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Indian Health Service Loan Repayment Program

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The Indian Health Service (IHS) Loan Repayment Program (LRP) identifies health professionals with pre-existing financial obligations for education expenses that meet program criteria and who are qualified and willing to serve at, often remote, IHS health care facilities. Under the program, eligible health professionals sign a contract under which the IHS agrees to repay part or all of their indebtedness for professional training education. In exchange, the health professionals agree to serve for a specified period of time in IHS health care facilities. This information collection covers the application process for this program.

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Pub.L. 94 - 437 108	View Law

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FERC Form No. 60 (Annual Reports Of Centralized Service Cos.), FERC-61 (Narrative Description Of Service Co, FERC-555A (Preservation of Records Companies & Service Cos)

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In accordance with the Public Utility Holding Company Act 2005 (PUHCA 2005), the Commission requires centralized service companies to file FERC Form No. 60 or FERC-61, and comply with FERC-555A’s requirements unless the company is exempted or granted a waiver pursuant to the Commission’s regulations. The information collected in FERC Form No. 60 and FERC 61 enables better monitoring for cross-subsidization, and aids the Commission in carrying out its statutory responsibilities. In addition, centralized service companies are required under 555A to retain core business and accounting data to enable the Commission to meet its mandated rate review responsibilities and for agency audits. FERC requests a three-year extension of the information collection requirements for FERC Form No. 60, FERC-61, and FERC-555A with no changes to the current reporting requirements.

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42 USC 16451 et seq.	View Law

Pub.L. 109 - 58 1261-1277	View Law

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Pathways to Partnerships Program Evaluation

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The U.S. Department of Education's Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) requests clearance for new data collection activities to support the evaluation of the 84.421E Federal fiscal year (FFY) 2023 Disability Innovation Fund (DIF), Pathways to Partnerships Innovative Model Demonstration Project. The purpose of the DIF, as provided by the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022 (Pub. L. 117-103), is to support innovative activities aimed at increasing competitive integrated employment as defined in section 7 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Rehabilitation Act) (29 U.S.C. 705(5)) for children, youth, and other individuals with disabilities. The program aims to create systematic and seamless approaches to offering transition services to children with disabilities, ages 10-13 and youth with disabilities ages 14 to 24 through collaborations among State vocational rehabilitation (VR) agencies, State education agencies (SEAs), local education agencies (LEAs), Federally funded Centers for Independent Living (CILs), and other organizations offering services to this population. RSA is investing a total of $198,975,322 in grant funding to the 20 States through the FFY 2023 DIF. This request covers primary data collection activities for the National Evaluation of the Pathways to Partnerships Program. These activities include the following: o Surveys and interviews with program participants or their parent or guardian o Surveys with State VR, SEA, and CIL directors o Surveys and interviews with project staff o Collecting project administrative data (staff rosters, cost worksheets, and web analytics) from project directors In September 2023, RSA awarded five-year cooperative agreements for the 84.421E FFY 2023 DIF model demonstration projects. The awards provide 20 State VR agencies or SEAs with funding to implement Pathways to Partnerships model demonstration projects. The Pathways to Partnerships models vary across the 20 projects, but the projects' purpose is to create and implement systematic approaches to delivering transition services to children and youth with disabilities. The approaches must entail establishing close partnerships across key agencies to deliver these services in ways likely to improve the education and employment outcomes of children and youth with disabilities.

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29 USC 705(5)	View Law

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Program Evaluation Instruments - Environmental Conflict Resolution Services Participant Questionnaires (Five Instruments)

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As part of its program evaluation system, the John S. McCain III National Center for Environmental Conflict Resolution (National Center) plans to collect information on the quality of its services. The information collections (ICs) used for this program are being consolidated under a single Information Collection Request (ICR). All will be separate ICs under ICR 3320-0003. These ICs are: • National Center for Environmental Conflict Resolution Assessment Evaluation – Requester Questionnaire (former 3320-0003); • Mediation Services Participant Questionnaire (Agreement Seeking) (former 3320-0004); • Facilitated Meeting/Workshop Services (former 3320-0007); • ECR Support Services Evaluation – Requester Questionnaire (former 3320-0009); and • National Center for Environmental Conflict Resolution Facilitated Process Evaluation – Participant Questionnaire (former 3320-0010).

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Pub.L. 105 - 156 5	View Law

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Program Evaluation Instruments - Training and Workshop Services (One Instrument)

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As part of its program evaluation system, the John S. McCain III National Center for Environmental Conflict Resolution (National Center) plans to collect information on the quality of its services from users of its services.

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Pub.L. 105 - 156 5	View Law

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Laboratory Personnel Report (CLIA) and Supporting Regulations (CMS-209)

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This form is used by the State agency to determine a laboratory's compliance with personnel qualifications under CLIA. This information is needed for a laboratory's CLIA certification and recertification.

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Pub.L. 100 - 578 353	View Law

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Tribal Reassumption of Jurisdiction over Child Custody Proceedings, 25 CFR 13

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This information collection is necessary to allow the Bureau of Indian Affairs to determine if tribes are eligible to reassume jurisdiction from State governments over Indian child custody proceedings, in accordance with the Indian Child Welfare Act.

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25 USC 1918	View Law

18 USC 1162	View Law

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Loan Guarantee, Insurance, and Interest Subsidy Program, 25 CFR 103

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The Department of the Interior can guarantee or insure up to 90% of loans that private lenders extend to Indian tribes or individuals for economic enterprises on reservations. The information collected allows the Department to determine eligibility for the program, ensure reasonable prospects for repayment, and stay abreast of developments in the enterprises financed with guaranteed or insured loans.

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25 USC 1451 et seq	View Law

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Bureau of Indian Affairs Housing Improvement Program

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Submission of this information allows BIA to determine applicant eligibility for housing services based upon the criteria referenced in 25 CFR 256.9 (repairs and renovation assistance) and 256.10 (replacement housing assistance). Enrolled members of federally recognized tribes, who live within a tribe’s designated and approved service area, submit information on an application form. The information is collected on a BIA Form 6407, “Housing Assistance Application,” and includes: applicant information; family information including; income information; housing information including; land information; general information; and an applicant certification including. The program also seeks OMB approval for two additional collections. The Tribal Annual Performance Report (TAPR) Excel workbook file, is a tool created to simplify the process for the tribal servicing housing office to verify eligibility, rank, and rate each application received. The Government Performance Results Act (GPRA) Reporting Form is a tool created to simplify the process for the tribal servicing housing office to report the amount of administrative and construction funds spent each quarter of the first fiscal year after receipt of HIP funding.

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25 USC 13	View Law

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Student Transportation Form

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The information collection is needed to collect transportation mileage for Bureau funded schools for the purpose of allocating transportation funds, and for fiscal accountability and administrative planning.

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25 USC 2001	View Law

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Short-Time Compensation Grants

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The enactment of the MCTRJC contains Subtitle D, Short-Time Compensation (STC) Program, also known as the ‘‘Layoff Prevention Act of 2012.’’ The MCTRJC offers grants to implement or enhance an STC program and/or to promote and enroll employers in the program. ETA cannot monitor the STC grants without obtaining from the SWAs the quarterly status of completing the STC grant activities.

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Pub.L. 112 - 96 2164	View Law

Pub.L. 116 - 136 2110	View Law

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Pharmaceutical Distribution Supply Chain

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This information collection implements the Drug Supply Chain Security Act. Manufacturers, repackagers, wholesale distributors, and dispensers must: (1) Notify FDA when they have determined that a product in their possession or control is illegitimate or if a manufacturer when they determine that a product has a high risk of illegitimacy; (2) terminate such notifications after consultation with FDA; (3) notify certain immediate trading partners about an illegitimate product or if a manufacturer about a product with a high risk of illegitimacy; and (4) notify immediate trading partners when such notifications are terminated.

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21 USC 360eee	View Law

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Statement of Expenditures and Financial Adjustments of Federal Funds for Unemployment Compensation for Federal Employees and Ex-Service Members

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Federal civilian and military agencies must reimburse the Federal Employees Compensation Account for the amount expended for benefits to former Federal (civilian) employees and ex-servicemembers. The report informs ETA of the amount to bill such agencies.

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42 USC 503(a)(6)	View Law

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Self-Propelled Liquefied Gas Vessels

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The information is needed to ensure compliance with our rules for the design and operation of liquefied gas carriers. Respondents are owners and operators of self-propelled vessels carrying liquefied gas. 46 U.S.C. 3703 and 9101 are the statutory authorities for this collection.

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46 USC 3703	View Law

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Secretarial Elections

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This information collection addresses requests by Indian tribes for a Secretarial election to be held and petitions by tribal members for a Secretarial election as well as registrations and ballots to vote and challenges to election results.

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25 USC 5123	View Law

25 USC 5124	View Law

25 USC 5203	View Law

25 USC 473a	View Law

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Greater Atlantic Region Atlantic Sea Scallop Fishery Management Plan

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This Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) submission requests Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval of a renewal of the information collection requirements pertaining to the Atlantic Sea Scallop Fishery Management Plan (FMP) under OMB Control No. 0648-0491. The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) manages the Atlantic Sea Scallop fishery through regulations that limit catch of scallops, bycatch of certain other species, and fishing vessel activity. This fishery is only effectively managed and these regulations implemented through the use of information collected by NMFS to track fishing effort, catch, and the exchange of quota and trips through exchange by vessel owners. This information can only be collected through the reporting requirements included in this renewal.

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Economic Surveys of Specific US Commercial Fisheries

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS or NOAA Fisheries) is requesting an extension of this standard collection of information. The requested information will include different components of operating costs/expenditures, earnings, employment, ownership, vessel characteristics, effort/gear descriptors, and demographic information for the various types of fishing vessels operating in the 16 U.S. commercial fisheries or groups of fisheries listed below. 1. West Coast Limited Entry Groundfish Fixed Gear Fishery 2. West Coast Open Access Groundfish, Non-tribal Salmon, Crab, and Shrimp Fisheries 3. American Samoa Pelagic Longline Fishery 4. Hawaii Pelagic Longline Fishery 5. Hawaii Small Boat Fishery 6. American Samoa Small Boat Fishery 7. American Samoa, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Small Boat-Based Fisheries 8. Mariana Archipelago Small Boat Fisheries 9. USVI Small-Scale Fisheries 10. Puerto Rico Small-Scale Commercial Fisheries 11. Gulf of America Inshore Shrimp Fishery 12. Golden Crab Fisheries in the U.S. South Atlantic Region 13. West Coast Coastal Pelagic Finfish and Market Squid Fishery 14. West Coast Swordfish Fishery 15. West Coast North Pacific Albacore Fishery 16. Greater Atlantic Region Commercial Fisheries To make it easier for the public and other reviewers to focus on the responses for a specific fishery or set of fisheries and the associated information collection, we provide a separate set of 18 responses for each information collection. However, for responses that apply to the bundled information collection request as a whole, we present the full response for only the first information collection, indicate the response applies to all 16 collections and then only reference that response in the corresponding response for the other 15 collections, unless the response is very brief. The responses for the 16 information collections are very similar to those in the Supporting Statement Part A, which OMB reviewed and approved 04/27/2022. However, NMFS updated the name of one collection to be consistent with Executive Order 14172, revised the sex/gender and race/ethnicity questions to be consistent with current OMB guidance, updated the data used to estimate the hourly wage rates, which are used in calculating annual wage burden costs, and updated the government cost estimates. In addition, due to uncertainty concerning the timing of funding to support each collection and exogenous shocks (e.g., the COVID-19 pandemic), which affect the feasibility and/or desirability of collecting data for a specific year, the schedule for each of the 16 information collections needs to be flexible. Therefore, NMFS no longer provides the exact year for each collection and the resulting reports it will support.

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16 USC §§ 1801 et seq.	View Law

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16 USC §§ 1531-1544	View Law

42 USC §§ 4321 et seq.	View Law

5 USC §§ 601 et seq.	View Law

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Coastal and Estuarine Land Conservation, Planning, Protection, or Restoration

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This request is for an extension of a currently approved information collection. NOAA’s Office for Coastal Management requests the extension of a currently approved information collection. NOAA has, or is given, authority under the Coastal Zone Management Act (CZMA), annual appropriations or other authorities, to issue funds to coastal states, localities or other recipients for planning, conservation, acquisition, protection, restoration, or construction projects. The required information enables NOAA to implement the Coastal and Estuarine Land Conservation Program (CZMA section 307A), under its current or future authorization, and facilitate the review of similar projects under different, but related, authorities, including the National Estuarine Research Reserve System (CZMA section 315) Land Acquisition and Construction program, the Coastal Zone Management Program’s low-cost acquisition and construction program (CZMA section 306A), the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act, or other authorities. This collection covers the development of state coastal land conservation plans, and collection of information specifically needed for applying for and carrying out land acquisition, restoration and construction projects, such as: appraisals, property surveys and site plans, legal documentation such as deeds, easements and/or plats, and information needed for environmental compliance reviews. Such information is collected from project applicants or sub-recipients, which are typically state or local government agencies, but may also include nongovernmental or Tribal organizations. The information will be used in evaluating project proposals, reviewing the location and impact of proposed activities, documenting compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act and other applicable statutes, and conducting due diligence on market value, title encumbrances, property boundaries, proper recording of legal instruments. No changes are proposed to the collection.

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ATTESTATION FOR EMPLOYERS SEEKING TO EMPLOY H-2B NONIMMIGRANT WORKERS UNDER SECTION 105 OF DIVISION G, TITLE I OF THE FURTHER CONSOLIDATED APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2024, PUBLIC LAW 118-47, AS EXTENDED.

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This information collection request (ICR) supports the Temporary Final Rule (TFR), Exercise of Time-Limited Authority to Increase the Numerical Limitation for Fiscal Year 2025 for H-2B Temporary Nonagricultural Worker Program and Portability Flexibility for H-2B Workers Seeking To Change Employers, which is being promulgated by the Department of Labor (DOL or Department) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) (collectively, the Departments). The regulatory requirements will be codified at 8 CFR part 214 and 20 CFR part 655. The ICR includes a new form, Attestation for Employers Seeking to Employ H-2B Nonimmigrant Workers under Section 105 of Division G, Title I of the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024, Public Law 118-47 (FY 2024 Omnibus), as extended by section 101(6) and 106 of Division A, Title I of the Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025 Public Law 118-83, Form ETA-9142-B-CAA-9 (Form ETA-9142-B-CAA-9).

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Pub.L. 118 - 83 105	View Law

Pub.L. 118 - 47 101(6)	View Law

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Travel Expense Reimbursement

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The Social Security Act establishes travel expense reimbursement by Federal and state agencies for claimants travel incidental to medical examinations and to parties, their representatives, and all reasonably necessary witnesses for travel exceeding 75 miles to attend medical examinations, reconsideration interviews and proceedings before an administrative law judge. Reimbursement procedures require the claimant to provide 1) a list of expenses incurred, and 2) receipts of such expense. State and Federal personnel review the listings and receipts to verify the amount to be reimbursed to the claimant. The respondents are claimants for Title II benefits and Title XVI payments, their representatives and witnesses.

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42 USC 1383	View Law

42 USC 1395i	View Law

42 USC 401	View Law

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Socioeconomic Monitoring Study of National Park Service Visitors

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The National Park Service (NPS) Social Science Program is authorized by the National Park Service Protection, Interpretation, and Research in System (54 U.S.C. 100701) to collect information that will improve the ability of the NPS to provide effective management, protection, and interpretation across the Service. However, data is needed to generalize findings across all national park units in the System with regards to visitor experiences, attitudes, and spending behaviors. Current data does not allow for comparison across units or against a regional and nationwide benchmark of information. The proposed collection will provide generalizable results for NPS managers and planners across the System to understand and monitor visitor demographics, economic contribution, services, facilities, and infrastructure investments. Park units will be able to compare their unit data with regional and national-level data to make informed decisions in future planning and management efforts. In support of these goals, and in alignment with the Explore Act (Public Law 118–234), this effort will also advance national objectives to expand and improve outdoor recreation opportunities through enhanced data on use, access, and public engagement.

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54 USC 100701	View Law

Pub.L. 118 - 234 111-232	View Law

54 USC 100702	View Law

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Recreation Mapping for the Salmon River Basin, Idaho

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The USGS Minerals Research Program is interested in understanding how mining and reprocessing of legacy mine waste has the potential to impact people and values in the Salmon River Basin of central Idaho. Metals present in the Salmon River Mountains have been identified as critical to the energy transition. The Basin is also a hotspot for recreational activities, notably subsistence hunting and fishing, Wild and Scenic Rivers, and Wilderness. Managing these resources thus requires finding an acceptable balance and while much is known about mineral locations and extraction techniques, no quantitative information is available about how the public uses the Basin, where they use it, or the benefits they derive from it. We intend to collect spatial and non-spatial information on users, uses, and associated values.

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43 USC 41-45	View Law

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North American Breeding Bird Survey

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The North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) assists in fulfilling the Secretary of Interior's responsibilities under the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act by collecting avian population data for numerous migratory nongame birds in the United States. The BBS is a long-term, large-scale avian monitoring program to track the status and trends of North American bird populations. Volunteers conduct avian point counts once per year during the breeding season (primarily June). Volunteers skilled in avian identification listen for 3 minutes at 50 stops along the route recording all birds seen or heard. Data are submitted electronically via the Internet or on hard copy. These data are used to estimate population trends and abundances at various geographic scales and assist with documenting species distribution.

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110 Stat. 26

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16 USC 703-712	View Law

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Request for Change to Unreduced Annuity

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RI 20-120 collects information from annuitants whose marriages have ended and who request an annuity paid at the unreduced rate without provisions for a survivor benefit.

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5 USC Section 8339(j)(5)(A) and (B)	View Law

5 USC Section 8419(b)	View Law

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Reindeer in Alaska

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The information collected which respondents generate is used to monitor the use of reindeer by non-Natives in fulfillment of the Reindeer Industry Act of 1937, as amended.

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25 USC 500	View Law

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