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SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
Public Availability of U.S. Small
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Service Contract Inventory
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Administration.
ACTION: Notice of Public Availability of
FY 2011 Service Contract Inventories.
AGENCY:
In accordance with Section
743 of Division C of the Consolidated
Appropriations Act of 2010 (Pub. L.
111–117), the Small Business
Administration is publishing this notice
to advise the public of the availability
of the FY 2011 Service Contract
inventory. This inventory provides
information on service, contract actions
over $25,000 that were made in FY
2011. The information is organized by
function to show how contracted
resources are distributed throughout the
agency. The inventory has been
developed in accordance with guidance
issued on November 5, 2010 by the
Office of Management and Budget’s
Office of Federal Procurement Policy
(OFPP). OFPP’s guidance is available at
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Administration has posted its inventory
and a summary of the inventory on the
Small Business Administration
homepage at the following link: https://
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Questions regarding the service contract
inventory should be directed to William
Cody in the Procurement Division at
(303) 844–3499 or
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SUMMARY:
Dared: March 7, 2012.
Jonathan I. Carver,
Chief Financial Officer/Associate
Administrator for Performance Management,
Office of the Chief Financial Officer.
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SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Emergency Clearance
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 104–13, the Paperwork
Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, effective
October 1, 1995. This notice includes
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requests for expedited emergency
clearance of a new collection and a
revision of an existing OMB-approved
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 Director at
the following addresses or fax numbers.
(OMB), Office of Management and
Budget, Attn: Desk Officer for SSA,
Fax: 202–395–6974, mail address:
OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov.
(SSA), Social Security Administration,
DCRDP, Attn: Reports Clearance
Officer, 107 Altmeyer Building, 6401
Security Blvd., Baltimore, MD 21235,
Fax: 410–966–2830, Email address:
OPLM.RCO@ssa.gov.
SSA submitted the information
collections below to OMB for
Emergency Clearance. SSA is requesting
Emergency Clearance from OMB no
later than May 17, 2012. Your comments
regarding the information collections
would be most useful if OMB and SSA
receive them within 30 days from the
date of this publication. To be sure we
consider your comments, we must
receive them no later than May 17,
2012. Individuals can obtain copies of
the collection instruments by contacting
the SSA Reports Clearance Director at
the above fax number or email address.
1. Protecting the Public and Our
Personnel To Ensure Operational
Effectiveness (RIN 0960–AH35),
Regulation 3729F—20 CFR 422.905,
422.906—0960–NEW
Background
When members of the public
demonstrate disruptive, violent, or
threatening actions or behavior toward
SSA employees, the agency will take
measures to ensure the safety of
everyone involved, including banning
such individuals from appearing in
person at any of our field offices. In lieu
of in-person office visits, the agency
provides services to banned individuals
through alternate methods, including
our 800 number, online applications,
mail services, or, in limited
circumstances, face-to-face services by
appointment with additional security
present.
On September 2, 2011, the agency
published regulations and notifications
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processes for the ban decision at 76 FR
54700. The current information
collection request (ICR) requests
approval for the public reporting
burdens from the interim final rules.
Information Collection Description
The interim final ban decision rules
contain two public reporting burdens:
• 20 CFR 422.905—After SSA issues
a ban decision against an individual, the
individual has 60 days to appeal that
determination. Individuals must submit
a written appeal stating why they
believe SSA should rescind the ban and
allow them to conduct business with us
on a face-to-face basis in one of our
offices. There is no printed form for this
request; banned individuals create their
Justification for Emergency Clearance
own written statement of appeal, and
submit it to a sole decision-maker in the
Regional Office of the region where the
ban originated. The individuals may
also provide additional documentation
to support their appeal.
• 20 CFR 422.906—Three years after
the original ban decision, banned
individuals may re-submit a written
appeal of the determination. The same
criteria apply as for the original appeal:
(1) It must be in writing; (2) it must go
to a sole decision-maker in the Regional
Office of the region where the ban
originated for review; and (3) it may
accompany supporting documentation.
Respondents for this collection are
individuals appealing their banning
from SSA field offices.
When we originally published the
banning decision rules at 76 FR 54700,
the agency did not anticipate the
number of respondents would meet the
threshold for PRA clearance. Since then,
our field offices have provided us with
evidence indicating we will meet and
exceed this threshold, so we are
pursuing OMB PRA clearance now.
Because of the compelling personal
security issues the banning rules
address, we are pursuing expedited
emergency clearance from OMB no later
than May 17, 2012.
Type of Request: Emergency request
for a new information collection.
Number of
respondents
Regulation section
Frequency of
response
Average
burden per
response
(minutes)
Estimated
annual burden
(hours)
20 CFR 422.905 ..............................................................................................
20 CFR 422.906 ..............................................................................................
75
75
1
1
15
20
19
25
Total ..........................................................................................................
150
........................
........................
44
2. The Ticket To Work and SelfSufficiency Program—20 CFR 411—
0960–0644
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Background
SSA’s Ticket to Work Program (TTW)
transitions Social Security Disability
Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental
Security Income (SSI) recipients toward
independence by allowing them to
receive Social Security payments while
maintaining employment under the
auspices of the program. SSA uses
service providers, called Employment
Networks (ENs), to supervise participant
progress through the stages of ticket
program participation, such as job
searches and interviews, progress
reviews, and changes in ticket status.
ENs can be private for-profit and nonprofit organizations, as well as state
vocational rehabilitation agencies (VRs).
SSA and the ENs utilize the Ticket to
Work Program Manager to operate the
TTW program and exchange
information about TTW participants.
For example, the ENs use Program
Manager to provide updates on tasks
such as selecting a payment system or
requesting payments for helping the
beneficiary achieve certain work goals.
Since the ENs are not PRA-exempt, the
multiple information collections within
the TTW Program Manager require OMB
approval, and we clear them under this
ICR number.
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Information Collection Description
SSA requires ENs to submit multiple
types of TTW program and participant
information, resulting in 13 information
collection instruments (described below
in categories a–i; if we do not mention
a specific form number, we require
information in writing with no
established form):
a. Establishing Ticket Assignments
and Ticket Use: Forms SSA–1365 and
SSA–1370 collect information regarding
the establishment of the Ticket
assignment and the Individual Work
Plan;
b. Requesting Ticket Unassignments
and Notifying of VR Case Closures in
writing;
c. Tracking Progress: SSA–1375—
request for certification of work and
educational progress from individuals;
SSA–L1377—request for certification of
work and educational progress from ENs
and VR agencies; request for Ticket-use
status after not making timely progress;
request to place a Ticket in inactive
status;
d. Selecting a Payment System for EN
use;
e. Reporting Referral Agreement
Activity of the ENs;
f. Requesting EN Payments through
use of the SSA–1389, SSA–1391, SSA–
1393, SSA–1396, SSA–1398, and SSA–
1399; reporting split payment situations
using the SSA–1401;
g. EN Reporting of Periodic Outcomes;
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h. Dispute Resolution between ENs,
VR agencies, and individual Ticket
holders;
i. EN Contract Changes report.
The respondents for these collections
are the ENs, and by extension, the TTW
participants from whom they obtain
information to complete some of these
collections.
Modality of Collection and Proposed
Changes
Although it has used some semielectronic and electronic collection
methodologies, such as faxes and, to a
limited extent, the Internet, to date, the
majority of the Program Manager
information has been written paper
documentation. To redress this, the
agency is planning to implement a new
web-based Secure Provider Portal that
ENs and the agency can use to quickly
and securely exchange information and
update a TTW ticket holder’s file.
Justification for Emergency Clearance
The agency believes the new Webbased portal will represent a significant
savings of time and resources, both for
the agency and for the participating
ENs. In a time when government
agencies such as ours are operating
under severe budgetary and human
capital constraints, we believe we have
an obligation to immediately implement
a program that would make such a
drastic difference. For this reason,
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because of the overwhelmingly positive
and eager interest ENs have expressed
in using the web portal, and because of
manpower limitations we will be facing
in the upcoming months, SSA is seeking
expedited emergency clearance of this
collection.
Delayed implementation of the Web
portal could have the following
consequences: (1) Reduced productivity
for the second half of FY 2012 (since it
will continue to take ENs longer to
submit requests, and it will take us
bottleneck or possibly suspend some
daily TTW operations.
Finally, the agency is only planning to
pilot this collection with a limited
number of ENs after receiving
emergency OMB approval. We will not
expand rollout to all ENs until seeking
standard OMB clearance. We are asking
for OMB approval of this Emergency
Clearance no later than May 17, 2012.
Type of Request: Emergency request
for a new information collection.
longer to process them); (2) subsequent
delayed services to beneficiaries; and (3)
an inability to process payment requests
to EN’s and State VR’s for the services
they provide beneficiaries. In addition,
if the portal is not available for use until
shortly before we make the remaining
contract reductions, and there are
problems with transitioning to it, there
will not be labor to process ticket
assignments, payment requests, and
other incoming documents, or to fulfill
requests for reports. This would
Number of
respondents
Modality of collection
Frequency of
response
Average
burden per
response
(minutes)
Estimated
annual burden
(hours)
a. SSA–1365 (Paper) ......................................................................................
a. SSA–1365 (Portal) .......................................................................................
a. SSA–1370 (Paper) ......................................................................................
a. SSA–1370 (Portal) .......................................................................................
a. Electronic file submission ............................................................................
b. Requesting unassignments (written) ...........................................................
b. Requesting unassignments (Portal) ............................................................
b. VR case closures ........................................................................................
c. Request to place Ticket in inactive status ...................................................
c. SSA–1375 ....................................................................................................
c. SSA–L1377 (Paper) .....................................................................................
c. SSA–L1377 (Portal) .....................................................................................
c. Request to reenter Ticket-Use status ..........................................................
d. Selecting a payment system .......................................................................
e. Reporting referral agreements ....................................................................
f. Requesting EN payments: SSA–1389; SSA–1391; SSA–1393; SSA–
1396; SSA–1398; SSA–1399 .......................................................................
f. Requesting EN payments (Portal) ................................................................
f. Requesting EN payments (Automatic Payments) ........................................
f. SSA–1401 (split payment form) ...................................................................
g. Periodic outcome reporting .........................................................................
h. Dispute resolution ........................................................................................
i. EN contract changes ....................................................................................
2,370
2,370
3,913
3,912
35,584
4,988
4,988
8,505
6
112,362
43,216
21,608
41
5
1*
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
15
11
60
45
5
15
11
5
30
15
15
11
30
10
480
593
434
3,913
2,934
2,965
1,247
914
709
3
28,091
10,804
3,961
21
0
8
14,025
14,025
28,050
100
1371
2
210
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
40
22
0
20
60
120
10
9,350
5,142
0
33
1371
4
35
Total ..........................................................................................................
301,652
........................
........................
72,534
*(None received in 2010 or 2011.)
Dated: March 12, 2012.
Faye Lipsky,
Reports Clearance Director, Office of
Regulations and Reports Clearance, Social
Security Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
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[Public Notice 7848]
Culturally Significant Objects Imported
for Exhibition Determinations:
‘‘Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His
Muses, 1890–1940’’
ACTION:
Notice, correction.
On April 9, 2012, notice was
published on page 21142 of the Federal
Register (volume 77, number 68) of
determinations made by the Department
of State pertaining to the exhibit
SUMMARY:
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‘‘Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His
Muses, 1890–1940.’’ The reference
notice is corrected to accommodate
additional objects to be included in the
exhibition. Pursuant to the authority
vested in me by the Act of October 19,
1965 (79 Stat. 985; 22 U.S.C. 2459),
Executive Order 12047 of March 27,
1978, the Foreign Affairs Reform and
Restructuring Act of 1998 (112 Stat.
2681, et seq.; 22 U.S.C. 6501 note, et
seq.), Delegation of Authority No. 234 of
October 1, 1999, and Delegation of
Authority No. 236–3 of August 28, 2000,
I hereby determine that the additional
objects to be included in the exhibition
‘‘Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His
Muses, 1890–1940,’’ imported from
abroad for temporary exhibition within
the United States, are of cultural
significance. The additional objects are
imported pursuant to a loan agreement
with the foreign owner or custodian. I
also determine that the exhibition or
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display of the additional exhibit objects
at The Jewish Museum, New York, New
York, from on or about May 4, 2012,
until on or about September 23, 2012,
and at possible additional exhibitions or
venues yet to be determined, is in the
national interest. I have ordered that
Public Notice of these Determinations
be published in the Federal Register.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
further information, including a list of
the additional exhibit object, contact
Ona M. Hahs, Attorney-Adviser, Office
of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of
State (telephone: 202–632–6473). The
mailing address is U.S. Department of
State, SA–5, L/PD, Fifth Floor (Suite
5H03), Washington, DC 20522–0505.
Dated: April 11, 2012.
Ann Stock,
Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Educational
and Cultural Affairs, Department of State.
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SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
Agency Information Collection Activities: Emergency Clearance
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 104-13, the
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, effective October 1, 1995. This
notice includes requests for expedited emergency clearance of a new
collection and a revision of an existing OMB-approved 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 Director at the following
addresses or fax numbers.
(OMB), Office of Management and Budget, Attn: Desk Officer for SSA,
Fax: 202-395-6974, mail address: OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov.
(SSA), Social Security Administration, DCRDP, Attn: Reports Clearance
Officer, 107 Altmeyer Building, 6401 Security Blvd., Baltimore, MD
21235, Fax: 410-966-2830, Email address: OPLM.RCO@ssa.gov.
SSA submitted the information collections below to OMB for
Emergency Clearance. SSA is requesting Emergency Clearance from OMB no
later than May 17, 2012. Your comments regarding the information
collections would be most useful if OMB and SSA receive them within 30
days from the date of this publication. To be sure we consider your
comments, we must receive them no later than May 17, 2012. Individuals
can obtain copies of the collection instruments by contacting the SSA
Reports Clearance Director at the above fax number or email address.
1. Protecting the Public and Our Personnel To Ensure Operational
Effectiveness (RIN 0960-AH35), Regulation 3729F--20 CFR 422.905,
422.906--0960-NEW
Background
When members of the public demonstrate disruptive, violent, or
threatening actions or behavior toward SSA employees, the agency will
take measures to ensure the safety of everyone involved, including
banning such individuals from appearing in person at any of our field
offices. In lieu of in-person office visits, the agency provides
services to banned individuals through alternate methods, including our
800 number, online applications, mail services, or, in limited
circumstances, face-to-face services by appointment with additional
security present.
On September 2, 2011, the agency published regulations and
notifications
[[Page 22832]]
processes for the ban decision at 76 FR 54700. The current information
collection request (ICR) requests approval for the public reporting
burdens from the interim final rules.
Information Collection Description
The interim final ban decision rules contain two public reporting
burdens:
20 CFR 422.905--After SSA issues a ban decision against an
individual, the individual has 60 days to appeal that determination.
Individuals must submit a written appeal stating why they believe SSA
should rescind the ban and allow them to conduct business with us on a
face-to-face basis in one of our offices. There is no printed form for
this request; banned individuals create their own written statement of
appeal, and submit it to a sole decision-maker in the Regional Office
of the region where the ban originated. The individuals may also
provide additional documentation to support their appeal.
20 CFR 422.906--Three years after the original ban
decision, banned individuals may re-submit a written appeal of the
determination. The same criteria apply as for the original appeal: (1)
It must be in writing; (2) it must go to a sole decision-maker in the
Regional Office of the region where the ban originated for review; and
(3) it may accompany supporting documentation.
Respondents for this collection are individuals appealing their
banning from SSA field offices.
Justification for Emergency Clearance
When we originally published the banning decision rules at 76 FR
54700, the agency did not anticipate the number of respondents would
meet the threshold for PRA clearance. Since then, our field offices
have provided us with evidence indicating we will meet and exceed this
threshold, so we are pursuing OMB PRA clearance now. Because of the
compelling personal security issues the banning rules address, we are
pursuing expedited emergency clearance from OMB no later than May 17,
2012.
Type of Request: Emergency request for a new information
collection.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Average
Number of Frequency of burden per Estimated
Regulation section respondents response response annual burden
(minutes) (hours)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
20 CFR 422.905.................................. 75 1 15 19
20 CFR 422.906.................................. 75 1 20 25
---------------------------------------------------------------
Total....................................... 150 .............. .............. 44
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2. The Ticket To Work and Self-Sufficiency Program--20 CFR 411--0960-
0644
Background
SSA's Ticket to Work Program (TTW) transitions Social Security
Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
recipients toward independence by allowing them to receive Social
Security payments while maintaining employment under the auspices of
the program. SSA uses service providers, called Employment Networks
(ENs), to supervise participant progress through the stages of ticket
program participation, such as job searches and interviews, progress
reviews, and changes in ticket status. ENs can be private for-profit
and non-profit organizations, as well as state vocational
rehabilitation agencies (VRs).
SSA and the ENs utilize the Ticket to Work Program Manager to
operate the TTW program and exchange information about TTW
participants. For example, the ENs use Program Manager to provide
updates on tasks such as selecting a payment system or requesting
payments for helping the beneficiary achieve certain work goals. Since
the ENs are not PRA-exempt, the multiple information collections within
the TTW Program Manager require OMB approval, and we clear them under
this ICR number.
Information Collection Description
SSA requires ENs to submit multiple types of TTW program and
participant information, resulting in 13 information collection
instruments (described below in categories a-i; if we do not mention a
specific form number, we require information in writing with no
established form):
a. Establishing Ticket Assignments and Ticket Use: Forms SSA-1365
and SSA-1370 collect information regarding the establishment of the
Ticket assignment and the Individual Work Plan;
b. Requesting Ticket Unassignments and Notifying of VR Case
Closures in writing;
c. Tracking Progress: SSA-1375--request for certification of work
and educational progress from individuals; SSA-L1377--request for
certification of work and educational progress from ENs and VR
agencies; request for Ticket-use status after not making timely
progress; request to place a Ticket in inactive status;
d. Selecting a Payment System for EN use;
e. Reporting Referral Agreement Activity of the ENs;
f. Requesting EN Payments through use of the SSA-1389, SSA-1391,
SSA-1393, SSA-1396, SSA-1398, and SSA-1399; reporting split payment
situations using the SSA-1401;
g. EN Reporting of Periodic Outcomes;
h. Dispute Resolution between ENs, VR agencies, and individual
Ticket holders;
i. EN Contract Changes report.
The respondents for these collections are the ENs, and by
extension, the TTW participants from whom they obtain information to
complete some of these collections.
Modality of Collection and Proposed Changes
Although it has used some semi-electronic and electronic collection
methodologies, such as faxes and, to a limited extent, the Internet, to
date, the majority of the Program Manager information has been written
paper documentation. To redress this, the agency is planning to
implement a new web-based Secure Provider Portal that ENs and the
agency can use to quickly and securely exchange information and update
a TTW ticket holder's file.
Justification for Emergency Clearance
The agency believes the new Web-based portal will represent a
significant savings of time and resources, both for the agency and for
the participating ENs. In a time when government agencies such as ours
are operating under severe budgetary and human capital constraints, we
believe we have an obligation to immediately implement a program that
would make such a drastic difference. For this reason,
[[Page 22833]]
because of the overwhelmingly positive and eager interest ENs have
expressed in using the web portal, and because of manpower limitations
we will be facing in the upcoming months, SSA is seeking expedited
emergency clearance of this collection.
Delayed implementation of the Web portal could have the following
consequences: (1) Reduced productivity for the second half of FY 2012
(since it will continue to take ENs longer to submit requests, and it
will take us longer to process them); (2) subsequent delayed services
to beneficiaries; and (3) an inability to process payment requests to
EN's and State VR's for the services they provide beneficiaries. In
addition, if the portal is not available for use until shortly before
we make the remaining contract reductions, and there are problems with
transitioning to it, there will not be labor to process ticket
assignments, payment requests, and other incoming documents, or to
fulfill requests for reports. This would bottleneck or possibly suspend
some daily TTW operations.
Finally, the agency is only planning to pilot this collection with
a limited number of ENs after receiving emergency OMB approval. We will
not expand rollout to all ENs until seeking standard OMB clearance. We
are asking for OMB approval of this Emergency Clearance no later than
May 17, 2012.
Type of Request: Emergency request for a new information
collection.
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Average burden Estimated
Modality of collection Number of Frequency of per response annual burden
respondents response (minutes) (hours)
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a. SSA-1365 (Paper)............................. 2,370 1 15 593
a. SSA-1365 (Portal)............................ 2,370 1 11 434
a. SSA-1370 (Paper)............................. 3,913 1 60 3,913
a. SSA-1370 (Portal)............................ 3,912 1 45 2,934
a. Electronic file submission................... 35,584 1 5 2,965
b. Requesting unassignments (written)........... 4,988 1 15 1,247
b. Requesting unassignments (Portal)............ 4,988 1 11 914
b. VR case closures............................. 8,505 1 5 709
c. Request to place Ticket in inactive status... 6 1 30 3
c. SSA-1375..................................... 112,362 1 15 28,091
c. SSA-L1377 (Paper)............................ 43,216 1 15 10,804
c. SSA-L1377 (Portal)........................... 21,608 1 11 3,961
c. Request to reenter Ticket-Use status......... 41 1 30 21
d. Selecting a payment system................... 5 1 10 0
e. Reporting referral agreements................ 1* 1 480 8
f. Requesting EN payments: SSA-1389; SSA-1391; 14,025 1 40 9,350
SSA-1393; SSA-1396; SSA-1398; SSA-1399.........
f. Requesting EN payments (Portal).............. 14,025 1 22 5,142
f. Requesting EN payments (Automatic Payments).. 28,050 1 0 0
f. SSA-1401 (split payment form)................ 100 1 20 33
g. Periodic outcome reporting................... 1371 1 60 1371
h. Dispute resolution........................... 2 1 120 4
i. EN contract changes.......................... 210 1 10 35
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Total....................................... 301,652 .............. .............. 72,534
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*(None received in 2010 or 2011.)
Dated: March 12, 2012.
Faye Lipsky,
Reports Clearance Director, Office of Regulations and Reports
Clearance, Social Security Administration.
[FR Doc. 2012-9203 Filed 4-16-12; 8:45 am]
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