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TVA's Generic Clearance for the collection of qualitative feedback on agency service delivery, community engagement, and usability testing.

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This information collection will enable TVA to obtain qualitative customer and stakeholder feedback on services and programs, as well as community needs and concerns, in an efficient, timely manner, in accordance with the Administration's commitment to improving service delivery and enhancing public engagement. It will also enable the public to register for public forums, events, and other opportunities, and participate in usability testing of forms, software, and websites designed for customer and stakeholder connections. The qualitative feedback requested provides useful insights on perceptions and opinions, but not statistical surveys that yield quantitative results that can be generalized to the population of study. The feedback and input will provide TVA with insights into customer or stakeholder perceptions, experiences, and expectations; help TVA quickly identify actual or potential problems with how the agency provides services to the public; focus attention on areas where communication, training, or changes in operations might improve TVA's delivery of its products or services; and engage the public on community needs and concerns to guide the direction of new products and services. These collections will allow for ongoing, collaborative, and actionable communication between TVA and its customers and stakeholders. It will also allow feedback and input to contribute directly to the improvement of program management. TVA will solicit feedback and input in areas such as timeliness, appropriateness, accuracy of information, courtesy, efficiency of service delivery, resolution of issues with service delivery, impacts of events, community needs and concerns, and interest in new programs and services. TVA will use the responses to plan and inform its efforts to improve or maintain the quality of service and programs offered to the public and chart the direction of new programs and offerings. TVA will use the registration information for logistical planning for public events, required access control to government property, and connection to service and program offerings; and the usability testing to ensure forms, software, and websites provide simple instructions and easy to navigate directions. If this information is not collected, TVA will not have access to vital feedback and input from customers and stakeholders about the agency's services and programs and the public will not have access to TVA-sponsored events, programs, or services. TVA will only submit an information collection for approval under this Generic Clearance if it meets the following conditions: the collections are voluntary. the collections are low burden for respondents (based on considerations of total burden hours, total number of respondents, or burden hours per respondent) and are low-cost for both the respondents and the Federal Government. the collections are non-controversial and do not raise issues of concern to other Federal agencies. the collections are targeted for solicitation of feedback and input from respondents who have experience with the program or who may have future experience with the program. personally identifiable information (PII) is collected only to the extent necessary and will not be retained beyond immediate need. information gathered is intended to be used only internally for general service improvement and program management purposes and is not intended for release outside of the agency (if released, TVA will indicate the qualitative nature of the information). information gathered will not be used for the purpose of substantially informing influential policy decisions. information gathered will yield qualitative useful information and the collections will not be designed or expected to yield statistically reliable results or used as though the results are generalizable to the population of study. information collections will not result in any new system of records containing privacy information and will not ask q

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Student Assistance General Provisions

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Section 84001 of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB), signed into law by President Trump on July 4, 2025, established an accountability framework for all postsecondary programs of study that participate in the Direct Loan Program, modifying the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (HEA). The proposed framework would compare the median earnings of graduates to median earnings of a comparison group and would discontinue a program’s Direct Loan eligibility if its graduates earn less than the comparison group. On January 5, 2026, the Department of Education (the Department) convened a negotiated rulemaking committee to consider the new institutional accountability framework to develop regulations that improve institutional accountability by increasing transparency on program costs, aid, and outcomes. This is a request for a revision of the currently approved collection 1845-0022 Student Assistance General Provisions. Revisions to this collection will allow the Department to obtain the required information to implement the accountability framework as outlined in OBBB.

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20 USC 1001-1003, 1070g, 1085, 1088	View Law

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The National Map: Topographic Data Grants

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The National Geospatial Program (NGP) of the US Geological Survey (USGS) provides funding to collect, archive and disseminate base layer geospatial data as part of The National Map. We accept applications from State, Local or Tribal governments; nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations; and academic institutions to advance the development of The National Map and other national geospatial databases.

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[Medicaid] Rural Health Transformation (RHT) Program Reporting

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On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed Public Law 119-21, which the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) refers to as the “Working Families Tax Cut” (WFTC) legislation, into law. The legislation authorized the Rural Health Transformation (RHT) Program, marking a significant federal investment of $50 billion over five years and is designed to empower as many as 50 State awardees to catalyze transformative improvements within their rural healthcare ecosystems. The principal objective is to enhance healthcare access, quality, and outcomes through innovative, system-wide change, thereby investing in the health of rural communities for future generations.

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Pub.L. 119 - 21 71401	View Law

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The Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (EARTH MRI) Mine Waste Cooperative Agreements

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The Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (Earth MRI; https://www.usgs.gov/special-topics/earth-mri) is a component of MRP and is a national effort to carry out the fundamental resources and mapping mission of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The goal of Earth MRI is to improve our knowledge of the geologic framework in the United States and to identify areas that may have the potential to contain critical mineral resources. Enhancement of our domestic mineral supply will decrease the Nation’s reliance on foreign sources of minerals fundamental to national security and the economy. USGS developed a new competitive cooperative agreement program with the State geological surveys to support mine waste activities authorized and funded by the BIL. State geological surveys apply for funds through an annual competitive agreement process. The Earth MRI Mine Waste Cooperative Agreements support three goals of the USGS-Earth MRI effort: 1) building a national mine waste inventory, 2) characterizing mine waste at sites across the nation, and 3) partnering with State geological surveys to plan Earth MRI data acquisition. Individual State projects last for up to two years.

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Community Support Requirements

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The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) uses the information to determine if Federal Home Loan Bank members satisfy the statutory and regulatory community support requirements. Only members meeting the requirements may access long-term advances. FHFA is requesting a non-substantive change to the information collection to change how it asks for Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) data. Currently, a member that is subject to the CRA must record its most recent CRA rating and the year of that rating. With the proposed change, FHFA will provide the most recent CRA rating and year we have on file, and ask the member to confirm and update, if necessary. This will reduce the burden on the members.

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12 USC 1430(g)(1)	View Law

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Application, Reports, and Recordkeeping for the Social Impact Partnerships to Pay for Results Act (SIPPRA) Grant Program

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Authorized under the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, the Social Impact Partnerships to Pay for Results Act (SIPPRA or Act), amends Title XX of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. 1397 et seq., to provide $100 million in funding to implement “Social Impact Partnership Demonstration Projects” (projects) and feasibility studies to assist states and local governments in applying for project funding. SIPPRA authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury (Secretary) to enter into award agreements with state or local governments for projects addressing entrenched social problems. SIPPRA requires the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) to conduct a request for proposals for projects, make award decisions, and enter into project award agreements. Treasury is publishing a Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) seeking applications for projects, and anticipates that ten or more persons will respond to its notice announcing availability of funding for SIPPRA projects. Although Treasury is asking applicants to use the SF-424 family of common forms for their applications, in order to effectively and efficient assess and evaluate applications and ensure that projects comply with statutory requirements, Treasury is also soliciting additional detailed information from applicants. This request only includes the burden for this additional information. The burden for the SF-424 forms is covered under OMB Control Numbers 4040-0004, 4040-0006, 4040-0007, 4040-0008, 4040-0009, 4040-0010 and 4040-0013. The additional information includes the following components: • Project Narrative, to include an Executive Summary; • Project Narrative Attachments, to include project budget, partnership agreements, partner qualifications, independent evaluator qualifications, evaluation design plan, independent evaluator contract, outcome valuation), legal compliance, and (optional) additional supporting documentation such as a preexisting feasibility study; o The evaluation design plan is discussed further below • Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) and SAM registration; • Copy of application proposing privileged or confidential information to be redacted; • Treasury Office of Civil Rights and Diversity Assurances and Certifications • Administrative Reporting, including Performance and Financial Report, Evaluation Progress Reports, and Final Evaluation Report; • Records Retention

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42 USC 1397	View Law

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Accountability Definitions

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Section 84001 of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB), signed into law by President Trump on July 4, 2025, modified the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (HEA). Proposed regulations stemming from the OBBBA require updates to several regulatory sections. Burden for these sections can be found spread across many currently approved information collection packages. On January 30, 2026, the Department published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) titled Reimagining and Improving Student Education (RISE) (91 FR 4254) revising 34 CFR Part 685. Specifically, the RISE NPRM proposed to add several new definitions under §685.102: expected time to credential, graduate student, professional student and program length. The OBBBA accountability framework also proposes amending §685.102 by adding new definitions: eligible non-GE program and gainful employment program (GE program). Due to the timing of these regulatory packages, the Department is requesting approval of a new collection to define eligible non-GE program and gainful employment program (GE program). Once regulations are final, the Department will merge 1845-0190 with 1845-0021 William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program (DL) Regulations so the burden for §685.102 stays within one information collection without compromising the public’s review of proposed rules and burden of the new accountability framework. This way, all regulations proposed by changes from the OBBBA can be put out for public comment and OMB approval, as we are unable to propose regulatory changes to §685.102 in two separate NPRMs.

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20 USC 1091	View Law

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Earnings Accountability Reporting, Disclosures, and Warnings

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Section 84001 of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB), signed into law by President Trump on July 4, 2025, established an accountability framework for all postsecondary programs of study that participate in the Direct Loan Program, modifying the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (HEA). The proposed framework would compare the median earnings of graduates to median earnings of a comparison group and would discontinue a program’s Direct Loan eligibility if its graduates earn less than the comparison group. This information collection seeks to update the current accountability regulations with the requirements of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The Department is also requesting that 1845-0173 and 1845-0174 information requirements and burden be merged with this collection (1845-0814) and be renamed 1845-0184 Earnings Accountability Reporting, Disclosures, and Warnings. It no longer makes sense to separate these collections with the proposed harmonization of regulations.

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20 USC 1231a	View Law

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Pub.L. 119 - 21 84001	View Law

20 USC 1221e-3	View Law

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WIC & FMNP Outreach, Innovation, and Modernization Evaluation

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The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 provided FNS with $390 million and waiver authority for WIC modernization. The WIC modernization evaluation will help FNS understand the implementation and impacts of these efforts to inform ongoing and future modernization efforts. Respondents include WIC State and local agencies, WIC/FMNP vendor/market staff, and participants.

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Pub.L. 117 - 2 1106	View Law

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[NCHS] Collaborating Center for Questionnaire Design and Evaluation Research

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This generic clearance request encompasses general questionnaire development, pre-testing, measurement-error reduction activities to be carried out in 2021-2024 in the Division of Research and Methodology, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The change request is for RANDS 11 to adhere to recent executive orders. This generic reinstatement without change requests 14,100 annualized burden hours, totaling 42,300 burden hours over a three-year period.

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Medicare Part C and Part D Program Audit Protocols (CMS-10717)

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42 CFR 422.502 describes CMS' regulatory authority to evaluate, through inspection or other means, Medicare Advantage Part C organizations. These records include books, contracts, medical records, patient care documentation and other records that pertain to any aspect of services performed, reconciliation of benefit liabilities, and determination of amounts payable. 42 CFR 423.503 states that CMS must oversee a Part D plan sponsor's continued compliance with the requirements for a Part D plan sponsor. 423.514 states that the Part D plan sponsor must have an effective procedure to develop, compile, evaluate, and report to CMS, to its enrollees, and to the general public, at the times and in the manner that CMS requires, statistics regarding areas such as cost of operations, patterns of utilization availability, accessibility, and acceptability of services. CMS developed a strategy to address our oversight and audit responsibilities within the context of limited audit/oversight resources. We have combined all Part C and Part D guides into one universal guide promoting efficiency and effectiveness and reducing financial and time burdens for both CMS and Medicare-contracting entities.

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42 USC 1395w-112	View Law

42 USC 1395w–27	View Law

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Military Experiences, Risk and Protective Factors, and Adolescent Health and Well-Being

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In partnership with the Millennium Cohort Program to assess the direct and indirect association of military experiences with adolescents’ psychosocial adjustment and physical health, academic achievement, and educational/military career aspirations to identify risk and protective factors that may promote or inhibit positive outcomes among military-connected adolescents and their families.

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[NCHS] Developmental Projects to Improve the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and Similar Programs

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The mission of the Division of Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (DHNES) is to produce descriptive statistics that measure the health and nutrition status of the general population. The continuous operation of DHNES programs presents unique challenges in testing new survey content and data collection activities, such as outreach or participant screening etc. This generic request covers developmental projects to help evaluate and enhance DHNES existing and proposed data collection activities to increase research capacity and improve data quality, as well as developmental projects for similar NCHS data collections.

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Pub.L. 101 - 445 103	View Law

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Medicare Part C and D Reporting Requirements (CMS-10185)

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Section 1857(e)(1) and Section 1860D–12(b)(3)(D) of the Social Security Act (the Act) authorizes the Secretary to include contract terms requiring Medicare Advantage Organizations (MAOs) and Part D sponsors to provide information deemed necessary and appropriate. Pursuant to this authority, CMS codified these information collection requirements at 42 CFR § 422.516 for MAOs and § 423.514 for Part D sponsors. Compliance with these disclosure and reporting requirements is enforced under 42 CFR §§ 422.504 and 423.505. .

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Pub.L. 110 - 275 164	View Law

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Cargo Tank Motor Vehicles in Liquefied Compressed Gas Service

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The information collections request (ICRs) within this OMB control number are mandatory for cargo tank motor vehicles in natural gas service. Entities that deliver natural gas will be most likely to respond to these ICRs. This OMB control number includes both reporting and recordkeeping requests. These ICRs are typically conducted on an as-needed basis. The information in these ICRs consist of testing reports conducted by the entities and provided to enforcement personnel. The information within these ICRs may be requested by PHMSA for enforcement purposes. The purpose of these ICRs are to ensure that equipment used in the delivery of flammable compressed gases is done so in compliance with the Hazardous Materials Regulations (HMR) ensuring their safe transportation.

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49 USC USC 5101-5127	View Law

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Inspection and Testing of Meter Provers

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The information collections request (ICRs) within this OMB control number are mandatory for those who load or unload liquid hazardous materials involving bulk packagings, such as cargo tanks and portable tanks. Entities that load or unload liquid hazardous materials involving bulk packagings will be most likely to respond to these ICRs. This OMB control number includes reporting requests. These ICRs are typically conducted on an as-needed basis. The information in these ICRs consist of testing reports conducted by the entities and provided to enforcement personnel. The information within these ICRs may be requested by PHMSA for enforcement purposes. The purpose of these ICRs are to ensure that equipment used in the loading or unloading of liquid hazardous materials involving bulk packagings is done so in compliance with the Hazardous Materials Regulations (HMR) ensuring their safe transportation.

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49 USC 5101-5127	View Law

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Granting and Withdrawal of Deeming Authority to Private Nonprofit Accreditation Organizations and of State Exemption Under State Laboratory Programs and Supporting Regs (CMS-R-185)

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The information required is necessary to determine whether a private accreditation organization's or State licensure program's standards and accreditation/licensure process is equal to or more stringent than those of CLIA.

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42 USC 493	View Law

Pub.L. 100 - 578 353	View Law

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Submissions of Acute Hospital Care at Home (AHCAH) Waiver Submission and Data Collection (CMS-10950)

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Acute Hospital Care at Home is a waiver initiative established by CMS on November 23, 2020 in response to the unprecedented strain on hospital capacity due to the severe national increase in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) witnessed. This waiver, which is granted at the individual hospital/CMS Certification Number (CCN) level, waives §482.23(b) and (b)(1) of the Hospital Conditions of Participation (CoPs) which require nursing services to be provided on premises 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and the immediate availability of a registered nurse for care of any patient. In exchange for this flexibility, hospitals will utilize models of at-home hospital care that have seen prior success in several leading hospital institutions and networks. This care and its results have been reported in leading academic journals, including a major study funded by a Healthcare Innovation Award from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI). This extensive research has shown that quality and safety are at least as high as that received by similar patients admitted to traditional brick and mortar hospitals.

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Applications for Merchant Mariner Credentials and Medical Certificates

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In accordance with Title 46 CFR Parts 10, 11, 12, 13, and 16, the collection of this information is necessary to determine competency, character & physical qualifications for the issuance of a Merchant Mariner Credential (MMC) or Medical Certificate.

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46 USC Subtitle II, Part E

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1,3-Butadiene Standard (29 CFR 1910.1051)

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The purpose of this standard and its information collection requirements is to provide protection for workers from the adverse health effects associated with occupational exposure to 1,3-Butadiene.

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29 USC 657	View Law

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29 USC 655	View Law

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Form PF and Rule 204(b)-1

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Form PF and rule 204(b)-1 under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (“Advisers Act”) require certain investment advisers registered with the SEC to report confidential information about the private funds they advise. The rules implement provisions of Title IV of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (“Dodd-Frank Act”), which amended the Advisers Act to require the SEC to, among other things, establish reporting requirements for advisers to private funds. The information collected on Form PF is designed to facilitate the Financial Stability Oversight Council’s (“FSOC”) monitoring of systemic risk in the private fund industry and assist FSOC in determining whether and how to deploy its regulatory tools with respect to nonbank financial companies. The SEC and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) also may use information collected on Form PF in their regulatory programs, including examinations, investigations, and investor protection efforts relating to private fund advisers. Form PF is a joint form between the SEC and the CFTC with respect to sections 1 and 2; the SEC solely adopted the other sections of the form.

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Chafee Strengthening Outcomes for Transition to Adulthood (Chafee SOTA) Project Overarching Generic

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The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) seeks Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval for a 3-year extension of an overarching generic clearance to submit individual information collection (GenIC) requests for evaluations of programs serving youth transitioning out of foster care as part of the Chafee SOTA Project. Potential data collection efforts will request similar information using similar methods, which could include conducting interviews/focus groups, and surveys with current, past, or potential participants in programs serving youth with foster care experience (e.g., including potential participants who are included in comparison groups). The purpose of these efforts is to inform ACF programming by building evidence about what works to improve outcomes for the target population, and to identify innovative learning methods that address common evaluation challenges. The iterative and rapid nature of the methods to be utilized, as well as the necessity of ongoing, authentic engagement of experts with lived experience, poses a challenge to complying with the timeline for seeking full approval of each individual information collection activity subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA). Since ACF knows the types of methods that will be used and types of information that will be requested but does not have information needed to tailor the information to each site. This information will not be available until a date closer to when studies will begin, ACF sought approval for an overarching generic clearance to conduct this work. This work is ongoing and an extension is being requested. In this request ACF has reduced the number and type of potential respondents and the number of responses per respondent to reduce the overall expected burden for the project. For each GenIC, instruments will be tailored to the specific intervention and the specific site; once a set of instruments for a particular site is developed, and prior to use in the field, ACF will submit a supporting statement Part A and B and the specific instruments to be used to OMB for approval.

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Annual Survey of Refugees

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The Annual Survey of Refugees (ASR) helps the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) meet its congressional reporting requirements, as specified in The Refugee Act of 1980 (Section 413 of the Immigration and Naturalization Act, [8 U.S.C. 1523]). From the time of their arrival in the United States, refugees are eligible for social services, including means-tested public assistance, according to eligibility criteria established by the locality in which they are resettled. Following an initial 90-day reception period funded by the U.S. Department of State, ACF, through ORR, provides transitional resettlement assistance through a network of national non-profit grantees and their local affiliates. In many cases, these services are expected to end after an 8-month resettlement period. By that time, refugees are expected to be transitioned to mainstream social services or to self-sufficiency. The design of the resettlement program means that ORR has limited administrative information on refugees’ experiences after the 8-month resettlement period. The information collected through the ASR generates national population estimates of refugee labor force participation, public benefits receipt, English language acquisition, and conversion to legal permanent residency to meet Congressional reporting requirements. Given that ORR does not have access to cross-program administrative data on refugees’ participation in state-provided services, a representative survey is the most resource-efficient way to meet ORR’s annual reporting requirements, laid out in the Refugee Act of 1980. In particular, descriptive information from the survey is used to meet the requirement of 413(b)(1): “an updated profile of the employment and labor force statistics for refugees who have entered the United States within the five-fiscal-year period immediately preceding the fiscal year within which the report is to be made.” Descriptive information from the survey is also used alongside quantitative and qualitative data collected during program administration to meet the requirements of 413(b)(5): “the extent to which (A) the services provided under this chapter are assisting refugees in achieving economic self-sufficiency, achieving ability in English, and achieving employment commensurate with their skills and abilities.” This request is for an extension with no changes to complete data collection for the 2025 Annual Survey of Refugees (ASR) and to field the 2026 ASR while updates are considered and tested. As such, this request is for two years of approval, and the Office of Refugee Resettlement will submit a revision request prior to the 2027 ASR.

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Disclosure of Violations of the Arms Export Control Act

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This information collection is a way for the DoS to quantify the amount of burden placed on businesses who voluntarily disclose ITAR violations. Notification of violation(s) must be in writing and include the information and supporting documentation listed in the last paragraph of A(1) of the supporting statement.

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