at prices which reflect sales loads set pursuant to a schedule.

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Rule 22d-1 (17 CFR 270.22d-1) is an exemptive rule that allows registered investment companies that issue redeemable securities to offer scheduled variations in or elimination of the sales load on such securities. A registered investment company that chooses to rely on rule 22d-1 must meet certain conditions and notice requirements. This collection, among other things, involves a third-party disclosure requirement to furnish adequate information concerning any scheduled variation to shareholders and investors in registration statements.

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15 USC 80a	View Law

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Exemption for Certain Multi-State Investment Advisers (Rule 203A-2(d))

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Rule 203A-2(d) under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 permits all investment advisers required to register as advisers with 15 or more states to register with the Commission, and requires any adviser relying on the rule to maintain in an easily accessible place a record of the states in which the investment adviser has determined it would be required to register for a period of not less that five years from the filing of a Form ADV relying on the rule.

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Authorizing Statutes

15 USC 80b-3a(c)	View Law

15 USC 80b-11(a)	View Law

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Customer Account Statements (17 CFR 242.607)

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Rule 607 requires disclosure on each new account and on a yearly basis thereafter, on the annual statement, the firm's policies regarding receipt of payment for order flow from any market makers, exchanges or exchange members to which it routes customers' orders in national market system securities for executions; and information regarding the aggregate amount of monetary payments, discounts, rebated or reduction in fees received by the firm over the past year.

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15 USC 78a et seq	View Law

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[NCIRD] National Disease Surveillance Program - II. Disease Summaries

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These data are essential on the local, state, and federal levels for measuring trends in diseases, evaluating the effectiveness of current preventive strategies, and determining the need to modify current preventive measures. The following diseases/conditions are included in this program: Influenza Virus, Caliciviruses, Respiratory and Enteric Viruses, Parechoviruses, Arthropod-Borne Diseases and Enteroviruses. This Revision makes minor edits including changes to forms and a small burden increase.

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Authorizing Statutes

42 USC 241	View Law

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Securities Act Rule 477

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Rule 477 (17 CFR 230.477) governs the withdrawal of a Securities Act of 1933 (“Securities Act”) registration statement. The rule provides that a registrant must sign any application for withdrawal and must state fully in it the grounds on which the registrant makes the application. The rule further provides that the registrant must state in the application that no securities were sold in connection with the offering. The information collection requirements help to ensure that the Commission has sufficient information regarding a registrant’s application to withdraw a registration statement to determine whether to grant such application (based on whether such withdrawal is consistent with the public interest and the protection of investors).

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15 USC 77b(b), 77f, 77g, 77h, 77s(a)	View Law

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Rule 12h-1(f)

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Under Section 12(g) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (“Exchange Act”), an issuer that has a class of equity security (other than an exempted security) held of record by 2,000 persons, or 500 persons who are not accredited investors and total assets in excess of $10 million at the end of its most recently ended fiscal year must register that class of equity security with the Commission, unless there is an available exemption from registration. Stock options, including stock options issued to employees under stock option plans, are a separate class of equity security for purposes of the Exchange Act. Rule 12h-1(f) (17 CFR 240.12h-1(f)) provides an exemption for private, non-reporting issuers from Exchange Act Section 12(g) registration for compensatory employee stock options issued under employee stock option plans where certain conditions, including certain information provision conditions, are present. Among other things, the exemption requires an issuer to provide information to option holders and holders of shares received on exercise of compensatory employee stock options. The purpose of the information collection is to provide holders of compensatory employee stock options in private, non-reporting issuers that are relying on the exemption from Exchange Act registration of the compensatory employee stock options appropriate disclosure and investor protections under the Federal securities laws.

Federal Register Notices

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Authorizing Statutes

15 USC 78l(h), 78w, 78mm	View Law

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Rule 17f-5 (17 CFR 270.17f-5) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, Custody of Investment Company Assets Outside the United States

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Rule 17f 5 (17 CFR 270.17f 5) under the Investment Company Act of 1940 governs the custody of the assets of registered management investment companies (“funds”) with custodians outside the United States. The rule allows a fund or its foreign custody manager (as delegated by the fund’s board) to maintain the fund’s foreign assets in the care of an eligible fund custodian under certain conditions. If the fund board delegates to a foreign custody manager, the rule requires that the fund board find that it is reasonable to rely on each delegate and the delegate must agree to provide written reports to the fund board and establish a system to monitor the performance of the contract. The collection of information requirements under the rule are intended to provide protection for fund assets maintained with a foreign bank custodian.

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15 USC 80a-17(f)	View Law

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Current Agricultural Industrial Reports (CAIR)

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The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is seeking a three-year extension for its ongoing annual collection and publications. The data from the CAIR surveys will supply data users with important information on the utilization of many of the crops, livestock, and poultry produced in the United States. NASS currently collects crop data on acres planted and harvested, production, price, and stocks for these crops (grains, oilseeds, cotton, nuts, etc.), along with livestock data on the number of animals and poultry produced, slaughtered, prices, and the amount of meat kept in cold storage. The CAIR data series provides data users with vital information on how much of these commodities were processed into fuels, cooking oils, flour, fabric, etc. These additional data are needed to provide a more complete picture of the importance of agriculture to the American population.

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Pub.L. 115 - 435 301	View Law

Pub.L. 104 - 13 3501	View Law

7 USC 2204(g)	View Law

7 USC 2276	View Law

7 USC 3601.1	View Law

18 USC 1905	View Law

7 USC 2204 (a)	View Law

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Approval Procedures for Incidental Harassment Authorizations of Marine Mammals, 50 CFR 18.27

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Section 101(a)(5)(D) of the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 (MMPA; 16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.) authorizes the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary) to allow, upon request, the incidental, but not intentional, taking by harassment of small numbers of marine mammals of a species or population stock by U.S. citizens who engage in a specified activity (other than commercial fishing) within a specific geographic region for periods of not more than 1 year. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (we, Service) will authorize incidental take by harassment if statutory and regulatory procedures are followed and the Service finds: (i) take is of a small number of marine mammals of a species or stock, (ii) take will have a negligible impact on the species or stock, and (iii) take will not have an unmitigable adverse impact on the availability of the species or stock for taking for subsistence uses by Alaska Natives.

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16 USC 1361	View Law

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IRF-PAI for the collection of data pertaining to the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System and Quality Reporting Program (CMS-10036)

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is requesting an extension to the approval of the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility-Patient Assessment Instrument (IRF-PAI) Version 4.4 that will be effective on October 1, 2026. Specifically, we are proposing to change the data submission deadlines for data submitted for the purposes of the IRF QRP. If finalized as proposed, these updates would not add any additional collection burden for IRFs. CMS is asking for an extension of the approval of the IRF-PAI Version 4.4, which will have an October 1, 2026 implementation date. The IRF-PAI Version 4.2 will have a runoff period through September 30, 2026 and sunset when the IRF-PAI Version 4.4 takes effect on October 1, 2026.

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Authorizing Statutes

Pub.L. 105 - 1 4421	View Law

Pub.L. 111 - 148 3004	View Law

42 USC 1395ww(jX2)(d)	View Law

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Rule 22e-4 (17 CFR 270.22e-4) under the Investment Company Act 0f 1940, Investment Company Liquidity Risk Management Programs

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Rule 22e-4 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 requires an open-end management investment companies (but not money market funds) and an exchange-traded fund that redeems in kind to establish a written liquidity risk management program that is designed to assess and manage the fund's liquidity risk. The requirements under rule 22e-4 that a fund and In-Kind ETF, as applicable, adopt a written liquidity risk management program, report to the board, maintain a written record of how the highly liquid investment minimum was determined and written policies and procedures for responding to a shortfall of the fund’s highly liquid investment minimum, which includes reporting to the fund’s board of directors (for funds that do not primarily hold highly liquid investments), establish written policies and procedures regarding how the fund will engage in redemptions in kind, and retain certain other records are all collections of information under the PRA. In addition, the requirement under rule 22e-4 that the principal underwriter or depositor of a UIT assess the liquidity of the UIT on or before the date of the initial deposit of portfolio securities into the UIT and retain a record of such determination for the life of the UIT, and for five years thereafter, is also a collection of information under the PRA. The respondents to rule 22e-4 are open-end management investment companies (including, under certain circumstances, In-Kind ETFs but excluding money market funds), and the principal underwriters or depositors of UITs under certain circumstances. Compliance with rule 22e-4 is mandatory. The information collection requirements of rule 22e-4 are designed to ensure that funds maintain comprehensive, written liquidity risk management programs that promote compliance with the federal securities laws and protect investors. The information collections also assist the Commission’s examination staff in assessing the adequacy of funds’ liquidity risk management programs and identifying weaknesses in a fund’s liquidity risk management if violations occur or are uncorrected.

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15 USC 80a	View Law

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Requirements and Standards for FDIC-Supervised Permitted Payment Stablecoin Issuers and Insured Depository Institutions

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Requirements and Standards for FDIC-Supervised Permitted Payment Stablecoin Issuers and Insured Depository Institutions

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12 USC 5901-5916	View Law

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Quantifying the Benefits of Truck Parking (QBTP) Project

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The nationwide shortage of truck parking spaces is a significant source of frustration for truck drivers, increasing expenses for the trucking industry, and decreasing safety for all road users. Many government, safety, and industry organizations are working to create more truck parking spaces, but there is a lack of research on the actual precise monetary benefits of new truck parking spaces. To help State and local policymakers make informed decisions about the construction of truck parking spaces, FMCSA is conducting a research study, titled Quantifying the Benefits of Creating New Truck Parking Spaces, which will survey truck drivers about their parking habits and experiences, gaining the exact information needed to quantify the benefits of new truck parking spaces, including how often and how long truck drivers (a) park in unauthorized spaces, (b) stop driving early to obtain a parking space, (c) drive off their routes to find parking, and (d) drive past hours-of-service limits to find parking. The results of this survey will be combined with related research to produce estimates of the benefits of creating new truck parking spaces in different areas, which could be beneficial to the many government and private organizations that decide where to build new truck parking spaces. Several thousand truck drivers, from a wide range of sectors, will be asked to complete the 25-minute online survey, with a goal of obtaining approximately 1,000 complete responses. The total estimated burden for all respondents is 416 hours, at a total cost of $16,731.02.

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Transportation of Hazardous Materials, Highway Routing

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This request for an ICR extension consists of mandatory reporting. State and Indian tribes are required to provide information to the FMCSA identifying all non-radioactive hazardous materials routing designations (highways) which exist within their jurisdictions. FMCSA requires that States and Indian tribes notify the FMCSA if they establish, modify, maintain, or enforce non-radioactive hazardous materials highway routing designations, so that FMCSA can then publish the information in the Federal Register and on the FMCSA website at: https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov. FMCSA estimates there will be an average of one response every two years per State/U.S. Territory/Indian tribe and FMCSA publishes this information annually so carriers of placarded non-radioactive hazardous materials will have knowledge of the restrictions. Several States the District of Columbia, an Indian tribe, and U.S. Territories have designated/restricted highway routes and/or imposed restrictions or limitations affecting the highway transportation of certain hazardous materials. While these localized routing designations are intended to improve safety, the proliferation of uncoordinated State and local routing designations could impede the free flow of commerce, have little or no demonstrable positive effect on public safety, and result in the exportation of risk from one jurisdiction to another. The FMCSA estimates that 100% of the States and Indian tribes that are providing the information do so electronically. States that are presently restricting/designating routes are using various technologies to collect and organize this information. The FMCSA utilizes a computer system to store and retrieve the routing information. This enables FMCSA to provide routing information as mandated by statute.

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49 USC 5112	View Law

49 USC 5125	View Law

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Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act and Veterans' Preference Eligibility

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Title 38 U.S.C. Section 4322 of USERRA authorizes the Secretary of Labor (through the Veterans' Employment and Training Service) to investigate claims by individuals who believe their USERRA rights have been violated. The information is used to determine eligibility of veterans complaints to reemployment rights they are seeking as well as to state alleged violations by employers of the pertinent statutes and request assistance in obtaining appropriate reemployment benefits. The Veterans Employment Opportunities Act (VEOA) of 1998, P.L. 105-339, 112 Stat. 3182, contained in Title 5 U.S.C. § 3330a-3330(b), provides assistance to preference eligible individuals who believe their rights under the veterans' preference laws and the Veterans Benefit Improvement Act of 2008 (Public Law No: 110-389) have been violated. Section 3 of the VEOA provides the Secretary of Labor similar authority to investigate complaints brought by preference eligibles. The collection instrument completed by claimants contains the information required and needed for the Department to determine initial eligibility of the claimant.

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38 USC 4301	View Law

Pub.L. 110 - 389 312	View Law

5 USC 3330a	View Law

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West Coast Fisheries Participation Survey

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This request is for a revision and extension of an existing information collection. This survey updates the 2023 survey to remove a question regarding identity in underserved groups and provide multiple choice answer options for two questions that were previously open-ended in order to reduce response time. The overall purpose of collecting these data is to develop stakeholder-based societal inputs relative to fisheries participation, but these survey data will also increase the capacity of NOAA to respond effectively to relevant mandates and executive orders that guide social science activities within the National Marine Fisheries Service (NEPA, MFCMA and its National Standard 8, and Executive Order (EO) 12898).

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16 USC 1801 et seq.	View Law

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OFAC Sanctions Compliance Program (SCP) for Permitted Payment Stablecoin Issuers (PPSIs)

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This information collection request is submitted to request approval by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for a new OMB control number for the specific, new information collection and recordkeeping requirements for permitted payment stablecoin issuers (PPSI). PPSIs will be required to maintain an effective sanctions compliance program (SCP) under a proposed rulemaking to implement provisions of the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act (GENIUS Act), 12 U.S.C. 5901–5916, of July 18, 2025, issued jointly by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) within the Department of the Treasury. Pursuant to the GENIUS Act, OFAC is proposing new regulations that would add a new part 502 under 31 CFR chapter V. Section 502 would set forth the recordkeeping, reporting and other information collection requirements for PPSIs to develop and maintain an effective SCP. Even though the SCP will require five categories of elements, only internal controls (maintaining a copy of PPSI’s SCP in writing to be made available to OFAC upon request and providing a PPSI certification to OFAC upon request) and maintaining the records of results from testing and auditing and any enhancements identified for the SCP will be covered by this information collection. However, the internal controls time and cost burden are part of overall anti-money laundering/counter-terrorist financing (AML/CFT) internal controls and are therefore accounted for under FinCEN’s requested new OMB control number 1506-XXXX. Other information collection and recordkeeping requirements pursuant to any OFAC sanctions program are approved by OMB under control number 1505-0164 and contained in § 501.901 of OFAC’s Reporting, Procedures and Penalties Regulations (31 CFR part 501), which pertains to the operation of the various economic sanctions programs administered by OFAC under 31 CFR chapter V.

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Authorizing Statutes

12 USC 5901-5916	View Law

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Application Package for Strengthening Historically Black Graduate Institutions (HBGI) (1894-0001)

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The Strengthening Historically Black Graduate Institutions (HBGI) Program provides grants to assist institutions in establishing and strengthening their physical plants, development offices, endowment funds, academic resources and student services so that they may continue to participate in fulfilling the goal of equality of educational opportunity in graduate education. Since OMB’s last review and approval of the package, the application has been updated to include only the program-specific forms required for this collection. All standard forms that have already been approved by OMB and are not unique to this information collection, as well as additional information not directly related to the program-specific forms associated with this program, have been removed from the collection.

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20 USC Title III, Part B, Section 326	View Law

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Essential Health Benefits in Alternative Benefit Plans, Eligibility Notices, Fair Hearing and Appeal Processes, and Premiums and Cost Sharing; Exchanges: Eligibility and Enrollment (CMS-10468)

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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Public Law 111-148, enacted on March 23, 2010, and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act, Public Law 111-152, enacted on March 30, 2010 (collectively, “Affordable Care Act”), expands access to health insurance for individuals and employees of small businesses through the establishment of new Affordable Insurance Exchanges (Exchanges), including the Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP). The Exchanges, which became operational on January 1, 2014, enhanced competition in the health insurance market, expanded access to affordable health insurance for millions of Americans, and provided consumers with a place to easily compare and shop for health insurance coverage. Benefit Plans, Eligibility Notices, Fair Hearing and Appeal Processes, and Premiums and Cost Sharing; Exchanges: Eligibility and Enrollment (CMS-2334-F) address: (1) standards related to notices, (2) procedures for the verification of enrollment in an eligible employer-sponsored plan and eligibility for qualifying coverage in an eligible employer-sponsored plan; and (3) other eligibility and enrollment provisions to provide detail necessary for state implementation. The submission seeks OMB approval of the information collection requirements Sections 1311(b) and 1321(b) of the Affordable Care Act provide that each state has the opportunity to establish an Exchange that (1) facilitates the purchase of insurance coverage by qualified individuals through QHPs; (2) assists qualified employers in the enrollment of their employees in QHPs; and (3) meets other standards specified in the Affordable Care Act. Section 1311(k) of the Affordable Care Act specifies that Exchanges may not establish rules that conflict with or prevent the application of regulations promulgated by the Secretary. Section 1311(d) of the Affordable Care Act describes the minimum functions of an Exchange, including the certification of QHPs.

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Pub.L. 111 - 148 1311	View Law

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Data Security Requirements for Accessing Restricted Data

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The Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018 (44 U.S.C. 3583) mandates that the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) establish a standard application process (SAP) for requesting access to certain confidential data assets. While the adoption of the SAP is required for statistical agencies and units designated under the Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act of 2018 (CIPSEA), it is recognized that other agencies and organizational units within the Executive Branch may benefit from the adoption of the SAP to accept applications for access to confidential data assets. The SAP is to be a process through which agencies, the Congressional Budget Office, State, local, and Tribal governments, researchers, and other individuals, as appropriate, may apply to access confidential data assets held by a federal statistical agency or unit for the purposes of developing evidence. With the Interagency Council on Statistical Policy (ICSP) as advisors, the entities upon whom this requirement is levied are working with the SAP Project Management Office (PMO) and with OMB to implement the SAP. The SAP Portal is to be a single web-based common application designed to collect information from individuals requesting access to confidential data assets from federal statistical agencies and units. BJS makes the microdata it is required to protect as confidential available to approved researchers through a restricted access setting via its official criminal justice data archive. As a Federal Statistical Agency, BJS adheres to the SAP requirements and BJS restricted (confidential) microdata are available for discovery and application via the SAP Portal. In late 2022, the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES), in its role as the SAP PMO, published a 60-day Federal Register Notice (87 FR 53793) and 30-day Federal Register Notice (87 FR 66754) announcing plans to collect information through the SAP Portal. This collection request was submitted to the OMB as a Common Form in late 2022; the OMB control number for SAP Portal information collection is 3145-0271 and the expiration date is 12/31/2025.

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34 USC 10132	View Law

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EERE Small Businesses and Startups Impact Evaluation Data Collection

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This package requests approval for information collection from small businesses that have applied for funding through the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s ( EERE’s) financial assistance offerings, Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grants and prizes between 2008 and 2024, to collect information that will serve as inputs to a program evaluation study that will evaluate the impacts of EERE’s funding on small businesses. The results of this evaluation study will be used by DOE leadership to understand the impact to date and opportunities for improvement in financial awards provided to small businesses. This is planned to be a one-time information collection effort.

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Pub.L. 97 - 219 Small Business Innovation	View Law

42 USC 7133	View Law

Pub.L. 115 - 345 Foundations for Evidence-based	View Law

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Native American Language (NAL@ED) Application Package (1894-0001)

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The Office of Indian Education (OIE) of the U.S. Department of Education (ED) requests an extension of the information collection clearance for the Native American Language Program Grant Application (ALN84.415B), a competitive grant program authorized under Title VI, Part A, of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended (ESEA). The grant applications submitted for this program are evaluated on the basis of how well an applicant addresses the selection criteria and are used to determine applicant eligibility and amount of award for projects selected for funding. The criteria are not expected to change prior to a future competition.

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20 USC 7423	View Law

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