Federal Agencies Outline 46 Information Collection Options
Federal Acquisition Regulation (
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Type of request: OMB review and approve an extension of a currently approved information collection
The policies implemented at FAR 37.115, Uncompensated Overtime, are based on Section 834 of Public Law 101-510. The policies require insertion of FAR provision 52.237-10, Identification of Uncompensated Overtime, in all solicitations valued above the simplified acquisition threshold, for professional or technical services to be acquired on the basis of the number of hours to be provided.
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- Food and Nutrition Service: WIC Federal and State Agreements
Type of Request: Revision of a currently approved collection
The Federal-State Special Supplemental Nutrition Program Agreement collects information that is used by the
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Type of Request: Intent to seek renewal of a currently approved information collection for three years
Funding for the Children, Youth, and Families at Risk community project grants is authorized under section 3(d) of the Smith-Lever Act, as amended, and other relevant authorizing legislation, which provides jurisdictional basis for the establishment and operation of Extension educational work for the benefit of youth and families in communities. The CYFAR funding program supports community-based programs serving children, youth, and families in at-risk environments. CYFAR funds are intended to support the development of high quality, effective programs based on research and to document the impact of these programs on intended audiences. The CYFAR Year End Report collects demographic and impact data from each community site to conduct impact evaluations of the programs on its intended audience.
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Type of Request: Request renewal of an existing information collection for three years
NIFA established a process to designate veterinarian shortage situations for the VMLRP as authorized under section 1415A of the
- Rural Utilities Service: Certification of Authority
Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved collection
The Rural Utilities Service manages loan programs in accordance with the Rural Electrification Act of 1936, as amended. A major factor in managing loan programs is controlling the advance funds, including assuring that actual borrowers receive their funds. OMB Circular A-123, Management Accountability and Control, provides that information should be maintained on a current basis and that funds should be protected from unauthorized use. The use of RUS Form 675 allows effective control against unauthorized release of funds by providing a list of authorized borrower signatures against which signatures requesting funds are compared. Form 675 allows borrowers to keep RUS up to-date of changes in signature authority and controls release of funds only to authorized borrower representatives.
- Rural Utilities Service: Mergers and Consolidations of Electric Borrowers
Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved collection
The Rural Electrification Act of 1936, as amended authorizes and empowers the administration of RUS to make and guarantee loans to furnish and improve electric service in rural areas. Due to deregulation and restructuring activities in the electric industry, RUS borrowers may find it advantageous to merge or consolidate to meet the challenges of industry change. This information collection addresses the requirements of RUS policies and procedures for mergers and consolidations of electric program borrowers.
- Rural Utilities Service: Use of Consultants Funded by Borrowers
Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved collection
Section 18(c) of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936, as amended authorizes RUS to use consultants voluntarily funded by borrowers for financial, legal, engineering and other technical services. Consultants may be used to facilitate timely action on loan applications by borrowers for financial assistance and for approvals required by RUS, pursuant to the terms of outstanding loans, or other wise. RUS may not require borrowers to fund consultants. The provision of section 18(c) may be utilized only at the borrower's request. This collection of information implements RUS policies and procedures for use of consultants funded by RUS Borrowers to facilitate timely action on a borrower's loan application for financial assistance and for RUS approvals.
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- AFNConnect
Type of request: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
The information collection requirement is necessary to obtain and audit the eligibility of DoD Employees, DoD contractors,
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- Gainful Employment Recent Graduates Employment and Earning Survey Pilot Test
Type of Review: A new information collection
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Action: Announcement of
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Action: Notice; Correction
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Type of request: Revision
This information collection is needed to provide SAMHSA with objective information to document the reach and impact of services funded to address HIV and Hepatitis in the context of substance use disorders and mental illness. The information will be used to monitor quality assurance and quality performance outcomes for organizations funded by its grant programs. Collection of the information included in this request is authorized by Section 505 of the Public Health Service Act--Data Collection.
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- State Water Use Cooperative Funding Application
Type of Request: New information collection
The USGS is working with State Water Resource agencies to operate a Water Use Data and Research program. Section 9508 of the SECURE Water Act directs the Secretary of the Interior to administer grants to State water resource agencies to assist in developing water use and availability datasets that are integrated with each appropriate dataset developed or maintained by the Secretary or grants that integrate any water use or water availability dataset of the State water resource agency into each appropriate dataset developed or maintained by the Secretary. Responsibility for administration of this State Water Use Grants program has been delegated to the
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- Rehabilitation Maintenance Certificate
Type of request: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
This ICR seeks approval under the PRA for revisions to the Rehabilitation Maintenance Certificate, Form OWCP-17, information collection. The OWCP administers the Federal Employees' Compensation Act, 5 U.S.C. 8101 et seq., and the
- National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Job ChalleNGe Evaluation
Type of request: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
The National Guard Youth ChalleNGe program is one of a handful of interventions that have demonstrated positive, sustained impacts on the educational attainment and labor market outcomes of youth who are not in school or the labor force. The goal of Youth ChalleNGe, a residential program, is to build confidence and maturity, teach practical life skills, and help youth obtain a high school diploma or GED. The program's numerous activities address its eight core pillars: Leadership/followership, responsible citizenship, service to community, life-coping skills, physical fitness, health and hygiene, job skills, and academic excellence.
- Prohibiting Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity by Contractors and Subcontractors
Type of request: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
This ICR seeks to extend PRA authority for the Prohibiting Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity by Contractors and Subcontractors information collection codified in regulations 41 CFR parts 60-1, 60-2, 60-3, 60-4, and 60-50. Among other things, these regulations set forth information disclosure and reporting requirements for covered Federal contractors, subcontractors, and federally assisted construction contractors and subcontractors.
- Affordable Care Act Internal Claims and Appeals and External Review Procedures for Non-Grandfathered Plans
Type of request: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
This ICR seeks to extend PRA authority for the Affordable Care Act internal claims and appeals and external review procedures for non-grandfathered health plans information collection information collection requirements codified in regulations 29 CFR 2590.715-2719(b)(2) and 2560.503-1. This ICR includes the reporting and third party notice and disclosure requirements a plan must satisfy under interim final regulations implementing provisions of the Affordable Care Act, which amended the Public Health Service Act among other things. The subject regulations pertain to internal claims and appeals and to the external review process.
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Type of Review: Extension
This information collection is used by OWCP examiners to ascertain the financial condition of the beneficiary to determine if the overpayment or any part can be recovered; to identify the possible concealment or improper transfer of assets; and to identify and consider present and potential income and current assets for enforced collection proceedings. The questionnaire provides a means for the beneficiary to explain why he/she is without fault in an overpayment matter. If this information were not collected BLBA, EEOICPA and FECA would have little basis to determine appropriate collection proceedings. This information collection is currently approved for use through
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Type of Review: Extension
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- Iraqi Citizens and Nationals Employed by Federal Contractors and Grantees
Type of Request: Revision of a Currently Approved Collection
The information requested will be used to verify the employment of Iraqi citizens and nationals for the processing and adjudication of other refugee, asylum, special immigrant visa, and other immigration claims and applications.
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- Consumer Leasing Act
Type of Review: Extension without change of a currently approved collection
Consumers rely upon the disclosures required by the Consumer Leasing Act, 15 U.S.C. 1667 et seq. and Regulation M, 12 CFR 1013, for information to comparison shop among leases, as well as to ascertain the true costs and terms of lease offers. Federal and state enforcement and private litigants use the records to ascertain whether accurate and complete disclosures of the cost of leases have been provided to consumers prior to consummation of the lease. This information provides the primary evidence of law violations in CLA enforcement actions brought by federal agencies. Without Regulation M's recordkeeping requirement, the agencies' ability to enforce the CLA would be significantly impaired.
- Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
Type of Review: Extension without change of an existing approved information collection
Section 502 of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act generally prohibits a financial institution from sharing nonpublic personal information about a consumer with nonaffiliated third parties unless the institution satisfies various disclosure requirements (including provision of initial privacy notices, annual notices, notices of revisions to the institution's privacy policy, and opt-out notices) and the consumer has not elected to opt out of the information sharing. The Bureau promulgated regulation P 12 CFR 1016 to implement the GLBA's notice requirements and restrictions on a financial institution's ability to disclose nonpublic personal information about consumers to nonaffiliated third parties.
- Mortgage Assistance Relief Services
Type of Review: Extension without change of a currently approved collection
The required disclosures under Regulation O assist prospective purchasers of mortgage assistance relief services in making well-informed decisions and avoiding deceptive and unfair acts and practices. The information that must be kept under Regulation O's recordkeeping requirements is used by the CFPB and the
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Type of request: Renewal
- NESHAP for Hazardous Waste Combustors
Type of request: Renewal
The affected entities are subject to the General Provisions of the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants at 40 CFR part 63, subpart A, and any changes, or additions to the General Provisions specified at 40 CFR part 63, subpart EEE. Hazardous waste combustors include: Hazardous waste incinerators, hazardous waste cement kilns, hazardous waste lightweight aggregate kilns, hazardous waste solid fuel boilers, hazardous waste liquid fuel boilers, and hazardous waste hydrochloric acid production furnaces. Owners or operators of the affected facilities must submit a one-time-only report of any physical or operational changes, notification of exceedances, notification of performance test and continuous monitoring system evaluation, notification of intent to comply, notification of compliance, notification if the owner or operator elects to comply with alternative requirements, initial performance tests, and periodic reports and results.
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- Procedures for Monitoring Bank Protection Act Compliance
Type of request: Proposed Collection Renewal
The collection requires insured state nonmember banks to comply with the Bank Protection Act and to review bank security programs.
- Mutual-to-Stock Conversion of State Savings Banks
Type of request: Proposed Collection Renewal
State nonmember savings banks must file a notice of intent to convert to stock form, and provide the
- Notice Regarding Unauthorized Access to Customer Information
Type of request: Proposed Collection Renewal
This collection reflects the
- ID Theft Red Flags
Type of request: Proposed Collection Renewal
The
- Furnisher Information Accuracy and Integrity
Type of request: Proposed Collection Renewal
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- Report of Transaction Accounts, Other Deposits, and Vault Cash
Action: Final approval under OMB delegated authority of the extension for three years, with revision, of the following report (Announcement)
Institutions with net transaction accounts greater than the exemption amount are called nonexempt institutions. Institutions with total transaction accounts, savings deposits, and small time deposits greater than or equal to the reduced reporting limit, regardless of the level of their net transaction accounts, are also referred to as nonexempt institutions. Nonexempt institutions submit FR 2900 data either weekly or quarterly. An institution is required to report weekly if its total transaction accounts, savings deposits, and small time deposits are greater than or equal to the nonexempt deposit cutoff. If the nonexempt institution's total transaction accounts, savings deposits, and small time deposits are less than the nonexempt deposit cutoff then the institution must report quarterly or may elect to report weekly.
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Action: Final approval under OMB delegated authority of the extension for three years, without revision (Announcement)
The supervision and policy functions of Federal Reserve have occasionally needed to gather data on an ad-hoc basis from the banking and financial industries on their financial condition and decisions that organizations have made to adjust to the changes in the economy.
- Consumer Financial Stability Surveys
Action: Final approval under OMB delegated authority of the extension for three years, without revision (Announcement)
The surveys are used to gather qualitative and quantitative information directly from: Consumers, financial institutions and other financial companies offering consumer financial products and services, and other stakeholders, such as state or local agencies, community development organizations, brokers, appraisers, settlement agents, software vendors, and consumer groups.
= Annual Report of Deposits and Reservable Liabilities
Action: Final approval under OMB delegated authority of the extension for three years, without revision (Announcement)
The FR 2910a is an annual report generally filed by depository institutions that are exempt from reserve requirements under the Garn-St Germain Depository Institutions Act of 1982 and whose total deposits, measured from depository institutions' December quarterly condition reports, are greater than the exemption amount but less than the reduced reporting limit. The report contains three data items that are to be submitted for a single day,
- Report of Foreign Currency Deposits
Action: Final approval under OMB delegated authority of the extension for three years, without revision (Announcement)
All FR 2900 respondents, both weekly and quarterly, that offer deposits denominated in foreign currencies at their U.S. offices file the FR 2915 quarterly on the same reporting schedule as quarterly FR 2900 respondents. Foreign currency deposits are subject to reserve requirements and, therefore, are included in the FR 2900 data. However, because foreign currency deposits are not included in the monetary aggregates, the FR 2915 data are used to net foreign currency-denominated deposits from the FR 2900 data in order to exclude them from measures of the monetary aggregates. The FR 2915 is the only source of data on such deposits.
- Allocation of Low Reserve Tranche and Reservable Liabilities Exemption
Action: Final approval under OMB delegated authority of the extension for three years, without revision (Announcement)
Institutions with offices in more than one state or
- Registration of a
Type of request: Proposal to approve under OMB delegated authority the extension for three years, without revision
On
- Request for Proposal and Request for Price Quotations
Type of request: Proposal to approve under OMB delegated authority the extension for three years, with revision
The Federal Reserve uses the RFP and the RFPQ as appropriate to obtain competitive proposals and contracts from approved vendors of goods and services. This information collection is required to collect data on prices, specifications of goods and services, and qualifications of prospective vendors.
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- Monitoring for the
Type of request; Renewal
This document has been prepared to support the clearance of data collection instruments to be used in the evaluation of the
- Updated Standardized Research Performance Progress Report Format to be Used for Both Interim and Final Performance Progress Reporting
Type of request: Public Comment
The RPPR that was originally developed for use in preparation and submission of annual and other interim performance progress reports resulted from an initiative of Research Business Models, an
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- Authorization for the
ype of Request: Revision of an OMB-approved information collection
SSA collects and verifies financial information from individuals applying for Supplemental Security Income payments to determine if the applicant meets the SSI resource eligibility requirements. If the SSI claimants provide incomplete, unavailable, or seemingly altered records, SSA contacts their financial institutions to verify the existence, ownership, and value of accounts owned. Financial institutions require individuals to sign Form SSA-4641-F4, or complete the e4641 electronic application, to authorize them to disclose records to SSA. The respondents are SSI applicants, recipients, and their deemors.
- Site Review Questionnaire for Volume and Fee-for-Service Payees and Beneficiary Interview Form
Type of Request: Revision of an OMB-approved information collection
SSA asks organizational representative payees to complete Form SSA-637, the Site Review Questionnaire for Volume and Fee-for-Service Payees, to provide information on how they carry out their responsibilities, including how they manage beneficiary funds. SSA then obtains information from the beneficiaries these organizations represent via Form SSA-639, Beneficiary Interview Form, to corroborate the payees' statements. Due to the sensitivity of the information, SSA employees always complete the forms based on the answers respondents give during the interview. The respondents are individuals, State and local governments, non-profit and for-profit organizations serving as representative payees, and the beneficiaries they serve.
- Notification of a Social Security Number To An Employer for Wage Reporting
Type of Request: Revision of an OMB-approved information collection
Individuals applying for employment must provide a
- Important Information About Your Appeal, Waiver Rights, and Repayment Options
Type of Request: Revision of an OMB-approved information collection
When SSA accidentally overpays beneficiaries, the agency informs them of the following rights: (1) The right to reconsideration of the overpayment determination; (2) the right to request a waiver of recovery and the automatic scheduling of a personal conference if SSA cannot approve a request for waiver; and (3) the availability of a different rate of withholding when SSA proposes the full withholding rate. SSA uses Form SSA-3105, Important Information About Your Appeal, Waiver Rights, and Repayment Options, to explain these rights to overpaid individuals and allow them to notify SSA of their decision(s) regarding these rights.
- Statement of Funds You Provided to Another and Statement of Funds You Received
Type of Request: Reinstatement with change of a previous OMB-approved information collection
SSA uses Form SSA-821-BK to collect recipient employment information to determine whether recipients worked after becoming disabled and, if so, whether the work is substantial gainful activity. SSA's field offices use Form SSA-821-BK to obtain work information during the initial claims process, the continuing disability review process, and for SSI claims involving work issues. SSA's processing centers and the
- Credit Card Payment Form
Type of Request: Reinstatement without change of a previous OMB-approved information collection
SSA uses Form SSA-1414 to process: (1) Credit card payments from former employees and vendors with outstanding debts to the agency; (2) advance payments for reimbursable agreements; and (3) credit card payments for all Freedom of Information Act requests requiring payment. The respondents are former employees and vendors who have outstanding debts to the agency, entities who have reimbursable agreements with SSA, and individuals who request information through FOIA.
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