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scheme, could allow market participants
greater control over the execution of
their orders. Specifically, the proposal
may help market participants avoid
having orders cancelled as a result of a
narrow one-MPV price protection limit,
particularly in instances when the
order’s limit price expresses a
willingness to trade more than one MPV
away from the NBBO that prevailed at
the time the order was received. The
Commission notes, however, that such a
result may still occur under the
proposal, when either the default oneMPV price protection limit applies as a
result of the member not providing
customized instructions, or when a
custom price protection limit sits
between an order’s limit price and the
NBBO at the time the order is received.
The Commission notes further that, in
order to accommodate the amended
price protection functionality, the
proposal will allow orders to trigger
pauses at multiple successive price
points, either through the Route Timer
or Liquidity Refresh mechanisms.
In addition to providing market
participants greater control over the
execution of their orders, the
Commission believes that the proposal
also could facilitate more order
interaction. By allowing orders to
execute at multiple price points, up or
down to their price protection limit or
limit price, and to route to away markets
at multiple price points, the proposal
will allow market participants to
interact with greater liquidity both on
MIAX and on away markets and
increase the opportunity for their orders
to receive an execution. Importantly, as
is the case under the current price
protection functionality, the
Commission notes that under the
revised process, MIAX will not execute
incoming orders at prices inferior to the
then-current NBBO.
The Commission believes that the
change regarding terminating a
Liquidity Refresh Pause when a new
quote or order is received during a
Liquidity Refresh Pause on the same
side of the market as the initiating
orders’ remaining contracts that locks or
crosses the original NBBO is consistent
with the Act. The Commission notes
that terminating the pause in such a
situation allows the displayed opposite
side of the MBBO to receive an
immediate execution. Further, the
Commission notes that, as under the
current MIAX rules, orders will then be
processed in the order in which they
were received.
Finally, the Commission believes that
the proposed change to permit
immediate routing in an additional
situation (i.e., for Public Customer
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orders resting on the book when an
incoming Public Customer order has
initiated a Route Mechanism) will
benefit Public Customers by providing
such orders with greater access to
marketable away liquidity and will
allow such orders more promptly to
receive an execution instead of being
restricted from immediately routing
away. As the Commission noted in its
approval of MIAX’s application for
registration as a national securities
exchange, pursuant to MIAX’s
immediate routing process in Rule 529,
orders have to meet a number of criteria
to be eligible for immediate routing, and
as such, many, if not most, orders are
likely subject to the one second Route
Timer, rather than immediately routing
to an away exchange displaying the
NBBO.19 While MIAX is not specifically
required to route to away markets, the
Commission believes that providing an
additional opportunity for immediate
routing should be beneficial to Public
Customer orders.
IV. Conclusion
It is therefore ordered, pursuant to
Section 19(b)(2) of the Act 20 that the
proposed rule change (SR–MIAX–2014–
08), is approved.
For the Commission, by the Division of
Trading and Markets, pursuant to delegated
authority.21
Kevin M. O’Neill,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2014–09211 Filed 4–22–14; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 8011–01–P
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE
COMMISSION
[File No. 500–1]
Valley Forge Composite Technologies,
Inc.; Order of Suspension of Trading
April 21, 2014.
It appears to the Securities and
Exchange Commission that there is a
lack of current and accurate information
concerning the securities of Valley
Forge Composite Technologies, Inc.
because it has not filed any periodic
reports since the period ended
September 30, 2012.
The Commission is of the opinion that
the public interest and the protection of
19 See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 68341
(December 3, 2012), 77 FR 73065, 73086–87
(December 7, 2012) (noting that broker-dealers have
a duty of best execution and thus broker-dealers
need to consider and evaluate the functioning of the
MIAX routing mechanisms and the quality of any
resulting executions in making their determination
of whether to route customer orders to MIAX).
20 15 U.S.C. 78f(b)(2).
21 17 CFR 200.30–3(a)(12).
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investors require a suspension of trading
in the securities of the above-listed
company. Therefore, it is ordered,
pursuant to Section 12(k) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, that
trading in the securities of the abovelisted company is suspended for the
period from 9:30 a.m. EDT on April 21,
2014, through 11:59 p.m. EDT on May
2, 2014.
By the Commission.
Kevin M. O’Neill,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2014–09314 Filed 4–21–14; 4:15 pm]
BILLING CODE 8011–01–P
SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Request and
Comment Request
The Social Security Administration
(SSA) publishes a list of information
collection packages requiring clearance
by the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) in compliance with
Public Law (Pub. L.) 104–13, the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
effective October 1, 1995. This notice
includes revisions of OMB-approved
information collections and one new
information collection.
SSA is soliciting comments on the
accuracy of the agency’s burden
estimate; the need for the information;
its practical utility; ways to enhance its
quality, utility, and clarity; and ways to
minimize burden on respondents,
including the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology. Mail, email, or
fax your comments and
recommendations on the information
collection(s) to the OMB Desk Officer
and SSA Reports Clearance Officer at
the following addresses or fax numbers.
(OMB)
Office of Management and Budget,
Attn: Desk Officer for SSA,
Fax: 202–395–6974,
Email address: OIRA_Submission@
omb.eop.gov.
(SSA)
Social Security Administration, OLCA,
Attn: Reports Clearance Director,
3100 West High Rise,
6401 Security Blvd.,
Baltimore, MD 21235,
Fax: 410–966–2830,
Email address: OR.Reports.Clearance@
ssa.gov.
I. The information collections below
are pending at SSA. SSA will submit
them to OMB within 60 days from the
date of this notice. To be sure we
consider your comments, we must
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receive them no later than June 23,
2014. Individuals can obtain copies of
the collection instruments by writing to
the above email address.
1. Farm Arrangement Questionnaire—
20 CFR 404.1082(c)—0960–0064. When
self-employed workers submit earnings
data to SSA, they cannot count rental
income from a farm unless they
demonstrate ‘‘material participation’’ in
the farm’s operation. A material
participation arrangement means the
farm owners must perform a
combination of physical duties,
management decisions, and capital
investment in the farm they are renting
out. SSA uses Form SSA–7157, the
Farm Arrangement Questionnaire, to
document material participation. The
respondents are workers who are
renting farmland to others; are involved
in the operation of the farm; and want
to claim countable income from work
they perform relating to the farm.
Type of Request: Revision of an OMBapproved information collection.
Modality of completion
Number of
respondents
Frequency of
response
Average
burden per
response
(minutes)
Estimated total
annual burden
(hours)
SSA–7157 ........................................................................................................
38,000
1
30
19,000
2. Plan for Achieving Self-Support
(PASS)—20 CFR 416.110(e), 416.1180–
1182, 416.1225–1227—0960–0559. The
Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
program encourages recipients to return
to work. One of the program’s objectives
is to provide incentives and
opportunities that help recipients work
toward employment. The PASS
provision allows individuals to use
available income or resources (such as
business equipment, education, or
specialized training) to enter or re-enter
the workforce and become selfsupporting. In turn, SSA does not count
the income or resources recipients use
to fund a PASS when determining an
individual’s SSI eligibility or payment
amount. An SSI recipient who wants to
use available income and resources to
obtain education or training to become
self-supporting completes Form SSA–
545. SSA uses the information from the
SSA–545 to evaluate the recipient’s
PASS, and to determine eligibility
under the provisions of the SSI program.
The respondents are SSI recipients who
are blind or disabled and want to
develop a return-to-work plan.
Type of Request: Revision of an OMBapproved information collection.
Modality of completion
Number of
respondents
Frequency of
response
Average
burden per
response
(minutes)
Estimated total
annual burden
(hours)
SSA–545 ..........................................................................................................
7,000
1
120
14,000
3. Help America Vote Act—0960–
0706. H.R. 3295, the Help America Vote
Act of 2002, mandates that States verify
the identities of newly registered voters.
When newly registered voters do not
have drivers’ licenses or State-issued ID
cards, they must supply the last four
digits of their Social Security Number to
their local State election agencies for
verification. The election agencies
forward this information to their State
Motor Vehicle Administration (MVA),
which inputs the data into the American
Association of MVAs, a central
consolidation system that routes the
voter data to SSA’s Help America Vote
Verification (HAVV) system. Once
SSA’s HAVV system confirms the
identity of the voter, the information
returns along the same route in reverse
until it reaches the State election
agency. The official respondents for this
collection are the State MVAs.
Type of Request: Revision of an OMBapproved information collection.
Number of
respondents
Frequency of
response
Average
burden per
response
(minutes)
Estimated total
annual burden
(hours)
HAVV ...............................................................................................................
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2,352,204
1
2
78,407
II. SSA submitted the information
collections below to OMB for clearance.
Your comments regarding the
information collections would be most
useful if OMB and SSA receive them 30
days from the date of this publication.
To be sure we consider your comments,
we must receive them no later than May
23, 2014. Individuals can obtain copies
of the OMB clearance packages by
writing to OR.Reports.Clearance@
ssa.gov.
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1. Promoting Readiness of Minors in
SSI (PROMISE) Evaluation—0960–
NEW.
Background
The Promoting Readiness of Minors in
SSI (PROMISE) demonstration pursues
positive outcomes for children with
disabilities who receive SSI and their
families by reducing dependency on
SSI. The Department of Education (ED)
awarded six cooperative agreements to
states to improve the provision and
coordination of services and support for
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children with disabilities who receive
SSI and their families to achieve
improved education and employment
outcomes. ED awarded PROMISE funds
to five single-state projects, and to one
six-state consortium.1
With support from the Department of
Labor (DOL) and the Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS), SSA
will evaluate the six PROMISE projects.
1 The six-state consortium project goes by the
name Achieving Success by Promoting Readiness
for Education and Employment (ASPIRE) rather
than by PROMISE.
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SSA contracted with Mathematica
Policy Research to conduct the
evaluation.
Under PROMISE, targeted outcomes
for youth include an enhanced sense of
self-determination; achievement of
secondary and post-secondary
educational credentials; an attainment
of early work experiences culminating
with competitive employment in an
integrated setting; and long-term
reduction in reliance on SSI. Outcomes
of interest for families include
heightened expectations for and support
of the long-term self-sufficiency of their
youth; parent or guardian attainment of
education and training credentials; and
increases in earnings and total income.
To achieve these outcomes, we expect
the PROMISE projects to make better
use of existing resources by improving
service coordination among multiple
state and local agencies and programs.
ED, SSA, DOL, and HHS intend the
PROMISE projects to address key
limitations in the existing service
system for youth with disabilities. By
intervening early in the lives of these
young people, at ages 14–16, the
projects will engage the youth and their
families well before critical decisions
regarding the age 18 redetermination are
upon them. We expect the required
partnerships among the various state
and Federal agencies that serve youth
with disabilities to result in improved
integration of services and fewer
dropped handoffs as youth move from
one agency to another. By requiring the
programs to engage and serve families
and provide youth with paid work
experiences, the initiative is mandating
the adoption of critical best practices in
promoting the independence of youth
with disabilities.
Project Description
SSA is requesting clearance for the
collection of data needed to implement
and evaluate PROMISE. The evaluation
will provide empirical evidence on the
impact of the intervention for youth and
their families in several critical areas,
including: (1) Improved educational
attainment; (2) increased employment
skills, experience, and earnings; and (3)
long-term reduction in use of public
benefits. We will base the PROMISE
evaluation on a rigorous design that will
entail the random assignment of
approximately 2,000 youth in each of
the six projects to treatment or control
groups (12,000 total). Youth in the
treatment groups will be eligible for
enhanced services from the
demonstration programs, whereas youth
in the control groups will be eligible
only for those services already available
in their communities independent of the
interventions.
The evaluation will assess the effect
of PROMISE services on educational
attainment, employment, earnings, and
reduced receipt of disability payments.
The three components of this evaluation
include:
• The process analysis, which will
document program models, assess the
relationships among the partner
organizations, document whether the
programs are implemented as planned,
identify features of the programs that
may account for their impacts on youth
and families, and identify lessons for
future programs with similar objectives.
• The impact analysis, which will
determine whether youth and families
in the treatment groups receive more
services than their counterparts in the
control groups. It will also determine
whether treatment group members have
better results than control group
members with respect to the targeted
outcomes noted above.
• The cost-benefit analysis, which
will assess whether the benefits of
PROMISE, including increases in
employment and reductions in benefit
receipt, are large enough to justify its
costs. We will conduct this assessment
from a range of perspectives, including
those of the participants, state and
Federal governments, SSA, and society
as a whole.
SSA planned several data collection
efforts for the evaluation. These include:
(1) Follow-up interviews with youth
and their parent or guardian 18 months
and 5 years after enrollment; (2) phone
and in-person interviews with local
program administrators, program
supervisors, and service delivery staff at
two points in time over the course of the
demonstration; (3) two rounds of focus
groups with participating youth in the
treatment group; (4) two rounds of focus
groups with parents or guardians of
participating youth; and (5) collection of
administrative data.
At this time, SSA requests clearance
only for the interviews we will conduct
with program staff and the focus group
discussions we will conduct with youth
and parents or guardians. We will
conduct these interviews and group
discussions twice: Once in 2014, and
once in 2016. SSA will request
clearance for the 18-month and 5-year
survey interviews in a future
submission. The respondents are
PROMISE program staff, the youth
participants in the PROMISE program,
and the parents or guardians of the
youth participants.
Note: This is a correction notice. When we
previously published this information on
February 10, 2014, at 79 FR 7736, we
inadvertently neglected to publish the cost
burden on the respondents. We are correcting
that oversight here.
Type of Request: This is a new
information collection.
Time Burden on Respondents
2014 INTERVIEWS AND FOCUS GROUP DISCUSSIONS
Number of
responses
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Frequency of
response
Average
burden per
response
(minutes)
Estimated
total annual
burden
(hours)
Staff Interviews with Administrators or Directors .............................................
Staff Interviews with PROMISE Project Staff ..................................................
Youth Focus Groups—Non-participants ..........................................................
Youth Focus Groups—Participants .................................................................
Parents or Guardian Focus Groups—Non-participants ...................................
Parents or Guardian Focus Groups—Participants ..........................................
75
145
320
80
320
80
1
1
1
1
1
1
66
66
5
100
5
100
83
160
27
133
27
133
Totals ........................................................................................................
1,020
........................
........................
563
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2016 INTERVIEWS AND FOCUS GROUP DISCUSSIONS
Number of
responses
Modality of completion
Frequency of
response
Average
burden per
response
(minutes)
Estimated
total annual
burden
(hours)
Staff Interviews with Administrators or Directors .............................................
Staff Interviews with PROMISE Project Staff ..................................................
Youth Focus Groups—Non-participants ..........................................................
Youth Focus Groups—Participants .................................................................
Parents or Guardian Focus Groups—Non-participants ...................................
Parents or Guardian Focus Groups—Participants ..........................................
75
145
320
80
320
80
1
1
1
1
1
1
66
66
5
100
5
100
83
160
27
133
27
133
Totals ........................................................................................................
1,020
........................
........................
563
Grand Total ...............................................................................................
2,040
........................
........................
1,126
Average
burden per
response
(minutes)
Median
hourly
wage rate
(dollars)
Cost Burden on Respondents
2014 ANNUAL COST TO RESPONDENTS
Number of
respondents
Respondent type
Frequency
of response
Total
respondent
cost
(dollars)
Parent or Guardian Focus Group—Non-Participants ..........
Parent or Guardian Focus Group—Participants ..................
320
80
1
1
5
100
$7.38
7.38
$196.01
984.20
Total ..............................................................................
400
........................
........................
........................
1,180.21
Average
burden per
response
(minutes)
Median
hourly
wage rate
(dollars)
2016 ANNUAL COST TO RESPONDENTS
Number of
respondents
Respondent type
Frequency
of response
Total
respondent
cost
(dollars)
Parent or Guardian Focus Group—Non-Participants ..........
Parent or Guardian Focus Group—Participants ..................
320
80
1
1
5
100
$7.38
7.38
$196.01
984.20
Total ..............................................................................
400
........................
........................
........................
1,180.21
Grand Total ...................................................................
800
........................
........................
........................
2,360.42
2. Request for Medical Treatment in
an SSA Employee Health Facility:
Patient Self-Administered or Staff
Administered Care—0960–0772. SSA
operates onsite Employee Health Clinics
(EHC) in eight different States. These
clinics provide health care for all SSA
employees including treatments of
personal medical conditions when
authorized through a physician. Form
SSA–5072 is the employee’s personal
physician’s order form. The information
we collect on Form SSA–5072 gives the
nurses the guidance they need by law to
perform certain medical procedures and
to administer prescription medications
such as allergy immunotherapy. In
addition, the information allows the
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completion
Number of
respondents
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of response
SSA medical officer to determine
whether the treatment can be
administered safely and appropriately
in the SSA EHCs. Respondents are
physicians of SSA employees who need
to have medical treatment in an SSA
EHC.
Type of Request: Revision of an OMBapproved information collection.
Number of
responses
Estimated
total
annual
burden
(hours)
Average
burden per
response
(minutes)
SSA–5072 Annually .............................................................
SSA–5072 Bi-Annually .........................................................
25
75
1
2
25
150
5
5
2
13
Totals ............................................................................
100
........................
175
........................
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Dated: April 18, 2014.
Faye Lipsky,
Reports Clearance Director, Social Security
Administration.
[FR Doc. 2014–09218 Filed 4–22–14; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4191–02–P
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Office of the Secretary
Federal Environmental Statutes,
Regulations, and Executive Orders
Applicable to the Development and
Review of Transportation
Infrastructure Projects
Office of the Secretary, DOT.
Notice of availability.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The United States Department
of Transportation (Department) has
prepared a document listing Federal
environmental statutes, regulations, and
Executive Orders that establish
requirements applicable to the
development and review of
transportation infrastructure projects.
The Department strives to ensure
compliance with these requirements in
a manner that is both environmentally
sound and expeditious. The goal of this
document is to contribute to this
important effort by providing a brief
description of the primary statutes,
regulations, and Executive Orders
applicable to the development and
review of these transportation
infrastructure projects.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Amy Coyle, Senior Attorney Advisor,
U.S. Department of Transportation,
Office of the General Counsel; 1200 New
Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC
20590. Telephone 202–366–0691.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
United States Department of
Transportation (Department or DOT) has
prepared a document listing Federal
environmental statutes, regulations, and
Executive Orders that establish
requirements applicable to the
development and review of
transportation infrastructure projects
that receive financial support from the
Department. DOT strives to meet these
requirements in a manner that is both
environmentally sound and expeditious.
The goal of this list is to contribute to
this important effort by providing a brief
description of the primary statutes,
regulations, and Executive Orders
applicable to the development and
review of these transportation
infrastructure projects. Additionally,
many agencies have developed guidance
to assist in implementation of the law,
and this document references certain
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guidance. This summary is not, and
should not be relied upon as, a complete
list of statutes, regulations, and
Executive Orders that could apply to a
transportation infrastructure project or
an official or independent interpretation
or expression of policy on the matters
summarized. This document replaces
the notice, ‘‘Federal Environmental
Laws and Executive Orders Applicable
to Development and Review of
Transportation Infrastructure Projects,’’
69 FR 25451, May 6, 2004.
The document is available online at
https://www.dot.gov/policy/
transportation-policy/environment/
laws.
Issued in Washington, DC on April 10,
2014.
Kathryn B. Thomson,
General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 2014–09219 Filed 4–22–14; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4910–9X–P
terminal in Wilmette, Illinois. On July
26, 2012, FTA in cooperation with CTA
published a supplemental NOI in the
Federal Register (77 FR 43903) to
inform interested parties that the EIS
would no longer be a Tier 1 EIS as
originally proposed and instead would
be a standard project-level EIS. Since
that time, FTA and CTA have decided
to pursue a more tailored approach of
environmental review for each project of
independent utility within the RPM
corridor. FTA and CTA anticipate that
environmental assessments, leading to
Findings of No Significant Impact
(FONSI), and categorical exclusions
would be the appropriate classes of
action under the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) for
these projects. Therefore, the FTA has
decided to rescind the NOI for the EIS.
Comments and questions concerning
the proposed actions should be directed
to FTA at the address provided above.
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
´
Marisol R. Simon,
Regional Administrator.
Federal Transit Administration
[FR Doc. 2014–09273 Filed 4–22–14; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE P
Notice To Rescind Notice of Intent To
Prepare an Environmental Impact
Statement for Proposed Transit
Improvements to the Red and Purple
Lines, Cook County, Illinois
Federal Transit Administration
(FTA), DOT.
ACTION: Rescind notice of intent to
prepare an Environmental Impact
Statement.
AGENCY:
The Federal Transit
Administration (FTA), in cooperation
with the Chicago Transit Authority
(CTA), is issuing this notice to advise
the public that the Notice of Intent
(NOI) to prepare an Environmental
Impact Statement (EIS) for the proposed
transportation improvements on the Red
and Purple lines between Belmont
Station in Chicago and Linden terminal
in Wilmette, Illinois is being rescinded.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Reginald Arkell, Community Planner,
Federal Transit Administration, Region
V, 200 West Adams Street, Suite 320,
Chicago, IL 60606, phone 312–886–
3704, email reginald.arkell@dot.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The FTA,
as the lead federal agency, in
cooperation with the CTA published a
NOI in the Federal Register on January
3, 2011 (76 FR 207–210) to prepare a
Tier 1 EIS for the Red and Purple
Modernization (RPM) project to bring
9.6 miles of the Red and Purple lines up
to a state of good repair, from the track
structure immediately north of Belmont
Station in Chicago to the Linden
SUMMARY:
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Maritime Administration
[Docket No. DOT–MARAD–2014–0063]
Agency Requests for Renewal of a
Previously Approved Information
Collection(s): Automated Mutual
Assistance Vessel Rescue System
(AMVER)
Maritime Administration, DOT.
Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The Department of
Transportation (DOT) invites public
comments about our intention to request
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) approval to renew an
information collection. We are required
to publish this notice in the Federal
Register by the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995, Public Law 104–13.
DATES: Written comments should be
submitted by June 23, 2014.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
[identified by Docket No. DOT–
MARAD–2014–0063] through one of the
following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://
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[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 78 (Wednesday, April 23, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 22752-22756]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-09218]
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SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Request and
Comment Request
The Social Security Administration (SSA) publishes a list of
information collection packages requiring clearance by the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) in compliance with Public Law (Pub. L.)
104-13, the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, effective October 1, 1995.
This notice includes revisions of OMB-approved information collections
and one new information collection.
SSA is soliciting comments on the accuracy of the agency's burden
estimate; the need for the information; its practical utility; ways to
enhance its quality, utility, and clarity; and ways to minimize burden
on respondents, including the use of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology. Mail, email, or fax your
comments and recommendations on the information collection(s) to the
OMB Desk Officer and SSA Reports Clearance Officer at the following
addresses or fax numbers.
(OMB)
Office of Management and Budget,
Attn: Desk Officer for SSA,
Fax: 202-395-6974,
Email address: OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov.
(SSA)
Social Security Administration, OLCA,
Attn: Reports Clearance Director,
3100 West High Rise,
6401 Security Blvd.,
Baltimore, MD 21235,
Fax: 410-966-2830,
Email address: OR.Reports.Clearance@ssa.gov.
I. The information collections below are pending at SSA. SSA will
submit them to OMB within 60 days from the date of this notice. To be
sure we consider your comments, we must
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receive them no later than June 23, 2014. Individuals can obtain copies
of the collection instruments by writing to the above email address.
1. Farm Arrangement Questionnaire--20 CFR 404.1082(c)--0960-0064.
When self-employed workers submit earnings data to SSA, they cannot
count rental income from a farm unless they demonstrate ``material
participation'' in the farm's operation. A material participation
arrangement means the farm owners must perform a combination of
physical duties, management decisions, and capital investment in the
farm they are renting out. SSA uses Form SSA-7157, the Farm Arrangement
Questionnaire, to document material participation. The respondents are
workers who are renting farmland to others; are involved in the
operation of the farm; and want to claim countable income from work
they perform relating to the farm.
Type of Request: Revision of an OMB-approved information
collection.
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Average burden Estimated total
Modality of completion Number of Frequency of per response annual burden
respondents response (minutes) (hours)
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SSA-7157.................................... 38,000 1 30 19,000
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2. Plan for Achieving Self-Support (PASS)--20 CFR 416.110(e),
416.1180-1182, 416.1225-1227--0960-0559. The Supplemental Security
Income (SSI) program encourages recipients to return to work. One of
the program's objectives is to provide incentives and opportunities
that help recipients work toward employment. The PASS provision allows
individuals to use available income or resources (such as business
equipment, education, or specialized training) to enter or re-enter the
workforce and become self-supporting. In turn, SSA does not count the
income or resources recipients use to fund a PASS when determining an
individual's SSI eligibility or payment amount. An SSI recipient who
wants to use available income and resources to obtain education or
training to become self-supporting completes Form SSA-545. SSA uses the
information from the SSA-545 to evaluate the recipient's PASS, and to
determine eligibility under the provisions of the SSI program. The
respondents are SSI recipients who are blind or disabled and want to
develop a return-to-work plan.
Type of Request: Revision of an OMB-approved information
collection.
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Average burden Estimated total
Modality of completion Number of Frequency of per response annual burden
respondents response (minutes) (hours)
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SSA-545..................................... 7,000 1 120 14,000
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3. Help America Vote Act--0960-0706. H.R. 3295, the Help America
Vote Act of 2002, mandates that States verify the identities of newly
registered voters. When newly registered voters do not have drivers'
licenses or State-issued ID cards, they must supply the last four
digits of their Social Security Number to their local State election
agencies for verification. The election agencies forward this
information to their State Motor Vehicle Administration (MVA), which
inputs the data into the American Association of MVAs, a central
consolidation system that routes the voter data to SSA's Help America
Vote Verification (HAVV) system. Once SSA's HAVV system confirms the
identity of the voter, the information returns along the same route in
reverse until it reaches the State election agency. The official
respondents for this collection are the State MVAs.
Type of Request: Revision of an OMB-approved information
collection.
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Average burden Estimated total
Modality of completion Number of Frequency of per response annual burden
respondents response (minutes) (hours)
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HAVV........................................ 2,352,204 1 2 78,407
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II. SSA submitted the information collections below to OMB for
clearance. Your comments regarding the information collections would be
most useful if OMB and SSA receive them 30 days from the date of this
publication. To be sure we consider your comments, we must receive them
no later than May 23, 2014. Individuals can obtain copies of the OMB
clearance packages by writing to OR.Reports.Clearance@ssa.gov.
1. Promoting Readiness of Minors in SSI (PROMISE) Evaluation--0960-NEW.
Background
The Promoting Readiness of Minors in SSI (PROMISE) demonstration
pursues positive outcomes for children with disabilities who receive
SSI and their families by reducing dependency on SSI. The Department of
Education (ED) awarded six cooperative agreements to states to improve
the provision and coordination of services and support for children
with disabilities who receive SSI and their families to achieve
improved education and employment outcomes. ED awarded PROMISE funds to
five single-state projects, and to one six-state consortium.\1\
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\1\ The six-state consortium project goes by the name Achieving
Success by Promoting Readiness for Education and Employment (ASPIRE)
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With support from the Department of Labor (DOL) and the Department
of Health and Human Services (HHS), SSA will evaluate the six PROMISE
projects.
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SSA contracted with Mathematica Policy Research to conduct the
evaluation.
Under PROMISE, targeted outcomes for youth include an enhanced
sense of self-determination; achievement of secondary and post-
secondary educational credentials; an attainment of early work
experiences culminating with competitive employment in an integrated
setting; and long-term reduction in reliance on SSI. Outcomes of
interest for families include heightened expectations for and support
of the long-term self-sufficiency of their youth; parent or guardian
attainment of education and training credentials; and increases in
earnings and total income. To achieve these outcomes, we expect the
PROMISE projects to make better use of existing resources by improving
service coordination among multiple state and local agencies and
programs.
ED, SSA, DOL, and HHS intend the PROMISE projects to address key
limitations in the existing service system for youth with disabilities.
By intervening early in the lives of these young people, at ages 14-16,
the projects will engage the youth and their families well before
critical decisions regarding the age 18 redetermination are upon them.
We expect the required partnerships among the various state and Federal
agencies that serve youth with disabilities to result in improved
integration of services and fewer dropped handoffs as youth move from
one agency to another. By requiring the programs to engage and serve
families and provide youth with paid work experiences, the initiative
is mandating the adoption of critical best practices in promoting the
independence of youth with disabilities.
Project Description
SSA is requesting clearance for the collection of data needed to
implement and evaluate PROMISE. The evaluation will provide empirical
evidence on the impact of the intervention for youth and their families
in several critical areas, including: (1) Improved educational
attainment; (2) increased employment skills, experience, and earnings;
and (3) long-term reduction in use of public benefits. We will base the
PROMISE evaluation on a rigorous design that will entail the random
assignment of approximately 2,000 youth in each of the six projects to
treatment or control groups (12,000 total). Youth in the treatment
groups will be eligible for enhanced services from the demonstration
programs, whereas youth in the control groups will be eligible only for
those services already available in their communities independent of
the interventions.
The evaluation will assess the effect of PROMISE services on
educational attainment, employment, earnings, and reduced receipt of
disability payments. The three components of this evaluation include:
The process analysis, which will document program models,
assess the relationships among the partner organizations, document
whether the programs are implemented as planned, identify features of
the programs that may account for their impacts on youth and families,
and identify lessons for future programs with similar objectives.
The impact analysis, which will determine whether youth
and families in the treatment groups receive more services than their
counterparts in the control groups. It will also determine whether
treatment group members have better results than control group members
with respect to the targeted outcomes noted above.
The cost-benefit analysis, which will assess whether the
benefits of PROMISE, including increases in employment and reductions
in benefit receipt, are large enough to justify its costs. We will
conduct this assessment from a range of perspectives, including those
of the participants, state and Federal governments, SSA, and society as
a whole.
SSA planned several data collection efforts for the evaluation.
These include: (1) Follow-up interviews with youth and their parent or
guardian 18 months and 5 years after enrollment; (2) phone and in-
person interviews with local program administrators, program
supervisors, and service delivery staff at two points in time over the
course of the demonstration; (3) two rounds of focus groups with
participating youth in the treatment group; (4) two rounds of focus
groups with parents or guardians of participating youth; and (5)
collection of administrative data.
At this time, SSA requests clearance only for the interviews we
will conduct with program staff and the focus group discussions we will
conduct with youth and parents or guardians. We will conduct these
interviews and group discussions twice: Once in 2014, and once in 2016.
SSA will request clearance for the 18-month and 5-year survey
interviews in a future submission. The respondents are PROMISE program
staff, the youth participants in the PROMISE program, and the parents
or guardians of the youth participants.
Note: This is a correction notice. When we previously published
this information on February 10, 2014, at 79 FR 7736, we
inadvertently neglected to publish the cost burden on the
respondents. We are correcting that oversight here.
Type of Request: This is a new information collection.
Time Burden on Respondents
2014 Interviews and Focus Group Discussions
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Average Estimated
Number of Frequency of burden per total annual
Modality of completion responses response response burden
(minutes) (hours)
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Staff Interviews with Administrators or 75 1 66 83
Directors......................................
Staff Interviews with PROMISE Project Staff..... 145 1 66 160
Youth Focus Groups--Non-participants............ 320 1 5 27
Youth Focus Groups--Participants................ 80 1 100 133
Parents or Guardian Focus Groups--Non- 320 1 5 27
participants...................................
Parents or Guardian Focus Groups--Participants.. 80 1 100 133
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Totals...................................... 1,020 .............. .............. 563
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2016 Interviews and Focus Group Discussions
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Average Estimated
Number of Frequency of burden per total annual
Modality of completion responses response response burden
(minutes) (hours)
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Staff Interviews with Administrators or 75 1 66 83
Directors......................................
Staff Interviews with PROMISE Project Staff..... 145 1 66 160
Youth Focus Groups--Non-participants............ 320 1 5 27
Youth Focus Groups--Participants................ 80 1 100 133
Parents or Guardian Focus Groups--Non- 320 1 5 27
participants...................................
Parents or Guardian Focus Groups--Participants.. 80 1 100 133
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Totals...................................... 1,020 .............. .............. 563
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Grand Total................................. 2,040 .............. .............. 1,126
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Cost Burden on Respondents
2014 Annual Cost to Respondents
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Average
Number of Frequency of burden per Median hourly Total
Respondent type respondents response response wage rate respondent
(minutes) (dollars) cost (dollars)
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Parent or Guardian Focus Group-- 320 1 5 $7.38 $196.01
Non-Participants...............
Parent or Guardian Focus Group-- 80 1 100 7.38 984.20
Participants...................
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Total....................... 400 .............. .............. .............. 1,180.21
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2016 Annual Cost to Respondents
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Average Total
Number of Frequency of burden per Median hourly respondent
Respondent type respondents response response wage rate cost
(minutes) (dollars) (dollars)
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Parent or Guardian Focus Group-- 320 1 5 $7.38 $196.01
Non-Participants...............
Parent or Guardian Focus Group-- 80 1 100 7.38 984.20
Participants...................
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Total....................... 400 .............. .............. .............. 1,180.21
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Grand Total................. 800 .............. .............. .............. 2,360.42
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2. Request for Medical Treatment in an SSA Employee Health
Facility: Patient Self-Administered or Staff Administered Care--0960-
0772. SSA operates onsite Employee Health Clinics (EHC) in eight
different States. These clinics provide health care for all SSA
employees including treatments of personal medical conditions when
authorized through a physician. Form SSA-5072 is the employee's
personal physician's order form. The information we collect on Form
SSA-5072 gives the nurses the guidance they need by law to perform
certain medical procedures and to administer prescription medications
such as allergy immunotherapy. In addition, the information allows the
SSA medical officer to determine whether the treatment can be
administered safely and appropriately in the SSA EHCs. Respondents are
physicians of SSA employees who need to have medical treatment in an
SSA EHC.
Type of Request: Revision of an OMB-approved information
collection.
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Average Estimated
Number of Frequency of Number of burden per total annual
Modality of completion respondents response responses response burden
(minutes) (hours)
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SSA-5072 Annually............... 25 1 25 5 2
SSA-5072 Bi-Annually............ 75 2 150 5 13
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Totals...................... 100 .............. 175 .............. 15
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Dated: April 18, 2014.
Faye Lipsky,
Reports Clearance Director, Social Security Administration.
[FR Doc. 2014-09218 Filed 4-22-14; 8:45 am]
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