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Submit comments on or before
December 2, 2013. If you intend to
comment but cannot prepare comments
promptly, please advise the OMB
Reviewer and the Agency Clearance
Officer before the deadline.
Copies: Request for clearance (OMB
83–1), supporting statement, and other
documents submitted to OMB for
review may be obtained from the
Agency Clearance Officer.
ADDRESSES: Address all comments
concerning this notice to: Agency
Clearance Officer, Curtis Rich, Small
Business Administration, 409 3rd Street
SW., 5th Floor, Washington, DC 20416;
and OMB Reviewer, Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Office of Management and Budget, New
Executive Office Building, Washington,
DC 20503.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Curtis Rich, Agency Clearance Officer,
(202) 205–7030 curtis.rich@sba.gov.
Abstract: Government wide
requirements in the annual
appropriations act, as well as OMB
Circular A 123 Appendix B. require
agencies to conduct an alternative credit
worthiness assessment when the credit
score inquiry results in no score. This
information of collection will be used as
a means of making that alternative.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Alternate Creditworthiness
Assessment.
Frequency: On Occasion.
SBA Form Number: 2294.
Description of Respondents:
Requesting alternative credit
worthiness.
Responses: 10.
Annual Burden: 2.
DATES:
Physical Loan Application Deadline
Date: 12/23/2013.
Economic Injury (EIDL) Loan
Application Deadline Date: 07/22/2014.
Submit completed loan
applications to: U.S. Small Business
Administration, Processing and
Disbursement Center, 14925 Kingsport
Road, Fort Worth, TX 76155.
ADDRESSES:
A.
Escobar, Office of Disaster Assistance,
U.S. Small Business Administration,
409 3rd Street SW., Suite 6050,
Washington, DC 20416.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Notice is
hereby given that as a result of the
President’s major disaster declaration on
10/22/2013, Private Non-Profit
organizations that provide essential
services of governmental nature may file
disaster loan applications at the address
listed above or other locally announced
locations.
The following areas have been
determined to be adversely affected by
the disaster:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Primary Counties: Barber, Barton,
Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Cherokee,
Clark, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Comanche,
Cowley, Crawford, Dickinson,
Edwards, Elk, Ellsworth, Ford, Geary,
Greenwood. Hamilton, Harper,
Harvey, Hodgeman, Kingman, Kiowa,
Lane, Linn, Lyon, Marion,
Mcpherson, Meade, Montgomery,
Morris, Ness, Ottawa, Pawnee, Pratt,
Reno, Republic, Rice, Saline, Sumner,
Washington, Wilson, Woodson.
The Interest Rates are:
Curtis Rich,
Management Analyst.
Percent
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SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
[Disaster Declaration #13802 and #13803]
Kansas Disaster #KS–00075
U.S. Small Business
Administration.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
This is a Notice of the
Presidential declaration of a major
disaster for Public Assistance Only for
the State of Kansas (FEMA–4150–DR),
dated 10/22/2013.
Incident: Severe Storms, Straight-line
Winds, Tornadoes, and Flooding.
Incident Period: 07/22/2013 through
08/16/2013.
Effective Date: 10/22/2013.
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James E. Rivera,
Associate Administrator for Disaster
Assistance.
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Oregon Disaster #OR–00051
Declaration of Economic Injury
U.S. Small Business
Administration.
ACTION: Amendment 1.
AGENCY:
This is a notice of an
Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL)
declaration for the State of Oregon,
dated 09/06/2013.
Incident: Multiple Fire Complexes.
Incident Period: 07/26/2013 through
09/30/2013.
Effective Date: 10/28/2013.
EIDL Loan Application Deadline Date:
06/06/2014.
ADDRESSES: Submit completed loan
applications to: U.S. Small Business
Administration, Processing and
Disbursement Center, 14925 Kingsport
Road, Fort Worth, TX 76155.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: A.
Escobar, Office of Disaster Assistance,
U.S. Small Business Administration,
409 3rd Street SW., Suite 6050,
Washington, DC 20416.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The notice
of the Economic Injury declaration for
the State of Oregon dated 09/06/2013 is
hereby amended to establish the
incident period for this disaster as
beginning 07/26/2013 and continuing
through 09/30/2013. All other
information in the original declaration
remains unchanged.
SUMMARY:
(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
Number 59002)
Dated: October 28, 2013.
Jeanne Hulit,
Acting Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2013–26039 Filed 10–31–13; 8:45 am]
SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
Numbers 59002 and 59008)
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2.875
The number assigned to this disaster
for physical damage is 13802B and for
economic injury is 13803B
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SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
BILLING CODE 8025–01–P
For Physical Damage:
Non-Profit Organizations With
Credit Available Elsewhere ...
Non-Profit Organizations Without Credit Available Elsewhere .....................................
For Economic Injury:
Non-Profit Organizations Without Credit Available Elsewhere .....................................
BILLING CODE 8025–01–P
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Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed 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 of 1995, effective October
1, 1995. This notice includes revisions
of OMB-approved information
collections.
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
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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,
DCRDP, Attn: Reports Clearance
Director, 107 Altmeyer Building, 6401
Security Blvd., Baltimore, MD 21235,
Fax: 410–966–2830, Email address:
OR.Reports.Clearance@ssa.gov.
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 receive them no
later than December 31, 2013.
Individuals can obtain copies of the
collection instruments by writing to the
above email address.
1. Request for Waiver of Special
Veterans Benefits (SVB) Overpayment
Recovery or Change in Repayment
Rate—20 CFR 408.900–408.950–0960–
0698. Title VIII of the Social Security
Act requires SSA to pay a monthly
benefit to qualified World War II
veterans who reside outside the United
States. When an overpayment in this
SVB occurs, the beneficiary can request
a waiver of recovery of the overpayment
or a change in the repayment rate. SSA
uses the SSA–2032–BK to obtain the
information necessary to establish
whether the claimant meets the waiver
of recovery provisions of the
overpayment, and to determine the
repayment rate if we do not waive
repayment. Respondents are SVB
beneficiaries who have overpayments
on their Title VIII record and wish to
file a claim for waiver of recovery or
change in repayment rate.
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–2032–BK .................................................................................................
450
1
120
900
2. Benefit Offset National
Demonstration—0960–0785. SSA is
undertaking the Benefit Offset National
Demonstration (BOND)—a
demonstration and evaluation of policy
changes and services on the Social
Security Disability Insurance (SSDI)
program—in an effort to produce strong
evidence about the effectiveness of
potential solutions that would improve
the historically very low rate of return
to work among SSDI beneficiaries.
Under current law, Social Security
beneficiaries lose their SSDI benefit if
they have earnings or work activity
above the threshold of Substantial
Gainful Activity. The benefit-offset
component of this demonstration
reduces benefits by $1 for each $2 in
earnings above the BOND threshold,
resulting in a gradual reduction in
benefits as earnings increase. The
experimental design for BOND tests a
benefit offset alone and in conjunction
with enhanced work incentives
counseling. The central research
questions include:
• What is the effect of the benefit
offset alone on employment and other
outcomes?
• What is the effect of the benefit
offset in combination with enhanced
work incentives counseling on
employment and other outcomes?
The public survey data collections
have four components—an impact
study, a cost-benefit analysis, a
participation analysis, and a process
study. The data collections are a
primary source for data to measure the
effects of a more generous benefit offset
and the provision of enhanced work
incentives counseling on SSDI
beneficiaries’ work efforts and earnings.
Ultimately, these data will benefit
Number of
respondents
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Modality of completion
Frequency
of response
researchers, policy analysts, policy
makers and the United States Congress
in a wide range of program areas. The
effects of BOND on the well-being of
SSDI beneficiaries could manifest
themselves in many dimensions and
could be relevant to an array of other
public programs. This project offers the
first opportunity to obtain reliable
measures of these effects based upon a
nationally representative sample. The
long-term indirect benefits of this
research are therefore likely to be
substantial. Respondents are SSDI
beneficiaries and concurrent SSDI
beneficiaries and Supplemental Security
Income recipients who we randomly
assign to the study (Stage 1), and SSDI
beneficiaries who agree to participate in
the study (Stage 2).
Type of Request: Revision of an OMBapproved information collection.
Number of
responses
Average
burden per
response
(minutes)
Estimated
total annual
burden
(hours)
Participation Agreement .......................................................
Baseline Survey ...................................................................
Stage 2, 12-month Interim Survey .......................................
Stage 1, 36-month Survey ...................................................
Stage 2, 36-month Survey ...................................................
Enhanced Work Incentives Assessment .............................
Key Informant Interviews .....................................................
Stage 2, Participant Focus Groups .....................................
Stage 1, First Contact Letter Survey ...................................
12,954
12,954
10,363
8,000
10,363
3,089
100
600
500
1
1
1
1
1
1
7
1
1
12,954
12,954
10,363
8,000
10,363
3,089
700
600
500
20
41
29
49
60
35
60
90
3
4,318
8,852
5,008
6,533
10,363
1,802
700
900
25
Totals ............................................................................
89,923
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59,523
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38,501
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Dated: October 29, 2013.
Faye Lipsky,
Reports Clearance Director, Social Security
Administration.
[FR Doc. 2013–26054 Filed 10–31–13; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4191–02–P
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Highway Administration
Environmental Impact Statement:
Adoption: St. Tammany Parish, LA
Federal Highway
Administration (FHWA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice of Intent.
AGENCY:
FHWA is issuing this notice
of intent to advise the public of its
intent to adopt an existing
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)
in accordance with the Council on
Environment Quality regulations, 40
CFR 1506.3. The final EIS was prepared
and approved by the US Army of
Engineers, New Orleans District for LA
3241, I–12 to Bush Highway in St.
Tammany Parish, Louisiana. The FEIS
will be supplemented to include a noise
analysis in accordance with 23 CFR part
772, a Section 4(f) evaluation in
accordance with 23 CFR part 774, and
an analysis of the effects resulting from
a change in the location of the
connection with LA 434.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Carl
Highsmith, Project Delivery Team
Leader, Louisiana Division, Federal
Highway Administration, 5304 Flanders
Drive, Suite A, Baton Rouge, LA 70808
Telephone: 225.757.7615. See also the
project Web site at https://
www.i12tobush.com.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
FHWA, in cooperation with the
Louisiana Department of Transportation
and Development (DOTD), intends to
adopt an approved Final EIS for the I–
12 to Bush Highway in St. Tammany
Parish, Louisiana. The EIS was prepared
by the US Army Corps of Engineers,
New Orleans District, as part of a
Section 404 permit application number
MVN–2005–00037. The NOI for the EIS
appeared in the FR, Volume 73, Number
224, November 19, 2008. The project
calls for the construction of a new fourlane highway connecting I–12 to Bush,
Louisiana, in St. Tammany Parish. The
preferred alternative is approximately
19.8 miles in length and begins at LA
434, north of the existing LA 434
interchange, and traverses in a
northeasterly direction until
encountering an abandoned rail
corridor. It then follows the rail corridor
terminating at the LA 21/LA 41
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intersection near Bush, Louisiana. The
EIS considered the social,
environmental, and economic impacts
of the project. The No-Action alternative
and four roadway alternatives were
evaluated and discussed in the draft and
final EIS. The FHWA will prepare a
noise study in accordance with 23 CFR
part 772 and coordinate the Section 4(f)
evaluation for the project in accordance
with 40 CFR 1505.2. The public will be
given an opportunity to comment on the
proposed action prior to issuance of a
ROD by FHWA. The public notice will
be published in local newspapers and
on the project Web site at
www.i12tobush.com.
Comments or questions concerning
this proposed action and the EIS should
be directed to the FHWA at the address
provided above.
(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
Program Number 20.205, Highway Research,
Planning and Construction. The regulations
implementing Executive Order 12372
regarding intergovernmental consultation on
Federal programs and activities apply to this
program.)
Issued on: October 23, 2013.
Charles W. Bolinger,
Division Administrator, Baton Rouge,
Louisiana.
[FR Doc. 2013–26051 Filed 10–31–13; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Highway Administration
[Docket No. FHWA–2013–0048]
Notice of Funding Availability for
Accelerated Innovation Deployment
Demonstration
Federal Highway
Administration (FHWA), Department of
Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice of funding availability;
request for comments.
AGENCY:
This notice announces the
availability of funding for Accelerated
Innovation Deployment (AID)
Demonstration authorized within the
Technology and Innovation Deployment
Program (TIDP) under the Moving
Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century
Act (MAP–21). This notice is addressed
to organizations that are interested in
applying and proposes selection criteria
and application requirements for AID
Demonstration funding. The FHWA
requests comments on the content of
this notice. The FHWA will take all
comments into consideration and
publish a final notice of funding
availability.
SUMMARY:
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The FHWA will solicit grant
applications through the
governmentwide electronic grants Web
site at https://www.grants.gov.
DATES: All public comments must be
received on or before November 22,
2013. Late-filed comments will be
considered to the extent practicable.
The FHWA plans to conduct outreach
regarding the AID Demonstration in the
form of a Webinar within 2 weeks of
this notice being issued. Participants
can pre-register online at: https://
connectdot.connectsolutions.com/tidp/
event/. Information on the Webinar date
and time will be emailed to registered
participants. The Webinar will be
recorded and posted on FHWA’s Web
site at https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/
accelerating/grants.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by docket number FHWA–
2013–0048, by any of the following
methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and follow
the online instructions for submitting
comments.
Mail: Docket Management Facility,
U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington,
DC 20590–0001.
Hand Delivery: West Building Ground
Floor, Room W12–140, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590–
0001, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.,
Monday through Friday, except Federal
holidays.
Instructions: You must include the
agency name and docket number
FHWA–2013–0048 on your comments.
All comments received will be posted,
without change, to http//
www.regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Ewa Flom, Program Coordinator, Center
for Accelerating Innovation, Federal
Highway Administration, 1200 New
Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC
20590, (202) 366–2169; or Ms. Seetha
Srinivasan, Office of the Chief Counsel,
Federal Highway Administration, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington,
DC 20590, (202) 366–4099. Office hours
are from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., e.t.,
Monday through Friday, except Federal
holidays. A TDD is available for
individuals who are deaf or hard of
hearing at (202) 366–3993.
In addition, the FHWA will regularly
post answers to questions and requests
for clarifications on FHWA’s Web site at
https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/accelerating/
grants. Applicants are encouraged to
contact FHWA directly to receive
information about AID Demonstration.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed 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 of 1995, effective October 1, 1995. This notice
includes revisions of OMB-approved information collections.
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
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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, DCRDP, Attn: Reports Clearance
Director, 107 Altmeyer Building, 6401 Security Blvd., Baltimore, MD
21235, Fax: 410-966-2830, Email address: OR.Reports.Clearance@ssa.gov.
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 receive them no later than
December 31, 2013. Individuals can obtain copies of the collection
instruments by writing to the above email address.
1. Request for Waiver of Special Veterans Benefits (SVB)
Overpayment Recovery or Change in Repayment Rate--20 CFR 408.900-
408.950-0960-0698. Title VIII of the Social Security Act requires SSA
to pay a monthly benefit to qualified World War II veterans who reside
outside the United States. When an overpayment in this SVB occurs, the
beneficiary can request a waiver of recovery of the overpayment or a
change in the repayment rate. SSA uses the SSA-2032-BK to obtain the
information necessary to establish whether the claimant meets the
waiver of recovery provisions of the overpayment, and to determine the
repayment rate if we do not waive repayment. Respondents are SVB
beneficiaries who have overpayments on their Title VIII record and wish
to file a claim for waiver of recovery or change in repayment rate.
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-2032-BK................................. 450 1 120 900
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2. Benefit Offset National Demonstration--0960-0785. SSA is
undertaking the Benefit Offset National Demonstration (BOND)--a
demonstration and evaluation of policy changes and services on the
Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program--in an effort to
produce strong evidence about the effectiveness of potential solutions
that would improve the historically very low rate of return to work
among SSDI beneficiaries. Under current law, Social Security
beneficiaries lose their SSDI benefit if they have earnings or work
activity above the threshold of Substantial Gainful Activity. The
benefit-offset component of this demonstration reduces benefits by $1
for each $2 in earnings above the BOND threshold, resulting in a
gradual reduction in benefits as earnings increase. The experimental
design for BOND tests a benefit offset alone and in conjunction with
enhanced work incentives counseling. The central research questions
include:
What is the effect of the benefit offset alone on
employment and other outcomes?
What is the effect of the benefit offset in combination
with enhanced work incentives counseling on employment and other
outcomes?
The public survey data collections have four components--an impact
study, a cost-benefit analysis, a participation analysis, and a process
study. The data collections are a primary source for data to measure
the effects of a more generous benefit offset and the provision of
enhanced work incentives counseling on SSDI beneficiaries' work efforts
and earnings. Ultimately, these data will benefit researchers, policy
analysts, policy makers and the United States Congress in a wide range
of program areas. The effects of BOND on the well-being of SSDI
beneficiaries could manifest themselves in many dimensions and could be
relevant to an array of other public programs. This project offers the
first opportunity to obtain reliable measures of these effects based
upon a nationally representative sample. The long-term indirect
benefits of this research are therefore likely to be substantial.
Respondents are SSDI beneficiaries and concurrent SSDI beneficiaries
and Supplemental Security Income recipients who we randomly assign to
the study (Stage 1), and SSDI beneficiaries who agree to participate in
the study (Stage 2).
Type of Request: Revision of an OMB-approved information
collection.
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Average burden Estimated
Modality of completion Number of Frequency of Number of per response total annual
respondents response responses (minutes) burden (hours)
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Participation Agreement......... 12,954 1 12,954 20 4,318
Baseline Survey................. 12,954 1 12,954 41 8,852
Stage 2, 12-month Interim Survey 10,363 1 10,363 29 5,008
Stage 1, 36-month Survey........ 8,000 1 8,000 49 6,533
Stage 2, 36-month Survey........ 10,363 1 10,363 60 10,363
Enhanced Work Incentives 3,089 1 3,089 35 1,802
Assessment.....................
Key Informant Interviews........ 100 7 700 60 700
Stage 2, Participant Focus 600 1 600 90 900
Groups.........................
Stage 1, First Contact Letter 500 1 500 3 25
Survey.........................
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Totals...................... 89,923 .............. 59,523 .............. 38,501
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Dated: October 29, 2013.
Faye Lipsky,
Reports Clearance Director, Social Security Administration.
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