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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Office of Foreign Assets Control
Sanctions Actions Pursuant to
Executive Order 13413
Office of Foreign Assets
Control, Treasury.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Treasury Department’s
Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
is publishing the names of two
individuals whose property and
interests in property are blocked
pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.)
13413, as amended by E.O. 13671, and
whose names have been added to
OFAC’s list of Specially Designated
Nationals and Blocked Persons (SDN
List).
SUMMARY:
OFAC’s actions described in this
notice were effective December 12,
2016.
DATES:
2. BOSHAB, Evariste (a.k.a. BOSHAB
MABUDJ MA BILENGE, Evariste; a.k.a.
BOSHAB MABUDJ, Evariste; a.k.a. BOSHAB
MABUDJ–MA–BILENGE, Evariste; a.k.a.
BOSHAB MABUTSH, Evariste; a.k.a.
BOSHAB, Evarist; a.k.a. MULUMBU
BOSHAB, Evariste), Avenue du Rail 5,
Ngaliema, Kinshasa, Congo, Democratic
Republic of the; DOB 12 Jan 1956; POB TekeKalamba, Democratic Republic of the Congo;
alt. POB Kasai Occidentale Province,
Democratic Republic of the Congo;
nationality Congo, Democratic Republic of
the; Gender Male; Passport DB0007366
(Congo, Democratic Republic of the) issued
07 May 2014 expires 06 May 2019; Deputy
Prime Minister, Vice Prime Minister,
Minister of Interior and Security (individual)
[DRCONGO].
Dated: December 12, 2016.
John E. Smith,
Acting Director, Office of Foreign Assets
Control.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Associate Director for Global Targeting,
tel.: 202/622–2420, Assistant Director
for Sanctions Compliance & Evaluation,
tel.: 202/622–2490, Assistant Director
for Licensing, tel.: 202/622–2480, Office
of Foreign Assets Control, or Chief
Counsel (Foreign Assets Control), tel.:
202/622–2410, Office of the General
Counsel, Department of the Treasury
(not toll free numbers).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Electronic and Facsimile Availability
The SDN List and additional
information concerning OFAC sanctions
programs are available from OFAC’s
Web site (www.treasury.gov/ofac).
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Notice of OFAC Actions
On December 12, 2016, OFAC blocked
the property and interests in property of
the following two individuals pursuant
to E.O. 13413, ‘‘Blocking Property of
Certain Persons Contributing to the
Conflict in the Democratic Republic of
the Congo,’’ as amended:
1. MUTONDO, Kalev (a.k.a. KALEV
KATANGA, Mutondo; a.k.a. KALEV,
Motono; a.k.a. KALEV, Mutundo; a.k.a.
MUTOID, Kalev; a.k.a. MUTOMBO, Kalev;
a.k.a. MUTOND, Kalev; a.k.a. MUTONDO
KATANGA, Kalev; a.k.a. MUTUND, Kalev),
24 Avenue Ma Campagne, Quartier Ma
Campagne Commune De Ngaliema, Kinshasa
00243, Congo, Democratic Republic of the;
DOB 03 Mar 1957; POB Kasaji, Democratic
Republic of the Congo; alt. POB Likasi,
Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo;
nationality Congo, Democratic Republic of
the; Gender Male; Passport DB0004470
(Congo, Democratic Republic of the) issued
08 Jun 2012 expires 07 Jun 2017; Agence
Nationale de Renseignements General
Administrator (individual) [DRCONGO].
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
December 12, 2016.
The Department of the Treasury will
submit the following information
collection requests to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and clearance in accordance
with the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995, Public Law 104–13, on or after the
date of publication of this notice.
Comments should be received on
or before January 17, 2017 to be assured
of consideration.
DATES:
Send comments regarding
the burden estimates, or any other
aspect of the information collections,
including suggestions for reducing the
burden, to (1) Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Office of
Management and Budget, Attention:
Desk Officer for Treasury, New
Executive Office Building, Room 10235,
Washington, DC 20503, or email at
OIRA_Submission@OMB.EOP.gov and
(2) Treasury PRA Clearance Officer,
1750 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Suite
8142, Washington, DC 20220, or email
at PRA@treasury.gov.
ADDRESSES:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Copies of the submissions may be
obtained by emailing PRA@treasury.gov,
calling (202) 622–0934, or viewing the
entire information collection request at
www.reginfo.gov.
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
OMB Control Number: 1545–0134.
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90921
Type of Review: Extension without
change of a currently approved
collection.
Title: Application to Adopt, Change,
or Retain a Tax Year.
Form: 1128.
Abstract: Form 1128 is needed in
order to process taxpayers’ request to
change their tax year. All information
requested is used to determine whether
the application should be approved.
Respondents are taxable and nontaxable
entities including individuals,
partnerships, corporations, estates, taxexempt organizations and cooperatives.
Affected Public: Businesses or other
for-profits.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 232,066.
OMB Control Number: 1545–0720.
Type of Review: Extension without
change of a currently approved
collection.
Title: Information Return for TaxExempt Private Activity Bond Issues
(Form 8038), Tax-Exempt Govt
Obligation (Form 8038–G), and Small
Tax-Exempt Govt Bond Issues, Leases,
and Installment Sales (8038–GC).
Form: 8038, 8038–G, 8038–GC.
Abstract: Issuers of state or local
bonds must comply with certain
information reporting requirements
contained in Internal Revenue Code
section 149 to qualify for tax exemption.
The information must be reported by the
issuers about bonds issued by them
during each preceding calendar quarter.
Forms 8038, 8038–G, and 8038–GC are
used to provide the IRS with the
information required by Code section
149 and to monitor the requirements of
Code sections 141 through 150.
Affected Public: State, Local, and
Tribal Governments; Businesses or other
for-profits.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 845,394.
OMB Control Number: 1545–1132.
Type of Review: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Title: Denial of interest deduction on
certain obligations to foreign persons.
Abstract: The Internal Revenue
Service needs the information in order
to ensure that purchasers of bearer
obligations are not U.S. persons (other
than those permitted to hold obligations
under section 165(j)) and to ensure that
U.S. persons holding bearer obligations
properly report income and gain on
such obligations.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofits.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 867.
OMB Control Number: 1545–1226.
Type of Review: Extension without
change of a currently approved
collection.
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Title: Proceeds of Bonds Used for
Reimbursement—FI–59–89 (TD 8394—
Final).
Abstract: This regulation clarifies
when the allocation of bond proceeds to
reimburse expenditures previously
made by an issuer of the bond is treated
as an expenditure of the bond proceeds.
The issuer must express a reasonable
official intent, on or prior to the date of
payment, to reimburse the expenditure
in order to assure that the
reimbursement is not a device to evade
requirements imposed by the Internal
Revenue Code with respect to tax
exempt bonds.
Affected Public: State, Local, and
Tribal Governments.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 6,000.
OMB Control Number: 1545–1270.
Type of Review: Extension without
change of a currently approved
collection.
Title: Gasoline Excise Tax and
Gasohol; Compressed Natural Gas.
Abstract: TD 8421 contains final
regulations under Internal Revenue
Code sections 4081 and 4082, relating to
the federal excise tax on gasoline. It
affects refiners, importers, and
distributors of gasoline and provides
guidance relating to taxable
transactions, persons liable for tax,
gasoline blendstocks, and gasohol. TD
8609 contains final regulations relating
to gasohol blending and the tax on
compressed natural gas (CNG). The
sections relating to gasohol blending
affect certain blenders, enterers,
refiners, and throughputters. The
sections relating to CNG affect persons
that sell or buy CNG for use as a fuel
in a motor vehicle or motorboat.
Affected Public: Businesses or other
for-profits.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 366.
OMB Control Number: 1545–1300.
Type of Review: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Title: Treatment of Acquisition of
Certain Financial Institutions: Certain
Tax Consequences of Federal Financial
Assistance to Financial Institutions.
Abstract: 26 U.S.C. Section 597 of the
Internal Revenue Code provides that the
income tax treatment of any transaction
in which Federal financial assistance
(FFA), is provided with respect to a
bank or domestic building and loan
association (Institution) will be
determined under regulations
prescribed by the Secretary. The
regulations provide that, generally, FFA
is included in the gross income of the
recipient in the year it is received.
However, in certain circumstances, the
inclusion of FFA in income is deferred.
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The collection of information required
by the regulations is necessary to track
deferred income and its subsequent
recapture, to track any amounts of tax
that are not subject to collection, to elect
to disaffiliate earlier than would
otherwise be permitted, and to elect to
apply the provisions of the regulations
retroactively.
Affected Public: Businesses or other
for-profits.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 2,200.
OMB Control Number: 1545–1338.
Type of Review: Extension without a
change of a currently approved
collection.
Title: Election Out of Subchapter K for
Producers of Natural Gas—TD 8578.
Abstract: This regulation contains
certain requirements that must be met
by co-producers of natural gas subject to
a joint operating agreement in order to
elect out of subchapter K of chapter 1
of the Internal Revenue Code. Under
section 1.761–2(d)(5)(i), gas producers
subject to gas balancing agreements on
the regulation’s effective date are to file
Form 3115 and certain additional
information to obtain the
Commissioner’s consent to a change in
method of accounting to either of the
two new permissible accounting
methods in the regulations.
Affected Public: Businesses or other
for-profits.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 5.
OMB Control Number: 1545–1574.
Type of Review: Extension without a
change of a currently approved
collection.
Title: Information Reporting for
Qualified Tuition and Related Expenses.
Form: 1098–T.
Abstract: Section 6050S of the
Internal Revenue Code requires eligible
education institutions to report certain
information regarding tuition payments
to the IRS and to students. Form 1098–
T has been developed to meet this
requirement.
Affected Public: Businesses or other
for-profits.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 4,848,090.
OMB Control Number: 1545–1588.
Type of Review: Extension without a
change of a currently approved
collection.
Title: Adjustments Following Sales of
Partnership Interests.
Abstract: Partnerships, with a section
754 election in effect, are required to
adjust the basis of partnership property
following certain transfers of
partnership interests. The regulations
require the partnership to attach a
statement to its partnership return
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indicating the adjustment and how it
was allocated among the partnership
property.
Affected Public: Businesses or other
for-profits.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 904,000.
Bob Faber,
Acting Treasury PRA Clearance Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS
AFFAIRS
[OMB Control No. 2900–0659]
Agency Information Collection Activity
(Support of Claim for Service
Connection for Post-Traumatic Stress
Disorder (PTSD) (VA Form 21–0781)
and Support of Claim for Service
Connection for Post-Traumatic Stress
Disorder (PTSD) Secondary to
Personal Assault (VA Form 21–0781a))
Veterans Benefits
Administration, Department of Veterans
Affairs
ACTION: Notice
AGENCY:
The Veterans Benefits
Administration (VBA), Department of
Veterans Affairs (VA), is announcing an
opportunity for public comment on the
proposed collection of certain
information by the agency. Under the
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of
1995, Federal agencies are required to
publish notice in the Federal Register
concerning each proposed collection of
information, including each proposed
revision of a currently approved
collection, and allow 60 days for public
comment in response to the notice.
VA Forms 21–0781 and 21–0781a are
used to gather specific information
about in-service stressors, so VA can
assist claimants in obtaining credible
supporting evidence that the claimed
stressors occurred. In-service stressors
reported by veterans must be verifiable.
VA cannot thoroughly research military
records and other sources of information
for credible supporting evidence unless
the veteran provides VA with specific
information about the in-service
stressors. The forms request information
that is necessary to conduct meaningful
research of records.
DATES: Written comments and
recommendations on the proposed
collection of information should be
received on or before February 13, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Submit written comments
on the collection of information through
Federal Docket Management System
SUMMARY:
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
December 12, 2016.
The Department of the Treasury will submit the following
information collection requests to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and clearance in accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13, on or after the date of
publication of this notice.
DATES: Comments should be received on or before January 17, 2017 to be
assured of consideration.
ADDRESSES: Send comments regarding the burden estimates, or any other
aspect of the information collections, including suggestions for
reducing the burden, to (1) Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, Attention: Desk Officer for
Treasury, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, DC
20503, or email at OIRA_Submission@OMB.EOP.gov and (2) Treasury PRA
Clearance Officer, 1750 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Suite 8142, Washington,
DC 20220, or email at PRA@treasury.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Copies of the submissions may be
obtained by emailing PRA@treasury.gov, calling (202) 622-0934, or
viewing the entire information collection request at www.reginfo.gov.
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
OMB Control Number: 1545-0134.
Type of Review: Extension without change of a currently approved
collection.
Title: Application to Adopt, Change, or Retain a Tax Year.
Form: 1128.
Abstract: Form 1128 is needed in order to process taxpayers'
request to change their tax year. All information requested is used to
determine whether the application should be approved. Respondents are
taxable and nontaxable entities including individuals, partnerships,
corporations, estates, tax-exempt organizations and cooperatives.
Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profits.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 232,066.
OMB Control Number: 1545-0720.
Type of Review: Extension without change of a currently approved
collection.
Title: Information Return for Tax-Exempt Private Activity Bond
Issues (Form 8038), Tax-Exempt Govt Obligation (Form 8038-G), and Small
Tax-Exempt Govt Bond Issues, Leases, and Installment Sales (8038-GC).
Form: 8038, 8038-G, 8038-GC.
Abstract: Issuers of state or local bonds must comply with certain
information reporting requirements contained in Internal Revenue Code
section 149 to qualify for tax exemption. The information must be
reported by the issuers about bonds issued by them during each
preceding calendar quarter. Forms 8038, 8038-G, and 8038-GC are used to
provide the IRS with the information required by Code section 149 and
to monitor the requirements of Code sections 141 through 150.
Affected Public: State, Local, and Tribal Governments; Businesses
or other for-profits.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 845,394.
OMB Control Number: 1545-1132.
Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
Title: Denial of interest deduction on certain obligations to
foreign persons.
Abstract: The Internal Revenue Service needs the information in
order to ensure that purchasers of bearer obligations are not U.S.
persons (other than those permitted to hold obligations under section
165(j)) and to ensure that U.S. persons holding bearer obligations
properly report income and gain on such obligations.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profits.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 867.
OMB Control Number: 1545-1226.
Type of Review: Extension without change of a currently approved
collection.
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Title: Proceeds of Bonds Used for Reimbursement--FI-59-89 (TD
8394--Final).
Abstract: This regulation clarifies when the allocation of bond
proceeds to reimburse expenditures previously made by an issuer of the
bond is treated as an expenditure of the bond proceeds. The issuer must
express a reasonable official intent, on or prior to the date of
payment, to reimburse the expenditure in order to assure that the
reimbursement is not a device to evade requirements imposed by the
Internal Revenue Code with respect to tax exempt bonds.
Affected Public: State, Local, and Tribal Governments.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 6,000.
OMB Control Number: 1545-1270.
Type of Review: Extension without change of a currently approved
collection.
Title: Gasoline Excise Tax and Gasohol; Compressed Natural Gas.
Abstract: TD 8421 contains final regulations under Internal Revenue
Code sections 4081 and 4082, relating to the federal excise tax on
gasoline. It affects refiners, importers, and distributors of gasoline
and provides guidance relating to taxable transactions, persons liable
for tax, gasoline blendstocks, and gasohol. TD 8609 contains final
regulations relating to gasohol blending and the tax on compressed
natural gas (CNG). The sections relating to gasohol blending affect
certain blenders, enterers, refiners, and throughputters. The sections
relating to CNG affect persons that sell or buy CNG for use as a fuel
in a motor vehicle or motorboat.
Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profits.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 366.
OMB Control Number: 1545-1300.
Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
Title: Treatment of Acquisition of Certain Financial Institutions:
Certain Tax Consequences of Federal Financial Assistance to Financial
Institutions.
Abstract: 26 U.S.C. Section 597 of the Internal Revenue Code
provides that the income tax treatment of any transaction in which
Federal financial assistance (FFA), is provided with respect to a bank
or domestic building and loan association (Institution) will be
determined under regulations prescribed by the Secretary. The
regulations provide that, generally, FFA is included in the gross
income of the recipient in the year it is received. However, in certain
circumstances, the inclusion of FFA in income is deferred. The
collection of information required by the regulations is necessary to
track deferred income and its subsequent recapture, to track any
amounts of tax that are not subject to collection, to elect to
disaffiliate earlier than would otherwise be permitted, and to elect to
apply the provisions of the regulations retroactively.
Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profits.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 2,200.
OMB Control Number: 1545-1338.
Type of Review: Extension without a change of a currently approved
collection.
Title: Election Out of Subchapter K for Producers of Natural Gas--
TD 8578.
Abstract: This regulation contains certain requirements that must
be met by co-producers of natural gas subject to a joint operating
agreement in order to elect out of subchapter K of chapter 1 of the
Internal Revenue Code. Under section 1.761-2(d)(5)(i), gas producers
subject to gas balancing agreements on the regulation's effective date
are to file Form 3115 and certain additional information to obtain the
Commissioner's consent to a change in method of accounting to either of
the two new permissible accounting methods in the regulations.
Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profits.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 5.
OMB Control Number: 1545-1574.
Type of Review: Extension without a change of a currently approved
collection.
Title: Information Reporting for Qualified Tuition and Related
Expenses.
Form: 1098-T.
Abstract: Section 6050S of the Internal Revenue Code requires
eligible education institutions to report certain information regarding
tuition payments to the IRS and to students. Form 1098-T has been
developed to meet this requirement.
Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profits.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 4,848,090.
OMB Control Number: 1545-1588.
Type of Review: Extension without a change of a currently approved
collection.
Title: Adjustments Following Sales of Partnership Interests.
Abstract: Partnerships, with a section 754 election in effect, are
required to adjust the basis of partnership property following certain
transfers of partnership interests. The regulations require the
partnership to attach a statement to its partnership return indicating
the adjustment and how it was allocated among the partnership property.
Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profits.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 904,000.
Bob Faber,
Acting Treasury PRA Clearance Officer.
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